It started with a shot across Limbaugh’s broad, sweaty, cyst-ridden beam. It ended not with a bang, but with a humiliating, mewling whimper.
Michael Steele, the elected chair of the Republican National Committee, was getting a little fed up with the media’s anointing of Rush Limbaugh as the de facto leader of the Republican Party.
In a little-noticed interview Saturday night, Steele dismissed Limbaugh as an “entertainer” whose show is “incendiary” and “ugly.”
A collective "QUOI?!" reverberated throughout the blogosphere. Steele dared to challenge the Oxycontin Kid? With the truth, even! Would Rush let this stand?
In a word? No.
"Why do you claim to lead the Republican Party when you seem obsessed with seeing to it President Obama succeeds?" Limbaugh asked. "I frankly am stunned that the chairman of the Republican National Committee endorses such an agenda. I have to conclude that he does because he attacks me for wanting it to fail."
On his incendiary, ugly radio show, Limbaugh continued to [m.c.] hammer Steele:
“I’m not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don’t want to be,” Rush said. “I would be embarrassed to say that I’m in charge of the Republican Party in a sad-sack state that it’s in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it’s in, I would quit.”
[Editor's note: Rush is a big fan of the idea "When the going gets tough, the tough go have sex with minors in the Dominican Republic. But I digress.]
The bookmakers’ phones rang off the hook. How long would it take for Steele, like Governor Mark Sanford (R-Coward) and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Yellow) before him, to prostrate himself before the Adipose Ego, begging forgiveness?
Under half a day, it appears. The prospect of Limbaugh pounding his doughy chest in fury reduced the chair of the Republican National Committee to a quivering lump of gelatin.
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. . . . There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
And with that, Michael Steele, the RNC’s answer to Barack Obama, the guy who asserted he was all "street" an’ shit because he hung out in Brooklyn and the Bronx once, relegated himself to the ever-growing dung heap behind Limbaugh’s throne.
Once the party of yellow ribbon magnets, Hummers, staying on-message, and "9/11/24/7", the Republican Party is now exposed to the world as cowed, feeble, old men imprisoned by the parasite that kept them alive for the past eight years: Rush Limbaugh.
Is that fucking funny or WHAT?
[disturbing image courtesy twolf1]
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Apparently the Republican version of “free speech” does not include saying anything bad about the drug-addled gasbag.
D.L. Hughley’s 15 minutes. Way to go, Bro.
And the mind of twolf1 – what to say…
Hey wt!
Digg it here…
Ui-kaca! All bow before his impervious majesty, the emperor of oxycontin, the prince of pedophilia, the ruler of the Republican universe!
Ya know, I had a similar visual of Mr. Steele climbing outta Rush’s ass singing “Everything’s coming up roses…” Apologies to Ms. Merman (again)
;~P
Watertiger !
Damn you twolf1 … you’ve ruined Princess Leia forevah !!!
Dugg!
A rose by any other name wouldn’t smell as shitty.
Hey newt !
I turned to Hughley just after Steele was on and he was impressed by the new MC. I wonder how Hughley feels about Steele now.
In this instance, hanging out in Brooklyn and the Bronx probably means Stelle peed in a doorway… When in Rome, as it were.
I try not to pay attention to the pig, but the clips I’ve endured of his fat ass on KO and Rachel just make me want to barf. He is so repulsive, no wonder he has to pay people to have, um, sex with him.
WT
&
tw
I didn’t move over to DL :-)
But he’s on the map now.
Actually, think he was crawling into Rushbo’s ass.
I hope our MSNBC friends have also OD’d on Rushbo. He’s awful, and he was all over my teevee tonight. Enough!
Two! Two! Two dementeds in one!
(Limbaugh-Steele teabagging scene deleted)
Once the party of yellow ribbon magnets, Hummers, staying on-message, and “9/11/24/7″
After a while, even the best acts get stale.
I’m not sure if it’s funny or sad. Ask me when they’re not able to get in the way any more.
Once. In high school. The only time he ever got drunk. I mean seriously, my rural, whitebread, Montana freshman students have more street cred.
re twolf’s image . . .
Ewwwwww. I didn’t really want to sleep tonight anyway.
Ai-chihuahua!
[waves to racymind]
The crawling in was a realization that he was fucked… The crawling out was a celebration of his fuckedness
;~P
I mean, did Steele actually NOT expect to find himself kissing the ring within hours?
Limbaugh is a mountain of shit, but somewhere he has a very powerful posse.
*mwah* sweetheart!
What’s gotten lost in all the CPAC coverage was the scene of Miss McConnell standing at the podium asking the crowd, ”Who would you rather hang out with, Rush Limbaugh? Or Paul Krugman and Robert Reich?”
Or Lindsey Graham, I thought.
That a fetching pose by Stelle.
Is it true that McHenry is pondering a senate run?
Suddenly I have a thing for economists.
20,000,000 dittoheads covered in cheeto dust with unlimited access to a phone line and a FAX machine. Loud, insane, and ditto-ish — but still less than ten percent of the country.
