Is Rush Limbaugh trying to suggest that President Obama is gay?
Since he can no longer claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya or that the president is Muslim, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has decided to back another right wing conspiracy theory: the dearth of women who have admitted to dating the commander-in-chief.
Chatting on his show yesterday, Limbaugh brought up an email that is apparently circulating around that right wing blogosphere, an email that wonders about Obama’s past romances.
“You probably have seen this [email] going around. This one is, ‘Where are all of Obama’s former girlfriends?’ It’s a takeoff on where are all of the students Obama taught who claim to have been inspired by him when he taught law at the University of Chicago,” said Limbaugh. “Where are all of the former classmates of Obama who can tell wonderful stories about their experience with Obama on campus or in the classroom?”
He continued, “They are interesting because those people haven’t surfaced. There aren’t any ex-girlfriends that have admitted it. Students that have been inspired by Obama as a professor, they haven’t come forth. Media hasn’t dug ‘em up. It is interesting from the standpoint that the guy has not been vetted yet.”
Limbaugh concludes, “It’s very strange that we know so little about a guy who’s written two autobiographies. It really is strange.”
The only thing strange here is the angle Limbaugh is playing. Sure, he wants to create an aura of secrecy and luridness around the president, but the explicitly romantic nature of his remarks — and the email itself — goes beyond the standard conspiracy theory. Wondering whether the president has ex-girlfriends is akin to saying, “Maybe president Obama is gay”—a lame rumor tabloids have been hammering for months.
Limbaugh and his ilk are assuming that Obama’s ex-girlfriends haven’t surfaced because he doesn’t have any — which they take as evidence of shenanigans — rather than the two most obvious explanations: either the women have the dignity not to kiss and tell, or the president has asked them to stay out of the spotlight.
August 17, 2011 at 7:06 pm, Anonymous said:
The smell of Rush’s odious desperation is pungent. Where else in history have we seen more fabricated dung chewed on by people who can’t believe people are who they say they are. It speaks volumes about who Rush and his followers are than anything.
August 17, 2011 at 7:21 pm, Jmchone said:
The problem here isn’t that Republicans are trying to stir rumors that our president is gay or Muslim. The problem is that they believe being gay or Muslim is somehow morally wrong. The last time I checked, a person’s sexual orientation or religious beliefs would has no effect on their job performance.
August 17, 2011 at 8:58 pm, Srdixon said:
That’s rather rich coming from someone who has been married 4 times and has no
children ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh ).
August 17, 2011 at 9:42 pm, jm2 said:
WTF? i wonder how Limbaugh’s skinny wives had sex under him!
that’s how disgusting this is…
August 17, 2011 at 10:49 pm, Anonymous said:
Do we know anything of Bush’s exes? (Either Bush?) Have Bush’s former employees in Texas not given statements? Does that mean that he might not have actually been governor of Texas? What an awfully unsurprising and unsupported leap in logic.
August 18, 2011 at 2:53 pm, VICTOR said:
FAT! FAT! PIG! IF IT SOUNDS LIKE ONE, SMELLS LIKE ONE, AND DEFINITELY LOOKS LIKE ONE!!
August 19, 2011 at 7:53 am, Anonymous said:
I don’t think Limbo is trying to suggest anything about Obama’s sexuality. Instead, he’s looking for evidence of white girlfriends, which he thinks would discredit Obama with African-American voters. And of course it would just stir up the small-dicked, red-necked crackers even further, because the Blacks are always tryin’ to take their women folk.
September 06, 2011 at 1:48 pm, George Lacy said:
slanderous?
September 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm, Lookingup said:
we are choosing up sides too often and not scoping out the truth no matter if it turns out to be not what we want to hear. The problem is, it is true, dirt has long been sought out and printed on politicians, however, with Obama much is brushed aside and whether we want to hear that or not it is true. We need to be proud of America, perhaps not all the politicians, but America we need to stand behind its preceps. Obama would not salute our American flag- after 9/11 said America should be ashamed of herself-Had his B>C> sealed and then said the partial was in public record all along-said on 2 occasions the US was now mostly of Muslim faith-it is ok to be of Muslim faith, America was founded on Christian principles and in all historical/lelgal/political writing proud of it-the point is: if Palin had any of these issues mud slinging would have gone to a new level and the woman did more for Alaska than any other Political Rep in History (I find it odd no one looked up her accolades)-we all need to view all Presidents with a magnifying glass and even if we LOVE them, if there is something amiss stop hiding in the shades of gray and do what is right according to the information, not hide from it…I’m just saying…? I am an objective person, dont sling mud & There are alot of ‘?’ surrounding Obama and just by me saying that, I didnt create them
November 23, 2011 at 10:24 am, Non Traditonal Student said:
What are Obama supports so scared of? Why don’t they want to know the same things? I check the history of possible boyfriends better than the history of our president has been checked. I have met some really handsome men with great personalities just to check on them and find them on a sexual offenders registry. I think that is where his supporters are, they are worried that their false image of Obama will be shattered, that they will find him on a “list” of some kind somewhere. As far as the Bush’s are concerned, we have plenty of information on them, you can see their records, I have seen pictures of them in the military, college and such, and if I wanted to research them I could find any records I wanted on them. These posts, can’t he just be who he is, and such? My suggestion, because you sound brainwashed with stements like that, stop drinking the kool-aid.
January 21, 2012 at 1:49 am, Anonymous said:
well, this person is certainly wrong about the whole this…
Obama as we speak can’t be ignored despite the interferes.
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