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Limbaugh's Loose Lips Lead To On-Air Apology
Billboard Radio Monitor ^ | April 13, 2005 | Tony Sanders

Posted on 04/13/2005 5:45:14 PM PDT by rface

Rush Limbaugh, in a fit of “unbridled passion,” used his self-described “pouty lips” to utter the words “blow jobs” on his April 12 show. The incident occurred during a diatribe about former Vice President Al Gore’s new cable TV network. Limbaugh was responding to a statement made by Gore that his new venture would "reflect the point of view of young people."

"What the hell is that, Al?" Limbaugh asked. "What the hell is the point of view of young people? Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about."

Limbaugh went on to blame former President Bill Clinton for making oral sex "the number one sport in high school today. " He also referred to Gore's venture as "a BJ network" and "the oral sex channel."

Later in his show Limbaugh apologized, sort of. "I am going to apologize not for saying what I said, but I'm going to apologize if it offended anybody," he said. "I never apologize for what I say, but if some of you were offended by a graphic term involving actions committed by Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, that have now spread to America’s high schools, I apologize."

"I meant to say 'oral sex' throughout," he went on to say, "but the guttural term escaped my pouty lips in a moment of pure, unbridled passion. The staff was so stunned and so scared today they didn't dare hit the delete button, the deedle button, and so it got out there. My reaction is, somebody go ahead and turn me into the FCC. I'll be honored to be fined. It's just another government agency with its hand in my back pocket, so go right ahead."

A spokeswoman at Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Limbaugh's show, confirmed a transcript of Limbaugh's outburst but declined to make any other comments.


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KEYWORDS: blowjob; doitjustdontsayit; goretv; limbaugh; talkradio
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To: Cboldt
"What did Shep Smith get for his "BJ faux pas?"

A new two year contract extension?

21 posted on 04/13/2005 5:56:46 PM PDT by Normal4me
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To: humblegunner
I think he may have latent homosexual tendencies

he must be gay - the internet says he is...

A 46 year old music store owner from the St. Louis area, Elliot Sanders, is claiming that while a college student at Southeast Missouri University in 1971, he had an affair with Rush Limbaugh. Sanders claims that he and Limbaugh, the well known talk radio star, had an affair that went on for about 3 months in the fall of 1971...

22 posted on 04/13/2005 5:58:50 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: rface

What's the big deal ...

after all it's not a "sex."

/sarc.


23 posted on 04/13/2005 5:59:53 PM PDT by maggief
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To: TC Rider

**well, at least he and Shep Smith will have something to chat about.**

I remember hearing that on FOX. He was talking about Jennifer Lopez having a block party and it came out b. j.


24 posted on 04/13/2005 6:00:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rface

I was more offended by his emotion based rant against allowing property owners to shoot feral cats. It was rather pathetic, but typical for cat fanatics.


25 posted on 04/13/2005 6:06:02 PM PDT by flashbunny (Any discussion involving cats apparently requires the abandonment of logic by cat lovers.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

I agree. From now on, it's Lewinskies only for me!


26 posted on 04/13/2005 6:06:32 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: TC Rider
Ewwwwwwww.

Laurie (Lips Sweeter Than the Morning) Dhue, maybe :)

27 posted on 04/13/2005 6:07:32 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: rface

It was an apology, but it wasn't. LOL

I don't particularly care. After Clinton I'm immune. Rush was on Fire and nailed everyone as they deserved yesterday.


28 posted on 04/13/2005 6:08:32 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: rface

So what if Rush said blow job. It's been around for a long time and mostly the young are into it.


29 posted on 04/13/2005 6:09:07 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: rface
I'm so jaded that when I heard it live, I didn't think anything about it. Only when he sort of apologized did I realize that some listeners might have been offended.

But it's really stupid. Somehow we've decided that slang that describes something, often more accurately, than other words is wrong.

It's just words. "Making love" is acceptable today but scandolous a century ago. The best we could do was "knowing a woman".

30 posted on 04/13/2005 6:09:58 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Normal4me

LOL


31 posted on 04/13/2005 6:10:42 PM PDT by Lovergirl
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To: rface

Yes, but look how much attention he drew to the legacy of the impeached ex-president and his Wormwood sidekick.

His apology is a trap for the Left. They can't condemn him for uttering the term that described the action of the president they defended, for the action is far more graphic than the term itself.

I think this entire situation is hilarious. I thought after he got married a lot of the fire had been doused. Lately, since the breakup, that fire seems to be back.


33 posted on 04/13/2005 6:14:12 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: DumpsterDiver

I listened to his program a few weeks ago and I think he said something about Clinton getting a "Lewinski".


34 posted on 04/13/2005 6:14:19 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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To: humblegunner
I think he may have latent homosexual tendencies

Yea, him and Bill Clinton and Newt.

35 posted on 04/13/2005 6:19:44 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: rface
"What is this culture coming to when el-Rushbo starts saying "Blow Job" on the airways!!??"

Think Rush is answering the question that has been asked. . .and answered; by the realilty of the very behaviors he is referencing.

Crass, yes. . .but that is the realilty. . .and to throw it out there or 'back 'where it come from'. . to make the truth 'hurt'. . .with honest anger and disgust. . .think crass, is the only way to go.

Imagine, if Repubs would be as forthright and as honestly angry. . ..

Sadly, since Bill Clinton. . .the 'no sex' experimenting has begun even earlier in many communities/schools.

. . .fire. .. with fire. . .makes for 'crass observations'. . .but it is the truth of the matter.

36 posted on 04/13/2005 6:22:01 PM PDT by cricket (Just say - NO U.N.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

How bout' Huffer or Hummer??


37 posted on 04/13/2005 6:22:32 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: rface
"this was one of Limbaugh's better show-grams.....his passion was blinding...."

I thought so too. I kept thinking that if this is what it takes, we should figure out how to have more people try to get their hands into Rush's back pocket (as he was upset about). I haven't heard him so passionate and fired up in years. He was still a little riled up today. Hope it lasts.

38 posted on 04/13/2005 6:22:41 PM PDT by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: rface

"Good story. Only thing is: If this guy is 46 years old then that means he would have been 14 in 1971. Soo...Are we to believe that not only is Rush Gay but that he's also a pedophile?? "

found here: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=419


39 posted on 04/13/2005 6:23:50 PM PDT by 1 spark
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To: rface
If it weren't for Bill Clinton and his army of apologists none this would be discussed in such graphic detail anywhere.

If you're offended, blame Bill Clinton, not Rush Limbaugh.

40 posted on 04/13/2005 6:25:30 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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