Rush Limbaugh citations (60 citations, Page 2)

“Let me tell you something. They say he lied to Congress. I can think of no better bunch of people to lie to than Congress.”

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The Rush Limbaugh Show
1994-06-06
Television, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 105, 156584260X, 31782620]
on Oliver North

“The dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and we have a replay of Chicago 1968 with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's that's the objective here.”

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telling his listeners about his idea to turn the National Democratic Convention into "Operation Chaos" on The Rush Limbaugh Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjwE-kJpyts (April 9, 2008)

“The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. They say that violates the prohibition against church and state.”

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[The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, October 1992, 277, 978-0671751456, 92028659, 26397008, 1724938M]

“You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”

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The Rush Limbaugh Show
2003-10-10, quoted in * 2004-02-15
Taking on Rush
Frank
Cerabino
The Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/021504_limbaugh.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040624220725/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/021504_limbaugh.html
2004-06-24

“The people we see protesting in Madison are the equivalent of Hosni Mubarak apparatchiks who are trying to hold onto their privileges despite the will of the people who are being exploited to pay for them.”

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Democrats Walk Off Job in Loyalty to Their Paymasters Over Voters
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-02-22
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022211/content/01125108.guest.html
Regarding comparisons made between the 2011 Wisconsin protests and the 2011 Egyptian revolution

“You find yourself staring, looking at, casually glancing at a woman, but you know that it's now socially taboo. You shouldn't be doing it. And you think everybody is noticing you doing it and condemning you in their minds. You shouldn't — so you walk up to the woman and say, "Will you please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes?"”

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Libs Want Men to Stop Looking at Women
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2013-12-09
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/12/09/libs_want_men_to_stop_looking_at_women, quoted in * The Rush Limbaugh Guide To Sexual Harassment
Media Matters for America
2013-12-09
http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/12/09/the-rush-limbaugh-guide-to-sexual-harassment/197197

“The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.”

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[The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, October 1992, 134, 978-0671751456, 92028659, 26397008, 1724938M]

“And I'm not going to apologize for it, I'm just quoting Emanuel. It's in the news. I think the news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters effing retards. So now there's going to be a meeting. There's going to be a retard summit at the White House, much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.”

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Rush Limbaugh: ‘There’s Going to Be a Retard Summit at the White House’
New York
2010-02-03
Chris
Rovzar
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/rush_limbaugh_theres_going_to.html

“Let's remember one thing, folks, while we go forward. Not one Republican voted for this bailout. Remember way back in the fall, not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout, and this was why.”

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The New McCarthyism
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2009-03-18
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/03/18/the_new_mccarthyism, quoted in * Limbaugh falsely claimed 'not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout'
Media Matters for America
2009-03-18
http://mediamatters.org/research/200903180032

“What do we have to do to make the women realize we don't hate 'em? Change our attitude on abortion? Where does this stuff stop?”

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My Response to Senator Graham's Rationale for Supporting Amnesty
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2013-06-18
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/18/my_response_to_senator_graham_s_rationale_for_supporting_amnesty

“The feminazis gathered in Washington on Sunday, about a half-million of them, it says here, and it was the first big pro-abortion rally in 12 years.”

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2004: Limbaugh Referred To Abortion-Rights Activists As "Feminazis." On the April 26, 2004, broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh said of a rally in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2004 "Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademark Slur Against Women https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/12/feminazi-the-history-of-limbaughs-trademark-slu/186336

“It's sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.”

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Stated about abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib by United States soldiers (May 3-4, 2004), quoted in — [Hunt, Jim, They Said What?: Astonishing Quotes on American Democracy, Power, and Dissent, Polipoint Press, 2009, 196, 23398015M, 9780981709161, 0981709168, 2009023037, 313653904, [JK31.H88 2009]]

“You know, this is all BS, as far as I'm concerned. Cross species evolution, I don't think anybody's ever proven that. They're going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can't do.”

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On evolution, The Rush Limbaugh Show, May 19 2009 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051909/content/01125104.guest.html

“So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is — we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

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The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-03-01
Radio, quoted in * Limbaugh's Misogynistic Attack On Georgetown Law Student Continues With Increased Vitriol
Media Matters for America
2009-03-09
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010012

“If one of the main reasons for passing the Gang of Eight immigration bill is so Republicans can prove that they don't hate Hispanics, then what's next? Are the Republicans going to have to support gay marriage to prove that they don't hate gays? Are the Republicans then going to have to support affirmative action to prove they don't hate blacks?”

