Video: McCain’s mother dumps on Limbaugh, Olbermann
posted at 5:04 pm on May 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via TV Newser, an extra mavericky palate cleanser. Slublog’s right as usual: “Feisty old ladies = always awesome, even if you disagree.” I busted out laughing when she named Krazy Keith, point blank, as the dregs of liberal commentary, followed by a perfectly astute summation of his wretchedness. I wonder if he has the stones to make a 97-year-old the Worst Person in the World tonight.
Meggie Mac naturally was more excited about her swipe at Rush, which is noteworthy only insofar as it’s a rare example of a Republican willing to knock him unabashedly. Like Conor Friedersdorf says, there are some conservatives — Rush and Palin, for starters — who simply can’t be criticized without forfeiting some of one’s credibility as a right-winger, although I’m not sure where he got the idea that George W. Bush is one of them. Didn’t he read blogs during the shamnesty debate? Ah well. Incidentally, HA readers will be pleased to know that Meg-Meg will be appearing Monday night on … The Colbert Report. What could go wrong?
Update: Rush says she’s absolutely right.
“She is absolutely right” in her assessment that that she belongs to a different Republican Party than he does, Limbaugh said during his radio show: “The Republican Party she belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election.”…
On his show Thursday, Limbaugh made clear he found the criticism quite amusing.
“Sending Sen. McCain’s mother out to dump on me?” Limbaugh said, laughing. “I love it.”
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who let the guy who played Mr. Linoge impersonate her?
Oh wait…
sven10077 on May 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM
/Yawn
Romeo13 on May 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Limbaugh criticized her this afternoon, FYI.
YYZ on May 14, 2009 at 5:07 PM
I assumed that she was on Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks, but I guess this was Tonight Show.
Y-not on May 14, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Go ahead, toss the 97-year-old lady under the bus.
You know you want to…
benny shakar on May 14, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Allah, did you get Rush’s response to this? pretty hilarious as well
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I love old people! I hope to be as spry as she is when I’m that old.
SouthernGent on May 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Legitimate criticism is one thing; merely following moonbat talking points (he’s a fat drug addict; she’s a moron who doesn’t read and who said she can see Russia from her house) is another.
ddrintn on May 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM
She’s just protecting her son. The worst thing is she shook Cat Steven’s hand. Yeccch!!!!!
bloggless on May 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM
But enough about Nancy Pelosi.
Jim Treacher on May 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Hahaha this is awesome. Her take on Olberman made me bust out laughing. I found it far less predictable than her take on Rush was. I kind of wish she said where she specifically disagreed with Rush though because now I’m left to assume she doesn’t like him because he critisizes her son.
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM
why throw her under the bus Binny Ogabe has it pretty crowded….?….just smile let her ramble and clean up after her…she was married to a great man and birthed one…
pity he is devolving as he goes along.
sven10077 on May 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I’m dying to know, what did Rush say?
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM
+1000
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM
About as newsworthy as a model taking topless photos …
eforhan on May 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM
AP just added the update
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Well, we won’t be investigating her sex life the way you guys would be if she had dared to blast Barack.
ddrintn on May 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM
“I, myself, can’t figure out that type of person who really more or less gets joy out of denigrating people. I’m just not that type of person…”, says McCain’s mom in a public statement in which she denigrates somebody.
FloatingRock on May 14, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Should go well. They are both spoiled brats, although I think Colbert it more classy than her.
I think the whole thing is funny! I love old women.
deidre on May 14, 2009 at 5:15 PM
This again?
Ugly on May 14, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Isn’t that reason enough for someone’s mother?
YYZ on May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Hahaha nice thanks
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM
But that’s not how the game is played, don’tcha know.
ddrintn on May 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM
McCain’s mother looks like an aged version of the church lady.
VibrioCocci on May 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Rush Limbaugh could kick her ass in a street fight. And he should.
Cicero43 on May 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Well yes, thats why I’m steered towards that conclusion.
