I hope the rest of the 4th grade class enjoyed Rush's humor.

Frank alluded to his own homosexuality in response to the cluelesss woman so Limbaugh's comment probably matters little to him. I doubt Limbaugh spends time around anyone's genitalia other than his own whether it is male or female.

Ha ah eh...Rush is so clever and original. What a douchebag.

Oh Rush, keepin' it classy as usual.

I'd just love to know what Holocaust survivors and their liberators think about the connection this woman makes (sparked and fueled by GLEN BECK and his bullshit).

But you do what you can in this situation, Rush. Barney asks a question that's only half-joking, followed by articulate, calm proof that some people have a brain and are not easily led, while others don't, and are. And you? You poke fun at Barney because he's gay. 4th graders are insulted by the notion that they would stoop so low.

What is it about Rush Limbaugh and "butt" jokes? This guy spends more time thinking about buttholes than a proctologist. I wish he and Fred Phelps would just come out of the closet already. They aren't fooling anyone.

I just made a post about 'Manly Men" and mentioned Barney Frank.

http://open.salon.com/blog/safe_bet/2009/08/19/a_queer_chicks_thoughts_regarding_manly_men

I wish I'd have read your post first cuz I would have replaced my comments about Glen Beck and Fred Phelps with ones about Lush Dimbaugh! :(

Ooops. The link didn't post right.

http://open.salon.com/blog/safe_bet/2009/08/19/a_queer_chicks_thoughts_regarding_manly_men

Count on Rush to take the high road. It speaks volumes though about how advanced we aren't as a society that millions of people listen to a sack of s#@t like that.

I'm still confused as to how he's still upright.

Limbaugh has his head up his uranus.

Rush needs his oxycontin so he can make it through each day on planet Nosexiamrepulsive.

I love Barney Frank! He is articulate, intelligent, real, and brave. Let that airbag Rush say whatever he wants--he's only emphasizing his own ignorance and immaturity. I used to get so angered by him. Now, he's just pathetic, sad, and laughable. The fact that he is still visible in the media makes me worry about this country.

Who's this Rush Limbaugh dude? Sounds like a foot disease.

Joan Walsh has done a good job of documenting Rush's anal fixation.

What I like to see is that he is responding, not instigating. I think that intelligent, assertive, outspoken, did I say intelligent? liberals scare the shit out of him. Requires immediate and overwhelming potty-mouth attack.

I read somewhere that men who smoke cigars were never breast fed as babies, but I think Rush takes it a step further and uses that thing as a metadildo metaphor for his fixations. Why people pay him any mind at all is a mystery to me.

Hey, Rush! I've got one for ya. Maybe Congressman Frank should run for re-election under the name Hugh G. Rection! Ha ha! That's a killer!

By the way, did anyone notice that at the very end of Rush's audio clip, he used the word "analyze"? ANAL-yze? Is that some sort of gay code, Rush? And is your name really Tush?

And there you have the level of Republican discourse by the leader of the party. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here.

bbd, I feel the same way about wingnuts that post here at OS. Thirty years of right wing bullshit from these people and they have absolutely nothing good to show for it. There isn't a reason to pay them any mind.

All these comments are making me laugh. Thanks -- they are dead on.

Great zinger! You people hate it when you get your bile dished out right back at you, don't you?

I'm sure that to Rush, sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

You know, Limpdick has a thing for talking about people bending over and grabbing their ankles.

Know why?

He hasn't seen his ankles in decades because he's so fat. And if he bent over more than a couple of inches, his pants would split.

Wonder why Limpdick had to get Viagra?

Because he's got a dickie do. That's where your gut sticks out more than your dickie do.

Why anyone listens to a lard butt who is so stupid he failed every single class in a third tier college, including physical education, is beyond me.

I'd say he's as dumb as a bag of hammers, but the hammers would sue me for slander.

Sounds to me like Rush is jealous of Barney for having a committed monogamous relationship with a consenting fellow adult human.

Barney Frank, god bless him, earnestly set it up and ol' Rush slammed it out of the park. If you're Barney Frank and you ask people what planet they're from, you need to think about what the class clown is going to say about it. Classic.

