GOP Asks 'Chicago Tribune' Not to Publish Errant 'Rush Limbaugh' Email -- Doesn't Stop Paper

[gi4obama]

NEW YORK What to do when you are mistakenly sent a highly provocative, even distasteful, email from a political party staffer and are then asked not to publish its contents? The issue came up again today when the Chicago Tribune received an email from a GOP staffer regarding a suggestion that the party post something on YouTube regarding a radio comment by Rush Limbaugh related to Sarah Palin's new baby and Barack Obama's view of abortion.

Here is an excerpt from a posting today on the Tribune's popular blog, The Swamp, by Andrew Zajac.
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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.


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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Good for the Chicago Tribune...

:thumbsup:

[KharmaTrain]

4. How The Worm Has Turned...

I never would dream that the mighty Tribune...the bastion of Colonel McCormick that never met a Democrat they didn't want to slam, would be the more Progressive newspaper in this town. The Sun-Times, since it was taken over by Conrad Black, is bird cage liner material...our family had subscribed to it for nearly 60 years...we gladly cancelled.

[gi4obama]

8. They did step out for this topic. n/t

[d_b]

2. keep 'em coming, Rush

[gi4obama]

6. My sentiments exactly. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

3. The world would be a better place if Rush's mother had aborted him.

There is no scumsucker as low as Rush Limbaugh. All the other wannabes - Hannity, Coulter, Savage, etc. - pale in comparison to the sniveling coward but cheap bully that is Rush Limbaugh.

I swear, someday the truth will come out about this guy, and if his ex-wives ever decide to spill the beans (and give up the millions he is paying them for their silence), it will be over.

Of course, he has powerful friends, to say the least. In the media, too: NBC News anchor Brian Williams is a loyal listener, for example. Jim Nantz at CBS is a close friend. Yuck.

[Fumesucker]

5. Bullies are invariably cowards..

They always attack the weak and suck up to the strong.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. I do not get it...

please explain it to me.

That is not Obama's position on abortion, so how is limpnuts doing 'good'?

[KittyWampus]

9. sick sense of humor.

[proud patriot]

10. disgusting pukes

x(

[DCKit]

11. "Failure to Thrive" is the name for it.

The pro-fetus crowd has no investment in living children once they've evacuated the womb - especially those born into poverty or some other handicap. Any who require ongoing medical care, special schooling or some other socially expensive program, as well as those "who will be locked up eventually, anyway" don't get much time from this crowd.