Limbaugh calls LA's Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa a "Shoe Shine Boy or Secret Service Agent"
By John Amato Sunday May 04, 2008 3:30pm
So I'm switching channels on the dial a few minutes after 10 am and I flipped on to FOX's The Live Desk for a minute so to see what they had on and what do I see? A big promo for Rush Limbaugh as the next guest and he's going to get Hillary for saying he has a crush on her, using Bill to humiliate her. So Rush appears and recounts a story that happened at the Kobe Club in LA: he claims he left his date alone for a minute and Bill hit on her while he was distracted by the mayor of Los Angeles... just your basic Rush idiocy.
What came out of his mouth next stopped me in my tracks. Outside of his idiotic rants that are nothing more substantive than a teenager in heat, he has the audacity to smear a very prominent Latino politician by throwing out the "shoeshine boy" card...
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Amanda at Think Progress caught it as well.
I understand now why Bill Clinton hit on my date about a year ago at the Kobe Club in New York. I was minding my own business and Clinton came in. And the short version is he used the mayor of Los Angeles to distract me, while hitting on my date. […]
He came over three or four times, had Ron Burkle with him and the mayor of Los Angeles, who I thought was either the shoeshine guy or a Secret Service agent.
He compares LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to a shoeshine guy. He can't help himself, he probably doesn't even realize how offensive that is. l'd like to ask Rush if he had a legal prescription with him at the Kobe for Viagra, don't you think? It's a fair point since he's talking about going out with a date and he was arrested because of those little blue pills. <snark>
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Limbaugh is a bloated gas bag...no doubt.
But we really have bigger fish to fry here at C&L.
Funny, every time I look at Rush's picture, I think it's a story about a child molester
Comedian Rush Limbaugh makes a funny.
what a putz
videos aren't working today. When are you guys going to learn to use flash video? I live in soCal.. i'll drive up and show you!
Was his date a 14 year old Dominican boy?
how long are we going to have to tolerate
this bigoted racist? he alone is setting
the country back 100 yrs.
Rush Limbaugh is a pedophile. Spread the news.
rush knows that he's offensive.
I really don't get it. It's like giving the drunkest, most obnoxious loser in the bar the attention he is desperately seeking. This fat, nasty, fuck has no credibility with intelligent, fair minded people.
Limbaugh's just jealous, because Antonio can actually see his shoes when he bends down.
Nope, won't listen to him. He's nothing more than a shock jock. Like so many other egomaniacs, it's all about him. How he gets away with the things he says is beyond me. If he had said the exact words that Imus said that time, I doubt it would have even caused a ripple in the media. That's the part I don't understand.
So did rush's date run, not walk out the building with Bill Clinton? If I was stupid enough to be his date and Bill Clinton 'REALLY DID WALK UP' and ask me out, rush would never see me again.
pissed off patricia @ 12:
Maybe he gets drugs for the station manager.
Republicans are bigoted, knuckle-dragging sub-humans. Not news at all but we do need to keep reminding people.
K. Trout @ 8:
Any thread concerning this self loathing tub of shit should begin with "Pedophile Rush Limbaugh".
Pedophile-Rush Limbaugh appearing on faux to spew his reich-wing hate on the reich-wing propaganda station....how "fair and balanced" of them.
Also worthy of note in this article: the accusation that Bill Clinton "hit on my date".
Isn't it weird how these guys (not just Limbaugh, but pretty much all of the rightie pundits) are still obsessed with Bill's sexual appetites, years after the Monica thing and the Starr Report? Clinton's 62 years old now and has a bad heart, yet they're all still gossiping about his libido like a bunch of awkward 13 year old boys. It's pathetic.
Mere envy and insecurity, I'd say.
Rush is awesome, I think we should all be gay together!
Rush Limbaugh touched me where my bathing suit covers. If you have an anatomically correct doll, I can show you in detail.
Outrageous!! What a demeaning comparison! Holding up someone who makes an honest living next to a politician! Oh, the humanity!
So, has anyone polled shoeshine guys to see how upset they are at being compared to politicians? I can see a class action lawsuit against this unwarranted slur! Somebody call Gloria Allred!
I don't consider Antonio Villaraigosa fit to even shine my shoes.
Spending is up, taxes are too, money is misappropriated and
above all LA is sinking even further into the third-world.
Here's the guy I like for our next mayor -
http://WalterMooreForMayor.COM/
I knew Rush's story had to be bogus right from the start...Rush on a date?! I mean really...total fabrication.
