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Rush Limbaugh: Let’s Face It, Folks, Smoking Is Cool!

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Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh and a caller got into a conversation about the Herman Cain campaign’s now infamous “I am America” ad. Limbaugh pointed out that the campaign had to know that there would be a huge outcry over the ad ending with Mark Block puffing on a cigarette. I have to imagine that, while discussing someone else engendering outrage, Limbaugh got jealous because he then went off on a multi-minute-long diatribe about how cool smoking is and how all smokers are true American heroes.

“[Block] says he’s a smoker. He likes smoking. Boehner likes smoking. Obama likes smoking. Every smoker likes it. Let’s face it, folks. It’s cool. It looks cool. Everything about it is cool except the health impact aspect of it.”

Limbaugh continued:

“Do you know how many healthcare programs are funded with the sales tax revenue from cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco-related products? I have long maintained that smokers deserve our gratitude. In fact, I think somebody should be chosen and a smoker should be given the highest medal that this country gives out. Whatever it is. The Medal of Honor? If not that, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Smokers are being told horrible things about themselves. They are being told they are rotten to the core, they are despicable. And yet they alone, practically, are funding children’s health care programs.”

He went on to theorize that the government actually doesn’t want people to quit smoking due to those taxes.

RELATED: Voter Fraud, Robo-Calls And Smoking, Oh My: Getting To Know Mark Block

Hopefully there were no impressionable children listening. Of course, judging by the fact that the segment begins with Limbaugh’s caller explaining that she doesn’t really know what a “podcast” is, I think we’ll be fine.

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  • Rufus Danegro

    Gosh I hope Limbaugh finds the cancer ward cool. Yup you keep smoking fatso.

    PLEASE. 

  • Michelle

    As soon as those words left his lips, I knew it would be a Mediaite headline.

    You guys are becoming so predictable. 

  • Anonymous

    I’d love nothing more than for Rush to smoke literally all day every day until he expires. What a destructive odious POS. Die Rush, die.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Haha, the drug addicted, obese and hypocritical deity of low IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, has spoken…. “Smoking is cool”

    Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, ditto-heads!

  • http://twitter.com/kathy_kitt ksqared

    As someone who watched her father die of lung cancer it is a horrible death.  I had to pick him up off of the bathroom floor whdn he fell because he was too weak to stand because of the cancer.  While I think believe in Free Speech what Limbaugh said was stupid and disgusting and he should know better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    “keep smoking fatso” and “die, rush, die”…  typical ill-informed bashing, as those who know rush know that he has “formerly nicotine stained fingers”…

  • lawl

    haha wtf. i smoke cigarettes! especially when drinking. i want a medal now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

     The shear contempt that Bershad has for Limbaugh just oozes from every article written about El Rushbo.  If you hate the guy so much why don’t you just assign somebody else to cover him?

  • Sean

    So smoking is cool, Oxycontin is cool (take a drink conservatives) but the legalization of marijuana is NOT cool? I think conservatives have all but stopped being bothered by hypocrisy.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Michelle hanging on Rush’s every word? CONFIRMED.

  • Michelle

    Ah the left!

  • Anonymous

    Yes indeed–smoking is cool–taking dope it cool, driving on the wrong side of the road is even cooler. Try it sometime, Rush.  You’ll be really cool in the morgue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Yet it’s the liberals that lead the fight against tobacco, obesity, “junk” food, genetically modified foods, fur, animal testing, etc, etc, etc. What does that tell you? 

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are such caring people!

  • Anonymous

    So if smoking is so cool why did he quit???

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are such caring people!

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are such caring people!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    He gave up smoking, so did I. Besides, smoking in today’s politically correct era can be seen as an act of REBELLION against the health nazis. If Hitler was alive today, he would be proud of what’s happening in America, after all, he was the original tobacco-hater. 

  • Anonymous

    The epitome of irony–RUSH LIMBAUGH is the arbiter of “cool.”

