Limbaugh: Dems and media have equated being gay with being a pedophile

[sabra]

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100506/content/america_s_anchorman.guest.html

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RUSH: You know what's interesting, this Foley stuff, there's no humanity in this Foley stuff. I mean, there's literally no humanity in it. I might talk about that as the program unfolds today and explain to you what I mean. Another quick observations is, has it occurred to anybody else that the liberals in the media have essentially equated being gay with being a pedophile? Greetings. Welcome. This is the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network. We're here behind the Golden EIB Microphone, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Dawn is out today. Welcome Wendy, back to the transcription duties. (interruption) What? Oh, yeah, that's right. She wore the skirt especially for me because Dawn never does. Every time we tell Dawn Wendy wore a skirt, Dawn shows up in one the next day. So skirts two days in a row! Hubba hubba, thank you, Wendy. Anyway, telephone number, 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, [e-mail].

Snerdley had a shocked reaction on his face, but we now know the identity of one of the pages. Name is Jordan Edmund. He's 21 years old now. He was 18, that's adult, that's consenting adult age and status when he was e-mailing or IMing back and forth with -- it's now obligatory to say the creepy pervert, Mark Foley. Well, you have to say that. It's become obligatory. But throughout this whole episode, it just struck me that the libs and the media have equated being gay -- I mean, this has all happened because Foley was gay and that means he's a pedophile. I don't know that they -- obviously didn't intend to do this, but to a casual observer, might draw that conclusion watching this over-the-top behavior. Democrats almost like Wile E. Coyote here in many ways. And, ladies and gentlemen, there is something circulating up on Capitol Hill, and rather than me tell you -- and I've heard it from a couple people, but let's go to the audio sound bites. Lawrence O'Donnell last night on PMSNBC saying this about the Republican base.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Shut up, Rush. You're just preaching to the choir again.

:boring:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Limbaugh...

wasn't he arrested in a gay prostitution sting a few years ago?

[wholetruth00]

23. I thought that's what Rush said or inferred sometime ago?

Now he is trying to spin this on the Dems? For sure, the RW funddies and Tucker Carlsen believe this.

[fooj]

3. Limpballs doesn't deserve the time of day...

HIs days are numbered, as well.

[Jack from Charlotte]

4. I've equated being a Repug with being a pedophile. (NFM)

*

[valerief]

5. No, we've equated being gay with being you, Rush (sorry, nice

gay people out there).

[Change has come]

14. Shudder

We don't want him either. He deserves his very own category. :puke:

[valerief]

15. I guess he's more gayg, arggh, gayg, gayg, arggh. nt

[Change has come]

19. the noise a person makes

when sucking snot from their nasal passages and gagging as they swallow it down.

[uppityperson]

6. It is called projection.

"I can't reconcile myself with what I do/want to do, so say you do it/want to do it".

[darkmaestro019]

17. I always thought that was very funny about Freud.......

that he could simultaneously have that theory while calling almost EVERYTHING a penis, heh......

C'mon, Freud. It's okay to want some. Just go get you some, you wacky German you. : )

[karlrschneider]

7. Well, a lot of DUers have helped to perpetuate the myth so he's

partly right.

[LSK]

8. does this guy listen to his own show???????

:wtf:

[filer]

9. Oh the "humanity"!

But I think you're confused, Rush. It's you guys who hate gays. And you don't understand humanity because you aren't human.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Oh for God fucking sakes

If anyone has ever equated being gay with being a pedophile, it's Rush Limbaugh! Rush, people think that of your guy because of YOU!

[rodeodance]

11. dems have? hey Rusy get a life!

[jrw14125]

12. Oh. My. God.

His listeners must not get much news elsewhere, else maybe they'd know that Republicans and conservatives (particularly the religious right) are the ones equating being gay with pedophilia?

Case in point here:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010187.php

And here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/04/walsh-foley/

And from Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/03/foley-anti-gay/):

Ben Stein, American Spectator:

On the one hand, we have a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys. He sent them suggestive e-mail. I agree, that’s not great. … I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

Linda Harvey, WorldNetDaily:

Open or suspected homosexuals should never be elected. The problem with homosexuals is that they frequently don’t have common sense and don’t acknowledge appropriate boundaries. Weird sex, public displays of “affection” and nudity, and sex with youth are built into the “gay” sub-culture.

Jonah Goldberg, National Review:

The funny thing is that you would think the left — particularly the gay left — would be a bit more interested in not having 16 and 17 year old teenagers classified as young children for legal/sexual/political purposes. If that were the case, then a whole lot of dirty old men would need to be prosecuted for felonies when they pick up street hustlers.

Wall Street Journal, editorial:

But in today’s politically correct culture, it’s easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails. Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert’s head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys.

Tammy Bruce, political analyst:

All I want, frankly, is a gay person in office who is not a sexual compulsive. I mean, is that too much to ask for?

Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy In Meda:

In fact, the entire scandal might have been avoided if Foley’s homosexuality had been exposed and confronted, rather than protected, over the last several years.


The mental gymnastics requires to be a conservative these days continue to astound me!

[dogday]

13. Because Rush is Queen of all things Gay and Pedophilia

He knows of what he speaks, right?

[samsingh]

16. i think the fat disgusting man is projecting himself

[William Seger]

18. Guess Rush missed Tony Perkins statement over at Family Research Council

Or, maybe Rush is saying Perkins is one of those "liberals in the media"? Who knew :shrug:

Pro-Homosexual Political Correctness Sowed Seeds for Foley Scandal

Democrats seeking to exploit the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) are right to criticize the slow response of Republican congressional leaders to his communications with male pages. But neither party seems likely to address the real issue, which is the link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse. Foley, an unmarried 52-year-old representative, had always refused to answer questions about his sexual orientation. Now that his emails and messages to teenage male pages have been revealed, it appears clear that Foley is a homosexual with a particular attraction to underage boys. While pro-homosexual activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. Although almost all child molesters are male and less than 3% of men are homosexual, about a third of all child sex abuse cases involve men molesting boys--and in one study, 86% of such men identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual. Ignoring this reality got the Catholic Church into trouble over abusive priests, and now it is doing the same to the House GOP leadership. They discounted or downplayed earlier reports concerning Foley's behavior--probably because they did not want to appear "homophobic." The Foley scandal shows what happens when political correctness is put ahead of protecting children.

[ComerPerro]

20. And this would offend Republicans why?

They ALREADY are convinced that all homosexuals are pedophiles.

So, what does it matter to Rush?

[zbdent]

21. What? Someone mentioned Rush's trip to the Dominican Republic?

Where someone with the right connections and the right amount of cash (and some help from Viagra) can get that kind of thing?

[TabulaRasa]

22. The most interesting part of the transcript for me

is when he takes a break to hit on his female employees. Oh, I get it Rush, you're NOT gay. Why else would you be hitting on your female employees?

Who says "Hubba, Hubba", except a gay man trying to pretend he's not gay? I saw a performance a few years ago by Mark Crispin Miller, in which he claimed that Limbaugh was gay. I was skeptical at first, but I'm starting to believe it pretty strongly, now.