Megyn Kelly: Actually, Elton John had a great time at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding
posted at 5:53 pm on June 7, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Mediaite, a rebuttal to lefties and gay-rights activists speculating that the only reason a guy who’s in a civil union would play the wedding of an alleged neo-Hitlerian gay-hater is for a $1 million payday. (Sample quote: “Isn’t that a bit like Beyoncé entertaining at a KKK rally?”) Two things. First, Kelly quotes Elton as having said that he’s “all about tearing down walls and building bridges,” which is true to form. Remember when he teamed up for a Freddie Mercury tribute with Axl Rose, whose most notorious song for Guns ‘n Roses sneered about “immigrants and faggots”? Remember when he dueted at the Grammys with Eminem, who has his own share of gay-baiting lyrics? He has been to known to bridge-build from time to time.
Second, according to Zev Chafets’s new book, Limbaugh’s view on gays is a tad more nuanced than the left would like to believe. Quote:
Chafets notes Limbaugh’s libertarian streak, which puts him on the opposite sides of some big issues from family values conservatives.
“He regards homosexuality as, most probably, biologically determined, and while he opposes gay marriage as culturally subversive, he has no problem with gay civil unions. — which is the stance of President Obama and Hillary Clinton… He is not opposed to capital punishment, but he ‘wouldn’t go to the mat over it.”
Limbaugh also turned down repeated invitations from Jerry Falwell to speak at Liberty University and in 2009, he declined an offer to speak at the school’s graduation ceremony and to receive an honorary degree.
That’s not to suggest the two men see eye-to-eye — doubtless EJ would prefer that gay marriage be legalized — but you can see why agreeing to do this is actually a shrewd PR move by Elton. He’s going to have conservative attendees (including, no doubt, Rush himself once he’s back from vacation) praising his performance at the wedding and talking up his civility the way Kelly does here, which is bound to make a good impression on righty viewers otherwise opposed to many gay issues. Plus, he got a million bucks for his trouble. Not a bad day’s work.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages: « Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »
No matter how much or how little money you have, you can’t take it with you when you die. Think of all the costumers, caterers, and wine dealers that $1M is going to benefit after it gets to EJ.
RBMN on June 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM
What a waste of $1M…. why, with that money he could have booked an arena and had Greek columns “and sh!t”. Or, he could have saved it and used it for Kobe beef and other dinner items to suit his taste.
CC
CapedConservative on June 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Hotels
musicians
lighting
sound
chefs
servers
limos
decorators
liquor stores
food stores
etc., etc.
They all got business. Was the wedding extravagant? Yes. But was it wasteful? No.
Blake on June 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM
On that we can agree.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:27 PM
PrezHussein on June 7, 2010 at 7:28 PM
That is not what makes this a great country. Rich countries are not by default great. The morals of the people are what make it great.
PrezHussein on June 7, 2010 at 7:29 PM
So what did you eat at this very expensive (indulgent, no doubt) restaurant, or better yet, why accept the invitation?
Dubn8tr on June 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM
First, money in the bank is capital available to be lent for people to buy homes, business to expand, etc. Money does not have to be spent to be put into the economy.
Second, I don’t have a problem with Rush spending whatever he wants where ever he wants. I simply think he blew $1M on a singer and that money could have been better spent in any number of ways. Simply handing it over to a wealthy singer to entertain me is not a way I would choose to spend my cash.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:32 PM
You know who you sound like, don’t you?
Maobama and his “So and So has made ‘enough money.’” statement.
The way you think is Communist, dictatorial and more than a little Puritan.
There is no comparison between what private citizens pay out of their own pocket for their own pleasure and the exorbitant sums politicians vote to pay for (useless) public projects using our tax payer dollars.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Think of how the example of a man living extravagantly leads to idolatry and worship of wealth. Think of all the political evil organizations he will donate to.
PrezHussein on June 7, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Wow. That must be one of those missing commandments Mel Brooks told us about.
thekingtut on June 7, 2010 at 7:34 PM
It has nothing to with being “rich;” it has everything to do with Freedom, Capitalism and individual opportunity!
