I knew Rush was a closet extremist!
Posted on 09/10/2010 11:37:02 AM PDT by LottieDah
As you may have heard, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Terry Jones (you know, the Gainesville, Fla., pastor who threatened to burn Korans on 9/11) graduated from the same high school in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1969.
On Friday, Pastor Jones was all over morning TV and continued to go back and forth on whether he would be burning any Korans on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Interestingly, Limbaugh referenced the Pastor Jones story on two recent occasions. But according to transcripts, he never disclosed their shared past. Instead, Limbaugh referred to him simply as "the preacher," "the guy," or "the Gainesville pastor."
On Sept. 8, Limbaugh asked listeners of his popular radio show: "By the way, has the ACLU weighed in yet on the Gainesville pastor who wants to burn the Koran? Why not? I mean, if the ACLU would be consistent they'd move in there and defend this Gainesville pastor's right to burn the Koran."
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I knew Rush was a closet extremist!
“Never let on”, as in talked about it endlessly today?
Indeed. You took the precise words out of my mouth. So what?
*facepalm*
BFD, both are middle aged guys 30 to 40 years later.
Maybe Fitzy can frog-march Rush because of this?
Do you know how many people of my graduating class of 400 I remembered?
Two.
BFD, right?
And you know what that means.
(for those that do not it means big f—king deal)
I am 57, and can remember many more than that.
But perhaps they were in different circles. I wonder what the pastor’s crowd was like?
What, you don’t realize you have a (cue lurid music) “shared past” with those people?
Didn’t he talk about that on his show today?
I can't speak for Rush, but I'm like you. I occasionally get emails from classmates.com and I never know any of the people they list as new people from my class. If I were given a list names from my graduating class I'd probably remember a handful.
Good grief, Matt. I’ve seen mediots make “guilt by association” smears before, but I’ve never seen one s-t-r-e-t-c-h so far in an attempt to associate.
And you’re supposed to be PD’s “conservative” pundit?
- JP
(sarc) How can someone not remember a guy named Jones going to their high school thirty years ago?
This is how the media works. Guilt by association is one of their tactics. This “news” will give them something to talk about so they can ignore the beheadings perpetrated by the religion of peace.
Okay...and...?
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