I despise Rush and almost hope there's a God just so that Rush could burn in hell eternally, but I can spot a great joke when I see it. Nice one, asshole!

One word: asshole.

(can you say that on OS?)

Rush shouldn't be making gay jokes.
Notice the picture?
Cigars are phallic symbols.

Bets on how long until it will be until Rush pulls a Larry Craig..
Would anyone over the age of 10 even find that Uranus joke funny? What a waste of space.

It would help if I knew how to construct a sentence in English-
Bets on how long it will be until Rush pulls a Larry Craig..
my money's on under a year!

It's hard for me to listen to this anymore. Honestly, my blood pressure keeps going up. Rush thinks it's fabulous and fantastic that a woman comes to a town hall meeting with Obama all dressed up as a Nazi? My good humor has gone missing. What a jerk.

Yeah it's funny but the fact that a man with that pathetic level of political repartee can command such a following (who will undoubtedly say "Yeah! That's tellin' 'im!") is a pretty scary statement about the intellectual state of the US as a whole.

He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Always flabbergasts me how cowards attack brave people. Limbaugh has never done a brave thing in his life, while Frank certainly has.

Rush is such a douchebag.

The feigned horror on Rush's comment borders on ridiculous. Liberals have been so juvenile towards Rush since he began in the business of exposing liberals. I do have to disagree with Rush on one point though. Barney Frank does have actual business experience that Rush didn't mention. Rep Frank ran a very successful male prostitution ring out of his apartment. Now that takes Balls!

And when was Frank convicted of this, NotaDim?

Please try to stick to facts. I know it's hard, but you can do it!

Conviction or not the fact remains he ran a prostitution ring out of his apartment. He would only have been convicted if he was a republican.

Well, thanks for joining OS so you could defend Rush. Who's paying you?

I hate to say this Ms. Fox, but I don't think that Rush has seen his genitals without a mirror for quite some time. I'm sure he is the way he is because his are non functioning and tiny. Barney Frank deserves a round of applause for being the first democrat to publicly call the idiots out on their incessant lies and fear mongering.

Well Nota...Dim? Your screen name says a lot.

Russ Limbaugh is the most outragious person on radio. He has his facts wrong most or all of the time. His attitude is against anything that is not a WASP. He talks are to arouse people against anything good. Maybe if he got off his fat butt and stop taking the meds he would see the world in a different light. I only laugh at him and feel sorry for him because he uses the first amendment to spread hatred and bigotry to America!

I'm not defending Rush, I'm exposing the hypocrisy of the posts here. It's a amazing how many on this blog accuse Rush of being Juvenile yet make jokes about his weight. Unlike, "progressives" I was candid about my political beliefs when I chose my screen name.

I use my real name here, so I guess that makes me more "candid" than you.

Good luck in your quest to expose hypocrisy. It's certainly a full-time job these days.

@Notadim, check your facts. Barney Frank never "ran a male prostitution ring" out of his home. That was investigated thoroughly and he had no demonstrable knowledge it was going on. An embarrassment, sure, but he's been since re-elected several times so apparently the people he represents believed him. For you to mischaracterize the incident thus is either ignorant of the facts or simply dishonest.

Yeah that was really original Limpdick....I bet the dittoheads that listen to your ramblings giggled and punched each other in the arm at your great wit.....by the way, hows the oxycotin and viagra addiction going?

NotaDim "t's a amazing how many on this blog accuse Rush of being Juvenile yet make jokes about his weight."

Yeah well, none of us are paid 215 million dollars a year to make gay jokes about people we disagree with, refer to women as Femi-nazis, ridicule people with Parkinson's disease, race baiting, make shit up and passing it off as fact, etc...

People can say whatever we like about someone who behaves like that - and gets paid handsomely for doing it.

Boo hoo.

And all this time I keep wondering what Rush's fixation is on anal sex. He brings it up enough. Is he that curious about it? Does he actually do it that way and has a little mental issue with what he does on his vacations filled with Viagra and Oxycontin in those foreign countries?

For god sakes Rush, find some young stud with a rock hard dick and get it out of your system. I'm sure that you could find someone who will fuck you like you fuck your listeners...

There are actually worse things than anal sex. Listening to your endless fixation on it is one of them...

