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Rush Limbaugh Denied Service at Mexican Restaurant
January 31st, 2013
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was refused service at a Mexican restaurant in Florida today while attempting to eat lunch.
The owners of Pablo's Taqueria in Palm Beach Gardens say that they have a strict "no racists" policy and kindly asked Limbaugh to leave the premises when he attempted to place his order.
He initially declined to leave the restaurant, and after a brief argument was escorted out by security guards.
The incident began when the restaurant's manager recognized Limbaugh as he was making his order. The manager approached his table and kindly asked him to leave. According to witnesses, Limbaugh then stood up and launched a racist, obscenity-laced rant.
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"Your ugly, racist views mean you're liable to cause a disturbance in my restaurant. And I simply can't have that. So you can take that outrage, put it in this ketchup bottle, shove it up your ass, and get off my property. Es su obligación."
Limbaugh was then escorted out by security from the strip mall in which the restaurant is located. In an interview, the owner of the restaurant, Pablo Pena, says his decision was practical and not political.
"I don't have anything against Republicans," Pena said. "I voted for George W. Bush in 2000. But this Limbaugh guy is a f**king pendejo. We serve a lot of families here. I don't think his kind of rhetoric is appropriate for our clientele."
Limbaugh is known for his controversial views on race and immigration. He has vowed to single-handedly obstruct efforts by Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Hey, it 'could' happen.
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/01/31/rush-limbaugh-denied-service-mexican-restauruant/
denverbill
(11,489 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Besides, I doubt if the BFI actually goes out to eat. I've heard he never leaves his compound in Florida without some kind of an entourage. Too paranoid. I would love to share this, but I don't believe it. However, it really does encapsulate the man's arrogance.
Warpy
(111,317 posts)so unless it opened very, very recently, that's another indication this is satire.
A friend in Palm Beach confirms your entourage story. Limbag is never seen out on his own.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)"real f***ing pendejo" I got sad, because I knew it wasn't true then.
BootinUp
(47,177 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)Other current stories found there:
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el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Letting aside the minor point that that's when he's on the air, any Mexican restaurant who did this would be inviting disaster upon themselves. He's a vindictive guy, and his followers are equally vindictive - if he chose to name them - they would suffer harassment after harassment.
Bryant
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)In this dictatorship of capital, apparently ANY business has the right to refuse service to anyone outside of protected a racial status. If he's got the cojones to put up with the harassment (you're right about that part), then I guess a restaurant owner would have the right to refuse service to Limbaugh.
Putting up with racist assholes has got to stop. They've got to be challenged for their views and yes, SHAMED for their views and I would admire anybody for challenging him. You might have the RIGHT to spew hatred and bullshit, but the rest of us who DON'T feel like that have the right to CALL it hatred and bullshit. If we don't we are just enabling them and any other asshole to spew their shit.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Knowing how difficult it is to keep a restaurant going and how much Limbaugh could harm his business?
I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to see, but I don't expect someone like that to take that kind of risk.
Bryant
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Y, tambien es cierto que Rush es un pendejo!
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Rush wa ganko-sha desu sore kara sukebejijii dayo! (Thanks Art, I knew I would use this ..all too soon!)
During the time the leader of China was visiting the US, Rush tried to mimic Chinese in a baby talk kind of way. It was a total insult on All Asians in America and overseas.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)ganko-shadesu sore kara sukebejijii dayo!
I should start a thread, "International names for Rush Limbaugh!
(I've got two lessons so far)
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)ganko-sha desu = bigot. Sukebeijii =Lecherous (dirty/creepy)Old man.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I'll add it!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)We should have everyone contribute to a list of International insults for Rush Limbaugh.
keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)demo, rush-dono wa sodai-gomi de arimasu... *gero*
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)You are right, it could happen. It would be so much win if it did.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)joeunderdog
(2,563 posts)is how only 2 security guards were able to separate Rush from his food.
"Keep your hands and feet away from his mouth..."
golfguru
(4,987 posts)Blue Owl
(50,477 posts)n/t
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)ricandersen
(5 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)enjoy your stay.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Standing up to bigots isn't hatred. Why can't you understand that? The most incredibly ignorant stance almost all repukes take is that standing up to bullies, bigots, and cruelty is "intolerant."
My god, the stupid.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)I think you made a left turn when you should have taken a right turn on Troll turnpike...
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)You've got every right to be as racist as your lil lily white heart wants to be. You've even got the right to spew your racist bullshit if you want to. BUT I'VE GOT EVERY RIGHT TO CALL YOU ON THAT RACIST BULLSHIT. And yes SHAME you for that racist bullshit. Until racist attitudes are seen as disgusting, they'll be around to disrupt the rest of us.
