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Obama, Bin Laden, Brackets, And Multitasking: A Thank You Note To Rush Limbaugh

by Dan Fogarty | 8:58 am, May 6th, 2011

Rush,

So glad I was able to provide you with a mid-morning chuckle. It’s not often a political commentator discusses our ragtag sports blog. So you can understand how happy I was, as I looked over our real-time analytics and saw that a few more people than normal had gotten to SportsGrid by searching “dan Fogerdy obama bracket dumb,” to realize that we had somehow finagled our way into the political discourse.

How lovely of you to mention me. Really, what a treat.

I fear you may have misinterpreted some of the things I wrote about the President, his bracket, and the “midnight raid that killed Osama bin Laden,” though. For starters, I worry that you took certain portions of the piece a bit literally. I thought that whoever read it would assume certain things.

How silly of me.

I thought that whoever read my piece would realize that I didn’t think President Obama had planned an attack on the world’s most wanted terrorist, by himself, while he had an NCAA tournament bracket on his lap.

I thought that whoever read my piece would realize that I didn’t think President Obama had diagrammed which window the Navy SEALs would enter with his left hand, while he picked Richmond over Vanderbilt with his right.

I also thought that whoever read my piece would assume I was highlighting the absurd criticisms leveled at the President about his bracket, and was highlighting the fact that, you know, he was getting stuff done, even though ESPN came to the White House and filmed him for 20 minutes.

Again: my apologies. I really thought the tone of the piece, and the idea it wanted to get across, was fairly obvious. It was not. This was made clear to me in one of the emails I received shortly after you discussed the piece on-air. Perhaps the email was sent from one of your listeners. It said

YOUR FULL OF SHIT… STUPID ASSES

in big letters.

I also wanted to thank you. I wanted to thank you, because now I see that my oversights were due to the excitement I felt after we caught (and got rid of) Osama bin Laden. I felt relief, happiness and national pride. What I didn’t feel was the necessity to be extremely precise by saying the President “participated in the planning” of the mission. And maybe I was too ready to congratulate him. Sorry about that.

Thanks for mentioning us with The Onion, too. I know you’re a contributor over there, so this lesson in the appropriate use of satire is all the more meaningful coming from you.

Mostly though, Rush, I wanted to thank you for reading SportsGrid.



  • Dan

    Thin-skinned much Fogarty??

  • http://profiles.google.com/jimw1016 jim whitehead

    Thin skin has nothing to do with the article or that fat-assed slob who only wants to make trouble and perpetuate partisan politics which needs to be treated with criminal consequences. You must realize that fat ass is an actor just like Glen Beck, and couldn’t hold a job on the radio at minimum wage if he didn’t spin and sensationalize most of the non-conservative goings on in the US. McDonald’s etc. wouldn’t hire him, due to his fat ass he would be a liability.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    I mean this in the best possible way and no offense, but I hope somebody around the office is cranking an oldie from Peter Gabriel in celebration of the traffic boost.

  • sox Gal

    My, My, all of you Rush Haters; if you had the brains of a snail, you would realize how right Rush is on practically all that he says; it just irks you bleeding heart liberals that all that he says is usually right on target and you actually fear him because of that! The sooner you morons learn that you cannot deal with these animals in the middle east, the better off we will all be, but I don’t think this will ever happen, sad, because they are all over the world and will never stop hating us. Sorry Jim Whitehead, you are dead wrong; Rush doesn’t have to be an actor to broadcast the truth and that’s exactly what he does each & every day, face it! The only people “making trouble” are you pitiful liberal idiots; you don’t care anything about the American People as long as your equally pitiful congressmen & party members get in. By the way, did you ever wonder why the Donkey (commonly called an Ass in the Dictionary) is your mascot?? So why are you giving that title to Rush?? Get a life!

  • Mari Johnson

    Actually, it is possible to gage the accuracy of any news item about President Obama by Rush’s response to it. If Rush sounds like the spoiled brat of the block and whines about the articles giving President Obama too much credit and kudos, you know that the article is spot on and totally accurate. Poor Rush has this obvious problem that is so common to folks who are insecure. To feel good about himself, he seems compelled to TRY to destroy any and all who might threaten him by their greatness. Poor thing seems incapable of even rejoicing when the despot who masterminded the killing of Americans finally pays for his hate filled deeds. So poor, poor Rush. He is just pitiful and totally unable to express any pro-American ideals at a time like this. Typical ideologue!

  • Persistence

    Geez, not hardly. Pretty mild comeback to a fat POS who spins faster than a black hole.

    You?

  • Jjwesq

    “… [I]f you had the brains of a snail, you would realize how right Rush is on practically all that he says ….. ”

    You are absolutely right. You have the brains of a snail.

    Read a real book; watch real news programming.

  • Gilrex11

    The sooner you morons learn that you cannot deal with these animals in
    the middle east, the better off we will all be, but I don’t think this
    will ever happen, sad, because they are all over the world and will
    never stop hating us.

    *************************************************************************

    in your BS posting …. you did manage to say something that is true (see above) …..but isn’t it your boy Limpballs who keeps trying to insist that this “animal” Bin Laden -was unarmed and defenseless when shot by our Seals..he was also whining like a little bitch wen obama gave the order to shoot the Somalie Pirates -claiming they were innocent little boys…yea good ol Rushbo who was moving to Costa Rica if Obama won..instead he moved to Florida to avoid paying taxes…wow i guess he couldnt afford it on a measley 50 million a year

  • Qnique

    The Bloviator can’t think of anything original without lifting it from other people’s blogs? Say it ain’t so! Actually, Rush has a bad habit of hiding behind other people’s words. I got one word for that, COWARD.

  • Reader

    Rush always credits his sources.

  • http://profiles.google.com/btkennedy50 Bruce Kennedy

    Nothing is obvious, to the “Republicons”. What is obvious, to the casual reader, is often complex, to the simple mind, of a Conservative. Heck, they are still beating the “Birther” issue, to death. And they still can’t get their simple minds around the fact that Obama, can “multi-task”.

    I have a question, what if they gave a “Republicon” Presidential debate, and nobody came? One last thing, listening to “Oxycotin” Limbaugh, is like listening to a “Professor Irwin Corey”, trying to explain the “String Theory”.

  • http://radamisto.blogspot.com piniella

    how right Rush is on practically all that he says;

    In fact. Fats is often wrong about even the simplest facts. Of course, he covers that up by saying:

    RUSH: I missed this in trying to catch up with show prep for today.
    It’s yesterday from Life and Health Insurance News: “The health
    insurance industry has agreed to comply with a provision of the health
    care reform law requiring them to provide insurance to children with
    pre-existing medical conditions within 6 months.” So the caller was
    right.
    I was not wrong, I was just uninformed, but now I am properly informed.

    http://radamisto.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-classic-from-fats-limbaugh.html

  • Anonymous

    You can’t seriously think anyone other than Repubs are afraid of the fat pill popper? Every time a Repub says anything against Rushbo, next thing you know they are apologizing. Those of us who know he just a fat old fart windbag sit back and laugh at how this drug addict has become the voice of the Republican Party. We couldn’t have it any better because reasonable people know the old Rush to the table is so far from truth and honesty he is turning the tides AWAY from Republicans! Gotta love the idiots for how much they are helping the Democrats!

  • Hoxfan

    >Sox gal. You are delusional if you think Rush speaks the truth. The sooner you realize it’s designed to stir up the ignorant masses (yes, that includes you) the better off we’ll all be.

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    But would you sleep with Rush..??

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