Posted on 06/12/2004 1:32:23 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
RUSH Limbaugh put out a statement yesterday that he and his third wife, Marta, had separated — but only after PAGE SIX called to confirm what we'd learned exclusively. Sources in Palm Beach say Marta dumped the burly blowhard and vacated the couple's home on North Ocean Boulevard. The two are quietly working out a divorce agreement. Limbaugh met Marta on the Internet and they married in 1994. Since
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What a fulfilling life you must have to view other people's divorces as "great theatre" and a "show" to be 'enjoyed.'
Remove just one three-letter word and you've got it!
I'm sorry folks, but Rush is a self-centered idiot. He's a used car dealer at heart, essentially, who got lucky.
LMAO bump!
Does Rush have any children?
Neither has Dr. Phil's divorce. And nothing stops Oprah from doing the same, despite the fact that she has publicly vowed not to marry the man she has been sleeping with for (at least) over a decade.
Ronald Reagan was divorced from Jane Wyman, but he sure gave his adopted son Michael some sparkling advice, as you must have heard in Michael's eulogy last Friday. You got a problem with saying "I love you" at least once a day?
Timing is critical, and Rush and Roy Black knew exactly what they were doing. This is an age old trick, played out on Friday's at 5:00, or after the market closes, or after the news cycle closes. They were waiting for a big news day, and they evidently didn't care which big news day it was. Those two are up to their back bumpers in manipulation right now. He is evidently so desperate that he has lost all sense of decency.
If you weren't so busy choking on your own bile, you would have noted the opening paragraph of this derogatory story:
THE STORY WAS ALREADY OUT, EVEN BEFORE (as the Palm Beach Post story details above) MARTA'S MOTHER KNEW! Rush had a choice -- announce the facts himself, or let the inevitable smear campaign inform his listeners. The media had no qualms about interrupting Reagan Memorial Week to spread the 'good' news -- in fact, it was probably a relief to them to let some air out of the right as the nation's profound affection and appreciation for Reagan (unexpected by them) knocked them on their heels.
RUSH Limbaugh put out a statement yesterday that he and his third wife, Marta, had separated — but only after PAGE SIX called to confirm what we'd learned exclusively.
It's not as if any attention was taken off Reagan's memory to focus on Rush's marriage. Did you see pics of Marta walking to her car outside where she's living now instead of seeing those touching photos of Nancy laying her head on Ronnie's flag-draped casket? Of course not.
You've got some serious problems if somehow this announcement sullied any aspect of last week for you. Get a life.
You won't forgive RL for announcing his impending divorce on the day of a funeral?
You say timing is critical - and Rush and his lawyer sat on this announcement for nearly a year just waiting for Reagan to pass away until they released it. Yeah, right.
He is not on a downward spiral - he is on his way back up from personal lows that real humans experience. Your judgement reveals only bad things about yourself.
You are such a venomous troll. Bite yourself already!
The news about Rush's impending divorce had to come out sometime. Why not Friday, after the news went into weekend mode? Because Reagan was being buried? So what? Was he supposed to make the announcement this morning, knowing that the New York Post had already sniffed out the story on Friday? Why? Somehow in your view, it's obscene to "use" Reagan for "cover" but insist your objection has nothing to do with whether there was distraction from the funeral. Your knickers are in a twist over this, and you haven't given a cogent reason why.
I have NEVER told another person, whom I do not know, to "get a life." I find that to be a singularly demeaning phrase . . . for the user. You, in fact, have NO idea who I am, or what kind of life I lead, or my interests, or what I am about.
I always assume that others have information that I do not have. You, on the other hand, have an imperious air that does not serve you well. You do not have the right to lecture me. You have the right to state your opinion about the subject matter, but telling me to "get a life" or other insults is only a reflection on you.
Your response is amusing to me, because while you say I don't know who you are and what you are about, and that I have "an imperious air," it is you that has made many confident assertions about Rush's behavior and inner thoughts that are firmly based in Jell-O. To wit:
- Timing is critical, and Rush and Roy Black knew exactly what they were doing. This is an age old trick, played out on Friday's at 5:00, or after the market closes, or after the news cycle closes. They were waiting for a big news day, and they evidently didn't care which big news day it was. Those two are up to their back bumpers in manipulation right now...
- Who is more selfish than Rush? Who is more self-absorbed?
- Rush...[used] the weekend of RR's funeral to announce another deviant twist to his personal life --yeechhhh...
- Rush is either a terrible judge of character, or impossible to live with...
- [Rush's] walking away from the TV program was weird. Ditto, moving to Florida. The weight loss and golfing with "stars" didn't seem to make him happy, but rather, vengeful. As though he was getting even with someone. Oddly, he didn't seem to be curious about what made him go deaf. When he started making petty comments out of the blue, I attributed it to depression....And his phony new age revelations after that quickie therapy program was embarrassing to listen to. His "hatred" of women seems chronic.
