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Why the Drive-Bys Went Batty Over What I Said About Mayor Pete
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | February 17, 2020 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/17/2020 11:10:12 AM PST by Kaslin

RUSH: This Mayor Pete stuff. What do you think the main reason the Drive-Bys went batty over this?

I didn’t lecture Mayor Pete on anything. I didn’t say anything anti-gay. I didn’t even offer an opinion of my own. I was asking people to analyze — asking people to imagine how the Democrat power base was looking at their options after the Hawkeye Cauci and New the Hampshire primary. I’ll replay the bite for you. It takes about two minutes to go through, but at no point was there a lecture of Mayor Pete on family values or anything else. At no point was there a condemnation of Mayor Pete.

In fact, I’m the reason Mayor Pete’s on the map! I’m the guy, after a CNN town hall at South by Southwest in 2019… I’m the guy that came here… Snerdley has been mad at me from the get-go for this. I’m the guy that came in here and told you all, “Be on the lookout for Mayor Pete.” I saw him; I thought he performed well in the town hall. I thought he expressed his opinions well. He did a great job of hiding his liberal extremism, which is what leftists have to do in primaries in order to go out and get as broad a base as they can.

First on was Tulsi Gabbard, and it was two hours — and I was made to watch this. I had a guest in for a member-guest golf tournament. It was in March of whatever year this would have been. It has to be the last. The guest, a noted TV anchor, said, “I’ve gotta watch this.” I said, “Come on, man! It’s Saturday night! I don’t want to watch CNN and these schlubs.” “I’ve got to.” So we fired up the big 100-inch screen 4K TV and dialed in CNN.

I watched Mayor Pete, and I said, “You know, this guy is pretty smooth.” The next day, Monday, I came to the program and warned everybody, “Be on the lookout for Mayor Pete.” He’s on the map because of me! At no time have I lectured Mayor Pete. At no time have I opined on Mayor Pete as to what I think at all. Do you know what this really is about, folks? I’ll tell you what this is really about, the main reason.

Hell, the president even called me about this! The president checks in every now and then to see how I’m doing — he’s such a nice guy — and he called. It’s uncanny. I’m… (interruption) Do I respond to him? Yeah! (interruption) Well, I try to reply to all of them, Dawn. I’m not gonna be able to, but he called. And, yeah. I’m a powerful, influential member of the media, folks; I’ve got the White House private number in my phone. So when the White House calls, it says there on my phone.

So invariably — it’s uncanny — he calls when I am moments away from commencing a medical procedure, and I had to tell the doctors, “You’ve gotta give me a half hour. The president’s calling.” “Okay. We’ll wait a half hour.” Then I told the White House, “Look, I got a medical procedure in 10 minutes. Can you have the president call me back in 35?” And they did. So he called back, and he said, “Rush, I just gotta tell you something. Never apologize. Don’t ever apologize.”

I said, “For what?”

I had no idea this thing had even bubbled up. You know, I’m up doing the medical thing that I have to do here, and I wasn’t even aware of this. So here’s what I think’s going on. Then I became aware of it, and Kathryn said, “Oh, yeah, they’re all over you. It’s the usual thing. They’re saying you said things you didn’t say. All you had to do, Rush, was mention somebody is gay and here they come: You’re a homophobe,” and that’s exactly what this is.

I think what set the Drive-Bys in the media off and in Washington… I think they are mad about my remarks about Mayor Pete because I think they think that a lot of people didn’t know that he’s gay. I’m talking about the low-information voters, the great unwashed. I think they think that there’s a lot of people that don’t know he’s gay and that I sort of dropped the dime on it and let people who otherwise didn’t know that Mayor Pete is gay.

I think that’s what they’re really mad about, that I even mentioned it. You’re not supposed to mention it. Why aren’t you supposed to mention it? Well, you answer that yourself. I mean, the Drive-Bys — as I’ve read what they’ve said and as I’ve replayed it (I’ve got transcripts of audio sound bites, montages) — they even seem to be afraid that I might have revealed that news to a lot of low-information voters for the first time.

Now, I’m looking at people on the other side of the glass — Snerdley, Brian, and Dawn — and they’re look at me. “No. It can’t be that,” and you know why they think that? ‘Cause they know he’s gay; so they think everybody must believe he’s gay. But I’m telling you, there has to be a reason for this. (interruption) Well, no… (interruption) Well, I know they’re mad that I got the Medal of Freedom and they’ve been looking for a way to lash back, and so here they come along.

