Rush Responds to ‘Jackass’ Comment Furor
- Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:41pm by
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh isn‘t backing down from yesterday’s “jackass” characterization of President Barack Obama, despite criticism from many in the media.
During his show today, Rush called the comment “a throw away line” and seemed genuinely surprised that his comment was so newsworthy:
For good measure, Rush added: “Calling someone a ‘jackass’ seems far kinder than to call them a Democrat these days.”
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Comments (129)
pc_mechanic
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:07pm…not to mention logic fail.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:01pmHuh? How could anyone be critical of the obamass be described as a “jackass”? Obamass is the leader of the jackass party which makes him the head jackass. What is the problem?
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:10pmWe’re all racists, man. Didn’t you hear?
Report Post »Alydia
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:28pmThanks guys, I needed that laugh!
Report Post »flamingliberal
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:48pmThe funny part, is that Rush considers ALL OF YOU jackasses as well.
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:55pmComma fail.
Report Post »foxhamilton
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 9:04pmOh, another touchy little jackass just brayed.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:52pmTrue! Very true. Obama has that superior ******* attitude. Which makes him that much more a jackass.
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:45pmJackass? So you believe all the damage I’m doing to your beloved America is unintentional? Ha, now who’s the jackass?!!
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:49pmFail
Report Post »manny
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:37pmso if obama is a jackass what is bush?
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:39pmA patsy.
Report Post »Pigmalion
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:49pmA shrubery?
Report Post »Inor
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:50pmUm, the former President that kept us safe for 7 years after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Report Post »Big Sky Cowboy
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:35amManny, obama is a jackass what is Bush, he is a former president.
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:32pmThe best part was before the commercial break, when his anouncer apologized to all jackasses for lumping Obama in with them! Totes lulz! :)
Report Post »4wheels
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:24pmI wish Rush would not have said this about Obama. This just distracts from the message. I don’t agree with Obama – but the man will have my respect because he is the President of the United States.
Report Post »Firelight
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:36pmRespect must be earned
Report Post »BornOkTheFirstTime
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:37pm“but the man will have my respect because he is the President of the United States.”
Negative, Ghostrider. That was the attitude back in 2009 but, unfortunately, it doesn’t apply anymore. He’s done too much damage, and deliberately, to deserve even THAT form of respect. He needs to be ousted, and forever labeled THE WORST president in American history.
Report Post »Cool Arrow
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:39pmSo you respect Hugo Chavez as well?
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:28pmRespect: The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
The jackass won’t get it from me. Not in a million years.
Report Post »Alydia
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:34pmSo, even though, he is a socialist (and we know this) you are saying we need to have respect for POTUS??? No, we do not bow down to evil much less have respect for it!
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:45pmAmen Fire!
Report Post »RebelAlliance
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:16pmYou can respect the office but not the man in the office.
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:36pmrespect the office…not the man
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:49pmI would have agreed with you 2 years ago. But he has lost all respect. Not because I disagree with him, but because he misrepresents himself and his motives. He is a flaming socialist that has surrounded by socialists, and while I do not believe he is Muslim he certainly is no Christian either. He is a sad excuse for a president and this country will remember this one for a long, long time.
Rush can apologize, but Obama is a jackass of the first order.
Report Post »toolman1
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:58pmObama is the south end of a north bound jackass, he has not earned the respect of the people because he has no respect for us
Report Post »csailer
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:23pmThe Democrat Party adopted the Jackass as its symbol when political cartoonists of that era, who were sort of akin to the modern day conservative talk show host, depicted Andrew Jackson as a “Jackass”.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:09pmSo no one has a problem with Rush calling him
” an “economic illiterate” and an “idiot, where capitalism is concerned.” ..right ?
Report Post »The problem is calling him a jack@$$ ..
Firelight
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:21pmHE is an @$$ for his poicies.
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:04pmThe DemocRAT party chose a good mascot for their party, the Jackass! Why are they getting their knickers in a twist?
Report Post »Firelight
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:04pmPelosi is the jenny and B.O. is the jack. They are both of the same breed — DemocRAT
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:00pmRush,
If you called him a GOD then it would not even spark a midnight cricket chirp in the Liberal/Progresso camp.
The majority of America agrees, Obozo is an undocumented and uncertifiable, but obvious ‘JACKASS’.
This is not news. It is like accusing a bush of being short. Now let’s move on.
Report Post »BocaBaby
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:57pmGotta love the Rush!
Report Post »Bahemut80
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:57pmthe right says that all the left does is smear smear smear…and here rush says the most outrageous things for ratings. but to call our commander in chief who was VOTED in by the MAJORITY of people is disrespectful IMO. Rush is the true jackass who says what he has to to make ratings and to bring attention to himself. yeah this jackass comment isnt newsworthy, but many things he has said are.
its like watching my kids have a tantrum for attention.
GO RUSH LIMBO
Report Post »Firelight
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:12pmHere’s one more without a clue. BAKEMUT80 did not lisen to Rush , dumbMUT just went along with the MSM again.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:53pmOnce again: Obama called Kanye West a jackass, and nobody cared.
The left is desperate for dirt to distract the population from the fact that progressivism is imploding.
Report Post »Clarity
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:53pmTruth hurts
Report Post »sayoung80913
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:52pmwell, color “politically incorrect” then, I’ve been calling them jackasses since about last August. oops,LOL. I like the caller who said “Rush, I think we can dispense with calling this Keynesian economy and go straight for a Jackassian economy”- works for me and I can hardly be faulted for it as their symbol IS a jackass. Hey, if the shoe doesn’t fit and all that….
Report Post »Lori
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:52pm“Blockhead” wouldn’t have received the same hoopla.
