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Rush on McGreevy: Sympathy for living a lie
vanity | August 13, 2004 | Vanity

Posted on 08/13/2004 9:53:21 AM PDT by fightinJAG

Okay, please don't flame me. I'm honestly interested in what freepers think about this.

Ever since Rush came back from rehab and started talking about "living a lie" and "not being able to make other people happy" and all that, I've had the uneasy feeling that Rush had "discovered" something more about himself than he was letting on.

Today, listening to Rush as he talked about his empathy for McGreevy, it seemed inevitable to wonder if Rush's empathy (and, please, if you did not hear Rush's comments, realize it's difficult to assess the tone and emotion with which he delivered them) wasn't tied back to his own "living a lie" struggles.

Yes, it would be easy to think that the "lie" was his drug addiction, but . . . I'm posting this because it really seemed as though Rush might be warming up to his own bombshell (whatever that might be).

His commentary was so passionate, in a personal, not political way, that I even wondered if he was (unconsciously) seeing if he could start a thread like this, in order to see what the speculation might be and what the reaction to that speculation might be.

Who heard Rush's opening commentary on McGreevy and what was your reaction/thoughts? Thanks. I'd be interested to know.


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KEYWORDS: baloney; mcgreevy; rush
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To: eaglesiniowa

>>>>Dittos. I heard the monologue and you are 100% correct<<<<

Hello, right about what? The are all over the place. From he's gay to drugs to rehab. to he's leading us on. I'm of the latter.


161 posted on 08/13/2004 10:36:20 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry and The Taxocrates must be defeated! "Kerry wasn't in Cambodia before he was in Cambodia.")
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To: Yaelle
you try your hardest to keep your OWN marriage vows and you need to be hit over the head that the partner is NOT keeping theirs.

What are you referring to?

162 posted on 08/13/2004 10:36:29 AM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: OldFriend

Apparently. I do feel sorry for his kids, though. For his wife to be part and parcel of this is one thing, she's an adult. But those kids didn't ask for this. Pity their parents didn't think of them.


163 posted on 08/13/2004 10:36:57 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Fawnn
Have you considered rehab?

Yeah, it's called the off-season. Since I saw my first pre-season game last night I guess that means I'm hooked again.
164 posted on 08/13/2004 10:37:27 AM PDT by BJClinton (I, too, am a Football-Fan-American)
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To: CzarNicky
Nope doesn't upset me, just irks me that I interrupted reading VDH, to see what the hub bub was about and get this dribble.
165 posted on 08/13/2004 10:38:27 AM PDT by dts32041 (Why has John "Fning" Kerry accused me of being a War Criminal? Viet Nam APR 70- NOV 71)
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To: exhaustedmomma
Should have said he said it in 1992 TOO. Makes it a later statement.
166 posted on 08/13/2004 10:38:29 AM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Bias is not necessarily propaganda. HOWEVER, bias is necessary to propaganda.)
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To: Aracelis
McG used our tax dollars for his own purposes. He put his homosexual lover on the payroll. He ignored our security issues so he could favor his boy toy. He took taxpayer money to pay off a farmer in exchange for campaign donations.

His personal life is his own business only as long as it doesn't take my husband's hard earned money to keep his 'friend' in style.

There is nothing at all to empathize with. He betrayed everyone who voted for him and those of us who knew all along he was corrupt.

167 posted on 08/13/2004 10:38:34 AM PDT by OldFriend (WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
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To: fightinJAG; All

Believe it or not, the person I've heard be hardest on McG. was a guy I heard on NPR this morning. I wish I had caught his name, but I think he was WNYC's NJ correspondent. His attitude was: Gayness has nothing to do with it, McGreevy hasn't told the truth yet, certainly not the whole truth, and has no intention of doing so, he's trying to spin things to his advantage, his putting Cipal on the state p/r was a disgrace, many of his appointments have been disgraces, his whole administration is a corruption riddled disaster.

Guy was seriously p.o.'d. He sounded angrier than any Repub., Conservative, Columnist, Editorial, or Freeper I've heard.

Maybe I'll look later and see if there's an audio link on their site. wnyc.org if anyone wants to look for themselves. It was today's Brian Lehrer show, but there was a lady subbing as host.


168 posted on 08/13/2004 10:39:44 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: BJClinton

It sounds like you're one of the lucky ones: You're able to be a functional Football-Fan-American. ;)


169 posted on 08/13/2004 10:40:51 AM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: mewzilla
"Limbaugh should save his sympathy for someone who deserves it."

How embarrassing for you --- AND for this forum. You don't speak for me in any way shape or form.

170 posted on 08/13/2004 10:41:29 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: OldFriend

Boy, guess I hit the nail on the head. If you don't find Rush entertaining, don't listen to him. All I am saying about you and the other Rush bashers is that you are only too thrilled to jump on him any chance you get. If you can't deal with the truth so be it.


171 posted on 08/13/2004 10:42:01 AM PDT by Patriotic Bostonian
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To: Matchett-PI
You don't speak for me in any way shape or form.

Where did I claim to speak for anyone than myself?

172 posted on 08/13/2004 10:42:58 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: per loin
"Rush did seem to "protesteth too much".

Discernment isn't one of your strengths, is it?

173 posted on 08/13/2004 10:43:09 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: DoctorMichael
There's actually a couple of topics Rush stays away from and DOESN'T go for the jugular on: Gays & Illegals (among others).

That's IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rush has been living a lie. HE IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN! We just THINK he is from Cape Girardeau! He lost his accent and has been faking his American patriotism all while he is not even legal to vote here!! What a SHOCKER!!!

Can you believe that he has probably been receiving FREE health care all these years?! He probably got a free cochlear implant! He is probably the one pressuring the President to go EASY on illegals!

IT ALLLLLLLLLL MAKES SENSE NOW...............

174 posted on 08/13/2004 10:43:22 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

LOL!


175 posted on 08/13/2004 10:44:06 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Mudboy Slim

There are definitely a number of Rush haters here. I think they hate him because he occasionally has criticized the president.

And, he's a conservative...and that doesn't go over well with certain people here.


176 posted on 08/13/2004 10:44:21 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Fawnn
You're able to be a functional Football-Fan-American

My wife would disagree.
177 posted on 08/13/2004 10:44:43 AM PDT by BJClinton (I, too, am a Football-Fan-American)
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To: B Knotts

Rush on saying he feels sorry for Clinton: "I'm sure I have just set a freeper thread record."


178 posted on 08/13/2004 10:45:14 AM PDT by GulliverSwift (Political math: Jk= (Ag +Bd) x 10 ^ Jc)
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To: GulliverSwift

I heard that. I am tired of this story.


179 posted on 08/13/2004 10:45:54 AM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: B Knotts
There are definitely a number of Rush haters here. I think they hate him because he occasionally has criticized the president.

I don't think those types need a reason. There simply are people who aren't happy unless they're finding reasons to be miserable.
180 posted on 08/13/2004 10:46:06 AM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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