Mac user Rush Limbaugh is having a heck of a week with dual controversies swirling throughout the web,TV, newspapers, and radio. Back in March, Limbaugh expounded on the addition of Al Gore to Apple’s Board of Directors:
“We use Macs here at the EIB Network. We’re an entire Mac shop, and Algore, who probably wouldn’t know the Internet if he was on the computer, is now a member of the Apple board of directors,” Rush posted on his site. “I have to see if one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch. Gosh, I hope not, and I hope he doesn’t have anything to do, other than ceremonial duties, with this outfit. If they start letting him reinvent Apple like he reinvented government, oh boy… I just ordered a couple of new G4 Power Mac towers, and this is the way I get paid back? Geez.” More here.
Today, Rush Limbaugh is in the news. Bigtime. He has now announced his resignation from ESPN’s “NFL Sunday Countdown” after the flap over his opinion of NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb’s play and the media’s treatment of McNabb escalated over the past few days. Read Rush’s explanation here. Read the ESPN story here.
In addtion, the Drudge Report is reporting that The National Enquirer will allege that “Rush Limbaugh in drug ring… Housekeeper wore wire in set-up, supplied pain pills…Enquirer allege’s abuse of tens of thousands of pills…” Rush Limbaugh has posted a statement to his website that reads, “I am unaware of any investigation by any authorities involving me. No governmental representative has contacted me directly or indirectly. If my assistance is required in the future, I will, of course, cooperate fully.” More here.
Rush is a big Mac promoter who has complained several times on his radio show that Apple wouldn’t use him to do Mac ads because Steve Jobs’ political viewpoints don’t mesh with his. Just this past June, Rush wrote, “I recently bought the latest dual-processor G4. I’ve already hooked up audio, video, iChat – which is their version of AOL instant messenger – and it’s incredible. It’s real-time video conferencing on your computer. The long-distance companies are going to have to get in on this. The G5 is an even more advanced machine, yet Apple’s market share remains static! They have so much superior equipment that they should have at least double the share of the market they hold now. Apple is apparently a company that is so constrained by the political views of its corporate leadership and board, which now includes Algore, that it’s accepting lower sales. What a shame.” More here.
The New York Daily News has more on Rush’s ESPN resignation and prescription drug probe here.
What an immensely blown out of proportion crock of shite. More character assassination.
I think ESPN needs to distance itself from Al Sharpton’s opinions, myself.
If the drug thing is true it is sad, because people with chronic pain will do anything to get relief. I however will believe it when more information from reliable sources comes along.
This is the Liberal media foaming at the mouth to get this guy. The McNabb statement was not racist and if the drug problem is true, let’s hope Rush gets help to get well. Rush Limbaugh is not the devil, he’s a talented entertainer and I’ll miss him on ESPN’s show – he was GOOD!
Limbaugh is a hypocrite with radical opinions expressed in vile ways. I quit listening to him years ago. I wondered at what came out of his mouth. Now I know it was because of what was going into his mouth.
I now wonder what President Bush is on. Is he really the Xanax Cowboy?
Apple is lucky today that it is not associated with Rush Limbaugh.
BTW, even Rush would agree that it is not character assassination if there is documented evidence that someone illegally procured 10,000 narcotic pills through a drug ring.
Rush, how can we ever believe if it is you talking, or the drugs?
Well, I’m certainly not going to kick a man when he’s down here, although I’m sure that many liberals out there will have a field day with this. There is no way of knowing at this early stage whether any of these allegations are true, only time will tell. If by chance they are, it is quite unfortunate when anyone has a drug problem and I hope he gets some medical help. And if they are not true, it’s going to make a lot of people look hypocritical and idiotic for jumping on the bandwagon just because they don’t agree with his political views. I certainly hope this isn’t just a character assassination attempt with no basis in facts, but it’s certainly happened before so it wouldn’t be surprising if it ends up that way either.
Until something is proven one way or the other, it would be prudent to reserve judgment on him until the facts come in. Luckily in this country people are still innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Unfortunately, some people out there don’t seem to understand that concept or else they otherwise try to manipulate the judicial system and change the laws in order to suit their own agendas…
The National Enquirer is the source for this story. Not exactly a bastion of journalistic credibility. htey ahve been sued for slander and lies so many times, even they have lost count.
