The more I think about it the more I think Limbaugh really is gay.

[LostInAnomie]

Seriously. Limbaugh the crusader for conservative moral principals and values has already been proven a hypocrite or two huge issues (drugs, and divorce) I'm just waiting for the last domino to fall.

1. Thrice married and thrice divorced. The last divorce came VERY shortly after the 10 year anniversary giving the impression that she was fulfilling her part of an arranged deal.

2. No children have ever been produced from any of his three marriages. That seems odd from a man who believes that women's main purpose in life is procreation.

3. He takes an almost hostile stance against homosexuals. This is likely a mask for his true desires. Homophobia is usually a disguise for self loathing homosexuals. They have been taught all their lives that homosexuality is dirty, wrong , and unnatural so when the feelings arise in themselves instead of turning the anger towards themselves they turn it towards the object of their desire for tempting them away from the social norm.

This would also explain his belief that homosexuality is a choice. For him it was only a matter of repressing his true desires and trying to make himself like women. He knows he could easily enticed the other way so for him it may really be a choice between what he truly desires and what he is living.

4. He has a vitriol hate for feminists. This follows the idea that he is an ultra virile male who wants to put women in their place. He uses misogyny to show he is a "man's man" and not the effeminate "bear" that he really is.

Can anyone else think of anymore reasons?

[Trajan]

1. Have you ever heard of Jeff Christie ???

Try googling 'Jeff Christie' ... and see what 'pop's up' ...

[progressivebydesign]

5. I always wondered if that was his name at birth...

.. or another radio name he chose.. it just sounds SOOO "Julie Christy"-like. Makes me think it was chosen.

[Trajan]

7. Rush Limbaugh 'Biography' ...

http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html

Limbaugh, Rush

Political commentator, radio host, college drop-out, alleged
closet homosexual, and, as recently revealed, synthetic heroin
drug addict, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is probably the best
known neocon personality in American radio.

Born in Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1951, Limbaugh spent many of
his formative years pursuing a career in radio.

After using his pilonidal cyst - a congenital birth defect - to
avoid military service in the Vietnam War, Limbaugh briefly
worked for radio stations in Pittsburgh, PA and Kansas City,
MO. Fired from both jobs, he worked as a wiener salesman for
the KC Royals baseball franchise, eventually slithering back into
the radio business.

In 1971 Limbaugh attended Southeastern Missouri University,
where, according to reports, he had a brief but heated affair
with Elliot Sanders. So gay is Limbaugh, guarantees Sanders,
that, "none of his marriages was ever consummated."

Many of Limbaugh's fans staunchly deny the man's alleged
homosexuality, and Limbaugh himself says the rumors are
politically motivated lies. However, one is forced to doubt
Limbaugh, who has a history of denying and balking at rumors
that are later revealed to be true. His pilonidal cyst, his
pseudonymous career in Pittsburgh radio, and his addiction to
Oxycontin are all facts which Limbaugh initially denied or
concealed.

-snip-

[lanparty]

32. Even Michael Jackson ...

... managed to produce a couple kids.

If a gay little boy could do it, you'd think that a big gay MAN could do it ;-)

[Warpy]

2. closeted, self loathing gay men also hate women

since what they despise in themselves, they see as "feminine," and they project their disgust with that onto all women.

"Feminazi," anyone?

[lottie244]

12. That is so true. They spend a great deal of their time trashing women.

Rush is a dispicable character by any sexual persuasion. If he were asexual or neuter he would still be scum.

[progressivebydesign]

3. Not that I want to discuss his sexual orientation...

.. but I thought after the word about his arrest, back when he was Jeff Christie, was let out.. that his gayness was a foregone conclusion. That's the impression I got. The thing for me is NOT that he's gay, I mean so what? But if he IS gay, then my issue is how someone gay could become the antithesis of those that would welcome him as he is... instead he has to pretend to be someone he's not.

He's an asshole, regardless of what his sexual orientation is. I wish for him, if he is gay.. that someday he could come out and be himself. He'd probably be a lot less vicious and bitter.

[bobbyboucher]

8. Money. Lots of money.

Some people love money and attention and power more than they love homosexual sex.

[LostInAnomie]

11. What was he arrested for?

I can't find any info on it.

