Limbaugh to journalist: "{W}e're going to find out where your kids go to school"

[babylonsister]

Limbaugh says he told journalist writing story on him: "{W}e're going to find out where your kids go to school"

During the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to have "once" participated in the kind of "destructive reporting and behavior" that, according to him, reporters "dish out." Limbaugh said his target was a reporter, whose name he said he would not "mention," who was writing "a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it." Limbaugh continued: "e found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, 'You know what? We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate.' "

Limbaugh then claimed: "And the guy started screaming on the phone, just went -- 'You can't do that.' We said, 'Watch us.' And it changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent, I would say, from what it was going to be. But nobody does that to these people. Nobody does it to them. And that would be so much fun."

Limbaugh made this claim while discussing the founding of ProPublica, which "will produce investigative journalism in the public interest," according to its website:

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with "moral force." We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.

During his discussion, Limbaugh read from a post about ProPublica on the conservative website American Thinker, which read in part: "Efforts are being made to wrap this propaganda venture in the cloak of pure public interests." Limbaugh later commented:

LIMBAUGH: I'll tell you, folks, the way to deal with this -- I have always said it. I don't know anybody who's doing it. Maybe I should found ProDestroya and get a bunch of people willing to do investigative journalism on these investigative journalists. You know, AntiPublica. They get to sit there -- who are these people that get to act as though they are sin-free, that they are as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, that they've got no skeletons in their closet? They can go out and dig up dirt on -- and everybody's got dirt. They can go out and dig whatever up and then they can slant it and taint it, smear it and lie about it, do whatever they want, and nobody examines who these people are. And if you try, they get mad. "Well, we're journalists, we're immune. You can't treat us the way we treat other people."

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[meegbear]

1. I just read about this from Joan Walsh at salon.com ...

There's one "comment" left by 'anonymous' - he was taken out of context :eyes:

[gordianot]

2. He should be in jail as soon as possible.

As a School Administrator in Missouri adults who make such statements are arrested.

[Marr]

3. They're our Brownshirts, no doubt about it.

It amazes me that this sort of thuggish behavior is just accepted from the right wing in this country. This should be a big story, and it would be if the person making the threats were an environmentalist or a labor activist or something along those lines. But it'll be ignored, because this sort of thing is expected from the right-wing. It's just fine when they do it.

[sakabatou]

4. "And once we find out...

"We're gonna publish your address and the address of your kids' schools."

:puke:

[BOSSHOG]

5. Who is "WE" chickenhawk?

Oh yeah, limbaugh is gonna physically confront someone or get off his ass and research (a quest for facts) about anything.

I look forward to whatever publication spotlights limbaugh. One needs not make up shit on a septic tank, its all there to see and smell.

[Stargazer99]

6. Maybe it is time to start publishing the names and addresses

of Registered Republicans...so the rest of us know who sliting our throats for money.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

8. It's already done

It's called the Sex Offender Registry.

[Stargazer99]

7. Maybe it is time to start investigating Limbah's address

etc and publishing prominate Republican address and children's schools

[riderinthestorm]

9. I call bullshit. Put up a name or shut up, you disgusting heap. nt

[Quantess]

10. The worst part is the lack of shame in using these ugly tactics.

Shameless. Proud, even!

[Skidmore]

11. Isn't that extortion:?

Or assault at least? It is definitely a threat.

[Bitwit1234]

12. Does he have any children, I think not, only that big ole boil on his butt.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Must be sad to know no one who really hasn't lied, cheated, or done drugs. I don't claim to be

a saint, but I have never cheated on a business transaction, taxes, or test in my life. I've never done any drugs. I've never not paid a bill. Most people I know are the same. We probably have all told a few 'white lies', but nothing that would have truly harmed someone. What I'm saying is that if anybody wants to try and dig up 'dirt' on me, go to it with my blessings.