Limbaugh finishes "gingerly dancing around the Gates business": "I think Skip Gates wanted to be arrested"

My head exploded upon hearing that. Surely this moron Limpjaw really cannot believe that tripe. This is a new low for him.

And yet... not surprised in the least. Back to reassembling my brain...

Yeah Rush, because a well respected Harvard professor wants to get arrested.

My lord you're a jack-hole.

Limbuagh so is snide and pompous. He is the poster boy for addictions.

Not even the epic Rush facepalm can do this justice...

Interesting. So Limbaugh didn't find that Obama had sided with Gates over the police? Does being impartial now mean you are skirting the issue? I guess it does to the rabid right who seem to see everything in black and white.

I saw an op-ed over at Newser that claimed Dr. Gates also wanted to get arrested.

Disorderly conduct can loosely be defined as 'something not necessarily against the law that a police officer does not like'. Having said that, it wasn't all that long ago in this country that black men could be arrested for stepping on a white man's shadow, or offering to look a second time at a white woman.

I wonder if Rush Limbaugh left a forwarding address when he moved to Delusion. Also very impressed at his ability to divine by the mystical power of his empty head that Gates' neighbor was a liberal racist from a rival college. Way to conjure evidence out of your enormous and repugnant backside, Rush.

I'm going to relate two incidents from my life that might explain how things happened. A few years ago, I walked my children to school and came back to see a strange car in the driveway of a neighbor and two guys (white) hopping the fence, I shouted, but got no response, so I called police. The police came quickly and confronted the guys in the backyard. It turned out that it was my neighbor and a friend. My neighbor had locked his keys in his car, and came home in the friend's car, to get his spare set. They hadn't heard my shout and I didn't recognize Jeff's backside as he went over the fence. I was embarassed, Jeff was unnerved, but ultimately, he was glad I was looking out for him. The other one involves my usually mild-mannered, reserved husband. He returned from a trip to Asia to find his car impounded. He became very agitated and yelled at the officers for impounding his car, but they settled the situation, and helped my husband reclaim the car. Now, what made my husbamd act so irratically? Try a 24 hour trip through three countries and about 5 airports, the jetlag was talking. Professor Gates had just returned from China, an 18 hour flight if he is flying non-stop, or much longer if he wasn't flying a direct flight to the States, then there is the fact that he is ill, he caught an infection while in China, jetlag and illness may have been talking more than the esteemed scholar. My sympathies lie with Professor Gates, and the officer should apologize. In my neighbor's case, the cop recognised him and the confrontation immediately de-escalated. In my husband's case, it was probably luck and his general nice guy appearance.

Let's leave Limbaugh out of this and look at what the important facts are in this case. We have the President of the United States jumping to conclusions without knowing all the facts. His racial bias showed right through on this one. In one prejudiced statement he managed to ruin the authority of every police officer in America. Does everyone know that another police officer there at the time (an African American) sides with the officer that arrested Gates. What does that tell you??--Gates was trying to pick a fight. I think America needs to wake up and see that they chose the wrong man to lead our country.

Limbaugh finishes "gingerly dancing around the Gates business": "I think Skip Gates wanted to be arrested"


Yeah, Limpy -- just as, according to OhReally, AN 11-YEAR-OLD WANTS TO BE KIDNAPPED.

Doncha just LOVE it when these wingnut yapping heads show their intimate knowledge and understanding of a victim's internal thought process?