Rush would know: Congressional Republicans gave him that official honor.

Rush can't identify butt-boys... all he ever sees is the backs of their heads.

That's language unbecoming of the intellectual and moral center of the Republican Party.

I swear to god, Republicans are more obsessed with gay sex and references to it than even the biggest fruits I've known.

This can't be accurate, unless Barney Frank has a prostitution ring running out of his apartment again.

I just want to make my mark in this epic thread. Because I sense it will be epic.

Hey Rush, how about you act older than the boys you fark?

Calling a woman a "butt boy", thinking it's hilarious to use a derogatory gay term, and accusing the listeners of looking for a reason to leave. The whole statement is fail.

Considering the drubbing Stewart gave Cramer tonight, I'd love to see him take on Big Fat Idiot. Of course, Limbaugh would probably eat him before the segment.

Rush loves boy butts, the younger the better.

onebadgungan: Calling a woman a "butt boy", thinking it's hilarious to use a derogatory gay term, and accusing the listeners of looking for a reason to leave. The whole statement is fail.

Considering the drubbing Stewart gave Cramer tonight, I'd love to see him take on Big Fat Idiot. Of course, Limbaugh would probably eat him before the segment.

Probably not. If Stewart manages to outrun him for about 10 yards, Rush would probably get winded and collapse on the floor.

Or, I don't know. They could put a face mask on Limbaugh like they did on Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.

Republicans sure have a weird fixation on all things gay for being so against it.

On the occasion of William F. Buckley Jr's death, Rush related the following story about a discussion he had earlier had with his father,

I'm the only member of my family I think that doesn't have a college degree. He was very concerned he was a failure as a father, and I remember telling him, "Well, I want to be like Bill Buckley."

Well, all these years later, I believe we can see that Rush Limbaugh's father was right, he was a failure. I'm reasonably sure that Bill Buckley would never have even considered using the term "Butt Boy".

Rush Limbaugh - strengthening the level of enlightened discourse in the Republican Party since 1988.

Looks like I'll be the first conser- I mean independent libertarian to comment on this.

Bottom line (pun not intended): This is no clever double entendre. This is no remark isolated from proper context. This...is offensive. I find it offensive. Now, I'm no stranger to harsh language (I'd call most of you worse than I do if I could get away with it, in jest, or otherwise), but this transcript is completely out of line. He might as well have used the term "fag hag." Completely unacceptable in my view.

USP .45's apology to Rush in 3.... 2.... 1...

USP .45: Looks like I'll be the first conser- I mean independent libertarian to comment on this.

Bottom line (pun not intended): This is no clever double entendre. This is no remark isolated from proper context. This...is offensive. I find it offensive. Now, I'm no stranger to harsh language (I'd call most of you worse than I do if I could get away with it, in jest, or otherwise), but this transcript is completely out of line. He might as well have used the term "fag hag." Completely unacceptable in my view.

Huh. I misjudged you sir

What the hell is going on? Has the whole world gone crazy?

This is not even remotely acceptable discourse.

/conservative

FRANK: "I think it's a problem, although I will say this - for the media to blame that entirely on the Senate seems to me a little bit self serving, I mean, the media is the problem here, in part. It is the over-focus on part of people in the media to relatively minor infractions that causes this. I guarantee you my colleagues would not on their own be doing this. So I do think we are in a culture now where a lack of perfection exacts too strong a toll, but that's the politicians reacting to the media."

MITCHELL: "I take your point, Mr. Frank, Mr. Chairman," Mitchell said. "You're right and we plead guilty because this is this culture right now of 'gotcha' has gotten completely out of control."

Barney Frank blames the media for the fact that they're focusing on too many tax cheats who otherwise would be great employees at the Treasury Department.

Worth pointing out that this isn't what Frank and Mitchell were talking about at all. They were speaking in more general terms about the media playing "gotcha" journalism with the Obama administration.

I haven't heard a non-gay person use that term yet, just saying.

Of course, if Rush were gay I would have no problem with that... I would have an even bigger problem with his rampant hypocrisy though.