  • Jooce81

    see Rush is on board.. Legalize Weed now!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    as a conservative pothead i can assure you there is no shortage of liberal democrats against smoking weed and it’s legalization…

  • Anonymous

    Not sure how cool smoking is, if you stand within five feet of a smoker, there clothes and breath smell horrible.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    he quit so he can reference his formerly nicotine stained fingers every time he holds something…

  • Anonymous

    Name one.

  • News Of The World

    Apparently he thinks eating is cool too. Oink.

  • News Of The World

    Just as predictable as you sloshing on over here to vomit out yet another meaningless comment.  

  • Irish189

    smoking is cool, sound like something you’d here at a DARE lecture 

  • Frod

    Yes yes. Rebel against the health nazis. Stab yourself in the head while you’re at it. You show the ghost of Hitler that you’re not to be trifled with

  • steveknows

    He’s at that stage, in his development as an asshole, that he thinks that he can say anything at all, and make it stick.
    His contingent of moronic followers is large enough to allow him this conceit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The Democrats controlled the White House, Senate, and House and did not pass one piece of legislation about legalizing marijuana.  In fact, if anything, this administration has been cracking down on the medical dispensaries in California.

    The most vocal voice for legalization has been from a Republican- Ron Paul.

    Sadly the Democratic party has become the “You are not an adult and we will tell what you can eat, drink, smoke Party”.

  • steveknows

    Meaning what?
    That we’re not, but the Koch Bros and Mellon Scaife are the real caring ones?

  • steveknows

    What health nazis?
    The people who don’t like breathing other peoples smoke?

  • steveknows

    Please, Michelle, tell us what to think and how to live.
    And while you’re at it, whom to vote for.
    And when you get a chance, how to be a ridiculous idiot like you.

  • Anonymous

    Wait is Rush saying a tax produces benefits?  Sounds a tad Socialist there…

  • steveknows

    Ah the stupid!!

  • Frod

    He thinks that he’s South Park but in reality he’s just a fat Heil Honey I’m Home

  • steveknows

    Don’t even.
    We saw how much you all care.

  • steveknows

    What a prolific mind you have.
    This is the third time I’ve seen the exact same thing here.
    Wtf is wrong with you?

  • steveknows

    Limbaugh is stupid and disgusting.
    And he does know better.
    And he said it anyway.

  • steveknows

    Who wants to know him?

  • steveknows

    I love the way conservaslobs try to play editor.
    Pick apart the article, if you can.
    Don’t try to criticize the fact that it was written in the first place.

  • steveknows

    “I think conservatives have all but stopped being bothered by hypocrisy. ”

    When were they ever bothered by it? It’s the basis of the entire movement.

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are such caring people!

  • Cecelia

    I don’t smoke, and it is an awful habit but it does seem like we’ve made smoking worse that committing adultery or cheating on tests or your taxes.

    Honestly, I think people who shoot up heroin or smoke crack could get more sympathy about their addiction than smokers do now days.

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising who thought Oxy was cool?  

  • Rufus Danegro

    Ok now that was FUNNY

  • Long

    What an ignorant comment. I’m sure the countless victims of secondhand smoke thought it was really cool!

  • steveknows

    Learning to cut and paste isn’t the same as learning to write.
    Or are you just trying to be a charmingly mischevious pixie?
    If so, keep trying.

  • steveknows

    He shouldn’t be allowed to use the word.

  • Cecelia

    Mercy!

  • Anonymous

    I agree!
    Light em up Colorado{

  • Anonymous

    smoke some weed while drinking.

  • Anonymous

    There he goes again! The fatty, addict known as Brush Himoff, opening his mouth and regurgitating lies and falsehoods. An all-points bulletin for common sense is requested for this blow hard. I can’t believe he still uses his high school stool in the corner!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    I’m surprised Rush took this path, it’s not like him to bow down to someone running for president.  I wish he wouldn’t carry the water for these candidates because it makes him look bad.   

