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Howard Dean Body Slams Rush Limbaugh on Morality
The National Ledger (AZ) ^ | 05.24.2005 | Chris Davis

Posted on 05/24/2005 6:36:47 PM PDT by rface

New York: In what appears to be a crushing blow, Howard Dean body slammed Rush Limbaugh on Meet The Press, putting Limbaugh in his place and placing the final nail in his coffin. The remarks came Sunday, May 22, 2005, in an hour long interview with Tim Russert. Dean pulled out all the stops, leaving his place in history with such names as Lenin, Marx and Krushchev.

In one of his comments to Russert, Dean said, “It is galling to be lectured about moral values by folks who have their own problems. I’m giving them a little taste of their own castor oil and they don’t like it.”

Dean continued to crucify Limbaugh, bringing his brand of justice to an all new level. “Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. And now it’s time for a little payback.”

Dean’s interview wasn’t just a slap in the face of conservatives, but it was also a rallying cry for Democrats to gather up their crosses, bibles and rosaries, and get on the morality bandwagon for the 2006 and 2008 elections. With Dean throwing down the gauntlet, it’s clear that Limbaugh was in his crosshairs.

“I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy," he noted. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like ‘Rush Limbaugh,’ and we don't have to put up with that. Limbaugh is no longer allowed to play in the morality sandbox. I’m drawing the line in the sand, and quite frankly, I’m tired of these reindeer games.”

Dean has commented that he hadn’t gone to church that much, but that he is more of a Christian than Limbaugh. “Tell Limbaugh to bring the heat on. I just went down and purchased my first bible,” Dean exclaimed. “A King James Version and I can match him passage for passage.”

There have been rumors and innuendos that Limbaugh and Dean are to appear in a steel cage-morality match in Madison Square Garden in New York City, declaring the winner as “The Heavyweight Champion of Morality, and solidifying once and for all which party owns morality.

“I am sick of being told what I [am] and what I'm not by other people. I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way?that's my business. That's not the business of the Pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else. It’s time we did something about it, and this match is perfect. Dean fired. “Are you man enough to step in the ring with me, Limbaugh? Let’s get it on!”

Limbaugh, in a response on his show today, stated, “I welcome it. It’s the league that I play in. Besides, I have twenty pounds on Dean. I’ll give him a thumping he won’t ever forget!”

“I’m voting on Dean,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC. “With Limbaugh’s history, I just can’t afford to be seen this way in Washington.”

“I’m far too spineless to support Limbaugh,” whined Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME. “Go Dean go. I have to think about reelection in 2008, and this Washington machine turns slowly.”

“How does it feel to take a walk on the morality wild side Rush,” asked Sen. John McCain, R-AZ. “No one in Washington knows who I’m gonna support. And I like it. I like it a lot! The media loves me. The media loves me not. The media loves me. The media loves me not.”

Limbaugh, practically begging for Dean to keep talking about him, hasn’t committed to the match. However, Limbaugh thumped Dean in his show today, remarking that he wanted to see Dr. Dean’s medical records as well, and wondering how may brain cells Dr. Dean has lost.

“All I know,” Dean said as his face grew redder, “is that I want this match to be drug free. He’s not going to be allowed to cheat morality any longer.”

With the Democratic Party on life support and the insults that have been bandied back and forth, it was only a matter of time before the war of words came to a head, culminating in a no holds barred steel cage match, and leaving the question: What party owns morality?


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Yep - ol' Howard Dean kicked Limbaughs fat butt on Meet the Press
1 posted on 05/24/2005 6:36:47 PM PDT by rface
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To: rface

Dean made an ars of himself again.


2 posted on 05/24/2005 6:40:07 PM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
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To: rface
" Howard Dean body slammed Rush Limbaugh on Meet The Press, putting Limbaugh in his place and placing the final nail in his coffin"

I'm not sure if that counts.

I'd feel better if Dr. Dean and Rush went at it naked, with vegetable oil.

I might pay for that.