Random Reality Check: Well, all these years later, I believe we can see that Rush Limbaugh's father was right, he was a failure. I'm reasonably sure that Bill Buckley would never have even considered using the term "Butt Boy".

Rush Limbaugh - strengthening the level of enlightened discourse in the Republican Party since 1988.

Listen, I despise Limbaugh's politics, but there's no way you can call him a failure. He's living the American Dream -- exploiting gullible, uneducated masses for fun and profit. They're right there, ripe for the picking -- it would be wrong for Rush not to take advantage of their ignorance and assorted phobias to cash in for himself.

That said, can anyone give us liters some idea about how to find a Stewart/Cramer thread here in the NonTF wasteland? Now that will be an epic thread.

A lot of butt hurt over butt boy.

/A lot of focus on the butt at Fark
//Sir Mix-A-Lot approves
///Anaconda!

crab66: Republicans sure have a weird fixation on all things gay for being so against it.

The massively repressed homoeroticism of today's conservative movement is comedy gold.

I do some work with a local college campus. I remember when the movie "300" came out; a movie featuring buff men thrusting their pelvises out as they strutted around in ensembles consisting entirely of a leather strap and a cape. I overheard a group of ROTC Nazis practically vibrating about how great it was.

When I was in college, I sort of dismissed the theory that homophobia is strongly correlated with repressed homosexuality. I thought it was just a clever thing that was used to insult right-wingers. But as I've gotten older, man, I see it more and more. I have no doubt that the majority of homophobes struggle internally with their sexuality. There's just no other reason for anyone to be as focused on gay sex as conservatives are.

Random Reality Check:

I'm reasonably sure that Bill Buckley would never have even considered using the term "Butt Boy".

Arse en garçon.

NewsTalk: Random Reality Check: Well, all these years later, I believe we can see that Rush Limbaugh's father was right, he was a failure. I'm reasonably sure that Bill Buckley would never have even considered using the term "Butt Boy".

Rush Limbaugh - strengthening the level of enlightened discourse in the Republican Party since 1988.

Listen, I despise Limbaugh's politics, but there's no way you can call him a failure. He's living the American Dream -- exploiting gullible, uneducated masses for fun and profit. They're right there, ripe for the picking -- it would be wrong for Rush not to take advantage of their ignorance and assorted phobias to cash in for himself.

That said, can anyone give us liters some idea about how to find a Stewart/Cramer thread here in the NonTF wasteland? Now that will be an epic thread.

1) Sure, Limbaugh is a financial success. But to say there's "no way you can call him a failure" is overstating it. The man has led the race of American political discourse on its plummet to the bottom for the last 20 years. He's become rich by hurting the country. Maybe al-qaeda would consider that "success." Others might regard it as a sort of colossal failure.

2) Stewart ANNIHILATED Cramer last night. Cramer looked like he was about to cry during the whole interview. Epic TV, meet epic thread.

Procedural Texture: That's language unbecoming of the intellectual and moral center of the Republican Party.

I agree. If TV and AM radio have taught me anything, it's that the new conservatives value cogent debate, civility, and intellectual honesty when discussing matters that affect us. I am saddened to see that one of the GOP's annexed talking heads-cum party godhead would consider such language as part of the healthy debate between ideologies.

/"us" vs. "them" is what all of this has devolved to.
//divide and profit.

captain_heroic44: I do some work with a local college campus. I remember when the movie "300" came out; a movie featuring buff men thrusting their pelvises out as they strutted around in ensembles consisting entirely of a leather strap and a cape. I overheard a group of ROTC Nazis practically vibrating about how great it was.

In a movie centered around militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle - you think ROTC cadets are focused on the loincloths of Spartans who historically fought naked (which means you are focused on the loincloths). You just projected your way into truck stop, you 5th column rat.

And btw...what sort of dumbass says, "Butt-boy"? It kinda reeks of acid washed jeans and the oil stains from a 1986 IROC-Z.

