Rush Limbaugh had an apoplectic reaction to the news that President Barack Obama believes that same sex couples in committed relationships ought to be able to get married. The four times married defender of traditional marriage accused Obama of leading a 'war' on marriage.
According to the Huffington Post Obama's endorsement of marriage equality on Wednesday saw a caller to Limbaugh's radio show tell him that pro-gay marriage forces were winning the argument in America.
'I see, we're losing!' Limbaugh hissed. 'We've arrived at a point where the president of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage. You wanna call that winning? Your side is winning when the president has to lead a war on traditional marriage? When you're losing in landslides and you haven't won a state?'
Limbaugh then accused Obama and his liberal supporters of trying to 'turn traditional institutions on their head.' Limbaugh's critics responded that America's fifty percent divorce rate and Limbaugh's own four failed marriages had probably helped dismantle those institutions more substantially than gay marriage ever had.
'People like me, who are minding their own business, all of a sudden have to stand up and defend these traditions and institutions,' Limbaugh snorted. He added that he had to defend them now 'from people like...the president, who's waging a war on traditional America.' For Limbaugh, Traditional America does not include gay people or their legal equality.
Meanwhile Bristol Palin, the conservative daughter of Sarah Palin and America's most famous unwed teen mother, took to Facebook to chastise the president's explanation of how he came to support same sex marriage by talking with his family and friends.
'You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples,' Obama said in the ABC interview on Wednesday. 'There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently.'
Bristol countered that fathers should shape their daughters views, never the other way around.
'While it’s great to listen to your kids' ideas, there's also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.'
No statistics exist anywhere to support Palin's confident claim that 'in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home,' however.
Palin had a son with her ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, but the two were never married and Bristol says that Levi, who has subsequently posed nude for Playgirl magazine, is no longer a part of the child's life. Critics have scoffed that she felt emboldened to critique others concerning their marriage views or family arrangements.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seanomelb | May 13, 2012, 07:55 PM EDT
Rush is right over 99% of the time.He had to try four times before he got his marriage right(maybe) and popping prescription pills is OK to I suppose.
Pittsburghkid | May 13, 2012, 03:31 PM EDT
Rush is right over 99% of the time. This is no exception.
BrianO | May 13, 2012, 09:12 AM EDT
pili04, I'm sure most on your side are designed to quash the voices of descent, She is just speaking Truth to Power.
PiperMac52 | May 12, 2012, 07:00 PM EDT
Rush would be right...
CelticQueenUSA | May 12, 2012, 02:43 PM EDT
Finding a man like Limbaugh would be enough to send me gay or never to marry. God help us!!
hermitTalker | May 12, 2012, 12:07 PM EDT
I think the actual topic is whether Natural Law, imprinted in our core, allows for homosexuals to be united in "marriage" as such. The civil authorities have tthe duty of ordering society for property, insurance and childrens' rights and domestic and elder abuse as one Anglican bishop claimed after the vote in NC. IF laws are needed to avoid discrimination in any state or nation, they can be made. The 33 states' citizens who have voted that marriage is M and W did not threaten other liaisons or citizens' rights and we presume that was not their intention or in the wording.
McNamara31 | May 12, 2012, 10:34 AM EDT
EphraimKibbey ..Well said. Many of us do not fit in the stereotypical "little boxes" the extremist would place everyone in.
Letzelfarm | May 11, 2012, 11:54 PM EDT
WIth the divorce rates at an all time high 'ol Rush comes up with this kind of analogy. Just shows how out-of-touch he is with main street America.
EphraimKibbey | May 11, 2012, 11:16 PM EDT
@PhlutiePhan - I guess I'm not "core" enough for you but there are lots more like me out here. I completely support Obama and I'm male, white, 63, heterosexual, God fearing, working class, America loving and gun owning. I have taught my children right from wrong and we VOTE every time!!! Beware the stereotype, it has jaws that bite and claws that snatch.
pilib04 | May 11, 2012, 09:52 PM EDT
BrianO, perhaps Palin should drop the attacks on others if she wants to be left alone.
pilib04 | May 11, 2012, 09:47 PM EDT
Why is anything the pillpopping-junkie Rush have to say, news. Limbaugh is a fat pig who abuses drugs and god knows what else. Please don't insult my intelligence by using this porker as a source.
