Wexler to Limbaugh: apologize for insulting South Floridians
by llipman@coxnews.com | September 12th, 2007
A day after Rush Limbaugh slammed Rep. Robert Wexler and called his South Florida constituents “deranged,” “lunatics,” “wacko,” and “devoid of rationality or reason,” the congressman called for an apology from the radio commentator.
“Many of the same people Rush Limbaugh is calling ‘deranged’ and ‘lunatics’ are World War II and Korean War veterans,” Wexler said in a statement. “Many of them are Holocaust survivors. These are the same men and women who re-built America after the Great Depression. These are good, law-abiding citizens — and he owes them an apology. It is pathetic that Mr. Limbaugh only supports veterans that share his opinions.”
In his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh referred to Wexler as “the disgusting Robert Wexler,” for his aggressive questioning of Gen. David Petraeus at a congressional hearing the day before.
Limbaugh said Wexler “is talking to the relatively few number of people in his district down here and making it sound like he’s representing the United States of America. If you want to know how kooky they are, you ought to pick up any South Florida paper …. Just go to the letters to the editor, and you will swear you’re at Daily Kos! You will swear you’re at the Democrat Underground. You will swear you’re at MoveOn.org. They are deranged — and, yes, they are listening to me right now. You people down here, you are deranged. You Democrats down here are absolutely delusional, devoid of any rationality or reason.”
After playing an audio segment in which Wexler compared Petraeus’ testimony to that by Gen. William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War, Limbaugh said: “This is the attempt to continue to associate Iraq and Vietnam, and that’s something else that you’ll find that these lunatics down there are constantly harping on, because they’ve drunk the Kool-Aid down here, folks, and they drink it each and every day, and they’re fed this Kool-Aid by the editorial writers at these rags.”
Then, after playing an audio clip in which Petraeus defended his concern for the lives lost in Iraq, Limbaugh said: “You know, I’ll bet it was everything Petraeus could do to not reach across that table and start strangling this little guy. I’ll just bet you. He’s sitting there, Wexler, making it sound like nobody cares these 3,700 deaths matter. He’s telling that to a four-star general in dress uniform! But again, that’s Wexler representing his district. He’s pontificating and making speeches for the media down here to show him on TV and so forth, because that’s what they think. Folks, this is not far off from the rest of the kook, liberal population throughout this country.”
Read the full transcript of Limbaugh’s comments here.
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September 13th, 2007 at 10:42 am
It’s Rush Limbaugh…who takes him seriously?????
September 13th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Wexler made an a** of himself at the hearings. He is such a joke.
Thx Rush! I love you!
September 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Rush is an abomination. His utterances are believed as fact though what he preaches are the known fallacies of this administration. Republicans, who believe his lies and extrapolations, do so because they have drunk the
September 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Somebody needs to clue Wexler in about Bizarro World comedians. Seriously, Robert is so dedicated to representing his district and the principles of a democratic nation that he fails to recognize the comical idiosyncrasies of his political detractors. Someone should also inform pip squeak Rubio that MoveOn.org is not a branch of the Democratic party and that America is not behind him or his own brand of commercials promoting more dead soldiers for the sake of Bush’s ego and Cheney’s war profiteering.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Limbaugh’s right that Wexler looked like a total pompous jerk.
My father served in WWII and I cannot imagine anyone in Congress taking to the airwaives and spewing this kind of venom towards a decorated 4 star military general. I dont care what his politics are.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
What about all the other generals Bush had to go through until he found the one general that would deliver his load of crap for him to the American people? What about those generals? Get this through your head boney right wing heads — nobody is buying into this lame President’s make-believe scheme. You need to accept the fact that Bush’s Iraq war is biggest foreign policy blunder in American history and continuing the war and take responsibility. Wexler along with many others – Republicans included – speaks for the American people in calling this puppet general on his phoney evaluation of the situation on the ground in Iraq.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Sark:
Petraeus may be a four star general, war hero and all. So was every other commander in the Iraqi War Theater of Operations. If Petreus is suddenly right, what does that make the other war heroes before him? Petreus is doing exactly what the others before him did: capitulate to the Commander in Chief. He was told what to say, when to say it, and to make it sound convincing to Congress; he followed the orders of his Commander in Chief, George W. Bush; as did the commanders before him. He espoused nothing new; it was the same rhetoric, only from different stars, on different shoulders.
