Rush Limbaugh: Liberals Wouldn't Care If Casey Anthony's Child Had Died In The Womb

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh spoke to the liberal media during his Wednesday broadcast -- specifically cable news show hosts -- in response to their publicized anguish over the Casey Anthony trial verdict.

"You know, what I don't understand about it is, they're all card-carrying liberals... when does the death of a child bother them?" Limbaugh asked. "I've never seen them get so upset over the death of a child."

Limbaugh continually invoked abortion, advising that those distraught over the trial outcome, particularly those in the media, should "...just tell yourselves that [Anthony] just waited a couple of years to get an abortion and you'll feel better."

"If the child had died in what, two years earlier in the womb, this woman would be a star, she'd be a hero," he also said. "And folks I don't think that's a cliche to say, and I don't think it's a cheap attempt at humor. I think that while it may be uncomfortable to hear one of the reasons its uncomfortable to hear is there is an element of truth in it."

MSNBC news host Ed Schultz struck back at Limbaugh on last night's The Ed Show. He called the right-winger's words "shameful" and proceeded to call him "the worst of the worst."

By "protecting only the rich," Schultz added, Republicans "...prove time and time again that they don't really give a damn about you after your born... [they] murder the American dream."

(h/t Real Clear Politics)

Comments

[hamp70]

06:41 PM on 07/23/2011

I would like to address a misconception that a lot of people have by asking you a few questions.
1. Are you open minded?
2. Do you consider yourself generous?
3. Are you favorable to progress or reform?
4. Are you favorable to or in accord with the concepts of maximum individual freedom possible?
5. Are you in favor of representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies?
6. Are you against prejudice and bigotry?
I like to use the dictionary as a source at times, and if you answered yes to most or all of the above questions, according to the dictionary, you are a liberal.
I would like to say that no matter how dirty of a word conservative talk show hosts and the news media make it, I WILL ALWAYS STRIVE TO BE LIBERAL!
By the way, liberal and conservative are not opposite in their meaning. I consider myself a conservative liberal. I hate waste and try to live with in my means. That is being a conservative. I am just a want to be liberal, though, as I am not good enough to actually be one.

[hankmcoy]

11:15 AM on 07/18/2011

My goodness please someone put tape over his mouth and dump Rush Limbaugh somewere! This idiot spews nothing but hate! Rush your mother should have swallowed you! And i mean that!!

[JScott]

12:47 PM on 07/12/2011

Yes Rush it's all about you isn't it you are soooo important. BTW sold your frilly old lady styled furnished condo yet and moved to a 'low tax' state yet?

[american-dolt]

12:11 PM on 07/12/2011

What kind of Mind listens to this Man?

[Retrofuturistic]

11:59 AM on 07/12/2011

Limbaugh is an expert only on twisting things around.

I bet it's true in his personal life too--- If someone challenges him on something, I bet he twists it around so it is their fault instead of his.

[KarasudaJay]

10:06 AM on 07/12/2011

He may be tacky, but he is pretty much right. Like every other political commentator though, he's just pandering to his audience, so people shouldn't get too worked up about him.

[Daniel Carr]

10:06 AM on 07/12/2011

He isn't known as a whackjob for nothing.

Once again, he makes clear the painful joke that "Republicans love children up to the point of conception." After that I guess they are just too hard to control.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

07:51 AM on 07/12/2011

Does anyone actually think Rush cares about abortion one way or the other, Lord Humongous is in it for the money.

[exile]

07:48 AM on 07/12/2011

spock hand job thingy

[Balzy26]

06:10 AM on 07/12/2011

Of course what this woman did was horrible, but in terms of society it pales in comparison to having multiple kids without raising them so they can grow up to be criminals and gang bangers. How come no politician or Nancy Grace ever talks about that? Ever read Freakonomics? As bad as it sounds, abortions are a good choice in a lot of situations. Unwanted kids and their incompetant parents are ruining this country and the world.

[mzumda]

02:20 AM on 07/12/2011

Rush really struck a nerve with this I can tell. So this means like he said:

" I think that while it may be uncomfortable to hear one of the reasons its uncomfortable to hear is there is an element of truth in it."

Thus you have this outrage and the name calling and the uncivil discourse
that is being demonstrated here on this comment page.

Thanks for proving Rush is right again. You Libs are so easy to predict.

Rush for Prez.

[Stewart88]

12:12 AM on 07/12/2011

Nice of him to point out how all liberals think in lock-step. just look at how the democrats have been thoroughly successful in election after election after election. I grow weary of conservatives like drugster projecting their own flaws whole-ly onto the constantly fractured and intelligent left.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

07:55 AM on 07/12/2011

Rush isn't a conservative, he's a guy on the radio who plays a conservative for money.

[Higgs Boson]

11:46 PM on 07/11/2011

Rush Limbaugh has to be one of the most despicable people in America today . I wonder how much it costs him to hide the fact that he is gay ?

[Jced]

12:47 PM on 07/12/2011

All those vacations to the Domincan Republic......Hmmmmm!

[Tuscarora9]

10:56 PM on 07/11/2011

Rush is right, it's not a cliche to say what he said just simply moronic. How this man continues to gather an audience and sponsors speaks very poorly for the mentality of some of it's citizens.

[Yellowstonedemocrat]

07:59 PM on 07/11/2011

...and Limbaugh and his Republican friends quit caring about her the minute she exits the womb.

[Monk2001]

09:55 PM on 07/11/2011

Exactly what I was going to post. ff'd