I will grant you, however, that Judeo-Christian morals under gird it all.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Doh! Because they use other people’s money to do it.
hoosiermama on June 7, 2010 at 7:34 PM
and what resource did this affect? Don’t see any connection other than you are too worried about how others spend their earned monies. The more you try to defend your position the more liberal your thinking becomes. Time to come out of the closet, dog.
Wade on June 7, 2010 at 7:39 PM
First, Allahpundit must love you for running up the comment numbers.
Second, while you have trotted your ego, and your reverse-snobbery out for all to see, I suspect Rush doesn’t give a flying fish what you think about his celebration. I am ruefully appalled at your snobbery and judgment. But, generally, I’d have kept that to myself if you hadn’t spent 16 – 20 comments on defending it. Give it a rest already!
We know that 1) you don’t approve of Rush spending $1M to entertain his guests, 2) you have many friends richer than he is, and 3)when you have parties, you must lure guests to them because your company is not enough. And, Old Dog, that’s much more than I need to know. My life is not improved by knowing that you are a self righteous snob.
And I hope that Mr. & Mrs. Limbaugh will be very, very happy together.
And that fact makes J. Behar’s head explode.
skeeter on June 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM
Yes, I am a Liberal. You guys figured it out. I’ve been able to hide from you all these many years through careful editing of my typo filled comments. Always being sure to take the hard right position as subterfuge for the day I’d get to criticize Rush for
blowingspending $1M on a private concert for his third wedding. And it would have worked too if it weren’t for you meddlesome kids!TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:45 PM
LOL I was thinking the same thing. It’s easy. Just critisize Rush. I have the secret formula (actually not so secret since AP has it down to an art form)
Ah ya, whatever.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Got to hand it to Rush. His followers aren’t all that different from the OBots. Nice work.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM
You might be surprised.
Kensington on June 7, 2010 at 7:50 PM
You could fill a high school auditorium with just people whose jobs in AM radio were saved by the invention of syndicated conservative talk radio, about 20-some years ago by Rush Limbaugh. Add to that, the families of all those people with conservative talk radio jobs, and you’d need a football stadium to hold them all.
RBMN on June 7, 2010 at 7:50 PM
What are you talking about?!?
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Megyn Kelly makes everything so much better. So much brains, common sense and beauty all rolled up in one great package.
She’s freakin’ perfect!
*swoon*
Yakko77 on June 7, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Umm…
Firstly I don’t listen to Rush on a regular basis.
And second, Rush is a private citizen, not a in control or a decider of the nations fate in anyway. Which means what he does in his own time I could care less about.
No one’s said anything approaching brain dead Obama worship in this thread that I have read. Care to point the way?
So far I’ve only witnessed the defense of freedom and capitalism.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 7:54 PM
You couldn’t be more wrong!
The Obots are all about “freebies” and spending OPM, pronounced “opium” and it means Other Peoples’ Money (like mine).
Rush is about spending his own money.
There’s all the difference in the world between the two!
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 7:54 PM
So let me get this straight, criticizing a person for blowing $1M on a singer for a private concert at your third wedding is the equivalent of what Obama is selling and being a Puritan Communist Dictator? ROFLMAO!
Rush is a lucky man.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 7:58 PM
OBots follow blindly and can’t stand any criticism, no matter how mild, of their Leader’s actions.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Is it wrong to be amused by the Freepers who are refusing to listen to Rush ever again for having Elton perform?
SnarkVader on June 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM
If Obama spent $1M on a private concert for his daughters birthday I think they’d be plenty of criticism.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM
You’re still not making any valid points.
Obama was elected POTUS and works on a budget funded by the taxpayers (what did Paul McCartney’s performance at the WH cost us taxpayers?).
Rush is a private citizen and still has the Freedom to decide how to spend his own (after-tax) income.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM
According to what Bill Bennett said on his show this morning, a large portion of the guests at the wedding were people who work with and for Rush. And they were not segregated but mixed in the the rich and famous.
Cindy Munford on June 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM
If he did so for a private party, funded by the U.S. taxpayers living rent-free in the White House, yes, there would and should be.
Don’t forget all the taxpayer $$$ that have gone for his weekly parties with Kobe beef!