ESPN’s morning show was really dry until Rush came along and now it will return to its lackluster status quo. I think I can find other things to do on Sunday morning now that Rush is gone. I’ll go back to FOX’s morning show.
The drug thing is now in The New York Daily News and elsewhere:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/122839p-110349c.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/02limbaughdrugs.html
Rush shouldn’t have been on ESPN in the first place. He’s a political character assasin, not a sports analyst.
What Rush said on ESPN wasn’t racist, but it was pretty stupid. This whole thing may be blown a bit out of proportion, but if he’d used his head a little this wouldn’t have come to pass.
These are the things that happen when you intentionally try to push buttons. Sometimes you press the wrong ones.
As for this supposed drug story: Sounds like bullshit. The Enquirer is crap. Now if it had come from the Post…
; )
That inner ear problem Rush has is one of the most severely painful conditions one can be afflicted with. Keep that in mind. Obviously, one should go to the doctor, but if the prescriptions aren’t working or the docs have got you hooked, what would you do with a searing pain inside your ears?
Rush was actually great on ESPN – he knows what he’s talking about, very knowledgeable. And unlike the rest of the ESPN anchors, obiously entertaining and talented! Going back to Fox for NFL coverage. A great month with ESPN/Rush! Too bad he’s gone so soon.
A few points:
1) Whether the guy is a raging pill head or not isn’t really material. People get addicted very easily to pain medication, particularly due to the need for ever increasing dosages. However, if Rush is proved to have been a raging pill head purchasing large numbers of controlled substances illegally, I would be interested in knowing what opinions he has expressed concerning others showing similar behavior in the past. If he has opined that they should be viewed with compassion, I’d have no problem with Rush being treated compassionatly. If, on the other hand, he has opined that people abusing and illegally purchasing controlled pain killers should be locked up, then again it would rather ludicrous for him to be treated differently than he has opined that others should be treated.
2) His statement was racist. He stated that the guy was overrated, but then went on to say that he was overrated because of race. Well, I went to college in upstate New York, where Syracuse is the local college football team, and I live in Philadelphia, so I’m quite familiar with McNabb. He isn’t overrated–he’s the real thing. A guy that is producing 3/4ths of the offense for a playoff team isn’t overrated. Moreover, he has spent his entire college and professional careers playing in northern industrial towns where there is a good amount of overt racism and unstated racism. In all that time, McNabb has said diddly squat about race. He’s never tried to appeal to blacks on a race basis, and he’s never complained about his treatment from local fans. When the Eagles drafted him and he was greated with a chorus of boos, he didn’t complain. He’s never taken any opportunity–even when picked for the Pro Bowl–to say “I showed you guys” to the fans. In other words, Rush picked the wrong guy to go after on race basis, which makes the whole thing more offensive than it would be if he had gone after an underperforming athlete that had tried to use race as a justification or marketing tool.
3) Does anyone still think that Apple made a mistake not associating itself with this yutz?
Everybody has their time when the poop hits the fan. His McNabb comment on ESPN and this alleged pain pill debacle are two separate issues. Rush you confused your roles between socio/political commentator and sports fan commentator…thought you were brighter than that. Not disagreeing with comment, just wrong place and the wrong time. Anyone can get addicted to pills, booze or even chocolate, but it is ironic how the Grand Poobah of Conservative thought gets zapped with an accusation of copping pills on the Black Market. I don’t want to waddle in words like hypocrite, but the Conservatives are the biggest crusaders on the “War on Drugs” which has been as effective as peeing against the wind. In my libertarian opinion, our nation’s whole attitude on drugs and issues that emanate from them have to be revamped. So Rush-Bo get thyself to a detox and sort all this out.
from Accuracy In Media:
quote: Last year, the National Enquirer broke the story of Jesse Jackson fathering an illegitimate child with one of his employees and paying her thousands of dollars out of funds donated to one of his tax-exempt “charitable” organizations. The Washington Post picked up the story and even commended the National Enquirer for breaking it.
They are sued often, but lose rarely, because the stories are well guarded. This one uses prosecutors as a source — not something you can simply invent.
