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Limbaugh targeted Hillary Clinton, Al Gore for his "Starvation for Serenity Center"

Reacting to medical studies that suggest that Terri Schiavo may be experiencing euphoria, not pain, with the removal of her feeding tube, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh proposed the creation of a "Starvation for Serenity Center," and suggested using Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and former Vice President Al Gore in "a series of potential advertisements ... [that] show that it might work." He added: "[W]hat would [Clinton] sound like after a week or two at my Starvation for Serenity Center?"

From the March 25 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: I'm thinking of starting a movement out there, ladies and gentlemen. You know, acrimony in society is just getting -- and it's been epitomized all week on this program. I mean, the battle lines are drawn. The partisanship is worse than ever. We've heard all this. We've got to do something about it. And I think that one of the larger issues that has come out of the whole Schiavo case are the benefits of starvation. And there are true benefits. There's peace. There is dignity. There is even euphoria. We could say that there is serenity. Now, I think it even has been said that this will be a serene or is a serene way to go. So I'm thinking of actually opening up a series of Starvation for Serenity Centers around the country.

You can check in and pay me a fee, and I will starve you. And you will say, "Well, what does it cost? What does it cost you to starve me?" Ah, that's a good question. Somebody's got to pay for the buildings. Somebody's got to pay for the rent and the air conditioning and all this. And somebody's got to pay for the setting in which you are going to be euphoric as you starve. So if you want to solve the problem of partisanship and all of us going at each other and our throats and so forth, then Starvation for Serenity. I'm thinking I'm even going to work up a series of potential advertisements for this because I think we can show that it might work, with using certain politicians.

So, you know, what would Hillary Clinton sound like normally, what would she sound like after a week or two at my Starvation for Serenity Center? We'll be able to show this. Same thing with Al Gore. Al Gore before entering my Starvation for Serenity Center, and after two weeks there. Now, we're not going to promise a 100 percent success rate. We hope maybe 67, 70 percent success rate. We're not going to guarantee that everybody will get serene when they come to my starvation center. (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley? Nobody will be allowed to sneak in food. We'll have marshals. We'll have law enforcement personnel, we'll have electric security, we'll have shock belts on people if they try to, you know, get past a barrier. No, that won't work. No, if somebody tries to sneak food in there, then they will feel pain. I guarantee you. At my Starvation for Serenity Center, that's where the pain will be -- when people walk in there and try to feed somebody trying to improve themselves and make a better life for themselves by starving at my center.

Posted to the web on Monday March 28, 2005 at 12:15 PM EST

I don't even care that he's using Hillary and Gore as examples for his starvation for serenity center. What he's saying in generally is totally reprehensible. Maybe someone should starve him into serenity . . . the big fat drug-addicted two-faced pig. :mad:

if you starved him it would take decades to eat himsefl up

This tells me that even though both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton have not announced that they will be running in 2008, Rush (Blowhard) Limbaugh considers them to be the primary threats. What does Al Gore have to do with the Shiavo case?, as far as I know he has not made any statements one way or the other.
I believe the reason that the Republicans and their media enablers have kept this case in front of the national spotlight is due to red meat politics. I do not believe it to be a coincidence that she resides in the same state as Jeb Bush. Why have none of the other hundreds if not thousands of cases of people on life support being disconnected made the news? Why do the same people that are making this a case about her suffering so adamantly oppose euthanasia? I do not believe Rush Limbaugh and his like care anymore for her life than they do about the tens of thousands of dead Iraqis. I do not believe all Republicans are this cynical but the ones in power George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, Bill Frist and Jeb Bush among others think of the world as their chessboard and we are the pawns.
In one sense, I am glad to hear of Rush trashing Al it means he is still afraid of Al's potential to become President in 2008. I can imagine in my mind's eye that Rush is curled up in the fetal position late at night on his living room floor in a pool of his own urine sucking his thumb (because it is the only thing he can reach) and whimpering about the possibility, this gives me great satisfaction. :)