What Could End Rush Limbaugh's Career?

Townhall.com ^ | 11/17/2011 | Michael Brown

[servo1969]

It was surprising to hear Rush Limbaugh say the words, “I don’t have the guts to bring it up,” but he did, on November 8th, to his massive radio audience.

Rush Limbaugh lacking the guts to address something publicly? Rush Limbaugh not willing to tackle controversy? Really?

He was responding to a statement by a caller named Lawrence as they discussed Joe Paterno and the scandal at Penn State.

CALLER: “What’s that?”

RUSH: “Nobody has the guts to actually give the explanation for what was going on and why there was trepidation in reporting it, and that's all I'll say. If you can figure it out on your own, fine and dandy. . . .”

What was Rush talking about?

Let’s put this in context. If there is any prominent figure in America who does not bow down to political correctness or media pressure, it is Rush Limbaugh. In fact, he’s on record as saying that when people try to silence you, you should shout louder.

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What is it that, in his words, could end his career? What is it about the Penn State scandal that is “glaring; it's right in front of everybody,” and yet “Nobody has the guts to actually give the explanation for what was going on and why there was trepidation in reporting it”?

[DiogenesLamp]

By the Way, in the 1992 election campaign, I put up a sign that said "Clinton Supports Homosexuals." Within a week, there were two arson attempts on my property. None prior, none subsequently. If not for the fire dept arrive in the dead of night to put out the fires, it might have gotten bad.

I have no doubt that Homosexual activists can be deadly.

[elli1]

Oh this is so easy...my guess is that if you report such a thing in a liberal milieu like academia you’re likely to be accused of hate speech against gays and then be fired.

Yup.

[steelyourfaith]

bttt

[Tribune7]

Rush is not afraid of taking on the homosexual lobby.

OTOH, if major power brokers are buggering kids and he doesn't have the goods to spell it out and they have the fire power to take him down, well, that would shut just about anybody up.

And if they have the fire power to take him down, well . . .

[NavyCanDo]

I listen to Glenn Beck and then Rush back to back. There is no comparison. Beck is now my first choice in talk. Beck is talking hot topics that matter, with OWS taking up most of his program right now. Rush however is too often all over the place, from the Penn State story, to how his favorite quarterback is doing.

We owe a lot to Rush for getting this whole Conservative Talk radio thing going, and leading hundreds of thousands to conservatism, including my parents. But his show is no wear as captivating as it use to be.

[C. Edmund Wright]

And let’s not forget that Michael Brown is a talk show host who constantly talks about social issues - and has an audience nationally that would fit into one block of Rush’s listeners in a single big city.

A definite parting of emphasis, perhaps combined with a smidgeon of jealousy?????

[DLfromthedesert]

Not true. I remember the Gay Community update with that guy singing falsetto and “My Boy Loolipop” referring to Barney Frank’s boy toy using his house for a gay prostitution ring.

That was in the mid 90’s.

[sodpoodle]

After reading through the posts - it just occurred to me that Rush only criticizes elected officials and policy. Nothing on the ‘Nancy Grace’ milieu i.e. Michael Jackson, missing children, Anna Nicole Smith etc.,

Does anyone remember Rush discussing high profile trials like O.J. Simpson?

Perhaps his insurance does not cover libel or slander????

[DLfromthedesert]

Lollipop.....LOL

[Designer]

"Rush generally tries to remain non-commental."

Could be that someone on his staff is "sensitive" to the issue.

[DiogenesLamp]

I’m inclined to doubt that’s exactly what Rush had in mind, but clearly we have reached the point where it is considered inflammatory and defamatory to point out the obvious: that buggering little boys is a homosexual act. Water is wet. The sun is bright. There, now I’ve said it.

I argue this issue every chance I get. I am disgusted with all the Libertarian types that simply cannot comprehend that there is something mentally wrong with males who do not want females. Pedophilia is just an alternative fetish to someone with this disorder.

Many of the libertarians use the tu quoque argument that "Heterosexuals do it too!" Oblivious to the fact that 2% of the population is accounting for the vast bulk of male child buggery. They simply overlook and refuse to consider every bit of evidence that doesn't conform to what they wish to believe.

[utahagen]

I can't say that I blame Rush for pulling his punches where the gays are concerned. I've worked in the entertainment and financial worlds in New York and Los Angeles, so I have a sense of the way members of what I'd broadly define “the elite” react where certain issues are concerned. In my experience, while it's not exactly “acceptable” to be against abortion, individuals who are pro-life will be tolerated without being accused (personally) of being misogynistic; in contrast, any opposition to, say, gay marriage is cited as evidence of “hate” by that person. Individuals who come out against gay marriage and go on the record — by making donations to Proposition 8, for example — will pay a price for doing so. For example, I believe that, in the age of Google, many who donated to Proposition 8 will get turned down for jobs they apply for(although they'll never know the real reason they didn't get the job). As for public figures who come out against the gays...I do believe they will be brought down.

If I were Rush Limbaugh, I'd keep my mouth shut about the gays, while trying to get the truth out about everything else. If Rush does summon the courage to come out against the gays, I predict he'll end up in prison or murdered within five years. (And, no, I'm not kidding.)

[dfwgator]

Could be that someone on his staff is "sensitive" to the issue.

What are you trying to say here?

[Tribune7]

Rush has spoken out against court decisions overturning anti-gay marriage laws and he's outspokenly against political correctness in all forms and he's outspokenly against the government-controlled schools where acceptance of anal sex is indoctrinated.

I think he is like Reagan -- someone who doesn't particularly hate homosexuals and is inclined to live and let live.

[RobbyS]

That, too. Big-time football is an institution to big to fail. But the sports industry has become so PC that it is hard to remember when it was not.

[stockpirate]

This is too easy, so hear it is, it was said in early reports that they were pimping the young boys out to the big football donors......For some reason after the second of third day this part of the story disappeared. My guess is it’s true, and that some of the men buying sex with young boys are big time pols, business men and newsmen.

[goat granny]

The homosexual community will not and has not condemned NAMBLA. It is still part of the gay movement...

[dfwgator]

It’s pretty much a given that gays control the entertainment industry lock, stock and barrel.

Entertainers know they will be ‘blacklisted’ if they go against the gay agenda, which in essence means, supporting any conservative politician, or refusing to “pile on” when somebody says something against Sarah Palin. It’s like that old saying, “To get along, you go along.”

[Lancey Howard]

Mmm.. How about the fact that most of Sandusky’s child victims were reporedly black kids? Inner-city “throwaway” black kids. I guess it was just a little easier for Sandusky’s enablers to look the other way. Throw in the oppressive political correctness of the Penn State campus and the hounddog homosexual mafia and you have the recipe for the current scandal.

I don’t know why Rush would fear addressing any of this, but I have noticed over the decades that Rush generally steers way clear of issues concerning sodomy, pedophilia, homosexuality, beastiality, lesbianism, necrophilia, and all that gay stuff.

[little jeremiah]

He barely touches it.

He’s a coward, like most of the other so-called conservatives.

Now our country is basically being ruled by the pro-sodomy and pederasty elites on all fronts. Thanks to those who should have spoken up but didn’t.