Just when I didn’t think it was possible to find a more obscure Mac topic, MDN manages to create their own.
Because MDN’s beloved bigot allowed his personality to seep through on ESPN, thus making national news (who cares?), MDN now gets it source from the ENQUIRER (who cares?) about this “celebrity” that could be using drugs (who cares?) based on the word of a housekeeper (who cares?), and the ONLY connection is that this person is a Mac user as stated in an old article. WHO CARES?!!
Perhaps the housekeeper is a corporate mole for Microsoft and trying to smear Rush’s reputation (could it really get any worse?) as a Mac user and by association make the claim that all Mac users are bigoted drug users. Yea, that’s it!!
I wouldn’t let Rush towel dry my donkey! (figure it out)
I feel dirty just reading this garbage!!
For some REAL daily RELEVANT news… http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/02/attack.trends.ap/index.html (I’m not sure if this is good or bad news). It is based on this… http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html#threat_list (avg 3 per day!). And obviously not based on this… http://www.securemac.com/ . Actually, if you look close, there are only 3 in the past 5 months; about 1 every 2 months.
Rush, if you’re hooked, get well! We need you between noon and 3. Who cares about ESPN?!
from above: However, if Rush is proved to have been a raging pill head purchasing large numbers of controlled substances illegally, I would be interested in knowing what opinions he has expressed concerning others showing similar behavior in the past.
There is a sidebar in the Enquirer story containing quotes from Rush such as these:
By legalizing drugs, all you’re going to do is define further deviancy downward. We have a duty to pass on values to our descendants. Values that will maintain the standards of behavior and ensure the survivability of the American way of life.
And drugs are no different. You end up destroying more than yourself. (Playboy interview, Dec 1993)
and
Ted Kennedy, whose liver is said to be shaped like a Chivas Regal bottle… (Rush Limbaugh show, Sep 23, 2003)
I don’t agree with your opinion. I suggest you resign your posting position on MDN. The point, if you could read between the lines, is Apple didn’t use Rush to promo Macs and maybe now that was a good idea. Probably, though, it was a bad idea, since Rush would’ve sold millions of Macs.
Post above should be addressed to Aryugaetu, not have “Aryugaetu” as the name, since it was from me!
grant,
Playboy, 1993? Or about a decade before debilitating inner era pain, right? Funny how crippling pain just drive you to get some relief.
Aryugaetu: obviously a rival Mac site publisher who wasn’t smart enough to think this up and whose site is way less popular than MDN, becasue MDN is timely, smart, and often funny. So, Aryugaetu whines here at MDN! ROTFLMFAO!
Aryugaetu,
This story is related to Macintosh, gives history and makes us wonder if Apple was right or wrong to ignore Limbaugh’s offer to help sell Macs. You come off as an ass with a stick up your ass. Take a pill, why don’t you?
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Just had a horrible image bouncing in my head:
Styx playing in the background:
DOMO ARRIGATO MR. ARYUGAETU DOMO DOMO
The purchase of 11,900 pills over a four month period would indicate a truly crippling level of inner ear pain. That period does coincide with the successful cochlear implant surgery. Unusual, however, that a doctor would not recognize the condition, or that the purchases would continue past the post-operative recovery period.
One of the side effects of these chemicals is also weight loss.
<<3) Does anyone still think that Apple made a mistake not associating itself with this yutz?>>
Oh I see, but it’s OK to put Al Gore on Apple’s board even though he sold out the country to the Chinese while he was Vice President? I guess it is since he’s a liberal afterall…
No, it’s okay because Al Gore is the single dullest, most boring politician in the history of the United States. Or maybe the world. Al Gore is a poor little nerd boy who would have been delighted to spend his life, if not for his family heritage, going to Star Trek conventions, sucking down bong hits and trading Phish concerts.
Being appointed to Apple’s board fixed the horrible detour his life took and restored him back to his intended path.
30 Oxycotins a day? The guy must have built up an incredible tolerance – more than a couple of these should kill you.
He was scoring Vicadins in 1998 (alleged). His ear surgery was in 2001.
Here we go again, more politics. If anyone wants me, I’ll be over at MacCentral for a couple of days.