BrianO | May 11, 2012, 09:42 PM EDT
I like the attack on Bristol Palin, very tolerant and caring.
jamthecat | May 11, 2012, 09:26 PM EDT
The only people out to wreck marriage are the serial divorce hounds like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich.
alisaann | May 11, 2012, 07:35 PM EDT
it was WRONG what NC did on on tuesday as well....however, the ban isn't only on same-sex marriages....it also BANS civil unions and domestic partnership....the HIGH SOURT should handle this issue, just as they did inter-racial marriage. alisa
alisaann | May 11, 2012, 07:29 PM EDT
rush needs to SHUT THE HELL UP....he's got NO ROOM to talk...he's been married 4 times....same-sex marriage will NOT harm anyone else's marriage....closed-minded BIGOTS need to get over themselves. alisa
seanomelb | May 11, 2012, 06:44 PM EDT
4 marriages are hardly traditional.typical of the middle of the road fascist hypocrite Limbaugh, One rule for Limbaugh and one rule for everyone else.
trconnors | May 11, 2012, 06:08 PM EDT
isnt it about time el druggo the tubbo buys another wife??Im sure #4 is about ready to go south w/ a normal man. how much can the stomach take ????
seanfer7 | May 11, 2012, 05:43 PM EDT
well rush doesn't remember he had a traditional marriage a couple time
rugbyplayer | May 11, 2012, 05:40 PM EDT
No need to say more abouyt hypocrite Republican Rush Limbaugh. He represents, like Romney, what today's GOP really stands for: hatred and marginalization of any group or person who gets in its devious and greedy ways. What's worse are the millions of dumb Americans who tune in daily to listen and believe every word uttered by this lying buffoon, Rush Limbaugh. The Republican Party now leads in supporting ignorance and stupidity as patriotic American virtues.
PhlutiePhan | May 11, 2012, 04:54 PM EDT
President Obama is not exactly residue from Thermopylae. There are viable reports that his core constituency is "radical women, non whites, and non heterosexuals". He has also written off the "working class". He is "Brave Heart in pink tights". He is no Robin Hood except in the sense of "robbing from the hood". Leonidas and his 100 Spartans who took on 100K Persians are laughing their a---s off. His wife has made plenty of private statements which were chronicled in the book by Jodi Kanter that Irish politicians in Illinois were in the way of progress and by progress she obviously meant gay marriage and plenty of abortions. The Irish brought culture to America. The king has no clothes. He is a p-----t.
EphraimKibbey | May 11, 2012, 03:43 PM EDT
Bye, Bye Rushie! Say hi to Glen when you see him. @Seanmor - In America, we do not VOTE on people's civil rights. Prop 8 is unconstitutional as are ALL the other attempts of the majority to enslave the minority. The purpose of the constitution and the bill of rights is to protect the minority from the majority. The only time an amendment to the constitution took away a right was prohibition and you remember how that worked out. The universe bends toward justice - MLK.
Bythebay | May 11, 2012, 03:33 PM EDT
Supporting gay marriage is not an attack on traditional marriage, it's giving all equal rights.
FastEddy | May 11, 2012, 02:03 PM EDT
"Crept"? ... I listen about three times per week. "Who gives a fat rat's axx what Rush Limbaugh says!!! ..." This and three other articles in this issue are just a smoke screen for what is really happening here in the states. BTW: Your 99 weeks of unemployment just ran out. (Rush told me this AM.)
rainbowbrew | May 11, 2012, 01:49 PM EDT
and who would listen to this crept? Hopefully no one on this blog.
HAPPEEBUMPEE | May 11, 2012, 12:20 PM EDT
Russ Limbaugh is a poor excuse as a human being. He is a Hatemonger and appeals to people's fears. Notice that anything he disagrees with is a "War on...." Fill in the blanks. I believe in traditional marriage, but I DO NOT discount my belief that America is inclusive...not exculsive for ALL our citizens.
Seanmor | May 11, 2012, 12:13 PM EDT
When it comes to marriage, there are many in high places, including more than a few church leaders, who are tyring very hard to mould a new set of norms and morës, so that same-sex partnerships will be elevlated to the same level of prestige, if not higher, than that of male-female unions. The above article doesn't mention than a few days ago N.C. voted strongly against same-sex marriage, as have more that 30 other states.
Bythebay | May 11, 2012, 12:02 PM EDT
Same sex couples should be able to get married. Too bad Obama's statement to that effect was done for his reelection.
joanxis | May 11, 2012, 11:44 AM EDT
Who gives a fat rat's axx what Rush Limbaugh says!!!
Siobhan39 | May 11, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT
"We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage," said Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday. His first, second, third, and fourth wives could not be reached for comment.
ProudCanadian | May 11, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT
Another Gay basher that should be taken down a peg or two. What is with the US just because these idiots have money they think that they are smart. They are just capitalist pigs that want to run the world. They have gotten there money by ill gotten gains and off the backs of those very people who back them. The American people who back these people are a new kind of slave, a slave to the God almighty dollar. So Sad.
carollover | May 11, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
absolutely hysterical seeing El Rushbo defend traditional marriage when he's on wife no. 4!!
Murph46 | May 11, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
Who marry's who won't be an election issue.As I stated previously we need a president to rebuild America from the ground up.There are 4.5 Million people who go unreported weekly in unemployment rolls because they have given up,we are 15 Trillion in debt,and our infrastructure is collapsing,These are the issues!
TheOldPerfessor | May 11, 2012, 09:40 AM EDT
I've been married just once in my life - to the same woman for 40 years. If two gay people want to get married, I'm failing to see how that puts me or my values under attack. Limbaugh should be spending time with the scriptures, because his serial marriage routine is classified as an "Abomination."