Chris Wallace: Governor... The left wing of your party is in a snit, over all these Democrats appearing on FOX. In fact, the head of MoveOn.org had this to say about Democrats on Fox: “It legitimizes a right-wing network that is going to use that celebrity to smear them—the Democrats–in the general election.” He and the head of the DailyKos are using words about you guys showing up here as “weak”, “idiotic”, “stupid”, how do you respond to the left wing?
Quite apart from Limbaugh's typically offensive racism,I'm always struck by the utter disrespect,the pettiness this so called "patriot" shows for the office of the president.This chest beating flag waver refers to the former president as "Clinton" not "Mr Clinton" or even the "former president"."My President right or wrong" -unless he's a so-called Liberal then all bets are off.Limbaugh's America.
The unanswered question is, who the fu*k would go out with this guy? Jeez, talk about a desperate woman. She is so desperate that she would date Rush yet she is attractive enough to get the attention of President Clinton?
Just when you think Limpballs couldn't get any lower. I still see him mimicking Michael J Fox before the 2006 elections. He makes me sick to my stomach. How many idiots listen to this cretin?
When I think of Rush on a date, I think of a picture I once saw of J. Edgar Hoover with Shirley Temple.
Limbaugh is just in this for the money. No way to really be that stupid, is there?
A racist, pro-fascism talking head on FOX NEWS?
ZOMG. How shocking!
I think I saw this in Goodfellas, I recall it doesn't turn out to good for the guy calling someone a shoe-shiner.
johnnypunchclock @ 20:
Pedophile Rush tried to play "hide the tiny banana" with me.
The best date I can think of for Rush would be Ann Coulter. And I would be fine with that if they were each spayed and neutered first.
The only ones still listening to that clown.
...The Crooks ( for amusement ) and the uninformed.
Speaking of crooks...
Kyl Blocks Provision Granting Independence To Justice Department IG
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/05/kyl-inspector-general/
Patriots still left in the Justice Dept
should comment on "who" in the U.S. Dept is doing this..
Wikinews requested a statement from the Department of Justice on the edits to
Wikipedia, but as of this article's publication had not received a response.
US Dept of Justice IP address blocked after 'vandalism' edits to Wikipedia
http://www.mister-info.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=10545&format=html
Annoyed Canuck @ 28:
You must mean "Spanky" (literally) from the "Little Rascals".
Rush with a date? No doubt another drug-induced hallucination.
doctormidnight @ 31:
LOL.
I never could stand Limbaugh, I first heard him in the early-90s while working for a housing contractor who liked to have him on - still can't stand him and I avoid him, his voice, his thoughts whenever possible. However, your title is:
Limbaugh calls LA’s Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa a “Shoe Shine Boy or Secret Service Agent”
But, the story states:
"... thought was either the shoeshine guy or a Secret Service agent."
I don't want to nitpick (well, I guess I kinda do), but since "boy" is definitely a loaded term when it comes to using it in regard to minorities - sure, mostly regarding black/african-americans, but you can't deny that plenty of narrow-minded folks don't see the difference between that and any other minority - it seems like game-playing when you use it in the title, but he actually uses the word "guy".
Again, I - in no way - am saying that he didn't say something (else, again) sickening, but I'd prefer that those of us who like to live within reality don't stoop to the same tactics that Rush and others like him use.
Matthews just brought up Rush's Operation Chaos. Rush is no patriot, he is a destructive, arrogant, rich bully who deserves to have the plug pulled on his show.
Shoeshine guy... huh.. OK, Rush.. That's about what I'd expect out of a fatass airhead who looks for all the world like the human personification of the old Hustler cartoon, 'Chester the molester'...
Or maybe you're just trolling to be some widestances next boytoy, top or bottom..............P.S. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on Rush..................PFFT!!! JD
Shouldn't his didiots be here defending him already?
pissed off patricia @ 33:
Hey I fixed that for you.
Rush, Rush, Rush Limbaugh!
He's the Grand Poobah!
If you need a cyst removed
He will put you in the groove
If you need your pain to vanish
Take his pills, the ones most Spanish
If you want to mock the sick
Point and laugh at his limp dick
All hail the Grand Poobah!
He's Rush, Rush, Rush Limbaugh!
++++
Last year I FOIA'ed Rushs' Selective Service Record and received it.
He's a liar about his deferments and a real A-1, Card Carrying American Chicken-Hawk ( probably both definitions describe him!)
He's in the same league as Neil Boortz, Mitch McConnell,Ted Nugent, Saxby Chambliss, Tom Tancredo , all claimed deferments they lied about, or deceived to the Selective Service in order to escape serving in Vietnam!
But i thought Coulter was dating the Prince of Darkness.
