McNabb Redux: Limbaugh Trashes Golf Prodigy Michelle Wie

[CatWoman]

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has turned his guns on 16-year-old golf prodigy Michelle Wie. In a recent interview with BadGolfer.com:

a triumph of marketing. … Do you think these PGA Tour guys really think she deserves to be a tournament with them? The political-correctness situation will just not allow them to say it. … learned like many people in our unfortunate society where political correctness is prized most. Vijay was honest and look what it got him. Attacked by a bunch of liberals and femi-nazis.

Michelle Wie is the best 16-year-old golfer in the world, male or female. At age 12, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA (women’s) tournament. In recent months, she has played three PGA Tour events, where she scored better than 86 professional male golfers.

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[MadMaddie]

1. Rush could never beat her so he has to trash her....she is

better than most men...and she is still coming into her own..A triumph of marketing or pure raw talent?

Sounds like he is jealous...and going after a 16 year old...Vijay is a woman hater...yea he is an honest dick!!!

[MidwestTransplant]

20. Sure he could. It's just that dang anal cyst that kept him out of

Vietnam that keeps acting up.

[LiberalFighter]

21. How far could she drive that ball where the sun don't shine???

[ProfessorGAC]

Again

The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Happened Again

The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

31. She's WAAAAYYY Better Than Most Men Will Ever Be

And, that's coming from a man, who is a 3 handicap golfer. She would stomp me into the turf. The only guys in the world that are better than her and the top shelf guys we see on TV. Now, there are a few women players that are better than her, right now. In the future, who knows?
The Professor

[CottonBear]

2. What a hideous soul he must have.

Anyone who would attack a lovely and talented young lady liek this is sick. Sick, sick, sick in the head.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Rush is a Negative person...Hardly anything Positive comes from is large

orfice

Anal Cyst that he is...I hope he gets jail time for his drug habits....

He should come out of the closet....

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The Great Cow-ard now trashes a fine woman. What a piece of slime.

Rush, do us a favor and jump in front of a speeding train.

And take Hannity and Blowreilly with you when you do.

All three of you SUCK.

[Teaser]

4. He needs to shut his dribbling mouth

nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He can't help dribbling - it's from kissing Bush's ass 24/7

[tcfrogs]

6. I hate to say this

And keep your finger off the alert button for a second, please!!!

He's partially right. She entered the Women's world rankings at #3, even though she has never won a tournament. And yes, she's a bit of a media and marketing creation until she starts winning.

However, she's a hell of a player and I assume will be a Tiger-like pheonomenon over the next 10 years.

:hide:

[SeattleGirl]

9. Even if she's partly a media and marketing creating, she

is a great player as you say, and as long as she can walk the walk (or golf the hype), then that's what's most important.

As far as Rush goes, that ass will pounce on anyone and everyone in an effort to make himself look good.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Anyone looks good compared to that drug-infested egomaniac LOSER

Screw him and the manure wagon he rode in on.

[SeattleGirl]

12. You got that right!

He and O'Lielly are a waste of airtime.

[tcfrogs]

13. All I'm saying

and not very succinctly, is that she hasn't done much yet EXCEPT be the best 16 year old female golfer in the world. She hasn't taken the LPGA by storm by winning events. Give her time, with her ability and family structure, I assume she will succeed.

[Jack from Charlotte]

7. The "Men's" PGA tourney's she has entered, she was granted.....

entry as a sponsors exemption. That is, the sponsor of the tourney gets about 6 entries they can grant to whoever they want. Usually, they are given to someone sort of local. For example, the tourney just around the corner from where I live, The Wachovia, granted entry to the son of a PGA golfer who is from this area. The tourney in DC several years ago, granted a sponsors exemption to Mark Rypien, the Redskin QB who won the super bowl.

Now I've NEVER heard any of your Billy-bob golfers or racists like Limp-balls ever complain..... until women started getting the sponsors exemptions. And BTW..... TV ratings go through the roof when Wie and Anika Sorenstam have played PGA events...... which is what the sponsors are looking for in the 1st place.