  • Anonymous

    Can anybody name anything good about Republicans?  Seriously, what good is the Republican Party?

  • joe

    noi what is predictable is cons eventually telling the truth..
    smoking -cool
    guns-cool
    war-cool
    pollution-cool

    school-not cool
    peace-not cool and not profitble

    ignornance–cool
    hate–cool

    love–uncool
    freedom for all–very uncool~

    a gop finally getting caught in a ‘truth’—predictable and cool

  • Anonymous

    You must have alot of time on your hands if you have time to listen to that show. You must of know HOW STUPID it sounded. You were right!!!

  • Anonymous

    Smoking is cool. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t start doing it. It wouldn’t be practiced by every badass gangster and businessman in cinema. Get over it and argue the health facts, because they’re the winning argument.

  • Anonymous

    gives us some entertainment while we drink

  • Anonymous

    okeedoke

  • Anonymous

    There he goes again! ‘Ol stogie sucking, addict, Brush Himoff, saying something way out of line and not in keeping with good healthy living! To those who didn’t vote in 2010, here’s a great reason to jump start your reason to vote in 2012! If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, change the mix! If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, voice your opinion. If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, get involved, join the 99%, make your voices heard! If you are not happy with the direction Washington is going with the radical extreme fringe calling the shots, make your votes count! “We need to do something extraordinary” – Like vote out everyone of those Congress members, of any party, who will not compromise! Vote! 

  • AliveStillKickin

    We love America and hate Obama….There’s 2 fer ya’

  • AliveStillKickin

    Blowing cigar or cigarette smoke into the face of a liberal is even cooler.

  • Anonymous

    You can’t hate the Constitution and love America at the same time. You’ve simply been trained to SAY you love America.

  • Anonymous

    “cool”???  Could it be…drug-addicted fat people??

  • AliveStillKickin

    Wouldn’t it just have been easier to say “Vote the straight GOP ticket”?
    The Tea Party holds truth….and truth can’t be compromised.
    Stick that in your bong and smoke it.

  • AliveStillKickin

     I never mentioned The Constitution…..you babbling moron.

  • Anonymous

    All our country is is a constitution, moron.

  • Anonymous

    I am not a smoker. Look at the police reports on people who have been robbed at gun point. How many were druggies and how many needed the money for cigarettes?

  • Anonymous

    Carrying water for these candidates makes him look bad as opposed to what else? He has always looked, and spoken badly.

  • Jadd

    What a putz.

  • Grendelprime

    Not sure what they taught you in Korea, Trevor, but our country is a defined geographical area. Our Constitution is a written framework for our government which is a constitutional republic.

    Why is your avatar smoking? Is it cool?

  • AliveStillKickin

     I don’t think Michael Moore smokes….but I could be wrong.
    He sure can destroy the main table at a buffet

  • Mari2JJ

    True but that statement could only come from a drug addles speaker.  If any THINKING person ever visits an oncology floor and counts the lung cancer patients, their meme would be entirely different, unless of course they were completely unable to face up to their own destructive behavior.  I often think that Rush keeps smoking to TRY to stave off more weight gain.  Wonder how that is working for him?

  • Mari2JJ

    Only if one is a cad and so ill mannered they should not be allowed out in public!  But not being able to compete on the issues is sad when our Party just baits and switches on this smoking issue.  Rush is responsible for his own decisions but he is also responsible for these unreliable statements he makes all the time.  But I think people pretty much accept that it is all buffoonery and just ignore his pronouncements.  As to his scientific knowledge, he is just way off base and there  are mounds of evidence that shows he is just ignorant or deliberately dismissive of facts on this issue.  Poor thing is pitiful.