P.D. @ 45:
Does Cheney's wife know?
P.D. @ 45:
Cheney is married.
Viagra junkie regularly uses misogyny to attack women he dislikes. Why should anyone be shocked that he is using racism to insult politicians he does not like?
A minor quibble - with a blow up doll you DON'T need Viagra.
And with a live "date" Rush would more than likely need a couple bottles of rohipnol to keep her/it within his gravitational pull. (:>
How did Pedo-Rush get a 13 year old into a club anyhow?
He should be fired over comments about violence at the Democratic National Convention and giving aid and comfort to those who would use violence and terrorism a voice of like-minded ideas on national radio. His racism has been well documented. If this is a joke it's not a very good one, It clearly shows how stupid top conservative minds are, which reaffirms what we already knew.
Oh dear God, Rush on a date? That conjures up a vision almost as bad as Coulter in the missionary position, with those gigantic feet flailing in the air. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Yeah.....well, if I was the "shoeshine guy" I'd be pissed!
doctormidnight @ 42:
Um thanks, I think. Now I have a mental image that even 409 can't remove.
Just a quick question here. Where was bush today and why did Laura give the press conference about aid to Myanmar?
Rush caught in another lie?
Supposedly Bill CLinton was hitting on his date; yet, Rush has a girlfriend.
Either Rush is out screwing around on his girlfriend or he is degrading his girlfriend by refering to her as "my date", or he is lying his @ss off again.
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/kathryn-rogers/
pissed off patricia @ 54:
Passed-out in the restroom? Again.
Once again, Prothero (nevermind, that character at least HAD military experience)... Speedball Limbaugh just cannot hide his bigotry and sense of white privilege. Everytime he opens his mouth, more audible confetti floats out.
he claims he left his date alone for a minute and Bill hit on her while he was distracted by the mayor of Los Angeles
To be more precise, the date left Rush alone.
Sophisticated liberal humor:
Rush Limbaugh is fat. Heh, heh, heh.
Rush Limbaugh can't get it up. Heh, heh, heh.
Rush Limbaugh has a cyst on his butt that oozes pus. Heh, heh, heh.
Sophisticated conservative humor:
Rachel Maddow is a lesbian. Heh, Heh, Heh.
Helen Thomas is old and ugly. Heh, heh, heh.
Bill Clinton had sex with lots of women. Heh, heh, heh.
Now that was all good fun and we all had a jolly good laugh, but could we please move on to serious issues?
I like Pie @ 55:
Eye-bleach! STAT!!!!!!
Race baiting?
What race baiting?
It's not like Limbaugh ever told a Black caller to take that bone out of your nose.
Or said "Hugo, Cesar--whatever. A Chavez is a Chavez. We've always had problems with them."
Or sang Barrak the Magic negro.
Oh wait he's done all of these things.
joeedugan @ 59:
That would be nice, however, the McSame Stream Media is too busy covering Obama's former pastor and bowling scores.
casper46 @ 56:
Probably. I thought he might have been busy hunting WMD under his desk
Now that Rush and Ann both live down here in West Palm Beach, it's a cinch they should at least hang out together. It's in the stars. Of course that would be two mighty big egos fighting for the spotlight.
pissed off patricia @ 54:
The preznit has been surfing teh internets today - check out his post @19. Unfortunately for him, he still can't spell the VP's name.
General_Rennenkampf @ 29:
I'm not giving that jackhole the benefit of the doubt.
joeedugan @ 59:
No. I would like to continue talking about that nasty gooey pedophile
Blue Lensman @ 64:
When he finishes surfin' maybe he could give McCain a couple of lessons on the computer. Teach him things like how to turn it on for starters. If he's too busy, I'm sure one of Obama's little girls could give McCain some lessons.
Rush is the sort of guy I used to have nightmares about when some friend of my mom's would say they wanted me to go out with their son. Fear of someone like him is why I never agreed to go out with anyone I had not met in advance.
Lardass is just jealous because most people in LA actually OWN shoes, as opposed to Cape Girardeau. I hear that shining shoes was the FIRST job that Rush was fired from...
pissed off patricia @ 67:
Running for preznit is one thing but learning to use a computer at his age . . get real! He has a hard enough time just remembering where he is.
Billy @ 22:
hey billy your right ... this guy is so morally bankrupt, non-honest pol, loves to drink, cant speak english correctly with out studdering every other word, 1.7 gpa ucla grad, law school flunky ....
He can’t help himself, he probably doesn’t even realize how offensive that is
Yes he does, that's his whole act, to be as offensive as he can. Why? to piss off anybody he considers to be a liberal, or anybody that's not white or republican enough for him.
