RNC email calls Limbaugh abortion joke "good Youtube potential"

[Enrique]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/rnc_mulls_limbaugh_abortion_ja.html

Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh boosted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's pro-life position and mocked Barack Obama on his radio show yesterday with a make-believe riff in which Obama asked Palin "When you found out your baby would be born with Down syndrome, did you consider killing it before or after the due date?"

Limbaugh's "humor" caught the fancy of the Republican National Committee, which, in an internal e-mail, proposed using the bit in a YouTube clip.

The e-mail, which was sent to RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz, and mistakenly to a Tribune reporter, was titled "wow...good YouTube potential..."

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The staffer who wrote the message said the obvious -- that it was sent to the wrong person -- but otherwise declined to discuss it.

Diaz asked The Swamp not to post the message and said the RNC had not and would not act on the suggestion, but otherwise declined to talk about it on the record.

There's a time to honor requests to disregard misdirected email, but this isn't one of them.

The note is a good illustration of how campaigns really work and helps to explain why many people think the national political discourse is noxious.

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[Danger Mouse]

1. I would call Rush a loathsome pig...but I don't want to insult any pigs out there.

:puke:

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. DO NOT PICK ON RUSH

He is a great family values guy - you can ask his first wife oops - I mean ask his second wife oops - I mean ask his third wife oops - I mean ask his "girl friend"

[11 Bravo]

4. Or just ask the underage Dominican boys Rush visited with his illegal Viagra prescription.

[Danger Mouse]

7. Right. I apologize to Rush...I'm sorry I called you a loathsome pig...

you slimy toad.
:hi:

[searchingforlight]

2. I hope they do use this. I think this kind of humor will disgust just about any thinking person -

Guess that eliminates PUMAs and RRCC.

[protect our future]

5. Wow. Good tiny little window open just long enough to allow

some green pus-filled intestinal-gushing orange-pulsating infection ooze out of the place once occupied by the soul of Rush Limbaugh and the soul of the RNC before the afore-mentioned souls were sold.

[DangerousRhythm]

6. What a disgusting slimeball Rush is.

And good Youtube potential? How is this shitty "joke" even relevant to voters and THE REAL ISSUES? Answer: It isn't.

I am so tired of these people.