Limbaugh Uses New Leonardo DiCaprio Movie To Mock Concern Over Campus Sexual Assault

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From the December 1 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Have you seen that lead story on Drudge up here? “DiCaprio raped by bear in Fox movie.” That is the lead story at Drudge.

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I was thinking when I saw this headline, I was thinking, what kind of reactions would there be, when we have -- there's rape all over college campus, we're told, and when rape is all over college campus, the usual suspects start chiming in about how rotten America culture is and the Republicans are to blame and conservatives and their strict, judgmental lifestyle is causing all this stuff. So I had a little fun here putting together various responses from people who have responded to the stories of campus rape and so forth to this story of Leonardo DiCaprio being raped by a bear in a movie.

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John Kerry. “Well, there was a sort of particularized focus, perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- well not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this.”

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Well, maybe the bear had a rationale for it, if we're being consistent.

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Obama blamed climate change for the rape of DiCaprio by the bear in the Fox movie.

Previously:

Limbaugh Denies Epidemic Of Campus Sexual Assault: “It's Not Happening”

Limbaugh: Obama's “Totally Made-Up Statistics” On Rape “Further Divide Men From Women”

“It's All Fake”: Limbaugh Rants That Rape On College Campuses, Discrimination In Indiana, Disparate Treatment By Police Are All “Made Up”