Rush's choppers are looking uncomfortable lately.
Posted on 06/08/2010 6:02:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
JUNE 8, 2010 Rush Limbaugh and Kathryn Rogers: Why Elton John Played Their Wedding
By Zev Chafets
A lot of people were unpleasantly surprised to learn that Elton John, one of the world’s most proudly prominent gay entertainers, played at Rush Limbaugh’s Palm Beach wedding to Kathryn Rogers last Saturday night. Evangelicals voiced dismay that a pious fellow like Rush would give legitimacy to the libertine Sir Elton. Limbaugh-haters jeered at what they considered el Rushbo’s hypocracy.
This demonstrates that even after more than twenty years on the radio, not everyone understands who Limbaugh actually is.
For starters he is not, and has never pretended to be, a member of the Christian Right. As a young disc jockey he invented a fictitious faith healer, “Friar Shuck” who saved people over the radio for a hundred bucks a pop. Shuck is gone now, but Rush’s show still has a rakish, sometimes impious edge. His fans know he was an Oxycontin addict who spent time in rehab, that he unapologetically appreciates “adult beverages” and beautiful women and that his Sunday devotionals take place in the Church of the NFL. As his good friend Roger Ailes once told me, Rush lives the way Jackie Gleason would have lived if Gleason had been rich enough.
On some social issues, like abortion, Limbaugh is a conventional conservative. On others he sounds a lot like Barack Obama. In an interview last summer he told me that he regards homosexuality as most likely determined by biology, considers other people’s sex lives to be none of his business and supports gay civil unions. I’m pretty sure that Elton John’s sexual orientation never even crossed Limbaugh’s mind.
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George Michael was unavailable and Michael Jackson is dead.
Because they like his music? Why is it such a big deal?
Funny, I have never associated Limbaugh with piety. Hmmm.
He’s positioning himself for a run in politics.
Wow, the light in your basement goes of pretty quick.
< /s > is a two way street, no?
I’ve been listening to Rush since 1992 and I’ve never heard him voice his support of gay civil unions, nor have I ever heard him say that he agrees with the premise that homosexuality is determined by biology. Hmmmmm....
I thought it demonstrated Elton John’s hypocrisy: after all, it only costs a million dollars to get him to sell out.
If I limited my entertainment choices to people whom I agree with politically, there wouldn’t be much tv or music I could enjoy.
How sad for our society to limit us to only certain performers.
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No longer cutting edge perhaps. He is still The Godfather of Conservative Talk. And frankly, his wedding was none of our business.
Isn't that the truth. I'm sure I would take a reaming for my love of Death Metal and European Gothic Industrial music. I really doubt any of those musicians are good Conservative folk. Hell, how many Willie Nelson fans do we have here, he is about as close to a Marxist as you get in music.
I imagine Rush invited him, because Rush likes his music.
Heck, I love Rocket Man and Yellow Brick Road.
I am a HUGE FAN of Sarah brightman, and I would love to have her sing at my wedding. I know she is on the left, but I simply do not care.
Hmm, Rush is very pro life, but I’d never heard about the “civil unions” stuff.
Eh, dance clown, dance.
Far more important to me is that he had Clarence Thomas perform the ceremony at one of his prior 3 weddings and what good that do? His words meant nothing in other words. I could care less who the entertainer was at his latest wedding.
Why not? He is still a great entertainer.
That would have been "Hudson and Landry". That was back in the early seventies. Do a search on it. Hudson and Landry did their broadcast from Southern California and "Friar Shuck" was one of their routines.
Yea, it shouldn’t be. Good for Rush. IMHO worrying about gay issues is a pointless embarrasment to both Christians and Conservatives.
What is wrong with Rush Limbaugh hiring Elton John? If Rush likes his music and they can agree on a price then what’s the big deal?
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