{"id":32693,"date":"2009-06-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:37","slug":"gay_community_slaps_obama_silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/17\/gay_community_slaps_obama_silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Community Slaps Obama Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: As we told you yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, there is much, much news in the gay community regarding the Obama administration. They\u2019re very upset out there about the Defense of Marriage Act being defended by Obama and the way he\u2019s doing it, and now The Politico is reporting the following headline. &#8216;Gay Figures Pull Out of Biden Fundraiser.\u2019 We here are trying to figure out what body part on Biden the fundraiser is that gay figures have pulled out of. Here\u2019s our update theme, Klaus Nomi sings. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000072LJ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theoffiwebs0d-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0000072LJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>(playing of gay community update theme: You Don\u2019t Know Me by Klaus Nomi) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We can say Obama would hurt a fly. <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let her rip there, Klaus. The late great Klaus Nomi, folks. <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The gay community update theme here. This is the bridge where we do the first part of the update. &#8216;Gay Figures Pull Out of Biden Fundraiser.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, Klaus Nomi looks exactly like you would think he would look based on this song. &#8216;Two prominent gay figures, activist David Mixner and widely read blogger Andy Towle, have pulled out of a Democratic National Committee fundraiser,\u2019 and there\u2019s a great quote in here from Mixner. &#8216;I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to &#8216;suck it up\u2019 because so many other profound issues are at stake.\u2019 That quote is actually in The Politico story! Gay leaders tired of being told by Democrats to &#8216;suck it up\u2019 because of other issues at stake. <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I told \u2019em that yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Suck it up. Man up. They don\u2019t like it. <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let her rip, Klaus! <\/p>\n<p>(continued playing of song)<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Ah, Klaus Nomi, our official gay community update theme: You Don\u2019t Know Me. President Obama is getting slapped silly on this. Los Angeles Times editorial: &#8216;Obama\u2019s Gay Rights Gap.\u2019 Okay, they\u2019re pulling out of Biden\u2019s fundraiser. They\u2019re tired of &#8216;Democrat operatives\u2019 telling them to &#8216;suck it up\u2019 and now there is a gap. &#8216;The president has done precious little to advance gay rights, despite campaign promises. &#8230; The gap between Obama and gay rights activists appears to be growing. True, the current federal lawsuits against the marriage act and Proposition 8 fail to recognize that a hasty march can be damaging to gay rights.\u2019 A hasty march? &#8216;The current composition of the US Supreme Court makes it highly unlikely that such lawsuits will succeed, and adverse decisions could set the same-sex marriage movement back by years. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> &#8216;From an ideological viewpoint, gays and lesbians are entitled to their rights now. But well-planned timing gives them the best chance of securing those rights soon. Obama, though, has shown a dishearteningly pragmatic willingness to allow the issue of gay rights to languish. The many Americans who support these rights expect better of him.\u2019 They\u2019re tired of being told to man it up, suck it up. You know, we did an update on this the other day and I said to you guys, &#8216;How does it feel now to know that you are not a priority? He\u2019s a lib just like you are. If you\u2019ll just bide your time, he\u2019ll get around to it.\u2019 New York Times today: &#8216;United States to Extend its Job Benefits to Gay Partners.\u2019 This is Obama tired of being slapped silly on this so he has responded in a way. He &#8216;will sign a memo today that extends some federal benefits to domestic partners of federal workers [but] will stop short however of pledging full health insurance coverage to those partners.\u2019 <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> The Defense of Marriage Act, he supported figures into this, of course. &#8216;Mr. Obama will be weighing in for the first time on one of the most delicate social and political issues of the day: whether the government must provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. While he will announce a list of benefits, officials said, they are not expected to include broad health insurance coverage, which could require legislation to achieve.\u2019 Why would that require legislation? Nothing else he\u2019s done is requiring legislation. (interruption) No addadictomies. No redactadictomies. Not covered anyway by health insurance, that\u2019s right. That\u2019s a good point, Snerdley. I forgot about that. Now, in California, San Francisco, the health insurance coverage there does cover addadictomies and redatadictomies, or redactadictomies, but not the federal case. &#8216;The initial reaction from some gay rights advocates was mixed.\u2019 They\u2019re not happy about this in any way, shape, manner, or form, ladies and gentlemen. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: As we told you yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, there is much, much news in the gay community regarding the Obama administration. 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