Oops! Limbaugh assured his listeners Palin wouldn't criticize his comments
February 04, 2010 5:44 pm ET by Jeremy Holden
Approximately 12:06
p.m. EST: Rush Limbaugh addresses his controversial use of the
word "retard" and suggests that Sarah Palin wouldn't "denounce" him because she "knows I
do this kind of" thing:
LIMBAUGH: They're all trying to get Sarah Palin to denounce me just as she did Rahm, and if she doesn't do it, she's a hypocrite, they're saying. She knows that I do this kind of -- Sarah Palin is a lifelong listener of this program. I have never told you people this. It was in our Sarah Palin interview in the Limbaugh Letter, but one of the years I'm out at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, a guy comes up to me and says, "My daughter is a huge fan. Would you sign a book for me?" And it was a copy of my book and it was to Sarah Palin. Long before she was governor of Alaska.
So, and I've had a couple of chats with her, one on the air here and one for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country. So they're trying to goad her into denouncing me like they did Emanuel, but she knows that all I'm doing is quoting Emanuel and highlighting that it's these people who say this kind of stuff.
Approximately four hours later: Palin spokesperson responds to Greg Sargent's questions about Limbuagh's comments and says that "crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful":
Palin believes Limbaugh's repeated use of the word "retard" yesterday was "crude and demeaning," her spokesperson emails.
In the wake of Palin's demand that Rahm Emanuel be fired for calling a bunch of liberal activists "f-king retards," a bunch of people have been asking how she'd react to Limbaugh's tirade on the air yesterday.
"Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards," Rush said, adding that Rahm's meeting yesterday with advocates for the mentally handicapped was a "retard summit at the White House."
I asked Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton for comment on Rush's rant, and she emailed me this:
"Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful."
Works for me.
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Limbaugh is full of himself. Limbaugh truly believed what he said - that Palin understood. Tomorrow, either he will drop it, or he will say that she was not refering to him - because SHE KNOWS.
Palin does not know she is hypocrite. In order to accept one's own hypocrisy one must be able to reflect on one's own words. Palin is incapable of that.
At the time I thought this was significant and wondered why no one else in the press picked up on it.
If you listen to her, she's just right wing radio talking point after talking point.
She's no more educated about things than your run-of-the-mill conservative poster on the internet.
But I'm going to add that Rahm Emanuel is part of our problem.
Democrats are never going to fix things by being DINO's, nor will they stay in power long.
DINOs depress the people who have taken Democratic ideals to heart, the wingnuts are always going to vote wingnut anyways, and the undecideds will do whatever the corporate media tells them to.
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If she cared that much about the cause, she would have seen this as a prime opportunity to shout "It's wrong no matter who says it." Instead, she reveals either (a) she was only using her son's condition to score political points, or (b) she's too chicken to take on Rush.
I'm saying this as a - I guess - fan of Rush, but I think this story is laughably ridiculous.
And really, what are the chances of Palin's parents going to a golf tournament? This doesn't even remotely sound like something that they'd do. Not at all.
They were both wrong, but one was a lot more wrong than another.
And, I've got to agree, the "R" word, is pretty bad actually. I've used it myself in recent times, and had to re-think that, and found in thinking to myself, I've got to stop saying that.
That lady there, whazzername, Ms. M. T. Head ... I keep thinking: 'Lady Adolf.'
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Old 'Non-evolved' Lamebrain is up to his oldest trick again. Namely the meme that 'made' him, his 'break out' performance, in Sacramento drive-time, 1985, (giddy with Raygun re-election), Rash Lamebrain boasts his bigotry for: "Ugly people. All you Ugly people stay home, do NOT come out in public -- you know who you are. Everyone HATES Ugly people." ... and on and on, blah blah, Sacramento radio audience went orbital-high, promoting anti-'Ugly' everywhere.
Lamebrain's screed-shlock has always been trying to avenge his Nixon-lickspittle father:Fail, who lost at the 1965 Civil Rights Republican Rubicon, and after that Civil Act the law prohibited any more broadcasting racial prejudice; ('Amos and Andy' and worse). And Rash seethed and seethed wanting revenge for the 20 long 'racism-with-a-cork-in-it' years, until -- finally! }POP{ -- he could broadcast psycho-bigotry against 'Ugly' people, and not get strait-jacketed and perp-walked for it. Assuming nobody wanted to file as a harmed victim in the minority category: Ugly.
The listener-ratings rocket with its hate-hot red glare, seen over Sacramento went viral and syndicated coast-to-coast. How fitting and karmic in these final days of Lamebrain he goes out the way he came in, a one-trick pony, Hate. Hating all the cool kids, Lamebrain hating that the hippies were right.
And they said my idea to open a skate-sharpening shop in Hades was silly....
President Abraham Lincoln said that he believed in government by the people.
Sarah Palin denounced a Republican candidate in New York State without even bothering with the primary process.
Does she believe in government by the people or not?
Clifford Spencer