Is there any documentation of Plush Limburger having had sex with anyone, ever? Does he have a special girl, boy or animal friend? If not, what's all the Viagra for? I've just never seen a photograph with Rush and his S.O.. Just him and that...cigar.

Rush needs to shove that lit cigar, where the sun don't shine. As much as I wouldn't want to touch him, I would gladly do it!

It is time this pig was silenced.

why is it that every time rush (the former drug addict) opens his mouth a turd flies out??? sincerely, bob.

There is only one reason why Rush gets to have the forum that he has in this country: the Fairness Doctrine's abolition in 1987.

The FD dates from the New Deal and required that broadcasters provide equal time for opposing viewpoints. The radical right, in trying to reverse the 1960's and the 1930's movements that curbed their power, had plans to build a right-wing media empire and knew that to do so they'd need to get rid of the FD. (See former right-winger David Brock's excellent account of this in his book, The Republican Noise Machine). Rush and O' Reilly and the rest of them wouldn't last but for a few days if they had to put people on who showed them up for their lies and distortions and if they couldn't turn off their critics' mikes as O' Reilly does sometimes.

As the Town Hall fracases demonstrate, if you lie long enough and loudly enough, you can instigate Nazi-like mobs (especially if the undertext of those mobs is racism directed at the first black U.S. president) of people who are easily duped.

Revealing, Obama opposes the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine. Why would a Democrat oppose restoring a regulation that would destroy the opposition's platform? This question takes on particular urgency in light of the Town Hall brawls and the terrible precedent that they set.

Obama's made the lame argument that there are enough different networks and stations to take care of diversity of viewpoints without the Fairness Doctrine.

We can't get inside of his head but we can examine his statements and look at his actions.

His opposition to restoring the FD is consistent with his caving on the public option (itself a very weak substitute for single-payer) and with his upholding and defense of critical pieces of the Bush policies on "national security:" state secrets, sovereign immunity, prolonged detention (even if you're tried and found innocent!), surveillance, signing statements, rendition, blocking the release of the deeply incriminating torture photographs, refusing to prosecute admitted torturers...

In other words, he'd rather cave in the face of a few hundred crazies worked up by fascists than do what is right, what the vast majority of people want, and what his party could push through regardless of the crybaby GOP. Why? Because he really isn't on the people's side. Even though he's got his own contradictions with the radical extremists (some of whom would like to assassinate him and who are packing guns and getting away with it!), his allegiance is to the Empire first and foremost that he serves.

What a pathetic little man.

Actually the Fairness Doctrine did not require EQUAL time, it only required a "reasonable opportunity" for airing opposing sides of a controversial issue. And that "reasonable opportunity" could come anytime during the station's license period, which was three years at that time. This equal time stuff is a right-wing scare tactic to make the FD sound scarier than it ever was. The REAL fairness doctrine could allow for a five minute rebuttal (sorry for the pun) to Rush, not require three hours for three hours. The same is true for official station editorials. Only a reasonable opportunity for opposing viewpoints need be offered, not equal time. The original reason for the confusion is the political candidates provision of Section 315 which is not the same as the Fairness Doctrine. Section 315 requires stations to allow equal opportunity for candidates for the same office. This means allowing a second candidate to buy the same amount of time that the first candidate bought, or requires 5 minutes of free time to the second candidate if the first candidate was given five free minutes. 315 is still in effect at the time of elections, but this is not at all the same as the Fairness Doctrine ever was.

One other thing. The Fairness Doctrine was not a product of the New Deal. It was a post- WW II action which undid a pre-war decision which denied stations the right to editorialize because it was felt in 1940 that "a station could not be fair". It took until after the war for them to come up with a way to assure fairness, and it worked reasonably well from the 50s thru the 70s but did not help in defeating things like McCarthyism.

Re: "I'm still confused as to how he's still upright."

iamsurly
AUGUST 19, 2009 06:14 PM

He may be upright, but he's not erect without Viagra.

Does any thinking person really give a hoot about what Lush Limpballs has to say about anything? At least Barney Frank does not have to go "off shore" to find underage kids to have sex with and I haven't heard about Barney Frank returning to the country with a duffle bag full of Viagara!

