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Rush Limbaugh: Media Wouldn’t Be Angry With Casey Anthony Verdict If She Had An Abortion

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Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to find a way to turn the media’s outrage over Casey Anthony’s not guilty verdict into an indictment of the media’s overall leanings towards the pro-choice movement. Rush warns that “abortion is brutal” despite never being characterized that way in the media, and proceeds with a brutal suggestion, which he doesn’t think is a “cheap attempt at humor.”

Rush begins with confusion regarding why many cable news hosts are so angry at Anthony:

“What I don’t understand about it is they’re all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them? I’ve never seen them get so upset over the death of a child. If the child had died – what – two years earlier in the womb this woman would be a star. She’d be a hero.”

Yet if some really can’t go over the fact that Anthony was not found guilty, then Rush offers a bit of advice to help them cope:

“You people in the media, if you really, really think she’s guilty and you want to feel better about this, just tell yourselves that she waited a couple of years to get an abortion and you’ll feel better.”

Often Rush might say provocative statements simply to get attention or to tweak some of his critics, yet this time he knows people might gasp at what he’s saying regarding abortion, but simply because there’s an element of truth to it.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Adam/1471630141 Michael Adam

    Ignorant Hate…..on the radio everyday from 12-3. Abortion is only an issue to religious morons like Rush. He uses it to fire up his idiotic fan base.

  • BFD

    Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg use an Hispanic immigration analogy.

    Rush Limbaugh used an abortion analogy.

    Still waiting for some Righty scumbag to use a Casey Anthony Gay marriage analogy.

  • MadCharles

    I think Rush is wrong on this point. You can’t move the story along like Brett Favre after the abortion.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    What a stupid headline. He’s right, if she’d been snuffed out in the womb, you wouldn’t be hearing the same mourning by liberals. Can you really deny that??

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Michael Adam said:
    Ignorant Hate…..on the radio everyday from 12-3. Abortion is only an issue to religious morons like Rush. He uses it to fire up his idiotic fan base.

    A majority of American’s are pro-life, but don’t let the facts get in your way.

  • Davo

    Rush brings up an interesting point and infuriates Dims in doing so. Dims are perhaps more sensitive of abortion rights than any of their other valued practices.

    I suspect Dims are so protective of abortion, that they would be OK with the killing of ANY children, “rationalizing” it as a protective zone to their most valued endeavor…………………..abortion upon demand, without due cause, and financed by taxpayers.

    Really, what’s the difference?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    A majority of American’s are pro-life, but don’t let the facts get in your way.

    Majority also favor status quo re: abortion. But don’t let the facts get in your way.

  • Yoda002

    I would think Republicans would get tired of hate radio all the time.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    “What I don’t understand about it is they’re all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them?”

    What a despicable comment. I certainly hope Rush doesn’t get shot in the back of the head on the way out of his studio today. That’d be awful.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Publius219 said:
    “What I don’t understand about it is they’re all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them?”

    What a despicable comment. I certainly hope Rush doesn’t get shot in the back of the head on the way out of his studio today. That’d be awful.

    Gotta love the honestly of you libs! You know Rush is right, that’s what riles you so much!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Gotta love the honestly of you libs! You know Rush is right, that’s what riles you so much!

    A worthless mind poisoned by partisanship, devoid of reason.

  • Davo

    Publius219 said:
    “What I don’t understand about it is they’re all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them?”

    What a despicable comment. I certainly hope Rush doesn’t get shot in the back of the head on the way out of his studio today. That’d be awful.

    Rush is addressing a “despicable” political party’s “despicable” practice. When addressing “despicable” people it’s impossible to avoid “despicable” components. Thanks for volunteering to serve as an example.

    Publius219 said:
    Majority also favor status quo re: abortion. But don’t let the facts get in your way.

    False. Demons have fought for decades against putting abortion to the test of a national popular vote.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Davo said:
    . False. Demons have fought for decades against putting abortion to the test of a national popular vote.

    Yes, we should disregard the Constitution and decide everything based on national popular votes. Fine, I’ll let it go for abortion if you let it go for voting for President.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Rush Limbaugh: If Obama was Casey Anthony and he killed a white baby, America wouldn’t care.

    Rush Limbaugh: If Illegal immigrants were black, no one would care they were illegal, we’d pay them more.

    Rush Limbaugh: If Obama was white. this immigration problem would have been fixed by now!

    Rush Limbaugh: If Gaddafi were a Jewish Muslim cleric, Obama would not be invading libya.

    Rush Limbaugh: If anthony weiner had a vagina, we wouldn’t be debating his penis.

