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Fashion Icon Rush Limbaugh And Caller Bond Over Michelle Obama’s Misuse Of The Color Yellow

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Americans are an enterprising people, one that have managed to find fashion inspiration in the most peculiar of places. On Rush Limbaugh‘s radio show this week, one such American called in to ask Limbaugh what to do about the fact that her skin tone didn’t take very well to the color orange, and to offer some free advice to First Lady Michelle Obama: yellow makes her look “like a tub of mustard.”

In an ambiguously racially-tinged (and definitely cringe-worthy) conversation, the caller complained that she was “sick and tired of hearing about our First Lady and her fashion,” comparing the coverage to “The Emperor’s New Clothes” before taking several swipes at her personally– that Obama looked “like a lumberjack” and “a tub of mustard” when she wore yellow, and that “most of the reporters are just a bunch of kiss-butts.” “I’m sure your observations are shared by many,” Limbaugh added helpfully.

The caller, who sounded rather senior, then took a detour in the conversation to note that “my particular skin color, I cannot wear orange… because it makes me look orange.” Limbaugh then proceeded to give her some fashion advice: “couldn’t that just be the reflection of the fabric on your epidermis?” To make her feel better, he told her he was wearing orange himself, despite being told ‘it’s a little bit too soft of a pastel color for me.” The conversation then shifted once again to the First Lady, who, unlike previous times, he abstained from outright calling fat, instead noting that “I’m not going to say what I think about her shape– I’m not sure what it is.”

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I don’t recall similar constant criticism of Laura “the killer” Bush in the prior administration. If the current GOP didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

  • CAINtheBULL

    um… you know they’re on intellectual weak ground when they attack the Obama’s personally. It works against conservatives when they do that. Keep it on the issues.

  • Barack Must Go

    Michelle is the modern day version of the 1977 Commodore’s hit, only with a special twist, ” cause she’s a brick _____ House

    “http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AvfVy_3VIJ4tpeoBK6uAA1ybvZx4?fr=yfp-t-701-1-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF8&p=commodores%20brick%20house

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    I’m sorry to mention this, but in that shirt Rush looks like a sunset over the Keys.
    All round and orange and about to turn green.

  • Utah Johnny Montana

    Publius219 said:
    Laura “the killer” Bush

    What the hell is wrong with you , boy ? You get kicked in the head by a mule ,or you just a born craphead ?

  • illusive man

    Utah Johnny Montana said:
    What the hell is wrong with you , boy ? You get kicked in the head by a mule ,or you just a born craphead ?

    He’s just a “liberal”, He can’t help it.

  • flagringo

    well played Rush…go to the edge of the pool…..but don’t jump in! He let the WOMAN do the talking and criticizing, he stayed clear of shooting arrows..very smart!

  • writer

    Where is our resident fashion expert?

  • illusive man

    When Limbaugh refers to Mrs. Obama to a ” Tub of mustard” I sure hope he mean’s a sodium free tub of mustard or Michelle is GOING TO LOSE HER FRAKKING MIND!

  • Garth

    Notice what color the Anal Cyst is wearing. Interesting eh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Utah Johnny Montana said:
    What the hell is wrong with you , boy ? You get kicked in the head by a mule ,or you just a born craphead ?

    Wassamatta U? Just because the lady looks like a Stepford Wife and acts like she hasn’t had an original thought since her first period, doesn’t mean she didn’t splatter a friend all over an intersection way back when.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    RealRoyalKing on fashion watch. When I wear my paisley caftan ( which I complement with a simple string of dried sardines ) , some say I look like a giant bowling ball , so I know how hurtful Rush’s caller’s statements may be . She mentioned her skin tone . Well , I have combination skin myself . Part salamander , part human . Mrs. O should ignore the catcalls and just be herself . I am always myself , which is why I drink heavily , but never before 8:00 am !

  • James Randal

    Diseased fat pig….

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Publius219 said:
    I don’t recall similar constant criticism of Laura “the killer” Bush in the prior administration. If the current GOP didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

    Garth said:
    Notice what color the Anal Cyst is wearing. Interesting eh?