I'm the only member of my family I think that doesn't have a college degree. He was very concerned he was a failure as a father, and I remember telling him, "Well, I want to be like Bill Buckley."


Rush hosting a long-form political debate show at Bard College would be something I would pay money to see, just for the combination of Rush-fail and trustafarian college-kid heads asploding.

Ah, I see. Apparently its some sort of Limbaugh-ism (seriously,, from tfa).

Stay Cool Babylon: And btw...what sort of dumbass says, "Butt-boy"? It kinda reeks of acid washed jeans and the oil stains from a 1986 IROC-Z.

All Republicans? That's pretty much their target demographic.

USP .45: captain_heroic44: I do some work with a local college campus. I remember when the movie "300" came out; a movie featuring buff men thrusting their pelvises out as they strutted around in ensembles consisting entirely of a leather strap and a cape. I overheard a group of ROTC Nazis practically vibrating about how great it was.

In a movie centered around militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle - you think ROTC cadets are focused on the loincloths of Spartans who historically fought naked (which means you are focused on the loincloths). You just projected your way into truck stop, you 5th column rat.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 5th column ladies and gentlemen!!!! FIFTH COLUMN!!!

Looks like I hit a nerve. = D

I'm comfortable with my sexuality, sweety. You'd be better off to get comfortable with yours. Really you would.

I can't say it any better than Chris Hitchens did in this review of "The Passion." Link (new window)

But it came back to me this week that an associate of his had once told me, in lacerating detail, that an evening with Mel was one long fiesta of boring but graphic jokes about anal sex. I've since had that confirmed by other sources. And, long before he emerged as the spear-carrier for the sort of Catholicism once preached by Gen. Franco and the persecutors of Dreyfus, Mel Gibson attained a brief notoriety for his loud and crude attacks on gays. Now he's become the proud producer of a movie that relies for its effect almost entirely on sadomasochistic male narcissism. The culture of blackshirt and brownshirt pseudomasculinity, as has often been pointed out, depended on some keen shared interests. Among them were massively repressed homoerotic fantasies, a camp interest in military uniforms, an obsession with flogging and a hatred of silky and effeminate Jews.

And yet there is no one as popular as Rush on left wing talk radio.

captain_heroic44: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 5th column ladies and gentlemen!!!! FIFTH COLUMN!!!

No no no no, you're not dodging this one. You simply can't explain how you concluded that ROTC cadets were focused on loincloths and not the overriding militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle.

I'm comfortable with my sexuality, You'd be better off to get comfortable with yours.

Most pathetic attempt to turn it around I've ever encountered.

Really you would.

Wow, you just admitted it was a pathetic attempt with this forced emphasis.

...sweety.

That pretty much settles it.

what's a butt boy? urban dictionary has no gay references whatsoever, and a google on butt boy only shows references of a Rush Limbaugh calling various people "butt boy". not even a wikipedia entry ...

captain_heroic44:

5th column ladies and gentlemen!!!! FIFTH COLUMN!!!

Yeah, that's some epic projection for a Rush "I hope he fails" Limbaugh thread.

WFern: I swear to god, Republicans are more obsessed with gay sex and references to it than even the biggest fruits I've known.

Are you insinuating anal?

Rush Limbaugh has done more to damage the republican party than the democrats, in their wildest dreams, could ever do... and he's making money hand over fist doing it.

Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of his show.

Rush says some inane shiat. Plays some clips he thinks prove his inane points. Inane callers call up to proclaim they agree with Rush's inane proclamations... repeat ad nauseam.

I'll admit he's good for a laugh or two, but certainly not worth listening to for three hours to get those couple of chuckles.

Listen, I despise Obama's politics, but there's no way you can call him a failure. He's living the American Dream -- exploiting gullible, uneducated masses for fun and profit. They're right there, ripe for the picking -- it would be wrong for Obama not to take advantage of their ignorance and assorted phobias to cash in for himself.

USP .45: captain_heroic44: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 5th column ladies and gentlemen!!!! FIFTH COLUMN!!!