    This man must be really good at madlibs.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    When I heard Rush say it live I knew Schneider would make a post of the clip…

    Please don’t tell me that the Left has a guilt complex about their endorsement of abortions…

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    skoorbekim said:
    When I heard Rush say it live I knew Schneider would make a post of the clip…

    Please don’t tell me that the Left has a guilt complex about their endorsement of abortions…

    The faux pro-life position of the far-right becomes more absurd all the time. Pro-life ends the second the baby exits the womb or the nation’s borders.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    skoorbekim said:
    When I heard Rush say it live I knew Schneider would make a post of the clip… Please don’t tell me that the Left has a guilt complex about their endorsement of abortions…

    Endorsing abortions isn’t the same as supporting them being legal. Supporting an abortion would be like dressing up in your teams abortion colors, painting your face, and then going to the abortion to cheer your significant other on. Ever since the season’s been over, I’ve been trying to find more to watch but usually strangers aren’t too keen on me coming into the abortion room with my big foam hand ,cheering against their fetus.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Publius219 said:
    the nation’s borders.

    not a proponent of national borders?

    how about locks on your front door?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    skoorbekim said:
    not a proponent of national borders?

    how about locks on your front door?

    Nice distortion.

  • Azarkhan

    Publius219 said:
    Pro-life ends the second the baby exits the womb

    Not quite. Pro-life advocates oppose partial birth abortion (which when you get right down to it really is infanticide, isn’t it?).

  • Dave Splash

    Stupidest Limbaugh comment ever? It is definitely a contender.

  • Slapnuts

    Rush speaks da trutha to power!!!!!! Keep doing the lord’s work,Rush!!!

  • BFD

    In a way Rush is right.

    I wouldn’t have given a sh*t if he was aborted at 3 years old.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    BFD said:
    In a way Rush is right.

    I wouldn’t have given a sh*t if he was aborted at 3 years old.

    I don’t give a sh*t if he’s aborted now. I’m generally against abortion, but few are more deserving of a D&X than Rush. Although I suppose the X would be sort of irrelevant since there isn’t much in there to begin with.

  • Just my Opinion

    BFD said:
    Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg use an Hispanic immigration analogy.

    Rush Limbaugh used an abortion analogy.

    Still waiting for some Righty scumbag to use a Casey Anthony Gay marriage analogy.

    Wow! You shift starts ealier than I thought.
    Going to be a long night of snarking!

  • Hugo Daun

    Publius219 said:
    I certainly hope Rush doesn’t get shot in the back of the head on the way out of his studio today. That’d be awful.

    Oh, the humanity!

  • BFD

    Just my Opinion said:
    Wow! You shift starts ealier than I thought.
    Going to be a long night of snarking!

    lol…I love how you’ve been reduced to commenting on my commenting.

    Dance for me, monkeyboy.

  • 2012freedom

    Michael Adam said:
    Abortion is only an issue to religious morons like Rush.

    I am sure the baby getting a jab in the back of the skull to kill it thinks it is an issue. Then, when they get thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully they have a bit more time to think about what an issue it is. So no, it isn’t only “religious morons.”

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Publius219 said:
    A worthless mind poisoned by partisanship, devoid of reason.

    Yes, you are.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    2012freedom said:
    I am sure the baby getting a jab in the back of the skull to kill it thinks it is an issue. Then, when they get thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully they have a bit more time to think about what an issue it is. So no, it isn’t only “religious morons.”

    Don’t bother, they have no problem with that. Now try to put a murdering psycho to death and you’ll get some emotion from them.

  • Davo

    Publius219 said:
    Yes, we should disregard the Constitution and decide everything based on national popular votes. Fine, I’ll let it go for abortion if you let it go for voting for President.

    Where, exactly, in the Constitution is the right to terminate the life of the unborn? I just can’t find it. It MUST be there somewhere, RIGHT?

  • 2012freedom

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Don’t bother, they have no problem with that. Now try to put a murdering psycho to death and you’ll get some emotion from them.

    Yeah, I know *sigh*

  • beavoux

    2012freedom said:
    I am sure the baby getting a jab in the back of the skull to kill it thinks it is an issue. Then, when they get thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully they have a bit more time to think about what an issue it is. So no, it isn’t only “religious morons.”

    An unborn fetus isn’t “thinking” at all. Nor is it “thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully”! Idiot.

  • Davo

    beavoux said:
    An unborn fetus isn’t “thinking” at all. Nor is it “thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully”! Idiot.

    Where did you obtain your clairvoyance to know what an unborn child might be thinking? Brain waves can be measured long before birth, so tell us what you think that means………………………..idiot.

  • 2012freedom

    beavoux said:
    An unborn fetus isn’t “thinking” at all. Nor is it “thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully”! Idiot.

    I’m sorry, who exactly is the idiot? No need to answer it was a rhetorical question.

    TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida agency has revoked the license of a doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion in which authorities say a live baby was placed in the trash.

    The Florida Board of Medicine today found Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique guilty of medical malpractice and delegating responsibility to unlicensed personnel.