And all I happened to say was, “If you’re in the Democrat Party today and these are your three options based on the returns from Iowa and New Hampshire, how are you feeling about this?” I went through the whole thing from the perspective of Democrat powerbrokers. So I mentioned that Mayor Pete is gay, and, bam! That’s all it took, and here comes, “Limbaugh’s a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe! Decades and decades of negative comments, besmirching comments! Inhumane comments!”

It just flows out of their mouth and across their lips like water. It is knee-jerk. They didn’t even have to take the time to find out what I was really saying. What it was is just like I said last week talking about Biden. I told you from the get-go: I never thought the guy was gonna win. It’s not personal with Biden. I’m giving you straight political analysis here. It’s exactly what I was doing with this Mayor Pete situation. So Mayor Pete’s out there saying, “I’m not gonna be lectured to on family values!”

Well, I didn’t lecture him on family values. I didn’t lecture anybody on family values, and they all know this. So now they’re gonna take these comments and they’ll further distort these. You know, this is why I don’t like responding to this stuff. But I said, “What the hell.” This is something that those of you who were listening know the truth and know how it was distorted. Those of you who weren’t, who are now listening, deserve to have it known.

I’ll go through the comments that I made afterwards — and, by the way, if you keep listening, you will find out… Do you know what James Clyburn is, folks? James Clyburn is a former chairman of the House Congressional Black Caucasians. He’s from South Carolina (his daughter is named Mignon Clyburn), and he agreed with me. Not by name. He didn’t say (impression), “Rush Limbo is right.”

He said exactly what I said the Democrat hierarchy was going to say after the results in Iowa and New Hampshire. He proves my point. But the Drive-Bys and the leftists, there’s an activist gay community — I have it here if the stories in the Stack of Stuff. They’re mad at Mayor Pete because he’s trying to undersell it. They’re mad at Mayor Pete because he’s not flaunting who he is. So the point is, El Rushbo, anti-gay? (Snort!) I could care less. Nothing I can do about it anyway.

I didn’t lecture anybody on family values. I would not do so on this program. I simply was engaging in political analysis that is politically incorrect as far as the left is concerned. You simply are not — a conservative is not — permitted to identify a gay candidate as gay. These people need to be thanking me. Mayor Pete is on the map because of me — and himself, of course, obviously. But he’s on the map because of me.

I guarantee you, after that appearance on CNN at South by Southwest a year and a half ago or whenever it was and I came here the following Monday and said, “Folks, keep a sharp eye out for Mayor Pete,” I guarantee you that was a great day in Mayor Pete’s campaign. “Wow. Did you hear what Limbaugh said? Limbaugh said, ‘Keep a sharp eye on Mayor Pete.'”

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: March 18th, 2019, Mayor Pete, CNN, South by Southwest, that couple days after that is when I put Mayor Pete on the map.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, my friends, do not doubt me when I tell you that the primary reason the Drive-Bys — now, you can argue that I got the Medal of Freedom. Yeah, that’s gonna bug ’em for the rest of their lives. But there’s another reason why they’re ticked off at me and they’re trying to besmirch me on the Mayor Pete stuff, and it’s the fact that there’s a lot of primary voters out there that do not know he is gay. You may think, “Rush, that’s absolutely absurd.” I have (shuffling papers) here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Put it up on the Dittocam.

Here’s a headline, NBC News. This goes back to the 5th of February: “Iowa Caucus-Goer Pulls Buttigieg Vote After Learning He’s Gay, Viral Video Shows,” and then there’s a picture of this voter. I’m not gonna put the picture of the voter on the Dittocam. “The Time magazine cover photo didn’t do it. Nor did the March appearance on ABC’s The View or a year’s worth of digital and television news stories.

“It was not until Monday night — after casting her caucus vote for [Mayor Pete] — that an Iowa Democratic caucus voter, known only as ‘Geert,’ first learned that the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is gay and married a man in 2018. ‘Are you saying he has a same-sex partner?’ the woman asked in a now viral video…” Then she goes and asks for her vote for Mayor Pete back. Now, don’t doubt me, my friends, when I tell you that one of the…

You know, aside from the Medal of Freedom business — which is gonna be a constant (chuckles) thorn in their side (chuckles) that’s never gonna go away — believe me, the reason that the Democrats in the media and in Washington are really mad about my remarks about him is because there’s a lot of Democrat primary voters who don’t know that Mayor Pete is gay. It wasn’t even my intention… It never occurred to me. Now that I think about the coverage over the last few weeks, it seems to me the media would like us to forget that Mayor Pete is gay — and that, in itself, is kind of puzzling.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii; US: Indiana; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; hawaii; indiana; jamesclyburn; mignonclyburn; mikepence; petebuttigieg; rushlimbaugh; southbend; southcarolina; transcript; tulsigabbard
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To: Osage Orange
The Hillary thing or Obamas?