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Not from me, it would be the same difference. Still his money, and he still is not a government functionary.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 8:04 PM
skeeter on June 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM
silvernana on June 7, 2010 at 8:05 PM
What resources? Was any of the money Rush spent taken from you by him with the expectation that he would spend it in a certain manner? Did you give Rush money with the expectation that he would spend it in a certain manner? In short, what business is it of yours, or anyone’s how Rush spends his money? Why does it matter to you? How does it affect you? Where would you have preferred he spend it? If he didn’t spend it, how would that have impacted you? What if he used it to buy a house instead? Or a yacht? or a private island? Would that have been better in your mind? Or worse? Of so, why? If not, why not?
Would rather he had not spent it? If not, why not? And if he didn’t spend it, how would have impacted you?
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:06 PM
How many people here do you think would jump ugly all over Clinton for taking $1M for a speaking engagement? My point is, often times these things come down to who’s ox is being gored.
The fact that my saying I’d never blow $1M on a Elton John to sing at my third wedding has generated such a response I think speaks for itself.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM
You ever wonder why a British rock star like Elton John lives in the U.S.A. (His home is in Atlanta)???
Because the personal income tax in the U.K. is confiscatory.
Also, due to Freedom and Capitalism, only in America could Elton John (or any other rock star like Paul McCartney) make such huge amounts of money and be so famous!
America made both Elton and Rush huge stars.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Only if it were taxpayer money that he used. If it was his money, I wouldn’t have cared.
Just like I really don’t care how much he spent on his house, his car, his clothes, or anything else out of his own pocket. It’s none of anyone’s business.
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:09 PM
If he did it as a private citizen at the Knights of Columbus in Benton Harbor, Michigan he’d catch plenty of grief believe me.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Because it would be wasteful, and uncalled for. We don’t send our hard earned tax dollars to Washington so they can hire singers for a million dollars. Heck, after laundering it through several layers of government bureaucracy, they would have to allocate 3 million dollars to it just to get the one million needed to actually fund it.
xblade on June 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Yes, and that’s relevant to this discussion how exactly?
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Rush NEEDS to spend that much on a crappy singer from the 70s because lefties can only portray us in two varieties. Either we are poor white trailer trash or mega rich blue bloods elitists.
If it makes you feel any better, he will book Lynyrd Skynyrd for his next wedding.
Speedwagon82 on June 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Fourth wedding. In the sage words of Sly and the Family Stone, “different strokes for different folks, and so on and so …………”
Metallica would be my choice to annoy everyone.
Cindy Munford on June 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM
My guess is you would never be in a position to blow $1M on “a (sic) Elton John”. There a reason why Rush can do that and the majority of us can’t.
It’s illicted so many comments because your complaint is unsound. Your complaint has no basis in logic or reason.
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM
I criticized Clinton plenty because he makes money off of what he did as a public servant!
The man has never accomplished anything by himself like Rush.
The only thing that “speaks for itself” is your appalling bent towards dictatorial spending!
Good thing you’re not in a leadership position.
You’d be like Stalin or Mussolini, commandeering others’ money “for the common good” or something.
You are a (potential) martinet and a cheerless scold.
BTW, it makes no difference whether it’s Rush’s 1st wedding or 3rd or 50th.
When you’re getting married, it’s always the “first time.”
Part of the reasoning, I think, behind having a super star like EJ perform at the wedding is to make this wedding extra special for both Rush and Kathryn.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM
No you made an invalid “let them eat cake” comparison which makes Rush sound like Obama and his Kobe beef and weekly parties on the tax payer dime.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM
And only works as a metaphor in the case of government officials of the likes of governors and presidents.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 8:13 PM
I’m sure many of them were thinking they’d have preferred a nice bonus instead of the free concert. They can see Elton anytime for a a couple of hundred bucks, tops. That would have left them with thousands to spend on other things.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM
So, in either the Clinton scenario or the Rush scenario, exactly who’s ox is being gored?
If there are people gullible enough to pay Clinton $1MM for a speaking engagement….well…what’s the saying? A fool and his money are soon parted?
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Because it shows what kind of country we are–it’s emblematic of Freedom, Capitalism and Individual Opportunity.
The sky’s literally the limit.
Neither McCartney nor Elton were ever going to be superstars if they’d stayed in the U.K. performing only to English audiences.
And the only person in the U.K. who could afford to book EJ for a wedding would have been the Queen.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM
No he wouldn’t, “The Media” wouldn’t allow it, if history is prologue they’d actually cheer Obama on…
Obama would get no grief from me if he were using his own funding…
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Since when do guests go to weddings for a big tip?!?
