Limbaugh: "Does Our Looks-Obsessed Culture Want to Stare At An Aging Woman?"

Today, the Drudge Report featured a not-so-flattering picture of Hillary Clinton with the screaming headline "THE TOLL OF A CAMPAIGN." Clinton, who turned 60 in October, has been traveling around Iowa and this morning hit up all six morning shows as part of a media blitz now that her campaign there has entered panic mode.

On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh asked, "Does our looks obsessed culture want to stare at an aging woman?" In his own words:

There is this thing in this country that, as you age -- and this is particularly, you know, women are hardest hit on this, and particularly in Hollywood -- America loses interest in you, and we know this is true because we constantly hear from aging actresses, who lament that they can't get decent roles anymore, other than in supporting roles that will not lead to any direct impact, yay or nay, in the box office. While Hollywood box-office receipts may be stagnant, none of that changes the fact that this is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks. The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen, who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Everybody's trying to make themselves look different -- and in that situation, in that case, they think they're making themselves look better. It's just the way our culture has evolved. It's the way the country is. It's like almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people. So the question is this: Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?

The picture Drudge used:

Comments

[CLMMIT]

I agree, I do not want to watch a post menopausal woman age before my eyes.

[shockmagog]

A salient comment from FreeRepublic about Limbaugh's comments, and the anticipation that, once again, his commentary would be taken out of context:

'When Rush went on commercial break before saying what he thought about Hitlery’s pic I thought to myself....­DON’T SAY IT, DON’T DO IT RUSH! I knew instantly the mediaWHORES were going to pick up the comment and twist around. Rush’s comment will probably make the rounds tomorrow..­.bank on it! They are so hoping for another Michael Fox moment real bad! I think Rush just handed the SHE-DEVIL the victim card!'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940913/posts#comment?q=1

All anyone has to do, actually, is repeat what Rush Limbaugh says. His ignominy speaks for itself.

[ErnestineBass]

Probably no more than we want to see 275+ pounds of semi-coagulated monkey spooge with a face "just made for radio"...

heh heh

[sheila]

anyone else wonder why huffpo constantly puts this flattering, doctored picture of that grotesque bloated child molester on articles referencing it/him? sure, it's ugly as f**k, but not considering what he really looks like, it's not...

surely there are some photos like those of cheney snarling that would be more appropriate?

[sureofit]

How long to Rush has to pay another beard to marry him.
My bet for the next outted self-hater caught in a scandal.
Hey, the GOP convention is in Minnesota!

[lentinelia]

You can get away with this kind of garbage if you aim it at a woman.

[rini]

Oh god,

I'm sure I am joining the chorus when I say that for Rush Limbaugh to talk about appearance is like Stevie Wonder making fun of someone who is nearsighted.

Speaking of Stevie Wonder, maybe that's what happened. Maybe he looked at Rush and lost his eyesight that way.

[texanna]

This from a fat, self-absorbed pig! No wonder he has to leave the country to find a hook-up, no one in this country would have anything to do with him. Thankfully, we don't have to watch this aging pig grow old, because he's on radio and only a few TV outlets.

[Mother77]

He stayed up at night trying to figure out how to get quoted in the press.

[Elusive]

so... mccain, thompson out, rudy is out too...let us just pick btw obama and edwards! easy.

[Xav7]

Why is it that nearly all sexists, bigots, and mental midgets are fat, sweaty, obnoxious hogs?

Rush Limbaugh is the fat, older, male version of Ann Coulter. (though I'm not convinced Coulter doesn't have a penis)

[Snakeback]

Who wants to look at a fat bald aging drug-addict?

Hello???

[kirkland]

Rush optimizes the provincial mind.
Repulsive. If our value were established purely by our looks? ( could it be that conservatives are that shallow, purile?) Lots of people who have a public presence would be without value. Now that I mention it....

[andyboy]

I just wish Bill Clinton would have divorced Hillary and married Angelina Jolie.

[enoughalready]

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat sexist idiot!

Sorry Al Franken - couldn't help borrowing a few well put words.

Limbaugh is so out of it - he just hasn't gotten the fact that women will be the deciding factor in 2008. Maybe we can find a woman to replace him.