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Bully: Limbaugh Repeatedly Attacks Cain Accuser's 13-Year-Old Son

November 09, 2011 7:56 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Using the power of his top-rated, nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio show, Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday repeatedly turned his AM wrath on a schoolboy and portrayed the 13 year-old as a villain in the Herman Cain sexual harassment saga.

A schoolboy.

Limbaugh even likened the young teenager to a Nazi storm trooper.

What prompted Limbaugh's bizarre outbursts? It was news that single mom Sharon Bialek had sat down with her son and told him about the encounter she alleges to have had with Cain thirteen years ago, and that her son then urged her to come forward and make her claim publicly. Limbaugh was enraged that a mother talked to her son about a pressing family matter, and that her son offered guidance.

From that innocuous premise, Limbaugh attacked the boy as a wannabe Nazi "brownshirt."

Thankfully, Limbaugh appears to be (mostly) alone among far-right provocateurs in picking on Bialek's son. Limbaugh seems to be among the few commentators who thinks it's fair game to ridicule and insult a 13 year-old boy because his mother decided to come forward with an allegation of sexual misconduct.

Of course, Limbaugh's been on a petty, Cain-induced streak for more than a week, sputtering all kinds of confused, misogynistic, race-baiting rants while the Cain story continues to gain momentum, marked by additional allegations of wrongdoing against the Republican businessman.  On Tuesday, that mounting frustration led Limbaugh to unload on a middle school student and drag the poor kid into a political controversy.

Limbaugh even mockingly imitated Bialek's son, making him sound like a preschooler [at the :47 mark]:  

Hey Rush, pick on someone your own size.  

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    • Author by ThomasJH268 (November 09, 2011 8:03 am ET)
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      Well Cmdr Pill Popper has been known to attack the children of people who make his heewohs look like the pigs they are.

      Remember when he called Chelsea Clintone th "White House Dog"
      or heavily inferred the Obama girls were "spoiled rotten little whiners?"

      If Rush can't get into a childs pants, he has no use for them
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      • Author by HughG (November 09, 2011 8:32 am ET)
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        I think he has enough trouble getting into his own pants.
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      • Author by Bad News (November 09, 2011 8:32 am ET)
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        He is simply The Most Uninteresting Man Alive.
        Rush Limbaugh Bores Me, i just don't have any patience for his Jive.
        Attacking someones children is just Wrong, Sexually, Verbally, Physically, "Daddy Don't?"
        Shame on you Rush, i want to call you a Pedophile but i don't have enough evidence so i won't.

        Speak truth to power.


        Mr. News
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        • Author by Phil Perspective (November 09, 2011 5:48 pm ET)
             
          There is no smoking gun, but the circumstantial evidence is substantial.
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        • Author by carlileb5935 (November 09, 2011 6:12 pm ET)
             
          Well, while I think there is an interesting issue here about whether the mother should have gone to the kid about such a personal matter-- and it does sound a bit sentimentally fishy and untrue, unctuous almost-- Limbaugh was clearly out of line.
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        • Author by carlileb5935 (November 09, 2011 6:12 pm ET)
             
          Well, while I think there is an interesting issue here about whether the mother should have gone to the kid about such a personal matter-- and it does sound a bit sentimentally fishy and untrue, unctuous almost-- Limbaugh was clearly out of line.
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    • Author by m.welker (November 09, 2011 8:16 am ET)
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      Well now, just when you thought he'd gone as low as possible...
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    • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (November 09, 2011 9:33 am ET)
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      Hey Rush, pick on someone your own size.


      I recommend a bull rhinoceros.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 09, 2011 9:45 am ET)
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      Says the man without any children of his own...
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    • Author by foole (November 09, 2011 9:58 am ET)
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      Oh, Fats, I think all of a sudden you are giving President Obama demonstrations on how to act like a man-child. Or at least how to act "childish". I'd knock it off if I were you. Keep it up and you may end up with another 13 year old kicking your rump just like the kids in high school used to.
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    • Author by barscotch9441 (November 09, 2011 11:50 am ET)
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      Esteemed Mr. Boehlert has requested that Limpblob pick on someone his own size. This makes for an extremely narrow field from which to choose his opponents.