    An administrative complaint said Renelique was scheduled to perform an abortion on a teenager who was 23 weeks pregnant.

    According to the complaint, Sycloria Williams gave birth at a Hialeah clinic after waiting hours for Renelique to arrive. A clinic owner placed the baby in the trash. Police recovered the decomposing remains a week later.

  • 2012freedom

    beavoux said:
    An unborn fetus isn’t “thinking” at all. Nor is it “thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully”! Idiot.

    “Babies who survive their abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Speaking against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act on the IL Senate floor on March 30, 2001, Obama, was the sole verbal opponent to the bill.”

    Gee…I guess they wouldn’t have a “born alive infant protection act” if it wasn’t happening.

  • 2012freedom

    beavoux said:
    An unborn fetus isn’t “thinking” at all. Nor is it “thrown into a trash can to finish dying painfully”! Idiot.

    Oh, and by the way, my daughter was born at 29 weeks and I assure you she absolutely WAS thinking AND feeling. They abort babies at that gestation all the time.

  • redleaf

    Sometimes Rush tries too hard to fabricate an anti-liberal argument that his brain dead minions can propagate throughout the land. This is one of those times.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    2012freedom said:
    “Babies who survive their abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Speaking against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act on the IL Senate floor on March 30, 2001, Obama, was the sole verbal opponent to the bill.”

    Gee…I guess they wouldn’t have a “born alive infant protection act” if it wasn’t happening.

    Once of the more disgusting things he’s done, in my opinion. I’ve come to the conclusion, that you can’t talk to liberals about this. They have to convince themselves that it isn’t a feeling and thinking person, because how evil would it make you to kill something that is?

  • 2012freedom

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Once of the more disgusting things he’s done, in my opinion. I’ve come to the conclusion, that you can’t talk to liberals about this. They have to convince themselves that it isn’t a feeling and thinking person, because how evil would it make you to kill something that is?

    Not only to be okay with late term abortion, but to then vote against the bill that might be able to do something for a baby born of a tragic botched abortion is abhorrent.

  • redleaf

    “When does the death of a child bother them?”, says Rush.

    This is totally true. My liberal neighbor murders children for sport and it doesn’t bother anyone in his San Francisco neighborhood. I remember once a child was hit by a car and killed and a bunch of liberals went to the funeral and laughed. Liberals are never bothered by the death of children. They like it.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    redleaf said:
    “When does the death of a child bother them?”, says Rush.

    This is totally true. My liberal neighbor murders children for sport and it doesn’t bother anyone in his San Francisco neighborhood. I remember once a child was hit by a car and killed and a bunch of liberals went to the funeral and laughed. Liberals are never bothered by the death of children. They like it.

    I remember one time I saw my conservative hick neighbors gangbanging their toothless pre-teen cousins in the yard. Incest and pedophilia don’t bother ignorant redneck conservatives, they LOVE it.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    redleaf said:
    “When does the death of a child bother them?”, says Rush.

    This is totally true. My liberal neighbor murders children for sport and it doesn’t bother anyone in his San Francisco neighborhood. I remember once a child was hit by a car and killed and a bunch of liberals went to the funeral and laughed. Liberals are never bothered by the death of children. They like it.

    Sarcasm missed. Hard to tell sometimes.

  • redleaf

    Publius219 said:
    Sarcasm missed. Hard to tell sometimes.

    Understand. There are literally thousands of conservatives who are now convinced that liberals aren’t bothered by the death of a child. They will now take that opinion and use it as ammunition to fuel a hatred of liberals made completely irrational thanks to Rush and his ilk.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    redleaf said:
    Understand. There are literally thousands of conservatives who are now convinced that liberals aren’t bothered by the death of a child. They will now take that opinion and use it as ammunition to fuel a hatred of liberals made completely irrational thanks to Rush and his ilk.

    Just imagine the batshit insanity when/if Obama gets re-elected. Ideally that will be a time for the rational adults to re-take the party, but they might’ve all been purged by then.

  • njack731

    I never thought a nation of so-called intelligent people would be hooked up on the rantings of Limbaugh or abortion. Whether one is a liberal or a conservative, abortions will continue either legally or illegally. I have a newsflash for all of you. Conservatives have abortions too! You have to live on Mars or under several rocks to believe otherwise. The best thing that could have happened to society would have been Limbaugh’s mother aborting him!

  • Nature Is Freaky

    njack731 said:
    I never thought a nation of so-called intelligent people would be hooked up on the rantings of Limbaugh or abortion. Whether one is a liberal or a conservative, abortions will continue either legally or illegally. I have a newsflash for all of you. Conservatives have abortions too! You have to live on Mars or under several rocks to believe otherwise. The best thing that could have happened to society would have been Limbaugh’s mother aborting him!