1. I do not have any sort of rival Mac publication or web site.
2. Rush, his career, his drug problems, have NO place here being that Rush was never a spokesperson for Mac. (Thank God!)
3. I believe very strongly in social/political diversity and freedom of speech. I am merely stating my opinion that this article is way off-topic from MDN’s apparent focus. But, if the editors which to make this website more like the Enquirer, that is their choice, as it will be mine to find a website with REAL Mac news, and less opinionated cheap gossip.
Just because they didn’t use him as their spokesperson, doesn’t mean they can’t mention him in a news piece.
Without getting into politics, what Rush said on ESPN was a lame analysis. It was even bordering on racial slur, because what he said wasn’t true. McNabb had been getting POUNDED in the press because he had a crappy first two games. I thought this was unfair press against McNabb. He is an awesome quarterback that has put up incredible numbers even though he has a not-so-great offense. Anyway, I realise this is a Mac site, not a sports site, but I thought I’d give my opinion.
The press coverage of this “scandal” does seem a little bit overblown. If he had a drug problem, don’t you think it’s a little strange that the news is coming out NOW? Kind of iffy if you ask me. Not that I’m a big Rush fan. I didn’t like him on ESPN, but then I don’t like Steve Young or Michael Irving. The show sucked anyway. They only put Rush on to get more ratings.
<sarcasm> Yeah, the number of responses here indicate that the topic is not interesting to the users of this site. </sarcasm>
clatonh- “Limbaugh is a hypocrite with radical opinions expressed in vile ways.”
I thought that was Michael Moore?
AND FURTHERMORE…
This kinda bloody crap is just more of the leftists using their same FUD attacks to discredit their enemies… like what came out regarding Arnold today.
I don’t know how the stuff involving Arnold is leftist crap–in most states someone with Arnold’s political views without being a celebrity would never be endorsed by the Republican Party (including in California)–but exactly what is FUD about the guy grabbing the tits and asses of women who didn’t want their tits and asses grabbed? I mean, Arnie either had a handful of knocker or he didn’t, and he isn’t saying he didn’t. Arnie’s response seems to be, “Hey, I like grabbing tits and asses, but I’ll be great for women if elected.” I guess he’ll be REALLY good for women with nice tits and asses.
<<AND FURTHERMORE…
This kinda bloody crap is just more of the leftists using their same FUD attacks to discredit their enemies… like what came out regarding Arnold today.>>
Well, it’s nothing new though. Liberals rarely can come up with facts to back up any of their arguments, their entire ideology is based on FUD (you’d think they’d love M$ & Intel since they have so much in common!). They know the only way they’ll beat Arnold in California or get Rush Limbaugh off the radio is with dirty attacks. It’s a joke and more and more people are wising up to this approach and not falling for it anymore. When Arnold gets elected next week it’ll go to show that it’s not working.
mcnabb is over rated and the media is wanting a black QB to star. he was only telling the truth boys & girls. as for his pill habit he needs to resign from those pills.
RIR:
The 2000 election was nothing new though. Conservatives rarely can come up with facts to back up any of their arguments, their entire ideology is based on FUD (it is now wonder they love M$ & Intel since they have so much in common!). They knew the only way to get GW in office was to obstruct and delay. It’s a joke and more and more people are wising up to this approach and not falling for it anymore. When Bush loses next election it’ll go to show that it’s not working.
My 2 cents. First, Rush was on the show to offer his opinion. To think, a sports fan with an opinion (God forbid!). Second, Rush is not racist. In case it was not clear to those who read the transcripts, Rush was saying that McNabb was being coddled by the press because he was black, AND that the defense deserves more credit. Last I heard, some of those defensive players are black. Now why would a racist be giving credit to black players? If the defensive line was all white, then that would be a different story. The point he was ultimately trying to make was that the media was playing favorites, possibly for racial reasons. Since it’s the media that continuing to harp on this alleged “racist”, I think it’s clear who the real racists are.
As for Rush and Macs, he, like many others from all races, religions, and political points of view, knows what is the best platform available. Let’s not turn this into political/racial thing, ok?
So now your true colors are showing “Opinionated Jerk”…well you sure don’t have too many original opinions, but the “Jerk” moniker certainly fits you perfectly. You had better pile on with your FUD now while you can, because you and your liberal buddies will be crying this time next week when there is a Republican in the State House here in California.