And when the continuous failures that make this war so undeniably wrong befall this general, he too will be replaced for failing to meet the goals of the Commander in Chief. Or, he will be replaced by another general by a different President, who will reduce the military presence in Iraq, and be deemed the ultimate
September 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
WEXLER DEFENDING US FROM RUSH? MAYBE IF HE WOULD STOP MAKING HIS CONSTITUENTS LOOK BAD DUE TO HIS POOR REPRESENTATION WE WOULD GET THE RESPECT WE ARE DUE.DON’T JUDGE US BY WEXLERS REMARKS…WE DON’T LIKE HIM EITHER.HE WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WE EVER MADE.SOMEONE SHUT BOB’S VERBAL DIARRHEA, PLEASE.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
WEXLER DEFENDING US FROM RUSH? MAYBE IF HE WOULD STOP MAKING HIS CONSTITUENTS LOOK BAD DUE TO HIS POOR REPRESENTATION WE WOULD GET THE RESPECT WE ARE DUE.DON’T JUDGE US BY WEXLERS REMARKS…WE DON’T LIKE HIM EITHER.HE WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WE EVER MADE.SOMEONE SHUT BOB’S VERBAL DIARRHEA, PLEASE.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
WEXLER DEFENDING US FROM RUSH? MAYBE IF HE WOULD STOP MAKING HIS CONSTITUENTS LOOK BAD DUE TO HIS POOR REPRESENTATION WE WOULD GET THE RESPECT WE ARE DUE.DON’T JUDGE US BY WEXLERS REMARKS…WE DON’T LIKE HIM EITHER.HE WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WE EVER MADE.SOMEONE SHUT BOB’S VERBAL DIARRHEA, PLEASE.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
It’s interesting that politicians, columnists and pundits like Wexler and his ilk couldn’t beat the drums loud enough to get the U.S. into Iraq in the first place for Israel’s benefit. Then, when public sentiment turned hugely against the war — and it was too late to stop it — they flipped sides faster than a pancake. Now they’re beating the drums the loudest for war’s end. Quite cunning. Very conniving. Most calculating.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Anyone who takes Limbaugh at his word anymore has to be mentally ill. With his lack of moral judgement in several areas he should be the last person anyone should be taking notes from. The only thing Limbaugh should be doing is writting jokes for the next 4 years Hillary is in the white house. After Bushs 9/13 speech, this will secure her place in history. All Limbaugh can do now is look forward to his and Ted Nugents roll as bathroom towel boys at the 08 republican convention in Minnesota.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Anyone who takes Limbaugh at his word anymore has to be mentally ill. With his lack of moral judgement in several areas he should be the last person anyone should be taking notes from. The only thing Limbaugh should be doing is writting jokes for the next 4 years Hillary is in the white house. After Bushs 9/13 speech, this will secure her place in history. All Limbaugh can do now is look forward to his and Ted Nugents roll as bathroom towel boys at the 08 republican convention in Minnesota.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Okay, duh! Rush is commentator. He runs an opinion filled show. Another commentator can counter his opinion. Howz come I can figure this out and I’m not even educated! Let radio be radio and politicians be politicians and well, bloggers, bloggers, for that matter. Sorry, Rush, wish I was more, but I’m not.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:09 am
As to the very first comment about Rush above (Who takes him seriously?)
ANSWER: About 20+ million people a week.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
20+ million Americans also have genital warts. So what? What’s more revealing is that 20 million republicans are dumb enough to listen to a Bizarro World comedian and believe he’s telling them the truth about anything.