Rush Limbaugh

==Rush Limbaugh (born 1951)== Political Commentator

Topics

African-Americans

• And then what if -- there are all kinds of little Communist regimes in -- what if Fidel Castro shows up and says I endorse Kerry? The Black Caucus would like that, but Kerry wouldn't. [3/19/04]

• I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.[3/14/03]

• "Was there any excrement, any shamelessness in any form, above all in cultural life, in which at least one African-American would not have been involved? As soon as one even carefully cut into such an abscess, one found, like maggots in a decaying body, often blinded by the sudden light, an African-American. [2/21/03]

• "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]

Arabs

• As I said yesterday, truce is an old Arabic word. Goes way, way back in Islamic-Arabic culture, and it means, "We will get you later." [4/16/04]

Abu Ghraib Prison Torture Scandal

• This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people. You ever Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm -- yeah, and get an NEA grant for something like this. [5/3/04]

Democrats

• They (Democrats) celebrate privately this attack in Spain. [3/16/04]

• I'm going to tell you, what's good for al-Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today. That's how you boil this down. And it doesn't have to be al-Qaeda. What's good for terrorists is good for John Kerry. All you got to do is check the way they react. [3/15/04]

• I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.

Drugs

• Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.[1] 1995 Oct 5[2]

• Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag. -- On the occasion of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's death.

Feminism

• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

• We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want. [4/15/04]

9/11 Families

• Some of these families [of 9/11 victims] I think are auditioning for co-host of The Today Show. [4/9/04]- this was said after the appearance of family members of the victims of the Trade Center bombings appeared on the Today Show.

• We had a typically snooty, silly little liberal on the phone who wanted to take potshots at me for daring, daring to say that some of the 9/11 family members are close to becoming or have become Democrat operatives. [4/9/04]

Second Amendment

• You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Welfare

• Can you imagine some poor welfare recipient in Arizona doesn't know what's up, doesn't know why the check's not as big, doesn't know why the food stamps don't stick to whatever he tries to mail? [4/8/04]

• Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Taxes

• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

• If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

• Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

World Trade Center Rebuilding

• Meanwhile, New York's not doing anything about it. Four years later and it's still nothing but a hole in the ground. Four years! [6/21/05]

People

Bill Clinton

• With Bill Clinton in the hospital, that makes Al Gore acting former president. [9/7/04]

Kurt Cobain

• Kurt Cobain died of a drug-induced suicide, I just -- he was a worthless shred of human debris.

Mikhail Gorbachev

• I heard that Gorbachev digs America. I'd be diggin' America too if I were raised a Commie and my only escape was vodka! [6/14/04]

John Kerry

• He is Howard Dean without the charisma.

• Kerry is cheap. Most gigolos are. I mean -- I think it -- I think it goes with the, with the definition. [4/7/04]

• He gets out of a coffin every day to go to work. [7/7/04]

• Is it possible that Kerry sleep-boated to Cambodia? [9/7/04]

• Embrace your inner wacko, Senator Kerry. [9/13/04]

Hugo Chavez

• Hugo, Cesar--whatever. A Chavez is a Chavez. We've always had problems with them. [3/26/04]

Himself

• Talent on loan from God

• I'm doing what I was born to do. That's host. You're doing what you were born to do. That's listen. Together, we make a heck of a team.

• ...with half my brain tied behind my back -- just to make it fair.

• ...in my formerly nicotine stained hands.

• I love hugging myself; I love human contact. [6/29/04]

• ...having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.