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And who do you think will actually beat Bush in ’04? That Clinton puppet and psuedo Democrat fraud Wesley Clark? Or maybe that McGovern wanna-be Howard Dean? HA! Good luck with all that!
1)Rush “saying that McNabb was being coddled by the press because he was black” isn’t racist?
2)McNabb hasn’t been coddled by the press. They’ve had been ripping him to pieces here in Philly for the past couple of weeks, and have after every bad game the Eagles have had.
The predicate of Rush’s racial argument was untrue and the racial argument itself was imagined. Which leaves just the racial aspect. All when discussing a guy that’s never had a racial angle to his image or marketing to begin with. McNabb ain’t no Iverson and ain’t no Jim Brown–in almost ten years of watching the guy he’s never brought race up as an angle or a subject.
Re: Opinionated Jerk
FUD in the sense of these Hollywood movie-set groupies crawling out from under their mattresses years after the event took place and stating for the record that the star of the movie, on these admittedly rowdy sets (translated: f*ing party-time) took certain liberties with them.
Hmmm… these pudding-pops are on a swinging movie set and they are surprised that the male lead is coming on to them. WHAT THE HELL DID THEY EXPECT? And I dare say that that is why they were there in the first place. And now, synchronously, they all come forward to openly discuss their bruised psyches and how they all felt so shamed at being touched inappropriately. Boo-f*ing hoo, girls. You got just a little of what you wanted instead of all of it. And if you didn’t expect the treatment, you’re all pretty stupid and you’ve learned a lesson.
This may be a stretch, but what do they do professionally? How many are “aspiring actresses?” How many are “models?” How many are “exotic dancers?” How many have any relationship with “Heidi Fleiss?”
What I want to know is how many security guards they went oral with to get on the set, and how many gaffers and grips they did the same with when they didn’t get all the way with Arnold.
FUD in the sense of this simultaneous outing of their experience. The timing is too close to be coincidence, and is pretty timely considering recent election predictions and the revelation that Arnold’s Republican opposition will likely have no effect on a Schwartzenneger victory. FUD in the sense of their sudden urge to come forward at all. Why wait till now? How hard did someone, somewhere have to scrape to come up with this crap? This is very similar to the philandering charges brought against Former-President Clinton except Arnold has admitted that it happened and hasn’t tried to re-define a bunch of terms so he can look innocent.
I don’t think “Opinionated Jerk” likes anybody no matter what, so yeah the “Jerk” label does fit him well and you might want to throw “hypocrite” on to the end of it too. He’s doing the same thing that he’s accusing everyone else here of doing (spreading FUD), he’s just not bright enough to realize it.
Of course the Bush Administration would never reciprocate against any of it’s critics – including the CIA operative wife of Ambassador Wilson.
It started with top White House official Larry Lindsey who said the Iraq war would cost upwards of $200 billion. He was summarily fired. General Anthony Zini who was the Special Envoy to the Mid-east was critical in a speech about the Bush foreign policy saying Iraq shouldn’t be the focus, other terrorist organizations should be the focus. He was fired. When ABC News went over to Iraq to interview troops who expressed displeasure at being stationed there longer than they were told the troops were threatened with a court martial and the White House leaked that the correspondent was allegedly gay and from Canada, as if that mattered. General Eric Shinseki told congress that the war in Iraq would take roughly several hundred thousand troops which is proving to be accurate. At the time the White House was trying to down play how big an engagement this would be, he was criticized heavily by the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz and Don Rumsfeld.
Then of course in the whole Iraq nuclear claim, the Bush administration – Condoleezza Rice and the President – blamed George Tenet for giving them the information that he put in his State of the Union speech claiming that Iraq was seeking nuclear weapons. This was later proven to be false, Tenet had actually warned the White House of this prior to that speech. So this is a pattern of essentially trying to destroy anyone who tells the truth about Iraq.
Hey RIR:
<They know the only way they’ll beat Arnold in California or get Rush Limbaugh off the radio is with dirty attacks.>
Since when is exposing the TRUTH a dirty attack?
