Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh's Personal Life

DEHUMANIZING RUSH

Even His Cat Generates Controversy





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In the twisted world of partisan politics, how could Rush Limbaugh's cat manage to become an issue?

The answer is that when it comes to dehumanizing a key conservative enemy, nothing is sacred in this stage of the game.

In many ways, talking about his cat on the air is far more threatening to Rush's liberal foes that pushing a political stance. Why? Because it reveals Limbaugh's true personal nature, rather than the demonic image that so- called "progressive" opponents have worked so hard to project.

From Rush's official transcript, here's his account of how the feline controversy began:

I told the story about the cat. I'll try to recreate the story. I love my cat. I got the greatest little cat in the world. You people know it. I pet this cat. I love this cat. I feed this cat. But I'm smart enough to know she only really wants me when she wants to be fed. I have learned enough to know that when she comes and starts head butting me or walking around my legs, she wants to be fed.

So I take her, I feed her. After I feed her, she wanders off to whatever part of the estate that she wants to hang out until she's next hungry. I said that she's a very smart cat. She gets fed. She gets petted. She gets caressed. She gets sheltered, all these things, and she doesn't have to do anything for it. And then I said: This experience has been more valuable to me than anything else in learning about women.

(Laughing.) Well, there is no sense of humor out there! I don't know how you get offended at that. I really don't. You've got to be wound too tight. (interruption) Well, the objection was not clear.

I'm assuming that in the long line of complaint letters to the letter to the editor of my hometown what a rotten guy I am, how I've dishonored my hometown, I've dishonored my family and its name, that this guy was just piling on, "Okay, here's more evidence this guy is an SOB. Listen to this lovely story about his cat."

(Laughing.) I have to laugh. So when you tell me, "Hey, you better tell the Drive-By Media you're being sarcastic that terrorism in Chicago is because we support Israel,"

I'm telling you, I think one of the greatest divides that exists, talk about bipartisanship or partisanship, the left has no sense of humor. Liberals simply have none. We've had a couple of callers this week, if you recall, just enraged and they won the election. They are just as angry as they can be, and they still are. Go to their websites.

They're still POed, over anything. I don't know what it's like. I've said it constantly. What must it be like every day to get up and be a liberal? No joy in your life. No happiness, and no humor. The things they do laugh at are funny, in a way. Not if you laugh with them, you laugh at them.

And here's how the anti- conservative Media Matters For America portrayed Rush's first cat discussion on November 30:

Limbaugh said he learned about women from his cat, which "gets loved," "petted," and "fed" and "doesn't have to do anything for it"


On the November 30 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh proclaimed: My "cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life" because his pet cat "comes to me when she wants to be fed," and "[s]he's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually [a] very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it." Limbaugh has previously stated, on the March 1, 2005, edition of his show, that "[w]omen still live longer than men because their lives are easier"; on January 10, he suggested that some women "would love to be hired as eye candy."

Let's face it: to some extent, Rush himself is clearly trying to antagonize his political enemies with this kind of language, knowing full well they will take the bait. But a lot of it is done tongue- in- cheek, which lefty opponents don't seem able to grasp.

Nonetheless, it's still the cat that truly makes his enemies angry: after working so hard to destroy Rush's character after the Michael J Fox flap, the last thing "progressives" want to see is their greatest enemy taking on a warm and fuzzy image.

This is also why women who dare to date Rush or are even seen with him in public face so much heat: they're standing in the way of the left's ongoing character assassination campaign.


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