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:17 PM
Clinton has made about 100 million dollars since leaving office, much of it due to speaking engagements. How often do you hear Conservatives criticize him for it? Better still, how often do you hear the class warfare crowd(you included) criticize him?
When folks on my side of the aisle criticize him, it’s because of his hypocrisy on wealth, not his wealth itself. I don’t care how much Clinton, or anyone else earns. More power to them. Just don’t be a hypocrite about it.
xblade on June 7, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Yes, and in a free country we are free to criticize even Rush when we think he blew $1M. Even worse to do it in tough times. Looks bad imho.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Are you kidding? Go to FR I’m sure you’ll find plenty of it. Why do you think I picked that example?
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:19 PM
I may be wrong (but I doubt it), but I gotta believe the money that goes to pay Rush’s employees comes out of a different account and not Rush’s personal bank account.
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:19 PM
It’s not fun if I have to explain the mechanics of it. See, Rush spent $1M on Elton John to sing for him and his guests. The implication was, well, many of the guests were his employees. therefore, the concert was for them. So, if they thought the concert was for them, I bet more than a few would have preferred a bonus instead. Make sense to you now?
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM
I see no reason whatsoever for criticizing Rush for spending anything.
(What you’re talking about is that under Maobama, everyone but him is criticized for spending their own money because it’s not “for the common good.”
This is Communism and Socialism.)
Tough times are precisely when rich people need to spend money.
All it does is create jobs and prosperity for everyone else!
In addition to EJ making $1 million, hundreds of people made money off of Rush’s wedding: limo drivers, busboys, caterers, hotel staff, security, florists, bartenders, wedding planners, bakers, cooks, kitchen staff, etc., etc. etc.
The economy of Palm Beach will thank him.
You’ll see.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM
It actually makes less sense now that you tried to explain it. Are you saying Rush pays his employees out of his own private bank account?
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:23 PM
So, are you saying he should have kept it all for himself? Which looks worse? Spending a million dollars, or not spending a million dollars?
Fed45 on June 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Nope.
I’m sure Rush pays his staff handsomely.
Most of them have been with him for years.
It’s not for Rush to just keep giving them money.
Wedding guests are supposed to give the bride and groom a gift or “bonus,” not the other way around.
It’s just tacky (and as I said before, Communist) to keep putting the onus on Rush to “give people money” just because he’s wealthy.
It’s the man’s wedding!
Good wishes, good times at the reception and a happy send-off to the happy couple are all that matter in this instance.
Betcha you aren’t married yourself or if you are, that your wife is one miserable woman.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Its also an assertion, that implies that Rush Limbaugh is a miserly boss – sneaky that…
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Pure envy, and pure liberal thinking. Who the hell are you to tell him what’s right and what’s wrong to spend his money on?
MadisonConservative on June 7, 2010 at 8:30 PM
And you’re some sort of authority on proper spending…how exactly?
How many jobs did that $1 million dollar fee sustain or generate? How many more jobs will it sustain or generate when John spends it?
MadisonConservative on June 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM
It’s Rush’s money, he can pay Elton John $1,000,000 or $100 million then so be it.
The bewitches on da Vu are just a jealous group of man-hating hags (cept Joy). Maude is a perfect name for Behard.
PappyD61 on June 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM
My greatest regret is that I wasn’t invited! :-(
I love Rush and I’m a longtime Elton John fan (until lately when he bashed Christianity).
I wish Rush and Kathryn all the happiness and love in the world!
I’ll bet this wedding was a blast!
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM
But you don’t know that do you? We are just going to have to agree to disagree, I don’t begrudge anyone anything they have earned or how they legally spend it. That has been my view of a conservative viewpoint.
Cindy Munford on June 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM
I had to come back to this.
No where have I said people should prevented from spending their money as they see fit. NO WHERE. That’s their right as free men. Yet, you are convinced that is what I said. Why? What would cause you to create something out of thin air like that I wonder?
Now why would anybody be worried having a frugal person in charge of a business or especially government? I guess it implies you would prefer a person who’d spend $1M on a private concert. Interesting. Not me.
