Rush Limbagh said of Michelle Obama's healthy eating program "If you are going

[applegrove]

to eat berries and twigs and stuff, you better look like an ethiopian". Where was the outrage then?

[nolabear]

1. He just took a while to reach critical mass.

Although getting away with that kind of thing probably set the stage for today's conviction that he's untouchable. (Touch...touch...)

[spooky3]

2. he has a long history of offensive comments - racist, sexist, homophobic.

But his latest tirade is simply the worst.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. He has spent 24 years black-bashing.

The nasty "jingles" and parodies that he has aired insulting folks from Jesse Jackson to President Obama...

Remember "Barack the Magic Negro"? Richard Wolfe brought that one up on Ed....

[lunasun]

8. just talking about this ....he has always been saying horrible disgusting things

about minorities/poor/gays
but now he has attacked a very large group >> > all women ( and the men who support them) who use birth control and get it via an insurance policy as
'sluts' etc. ..
....oops- shoulda thought that one through Limbo!!!

[JI7]

4. i think part of it now is that the person he attacked wasn't a major public figure

Michelle Obama isn't really a "public" figure in the way that you would consider a politician. but she is still first lady.

i think if he used the same words with Fluke against someone who was more "famous" he probably wouldn't be getting the bakclash.

[zappaman]

5. +100 n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He went after Shirley Sherrod

who was a federal government worker... All in a pile-on to Shitbart's and O'Barf's dirty tricks video editing.

She wasn't a "public figure".

This take down is a LONG time coming.

[Frances]

6. I don't think Rush or anyone radio talk show host

has ever said a person should make a sex video and post it online.

That demand was so sick that no one could ignore it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. He's recently said a lot of terrible things about Michelle Obama

Calling her "The First Linebacker", "Michelle, my butt", comments about her outweighing the President's limousine, or something similar. And he recently made another misogynistic comment about Danica Patrick, saying "what do you expect from women drivers" when she expressed her views about contraception. And of course before Michelle Obama it was misogyny directed at First Lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea. None of his statements has been remotely funny or entertaining.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. I think the First Lady is all class act. Her silence says it all. She doesn't need to react to

ignorance. We all know it's just a ratings ploy anyway. I am greatful she doesn't bring herself down to his level. That is what makes the republicans sooooooo mad. Look at quitter Palins comments about Mrs Obama and she is so classy not to answer. Really that makes them sooooo upset that neither of the Obamas response. That is the best comeback they can do. Silence says it all.

[rustydog]

11. Rushbo picked on a public figure with Michelle Obama

doesn't make the comment right or any less disgusting, but in politics, she is "fair game."
The college student was a private citizen who testified before Democrats and Rush had to get back. he made crude comments about a private citizen because he thought he could.

[applegrove]

12. We have Conservatives in Canada who have brought the politics of "WAR" to the country, just

like what Rush teaches every day on his show. Except it is backfiring here: there were some misleading robocalls on election day and everyone thinks the Conservatives are guilty because that is how creeps at war roll.