      No, wait a minute...

      It would have to be an exceedingly wide field, right?

      Wait! NO! AAAGGHH!! MY BRAIN!!! A TRUE PARADOX!!!! DARN YOU BOEHLERRRRRT!!!!!

      *SPLOOK* (sound of head exploding)
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    • Author by SMTDL (November 09, 2011 1:02 pm ET)
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      Someone..Please explain again to me why powerful Republicans like G W Bush,Dick Cheney,Mitch MCConnell,and many others say they like and support this uninformed,uncredentialed,partisan,bully-bigot of a person! He insults the 1st Lady,women,blacks,children,and the POTUS every day and they think he is someone positive to be associated with.Powerful Republicans like then RNC chair Michael Steele and standing Senators apologize whenever they offend him. How are Republicans credible on any issue when they can't even be honest about a person like this.The GOP Presidential candidates even vie for support from the caricature that is Donald Trump.How soon will there be a media turn around to stop covering for their lack of substance on real problems and not just political entertainment!!!
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      • Author by whatIthink (November 09, 2011 1:51 pm ET)
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        My reasoning is that conservatives like and adore Limbaugh so much because he gets to say things that they so desperately want to say themselves but can't. With Limbaugh, they are able to express their true feelings and ignore any societal, political or common mores by proxy without having to suffer the backlash that they would otherwise suffer if they were to say the same things themselves.
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        • Author by SMTDL (November 10, 2011 1:23 pm ET)
             
          You are probably right and I guess their partisan supporters just don't care when they praise and apologize to a racist entertainer who knows less about the topics than they do!What does that say about today's Republicans?Sad to see what happened to the GOP of the 50's/60's.Reagan wouldn't even fit in it today,much less,an Eisenhower or Rockefeller!
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    • Author by Turkeysocks (November 09, 2011 2:02 pm ET)
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      Ya know, Limbaugh is lucky he's out of school these days. Back when I was in high school, when someone insulted my mother like that, I didn't let them get away (only happened once, and it was off school grounds, and the guys were too embarrassed that they got beat up by the "loser" to tell).

      I don't say this a lot, but Limbaugh needs a little school yard justice done to him. Perhaps after getting the snot beat out of him, he'll be... a little more self controlling when it comes to attacking a kid and his mom.
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    • Author by overmars jr. (November 09, 2011 2:03 pm ET)
         
      "Hey Rush, pick on someone your own size."



      Well, that would certainly significantly reduce his options.
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    • Author by fredmast (November 09, 2011 2:29 pm ET)
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      Picking on a 13-year-old. Yeah, that's just about his speed.

      No, not THAT kind of speed, Rush. Settle down.
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    • Author by Nosmo King (November 09, 2011 5:52 pm ET)
         
      Rush is just getting more and more upset since he has become Mr. Insignificant.

      How many things can say that are stupid before someone actually believes one of them. He is even losing his ditto-heads. The ether is wearing off or they are growing up.

      Rush, you had a good gig. Time for you to grow old and fade away.

      By the way, can we pick on your wife and her possible illegitimate child which she may or may not have given up for adoption.
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    • Author by kablooie! (November 09, 2011 10:04 pm ET)
         
      An Elephant?
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    • Author by Gonzo (November 09, 2011 10:21 pm ET)
         
      To be fair, the other side of the media aisle has done the same with children for their political agenda as well. There is no conscience in media. Five minutes watching Fox, CNN, MSNBC or any other farce of news will tell you that.
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    • Author by sluggo (November 10, 2011 12:59 pm ET)
         
      I can only wonder at the companies that purchase ad time on his show. Either they don't really listen to what he says or their owners are as psychotic as old Rush.
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    • Author by Nuni (November 10, 2011 2:09 pm ET)
         
      People like Limbaugh are a constant reminder that this is a very sick world.
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    • Author by NotSure8 (November 11, 2011 1:30 pm ET)
         
      Hey Rush, pick on someone your own size.

      Whoa there Eric, that's a pretty tall order...
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