3 posted on 05/24/2005 6:41:59 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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troll


4 posted on 05/24/2005 6:42:19 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead (To hell with Mexico, its policies, and its leaders)
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< I'm a committed Christian. >

Someone took that line and turned it "he's a Christian that needs to be commited". I would attribute it, but just can't remember where I heard it.


5 posted on 05/24/2005 6:42:32 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (...stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks.-K.Parker)
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To: rface

J/K


6 posted on 05/24/2005 6:42:33 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead (To hell with Mexico, its policies, and its leaders)
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To: rface
Dean has commented that he hadn’t gone to church that much, but that he is ,more of a Christian than Limbaugh. “Tell Limbaugh to bring the heat on. I just went down and purchased my first bible,” Dean exclaimed. “A King James Version and I can match him passage for passage.”

Is this from The Onion?

7 posted on 05/24/2005 6:42:45 PM PDT by wizardoz (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get you.)
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"a rallying cry for Democrats to gather up their crosses, bibles and rosaries, and get on the morality bandwagon for the 2006 and 2008 elections."

Right.
They will have to wash the blood and body parts of aborted babies from their hands first.


8 posted on 05/24/2005 6:42:54 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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There is no way this guy:



Did this:




To this guy:




I'm sorry guys, Rush has lost some weight and Dean is a psycho, but physically Dean is a light weight....
9 posted on 05/24/2005 6:43:50 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Is anyone else ready for football to begin again?)
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All I see Dean doing is peeing into the wind again.


10 posted on 05/24/2005 6:43:53 PM PDT by caisson71
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Ya gotta love Howard Dean. He doesn't just pick a fight with a guy who buys ink by the barrel, he picks a fight with a guy who has 30 million listeners.


11 posted on 05/24/2005 6:44:24 PM PDT by Nick Danger (www.iranfree.org)
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To: rface

You know, there are people who will take this seriously. ;-)


12 posted on 05/24/2005 6:44:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: wizardoz
Is this from The Onion?

Howard Dean Body Slams Rush Limbaugh on Morality by Political Satirist Chris Davis May 24, 2005

13 posted on 05/24/2005 6:44:45 PM PDT by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com)
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To: caisson71

I'm like Rush...I just hope he keeps talking.


14 posted on 05/24/2005 6:44:45 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (...stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks.-K.Parker)
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(from the link)

by Political Satirist Chris Davis

a real knee-slapper he is.


15 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:24 PM PDT by Randjuke
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Wonder if Dean knows that King James was horribly anti-semitic? Guess he was not a historian judging by some of his remarks he even proved it. Pappy used to say" Let folks think your and idiot, but keep your mouth shut so you don't prove them right."


16 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:30 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Yep - ol' Howard Dean kicked Limbaughs fat butt on Meet the Press...
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Yeah, right. Dean is so full of hate for sucsessful conservatives, he will say and do anything in an attempt to malign any of them -- Rush nails the criminal, whacked-out left on a daily basis, and all Dean and his radical ilk can do is name calling and character attacks.

The left has absolutely nothing to offer or say that has ANY INTELLECTUAL CONTENT at all. They are irrelevant -- and Dean just cannot handle it, let alone himself. Keep at it Howard-boy...you are a great poster-child for real American conservatives (notice I did not say Republicans).


17 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:40 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: caisson71
YEEEEAAAARRRGGGHH!!!

sorry, it had to be said

18 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:42 PM PDT by MichiganMan (Thank Michael Moore for 2004!!)
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To: rface

My greatest hope for the future of conservatism is that we have a sense of humor (and perspective) and they are increasingly Stalinist.


19 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:46 PM PDT by neocon1984 (end the idiocy of post-modernism)
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To: rface

From the year 2000 on Dean: the straight-talking, green-leafy-veggies fiscal conservative who favors abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples

Yeah, he's for moral values. NOT!!


20 posted on 05/24/2005 6:45:56 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Once was a Pepsi drinker)
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