Schadenfreude
Oct. 12th, 2003 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusFor fans of Rush Limbaugh, I got a link to this article from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reynard52.
While very sympathetic towards Rush, there were a few telling quotes, such as:
...virtually every newspaper dredged up this 1995 quote from Rush: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” (I bet you anything you want he won't repeat that line. Or acknowledge he ever said it.)
At Halloween, “he really didn’t care much for trick or treating. He would rather stay at home. I found he was upstairs and he’d have water balloons. Sometimes when the little children would leave, he would drop them down." (This was from his mother!)
"...You need some data to support your assertions,” Stacy told young Limbaugh. “Frankly, he wouldn’t do those things.” (Dr. Bill Stacy was his Public Speaking professor from the one year of college Rush managed to get through)
Fired twice (and briefly on the dole, a detail Limbaugh overlooks when he rants against welfare) (I never knew that. I wonder why his father, or the rest of the family, who are rolling in money, didn't help support him...)
Despite his fervent moralizing, he smoked a little pot and watched a little porn (as he has publicly admitted). (I didn't know that either. Ha! I wonder how much he considers "a little" pot?)
Two women who dated Limbaugh told conservative activist (and Limbaugh friend) Paul Weyrich that they couldn’t seem to get his attention. “They both said, ‘I’ll never go on a date with him again’,” Weyrich told NEWSWEEK. “They did not have a good time. He talked about himself and didn’t seem interested in them at all.” (That, I'm not surprised at. What I am surprised at is that a fellow conservative mouth, and self-described "friend" told this to the press. Well, no, I guess I'm not really surprised at that either.
The National Enquirer was tipped off to Limbaugh’s habit two years ago. (One of the very few sources that normally I'd consider even less likely to be accurate than Limbaugh, but looks like they got this one right. I'd have loved to hear his on-air denials!) (Much to my surprise, he actually does archive his radio broadcasts online. But they require a $49.00/year membership to listen to them, so I guess I'll do without)
Newsweek almost begins spin-doctoring: “From a moral standpoint, there’s a difference between people who go out and seek a high and get addicted and the millions of Americans dealing with pain who inadvertently get addicted,” [arch-conservative Gary] Bauer told NEWSWEEK.
But then blows it: Limbaugh’s long-running act as a paragon of virtue is over. Now the question is whether he can make a virtue out of honesty. (Implying, of course, that honesty hasn't been terribly important to him before)
At any rate, Limbaugh's going down. Sure, his dittoheads will always support him, no matter what, they never let facts get in the way before. But I still plan on laughing my ass off in the exceedingly unlikely event that he actually gets prosecuted for this particular crime.
reynard52.While very sympathetic towards Rush, there were a few telling quotes, such as:
...virtually every newspaper dredged up this 1995 quote from Rush: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” (I bet you anything you want he won't repeat that line. Or acknowledge he ever said it.)
At Halloween, “he really didn’t care much for trick or treating. He would rather stay at home. I found he was upstairs and he’d have water balloons. Sometimes when the little children would leave, he would drop them down." (This was from his mother!)
"...You need some data to support your assertions,” Stacy told young Limbaugh. “Frankly, he wouldn’t do those things.” (Dr. Bill Stacy was his Public Speaking professor from the one year of college Rush managed to get through)
Fired twice (and briefly on the dole, a detail Limbaugh overlooks when he rants against welfare) (I never knew that. I wonder why his father, or the rest of the family, who are rolling in money, didn't help support him...)
Despite his fervent moralizing, he smoked a little pot and watched a little porn (as he has publicly admitted). (I didn't know that either. Ha! I wonder how much he considers "a little" pot?)
Two women who dated Limbaugh told conservative activist (and Limbaugh friend) Paul Weyrich that they couldn’t seem to get his attention. “They both said, ‘I’ll never go on a date with him again’,” Weyrich told NEWSWEEK. “They did not have a good time. He talked about himself and didn’t seem interested in them at all.” (That, I'm not surprised at. What I am surprised at is that a fellow conservative mouth, and self-described "friend" told this to the press. Well, no, I guess I'm not really surprised at that either.
The National Enquirer was tipped off to Limbaugh’s habit two years ago. (One of the very few sources that normally I'd consider even less likely to be accurate than Limbaugh, but looks like they got this one right. I'd have loved to hear his on-air denials!) (Much to my surprise, he actually does archive his radio broadcasts online. But they require a $49.00/year membership to listen to them, so I guess I'll do without)
Newsweek almost begins spin-doctoring: “From a moral standpoint, there’s a difference between people who go out and seek a high and get addicted and the millions of Americans dealing with pain who inadvertently get addicted,” [arch-conservative Gary] Bauer told NEWSWEEK.
But then blows it: Limbaugh’s long-running act as a paragon of virtue is over. Now the question is whether he can make a virtue out of honesty. (Implying, of course, that honesty hasn't been terribly important to him before)
At any rate, Limbaugh's going down. Sure, his dittoheads will always support him, no matter what, they never let facts get in the way before. But I still plan on laughing my ass off in the exceedingly unlikely event that he actually gets prosecuted for this particular crime.