Let's pretend I knew a college friend who worked in the White House and one day back in '93 during a round of golf plus several rounds of an attractive cart lady's offerings, spilled some things about protocols and misuse of tax payers' resources pertaining to why Secret Service was assigned to protect a female (Private citizen, single) "off the grid".

BTW, this friend also "dated" a human humidor for a time in the winter before the famous incident (He liked the young impressionable types just like his boss) occurred.
41 posted on 02/17/2020 2:10:33 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Kaslin

Little Petey is a not so closet Communist.


42 posted on 02/17/2020 2:50:05 PM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Kaslin
Saint Pete, the Sanctimonious, with husband and son. Your typical "woke" family!


43 posted on 02/17/2020 3:10:09 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Kaslin
I didn’t lecture Mayor Pete on anything.

Heck; I will!!


 

A BIBLICAL Message about homosexuality



 
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.


Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

 
 


Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;

they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.

Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.

They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.


Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.


Romans 1     New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
 
 18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
 

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. 


2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.



But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


The Health Risks of gay sex.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We are living in a Genesis 19:9 world...
 

"Get out of our way,” they replied.
“This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
 
 
 

44 posted on 02/17/2020 3:15:59 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

As Rush has always said: politics is Hollywood for ugly people.

That photo of Dork Pete lovey-doveying with his fugly “wife” is vomit-inducing.


45 posted on 02/17/2020 3:17:03 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: allendale
Wouldn't it be cool for him to be the first President to get gender reassignment surgery??

Then Ol' Petey could be the first queer AND the first female president!



46 posted on 02/17/2020 3:18:43 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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There are plenty of voting women out there who think he’s a clean-cut young man in a sweater. who probably think, "If I could get hold of him; he'd be queer no more!"
47 posted on 02/17/2020 3:23:35 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rollo tomasi
I used to pretend with my kids....

They are grown and doing well...

Why are you still pretending?

48 posted on 02/17/2020 3:24:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: rollo tomasi
Instead of

We'll have Who's on top?"

49 posted on 02/17/2020 3:29:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Osage Orange
Something else...no dude I ever have known would sit a 1/2 inch apart on a couch...with no one else on the couch..Bammy did.



50 posted on 02/17/2020 3:32:55 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rollo tomasi
(Which I am 100% sure of based on what I was to...... mid-90's)

, Too

???


51 posted on 02/17/2020 3:35:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Osage Orange
Did not to ask for specific details and would only get generals, it's SOP with those degenerates. Person was close to her age (From playing pretend of course) as well as highly valued.

At the time I thought nothing of it because the husband was a whoremonger and the wife went Wellesley muff-diving for her undergrad so thinking it just "rubbed" off on her (And the partner) after being jaded by her husband.
52 posted on 02/17/2020 4:02:58 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Kaslin

I listened today and laughed as Rush talked about Pete for about 40 minutes and mentioned over and over again that he’s gay.....rubbed it in their faces....loved it


53 posted on 02/17/2020 4:23:51 PM PST by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: rollo tomasi
Okay...whatever.

Name names..

54 posted on 02/17/2020 4:37:13 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Elsie

Pretty classic...


55 posted on 02/17/2020 4:38:24 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Kaslin

Offering an opinion that a gay would lose the election is not anti-gay.


56 posted on 02/17/2020 6:05:15 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: rollo tomasi

Ugh! Not only don’t I want to see it, I don’t want to hear about it! It’s totally and completely sick.

If those descriptions were made public during the campaign, no God-fearing person would vote for him, but the person that described it would be charged with a hate crime.


57 posted on 02/17/2020 9:27:30 PM PST by CedarDave (Democrats are the Granola Party -full of fruits, nuts and flakes. And they lie, that's who they are.)
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To: miss marmelstein

When I refer to someone as “clean-cut” I am referring to a grooming style, not moral character.


58 posted on 02/17/2020 10:29:04 PM PST by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Kaslin

Can you imagine a President Buttigieg having his motorcade make unannounced stops at highway rest areas so the president can, you know, use the mens room.......


59 posted on 02/17/2020 11:32:51 PM PST by Jaysin (Trump canÂ’t be beat, if the Democrats donÂ’t cheat)
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To: Kaslin
History repeats itself.

Remember when most voters were UNAWARE the Obunga was a MUSLIM?

60 posted on 02/18/2020 12:19:40 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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