Report Post »Clarity
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:52pmThe truth hurts.
Report Post »bobmontgomery
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:51pmOne man‘s furor is another man’s……Why is there no furor over these comments “You are about to be ruled by the Black Man, *******.!“ ”I hate every iota of a *******!.“ ”…..kill dey babies….”.
Report Post »garand4life
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:57pmExactly, and why the hell is it that to call a lib/dem anything even slightly unkind is a capitol offense but to call a conservative everything in the book gets a pass. I‘ve been called things that I would not dare use on even my worst enemy and it’s free speech but for me to even mention that a man is ‘black’ or ‘mexican’ is a racists, homophobic slur for which I should be executed for crimes against socialist-marxist-liberal decency.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:03pmBOB…ROFL.
”…..kill dey babies….”.
Sounds like: “UK Pundit” meets “DOJ Panther Case”
Report Post »thomas
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:11pmbob the sad thing here is the hate you are filled with….would you be full of hate if you were to think for yourself?
Report Post »swalt
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:49pmThomas … Bob was referring to comments made by the Black Panther radical who stood outside the polling place with a club, who later made those comments on the sidewalk of a busy street. It was captured on camera and played on the only real news outlet left in the US … FOX. So by your reply we all know you are a liberal shill sent here to stir hate and discontent. Even though you are obviously uneducated and simply another kool-aid drinking follow the leader sheep left winger, I will pray for you Thomas.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:11pmThomas – you STFU when you don‘t have a clue what’s going on. If you were paying attention at all, you‘d know what Bob was talking about and it’s clear you haven’t a clue, idiot. Semper Fi.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:49pmFunny…a jackass and a Zebra can mate
Report Post »WUNK
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 8:56pmthat”s true…Rahm and Barry do it all the time
Report Post »blackdog911
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:24pmWell BHO is a halfer and Moochelle can be rather testy
Report Post »Handsome Pete
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:49pmIsn’t that the mascot of the Democrat party?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:20pmGood point!
Report Post »southway
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:22pmActaully the democrat party’s mascot is a braying ass.
Report Post »Rush called 0bama a jackass.
Then again, jackass, braying ass who can tell the difference between the two?
Mikee T
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:48pmDon’t take it back Rush………he’s worse than a jackass and so is the whole bunch of liberals that have continued to try and destroy this country for 60 plus years….But, soon it will be ALL OVER for libs…..very soon…….
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:59pmRush should certainly appoligize to Obama. Rush should say “I want to appoligize, Mr. Prewsident, I am so very sorry that you are a Jackass.” http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »thomas
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:06pmtoby…first learn to spell
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 11:54amWhen Mark Levin calls Obummer a piece of Cr– on air and no apologies –there ought be no appologetics
Report Post »for telling the truth.
wleeblake
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:47pmWhy is this news?
Report Post »Bahemut80
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:00pmlol ask the burning bush…
Report Post »RONALDREAGAN1980
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:02pmYou are right. It isn’t. Glenn Beck has called Obama a communist, a fascist, a nazi, a socialist, someone who hates our country, and a racist. He finally apologized over calling him a racist a year later. This time, Rush is right. It isn’t newsworthy.
Report Post »Teapartywoman
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:17pmNothing to talk about, can anyone say somescreen.
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:37pmUhh,
Teapartywoman alias TypoTwit.
Didn’t you mean “SMOKEscreen?”
Drunken keyboarding is a for real offense on the information super highway!!
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:44pmCalling OBummer a Jack ass is an insult to jackasses everywhere
Report Post »Sailor
Flagwaver
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:50pmlol, amen.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:52pmhttp://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2010/10/let-riots-begin-mohammed-and-******.html
seriously… this could be ‘blowing up’ all over the place soon…
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btw, aren‘t Democrats ’Donkeys’
Report Post »Gordon Pym
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:52pmI thought that was the symbol of the Democrat party anyway
tobywil2
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:55pmFor the last 18 months, there has been absolutely no correlation between what Obama says and what he does! That fact makes Obama’s rhetoric irrelevant.
People keep talking about boycotts; let’s start a boycott that doesn’t punish the innocent.
Let’s boycott Obama.
How do we do boycott Obama? Just hold the Remote while watching TV and whenever Obama is flashed on the screen (news or commercial), change stations!
One click provides a great feeling of accomplishment and power!
TRY IT YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!!!!
http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:06pmAgreed
Report Post »Thommy
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:35pmAnother Amen to that
Report Post »TheAntiProgressive
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:53pm@ Vangrungy – Wow! Hope it goes viral. Everyone hear should see it.
Report Post »thomas
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:03pmtoby…i already do this
Report Post »RickWS
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:09pmA jackass can be useful…
CannonFodder144
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 9:39pmJackass doesnt fit Obama and what he has “accomplished”. This is all purposeful. Read Roots of Obama’s Rage.
Report Post »Jim AZ
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 9:54pm@VanGrungy: HA ha ha…. The problem might be with being gender specific! ha ha ha…
Report Post »Pericles
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:16pmI thought Glenn Beck is preaching the virtues of civility and peace, you know the whole forty day and night charade. This does not help the cause. I think Rush is tired of losing ratings to Glenn and had to stir the pot a little. Rush is nothing more than a hot air filled blowhard. Glenn is cut out of the same mold, nothing but an entertainer.
ishka4me
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:43ami remember during the election rush was referring to obama as barak hussein obama, the same media said it was hate speech, then at the inauguration, he was introduced as barak hussein obama. even when we do not agree with the president, name calling like msnbc is lowering ourselves. we have to have a higher standard
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:36amJackasses all over the world are insulted !
Report Post »nWeng
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:55pmits insulting to all of us jackasses out here that he is lumped with us… not cool
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