And that's what they ultimately are, a disruption and a distraction. Racism is just another way that the ruling class divides the working class and keeps their wealth and power. Racists are actual class traitors.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)UMADTHO!
Zax2me
(2,515 posts)Would hate to see someone who would refuse service to this windbag go out of business.
And that is what would happen - eatery would lose 50% of its business if it did something like this.
RandiFan1290
(6,239 posts)You obviously don't know this area too well. We'd make sure the place was packed from here on out
While Limpballs might get some of his simpletons to avoid the business establishment others would flock there to express appreciation and support for their treatment of the blowhard. Business would double.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Satire gets hidden here.
EOTE
(13,409 posts)The whole article basically boils down to "Rush Limbaugh is a racist asshole... oh, and he's also fat." Not only are the events described entirely too believable to be satire, but it lacks humor as well.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)has to smile.
Come on, now
I've seen a few 'satires' from that site posted here. None of them were remotely funny.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)It's a weird site. They seem to think that having one mildly amusing idea is enough to make a story. Everything on there reads like a first draft that needs a few more rewrites in order to "funny it up".
Still better than Satirical Political, though.
Need to expand my ignore list to the people who insist on posting this drivel.
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)I get all excited then let down. If it's an onion addy, then it's okay but is everyone and their stupid dog doing this these days?
PADemD
(4,482 posts)IMO, satire should be humorous. None of the Daily Current threads I've seen are humorous.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)That's only about a tenth of what the big boy normally eats for lunch.
Tagish_Charlie
(85 posts)is that Limpballs went quietly instead of making a fuss and forcing security to taze and pepper spray his miserable fat ass.
ricandersen
(5 posts)is that Tagish_Charlie still doesn't realize the story is satire.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rejoice in it.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Thats 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back ...
Chipper Chat
(9,685 posts)There is no way Rush could fit through the front door of a Mexican Restaurant.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)sat·ire
/ˈsaˌtī ə r/
Noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices...
Bucky
(54,041 posts)kentuck
(111,107 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 1, 2013, 02:45 PM - Edit history (1)
on edit: fooled by the satire
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)It's satire.
I was happy for a second there.
kentuck
(111,107 posts)For not reading the article. But it was good for as long as it lasted.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)cer7711
(502 posts)SO wanted this to be true . . .
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)but then I can't image that pendejo going anywhere near a non-American, non-white accepting eatery.
allan01
(1,950 posts)made my day. my last post .ever .
ThingsGottaChange
(1,200 posts)I was hoping a video would turn up! You are a very bad girl, babylonsister!
Iggo
(47,563 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Seriously bad odd wish-fulfillment fantasy satire. This is almost as lame as the one about Ann Coulter.
Makes us all appreciate the onion even more.
Bucky
(54,041 posts)Nearly had me going there, however.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)I know, satire...
Still......
mckara
(1,708 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)It would be great to be sitting in a restaurant and watch that pendejo get his ass handed to him.
lexw
(804 posts)donco
(1,548 posts)bitching i woulda said set down rush,your order of s*** will be up post haste.
Gman
(24,780 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)She was hotter than Chinese mustard and began flirting with me. She told me how cool she thought I was, and that she wished I could take her to the prom. She said she'd do anything, anything at all, if I would just take her out on a date.
Then she called me a dork and laughed in my face.
Thanx for letting me relive that level of disappointment.
LOL. Just kidding, but you really had my hopes up. K&R for the playful tease.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)JohnnyRingo, all in good fun. Here's a .
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Ilsa
(61,696 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)dsharp88
(487 posts)farminator3000
(2,117 posts)Response to babylonsister (Original post)
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Blue4Texas
(437 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)jambo101
(797 posts)After reading the Ann Coulter story only to be told it was satire and now this story also apparently satire i'm starting to wonder whats the point in dressing up fake stories to look real,along with todays photoshop wizardry i think we'll get to a point where it will be posted on the media and you will be left with the choice of deciding whats real whats not..kinda like= we report you decide.
exxo1111
(55 posts)Rush es un pendejo!
Impossible to say it better.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)in my second semester of Spanish in college, the professor asked if we used a Spanish name first semester. I said no. He knew my wife was Mex-Am, so he asked what she normally called me. I said pendejo. I had that name all semester
siligut
(12,272 posts)And then keep him coming back for more.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I don't think they should be giving him any ideas. Dude is perverted enough.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)So far this is my favorite news quote of 2013.
missuscaptain
(2 posts)Sir you have my admiration and gratitude. If I lived in Florida I would visit your restaurant all the time. Again Gracias!!!!