So now I am some sort of ruthless dictator who would what, kill people who spent $1M on a private concert I guess.
Yes, I am cheerless, rigid military disciplinarian because I would never spend $1M on a private concert. My wife agrees. Although, she’d have other ways to spend the money and my son who I can’t get to finish his homework.
God willing my first time was also my last, but you never know. It’s only been 20 years and the Gore’s broke up after 40. So, ya never know.
I’m sure you’re right. Better be for that price!
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I don’t either. I just think he blew $1M frivolously. Others obviously disagree.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Rush probably stimulated more economy and created more jobs then the “Stimulus Bill” ever dreamed about.
Cindy Munford on June 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Did I say I was? I simply did what we do here, offer an opinion. That’s why there’s a comment section.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Just think, that was only on the wedding singer, I imagine you would be even unhappier at the cost of the entire wedding.
Cindy Munford on June 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM
You’re looking at $1 million from the perspective of a person who doesn’t have $1 million, much less $1 million to spend any way you want. He makes hundreds of millions. Considering his wealth, it’s roughly equivalent to an average household spending $200 on a DJ for a wedding. Think it’s worth it? You’ve eliminated scale from your thinking, much like when liberals screech about the amount of money health insurance companies or oil companies make in profits…without disclosing what percent of revenues that actually is. If you don’t have that perspective, you’re operating on knee-jerk class warfare paradigms.
MadisonConservative on June 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Yes, I figured that out many posts ago.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:45 PM
Please, don’t jump in on page 3. Your points have all been made and addressed already.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:47 PM
No, my problem is pretty much narrowly confined to handing over $1M for the wedding band.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Because you question that right and you set up yourself as the judge.
This is what Liberals do.
It’s why they pass confiscatory tax rates and exorbitant spending bills in Congress because they pretend to know “best” how to spend (other peoples’) money.
Get it now?
Nowhere have you shown yourself to be “frugal.”
You’ve merely passed judgement on one person’s choice as to how to spend their own money which you deemed inappropriate.
This doesn’t mean you’re frugal.
You very well might “blow” $1 million, if you had it, on something even stranger.
Don’t look now, but people like Nicholas the II and Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were executed by “peoples’ courts” for something similar.
Just because you can’t or wouldn’t doesn’t mean you should condemn Rush for it.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Please show me where I did that. I’ll wait….
Funny, I thought being unwilling to spend $1M on the Wedding Band qualified for as frugal in this thread. My bad.
I won’t be at the beheadings. How about you? Fancy yourself a Robespierre? (Sorry, it’s just hard to take you too seriously with the hyperbole.)
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 8:55 PM
But great countries somehow are rich. It’s a pretty good rule of thumb – look at a rich country, and they are probably great. And before anyone can say it, China is not a rich country. They’re just the next capital-sink.
JeffWeimer on June 7, 2010 at 8:58 PM
You make so many ASSumptions in that paragraph it’s hard to know where to begin. EJ’s music and lyrics mean a lot to a lot of people – he’s a great songwriter and poet(that’s how he got rich, BTW). I’ve no doubt that some of his music means a lot to Rush and/or Kathryn – that’s why they chose him to sing at their wedding. Make sense to you now?
I’ve come to despise Paul McCartney personally for his recent statements and actions. But, some of his music still moves me to this day. I can separate my musical experience from the musician. Maybe you can’t, or you’re genetically incapable of having a meaningful musical experience. It happens. Make sense to you now?
Fishoutofwater on June 7, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Look what I found in my email…
Didn’t somebody accuse me of being something awful because I said Rush wanted good stewards of our resources? I’m sure I was and I think it was pastry.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:01 PM
You won’t have to wait:
Virtually every post on this thread.
There’s nothing inherently frugal about it.
Just censorious.
Someone upthread mentioned “class warfare.”
That is what is at the heart of your complaints–that and envy and covetousness and judgmentalism.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Since my intereptation of the post Hasn’t been challenged by the author who is still actively commenting, I’d say I’m not the one doing the ASSuming.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Wanting good public stewards of public taxpayer resources is totally apart from an individual’s use of their own earned money (upon which they have paid income taxes!).
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Please, don’t think you have any authority to order people whether or not to post if they feel like it.