My split second of racial solidarity with Steele that I was saving up has now been wasted on the “Damn, man!” exclamation I involuntarily let out on seeing the headline at ThinkP.
Say Mike, be sure to give the fellows in sheets a wide berth. You don’t have a lot in the bank.
Someone should write a book called “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big, Fat Idiot”.
A little birdie confided to me a few weeks back – when I couldn’t see it clearly yet – that he thought Obama dropped Limbaugh’s name to initiate a range war in teh Gooper party. I disagreed.
Wow, step up and take a bow… You know who you are.
According to the polling data, he ranks right up there with Dubya in national popularity. On the other hand those few followers are all totally rabid.
I nominate Jane
He’ll have to leave the Republican Party for that.
that is some serious judo being played.
At CPAC Limbaugh looked like a mountain of shit that a discount Christo adorned with acres of acetate.
And what is up with Michael Steele’s head size in relation to his shoulder breadth? Twolf’s image kindly gives him a head in proportion to his body; something he does not have in real life.
(I know, the true distortion lies within…but it sure looks like it is leaking out!)
Right. How long has it been since Democrats played chess against anyone but themselves? Clinton and the shutdown?
The “
soiledsolid South” could take on a whole new meaning.McHenry has a gay murder scandal waiting to break all over him; I doubt the NC state party is down with that in a Senate candidate.
Well, you probably won’t want to sleep after viewing mine tomorrow either, then.
;>)
Promises, promises. ;-)
It…. is…. ALIIIIIIIVE!
;~P
All hail Rush LimbMao.
-G
I’d like to see Rush win the nomination in ‘12. Could be hard to choose a running mate, though. Anyone standing near him is likely to get singed by his incendiary flatulence.
Oh, my stars and garters — Steele didn’t teabag Rush. He couldn’t have — he’d suffocate under all that flab first. (Yes, I know, I’m headed for the corner as we speak…)
Limp-bough might be more apt. Hence the need for Viagra.
I think is more LimpBaal.
Actually, that would likely make Steele the teabag-ee. Pretty gruesome scenario in any event.
Indeed.
I don’t blame Limbaugh for this (no, I mean I don’t credit him). He is playing the hand he is dealt, and playing it into ratings.
But if he is to anoint the leader, and his man is Jindal, then I say let him run to the end zone untouched.
Or frequent trips to the Dominican, a notorious spot for sex tourists looking for underage boys to ravish.
Oh please, let it be.
Let the ring kissing begin, the candidates know where the line is.
I don’t want to see anything else get kissed, now that we know Rush forces Steele to sit down when he pees. Will Michelle Bachman still be able to say “you be da man!”
Jindal/Palin 2012
Bring it!
If they’re not careful, Rush is going to give pedophiles a bad name.
Palin will probably name her next kid Rush.
As watertiger and the little birdie put it so aptly, if Obama did this, well, I kinda like The Chicago Way.
Yes please. May I have some more?
Dugg
It would be the Chicago way indeed. Fuck your enemies before they can fuck you.
I sincerely hope she’s finished pooting out youngin’s.
It’s just so . . . devious! I love it!
Meanwhile, Rush’s buddies in the whackjob right are lining up to have his back:
Tony Perkins of the FRC: Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss!
Bernard Goldberg: Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss — and shut up, Bill O’Reilly! You’re just jealous of Rushie!
Even better — get them to fuck each other.
Which is exactly what’s happening.
I just love the picture WaterTiger. Cudos to the artist!
The Chicago Way is not always so devious, there is a lot of upfront kneecapping, but they are really good at ratfucking as well.
that’s the genius of our very own twolf.
twisted bastard that he is.
To gain Rushbo’s favor I am sure she could crank out one more.
No reason to drag rats into these sordid goings on.
PRESENTING:
“You da man” of Steele versus The Oxycontin Kid.
The trash talk on WWF Smackdown doesn’t approach this.
“I mean, did Steele actually NOT expect to find himself kissing the ring within hours?”
could it be the whole thing was a set-up, with Steele and Limbaugh as co-conspirators? it had the effect of publicly establishing their pecking order; perhaps Steele is OK with that
True. Unfair to such noble rodents to associate them with LimpBaal.
I think this Jindal loving Rush is a ploy to resurrect the dreadful George Allen/Eric Cantor ticket. Jindal gets anointed then he in turn will rehabilitate /resucitate George “Some of my best friends are Macaca” Allen…then Jindal gets sidelined, etc. ad nauseum
Thinking about Steele’s tough-talk in the speech he gave when elected, I suspect he wouldn’t throw in to make himself look like a friggin pantywaist at the hands of a talkshow host.
There really is no life form lower than Rush since all other species are at the very least, sincere.
Steele Kisses the O-Ring.
A Tired Nation Throws Up In Their Mouths.
-G
Steele has demonstrated that he is good for at least one gaffe per week.
Fixed
Rush has been married 3 times to three different women for years at a time and he has no kids?
Now sure Rush has lost a lot of weight but he still looks like he is only one Big Mac away from a heart attack.
Its a given that men as rich as Rush get gold diggers.
