Forget Obama's dog, Rush Limbaugh likes cats

This one should really annoy liberal readers. Or even progressives.

Just when the not really bipartisan world of Washington and beyond was getting all comfortable hating the new leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, word leaks out that the planet's most successful and quite possibly most reviled radio talk-show broadcaster -- oh, look, he's a conservative! -- loves animals.

Limbaugh's got upward of 20 million listeners a week. But many of Rush's non-listeners would like to think of him in his off-hours organizing professional feline fights in secret rings around Miami with screaming crowds of cigar-chewing rednecks betting wads of money on the outcomes.

But it turns out, lovable Rush is a big animal-rights guy. He's got a much-adored cat named Punkin (see photo above). No, really.

In fact, the big guy puts his mouth where his heart is. Limbaugh may not mind if President Obama's programs fail, but it seems the radio host is all in favor of animal-care programs. El Rushbo signed on for a whole series of public-service ads for the Humane Society of the United States, including one for its campaign against dog fighting. So probably Michael Vick is not a big Dittohead.

Anyway, our blogging buddy Lindsay Barnett, an admitted dog lover, has the whole cuddly Rush story over here, including copies of the PSAs to watch. Recommended.

OK, now you can get back to hating him. But leave Punkin out of it.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Credit: Associated Press (Punkin Limbaugh).

Comments

[Pom Pom Girl]

2 Truths. Cats Are More Intelligent Than Dogs And Communists Unite - For Obama
.....In a letter written just a couple of days before his death, the FARC chieftain told his inner circle he'd met with "two gringos" who told him Sen. Obama would be the next president, and that if elected, he'd cut off military aid to the Colombian government, and oppose the Free Trade Agreement with our ally.
.....Since FARC is the Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces Of Colombia and is a Marxist narco-terrorist which gains support from the leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez (a communist) its of note that the Communists look forward to Obama as our next President.
.....Obama won and his actions and negotiations these past few weeks with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are proving FARC right. Its sad that the Communists read him so well but 52% of my fellow citizens and the vast majority of the media didn't.

[Hillary]

This liberal reader thinks Rush Limbaugh should be commended for the PSAs he's recorded. His cat Punkin doesn't care whether he's conservative or liberal, and when it comes to basic human values like the compassionate treatment of animals, we shouldn't either.

[me]

If only Limbaugh loves humanity as much...

[Mark K.]

Hitler loved animals too. Especially dogs. I think he was also a vegetarian.