Rush Limbaugh is getting his third divorce. I have no problem with that. If it's not working, move on, and give everybody a chance to find something that does work. No matter how many marriages and divorces it takes. It's just a bit ironic that it's the self-righteous, "family values" creeps like Rush himself who seem to be making negative judgments about people's lifestyles and relationships. Of course, we already have Rush, the drug addict, loudly condemning drug addicts. Why should we expect him to be different in other arenas....say, sexuality for instance.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/21210.html
The point here isn't that his mentor was a gay man, the point is that it is another dot to connect to a pattern.
We have;
1. The rumor about DJ Jeff Christie being fired from KQV in 1973 after an arrest on Winthrop Street for gay pandering. This rumor supposedly circulated on the UPitt campus for weeks following the firing. Verified parts are that Christie was fired by KQV, that Winthrop Street was a gay pickup spot in that era, and several people have confirmed hearing that same rumor at the time. One person confirmed having heard the rumor a couple of years later in water-cooler gossip at the Richmond VA radio station where he worked. At this time, nobody knew who Jeff Christie was.
2. Verification that KQV's Jeff Christie went on to become the man behind the Golden EIB Microphone, Rush Limbaugh.
3. Verification that the fellow who helped him get his second start in radio, and who taught him how to dress, was a gay man. Not that significant in itself. but you know, it is rather odd for a guy to be going clothes shopping with another guy.
4. The mysterious "cyst" that kept him out of 'Nam. One cause of anal cysts can be receptive anal sex, but of course we have no way of knowing in this case. We do know that this was on his draft deferrment documents, and that he now denies that he ever had an anal cyst. (He did so on the air just the other day.)
5. He keeps getting divorced. Not a lot in itself, but one wonders why? And we hear exactly nothing from him about his current wife.
6. The hearsay from a posting elsewhere on this forum that Rush used to go drinking at gay bars in in CA. Mind you, I do know that some open-minded people who are not gay go drinking with friends at gay bars. Rush has never struck me as an open-minded person. Or do I mis-read him?
7. In spite of the sexual preference of his mentor, and in spite of having socialized with gay people in the past, Rush has spared no effort to trash "the gay agenda" on his program. He has been especially nasty to Rep. Barny Frank.
None of these things by itself constitute evidence that Rush is gay (or, more likely, bisexual), but all of them together form a growing pattern. This leads me, and others, to the conclusion that it is possible that Rush really was arrested in 1973, as the rumors indicated, and suggest that it would warrent the time and money of somebody to run down the leads, check official records, and talk to people from Rush's past. None of this is proof, but it does suggest that the proof may be out there, if only it can be collected
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/20818.html
Back in 1983-84, my next door neighbor used to talk about meeting rush in the Sacramento Gay bars. We both lived in Lodi CA. He was a Log Cabin Republican www.lcr.org
I asked him once: "Do you mean Rush is gay?" "Gawd! I hope not!" he replied (aghast at the thought)
He went on to explain that Rush was the most unattractive man he had ever met. "Why does Rush hang out in Gay bars then?" I asked. "Rush is simply not the bigot he gets paid to portray on the radio." he explained.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/21210.html
The point here isn't that his mentor was a gay man, the point is that it is another dot to connect to a pattern.
We have;
1. The rumor about DJ Jeff Christie being fired from KQV in 1973 after an arrest on Winthrop Street for gay pandering. This rumor supposedly circulated on the UPitt campus for weeks following the firing. Verified parts are that Christie was fired by KQV, that Winthrop Street was a gay pickup spot in that era, and several people have confirmed hearing that same rumor at the time. One person confirmed having heard the rumor a couple of years later in water-cooler gossip at the Richmond VA radio station where he worked. At this time, nobody knew who Jeff Christie was.
2. Verification that KQV's Jeff Christie went on to become the man behind the Golden EIB Microphone, Rush Limbaugh.
3. Verification that the fellow who helped him get his second start in radio, and who taught him how to dress, was a gay man. Not that significant in itself. but you know, it is rather odd for a guy to be going clothes shopping with another guy.
4. The mysterious "cyst" that kept him out of 'Nam. One cause of anal cysts can be receptive anal sex, but of course we have no way of knowing in this case. We do know that this was on his draft deferrment documents, and that he now denies that he ever had an anal cyst. (He did so on the air just the other day.)
5. He keeps getting divorced. Not a lot in itself, but one wonders why? And we hear exactly nothing from him about his current wife.
6. The hearsay from a posting elsewhere on this forum that Rush used to go drinking at gay bars in in CA. Mind you, I do know that some open-minded people who are not gay go drinking with friends at gay bars. Rush has never struck me as an open-minded person. Or do I mis-read him?
7. In spite of the sexual preference of his mentor, and in spite of having socialized with gay people in the past, Rush has spared no effort to trash "the gay agenda" on his program. He has been especially nasty to Rep. Barny Frank.
None of these things by itself constitute evidence that Rush is gay (or, more likely, bisexual), but all of them together form a growing pattern. This leads me, and others, to the conclusion that it is possible that Rush really was arrested in 1973, as the rumors indicated, and suggest that it would warrent the time and money of somebody to run down the leads, check official records, and talk to people from Rush's past. None of this is proof, but it does suggest that the proof may be out there, if only it can be collected
from DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/20818.html
Back in 1983-84, my next door neighbor used to talk about meeting rush in the Sacramento Gay bars. We both lived in Lodi CA. He was a Log Cabin Republican www.lcr.org
I asked him once: "Do you mean Rush is gay?" "Gawd! I hope not!" he replied (aghast at the thought)
He went on to explain that Rush was the most unattractive man he had ever met. "Why does Rush hang out in Gay bars then?" I asked. "Rush is simply not the bigot he gets paid to portray on the radio." he explained.
Well, if he's not, he sure is helping to whip up a lot of bigotry in this country that I'd just as soon we didn't feed. So what does that make him? His efforts, like all of ours (intentionally or not), are energy shaping the world in a certain fashion, and that is the world we have to live in. His efforts however, unlike mine, have a lot of force and power behind them to do that shaping. So, does he want the world he lives in to be bigoted or not? If he's simply getting paid to help make it that way and isn't a bigot himself, no wonder he seems like a disgusting pig. In my opinion, that would make him a bigger slimebucket than just honestly being a bigot. Just my opinion.
Of course, as for that "one wonders why" he "keeps getting divorced", I don't wonder. I wonder how he keeps finding someone to marry him.
How did I come across this article in the first place? Oh, yeah, Maru!
My favorite Limbaugh commentary from Bushflash.
But, yeah, sure. Lots of rabidly anti-gay men hang out in gay bars in Sacramento.
Whatever.
And by the way, Limbaugh is piped through to the boys in Iraq on a daily basis through Armed Forces radio. There's even a petition to remove him from the programming. Okay, two.