So any gold diggers checking Rush out would know that even after a divorce and prenup a kid, Rush’s only kid means that you get it all.
No kids means that he is sterile or gay the odds of not having kids with three different woman after being married to them for years?
Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham like Rush are thankfully not having kids despite all their family values talk.
Could this be proof that there is a God?
Yeah. Have to agree. He is too in love with his macho image of himself (though honestly, my 6 lb. 20 year old cat could take him with one paw tied behind her back).
Or get one of her daughters to.
but isn’t that what he accomplished with his apology/disclaimer?
LimpBaal, I like that.
Funny that the GOP lunatic cultists are already losing their Palinmania.
What a fickle bunch of sociopaths.
-G
He’s even dressing in black now too.
No more of those Lamebaugh ties.
-G
They have the attention span of gnats. You have to continuously feed the bloody red meat or they forget you exist.
He looks like a man on his knees, at the foot of a performer. If he can’t see that…
No brains, no headaches as my sister says.
Have to admit that is rather an improvement. Not much, but something.
Palin appealed to the Talibangelicals. I think the Cheetos brigade is a little more secular in composition.
The Cheetos brigade is a necessary appendage to their survival… they think. Only later will realize that it’s a tick.
Have I ever lied to you?
;>)
And vice-versa…
Calling it quits here. Hope I don’t have nightmares after all this talk of Rush and his festering porcine crappulence.
Wishing a splendid evening to all.
Night. Sweet, Rush-free dreams.
Rush, Rush sweet harlot.
-G
TeamObama drinks champagne – the good stuff – all over the West Wing these days, having sowed gross disharmony in the Gooper tent.
Cheers.
Think I will head out as well. More mental corrupting to do in the morning. Take care all.
LOL. We need an image to go with that…
Paging DarkBlack stat!
-G
nite ratfood
nite doctor
Per this from last October:
It has been five months and the Dow is now below 7,000. His prophetic accuracy is why they call him, Dr. Doom.
Limpballs is all but done, except within his own circles.
And THAT square, is a product of Clear Channel Radio . . . which is in of itself, as the others, losing its shirt as ad revenue drops . . .
Hate radio is all about NOT being liberal radio.
Simple, npo?
Why? Cuz hate radio creates whacko’s who call in, and do so, on ALL radio stations
THOSE folks, also threaten on air and in newspapers to boycott ad sponsors who support the liberal POV.
Ergo, media is threatened by a small minority of the 23% who threaten the ad revenue media requires.
Yeah, I don’t buy all that, either . . . it’s a piece of it all, yes.
The real shit?
The media IS the 1%, owned by the bankers, and used as a speaking tool.
Ergo, NO one goes against the media, without being punished one way or another.
And NO media sources, survive, if they are spouting anything BUT the hate jive.
But stuff’s happening . . . stock is worthless, stockholders don’t have money, and the media is so mistrusted these days as to be unthinkable a few decades ago . . . . NO ONE trust the media. Other than those who watch, read or listen to only that which moves them . . .
Bottom line? The money is dropping out of supporting the media . . . all the media, not just the print.
Ad money is just not there . . . regardless of the politics involved . .
And the GOP continues to minimalize itself, day by day . . .
Smaller, and smaller . . . and folks don’t buy it, nor support it, and the advertisers don’t pay for the GOP line no more.
Media’s gonna have to sell something else . . . a bit more liberal, I ’spect . . .
Course, there’s no MONEY or BUDGET to sell messages . . . . which REALLY hardens the divide. And I like that, a hardened divide.
Cuz the OTHER side, is marginalized, minimized, and basically, dying. *G*
Damn I hope we get 30 years or more to affect a good kind of change . . . I’d be 86.
I sure hope I get to smile long before I’m 86 . . . .
I think the 49ers front office has gotten a bit smarter with Mike’s entrance.
Maybe. I think Warner is the wrong QB for this offense. I can’t think of a QB in the league right now I’d really want, that’s the sad part, other than Drew Brees.
Refresh me again – where is Alex Smith in all this? Didn’t they put the franchise tag on him a while back?
Could they be trying to lower his value to keep him, or raise it to get higher picks in a deal?
And Warner can still play. He made a believer out of me.
Ya but the Niners don’t have a Larry Fitzgerald … bring back Montana !!!
BTW … ygm.
A very small club. He is a special player.
But even Fitz isn’t as great as JR was…JR was SO smooth!
I remember Ricky Watters. If he had had his head on straight, he would have been tremendous for a long time. As it was, he was only startling spectacular for a short while.
His performance in the ‘94 season’s Championship game was breathtaking. The 38-28 win over Dallas at the Stick.
What does Rush have on his fellow Republicans?
Obviously a lot.
It’s kind of mind boggling that a right wing radio host without any political experience at all would be the leader of the Republican party. Limbaugh has never run for office, has never served in office, and I don’t think he’s ever been on a campaign or worked for a politician. He hasn’t a clue on running a political operation. So why is he the GOP’s leader?
Who knows?
Somebody knows…
As Chris Rock once put it, “When a man is sucking your dick, he can pretend that’s something else. When he’s eating ass, he knows it’s ass.”