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM
She needs to actually look at people when she’s talking; that staring into space while speaking thing she had going on was unnerving.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Hahaha, I’m not sure about that though. The ladies got spunk.
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Count me NOT in Megatons McCain’s Daddy & Mommy’s repub party. And PROUD of it!
Branch Rickey on May 14, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Why Benny?
Didn’t you happen to read this?
It doesn’t matter what she goes under… Soylent Green via the Left. You twit!
upinak on May 14, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Hey Meghan, how about asking Colbert and Stewart to repeat those awesome “he dumped his first wife for a young slut and almost failed out of school” jokes they loved during the election. I hear they are funny! Real fans of your dad they are!
Speedwagon82 on May 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Hey, when I’m her age I’ll be satisfied if my eyes are still open.
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM
That’s the “good”, “lovable”, “sensible” Republican party.
ddrintn on May 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM
All the conservo-bashing is paying off.
She’s hit paydirt, eh?
blatantblue on May 14, 2009 at 5:21 PM
“I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother…” — Barack Obama on Jeremiah Wright…..right before he tossed Wright under the bus. Don’t lecture me on Toss-a-Granny.
amerpundit on May 14, 2009 at 5:21 PM
It seems McCain’s relatives make more political speeches than the Senator himself. Supwidat?
ronsfi on May 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Well, at least we know where Megatons gets her over-inflated sense of self-importance…
Wait…another McCain woman, blathering on about concepts and people she knows nothing about…
I think Allah’s got a new “Special Lady” in his crosshairs…
SuperCool on May 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Benny, Benny,
The boy of blues.
Stalks Hot Air
To spread his news.
We roll our eyes
And swing the bat
To swat his lies
As a feeble gnat.
carbon_footprint on May 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM
“God granted old people with the wisdom to find fault with everything.”
–Grandpa Simpson
TheBigOldDog on May 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM
DUDE, Geriatirc Love? He is looking for a Suga Mama!
Allah is going to be the next “Play Girl Bunny!”
upinak on May 14, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Cannot take anyone serious who reads Brooks and keeps the articles? Oh. Dear. God.
Branch Rickey on May 14, 2009 at 5:26 PM
ROFLM@O!!! :)
Branch Rickey on May 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Benny Shankar
The closet loon
Who picks his nose
Eats it at noon
Whats his name?
Dont play his game
Trolls like arguing
They’re all the same
mines not as good as yours but whatever
blatantblue on May 14, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Benny is female. She has been outted… a while ago.
upinak on May 14, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I’m shocked that Jay didn’t work a Sarah Palin tee-up in there too, just like everywhere Megatons (haha good one) has been the last six months.
“What did you think of your son’s choice for a running mate? (please bash her please bash her please please)”
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 5:34 PM
For what? Saying he doesn’t represent her? He doesn’t.
Esthier on May 14, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Another McCain who can get lost aand know would notice.
Wade on May 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I gotta say, the McCain women have a lot of spunk. Love this lady if I don’t agree with everything she says. Same with Meghan. They are gutzy.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Rush is an entertainer/commentator and should try to stop pretending that he is a leader. A leader of a movement would have endorsed somebody in the primaries instead of being preoccupied with loser audience share. If you are worried about your Arbitron numbers, you are not a leader. You are an entertainer.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Stones? I don’t think so, he was neutered when he left Sports Center.
kirkill on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Hey, when I’m her age I’ll be satisfied if my eyes are still open.
Zetterson on May 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Nevertheless, it was odd; she had that Ogabe-staring-into-prompter look on her face.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Totally disagree on the youngest McCain. She’s only saying things that her liberal friends agree with, things that are making her far more famous than she’d ever be were she to actually defend the GOP more than once a blue moon.
The girl is an opportunist to the core, and I do not understand people who don’t see that in everything she does.
Insulting Republicans and the GOP is far from brave, and that even applies to John’s mother. She’s “feisty” but hardly brave for talking about Rush, especially not on Jay Leno.
