Rush Limbaugh Implies Matthew Shepard's Death Wasn't A Hate Crime

[Cali_Democrat]

Rush is despicable:

Rush Limbaugh Implies Matthew Shepard's Death Wasn't A Hate Crime In Broadcast
Posted: 02/25/2014 12:21 pm EST

Rush Limbaugh made an eyebrow-raising reference to Matthew Shepard in a radio broadcast this week, implying that the slain gay student's murder wasn't a hate crime. As Media Matters first reported, Limbaugh had been commenting on openly gay NBA player Jason Collins, who recently joined the Brooklyn Nets.

Pointing to Collins' decision to wear the number 98 as a silent tribute to Shepard, who was beaten and left to die outside Laramie, Wyo. in October 1998, Limbaugh noted:

What we have here is a portion of the play-by-play of the Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins, the first openly gay player to actually play in a professional sports game. It happened last night. The Brooklyn Nets against the Los Angeles Lakers.

This is the Nets play-by-play announcer Ryan Ruocco, as Jason [Collins] -- who by the way took number 98 in solidarity with Matthew Shepard, who was, it's now been proven didn't happen, but reputed to have beaten up by a bunch of anti-gay bigots.

Limbaugh was likely referencing journalist Stephen Jimenez's controversial book, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard. Released Oct. 1, Jimenez's book claimed that media narrative around the events pertaining to Shepard's death and motivations of his killers was incorrect.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/matthew-shepard-rush-limbaugh-_n_4854303.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. Right wing douchebags have been claiming this for years...

I put as much stock into this particular bullshit as I do any of their other bullshit... That is to say, none.

[KT2000]

2. that comes from a book

called the Book of Matt written by Stephen Jimenez, a journalist who is gay himself. He was on C-Span. He investigated it over ten years. He learned that the guy who beat him had known Matthew for a while and the author said he knew him intimately. He and Matthew did meth together too. The author does not think it was a hate crime for being gay but rather something to do with the drugs.
The author started out wanting to write a screen play about a hate crime but changed his mind about what happened.

We will probably never know exactly what happened.

[wildbilln864]

3. screw that junky! n/t

[rustydog]

4. Fuck you, Rushed Limpballs

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Jimenez is a POS muckracker. Friends with good ole Andy Sullivan.

That pig Limbaugh must love he has a "gay friend" touting his hate.