It wouldn't bother me if he were gay, but if he is I would like the fallout from it. The repubs would lose their Messiah. They can forgive drugs, they can forgive multiple divorces, homosexuality though is something they can NEVER forgive.

[SoFlaJet]

4. he cracked me up the other day

saying something about gays and spoke of a procedure an addadicktome hmmm he's pretty familiar with some of this stuff that stright males don't usually know

[hatrack]

6. He lives in Key West, doesn't he?

Now, that's a long, long way from proof, but if he were a manly man, he'd surely choose Laramie, Wyoming, or maybe the shithole he extols endlessly as his childhood paradise, Cape Girardeau, MO.

But no - instead he chooses to live in what is arguably the gayest city on the East Coast.

[bobbyboucher]

10. I think it's West Palm Beach.

The "west" was right. Hehehe, Rush in Key West, talk about a fungus' dream.

[Terran]

28. Actually, Cape G. is a pretty nice place

Physically, anyway. Lots of nice old architecture, old southern rivertown. What the people are like, I don't know, but our former Sec. State and now candidate for Lieutenant Governor Bekki Cook comes from there also, and she's a great woman.

So please don't call the place a shithole just because that piece of shit came out it. :)

[lanparty]

33. He'd be out in the high desert ...

... with Art Bell. A MANLY nutty wack-job.

Actually, I think Art Bell is great performance art. And he has PERFECTED the art of the televised spooky ghost story.

[Trajan]

9. More from 'Rush Limbaugh Biography' ...

-snip-

Here, in his
"Jeff Christie"
phase, Rush
Limbaugh
worked under
an assumed
identity, as do
many self-
loathing, closeted
homosexuals. After
being arrested for
soliciting a gay man in
Pittsburgh, Limbaugh
was fired from KQV
radio, according to
numerous sources.

-snip-

[mac56]

13. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I couldn't care less whether Limbaugh is gay. With all the things there are to dislike about the man, I'd hate to see people use this as a reason to attack him.

And yes, I know: it's not the homosexuality, it's the hypocrisy. If it's all true and he feels driven to publicly bash gays while he is one himself, I can only feel pity for him.

Let's just be careful out there, folks. There's lots of valid reasons to bash Rush. Let's not make his sexuality one of them.

[Warpy]

16. However, his whole hateful career is founded on the fact that

he is a paragon of right wing morality and virtue. THAT is why this is important. Getting him completely outed would destroy his career. He's richer than god, so he wouldn't suffer from the loss, except his massive ego might be deflated a size or two. The antiamerican right wing frnge would lose its most powerful spokesman, though.

Hell, it would be the biggest favor we could do this country, and possibly the biggest favor we could do HIM. It must be pretty stressful trying to live such a big, fat lie.

[sui generis]

17. thank you

this thread is full of very wrong stereotypes - and quite frankly I can't tell who is being sarcastic and who is being just plain ignant.

[Trajan]

19. I think you are missing the point ...

NOT gayness ....

H Y P O C R I S Y ...........

[mac56]

22. So why doesn't the thread subject say -

"The more I think about it the more I think Limbaugh really is a hypocrite"?

I'm just saying it's a slippery slope, and needs to be trod carefully.

[terrya]

14. Well, we can't just claim Leonardo DaVinci and Walt Whtiman.

Have to take the bad with the good, I guess.

[sui generis]

15. did I miss some humor?

I didn't realize that gays spend all day bashing women and that we're misogynistic. I didn't get the memo. If I start self-loathing, do I get a toaster oven?

The stereotypes aren't funny, and, they're wrong.

Anyone up for some watermelon and fried chicken?

[terrya]

18. You're right. It was a stupid thing of me to say.

A pathetic attempt at humor.

[Beaverhausen]

20. But don't some closeted gay men do that?

He obviously can't admit it to himself or anyone else.

Usually the thing you hate in others is what you hate in yourself.

[Terran]

29. Yes

As with many stereotypes, there is some truth to it. Without even considering closeted gay men, a lot of OUT gay men are mysogonists too. I've known a few. In Rush's case, I honestly think his attitude toward women comes more from politics than sexuality.