I think rush is so ignorant, he can not hold a candle to barney frank. barney frank does not run or is intimidated by any one. more of his party should be like him. rush only entertains those people who want to stay stuck in the past and find someone to blame or hate for their misery. he is such a clown. this guy is a using addict, i don't believe he is clean and serene or his language would have changed he is the same person he has always been and will continue to be that. he does this country such an injustic where peace and love are concerned, he wants the hate to continue and the division to increase. i really don't like him he is not a good man.

Rush is big on anal "jokes", especially those relating to (males) "bend over and grab your ankles". Hmmm...

This guy has some real self identity issues, manifested long before this statement. Also, it does appear he is active into his disease as he is constantly sniffing a la snorting coke on a habitual basis, has jerky body movements, tugs at his shirt, and just has overall very strange hyperkinetic body activity.

I listened to Limbaugh just enough to notice that he does not like women. Not in society, not in politics, and probably not in the bedroom. What would you call that??? Barney Frank probably likes women better than Limbaugh ever did. And I vastly prefer Barney Frank, anywhere.

EXCELLENT RUSH ! Way to go. Barney Frank tied to divert the conversation away from the subject, Rush nailed him perfectly. Frank will be gone soon along with all these other depraved ripoff artists. Also did you ever notice the shape of Franks mouth? Well trained muscles for their intended task - must be from all those years of living around Uranus, or his anus or whatever. Bye-bye Barney you fat, ugly, debauched, depraved, smart-ass, don't deserve to be where you are little pig...................

If there's a God in heaven, Rush will be found in a stall at a railroad station, on his knees, playing the flute with Larry Craig....or Mark Sanford. Please, God!!!

To: Thylacine,
The reason the pos talks so much about buttholes is that he's self centered.
It's his way of saying ME ME ME.lol

Well old fatass lushbaugh knows about stuff hanging around his anus, that's the excuse he used to get out of the military.

I saw the clip of Barney Franks questioning the audience member. Limbaugh is a pig.... I never listen to him.

Rush is terminally sophomoric.

Really, this is just sad. It's like what happens when the school bully gets a little older and everyone figures out he/she isn't as threatening, but also only makes really poor insults. You'd think at this point in human evolution we'd be over gay jokes as insults. Maybe next millenium.

When you have nothing good to say add insult it always works. The idea that Mt.Rush as I am sure he calls himself when he gets out of bed in the morning or should I say blasts out of bed as some human form of sciencetific inertia can only exhaust itself like cryptonite. Rush has some good ideas, regarding something like Super Human strength that continues to beguile most American people to do something, but exactly what, kick something, throw something, strangle somebody? What exactly does his political stands suggest other than the above mentioned? If someone could elaborate I would listen like one poster noted a tentative fourth grader?

Hmm - only ONE Treasonous Righttard Punk, Steve Reed, DARES to defend Flush Limpdick's closeted comment this time?

Abdul - This is Progress! :D

mjb784533 - Thanks for setting the record straight on the Fairness Doctrine.

Timothy, I love that Steve Reed found the need to sign up with OS just so he could post that. Makes me look forward to posting more content that gets the righties panties in a bunch.

What's the old saying: sex is like air--it's not important unless you're not getting any?

And you're giving this stupid comment further circulation, why exactly?

So we have a new troll~~

Notadimmerbulbintheroom.

To quote an archetypal GOP running mate: "Stupid is as stupid does."

Stick it, Rush.

Sheesh.

"Is there any documentation of Plush Limburger having had sex with anyone, ever? Does he have a special girl, boy or animal friend? If not, what's all the Viagra for? I've just never seen a photograph with Rush and his S.O.. Just him and that...cigar."

According to popular rumour, when Rush Limpdick was tagged at the airport for the doctor shopped Viagra and sleeping pills he was on his way to somewhere in the Caribbean that is known for underage child prostitution (according to the rumour, mostly MALE child prostitution). Now, it's only a rumour but it does fit the typical 'family values republican™' M.O. don't it...

And how many marriages has the defender of the moral high ground burned through?

Rush is just such a tool.

Well, it was funny when Stephen Colbert said it:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/247151/august-19-2009/barney-frank-refuses-to-talk-to-dining-room-table