Rush Limbaugh suggested on Friday that Sen. Ted Kennedy, who underwent brain surgery in June and has a long history of working on health care policy, will be dead by the time President Obama's current health reform initiative passes Congress. From Limbaugh's show (link to transcript here), speaking on Obama's push to reform health care: "So he's [Obama has] moved on to health care. This is highly visible, it's news leading, gets a great focus, plus it has the great liberal lion Teddy Kennedy pushing it. Before it's all over it will be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill."
But since his health problems began last year (he was diagnosed with brain cancer in May, underwent surgery in June, suffered a seizure in September and another on Inauguration Day at a post-ceremony luncheon), those references have basically ceased. Attitudes toward Kennedy from his conservative colleagues in the Senate, especially, have been congenial and supportive. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), one of the nation's most conservative senators and a member of Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, welcomed Kennedy when the Massachusetts senator returned to the Capitol in January to chair a committee hearing, adding, "I can't wait 'til that thundering voice comes at me on the Senate floor."
Poor Rush. He can't help that he has an oral fixation that causes him to feel perpetually unfulfilled. Here's the fix for his problem! http://tinyurl.com/8ece5d
Uh, duh uh dur hur, that was so funny I forgot to laugh.
Oh, so it's completely ok for the Left to hound Tony Snow to no end, even after his death, but God forbid Rush Limbaugh make a passing remark about a Senator who has in fact murdered an innocent woman. Gee, perish the thought.
Don't change the subject, we're talking about Fat Boy here.
Um, I don't exactly remember people on the left hounding Tony Snow after his cancer - not to mention after his death.
Nice false persecution complex though.
The left never persecuted Tony Snow or ever said anything to make his life harder during his times of illness but on the contrary were kind, compassionate and supporting, something the pretend compassionate conservatives know nothing about. Americans are finding their ruby slipper and getting off the false yellow brick road of the Wizards of Oz (if they only had a Heart [love])!
Let's see. Ted older brother Joe died fighting in ww2. His brother John was assassinated while working for the sake of his country. His other brother Bobby was assassinated in the same fashion. And poor Ted had a very unfortunate accident, which caused the death of poor Mary Jo. If he wasn't rich and famous, he would have been charged with manslaughter, perhaps, and leaving the scene of an accident.
And then a genius like you comes along and blithely accuses him of "murder". As if, he tied her up and shot her. Or slit her throat. Well. How many brothers have YOU lost in service to their country? How many combat missions did YOU fly? In fact, what have you or people like you EVER done to improve the quality of life for anyone but yourself? I'm imagining you as fat and lazy like Rush, stupid like Bush, and dishonest like Rove.
People like you should be forced to wear a sign around their neck that says "I'm stupid and hateful". That way the rest of us could be spared from even dealing with the likes of you.
No, it's not completely okay, which is why "the Left" didn't do it. This is classic right-wing projection: justify your own vile acts by falsely accusing your opponent of having done it first. I challenge you to find me a single liberal public figure who mocked Snow's cancer. Until you do, I will take your comment as a craven concession of the indefensible nature of Limbaugh's comments.
This is why you guys are in the minority.
RL is the best thing that has happened to the Democratic Party. He is a self-promoting, two-faced, hate-mongering hypocrite and bully. Imagine what he would be saying if any Dem had the same personal and legal problems he has had with Oxy. Ask any of his ex-wives what they think about him, what he's really like.
Keep it up Rush. You keep shoving your foot in your mouth so much that inevitably you'll end up swallowing yourself.
Is there some way we can get these comments on Fox News?
David Frum on drug addict Limbaugh in latest Newsweek:
In the days since I stumbled into this controversy, I've received a great deal of e-mail. (Most of it on days when Levin or Hannity or Hugh Hewitt or Limbaugh himself has had something especially disobliging to say about me.) Most of these e-mails say some version of the same thing: if you don't agree with Rush, quit calling yourself a conservative and get out of the Republican Party. There's the perfect culmination of the outlook Rush Limbaugh has taught his fans and followers: we want to transform the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan into a party of unanimous dittoheads—and we don't care how much the party has to shrink to do it. That's not the language of politics. It's the language of a cult.
I'm a pretty conservative guy. On most issues, I doubt Limbaugh and I even disagree very much. But the issues on which we do disagree are maybe the most important to the future of the conservative movement and the Republican Party: Should conservatives be trying to provoke or persuade? To narrow our coalition or enlarge it? To enflame or govern? And finally (and above all): to profit—or to serve?