    Joseph Glackin said:
    splatter a friend all over an intersection way back when.

    James Randal said:
    Diseased fat pig….

    Liberals never disappoint . Rotten to the core .

  • sandy

    Why is he even on the radio? If he has nothing better to do than say bad things about everyone he needs to sit his fat ass down until he can think of something intelligent to say. As for the caller, the old lady is probably jealous and wearing a dirty yellow bath robe….Stupid people….

  • writer

    Lantern/King, now you’ve stepped in it. Garth may be forced to break character and post something that contains insults.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Not a chance . Garth/RRK is the most genteel liberal they’ve got .

  • writer

    Well, the left is the caring and sensitive side.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    TLoT–
    And your problem is? Is the truth against your philosophy?
    Or, is it wrong to call a sack of insults and talking points a philosophy?
    It’s more of a script. Just read and regurgitate.
    Thought is neither needed or encouraged.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Just because the lady looks like a Stepford Wife and acts like she hasn’t had an original thought since her first period, doesn’t mean she didn’t splatter a friend all over an intersection way back when.

    Joseph Glackin said:
    the truth against your philosophy?
    Or, is it wrong to call a sack of insults and talking points a philosophy?
    It’s more of a script. Just read and regurgitate.

    Joseph Glackin
    To:***; I am a Quaker. We no longer need the thee & thou to show respect, but we must do everything we can to improve the lives of all our fellow men. When you walk out of the supermarket, put something in the collection basket for the local food bank. If they don’t have one, find out why. Matthew 26 tells us no man can know the day of judgment, so live each day as if it were here.

    That’s a good philosophy , Joseph . What did Mrs. Bush ever do to you ? Attack her husband all you want . Leave the wives out of it . Read the statement above . Try it .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    TLoT—-

    When you leave Michelle Obama alone, I’ll drop Laura. Same goes for your hero Rush. He declared war on the family. Payment in kind is an old and honored tradition.
    Glad you found my Facebook page.
    Care to look up my rectum next?

  • writer

    So when Palin responds to people like Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin, she’s not being thin-skinned after all. It’s just payment in kind.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Joseph Glackin said:
    When you leave Michelle Obama alone

    Never said a word about her . Don’t discuss wives , Joseph .

    Joseph Glackin said:
    your hero Rush.

    Rush is fair game . Palin is too . Families are not .

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Care to look up my rectum next?

    Really don’t care what you do at parties , Joseph . Wives and families are off limits . You know what’s right .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Never said a word about her . Don’t discuss wives , Joseph .

    Rush is fair game . Palin is too . Families are not . .

    Tell that to Rush. When he stops, I do.

  • Yukon Jack

    James Randal said:
    Diseased fat pig….

    Not a nice way to talk about the First “Lady”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Yukon Jack said:
    Not a nice way to talk about the First “Lady”.

    I do believe that Rush is no “lady”.

  • Heatshield

    Not the worst I’ve heard of any other First Lady… and there was no “racial tinge” Frances, quit projecting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lori-Campbell/742977688 Lori Campbell

    Anyone see that striped dress Michelle wore the other day? The white dress with the big, primary color horizontal stripes?
    http://www.self.com/beauty/blogs/selfstylesecrets/2011/03/michelle-obamas-striped-dress-as-seen-in-self.html

    Kate Moss wouldn’t look good in that dress. Anyone over the age of 9 wouldn’t look good in that dress. Michelle makes fashion blunders like that all the time. Only a 6 foot tall woman who weighs a hundred pounds looks good in wide belts. She needs a good stylist. I feel bad for her. She’s a very attractive woman who is ill served by phony compliments given by people who are afraid to appear racist if they are honest about her choices.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    “In an ambiguously racially-tinged (and definitely cringe-worthy) conversation,”

    —Racially-tinged? Why? Because Michelle is black? Rush also talked about his own skin color and how some colors don’t look good on him, does that make him a racist? The fact is that sometimes Michelle Obama dresses more like a Southwest passenger than a first lady. She’s no Evita Peron!