>FUD in the sense of this simultaneous outing of their >experience. The timing is too close to be coincidence, >and is pretty timely considering recent election >predictions and the revelation that Arnold’s Republican >opposition will likely have no effect on a >Schwartzenneger victory.
*Snort*
When a newspaper runs a single article concerning the interviews they conducted, how exactly are the “outings” going to be non-simultaneous? Should they run one article Monday, another Tuesday, etc.?
What’s funny is seing a guy pumping Arnold flipping out about FUD. Come one, is there a bigger FUDpacker than Arnie for Governor? Arnie’s running a platform more liberal than anything Clinton ever ran on for governor, he’s got McClintock running far to his right, and Arnie winning is a big deal for *conservatives?* Arnie’s running from the liberal Riordan wing of the party, made up of folks that in most places would be Democrats. So who is doing the FUD deployment here? The real conservative in the race is McClintock, and he’ll be lucky to hit 20%.
As for the tits and ass stuff, I kinda like that you’re deploying the full range of arguments Clinton supporters used. That isn’t FUD? Give me a break! :L)
What’s bigger FUD than conservatives looking forward to a governor that likes gays, pot, group sex, and a tit in one hand and an ass cheek in the other?
>”Well, I’m certainly not going to kick a man when he’s down here, >although I’m sure that many liberals out there will have a field day with >this”
Well isnt that funny now… I hate how america has become so partisan. When Clinton was ‘down’ the right-wingers were kicking up a storm…
anyway I dont mind what he said on ESPN after all we are currently at war for our liberty right… Freedom of Speech – what ever happened to it.
The reason people are going to have a field day with this is hypocrisy. If true about his drug use, it would be ironic after he heavily criticized Clinton for his drug use.
Regardless, if true, this would really hurt his credibility.
By the way, I don’t dislike everyone. McNabb’s not a bad quarterback, and I like two of my cats. The other two are bastards.
If Rush had made the same statement regarding all quarterbacks who were leading teams that were doing poorly (this is all under the notion that they were also being coddled by the press), then you could dismiss his statement as not being one of a racist nature. But that isn’t what he did.
As far as Arnold’s situation goes, he never said he didn’t do it. So, why is anyone defending a person that they don’t know beyond the movie screen? The image you have of Arnold is the one that Hollywood gave to you. You have no idea what Arnold does when the cameras are not rolling.
If you have ever been sexually assualted or even picked up a book, you would understand that some people never expose their offenders. Some women are afraid of being attacked and put on the hot seat as if they were the offender. Others just want to move on. Just because they are just speaking out about what happened doesn’t make it a lie.
But since you know Arnold so well, you should help him get a better command of the language and stop him from using sayings that he doesn’t understand. To make a statement as the following: “Where there is smoke, there is fire!” was just lunacy. In a nutshell he was saying that there was some truth to what was being said. So now you will probably project that statement into saying that it means the same as, “its all smoke and mirrors.”
The people is this country can be so foolish at times.
I recall reading somewhere that those powerful pain killers will cause a person to go deaf………………
Hello Infidels, remember me? Just thought I’d drop in to give you something else to talk about, as American politics is really dull and uninteresting to everyone in any other part of this big beautiful planet of ours. Osama and I are relaxing by the pool here in Texas, surfing the web on our new 17 inch Powerbook. We’ve already used the net to find all sorts of lovely recipes. Anyway, must dash, got to see a man about an air force.
Praise be to me, sorry, I mean Allah. Why do I always get that wrong?
Al Sharpton, NBA pre game analyist
“I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NBA. The media has been very desirous that a white forward do well,” Sharpton said on Sunday’s show. “There is a little hope invested in Larry Bird, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”
From: BTW
That inner ear problem Rush has is one of the most severely painful conditions one can be afflicted with. Keep that in mind. Obviously, one should go to the doctor, but if the prescriptions aren’t working or the docs have got you hooked, what would you do with a searing pain inside your ears?
In Limbaugh’s case that’s just the pain of a vacuum. He’s an idiot and deserves everything he gets and then some. Hypocritcal bastard. Always was and always will be. He likes to push buttons and spill a pile of bile about things he knows nothing about. I hope he’s loving up on his karmic return.
