Limbaugh: The only innocent here is the baby (paraphrased)

[maxrandb]

Last edited Tue Aug 21, 2012, 04:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Yes ladies, if you're raped, the only innocent in the entire ordeal is the fertalized egg.

Edit: took out the quotation marks and added that the statement was paraphrased.

[spanone]

1. so lu$h has no empathy for rape victims? no surprise.

[enough]

20. This is worse than lack of empathy, this is putting moral blame

on the victim. American Taliban.

[nanabugg]

29. Well just wait until some of the daughters of the RW fanatics step up and

call out those they have been protecting for decades. It's gonna make the priest/pediphiles look like saints...well maybe not...but it's going to be interesting. Remember when they jumped all over Bill Clinton for Monica and then the skeletons started falling out of all their closets? Get the pop-corn ready. Larry Flint is probably already working on it.

[MADem]

2. What an asshole!

He keeps digging, doesn't he?

If anyone had told me, a year ago, if women's issues would shape up to be the Key Feature of this election season, I would not have believed it.

I believe it now, though...!

[Aviation Pro]

16. Missed a couple of adjectives...

....what a fucking, bloated, oxycontin-chugging asshole.

There, better.

[MADem]

23. Heh! Thank you for filling in the blanks in my invective! Much better, indeed! nt

[nanabugg]

31. Well, it's still about race...no matter what they draw your attention to. nt

[arthritisR_US]

3. OMFG! All I can see right now is red...

[CoffeeCat]

4. Keep talking Rush...

...keep pushing the Republican party off of a cliff and into extreme waters that only 10 percent of the truly wacknut faction of your party can stomach.

We are in the process of securing the Independent vote, as the zealots speak their insanity and remind everyone of how terrifying the shallow end of the Republican party is.

Again, keep going Rush. We're getting the Independents, and it would be nice to peel off a good chunk of moderate Republican votes, as well.

[PD Turk]

5. From a guy who rapes children

[qb]

6. The only pig here is Limbaugh.

[sibelian]

7. Do you have a source for that?

I don't doubt he said it but it would be good to see where.

[Berlum]

8. Screw you, you draft-dodging, Cayman-Islands tax dodging 1% Republican Overpaid Propaganda Pimp

What a turd Limbaugh is...

[Initech]

9. Is there something in the water? What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

I'm surprised any women on the planet would put up with these dipshits.

[Greybnk48]

10. UNLESS IT'S A FEMALE BLASTOCYST!!!!!!

THEN IT'S A DIRTY SLUT! (caps to denote hysteria)

[Lint Head]

11. This is just as despicable as the "slut" remark. He is saying women who are raped ask for it and

are not victims. He should be off the air now. He does not deserve a mass media empire and bully pulpit to spout his hateful rhetoric.

[opiate69]

12. I should be surprised...

but every time I think these worthless fuckers have hit rock bottom, they just go even further.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. Is this a new comment? Did you just hear it?

Is there a link?

[librechik]

21. I couldn't find a link either, tho I'm sure I've heard that come out of Rush's mouth

[gordianot]

14. Right on time please Limbaugh endorse and support Akin keep the conversation going. k/r

[OneGrassRoot]

17. I was looking for a source for the OP and found this Limbaugh comment about Akin:

Limbaugh said that he was not prepared to throw Akin “under the bus” as have so many conservative pundits and lawmakers. However, he said Akin’s comments are reflective of a personality that is sequestered in only pro-life circles and rarely, if ever, encounters a dissenting opinion.

“This whole business that a woman’s body shuts down after rape – there’s no evidence for that,” said Limbaugh. “That’s the kind of thing that people who do nothing but talk amongst themselves will conjure up – a belief system like that – and they’ll grab onto anything they can to support what their empirical belief is.”

Limbaugh said that he has heard similar claims about pregnancies that result from rape before from pro-lifers. He called that point of view “absurd” and “not intelligent.” He went on to say that Akin’s defense of life was noble, but that he went about making his case with “glorious ineptitude.”

He went on to condemn the Republican’s “circular firing squad.” He went on to claim that Democrats elevated Akin to be the party’s nominee in a tightly contested three-way primary.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-on-akins-rape-comments-thats-just-absurd-its-not-intelligent/

[gordianot]

24. He may be correct that Akin was the Democrats pick in Missouri.

I know more than a few Democrats who took out a Republican ballot to vote for Akin in the Primary. As I recall Limbaugh advocated similar tactics.