  • Mari2JJ

    It is the second un-Godly, racist hate that leaves this life long Republican wanting to bolt the party as fast as I can

  • Mari2JJ

    HAHAHAHAHA, thanks for the wonderfully entertaining comment that is so far from being factual it is either sad or wonderfully hilarious!  As a life long Republican, I have NEVER been so totally embarrassed and ashamed by the Republicans congressional behavior.  But I have been in Precinct meetings when the real basis of that animus breaks out and it is because “this BLACK Dude has the nerve to occupy OUR White House. Get it. it is the WHITE House!”: It is all a big racist mucky mess and it is sickening to any Christian since it defies one of God’s cardinal rules.

  • Anonymous

    Hitler was a Leftist Hitler’s Anti-Tobacco Campaign
    One particularly vile individual, Karl Astel — upstanding president of Jena University, poisonous anti-Semite, euthanasia fanatic, SS officer, war criminal and tobacco-free Germany enthusiast — liked to walk up to smokers and tear cigarettes from their unsuspecting mouths. (He committed suicide when the war ended, more through disappointment than fear of hanging.) It comes as little surprise to discover that the phrase “passive smoking” (Passivrauchen) was coined not by contemporary American admen, but by Fritz Lickint, the author of the magisterial 1100-page Tabak und Organismus (“Tobacco and the Organism”), which was produced in collaboration with the German AntiTobacco League.
    http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id1.html

  • Anonymous

    JOINT STATEMENT ON THE RE-ASSESSMENT OF THE TOXICOLOGICAL TESTING OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS” 7 October, the COT meeting on 26 October and the COC meeting on 18 November 2004.
    http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/cotstatementtobacco0409
    “5. The Committees commented that tobacco smoke was a highly complex chemical mixture and that the causative agents for smoke induced diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, effects on reproduction and on offspring) was unknown. The mechanisms by which tobacco induced adverse effects were not established. The best information related to tobacco smoke – induced lung cancer, but even in this instance a detailed mechanism was not available. The Committees therefore agreed that on the basis of current knowledge it would be very difficult to identify a toxicological testing strategy or a biomonitoring approach for use in volunteer studies with smokers where the end-points determined or biomarkers measured were predictive of the overall burden of tobacco-induced adverse disease.”
    In other words … our first hand smoke theory is so lame we can’t even design a bogus lab experiment to prove it. In fact … we don’t even know how tobacco does all of the magical things we claim it does.
    The greatest threat to the second hand theory is the weakness of the first hand theory.

  • Anonymous

    Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger
    Written By: Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D.Published In: Environment & Climate NewsPublication Date: July 1, 2008Publisher:
    http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/23399/Scientific_Evidence_Sho...
    myth-of-second-hand-smoke
    http://yourdoctorsorders.com/2009/01/the-myth-of-second-hand-smoke
    BS Alert: The ‘third-hand smoke’ hoax
    http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-louisville/bs-alert-the-third-hand-smoke-hoax
    The thirdhand smoke scam
    http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2010/02/thirdhand-smoke-scam.html
    Heart attacks Frauds and Myths..
    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7451/
    New study: No evidence linking SHS and lung cancer

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    I don’t need to stab myself in the head, in fact, I gave up smoking because it’s too annoying having to walk to a special shelter to smoke a cigarrette. With that said, if I had to choose between becoming a pansy-ass granola-eating hippie shopper at Whole Foods, and a smoker, I would go back to smoking in a heartbeat. 

  • Yukon Jack

    After smoking for 30 years, I gave it up, cold turkey, because I gave my 12 year old daughter that I would.

    Addiction to nicotine, or for for that matter, any substance that is not essential for life is a mental illness and the surest indicator of lack of character.

  • Yukon Jack

    0bama smokes, too.

    Do you wish the same on His Highness?

  • Yukon Jack

    Dummy, eating is a necessity of life, smoking is not.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    maybe if you take some time out from your tebowing you’ll realize the president is against legalization…  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    no one…  nevermind…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Smoking is cool only if you are stupid piece of human garbage like Rush Limbaugh.  Smoking is reserved for white trash, human garbage and those with very low personal standards for their lives. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Smoking isn’t cool never has never will I can’t stand the smell of smoke. So Rush is wrong that smoking is cool it is not.

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