Esthier on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Who is John McCain’s real mother! Tell the truth, Mrs. McCain! /sullivan
frankj on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I think her kidneys just failed.
marklmail on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
explains why MSNBC is a “leader”….
sven10077 on May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Rush made this claim when? You have never actually listened to one of his shows, have you?
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I’d have to live 53 more years to hit 97… and I’ll be satisfied if the dust I’m breathing doesn’t get on my pretty little doilies…
Ugly on May 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Thinking che-cootie is smoking some peyote instead of actually listening to Rush. Oh, and reading them KausKidz talking pts at the same time. :)
Branch Rickey on May 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
I have been listening to Rush practically everyday since 1995. You know, it is really tiresome that unless one engages in grab-your-annkles worship of Rush, he or she is immediately accused of not liking Rush, not listening to Rush, etc. It is impossible to have conversations about anything with all these knee jerk reactions. Sheesh.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Senator John McCain needs protection from Rush?
I could see it… maybe… if she was defending her moronic grand kid, but I just don’t see how John McCain needs “protecting.”
And how is this entertainment? Or is the Tonight Show a news show now?
Y-not on May 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
So what if Rush is an entertainer, he’s still right. Olbermann, Couric, Rather, Maddow, Mayer, are all entertainers too, they just take themselves so serious because they think they are god. Rush just has talent on loan from God.
kirkill on May 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Rush goes back and forth. At the CPAC speech he declared himself a leader of the conservative movement. Then during the primaries he basically said (I don’t remember the exact words) that it is not his job to endorse a candidate. He needs to make up his mind. If he wants to be a serious player in GOP party politics he needs either to run or back a candidate. Otherwise, he should stick with commenting on politics which he does very well.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Y-not on May 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
There is nothing wrong with Rush being an entertainer. He is very good at what he does. But to act like he is a leader is not warranted.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I like Roberta McCain. She is inspirational. I don’t know if I’ll make to 97 but if I do, I will probably sit in the corner drooling on myself. At least that’s the fear. Watching her makes me feel there is hope and getting old is not so bad.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
You know what a joke is? I doubt you’ve been listening to him for that long. They called him the leader and he made jest of that. He didn’t have to endorse anybody, especially with the wacky field of candidates the republicans had. I wouldn’t have endorsed either
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM
I have been listening to Rush practically everyday since 1995. You know, it is really tiresome that unless one engages in grab-your-annkles worship of Rush, he or she is immediately accused of not liking Rush, not listening to Rush, etc. It is impossible to have conversations about anything with all these knee jerk reactions. Sheesh.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Ok then, old hand, when did Rush ever claim to be the leader of a movement, whatever you mean by “movement”? You’re sounding as if you swallowed a bit of the tainted DNC water.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM
I took that CPAC speech when he did the leader stuff as his self aggrandizing humor, which I find so fun to follow. He’s got no responsibility to back one candidate or the other in primaries, just back the ideas he’s always backed and let the Republican voters figure out who best carries those ideas. Lighten up, Francis :)
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM
I thought that was ‘The Fruitcake Lady’
Wade on May 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM
If he wants to be a serious player in GOP party politics he needs either to run or back a candidate.
Wait, what? Rush wants to be a player in the GOP, and his two choices would then consist of endorsing a candidate or running for office? Where do you get this stuff?
Sorry, but if the chosen field of candidates suck why choose any of them; is it written down somewhere that SOMEONE has to be picked?
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM
at least somebody other than me have brains
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM
By the way, he DID endorse in the primaries.
Remember OPERATION:CHAOS?
That was simply brilliant, on so many levels.
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Bishop,
If Rush isn’t pretending to be a leader then why has every person who said that he was entertainer had to backtrack and apologize?
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I’ll say this about Rush. IF his Operation Chaos actually prolonged the Democratic primary, it made Obama a stronger general election candidate, and kept him in the news (media bias aside) for a lot longer than it would have. It also allowed all the Wright/Ayers stuff to come out early enough to be neutralized (again, media bias aside).
