Rush Limbaugh: 1965 Was "A Great Year; Bullying Was Legal"

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: mediamatters.org

LIMBAUGH: Now maybe I'm wrong, but I think most people are gonna laugh at this. It's so obvious now -- it is so pathetically transparently transparent what this is. Media ganging up on Romney -- a pro-Obama media ganging up on Romney. 1965 -- probably a stretch to say it had anything to do with the kid being presumed gay. You had long hair in 1965, you were gonna get razzed. It didn't matter.

They weren't gonna think you were in the Beatles. If you had long hair in 1965, you were gonna get made fun of. See, 1965's a great year; bullying was legal.
Limbaugh added: "Watch that be a quote that shows up at Media Matters: 'Limbaugh praising bullying while defending Romney.' "

Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205100019

[Faygo Kid]

1. I didn't bully, but could have made an exception for Rush in 1965.

He's a cheap bully now, but a lifelong coward all the way. Lives in his Florida compound and doesn't venture out except for well-protected golf outings and the occasional trip to the Dominican Republic.

[Warpy]

7. He actually looks a bit like the fat little prick I put into the hospital

after months of intense bullying. The kid was twice my size and as soon as his mother saw me, she shut the hell up about pressing charges. Sonny boy would have been even more humiliated.

[Turbineguy]

2. Rush Limbaugh was a

piece of shit then too. Even at the age of 14.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. Limbaugh: Another sad, aging Boomer still mad he didn't get laid in the '60s

These folks who are still fuming that the hippies got all the girls comprise a large chunk of the GOP base.

[AndyTiedye]

28. ++++++++++

[Voice for Peace]

43. !!

[wordpix]

54. agree as one who wouldn't have looked twice at him

[Archae]

4. Limbaugh is looking fondly at the years he was bullied because he was a fat wallflower.

[newspeak]

44. actually, I remember reading a piece awhile ago about limpballs

on the second story throwing water balloons at little kids coming to the door at trick or treat. I think he probably was the bully back then. Some of the dittoheads think jeff was digging trenches with them; however, I think daddy was a lawyer and granddaddy was a judge.

[SoutherDem]

5. Bullying was legal

What about assault & battery?

[alp227]

26. so was marital rape.

"As recently as the mid-1970s, every state exempted a husband from prosecution for the rape of his wife." (Marquette Law Review article "Domestic violence and the state&quot

[enough]

6. Wear a hoodie, you're likely to get murdered.

Of course he's the guy who though Abu Ghraib was a fraternity prank.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. What a nutcase.

Hey, Limbaugh, I guess that explains why corruption, conspiracy and fraud were legal during the Republican years of 2000-2008.

[justgamma]

9. Anti-bullying laws & the pukes

The Iowa Republican platform calls for the repeal of the anti-bullying laws. They are a piece of work.

[JonLP24]

10. I'm convinced

He just says whatever to stay relevant. I believed this shortly after the Fluke incident.

It is difficult to believe he actually believes what he says but it wouldn't surprise me. He wants the outrage, he wants the attention.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Thank You Flush Rush for admitting....

..that Media Matters exposes the biggest lying assholes in the USA,
And you're all too proud to be a part of that cesspool.
EMMMM, EMMMM, EMMMM!!!!!!

[unkachuck]

12. why do I....

....get the feeling that the chubby, young, right-wing, fascist lint-ball was a bully? Or at least he was a bully in high school between episodes of getting towel-smacked in the boys' shower....

"Media ganging up on Romney..."

....c'mon lint-ball....you, the corporate media and slick-willard (the rich wall-street Mormon) are all 1% clone buddies, one in the same; why would he 'gang up' on himself?

[richardmyers]

13. There's only one way to respond to this--

...and that is to go here:

http://stoprush.net

[benld74]

14. Well its 2012 and the Gas bag is BULLYING people COAST TO COAST

BUT now its called LIBEL and SLANDER.