[LostInAnomie]

23. Perhaps you missed the point completely

Limbaugh build his career on the total farce that he is the paradigm of Repub values. To cover his sexual tendencies he has pushed the idea that the ideal Repub man should be a misogynistic, anti feminist, gay basher. We are not saying that all homosexuals are anything like that we are saying he is.

To finally nail Limbaugh as homosexual would thrust a dagger into his black heart and expose him as the hypocrite he is. The Repubs can forgive the drugs, and divorce because someday that fate may befall them. They would never forgive homosexuality though because that would in their eyes show a fundamental weakness in their ideology.

[Doctor_J]

24. this hypocrisy isn't any worse than his others....

this paragon of Bill Bennett's view of virtue is thrice-divorced, was on welfare, and is a junkie. His deluded sycophants don't seem to mind those little bits of hypocrisy, why would him being gay make any difference to them?

[LostInAnomie]

26. There is no bigger sin to a Repub than homosexuality

Everything else can be explained away, or seen as a moment of weakness.

Drugs - It could happen to anybody given certain circumstances. Once you stop you are no longer a druggie.
Divorce - It is wrong but it still happen to them so they don't knock it too much.
Welfare - It's wrong, but if they were down on their luck they know they would take the handout. As long as they would get off of it and confess the error of their ways they can be forgiven.

Homosexuality - They believe it is a perversion of God. They refuse to see that it is anything but a choice. It offends their ideology. They believe that if you "make that choice" there is something fundamentally wrong with you. Once you have taken part in it you are branded a homosexual for life and can never get out from under that label.

If he were exposed there would be no forgiveness.

[mac56]

34. As has been pointed out here many times before -

Right wingers aren't as troubled by hypocrisy as normal people are.

[Heddi]

21. So let me get this straight

According to your "thoughts":

1) Anyone who has been married/divorced multiple times is gay

2) Anyone who has a childless marriage is gay

Hmm....Well, then I guess my mother, who also has been thrice married and thrice divorced is really a lesbian. Coincidentally, her second divorce came just after her 5th anniversary---does that give you the impression that she or my stepfather were fulfilling their part of an arranged deal?

Also, my husband and I who have been together for 7 years have produced no children. Are one (or both) of us gay? According to you the light of speculation certainly is shining brightly upon us.

Also, all but one set of married friends we have (all in their early-mid thirties or older) have no children. Are we just surrounding ourselves with closeted, deluded people who are in arranged marriages and beards for their unknowing homosexual partners?

I am dumbfounded by the insensitivity of your post. While I'm certainly no fan of Rush Limbaugh, I think the point that pisses me off the most is the "Childless Marriages" point--as if there is absolutely no such thing as:

1) Childfree by choice
2) Childfree without Choice.

There are millions of Americans, and millions more around the world who are, as women, infertile, or as men, sterile, and by no cause of their own. Your hypothesis that because he has no kids, he MUST be gay is a slap in the face to the millions of people who are childfree not by choice, but by nature.

So now we have to justify our number of marriages and divorces to satisfy the knowledge of strangers that we are or aren't gay? We must list the reasons why we don't have or can't have children lest someone think that we're closeted?

This post is sickening, as are your "thoughts" as to what a homosexual is, or how to point one out based on random tidbits of someone's life.

[The Blue Flower]

25. Pilonidal cyst

In 1969, my boyfriend had a pilonidal cyst removed just so he could serve in Vietnam as a Marine.

[Terran]

27. Eww, please don't call him a "bear"

Bear is a state of mind as well a look, and while Rush has the right look (or he could, given a few changes), his brain and soul are too rotted for him to be admitted to the Brotherhood of Bears.

This sort of reminds me of a Kids in the Hall skit, with Buddy, the Old Style Bar Queen...."I hope Liberace's not gay. I just don't want him to be!"

[LostInAnomie]

30. LOL

I was wondering if someone would say something about that.

Just a little dramatic effect.

[lanparty]

31. Gay bashing is often a mask for ...

... repressed homosexuality. It's an externalization of something they hate within themselves.

BTW, I'm straight and I couldn't care less who other men fuck.


Do I think Rush is gay ... It's possible. At the VERY least he's a hypocrite when given his views on "traditional" families and his unwillingness to produce one through procreation or adoption.