    Too fat to serve? Athlete dies after losing 85 pounds trying to fit in with the military’s weight regulations.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/03/too-fat-to-serve-athlete-dies-after.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tucker-Peterson/721293033 Tucker Peterson

    Bring back dueling pistols (Like the days of Hamilton) and these talking heads from the left and right would run away with their tail tucked between their legs .
    A man should be free to speak his mind . But the other man should be able to defend his honor . Bullies are really cowards . But now in America cowards are protected . Let a man be a man . And real men will rise and the cowards will fall to the way side .
    Rush is all talk and no walk ! He walks a more liberal life then most liberal . I agree with the things Rush says a lot . But don’t think he is much of a man .

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    “I agree with the things Rush says a lot . But don’t think he is much of a man .”

    —People like Rush, O’Reilly, Beck, Coulter and others face death threats for telling the truth instead of just doing entertaining shows. That makes them men in my book. Besides, he’s not a bully, he’s telling truth to power, the same thing liberals did to Bush but with a lot less vitriol.

  • BeesBuzz

    Everyone is dancing around it … so I’ll just come right out and say it:
    Michelle Obama has a big, rotund, FAT ASS.

    There, I said it. . . It’s the truth. Deal with it.

    Her well-paid fashion consultants are certainly doing her no favors by dressing her in bizarre, unflattering get-ups that accentuate her “wide load”.

    What with her $540 sneakers and other ultra expensive designer attire , we all know she certainly can afford to dress more appropriately.

  • X-3

    Yellow is not her color.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    “I agree with the things Rush says a lot . But don’t think he is much of a man .”

    —People like Rush, O’Reilly, Beck, Coulter and others face death threats for telling the truth instead of just doing entertaining shows. That makes them men in my book. Besides, he’s not a bully, he’s telling truth to power, the same thing liberals did to Bush but with a lot less vitriol.

    Rush SHOULD avoid yellow, and white feathers. No sense reminding us all who he is.
    Your “Heroes” have, among themselves, professed more calumnies than a pathological liar could in in a lifetime. Their “reports” of death threats are just that, reports. BOR taunted Scott Roeder with “Tiller the Baby Killer” until Roeder acted on it. Then he didn’t have the stones to admit he’d called for the assassination.
    IF he’d admitted he’d encouraged it, THEN he could be called a man. An evil man, but a man.

  • Ronald Rump (aka The Ronald)
  • Rockycomet

    OH Look! The Great Pumpkin is criticizing someone about weight and appearance and people think he is a good example to do it. How funny can that be? You won’t need to wait long before he’ll be making fun of their kids too. Rush can go lower in integrity than he has and he will prove it in time. When this overweight opportunist leads by example I will accept his conservative representations until then he is nothing but a detriment to any cause.

  • Rockycomet

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian-Coulter might not be pleased with being called a man. Heh Heh…..

  • http://www.obesitywars.net/ Klaatu

    There have been a few comments in here inferring that the First Lady is overweight. It is possible that when the First Lady found that her two daughter’s BMI were slightly raised, she found out that hers was slighty raised too. Here’s the difference between the First Lady and Limbaugh, though. She’s trying to correct it the sensible, healthy way. Limbaugh, on the other hand, believes that rapid weight loss, via a Lap-band, followed by three years of packing the pounds back on, and then repeating, is a better method. Unfortunately, Mr. Limbaugh’s method is unaffordable for the children of most families in America, and besides that, it’s terribly unhealthy. Look at Rush, he already looks like he did at CPAC. It’s a disgusting weight loss management methodology. Michelle’s method is sane, Limbaugh’s far from it.

  • Anonymous

    it never fails, its always someone, or somebody always has something bad to say. but i figured out why these folks do it. its because they looks like crap . and they are mad because shes a black woman, and shes the first lady. and this rush dude? lol…..this dude looks like he is have double twins, and in need of some color in his skin. he looks like he has died, very pal looking. when will they learn, when you point the figure at someone, there is 3 point back at them.
    their haters!!!!!!!!

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