- But now to use the old "timing" trick by using Reagan to cover his next load of dirty linen is so far beyond the pale I can't conceive of anything this stinking.
The evidence does not support your insistance that you "always assume that others have information that I do not have" -- it reads like you assume that armed with a modicum of information (in the papers you claim not to always believe), you know it all. You KNOW that Rush doesn't make any moves without Roy Black. You KNOW that Rush harbors "hatred" for women because he didn't mention his wife on the air. You KNOW his statements after his "quickie therapy program" were "phony." You KNOW he and Black "[used] Reagan to cover his next load of dirty linen..." Without all that 'information you don't have,' how DO you know, trillium?
Between us two, I don't think there is any question as to who has displayed more of "an imperious air."
I don't know who to consult to receive the "right" to "lecture" someone else, so I am sorry that I cannot provide the proper permits to have lectured you. I just assumed that it was a 1st Amendment right that I had, maybe I'm wrong; I'll consult my lawyer.
Lastly: believe me, I don't throw "Get a life" around. It takes seeing an example of someone getting whipped into a lather of invective grossly disproportionate to the subject matter before I will say something so clichèd. The way I see it, even if my use of the phrase reflects on me, it also says volumes about the person whose actions drove me to use it.
Note above post.
Oh, leave trillium alone. He has a right to his opinion on RL. Rush is a public figure, and when he violates our 20 year trust he becomes fair game.
It is now dawning on some of us that Rush's bizzare weight and hearing loss might be traced back to his illegal drug abuse.
His apparent inability to settle down with a suitable mate is his own problem, but draw your own conclusions. And "Gold Diggers" don't stay with a rich guy for 10 years unless they really tried to preserve the marriage. (Real gold diggers usually leave after two years or so.) Marta has her own story, I'm sure, and we'll probably see her on Larry King in the near future. Get it?
I first had my doubts about Rush in the mid-1990's, when all he talked about was high taxes. Then I saw a photo of him on a golf course (with famous friends) with a fat cigar in his mouth, and I realized that he was a big phony. He's a big act.
For him to issue the divorce press release late on the same day that his "idol" was being laid to rest sickens me. EIB should fire this manipulative scum. This has nothing to do with taxes or politics; it has everything to do with honesty, decency, and respect to his core audience and Ronald Reagan.
We're not stupid. We recognize the intentional timing of the announcement. Any apology offered by this man is suspect.
A young executive ask a sucessful CEO what he attributed his success. The successful CEO though about it and said "correct decisions." The young executive explained that answer was no very helpful, how did the CEO know to make the correct decisions? The successful CEO immediatly responded, "WROMG decisions."
It fits with your comments.
"Those you have nothing to hide, hide nothing". If Rush has led a life of character and integrity, then he has nothing to be afraid of. The problem is, though....if he's led a double life, talked the talk without walking the walk. If his wife has a lot of dirt on him, then the public should know that the man who is speaking on the radio isn't who is portrays himself to be. Doesn't everyone deserve the TRUTH?....or should we stay disillusioned believing he's a saint?
I would just like to remind everybody that if it weren't for Rush being on the radio, Al Gore would be President of the United States, the Democrats would hold both houses of Congress, there would be widespread terrorist activity across the Unitde States and instead of going after these terrorists and doing something about them, Gore and his mercerinaries in civil authority positions, the kack-boots would be kicking down doors and going after christians and conservatives and dragging them off to the gulags just like Saddam and his mercernaries did to his political adversaries.
I might also add that some familiy and friends have gone throug the same problems with divorce that Rush is going through so until you've been in this kind of position than who in the heck are you to judge people like him.
Another thing, when you say we in criticizing Rush, YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME!!!!!!
Regards.
Damn straight. When he puts his private life up as part of his radio show, then yes: it is to be considered as such. If he's a favorite celebrity of yours, and you take a certain amount of interest in his personal life; then good for you. There are always those who watch the "abcess-hollywood"-type shows and agonize over the pseudo-private trials and tribulations of others.
It seems that he's always had a problem with separating 'private' from 'public' and it's been his past performance to put out little tidbits of information from time-to-time on his show to titillate/hook/shill the public (always ending with "I can't say more at this time"). I'm of the opinion that he should either put up, or shut up - tell-all or tell-nothing. I have a hard time respecting "parts of my private life are okay to be public and parts of my private life are none of your business" from someone who uses those parts to their advantage on their program.
How do YOU know that this isn't part of some grand shill to hump-up positive/sympathetic interest in him again? The medication incident is kind of on the back burner lately (with he and his lawyer still trying to hide evidence from the Law) and this may be something contrived to be conveniently settled/healed at a later date. He _has_ previously said things on his show that have been misleading and it's not outside the realm of possibility that this may be another one.
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