YYZ on May 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
that’s their business, not his. I’m pretty sure he never asked for an apology…that’s my two sense.
youngO on May 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
As far as 2012 goes, I think he’s got a not-so-secret favorite already. We’ll have to wait and see what SHE does to find out for sure, hehe :)
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Sorry, but if the chosen field of candidates suck why choose any of them; is it written down somewhere that SOMEONE has to be picked?
A leader would either picked somebody and got somebody to run. Rush is an entertainer. A great political commentator. However, he needs to stop acting all offended when someone calls him and entertainer.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I liked Operation Chaos. It was brilliant.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
If Rush isn’t pretending to be a leader then why has every person who said that he was entertainer had to backtrack and apologize?
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Everyone? Are you sure? Perhaps those who did so did it because they realized that a man with as much INFLUENCE and INSIGHT as Rush has isn’t an “entertainer” in the pejorative sense.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
She should be the leader of the Republican Party. She’s about the median age of the current Republican voter.
dcwvu on May 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Did they ask her when and how often she listens to these people she does not like?
Funny how everyone in McCain’s family is making the rounds.
If they were not bashing people in the Republican party would the press give them any time?
albill on May 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Chaos huh. What “She” does.
Oh do tell…
upinak on May 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Brian1972
Then why have elected official who said he was an entertainer were forced/or felt necessary to apologize to Rush? Come on. He plays both sides.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM
He is an entertainer, but he’s more than an entertainer. It’s all in the context. “Just an entertainer” is a dismissive statement, an insult. It’s all about the IDEAS he wants to advance, the personalities are secondary to him.
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM
She’s about the median age of the current Republican voter.
dcwvu on May 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
You ain’t kidding. Has anyone here been at a GOP party function lately?
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
So now Rush is a political commentator? Would that make Brit Hume an “entertainer”? What about Krauthammer, Cole or any of the myriad other people who opine on politics, are they all “entertainers” too?
Answer the question: When has Rush declared himself the leader of a movement?
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Not possible. It is reality and not a variable.
Wade on May 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Come on, your name is short for UP IN ALASKA. You know what I’m saying, for sure!
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM
She’s about the median age of the current Republican voter.
dcwvu on May 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
But also at the low age end of the women you date, so it’s all cool.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Surely you don’t think I meant the Hildabeast, did ya uppy?
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Context. That usually means “not credible” when lefty journo-propagandists are pressuring you to say it yourself as a Republican, to marginalize a great threat to their message machine. They want that soundbyte, to then twist in further attacks on El Rushbo. This isn’t that hard, is it?
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Wow, bro. That’s just a really sad attempt at humor. I’m bummed out for ya right now.
dcwvu on May 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Says the mother of the moderate loser who just got his ass kicked. If McCain is the face of the Republican party, they can count me out.
echosyst on May 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
When has Rush declared himself the leader of a movement?
At CPAC and several times on the radio. I am not going to pay membership to get the transcripts. In any case, you are going to say he was joking. So what is the point? So Rush is an entertainer but demands an apology everytime he is called an entertainer. Go figure!
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Brian
Go worship Limbaugh the entertainer who resents being called an entertainer. This conversation is tedious.
Chekote on May 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I could never have a problem with a mother protecting her son…
…or with elderly people telling it as they see it.
I disagree with some of what she said, but I’m glad she had an opportunity to say what she did in public.
Religious_Zealot on May 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Another typical attack on Rush Limbaugh without mentioning anything specific. “He doesn’t represent the republican party that I belong to”—how? in what way? what are you talking about lady?
Dollayo on May 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM
dcwvu on May 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Come on now, you laughed, and we both know it.
Bishop on May 14, 2009 at 6:18 PM
You are right. This conversation with you is quite tedious, and I don’t worship any man. Go do whatever it is that you do, Captain Superior. You can’t grasp the fact that a LIBERAL saying he’s an entertainer is different than an admirer recognizing he’s entertaining. Whatever.
Brian1972 on May 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM
McCain did not lose because he wasn’t conservative. He lost because he was a Republican.
YYZ on May 14, 2009 at 6:37 PM
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