Rush wants tolerance FOR BIGOTS!

[AsahinaKimi]

Rush Limbaugh: Where’s The ‘Tolerance’ For People Who Come Out As Bigots?
Like NFL player Asante Samuel, Rush Limbaugh is a bit flummoxed about why everyone is celebrating the coming out of NBA player Jason Collins. On his show earlier this week, Limbaugh complained that there is excitement for a person’s sexuality being “rammed down everybody’s throat all the time,” but no “tolerance” for people who oppose homosexuality:

LIMBAUGH: Folks, I grew up in a family where people’s sexual orientation, preferences, whatever, weren’t even discussed. Why can’t everybody just put your sexual preferences on Facebook and call it a day? What do we need to stop everything and have a national day of celebration, or mourning (depending on your point of view), or recognition or whatever about this? This tolerance, it only goes one way. So Person X of some national stature announces his sexual orientation as gay, and applause!

It’s a great day for America. We’re really taking giant leaps ahead. If anybody says, “You know, I’m not big on that,” it’s, “You bigot! You racist! You extremist. You homophobe.” There is no tolerance at all here. Not only do these people have to publicly announce it, but everybody else has to applaud and accept it.

Limbaugh went on to juxtapose Collins’s coming out with President Bill Clinton’s scandal with Monica Lewinsky, bizarrely suggesting they were comparable stories about a person’s private sex life — in other words, if Clinton’s sex life was supposed to be private, so too should ...


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He would... what a jerk.

[shenmue]

1. He never discussed anything because it's called repression

Yes, if you are not big on what someone is, Rush you dope, you are a bigot. That's what bigot means. Duh.

[Shrike47]

2. Rush, the problem is, they don't say 'I'm not big on that',

They say ' you are disgusting and an abomination who will fry in hell.'

[zappaman]

3. Whatta dick. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

4. Ask Matthew Shepard how easy it was to be accepted

Oh wait, Pigface, I guess he can't answer that, can he?

[OneGrassRoot]

5. There aren't many people in this world that I loathe....

but he's one.

I loathe him not because I think he actually believes the BS he spouts, but because he spouts it and creates hatred and animosity all in the name of the Almighty Dollar. (I do think he believes the BS about women though.)

Zero integrity. Nada.

For the record, I think Beck believes what he spews forth. That's actually scarier to me.

[Shankapotomus]

6. The thing about the intolerant

is they cancel out any right to be tolerated.

[Tikki]

7. Hey rushbo...did you sit around the dinner table discussing the number of times you were going...

to get married, all the pre-nups and your viagra needs and your plans for
trips to sex trade countries?

The same sex couples I know don't sit around the dinner table and discuss their sexuality
either...They know who they are and feel just fine in their relationship.


Tikki

[Turbineguy]

8. Tolerance in the technical sense

is to give them a wide birth. There's an old Russian proverb about making way for ignorance.

[MrScorpio]

9. Rush still hasn't gotten the hang of this tolerance thingie yet

Perhaps he's functionally incapable of grasping the concept.

Some sort of mental deficiency perhaps?