No no no no, you're not dodging this one. You simply can't explain how you concluded that ROTC cadets were focused on loincloths and not the overriding militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle.

I'm comfortable with my sexuality, You'd be better off to get comfortable with yours.

Most pathetic attempt to turn it around I've ever encountered.

Really you would.

Wow, you just admitted it was a pathetic attempt with this forced emphasis.

...sweety.

That pretty much settles it.

Wait wait... you called me a Fifth Columnist for pointing out the homoerotic subtext of 300--and you're accusing me of "forced emphasis? Irony. Look it up.

It was a fantastic and successful effort. You actually accused me of treason because I didn't like 300, and because I correctly pointed out that those who enjoyed were closet cases.

How do I know I wasn't focused on the loincloths in an repressed homosexual way? If I want to masturbate to buff men, I don't feel the need to wrap my fantasies in the cloak of brownshirt pseudomasculinity. By constrast, militarists, like you feel a powerful need to bury your homoeroticism beneath layers of "militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle."

Goodbye GOP

/RIP 2009

Billygoat Gruff: And yet there is no one as popular as Rush on left wing talk radio.


It would require people actually listening on the left to make someone popular. Most lefties I know who do listen to talk radio prefer centrist stuff anyway.

"I swear to god, Republicans are more obsessed with gay sex and references to it than even the biggest fruits I've known."

Democrats are obsessed with Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Sarah Palin; would you say they are proponents of those people?

captain_heroic44: It was a fantastic and successful effort. You actually accused me of treason because I didn't like 300, and because I correctly pointed out that those who enjoyed were closet cases.

How do I know I wasn't focused on the loincloths in an repressed homosexual way? If I want to masturbate to buff men, I don't feel the need to wrap my fantasies in the cloak of brownshirt pseudomasculinity. By constrast, militarists, like you feel a powerful need to bury your homoeroticism beneath layers of "militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle."

^Another failed attempt.

A movie starring a militaristic society, and you attribute other people's, military people's, enjoyment of said movie to the "buff men" and scant costume design. There's no getting around that no matter how much you wish you could make your statements latch on to me. I'm simply interpreting your frustration. Get some therapy before you blow your brains out. Pun intended. Trounced.

USP .45: captain_heroic44: I do some work with a local college campus. I remember when the movie "300" came out; a movie featuring buff men thrusting their pelvises out as they strutted around in ensembles consisting entirely of a leather strap and a cape. I overheard a group of ROTC Nazis practically vibrating about how great it was.

In a movie centered around militarism, gore, killing Persians, banging the wife before deployment, and then dying in battle - you think ROTC cadets are focused on the loincloths of Spartans who historically fought naked (which means you are focused on the loincloths). You just projected your way into truck stop, you 5th column rat.

Sorry, you were doing so well, but the military is full of gays, way more than the general population. I don't CARE, but facts are facts. LOTS of gays in the military.

"It would require people actually listening on the left to make someone popular. Most lefties I know who do listen to talk radio prefer centrist stuff anyway."

So since they are leftists and listen to 'centrist' stuff, they prefer to listen to stuff that is more conservative than their views?

Following that logic, a lot of people who listen to Rush are probably centrists who prefer right-leaning talking points.

Teikiatsu: Following that logic,

What logic? You created the meaning, not the quoted person.
I'd read the quote as meaning "they prefer to listen to stuff that is more moderate than their views?"

Following that logic, a lot of people who listen to Rush are just waiting for the day that Genghis Khan gets a radio show.

I ignore junkies. The man has dismissed people with the same ad hominem. If you think Rush is real, you're worse than a wrestling fan who still thinks wrestling is real.

pup.socket: what's a butt boy?

Kind of like a piss boy, only different.

ghare: Sorry, you were doing so well, but the military is full of gays, way more than the general population. I don't CARE, but facts are facts. LOTS of gays in the military.

Oh, so then he was referring to gay Nazi ROTC? Ah, well that explains it.

Crunch61: pup.socket: what's a butt boy?

Kind of like a piss boy, only different.

"Wait for the shake..."