One other things.... your average right wing sexist moron is under the impression there is a Women's Tour and a Men's Tour. The "men's" tour AKA, The PGA Tour, is open to anyone....... not just men, if the can get entry.

[rocktivity]

23. Sorenstam has proven herself on the LPGA, at least

I'll get behind Michelle when she does the same. She's certainly got enough time.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Jack from Charlotte]

26. Wie finished 2nd in a Major isn't.... that proof? Her other results...

as someone above posted for '05..

She'd be 10th leading money winner........

Tiger at age 16, isn't near anything like this...

SBS Open at Turtle Bay T-2 $91,544
Safeway International T-12 $23,964
Kraft Nabisco Championship T-14 $27,175
McDonald's LPGA Championship 2nd $164,385
U.S. Women's Open T-23 $34,556
Evian Masters T-2 $212,058
Women's British Open T-3 $109,496

[jrw14125]

11. Aww, did a fat hateful white man miss out on a QB or PGA spot?

[vademocrat]

14. Call the wahmbulance - he's mad because she didn't know who he is -

"When asked what she thought of radio host Rush Limbaugh calling her a "triumph of marketing," Wie, the No. 2 ranked woman golfer, said, "Huh? Who's that?"

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1770501

[gratuitous]

15. What else can Rash bloviate about?

It's not like this has been a stellar week, month or year for his beloved Bush administration. Might as well go after the 16-year-old girl who's never heard of him. The poor man needs something to talk about, and continued corruption in the GOP just doesn't cut it for Rash Lardbutt.

[pinniped]

16. I hope he doesn't forget to take his pills.

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[madrchsod]

17. jesus picking on a 16 year old girl?

she`s a good golfer and maybe a great golfer someday but why he`s picking on her is baffling. if i remember right she`s not really the type who cares about the hype..i guess limpballs doesn`t understand that..

[AlCzervik]

18. See Rump Leakage has no athletic ability and he resents anybody that does

and manages to make a living at it.

[walldude]

19. Nothing new about Rush picking on little girls

remember the Chelsea Clinton White House dog joke? He's just freaked because he and his fat white cigar chomping buddies are losing the battle for exclusivity at their country clubs...

[LostinVA]

22. Because she's female and "ASian"

And trying to break into the last bastion of political incorrectness: the old boy's golf clubs... which includes the PGA.

So... would they allow her to play at the Master's if she qualified???

[smirkymonkey]

24. Where's Michelle Malkin on this one?

"Arghhhh...Let's send her back to where she came FROM....arghhhhh."

[johnnydrama]

25. stats

Wie played very few tournaments on the LPGA in 2005, yet still would have been in the top 10 in money (if she was allowed to earn money).

Here are some of her results from last year, and the amount of money she would have won.


SBS Open at Turtle Bay T-2 $91,544
Safeway International T-12 $23,964
Kraft Nabisco Championship T-14 $27,175
McDonald's LPGA Championship 2nd $164,385
U.S. Women's Open T-23 $34,556
Evian Masters T-2 $212,058
Women's British Open T-3 $109,496

Is there anything that Limbaugh isn't wrong about?

[Strawman]

27. These big gov't Repugs need to get off the PGA's back

What's wrong with marketing? The PGA is a business. What's more American than trying to make a buck by making one's product more marketable? :sarcasm:

[burythehatchet]

28. Here's what I'd pay to see

Limbaugh against Wie in an 18 hole match, Limbaugh plays from the ladies tees and Wie plays from the tips. And give the pig an 18 stroke advantage.

[Beware the Beast Man]

29. He really is a sick a-hole.

Like I commented on this the other day, he just can't deal with the fact that people of other races and ethnicites are excelling at sports otherwise dominated by white men (or in the case of Donovan McNabb, football positions).

[warrens]

32. I've seen her play on TV

She's the real deal. Rush is a loudmouth asshole.