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)That might be the first time in years he's been told what he really is. It can not but do him good.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)that African-American restaurant in New York some years ago
penndragon69
(788 posts)No Racists and NO PIGS allowed.
randr
(12,413 posts)Me neither.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)The art of satire - which the Onion understands and The Daily Currant doesn't - involves ridicule by taking the comments or behavior of the person being satirized and stretching them to an illogical but humorous conclusion. The Daily Current seems to think satire is just making stuff up that portrays people as being more extremely bad in the way we already know they're bad, but it just comes across as nasty and borderline libelous instead of funny.
TheDailyCurrant
(1 post)The art of satire does include being ridiculous and silly. The low-brow Onion often publishes article which are outlandish, and by my tastes very broad. Their giddy wink-wink frat-boy tone is an amateur attempt at comedy.
Good satire means coming as close to the truth as you possibly can while finding room to exaggerate and ridicule.
The Daily Currant achieves this delicate balance, but it does it in a way that is so surgical and precise that some less intelligent readers may find it hard to spot.
The Onion is for people who love Two and a Half Men.
The Daily Currant is for people who prefer Gervais's Office The Larry Sander's Show, The Thick of It, etc.
Verisimilitude is the mark of a good comedian. Corny silliness is the mark of a bad one.
Don't blame the comedian if the jokes fly over your head. Get yourself an education, pick up a newspaper, or start watching the BBC rather than MSNBC or Fox News. Then you'd understand the references.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)To each his own, I guess. I do prefer Gervais' Office. I do watch the BBC, never Fox, and I've never seen a single minute of Two and a Half Men. The Daily Currant is crude and lame, seldom clever, and your post is insulting.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)babylonsister
(171,079 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)babylonsister
(171,079 posts)For everything posted here, opinions vary. Keep writing!
Ian Iam
(386 posts)I am most disapponted, as such treatment is precisely what Mr Limbaugh deserves!
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bluestate10
(10,942 posts)And put an extra heavy serving of beans in his burritos.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Although, having said that, this just gives Limbaugh more ammunition to rail against having "lost his country" to brown-skinned folk.
And having said that, I have to remind myself that Limbaugh manufactures his own ammo, and he'd have found some way to slag these people no matter what.
salinen
(7,288 posts)No thanks.
rjimdem19679
(1 post)Limbaugh is vile trash. Good on the restaurant for barring him. Now, if we could get other restaurants to do the same....
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Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)It about time we started our own urban legends to match the "socialist Kenyan" crap.
And the stories ARE over the top, but maybe, JUST maybe people will realize that the truth cannot be found on obscure satire sites, NOR can it be found on Faux News or Politico or Free Republic.
I'm not holding out much hope.
Dash87
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supercats
(429 posts)I was howling with delight as I read this story. That manager and the owner make a lot of sense. I wish more restaurants saw the inherent value in this and had the strength to do what this restaurant did. Who knows if we're lucky Limbaugh and his ilk will be stuck eating at the same five restaurants forever!
Apophis
(1,407 posts)I was hoping this was real.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)mostlyconfused
(211 posts)He's far too much of a gentleman to speak like that in public, and really too gentle to get into a confrontation with anyone.
Rush is a very multicultural guy though, so it's not surprising that he's going to different ethnic restaurants. But that said, I'm pretty sure he practices a strict vegan diet, so he may not have had many menu choices there.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)But Limbaugh is a fucking pendejo.
jamal49
(17 posts)Now, can we please escort Rush Limbaugh out of this country? Maybe send him to one of those countries in the Caribbean where he likes to, um, frolic with individuals younger than he of the female sex?
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ReRe
(10,597 posts)Damn Damn Damn...I thought that was real!
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)While I'm sickened, I feel no sympathy.
politicasista
(14,128 posts)He would have had so much toxic Oxygas in the air that the place would have to be fumigated for two months.
qw3rty3
(2 posts)If it was satire it would be funny. IDK what this is
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)liberalicious
(2 posts)and thanks to the psting on this site, the fake story is now all over twitter and elsewhere
i have to wonder if it was intentionally PLANTED HERE
Daily Currant, the original site that reported it, is a satire site who stole their entire theme from The Onion and they SPAM their site all over comment sections of other sites, like where i hang out, at The Daily Beast.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Making fun of Rush is so much fun. Welcome to DU.