Thank you for posting thatlink. I had always assumed that the liberal account of the incident—that Rush said there was a White House cat, and also a White House dog, and put up a picture of Chelsea for the latter—was correct, and considered the supposed joke to be outrageous and indefensible, but the real story is that no such joke was told, and the only mix-up was that when Rush said in November 1992 that with Clinton’s election a cute dog would move out of the White House and a cute kid would move in that they mistakenly put up the picture of (the then largely unknown) Chelsea instead of the picture of Millie the Bush’s dog. I have no one to blame but myself for having taken the media’s account at face value instead of digging for the truth.
The honest way to look at the whole story is that if you accept that Rush was probably making a vague referrence to Chelsea Clinton (and he was not the first pundit to point out that she was an ugly child -liberal commedians were doing it for crying out loud), then you should also accept that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin, when he talked about putting lipstick on a pig. Personally, I believe that both are true. Not one of Limbaugh’s finer moments. The difference is that Rush is our attack dog, and Obama is a saint in their camp.