Ohhhhhhh pain killers.
Who cares?
Obviously the leftists love to be in people’s personal business. They have no standards, and their pets (the media) do whatever they say.
Ridiculous.
You know, there are worse things than being a “Liberal” thinker. If these were the (19) fifties I’m sure they’d call us “Commies” or “N*** Lovers” too. But I say shame on those who go out of their way to make impossible the pursuit of another’s happiness.
Opinionated Jerk:
“By the way, I don’t dislike everyone. McNabb’s not a bad quarterback, and I like two of my cats. The other two are bastards”
LMAO Funny. Thanks for sparring and keeping a sense of humor!
But you are completely wrong, and I think it really telling that the of two cats you like one is a socialist and the other is gay…
Obviously the leftists love to be in people’s personal business. They have no standards, and their pets (the media) do whatever they say
Yep. It’s nothing like banging an intern in the oval office – that’s political!
re James:
Liberal media in the USA? Geez you guys should get a clue, it’s blatantly obvious to anyone outside the USA looking in that nearly all your main stream media is extremely biased towards the right wing.
From what I’ve seen of Mr. Limbaugh he deserves everything he gets, put these rabid right wing hate mongers in jail where they belong
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After reading some of these posts, it is amazing to me how many people have been brain-washed by Rush and his cohorts. Follow the line… Repeat after me… The Liberal Media…
How about this. Try thinking for yourselves and coming up with your own opinions. Yes, it may be hard at first. Resist the temptation to listen to Rush before making up your mind.
As far as Rush’s ESPN comments, what did they expect? They hired a political commentator to talk about Football, and the act all surprised when he uses a bit of controversial politics to make up for his lack of deep football knowledge. ESPN must have been hoping for this. They got lots of free publicity out of the deal and now they don’t have to pay Rush any more. I wonder what their ratings will be next week. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had an interview with McNabb in the next week or 2.
As far as the OxyContin issue, if it goes to court, I bet Rush will be praying for a liberal (non-mandated) sentence. How will this effect his show? This will be interesting to say the least.
I am one arch-conservative who is not going to be sorry to see Rush go. He was an entertainer masquerading as a a thoughtful analyst. He frequently derided those without “self control”. He should go the way that Clinton should have gone, to the dustheap of history.
Why do people like Areyougaytoo? come to this website if they dislike it ‘deviating’ from it’s ‘focus’ so much?
When did MacDailyNews outline a focus from which to have the possibility of deviating from? I sure missed that announcement.
Areyougaytoo: Is it the MacDailyNews.com domain that gave you this falsehood?
I’m sorry, but noone is responsible for your deflated balloons and false expectations and the setting yourself up for unsatisfactory failure other than YOURSELF. You apparently fabricated this idea of ‘focus’ for MacDailyNews, and it seems you are constantly lurking on the site to wait for when MacDailyNews ‘deviates’ from this unknown, unstated, and unpromised ‘focus’ that YOU ALONE have FABRICATED.
-ZackMac
They used to say that a conservative is a liberal that just got mugged. I guess a liberal is a conservative that just got arrested.
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ZackMac, we all got what Ary’s name meant. We just don’t care. Grow up, eh?
The Gay Prince wrote:
“Because MDN’s beloved bigot allowed his personality to seep through on ESPN…”
Where, oh where, in MacDailyNews’ article above do you get the idea that Limbaugh is “beloved” by MDN?
Woo Hoo! Mac users have found someone else to rant about, maybe I’m not that bad after all.
Opinionated Jerk: Good one!
Dave H: I’m grown. Thanks for focusing on everything but the point of my comment, and then commenting on that non-point.
Bill Gates: You just wait… until 2006, then we’ll laugh at your Longhorn! Ha!
ZackMac: Have you ever wondered that it may be easier to get your point across without dressing it up in personal attack? The people you are trying to convince may then consider the crux of your argument rather than getting distracted.
Dave H: I thought you were disappearing for “a couple of days”.
It will probably come as shock to a lot of the over-opinionated, under-knowledged sports fans, but a Philly sports writer, Allex Barras, writing in Slate.com (well know for its consertive views-not) did the math and concluded that Rush was right, McNabb is getting a free ride:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/975128.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1