He's the uber- asshole who represents the vast majority of the too-numerous assholes that we have running this country. When they look inside themselves, all they see is shit. So they hate themselves and blame it on the "other".
I don't know why he needs the Viagra. He's obviously very potent. He can't even turn around without screwing himself.
Pedophile Rush Limbaugh was at the Kobe club with a date? Must have been Hillary, to discuss "Operation Chaos" or whatever the stupid thing is called.
Bill just showed up to make sure he got his $100 up front and that Hillary had the Trojans and Viagra.
Lush Limpballs is an asshole.
Other then half-brained inbreds who really cares what he says??
he's got a great face for radio.
doctormidnight @ 31:
Pesci-"You been away a long time Billy, I don't shine shoes anymore." ..."Now go home and get your shine box!" -Billy Batts next to last words.
When I see this scumbag I see redneck scum. Enough said.
The self aggrandizer distorts reality again with Obama "hadn't won a primary since Feb 22"
Obama is batting .571 (4 out of 7) since Feb 22 with TX, VT, WY & MS.
casper46 @ 41:
There's no defense for that baffoon, but the truth is that Tony Villar is neither smart enough, nor honest enough to be either a Secret Service agent or a shoe shine guy. He's the worst thing to happen to L.A. (albeit for totally different reasons) since Sam Yorty. The only solace we have is that his promised Cabinet level job goes bye-bye as soon as Billary finally leaves the stage next month, although that may mean he stick around this town for a while longer, and make things even worse. The same's true for his side-kick Bratton, who's been promised the head of the F.BI. in Her Highness' Administration.
Maybe Bill just wanted to give Rush's date an autograph he could show to his friends at school.
Why is this stupid bigot allowed 15 hours of air time a week To spew his idiocy and hatred, while the MSM gets up in arms over a few stupid comments made by a Chicago Minister?
Medford Tim @ 21:
Gloria Allred? Call Underdog instead. At least he's humble and lovable and doesn't take any wooden nickels. And,...............he shines shoes.
Wait...Rush had a date? with a woman? a LIVE woman?!
abarts @ 84:
Was she concious?
CD @ 85:
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Not after he slipped her a rufie.
limbo,your a low life piece of sh-t|||||||||
I seriously doubt that Bill Clinton would hit on another man.
miss_kitty @ 86:
Knowing Rush he probably dressed her like a cub scout too.
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The only consolation is that Limbaugh's audience is even more intellectually challenged than he is. Still, that's a lot of people.
I apologize. The scumbag just pisses me off.
Shining shoes is an honorable profession. A shoe shine boy provides his customers with a service in exchange for monetary compensation. It is the principle of free enterprise upon which this country was built. Only an elitist would claim that "shoe shine boy" is a derogatory term.
drago @ 93:
To call a man a boy has racial overtones especially in this context.
Blimpaugh was lying since his date was his little shoe shine boy.
Sounds believable enough. We all know that, when Bill strays, he goes after a certain type: big hair, lots of makeup, kind of, well, let's admit it - TRASHY. And what other kind of woman is going to date a guy like Limbaugh?
Answers other than TRASHY that will receive credit:
Blind AND brain damaged.
Not blind but really, really badly brain damaged.
Dead.
Comatose.
The kind with testicles.
The kind you pay.
Harriet Myers.
Peggy Noonan.
Will date for crack.
"Kids in the Hall's' Chicken Lady.
Laura Ingraham.
Dr. Laura
but I can't see Bill hitting on any of the above, except maybe Peggy Noonan, but then she's definitely got a Trashy thing going on.
Look at that pic. Seems Rush's Viagra went to the wrong head.
Scy @ 15:
I love this line... You can insert this in the middle of every thread on the board. I really dig people who have the same pure venom I have for conservatives/republicans and their sycophantic lock-step fellow reptiles.. I abhor them. I don't want to live with them anymore. I wish the U.S.A could divide into a blue and red country but the problem with that idea is the red side would inevitably bomb us.
I just hope I live long enough so that I can celebrate each time one of them drops dead. Maybe we'll get lucky and say Tom Delay and Ann Coulter die the same day.
Hatefully yours...
What makes this extra offensive is that there isn't even a legitimate pretext for making that slur. It's not a plausible stereotype. People don't travel with shoe-shine boys. And latinos aren't even closely associated with shoe shining anyway either. It's one thing to be a bigot out of ignorance but this is calculated maliciousness. Rush, your one of the vilest dbags on earth. Please spontaneously combust.
I don't understand why Rush should complain about Bill. Shouldn't he have complained to the escort agency first.
joeedugan @ 96:
Noonan's writing is certainly a trashy thing.