[OneGrassRoot]

26. I checked the twitter feed for anything about Limbaugh...

still wondering if the OP was about today's show. Evidently Limbaugh changed his tune today and is calling for Akin to step down, according to dittoheads tweeting.

[gordianot]

28. When ditto heads turn on you not good.

Will know by 5:00 otherwise Akin will have to go to court to get name off ballot.

[hamsterjill]

41. "and they’ll grab onto anything they can to support what their empirical belief is.”

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!!

[YoungDemCA]

15. WTF

Is this guy Serial?

[librechik]

18. so, the bitch is ALWAYS asking for it. Rape isn't even really a crime! Thx, Rush!

for spelling it out so clearly! (not really--how slippery is Rush?)

[KharmaTrain]

19. It's The Same Thing That Akin Said...

If you listen to that soundbite closely, Akin never mentions the health or welfare of the mother, only the "unborn". It was all about protecting the cells over the evil mother that may expel it from her body. This not only demonizes women who have an abortion for any reason...including rape but also those who have miscarriages.

Right on cue Rushbo rushes to defend the indefensible and doubles down. The benefit is with the 5pm deadline looming and Rushbo weighing in on Akin's side it could be just enough to keep him in the race beyond the 5pm deadline. Rove must be spitting nails.

[Arugula Latte]

22. I wonder how his remaining sponsors will feel about this latest remark?

Let's let them know how we feel.

[catbyte]

25. And the only disgusting bag of goo is Limbaugh

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. OMG!

[TwilightGardener]

30. Sick asshole.

[sufrommich]

32. Do you have a link for this? I'd really like

to add it to Facebook.

[maxrandb]

36. I just caught a few minutes of him while I was getting lunch

He said that folks like Akin have such a strong belief that they are protecting the baby, that they make stuff like what he said up to support their argument...and that "the innocent one here is the baby"...he may have also actually followed that with "in all of these things" (meaning pregnancy)

I don't know if they post a transcript of his show, and I'm not willing to give him the traffic to look for a transcript

[sufrommich]

38. OK, thanks. nt

[Cleita]

33. Sometimes I wonder if these blowhards aren't rapists themselves

somewhere in their sordid pasts. Why would they be so vehement about protecting the rapist, if not?

[reflection]

34. Like others, I want to see a link.

As stupid and drug-addled as this fool is, I doubt he said that. But I've been wrong before.

[Cleita]

39. He has a website with videos and podcasts of his shows.

If you really are that interested in what he said, go there.

[reflection]

44. Hm.

I would think that if he said it, someone on our side of the fence would already have picked it up and run with it. But I can't find anyone saying anything about it, which gives me pause.

I hope he did say it, that would be phenomenal. It would turn women and independents to us in a big way.

I did search for 'Limbaugh' on Google News and came across this transcript:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/08/21/akin_s_remark_was_stupid_and_untrue_now_he_must_put_the_nation_s_future_first

And this is probably what the OP is referring to:

If you strip this down, what Akin was trying to say was something very simple. I don't think abortion should even happen in rape. That's what he was trying to say. Let's just strip away all the other stuff. There are a group of pro-lifers who profoundly believe that, and they talk to each other, and they try to come up with ways of persuading other people to agree with them on this. Because their view is, it's not the baby's fault. Why are we gonna kill the baby? Why should there be an exception? The baby is the essence of innocence in every act of conception. The baby is entirely innocent, is what they believe, and so an exception to them weakens the entire argument.

If it is, then the OP is wrong, because he/she puts "The only innocent here is the baby" in quotes. Which doesn't do us any good to lie about it, because it's easily disproven.

That being said, I hope he did say it, and that someone can cite it. It would be as close to Christmas in August as you can get.

[OneGrassRoot]

47. I think you're right.

I was checking twitter feeds, assuming people would be posting about it, but didn't see anything. Thanks for finding that.

[reflection]

48. No problem.

I just hope no one thinks I'm trying to defend the asshole. I still hold out hope he said it, but I doubt it. That sort of thing should have exploded right away.

[OneGrassRoot]

50. I certainly don't think that.

The loathsomeness of Limbaugh, Beck, Rove and a few others may be the only thing DUers are in completely agreement on.

[maxrandb]

53. I fixed my OP to show I was paraphrasing. Fortunately, I wasn't jotting down what he said word for

word while driving....BUT the gist is the same.

From the quote you posted...If in Limbaugh's argument, it's not the baby's fault...then whose fault is it? Like typical Repuke idiots, he completely marginalizes and removes the women who would be FORCED TO CARRY A RAPIST' CHILD TO TERM from the equation. Then he makes it worse by saying "the baby is the essence of innocence in every act of conception"...Really Rush? In every "act of conception"???

