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William769

(55,144 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:49 PM Mar 2012

Rush Limbaugh Jabs Lesbians Getting Divorced, They Jab Back

Rush Limbaugh took at jab at all same-sex marriages after hearing the news that the lesbian couple who was among the first to marry in California is now getting a divorce. But they're perfectly capable of jabbing back, just not with a built-in national audience.

Limbaugh, who is on his fourth marriage, criticized Robin Tyler and Diane Olson for how long they were married.

"Did you see that the poster couple for gay marriage in California are getting a divorce? You see that? It's true," he said on his radio show in February. "It's two women, they were among the first 14 same-sex couples who got married on the day the ban was lifted in California back in June of 2008. I guess the national average, three-and-a-half years, is what their marriage lasted, maybe it's the California average. I'm not sure."

What he leaves out is that Tyler and Olson were a couple for 18 years, applying for a marriage license every year since 2001. They were the first couple to legally marry in Los Angeles County, where they sued for the right. Tyler, an activist and a comedian for 40 years, wasn't amused but kept her sense of humor.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/03/07/Rush_Limbaugh_Jabs_Lesbians_Getting_Divorced_They_Jab_Back/

PRICELESS!
""I will give him one thing," she said. "I believe that Rush Limbaugh is great for birth control. I mean, who the hell would want to sleep with him?""

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Rush Limbaugh Jabs Lesbians Getting Divorced, They Jab Back (Original Post) William769 Mar 2012 OP
Limbaugh making fun of a divorce get the red out Mar 2012 #1
Please don't insult whales by comparing them to Rush. Fawke Em Mar 2012 #3
I know - my immediate thought is to call Rush a pig spiderpig Mar 2012 #5
Good point. Fawke Em Mar 2012 #8
Rush is not a pig-boy as in pigs the nobel creature. More like this... wandy Mar 2012 #9
OxyRush bongbong Mar 2012 #12
And Rush is currently married to his 4th or 5th wife? Kookaburra Mar 2012 #2
Wife???? bongbong Mar 2012 #13
It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me... athenasatanjesus Mar 2012 #4
Doesn't bother them a bit. Mariana Mar 2012 #11
Coffee, kettle, black Limbaugh situation??? eh, that's the norm. shcrane71 Mar 2012 #6
Unlike the untarnished marriages of Kim Kardashian Sheepshank Mar 2012 #7
I guess the national average, three-and-a-half years, nykym Mar 2012 #10

get the red out

(13,461 posts)
1. Limbaugh making fun of a divorce
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:01 PM
Mar 2012

Is like a whale calling a hippo fat. Or maybe Rush calling a hippo fat; some mammals I get confused ;0

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
3. Please don't insult whales by comparing them to Rush.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:02 PM
Mar 2012

Whales are beautiful creatures with deep emotions.

Rush is just a fatass.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
5. I know - my immediate thought is to call Rush a pig
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:07 PM
Mar 2012

and then I have to backtrack because pigs are noble creatures, and they're smarter than dogs.

We have to establish a specific biological classification for the Rushus Limbaughnicus. At the very bottom of the evolutionary scale.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
8. Good point.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:35 PM
Mar 2012

Whales are also smart. Smarter than Limbaugh, I'd wager.

The Rushus Limbaughnicus gives the missing link a bad name.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
9. Rush is not a pig-boy as in pigs the nobel creature. More like this...
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:44 PM
Mar 2012
Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart,
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost a joker,
With your head down in the pig bin,
Saying "Keep on digging."
Pig stain on your fat chin.
What do you hope to find.
When you're down in the pig mine.
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.



Roger Waters.

Kookaburra

(2,649 posts)
2. And Rush is currently married to his 4th or 5th wife?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:02 PM
Mar 2012

And he's elected himself our moral compass? I wish he'd just go away. I'm tired of his big mouth.

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
4. It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me...
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:03 PM
Mar 2012

...it's the lack of fear of being caught in an obvious hypocrisy that scares me the most about right wingers.

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
11. Doesn't bother them a bit.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 03:14 PM
Mar 2012

He knows his audience. His listeners know he's a hypocrite. They know he lies. They know he makes shit up. They don't care. In fact, they'd probably turn him right off if he started telling the truth, because that isn't what they want to hear.

 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
7. Unlike the untarnished marriages of Kim Kardashian
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:22 PM
Mar 2012

Sinead O'Connor, Stanford, Ensign etc etc etc.

what make those heterosexual couplings more noble?

nykym

(3,063 posts)
10. I guess the national average, three-and-a-half years,
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 03:07 PM
Mar 2012

1st marriage 9-24-77 Divorced 7-10-80 roughly 3 years!
2nd marriage 1983 Divorced 1990 roughly 7 years getting better at staying together, but not quite there - 7 year itch?
3rd marriage May 27, 1994 Divorced December 2004, WOW a ten year stint!
4th marriage June 5, 2010, lets see how long he can keep it up (sic).

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