I think it's cool that Elton John and Rush are Buds.....
Posted on 06/15/2010 1:13:08 PM PDT by rface
Add Elton John to those who were not expecting him to get an invite to Rush Limbaugh's wedding.
"To put it in Elton's exact words, when he got the invitation, he was 'a little surprised,' " his partner David Furnish told PEOPLE on Sunday at the Tony Awards in New York. "And then, when it turned out to be a genuinely sincere invitation … Elton said, 'Life is about building bridges, not walls.' "
John also saw it as another opportunity, in his words, "to go where people wouldn't expect me to go."
"And maybe if I can make a great impression," Furnish quoted him as saying, "people might change their perspectives on life."
Furnish was in Europe and couldn't attend the wedding. But John told him it was a beautiful event and Limbaugh and his bride "were incredibly gracious and very welcoming and very sweet and very appreciative."
"Elton, during the performance made a lot of cracks: 'I suppose you all wonder why I'm here tonight?' " says Furnish. "But ultimately, it's a bit like an olive branch, I guess."
By all accounts, John and the couple got along well. "I wasn't there, but from everything Elton told me, he said Rush and his bride were incredibly charming and welcoming. And they have said they want to come and have dinner with us in England, if they pass through in their travels."
The tentative offer was welcomed. "We have to bring the world together, not apart," said Furnish, who produced Next Fall with Sir Elton on Broadway.
I think it's cool that Elton John and Rush are Buds.....
“And maybe if I can make a great impression,” Furnish quoted him as saying, “people might change their perspectives on life.”
Sir Elton is sure to change Rush...
Rush himself talked about the wedding today.
Rather than listen in and report Rush’s words, they go by a second hand account from Elton John’s boyfriend who did not go.
Figures.
Money talks.
Many of us have gay friends (whether we know it or not)...
“Many of us have gay friends (whether we know it or not)...”
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
“And maybe if I can make a great impression,” Furnish quoted him as saying, “people might change their perspectives on life.”
...you mean like going along with healthcare, cap and trade, wealth distribution, huge deficits and all out Marxism? Not likely.
Pet peeve # 234....You do not send someone an invite, you send them an invitation. Invite is the verb.
Pet peeve # 1..."that's where I am at."
Never end a sentence with a preposition. Mrs. Matthews Pine Orchard School 1968.
In case my FRiends wanted to know.....
“Many of us have gay friends (whether we know it or not)...”
No, probably not. Since there is only roughly 5% of the population that is really gay, you would have to have a shipload of friends to have any who are gay (whether we know it or not)...and of course, if they were, in fact, friends, we would know.
Any man who has been married as much as Rush has nothing to say about how anyone else deals with their private life. Funny thing is I never hear him bashing anyone cept for those who demand special treatment or who want to push their BS onto others.
I have gay friends and gay relatives.
I love them very much.
As long as they don’t try to force their philosophy and lifestyle on the yutes, it ain’t my bitch...
As long as they don't try to remake society in their own image, then I say, I could care less who somebody sleeps with.
You are a kindred spirit. Those are some of my peeves as well.
Limbaugh’s social life is like Newt’s. Both brilliant guys but..
Elton is an entertainer who loves money and since his music has been pretty dead lately he had to go where the money lead him. If he was an artist he would still be making good songs.
Perhaps he’ll make a great impression on his liberal pals, and they’ll see we conservatives are nice folks after all. Right.
"That is a rule up with which I will not put."--attributed to Winston Churchill
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