In a brutal gang rape, a fertilized egg is "more" innocent than the victim of the rape? When a 12 year old is raped by her uncle, or father...the resultant fertilized egg is "more" innocent than the victim? When a woman is drugged and raped repeatedly...the fertilized egg is "more" innocent than the rape victim? When a woman is beaten to within an inch of her life and raped and sodomized, the fertilized egg is "more" innocent than the victim?

That's what is disgusting about this pig and other pigs on the right. The woman is simply a vessel to carry a fertilized egg to term, because, afterall...that egg has more rights than the woman carrying it.

[reflection]

54. Well, there is no "baby"

so I reject Limbaugh's argument out of hand that there is an innocent baby being hurt somehow. The rest of it is just his usual blather, the blather of entitled men who don't have to deal with the possibility of a rapist impregnating them.

I've got no quibble with anything you've said, my friend. I just saw the quote marks, which imply a direct quote, and went looking for them. When I couldn't find them, I was curious. That's all.

[Cleita]

56. Cenk Uygur just played the Limbaugh clip on his show.

It wasn't far from what you said.

[LaydeeBug]

35. That's *exactly* what some cretin said to me...at which point I

told him "rape is how the Devil spreads his seed" so, I *think* THE FUCKING VICTIM is innocent and she should not have to bear any child she does not want to bear. Only *God* can tell her when the time is right.

[Cleita]

40. I was watching a show on Al Jazeera about African women who were raped in the many

wars on that continent. It seems they don't treat the children of that rape very well because the child just reminds them of what happened to them. I'm not judging. I'm just saying such children do endure hard lives growing up.

[LaydeeBug]

55. I am sure they do, and that's tragic. nt

[uponit7771]

37. wow...do they want to lose?

[yellowcanine]

42. Yes. The rape victim cannot be innocent because she must have done

SOMETHING to "ask for it." Like leaving her house, for example....oopsie, sometimes rapists break into the house. Oh bother.

[madokie]

43. You know that sob would be crying a different tune right now if he wasn't able to buy his way out of

prison when he was popped for possession of and procuring hillbilly heroin or when he got caught with the prescription in his possession with someone else's name on it for viagra shortly after that on his way back from a vacation of rape of some young boys in the DR.
Fuck him and the people who listen to him. Fuck'm all.
douche bag is too nice of a word for him, dickheaded mo'fo is more like it.

my apologies to anyone I may have offended with my words but this guy doesn't deserve anything nice associated with his sorry ass person.

[ljm2002]

45. It's worse than declaring the woman not innocent...

...what it amounts to is declaring the woman nonexistent. Women have no say and are not considered when making these "moral equations" -- they always, without fail, leave the woman out of the equation.

The woman does not exist as a protected person in their version of "the law". She cannot express her own interests. Everyone else in the world can chime in on the rightness or wrongness of her having an abortion; but she herself has no standing and cannot make arguments from her own interests.

When it comes to a fetus, it must NEVER EVER take second place to the woman. It's the WOMAN who must take second place, third place, last place, no place -- always and ever.

A-holes.

[yardwork]

46. There it is.

[hifiguy]

49. What a surprise coming from Vicodin Limbosevich.

That Baghdad Blob hasn't been struck by a bolt of lightning is conclusive proof that there is no god.

[_Liann_]

51. RepublicansForRape.org

What's the BIG DEAL?? REPUBLICANSforRAPE.org lists the pictures and names of 30 GOP senators who voted against Al Franken's anti-rape amendment to the 2010 military appropriations bill (which passed anyway and was signed into law by anti-rape president Obama). Rape is one of the EIGHT TRADITIONAL FORMS OF BIBLICAL MARRIAGE approved by god and accepted as true by Republicans... see Deuteronomy 22: 28-29 for detailed instructions: ONLY if you get caught raping a virgin of any age outside the city, THEN you pay her poppa $50 of silver shekels and THEN you bought you a wife who has to put out and do your laundry and cook your dinner and have your kids without socialized medicine. And a rapist could have as many rape-wives as he wanted to buy, because polygamy was also one of the REPUBLICAN APPROVED EIGHT FORMS OF BIBLICAL TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. The rapist only had to pay for the ones that he got caught in the act raping, "legitimate" rape, not those he-said-she-said disputed rapes where she was probably asking for it.

[Shankapotomus]

52. Sounds like Rush needs

to lose some more advertisers. He doesn't quite get it yet.