    I have mixed opinions regarding abortion. Late term abortion especially bothers me.
    I also realize abortion will be with us as long as human beings exist.
    Abortion has a long history. If a woman truly wants an abortion, you will never be able to stop her.
    Better forms of contraception are the answer, but many on the right consider all contraception evil.
    Natural Law B.S.

  • dougx

    Abortion should be more complicated and based on a set of factors. The main factor should be based on the growth rate of your ethnicity or race. If your group has a much greater than replacement rate, then abortion should be allowed and possibly encouraged, especially if the couple does not have the financial means to raise the baby. If your group has an even replacement rate, then other factors would be involved, such as age of the would be mother, does the couple already have children, etc. If the mother is a member of a group that has a less than replacement rate, then it should be very difficult to obtain an abortion.

  • dougx

    Nature Is Freaky said:
    I hope to meet you someday Aaron Fleszar.
    At that point, my life will truly be fulfilled.
    Do you have any association with Lyndon Larouche? I am curious.
    If you stayed awhile and debated us here, I would respect you at least a little bit.
    F@#*g coward.

    He’s just copying and pasting.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    redleaf said:
    Understand. There are literally thousands of conservatives who are now convinced that liberals aren’t bothered by the death of a child. They will now take that opinion and use it as ammunition to fuel a hatred of liberals made completely irrational thanks to Rush and his ilk.

    You’re selectively bothered. Caylee’s murder bother’s you, but a woman having an abortion the day before her child were to be born, not so much. Obama backing a law saying a doctor can’t try to save a child that survives an abortion, not so much.

  • Nature Is Freaky

    dougx said:
    He’s just copying and pasting.

    Thank you for responding. I realize this fact dougx.
    It still irritates me.
    Aaron Fleszar and his loser friends are taking advantage of the free speech concept of Mediaite.
    Aaron makes a good foil. It’s all good.

  • Nature Is Freaky

    dougx said:
    He’s just copying and pasting.

    Tilting at windmills can be Catharsis.

  • Nature Is Freaky

    “Easy Money”

    It’s difficult. It’s very tough.
    I said to the man who’d been sleeping rough
    To sit within a fragrant breeze
    All among the nodding trees
    That hang heavy with the stuff

    He threw his arms around my neck
    He brushed the tear from my cheek
    And held my soft white hand
    He was an understanding man
    He did not even barely hardly speak

    Easy money
    Rain it down on the wife and the kids
    Rain it down on the house where we live
    Rain until you got nothing left to give
    And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me

    All the things for which my heart yearns
    Gives joy in diminishing returns
    He kissed me on the mouth
    His hands they headed south
    And my cheek it burned

    Money, man, it is a bitch
    The poor, they spoil it for the rich
    With my face pressed in the clover
    I wondered when this would be over
    And at home we are all so guilty-sad

    Easy money
    Pour it down the open drain
    Pour it all through my veins
    Pour it down, yeah, let it rain
    And pour that ever-loving stuff down on me

    Now, I’m sitting pretty down on the bank
    Life shuffles past at a low interest rate
    In the money-coloured meadows
    And all the interesting shadows
    They leap up, then dissipate

    Easy money
    Easy money
    Easy money
    Rain it down on the wife and the kids
    Rain it down on the house where we live
    Rain it down until you got nothing left to give
    And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me.

  • dougx

    Nature Is Freaky said:
    Tilting at windmills can be Catharsis.

    I just saw the same post over on DB. Annoys me too because it clogs up the thread and my brain has to filter it out.

  • brownsound

    Publius219 said:
    Constitu

    Abortion wasn’t ratified as a constitutional amendment. A court of appointed justices decided it. Big difference.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Rush has a point, there is a pro-choice professor who advocates infanticide until the age of one, maybe two.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Rush nails it once again!

  • heather4me

    Rush is so right we engrained the idea of choice into our young women that subconsciously they feel whenever it gets too hard well I could have gotten rid of u before now your here with me in my way it should still be my choice. There’s no difference between the mangled bodies outside an abortion facility as there is compared to sweet Caylees body in the woods with no one there to bury it. And Casey is no more or less guilty than any other mother is who chooses to end their Childs life before the world can see it. Speak the truth it hurts but it must be brought to the light. There are more mothers taking the lives of their children outside the womb then ever before since roe v wade. You can’t separate the idea of choice when it comes to life it’s a contradiction.

  • heather4me

    True hate is taking the life of an innocent baby which we all were at some point luckily our parents gave us a chance to live.

  • stephenpyle

    I’m glad I can always depend on Rush for some good insight.

  • Fluffy McNutter

    Words or wisdom from Rush!

  • X-3

    Rush Limbaugh: Media Wouldn’t Be Angry With Casey Anthony Verdict If She Had An Abortion

    Rush is Right—AGAIN. (But, what’s new?)

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