[Marie Marie]

15. Wanna bet this pasty dough boy was bullied and beaten up by a girl when he was in school?

That would explain his hatred for women and overcompensating by bullying from his media pulpit. Bet he cried like a girl too. Sad, pathetic waste of oxygen.

[AnneD]

49. That was

Karl Rove. The girl had a Kennedy for prez sticker on her bike....

[LongTomH]

16. Rush, you are such a waste of skin!

Your whole goddam career has been nothing but one long, long episode of bullying women, poor and unemployed people, gays, liberals, and......I'm running out of examples; but, I doubt that's the whole list.

To quote Jimmy Buffett: "Were you born an asshole or did you work at it your whole life! Either way, it worked out fine, because you're an asshole tonight!"

[Major Hogwash]

17. Rush is a bully, so not a surprise that he defends Romney for bullying now.

Limbaugh beats up on women who are still going to college!!
That's a real tough guy, huh?

What does he do for an encore, go to a grammer school and push down little girls?

This is the same guy who supported waterboarding.
The same guy who sold t-shirts supporting waterboarding.
The same guy who ridiculed and mocked Michael J. Fox for having a disease.

Thank gawd Rush has no kids of his own to raise to grow up to be just like him.
Limbaugh is about as effective as a fart in a tornado.

[freshwest]

30. Thank you, we must never forget this foul creature's pollution.

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An entire generation has been brought up on this filth.

[allan01]

18. re:Rush Limbaugh: 1965 Was "A Great Year; Bullying Was Legal"

hem.

[goclark]

20. No matter what he says on the air ways

he is never given his Bye-Bye Papers

[Neoma]

19. So he's admitting that it's bullying? That's big of him.

[truthisfreedom]

21. I don't think Romney's people are going to appreciate the consequences

of trying to make light of bullying in modern America. Rush is out of touch and he's only appeasing the base. Attempts to do that by making light of bullying will drastically alienate all of the normal people, intelligent people, youth, and the oppressed, including all immigrants. Obama managed to create a poisoned situation that nobody on the right is prepared for. He basically pointed out that Romney has Hepatitis and is applying to work in a restaurant.

[Skittles]

23. CORRECT: quite frankly, it turns off all decent people

not just people who were bullied, but friends and loved ones of people who were bullied and all those who have intervened to stop bullying - that's a lot of people

[newspeak]

48. the thing is, I don't think people who listen to limpballs

are decent. Because if you're listening to the gas bag, after everything he's said and after being caught as the hypocrite he is; how can you possible be decent?

[Uncle Joe]

50. Rush is trying to create a box

so as to make Romney's behavior seem moderate by comparison.

Rush defending the practice of bullying as acceptable behavior makes Romney's faux apology seem magnanimous to the sheeple.

In a large sense Romney is more dangerous than Rush because too many people know Limbaugh for the evil that he is, on the other hand Romney will be able to fool and/or buy more people and institutions.

Having said all that, they're two faces of the same coin, but one side is polished and the other tarnished so if you're a sheeple flip over the ugly side and gaze at the shiny.

[Skittles]

22. like Romney, Rush is both a bully AND a coward

[Smilo]

24. Rush - I am just a slut (according to you)

but I would gladly take you out and show you just what it is like to be held against your will and have your hair cut off.

I am sure I would have plenty of people who would sign up to be "posse" members.

You run your mouth day in day out - spout your hate and your vileness and then shout "First Amendment rights" - because you are nothing but a bloated, bigoted coward.

Romney and you make a great pair.

[rocktivity]

25. It's gotten to the point where Rush has to say things like this

just to get noticed...


rocktivity

[nobodyspecial]

27. Razzing ends when physically hold someone down

and alter their appearance.

[DrKPhd]

29. Do only bullies want bullying to be legal?

Probably not, but they're the only ones that would constantly be defending it.

[Jamaal510]

31. Limbaugh is the real-life Eric Cartman.

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They both go all out to be offensive and pick fights with people, and even after they get reprimanded and punished for what they say, they keep trying to press people's buttons. Cartman got his ass kicked countless times by Kyle, yet he still makes fun of him for being Jewish. And Limbaugh is still continuing on with his bigoted and misogynist comments.