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“Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.”

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During the opening comments of his show as quoted in * http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973851,00.html
A Man. A Legend. A What!?"
Richard
Corliss
Daniel S.
Levy
Time
1991-09-23

“Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!”

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The Rush Limbaugh Show
1991-06-15
Radio, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 19, 156584260X, 31782620]

“I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion. There are 1.5 million abortions a year, and some feminists almost seem to celebrate that figure. There are not many of them, but they deserve to be called feminazis.A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary. They don't need men in order to be happy. They certainly don't want males to be able to exercise any control over them. Abortion is the ultimate symbol of women's emancipation from the power and influence of men. With men being precluded from the ultimate decision-making process regarding the future of life in the womb, they are reduced to their proper, inferior role. Nothing matters but me, says the feminazi. My concerns prevail over all else. The fetus doesn't matter, it's an unviable tissue mass.”

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[The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, October 1992, 193, 978-0671751456, 92028659, 26397008, 1724938M]

“I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve.”

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2003 September Sunday NFL Countdown ESPN, quoted in * http://www.laweekly.com/2003-10-16/columns/rise-of-the-anti-machine/2/ Rise of the Anti-Machine: Dittohead Blues LA Weekly 2003-10-09, [ESPN, Limbaugh's comments touch off controversy, October 1, 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20200220004444/https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1627887], [Snopes, A list documents racist statements made by conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, February 4. 2020, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-racist-quotes/], [Rush Limbaugh’s most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio, August 1, 2013, Morgan, Whitaker, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/rush-limbaughs-most-outrageous-moments-25], and [Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/].

/ 2000s

“The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism, and this is really not new. People surprise to hear this. But the republican party formative event of conservativism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think "conservative". They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater. They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives: they're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers, they're embarrassing to have to go to convention with them, and they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party.”

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“God may have replied”

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Limbaugh: Volcanic ash cloud is God’s punishment for health care
2010-04-17
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcanic-ash-cloud-gods-punishment-health-care/, quoted in * Limbaugh: "God may have replied" to passage of health care reform with volcano eruption in Iceland
Media Matters for America
2010-04-16
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010012

“Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”

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March 1, 2005, on The Rush Limbaugh Show ([Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/]; [Rush Limbaugh’s most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio, August 1, 2013, Morgan, Whitaker, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/rush-limbaughs-most-outrageous-moments-25]; [Limbaugh: “Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier”, Katie, Barge, March 3, 2005, Media Matters for America, https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-women-still-live-longer-men-because-their-lives-are-easier])
2000s

“All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.”

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1990s

“Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it's been around.”

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" Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html", CNN (July 17, 2019)
2010s

“This coronavirus, they're just — all of this panic is just not warranted. This, I'm telling you, when I tell you — when I've told you that this virus is the common cold. When I said that, it was based on the number of cases. It's also based on the kind of virus this is.”

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The Rush Limbaugh Show, , quoted in " Rush Limbaugh: Coronavirus is like the common cold, and “all of this panic is just not warranted” https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-common-cold-and-all-panic-just-not-warranted", Media Matters (
2020s

“So many people have done things this year for me, and it’s… I don’t know.
It’s not embarrassing. It’s just gratifying, and it has helped me to see so much so clearly about the goodness of people and their decency.”

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2020s, I’ve Had a Year to Think About What’s Important (2020)

“You know, I have a philosophy there’s good that happens in everything.
It may not reveal itself immediately, and even in the most dire circumstances, if you just wait, if you just remain open to things, the good in it will reveal itself. And that has happened to me as well in countless, countless ways.”

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2020s, I’ve Had a Year to Think About What’s Important (2020)

“I have outlived the diagnosis, I’ve been able to receive and hear and process some of the most wonderful, nice things about me that I might not have ever heard had I not gotten sick. Again think, how many people who pass away never hear the eulogies, never hear the thank-yous? I’ve been very lucky, folks, in I can’t tell you how many ways.”

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2020s, I’ve Had a Year to Think About What’s Important (2020)

“I will do all your reading, and I will tell you what to think about it.”

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During his show as quoted in * https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-20-tm-836-story.html
WHAT’S THE RUSH? : Radio Loudmouth Rush Limbaugh Harangues Feminazis, Environmental Wackos and Commie-Libs While His Ratings Soar
Bob
Baker
Los Angeles Times
1991-01-20
1990s