Rush Limbaugh: Grammys ‘Openly Attacked Right-Wing Conservatives and Christians’

Rush Limbaugh found last night’s Grammy Awards to be “despicable,” but he wasn’t surprised. On his radio show Monday morning, the host reacted to the award show that featured Katy Perry “dressed as a witch and burned at the stake” while gay couples were married to the song “Same Love” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

“It was horrible, it was despicable,” Limbaugh said of the show. He agreed with the words of former Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, who thought the “demonic” performances showed there’s “a lot of evil in the world.” Limbaugh also admonished Macklemore’s lyrics, which “openly attacked right-wing conservatives and Christians.”

That song, which the duo performed along with Mary Lambert and Madonna as Queen Latifah presided over the marriage of 33 gay and straight couples, features the line, “The right-wing conservatives think it’s a decision / And you can be cured with some treatment and religion.”

But Limbaugh said the controversy was “the point” of shows like Grammy Awards, which aim to “mock, insult and lampoon their audience.” He went on to connect the award show to CNN. “Nobody watches, but because they have not strayed from the liberal path, they are still loved and adored and praised,” he said of that network, though he did not say by whom. “They have not watered down the liberalism.”

Listen to audio below, via The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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