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[hifiguy]

56. Bingo. Like Cartman, he bounces back like a damned Weeble

and never learns Thing 1 no matter how many times he is exposed as a complete shitheel. Once an asshole, always an asshole.

[area51]

32. So,

Rusty, a gay man, thinks it's okay for other gays to be bullied?

[Waiting For Everyman]

33. Beatles hair was very "in" in 1965. It was not a hippy era (too early).

I went to a very preppie high school at the same time as him, and about half the guys had Beatles (or more accurately in this case, Beach Boys) hair that year - it was big. Willard was behind the times, uncool, and probably threatened by this guy.

Just some time-frame social context for those younger.

[chervilant]

34. You know,

I have to wonder: might Mittens have gotten a hard-on when he saw this young blond? Maybe that's why he assaulted him?

Haven't we heard countless tales of ultra-conservatives flying their homophobia flags high, all the while using foot signals in the johns?

(This would certainly explain his nervous laughter during his non-apology...)

[Waiting For Everyman]

52. You may be right. n/t

[HockeyMom]

46. Depends on where you went to school

Yes, it was the Beatles generation (teenagers) back then who "long" hair. Many private schools, even in NYC, had dress codes and long hair was not accepted on boys. 1965 was not the hippie era, and longer hair on men hadn't yet spread to the general population. Maybe in California the surfer "bushy, bushy blond hairdo" was in before, but generally not on the East Coast. Maybe these East Coast preppie boys didn't like the California surfer boy look?

I was still living in the Village in 65. The majority of adult gay men did not have long hair then.

[Waiting For Everyman]

51. Yup. And I gather what freaked Romney out the most was that the kid bleached it.

Dying hair was only for women, to Romney, I'm guessing. It was almost never done by men up until that time, so that would've been crossing gender role lines in his mind. Some guys in my school did the bleaching too, but it was a very new thing. (I was on the East Coast btw, near D.C., but it was a very trendy school for some reason.)

Lauber's sister said at the very end of the WaPo article, that her brother kept dying his hair blond all his life until he died. That says to me that it continued to be a self-defining statement of resistance to Lauber.

[sofa king]

35. Riiiight.

If Mitt Romney had cut off Ringo Starr's hair, he'd still be in jail.

[Enrique]

36. Rush might be the only one saying it

but a whole lot of people do long for those days, for reasons like that.

[marble falls]

37. Well, in that case, Mitt gets a pass. I don't think so. And you miss the point ........

Its not the teenage "hijinks" that's the issue, its his inability to own up to it and denounce it.

[madokie]

38. Limbaugh is such a duffus

to the point that its a slam on duffuses.

[Rose Siding]

39. Still legal, Rush. - But it could cause the loss of sponsors.

[edcantor]

40. Rush Limbaugh is the worst kind of an American!

He always had been. No sense of empathy or conscience. What is most depressing is that he has followers and listeners.

[Courtesy Flush]

41. "A student that EVEN THE POST says, could have been gay."

What the heck does that mean? If it turns out the kid was gay, then the bullying was justified?

[sarcasmo]

42. Typical bully speak.

[truthisfreedom]

45. I just read his pathetic little speech while imagining it being delivered in Cartman's voice.

Perfect fit.

[polichick]

47. Rush personifies bullying - it's his whole gig - which amounts to...

...nothing but cowardice and fear, like all bullies.

[patricia92243]

53. I would have thought Rush was the one that got bullied. Fat, ugly, repulsive personality.

[Gman]

55. You know, MediaMatters.org is relatively obscure to the general public

that aren't news junkies like we are. Nevertheless, MediaMatters.org drives the right wing nuts. It's not like they're the CBS Evening News. But they can and do make things happen.

[spiderpig]

57. I didn't want to look at this thread because I knew it would make me furious

The ambulatory humanoid Limbaugh has to be one of the most disgusting pieces of protoplasm on earth.

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Too tired to type more.