Told ya so.
The other day when I Googled “george bush chimp” I got only 320,000 results, and today it’s .
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh on air yesterday to Barack Obama because a caller had said her kid thinks Obama looks like Curious George.
“It was not my intent to bring dishonor and guttural utterances into this campaign.”
Mmmkay. Is he serious? I might be wrong but isn’t Limbaugh the one who made the term “Hildabeast” famous?
I’d understand people getting all hinky about comparing a part-black presidential candidate to a monkey if they hadn’t spent the last 7 years populating the internet with hundreds of thousands of references to the sitting president as a chimp.
I’m just . Color’s got nothing to do with it.
Actually, I don’t think it was Rush who did “Hildabeest.” I think it was Mark Levin. Could be wrong though.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pmI think Boortz uses the Hildabeast term. I’ve never heard Limbaugh use it.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pmI’m betting that Rush’s “apology” was tongue-in-cheek; that sounds like classic Rush Limbaugh facetiousness. Maybe.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pmFirst of all, Rush should never have apologized — he should have made the same observation you are making in this post.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pmAnd it really should come as no surprise; the LLL are second to none in their hypocrisy and their double-standards. When are conservatives [present company excluded] going to start playing for keeps, and start calling bullskit when the LLL go off on their tangents?
Rush is probably worried about FCC fines or something. I don’t think he actually wanted to apologize, unless there is more to that “Curious George” quote than we can see here (does someone have the transcript so we can see it in context?).
March 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pmThe monkey comparison is more accurate when used on someone who has a mentality approaching that of a monkey. Curious, George sure ain’t.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pmDarn, I didn’t hear it, but from Rush, I would suspect snark as being the intended message in an “apology” like that. He often does smart-ass comments in a completely straight voice, and has generated a number of angry calls from his fans when he speaks as if he’s gone over to the dark side, because he does it like he’s serious.
After reading the article and hearing the linked audio, I think that’s probably what it was, but of course, they didn’t play the apology, so I don’t know for certain.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:30 pmDon’t be a pussy, Rachel. Post a pic of Barak next to a pic of a chimp too.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:02 pmI heard it. The apology sounded sincere and genuine to me. Limbaugh is a serious commentator and probably figured that he doesn’t need the aggravation of having to answer for some stupid caller’s arguably racist comment. The truth is, I heard the caller and didn’t even register the possible racial connotations initially either. It just kind of came out of left field, because the woman in question seemed relatively normal.
Limbaugh’s a master at tweaking the PC sensibilities and has done a great job so far, with regard to Obama, pointing out the race obsession of the Democrats. He’s not going to do something as crude and graceless as letter a black man get called a monkey, unless it’s someone on the left doing it.
I think it’s reasonable to believe that the comment just sort of sailed past him initially because he didn’t know that Curious George is a monkey.
And for the record, I think Obama looks more like Alfred E. Neuman myself.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:11 pmMissed the whole show today, but who cares if anyone insults B.Hussain Obama? I sure as hell don’t.
I’m also surprised nobody has compared the Hildabeast to that crazy lady in that used BMW or Mercedes commerical.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:13 pmRemember, for the Professionally Offended it’s never racism if (1) the target is a white man, and/or (2) it’s them doing it.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:23 pmRush sometimes uses nicknames for Democrats and others. But he always addresses the Big She as Mrs. Clinton. I think calling her Mrs. Clinton could be construed as a dig at the Ultimate Feminist, who stood by her man for purely political reasons.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pmGreat thread on the same subject here:
March 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pmI think they’re all hard to look at. And vote for.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm“I don’t think he actually wanted to apologize, unless there is more to that “Curious George” quote than we can see here (does someone have the transcript so we can see it in context?).
Posted by mightysamurai on March 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm ”
It was a caller quoting her 12 Y.O. daughter:
“ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports Squeals: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked like the cartoon character Curious George, a monkey.
Limbaugh, who laughed at the caller’s comments, later apologized explaining he didn’t know anything about Curious George.”
March 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pmRachel, it was tongue-in-cheek. After the apology and a Obama fan called to tell him we was a jerk (paraphrased) Rush talked about the REAL point being that Obama fans will be looking out for slights real or imagined in order to label any criticism as racist or bigoted.
He talked about how throughout the election process this is what McCain supporters are going to hear nonstop whenever they criticize Obama.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:40 pmActually, I believe that Curious George has a more manly physique.
The libtards always feel justified in calling Conservatives any name they want, or making any sort of vile comparison of a Conservative (or Jew) to anything — and then pleading that they are only “exercising their 1st Amendment rights”. But God help a Conservative who disses a “progressive” icon like hussein or hitlery! Then, that speech becomes rascist, sexist or inhuman - and must be banned. And a lot of Conservatives fall into the trap set by the socialists and start apologizing when they have nothing to apologize for. WE allow it!! WE give them the right to impose a double standard on us and keep being led passively down the path to our own destruction! STOP apologizing for TRUTH!!
March 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pmPlease tell me we can still make fun of the size of Obama’s ears, or would this be insulting his elfen heritage?
March 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pmPosted by PaleoMedic on March 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pm:
Yes, and he manages to imbue ‘Mrs. Clinton’ with such scathing haughty contempt that it’s far more insulting than ‘Hildabeast’.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm“Mrs. Clinton” isn’t that good of an insult, since a lot of liberals seem to buy the lie that the Clintons are still happily married, even after Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Brodrick…..
March 4th, 2008 at 6:33 pmDear Rachel, have you seen yet? Michelle Obama insults America again!
March 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pmdfwmtx, I think Obama looks more like a Ferengi.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:45 pmgd,
Scathing? Haughty? You have to really be listening with some very ingrained preconceptions to glean haughty or scathing. I call it accurate, subtle.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:58 pmRachel,
It doesn’t matter what people say about Obama, he’s killing his own chances with talk like this:
You gotta see it, it’s incredible!
March 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pmPaleoMedic:
March 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pmWell, you know, scathing and haughty in an accurate yet subtle way. I often have the impression he calls her that to set her at a distance — as far away from himself as possible. Maybe you’re right, and I’m reading into it, but there’s something about the way he says “Mrs. Clinton” that is the opposite of being respectful. =)
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I never heard of Curious George until I had kids (who are all in their 20s now), so I can readily understand how Rush, who is childless, hadn’t.
But, as Rush said, if He Who Must Not Be Middle Named is the democrat nominee, we will be treated to charges of racism every time HWMNBMN is criticized. I am not looking forward to it.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pmKit: Levin calls Hillary “Her Thighness” if memory serves…
March 5th, 2008 at 11:08 amThe way I see it, most people who are outraged regarding this issue are upset because Obama is a black man that has been compared to a monkey. Answer me this, if he has one black parent, and one white parent, why does everybody consider him black? Why does he consider himself black? Isn’t he just as much a white man? I guess an average white guy just doesn’t get the media attention.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:08 pmPerhaps the 12 year old was commenting on his haircut? Consider these two pictures:
It goes in at the lower forehead, then widens out into two upper-forehead lobes.
McCain seems to be sporting a single-lobed hairstyle.
And President Bush has the two lobes, as well, though he keeps it a bit longer.
So the monkey connection seems to be related to the dual-lobed upper forehead.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pmI just want to know who the Man in the Yellow Hat would be.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:08 pmGeorge Bush probably does not mind the chimp business, since Abraham Lincoln received much the same treatment from the Democrats in his time.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:01 pm