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Limbaugh: The Media "Want Muslims To Call A Fatwa On My Head"

September 10, 2010 4:14 pm ET — 8 Comments

By Fae Jencks

Rush Limbaugh watched the first hour of President Obama's "abomination of a press conference" today and clearly did not like what he saw. He began his show by mocking Obama's speaking style by punctuating. Every. Word. Of. His. Criticism. -- just as, Rush suggests, Obama did in his answers today. Rush alleged that had Presidents Reagan or Bush had the same "halting" speech pattern, the media would be asking "what is medically wrong with the president." Limbaugh later concluded that the real reason Obama sounded the way he did was because he "hasn't had a vacation in a while."

After attacking Obama by repeatedly calling him "impotent" and a "man-child" and claiming that he looked "totally out of his league," Rush then offered his own round of questions for the president. The questions Obama would have asked the president included whether the president would "assist with the ribbon-cutting" at the proposed Islamic cultural center in New York and whether he would be upset if "your friend the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers" had been pictured "standing on a Bible or a Quran" instead of the American flag. Rush also criticized Obama for his "over-the-top goodbye" to economic adviser Christine Romer, suggesting that "he might be trying to buy her silence."

Limbaugh took a break from his criticism of Obama's press conference to explain, in great detail, the fact that he didn't know Terry Jones, the pastor who planned to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11, though both attended the same high school. Rush explained that while he remembered Jones from Babe Ruth League baseball, he never spoke to him in school. Limbaugh then declared that the media are hyping the connection between him and Jones "because they want the Muslims to call a fatwa on" his head.

— F.J.
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    • Author by peebs755 (September 10, 2010 5:43 pm ET)
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      No Rusty, You're doing fine all by yourself. Don't need any help there.
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      • Author by mari2jj (September 12, 2010 3:26 am ET)
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        Ahhh, Rush, at last you have admitted to having a big fat head. Well, it does fit nicely with the rest of your huge body. So not to worry. Just have a little self-control Rush, and lose some weight before your fat jig finishes you off.
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    • Author by MsYellowDog (September 10, 2010 5:50 pm ET)
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      How is it possible to call a fatwa ON a fatwa? Sounds like one too many fatwas to me.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (September 11, 2010 11:02 am ET)
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      You expect me to believe El-Rushbo didn't know Terry Jones from high school, after all according to El-Rushbo and all the other right wing blowhards, every Muslim in the world knows where all the terrorists are, but won't tell.
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    • Author by politeradical (September 11, 2010 12:43 pm ET)
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      Rush spent 4 years in the same building as Terry Jones?

      According to the right's guilt by association calculus that means Rush is going to throw the match at Jones' hate BBQ.
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    • Author by Winski (September 11, 2010 8:21 pm ET)
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      Aren't Jones and the flying fatman from palm beach related?? Humm.. By the way, a fatwa?? Does he even know what that means?? Does he think we're talking about his diet pills or a laxative..??

      Has his 16th wife filed for divorce yet?? What a useless hunk of blubber.
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    • Author by ilikeike (September 12, 2010 2:54 pm ET)
         
      uh rush, you are the media.
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    • Author by mookworthjwilson (September 13, 2010 1:12 pm ET)
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      With a head that fat, it's gonna take quite a few Muslims...
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