Clinton hit on Limpballs date??,,but,,, Clinton is straight. This doesn't make any sense at all.
Rush Limbaugh makes stuff up as he goes along, There wasn't a primary on Feb 22. He just guessed. And Barrack Obama won Mississippi on March 11. He makes shit up and gets people to steal and cheat and pimp for him by lying to them. He needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and taken away from society so he can no longer hurt people. That is the real purpose of the criminal system, to keep criminals away from society. And here you have a big fat con artist with faithful followers giving him 20 million dollars a year to pump out any nonsense he wishes and says it in such a tone that it kind of sounds like it is the truth. This man is perpetuating wide range voter manipulation to destroy a whole segment of the population and destroy the Democratic Party...and with a giggle... to have a little dishonest fun.
[Thanks for the off topic ad hominem attack, Thumper-Sitemonitor]
Rush doesn't need little blue pills to be offensive.
johnnynewguy @ 98:
Yes, they'd bomb us preemptively too.
Rush had a date?
Thank you John Martin.
I had to read 102 posts in this thread to get somebody who thought the same as I did.
Which means ALL of you were wasted your time attacking the things that have nothing to do with the election, totally missed Rush slide his made up talking point in there. Being a democrat or a republican, doesn't matter, if you waste you time on attacking Rush/Bill Clinton/The mayor of LA...then you have been manipulated by Rush. That is what he is the master of, making you either cheer him or hate him, but making you NOT think about his arguments.
Is Rush afraid to go on tv? Would somebody tell me again why this criminal is not in jail?
"Look, all I'm saying is people from Uruguay are human garbage."
This statement was taken out of context! The context being, nobody from Uruguay listens to my show.
- Colbert On The Ert.
Rush is a racist pig...
It's too, bad that Cigar Bill didn't score on Limbaugh's date , she walks out the door with Clinton leaving fat ass Limbaugh sitting there .Now THAT that would have been a great story .
I wonder how much Limbaugh forked out for the hooker ? Maybe a referral from Spitzer ?
An insult from a sub-human? Not very insulting.
Will someone please take this fat, nasty, disgusting bastard out. Do it for the good of the dame country pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Grow up Rush; high school is over.
Gee whiz....a lying, draft-dodging coward makes disparaging remarks about somebody?
Whodathunkit?
I love the way Limbaugh is quoted saying "shoe shine boy" when he clearly said "shoe shine guy".
118 drago Says: I love the way Limbaugh is quoted saying “shoe shine boy” when he clearly said “shoe shine guy”.
And how does that makes it more acceptable?
jwf @ 119:
Should be "make it more acceptable".
Rush should have called him a foot-washer.
I removed the FoxNews Channel from all of my TVs through each TV's menu. Only way to maintain my sanity.
dadams: "how long are we going to have to tolerate this bigoted racist? he alone is setting the country back 100 yrs."
Please, his ego is already way too big. Don't give him credit he doesn't deserve.
Left&:Left: "I really don’t get it. It’s like giving the drunkest, most obnoxious loser in the bar the attention he is desperately seeking. This fat, nasty, fuck has no credibility with intelligent, fair minded people."
If you really don't get it, just turn on your television. This really has become the American Way. Just look at all the reality shows. The ones that get the best ratings are the ones that haves the biggest assholes. Then, those assholes get their own starring role in a spinoff show.
It's the same reason why the dumbest jackass running got into the White House the past two elections. It's not about intelligence and reason anymore (if it ever was)...it's all about who can appeal most effectively to the most base human instinct and emotions.
jwf @ 120:
jwf, you're right that one is not more acceptable than the other. However, I do understand the point drago pretends s/he is trying to make, because calling a man "boy" takes the insult to the next level.
That said, drago wasn't really trying to make that point, he was just trying to deflect attention from the real and very valid point of the original post, which is that Rush is clearly a bigot, no matter how you try to frame it.
Why can't Rush just die from an oxycontin overdose like so many others. He actually made more sense when he was slurry and incoherent. Now he just sounds pathetic and inarticulate.
Darrell Kern @ 125:
Limblob's (and Cheney's) continued existence is further evidence to me that there is no god.
Their continued existence has shown me that evolution is not really all it's cracked up to be and is, just maybe, a scam. ;-)
I heard CNN echo Rush's talking point, "Obama hasn't won a primary in almost 2 months!".
There was only ONE primary during that period.
How does this sound? "Clinton has only won ONE primary in the past 2 months or so!"
Deception, Spin, poor logic...but hey it made it to CNN via El Rushbo!
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