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

[shaefromTn]

Who wants to listen to old Limpdick as-hole?

[Marichu]

The comment that Rush made about Sen. Clinton's looks made him appear oafish. It seems that he can't attack her on her political positions, so he must revert to sexist remarks. His mental prowess must indeed be exceptionally limited if that's what he needs to demean the only woman running for president.

His callous remarks are not just aimed at Sen. Clinton, but at all women past a certain age (for him it's probably 25). He is an enabler for all those men who feel that a woman's value decreases as she ages; that she is only as good as what is superficially seen. He is a petty, repulsive, little man who thrives on bigotry, turmoil and malicious slander.

[champions1]

Oh yeah, what's up with obamaville ? i like him tooooo, but Arianna why all the hatin of Hillary

[ultomatt]

Aren't morbidly fat men supposed to be jolly?

[dolphy]

RUSH-PUSS. Sounds so good!

[Janco54]

Dear GOD how I hate Rush, Coulter, Savage, O'Reilly, Hannity et al for putting forth these IDIOTIC statements like they MATTER.
Serious - serious problems created over the last 7 years and they're worried about whether we want to look at a 60 year old woman? ?????
WTF is WRONG with these people?????

[SeconLine]

Pretty funny stuff, coming from from someone that was a total flop on TV.

Rush has a great face for radio.

Rush also doesn't seem to like ANY women very much.

[helonias]

WEll thrice divorced, draft dodging artificial heroin addicts tend to say such things

[Jebbushnot]

I just installed a Sirius Radio in my house and car and
I suggest you all do and let Rush Limbaugh sit in his 1920's technology of the AM radio. Father Caughlin
used the same rhetoric as Limbauh but it was in the 1930's.

[PKSSK]

You know, Limbaugh is a sad profile of human being. He really needs to look in the mirror before he ever judges anyone on their looks. Like so many, we will all praise the day when this man gets his payback for his evil remarks and actions.

Hillary, even though I don't agree with her politically, has achieved so much more in her lifetime than most males. This guys only achievement is sitting behind a radio mike mouthing venom for money!

Check our this frauds backround on Wikepedia!!! While your at it checkout Beck Hannity and Rove, as well. You will see why they do what they do, who needs an education to spout venom???

[elghoul]

Hey Rush,
so I see you are still stoned. You take a cheap shot at schwartznegger's wife, and now taking another shot at hillary, whom I do not
endorse, mind you. You should be thankful that
a moron like you has made it in this life and I really take a great deal of motivation from your success and that of Bush. It is indeed true that anyone can make it in the US.
unbelievab­le...

[gala1]

Speaking of photoshopped---
If you look not even that carefully , you can actually see the distinct difference in facial coloring where the center of Hillary's features have been edged into someone else's wrinkles.

gala

[kcgeezer]

Better than staring at a dickless, boil-assed fat boy like you Rush! Mega Ditto that!

[unlikelyconservative]

I think this is just plain rude. Athough a lot can be said that a measure of the mystique of the Kennedy/Camelot dynasty came from the appeal of having younger attractive people in the Whitehouse.

[ultomatt]

The fact that a miserable, whining coward like Mr. Limbaugh can still be shoveling his message of hate after all these years is more of an indictment of this country than anything else. I gave this pig his due in the late 90's, just to be educated on his monologues of filth, and discovered that he is a pragmatic hog who believes in nothing...­other than profit. He shovels what he knows his pigs will eat, shit. And they keep returning to his trough, to get more diatribes of hatred and ad hominum attacks that he has become famous for. This is about his audience, not him...he's an irrelevant hate monger.

Now, years after attacking Chelsea Clinton for not being pretty, he attacks Hillary for not being young. Well Rush, you skidmark with legs, go fuck yourself..­.to quote our Dear Vice-Leader.