A Rush to Judgment?
Politics is applesauce. Will Rogers
Mention Rush Limbaugh and start an argument. Publish an interview with him, even if he?s just talking about golf, and wow. In come the letters. Our Final Exam with Rush in the just-landed August issue is already drawing fire. Normally, any mention of politics brings out the conservative, media-watch folks. This time the liberals are rising up.
If Brian Murphy's purpose in his Rush Limbaugh interview was to raise the blood pressure of another Irishman, he accomplished his goal. I certainly hope the cigar Rush is so pompously smoking was grown and processed in the United States by 100% legal immigrants. God forbid he wouldn't smoke a Cuban cigar, would he!. Hopefully there were no illegals working on the courses his rich friends invite him to play. I might also suggest another reason most professional golfers might be Republican is the tax breaks on their millions that the middle class doesn't get.
Jim McCarthy
Moorestown, NJ
Just cannot believe you interviewed Rush Limbaugh !!! You will get so much hate mail.....You know, you will now be forced to interview a liberal !!!
Good thing about liberals though, they don't like golf because they can't blame any one else for their bad game...!!!! Bill Clinton will be your next interview I'm sure....but he cheats on the golf course.... will you ask him about that??
Dave Riffey
Shell Lake, WI
I just finished reading Brian Murphy's article "Final Exam," featuring Rush Limbaugh in the August issue of Golf Digest. How Neanderthal of Mr. Limbaugh to opine his approval of Hootie Johnson of Augusta National for not "cowing in fear" and allowing women to play at his course. How sad, considering this day and age when American women are fighting and dying on the front lines to protect the freedoms and rights of all Americans. Perhaps Mr. Limbaugh would have been more politically correct if instead he had quoted the late, great Groucho Marx when Mr. Marx said "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
Bonnie Rubin
Highland Lakes, New Jersey
Meanwhile, Limbaugh lovers remain eerily silent.....
--Bob Carney
(photo Ben Van Hook)
07.12.07
I was shocked and disgusted to see an interview with Rush Limbaugh in your magazine. It made me sick to see that you treated him as just another celebrity, no different than anyone else in the public eye.
This man is a racist. He is a bigot. He is a cruel bully. This is the man who said of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers: ?they just needed to blow off a little steam?. This is the man who said of Michael J. Fox?s Parkinson?s disease: ?he?s moving all around and shaking?it?s purely an act?. This is the man who simply makes up ?data? to support his vicious right-wing ideology. He intentionally fans the flames of intolerance and hatred that still exist in America today. He is the worst kind of ?celebrity? because he uses his notoriety to encourage cruelty, hatred, and the destruction of civility in our country. To treat this villain as a normal person is to ignore all of the past abuses of women, minorities, and gays that have occurred in this country for so long.
Worse yet, by including this man in your magazine, you are reinforcing the long standing bigotry and discrimination that has plagued the game of golf for decades. It wasn?t too long ago that the only black man in a country club was the bathroom attendant. Jews, Asians, Latinos, and women were asked to leave. Golf was, and in some places still is, a place where only wealthy white men are allowed. Given this embarrassing and reprehensible history, including Limbaugh only encourages the racists that are still among us. It?s like laughing when some idiot on the golf course starts his joke off with, ?There was this nigger, wop, and spic?.?
You can cancel my subscription to Golf Digest. Do not send anymore copies of your magazine to my house. I will monitor the web for your apology to all of your readers, particularly to your female readers, and your minority readers. Until that apology is heard, loud and clear, I will also start a campaign, asking all reasonable people to boycott Golf Digest, and to boycott advertisers who support Golf Digest.
The destruction of our country by the likes of Limbaugh must stop. It is our duty as citizens to end this vicious hatred and create a new culture of acceptance and tolerance for ALL Americans.
You wrote:
"Meanwhile, Limbaugh lovers remain eerily silent....."
Actually, I'm pretty sure this dude is a Limbaugh fan:
Just cannot believe you interviewed Rush Limbaugh !!! You will get so much hate mail.....You know, you will now be forced to interview a liberal !!!
Good thing about liberals though, they don't like golf because they can't blame any one else for their bad game...!!!! Bill Clinton will be your next interview I'm sure....but he cheats on the golf course.... will you ask him about that??
Dave Riffey
Shell Lake, WI