MadisonConservative on June 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM
That’s okay. I knew you couldn’t find it, because I never said it or implied it. In fact, I’ve gone out of my way to say and affirm just the opposite. But somehow you’ve convinced yourself otherwise because I dare criticize el Rushbo.
In your mind. In the real world, I simply would never spend $1M on a wedding band no matter how wealthy I was.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM
I don’t. Just don’t expect me to respond to your point that are a day late and a dollar short.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Hmm he’s clearly talking about the Federal Government here and nothing more or less.
And I bet he will still say the same thing and still be right about saying it since he’s talking about FEDERAL SPENDING.
There’s a stark difference that you seem to be blurring between personal funds and money taken with authority by the state and wasted to no good end.
“We need to spend even more” = Fine and dandy if a private person does so with their own cash.
“We need to spend even more” = Bad when done by a known wasteful government that has grown way beyond its means of funding its endeavors.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Yes, and my point was, it’s tough to be a moral authority (imho of coarse) when you’re spending $1M on the Wedding Band. Perhaps I am wrong. I’m sure Rush won’t lose a single listener over it.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:09 PM
See above.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Not really, given most people can see the difference between Federal Funds and personal wealth…
Now if he were a congressmen taking a vacation with federal funds, you would be right.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Yes, I am sure you’re right. I am sure the Left won’t throw it in his face every chance they get. They are good like that.
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Rush isn’t a minister or head of the Christian Coalition so I’m never been aware that he’s set himself as a “moral authority.” (I’ve been a Rush fan since 1992.)
That being said, I see nothing inherently “immoral” about spending $1 million on a famous wedding singer if you’re worth over $500 million.
Again, your rhetoric smacks of Communism and Karl Marx.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Well they’ll attack regardless as Joy Bahar has proven, and she was just annoyed that EJ didn’t beat up on RL.
Sharr on June 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Okay I’m gonna run as I’ve wasted way to much time on a subject I don’t feel all that strongly about. You are free to claim I am:
1) Every nasty dictator who ever lived
2) Just like Obama
3) A communist or just a Socialist
4) The clever insult pastry boy had (it was really good, and used clever words and all).
5) An egotist something or other
I still wouldn’t spend $1M on my Wedding Singer. Since I am just like Mussolini (the Dictator not the pron star) I say, arrivederci!
TheBigOldDog on June 7, 2010 at 9:19 PM
You’re either delusional or not all that very bright.
You implied it and pretty much said it in every post you’ve made on this thread.
It doesn’t matter one whit that it’s Rush.
It could be more or AP or yourself.
What we choose to spend our own money on and how much we choose to spend is NONE. OF. YOUR. BUSINESS.
So what?
You’re not Rush and he’s not you and you’re not me.
I don’t want you telling me what to spend my own money on either, just like I won’t go over your expenditures and criticize them.
This is America–Land of the (almost) Free where we can still spend our own money (or what’s left of it after federal, state and local government has taken their share in taxes) on what we want.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 9:20 PM
You have the mindset of the type of “sheeple” that put every nasty Communist and Socialist dictator in power that history has ever known.
Just like we wouldn’t spend $10,000 on your model train collection, your top-of-the-line golf clubs or your meth lab or whatever else strange that you spend your money on.
Jenfidel on June 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM
AP,
I’m pretty sure Elton himself is more in favor of gay civil unions than gay marriage.
Ryan Anthony on June 7, 2010 at 9:27 PM
He’s married now and do you think for a micro second he planned this wedding? Give me a break a female was involved in this and my wisdom of 72 years tells me the man kept his mouth shut. Good going Rush.
mixplix on June 7, 2010 at 9:51 PM
Rush can spend $1 on cat litter and bubble gum for all I care. He earned the money, paid taxes on it, and can throw it out his car window. Who gives a shit, it’s his money. However, I object to his money being taken by force by the govt to pay for things he does not want it spent on. That goes for my money too. It’s my money, not the government’s money. I’ll agree to give them enough for national defense, fire, police, infrastructure; things I need and want.
Haunches on June 7, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Elton John was one of my favorites at 11-12 years old. Who cares about his politics? I’d hire the Grateful Dead if Jerry was still alive.
riverrat10k on June 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Haunches on June 7, 2010 at 10:03 PM
this
riverrat10k on June 7, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Comment pages: « Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »