Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor and current U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, issued one last snarky shutdown of conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh. The same day of Limbaugh’s death, Chasten simply posted a picture of him kissing his husband to Twitter.
The Buttigiegs had become a favorite target of the late Limbaugh during the 2020 Presidential Campaign. Limbaugh obsessed over the couple’s sexuality; Pete Buttigieg was the first openly gay man to seek the Democratic nomination.
— Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) February 17, 2021
“Okay, how’s this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What’s going to happen there?” Limbaugh said in February 2020, following Buttigieg’s win at the Iowa Caucus. “They’ve got to be saying that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness, and despite all the great ground that’s been covered, America’s still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage president.”
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“I love my husband,” Buttigieg told CNN, responding to Limbaugh. “I’m faithful to my husband. On stage, we usually just go for a hug, but I love him very much. And I’m not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.”
Buttigieg’s remark is also a subtle dig at Limbaugh, who was married four times, and divorced thrice.
Throughout his career, Rush Limbaugh targeted the LGBTQ community with his bile, particularly gay men. During the AIDS epidemic, Limbaugh famously read the names of gay men who had died of the disease set to disco music during his radio show. He also decried marriage equality, attacked hate crime laws and featured a guest on his show who blamed the COVID-19 pandemic on gay men.
Limbaugh may have spent years attacking gay men with his words, but in this case, Chasten Buttigieg has the last one.
GlobeTrotter
Love trumps fear, every day, every time, everywhere!
Kangol2
Don the Con lost, Limblob is now on his way to the inferno, and Buttigieg is a Biden Cabinet official, and unafraid to show his love for his husband. It’s better than a Hollywood movie!
Leo
And so it goes, and so it goes, and so he goes. By by, bigot.
Essie
I never wish anyone dead. It’s not a nice thing to do. However, in this case . . . what the hell took so long!!!
MANSUMM
I know. When I heard I was trying not to be happy about someone dying.
HenryHawke
“…and I dug right down to the bottom of my soul and cried! ‘Cause I..felt..nothing.”
Gary Q VV
So, he’s now in that place that most religions call “hell”. I’m usually not satisfied with the news of death, but we all will die. And, knowing that Rush has committed a lifetime of evilness, he’s right where he belongs.
Mark
How do I get tickets to the funeral? I wonder if they will play disco music…
Gary Q VV
if they will, I’m sure it will be one of my old favorites, “Burn Baby Burn! Disco Inferno!”.
MHaumesser
Gay people need to show up to his funeral by the thousands playing disco music and dancing!
HenryHawke
I’ve got the best song with a slight change of lyrics. “Ding dong the b*tch is dead. Which ol’ b*tch? The stupid b*tch! …” etc.
darklight413
The world is a MUCH better place now that this piece of shit is dead. Good riddance. He was garbage.
barryaksarben
rush is a shit stain and wont even be rememebered except as someone who tried his best to destroy the promise of America. that all men are created equal
Gary Q VV
True, Rush knew that with equality come freedom.
james7
I was taught to only say good things about the dead. Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.
whatnutz
Ever think of acknowledging your source?
Terrycloth
Waiting for Trump to drop dead next.. maybe during one of his cort lawsuits
Mack
The sooner the better too.
David Myers
No! I want him to live long enough to go to prison. This man has never been held accountable for anything he has done . . . in his entire life! It is about time for justice to catch up with him!
kevininbuffalo
No, Pat Robertson is next.
Caddy4J
WOW! Such beautiful send offs. I’m embarrassed at your maturity level. I agree he’s been controversial for many years, but just like you, he had no filter and didn’t suck up to Washington. He also was expressing his 1st amendment rights just as you’re doing now. I have always been taught to be respectful of the deceased, good or bad.
Cam
I was wondering which screename the right wing troll would use to come in here.
It’s cute that you keep trying to use the word “Controversial” instead of racist, bigot, sexist, etc. But we get it, you will ALWAYS attack LGBTQ people and will ALWAYS defend bigots attacking us if they are Republicans.
As I’ve said to your other screenames, your troll game is tired and sad.
Den
Wow! Are you really that stupid (silly question, clearly you are)?
Dead Rush most certainly DID suck up to the corrupt in Washington, and corrupt lobbyists. Rush most certainly did his best to spread hatred and fear.
Yes, of course he has “first amendment rights”, but when will you regressive idiots learn that the constitution offers no protection against the civic consequences of that speech?
Do you really not understand that we are as free to point out the reality of his nature as he was to spread lies?
Do you really think he had any redeeming characteristics as either a “pundit” or a person?
Do you really think he was at all ethical ever?
Learn to think child!!
Kinkslola
Bitch bye
douglen221
Well bully for you, you holier than thou, right wing, homophobic, racist fool. He practically blew Trump with his disgusting adoration of him…He deserves a send off worthy of a piece of shit like him—may he rot in hell for all of eternity (hopefully followed soon by Trump!)…
Mack
Americans celebrate the passing of a true ASSHOLE. The world’s worst human being.
rand503
I am thrilled to see that Rush Limbaugh is finally dead.
Oh, is that offensive? You might want to remember that had a recurring segment in the 1980’s where he’d read off the names of gay men who’d died of AIDS as a comedy bit over Dionne Warwick’s “I’ll Never Love This Way Again”. He did it for a month, and he specifically chose the song because Warwick was an early (and extremely brave and outspoken ) AIDS activist.
Let us remember the time he mocked Michael J. Fox for his Parkinson’s disease. He said Robin Williams’ suicide was because he was a leftist and not due to depression.
This “family values” proponent divorced three times and married four times. He laughed at people who were drug addicts — until it was revealed he was addicted to oxycontin. He mocked Eric Garner’s death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s cancer diagnosis, Kurt Cobain’s suicide, people who died of AIDS, feminists, Civil Rights activists, and Native Americans.
That’s his legacy. And it was shameful that Trump awarded him the Medal of Freedom. I won’t mock his death, as he did for so many people that he hated, but I will say I am thrilled that this vile person is dead and gone. Finally.
[email protected]
Wondering if you are also a hate filled bigot or just simple and ignorant?
mailliw110
Please get off the OxyContin. As Rush found out, it destroys your common sense.
Michael1500
Actually reality and the real world dealt Limbaugh the most forceful revenge and retribution that we gays could have ever conjured in our minds to deliver to him. We could have him with warts all over his face, or some other physical or mental abnormality we could fantasize, but reality slapped him with two ultimate truths: ONE, he was given a death sentence of cancer, and TWO, (this is the good one) Limbaugh lost his voice and his credibility long before he went off the airwaves. NO ONE paid any attention to him or lent him any credibility. Ironically he became like disco music and leisure suits—- a thing of the past, an outdated relic. All of the people I know who listened to him in the past no longer did, saying he was an outdated “joke” and a squeaking wheel.
stanhope
Like Chasten, Pete, not so much.
Kevan1
Better than Trump. Lol!
Liquid Silver
Kinda meh on both, truth be told. When throwing shade at the recently deceased, at least try to be subtle. I realize we’re in the post-Trump “it’s OK to be a jerk” era, but there’s a limit.
Vince
Liquid Silver
So when evil people like Hitler or Stalin die we should only speak well of them to so we don’t look like jerks. Yeah right…
Lol
fur_hunter
Iowa’s Cedar Gazette reported in 1990 that Limbaugh’s “AIDS Update,” a recurring segment in which he made jokes about a disease that had killed more than 100,000 people in the United States the previous decade, started by playing songs such as “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Kiss Him Goodbye,” “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” and “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.”
May that F*ckTard @$$ Hole rot in Hell. He used to ring a bell and blow a horn for AIDS patients that died. He’s a Piece of $H!T.
cuteguy
If ANYONE here is missing this POS, you are on the wrong site. Go visit a Q’ANON site or some KKK/GOP site. They’re all targeting the same write supremacist like you. This site is for ppl with common sense and decency. The same ppl that miss this scumbag are the same type of ppl that were sad when Hitler died. Good riddance to both
ShaunNJ
The final nail in the coffin would be the Westboro Baptist Church picketing Limbaugh’s funeral. It would be fitting for any supporters / mourners to witness that kind of hate reflected back to Limbaugh. Maybe they’d understand what an a-hole he really was.
Doug
Good riddance to this bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic POS. He made millions out of preaching hate to ignorant people just like himself all over the country. If there’s a hell, I can’t think of a more suitable human being to end up there.
kennedyglenn
Ok I think we all know Limbaugh was an asshole, but the guys dead, and I respect Chasten and his right to comment, but I think it was beneath him to even acknowledge this bigots death.
We should celebrate that we no longer have to read about Limbaugh’s insane comments about gay men because in the end, it was really none of his business what Chasten and his husband did or anyone for that matter!
Cam
Your comment was way longer than Cashten’s. So shouldn’t you have been above that?
He has every right to comment on somebody who made it a life mission to attack and harm people like Chasten and his husband.
Georgeiv2
They would go nuts here in France its normal for male family members and friends all of whom are straight to double kiss as a greeting Here the men are not worried about their sexual identity but the real men aren’t !
ffmikey
Rush was just another comedian like others on both the left and right spewing hatred for whom ever they disagree with. Todays “Talk Radio” is just the evolution of what Joe Pine and Wally George spewed decades ago. Same show, different actors, making money off the morons that listen to them on MSNBC, CNN and FOX NEWS.
kevininbuffalo
He was a disc jockey and that’s all he ever was. Instead of spinning records he spun right wing politics. I hope there is a hell and that he’s in it.
fas2020
Lucifer finally clawed one of his own back into the Lake of Fire. All Christians should celebrate that one more person who took the name of JC in vain finally gets the ultimate verdict. Congressional medal of freedom true patriots have been vindicated that he only wore it for months given by another hateful demonic person himself.
HenryHawke
Limbaugh is dead and gone. Can we please relegate to the cesspool of history now?