I usually prefer to stay away from ad hominem attacks. They do nothing to refine our disourse, and there is almost always a substantive argument to make instead of going after someone's personality, character, or physical traits.
But, Rush Limbaugh really leaves me no choice this one time.
When Former Half-term Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin went after President Obama's "cojones" on Fox News Sunday, it seems that Mr. Limbaugh's little mast went up just a bit.
The big man just couldn't wait to get to the Golden Microphone today to jump on the bandwagon.
Via Media Matters, El Rushbo spent the first six minutes of his show today talking about Obama's manhood.
Sarah Palin says that the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, has something that Obama lacks: cojones! You have to love this! Because she's one of the few Republicans in Washington that has cojones herself. And accusing the president of the United States of not having any! Here's the audio sounbite. It was Fox News Sunday yesterday...
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You know, this is big. I think this is a little more noteworthy than a lot of people are saying, especially inside the White House. I don't... Obama might not know how insulted he's been here because he doesn't know how to speak Spanish, and he needs somebody in there who speaks Spanish to know what she just said.
But I mean, here you have somebody ranking in the Republican Party saying that - and it's a female - saying that the president of the United States does not have cojones!
First, how sad is Limbaugh's excitement over a schoolyard taunt thrown at the president from the former half-term governor? Yes, I'm sure Obama has spent the entire day wracked with performance anxiety. Uh, huh.
And how sad is it that Limbaugh does not appreciate how much the former half-term governor lowers herself by engaging in such silly trash talk. Cojones! Yes, she seems so much more presidential now than she did before.
But, Rush. Son. Did you really want to go there? Do you really want to talk trash about another man's manhood, especially when you have had your own, um, issues in that regard?
Rush Limbaugh was traveling with four other men--including the producers of the hit show "24"--when he was detained over a mislabeled bottle of Viagra found in his luggage during a Customs search. A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a Gulfstream IV jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates his radio program. Limbaugh returned to Palm Beach, Florida on June 26 with Joel Surnow, "24"'s co-creator and executive producer and Howard Gordon, another of the Fox hit's executive producers (Hollywood agent Jeffrey Benson was also part of the Limbaugh quintet). With all those guys in tow, it is unclear what Limbaugh needed with those 29 100mg Viagra pills. The passenger manifest was among several documents released today by the Palm Beach County State's Attorney in response to a TSG open records request. Included in the material released were a copy of the handwritten statement Limbaugh provided investigators after he was detained upon the discovery of the impotency drug. An affidavit sworn three days later by Limbaugh was also released. In that document, Limbaugh explains that the Viagra "was intended for my exclusive use" and that the drug had been prescribed in the name of his drug treatment doctor, Steven Strumwasser, "to further maintain and protect my privacy."
Men who live in soft, limp, floppy houses shouldn't talk about other men's stones, Mr. Limbaugh.