When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.
--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1159"Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris..."
--Rush Limbaugh (TV show, 4/11/94)
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895"These are basically a bunch of miserable, angry people exploiting death. But that's actually a good analogy out there,
. It is. This sort of has the same tone to it and the same hysteria that accompanied the Wellstone memorial -- which, of course, as we know, was not a memorial to Paul Wellstone. It was a campaign event, and it was "win one for Wellstone" and so forth."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200508180005
"My friends, Senator Paul Wellstone's death was a tragedy; there's no question about it. But the Democrats are using it as a political rallying cry, politicizing it to nationalize the elections – as was reported in that great newspaper of record, the Des Moines Register. The Democrats are politicizing this death, because they see it as a chance to win a seat they might have lost. How's that for playing politics?"
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/partisan_dems/wellstone.guest.html