Piers Morgan and Penn Jillette Discuss Watching Rush Limbaugh Have Sex
The Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke birth control controversy took a disgraceful turn Friday when CNN's Piers Morgan and magician Penn Jillette discussed watching the conservative talker have sex.
The host of Piers Morgan Tonight also said, "I would love to know who Rush Limbaugh has had sex with over the years, how many times he has sex (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: But when -- when I hear Rush Limbaugh go on like this, he sounds like some archaic --
PENN JILLETTE: Exactly.
MORGAN: -- Dickensian dinosaur. It's like we're -- mate, we're in 2012. You ridiculous, old man.
JILLETTE: I think it's going to be really hard for us to argue about this.
MORGAN: Is it?
JILLETTE: Yes, I agree --
MORGAN: Well, do you -- or do you have a slight position because you're an atheist, that actually -- this is what happens --
JILLETTE: No. No. No.
MORGAN: -- when you -- when you take religion to its extremities?
JILLETTE: Well, I -- I actually think that this does certainly -- anti-sex does start often in religion. But he doesn't -- he doesn't actually mention religion.
MORGAN: I would love to know who Rush Limbaugh has had sex with over the years.
JILLETTE: You would?
MORGAN: How many times he has sex.
JILLETTE: You would?
MORGAN: Yes.
JILLETTE: Oh.
MORGAN: I want to see what he does in his perfect little world. The idea that some student who is taking responsibility for her life, who is probably struggling. I don't know about her case -- but many students struggle financially, because in this country it's very, very expensive to go to college.
JILLETTE: Yes.
MORGAN: Let's wake up and get real. The idea that she wants to take responsibility, she's at law school, and she wants to take responsibility for her life. She's sexually active, and she's saying, "I want to have contraception." This makes her a slut and a prostitute? I think it's absolutely disgusting.
Actually, Limbaugh didn't say Fluke was a slut for wanting to have sex or use birth control. His point was her desire for others to buy her contraceptives was prostitute-like, a distinction that has been completely lost on her supporters in the media.
Another sleight of hand by Limbaugh's detractors has been in depicting Fluke as some young, innocent college student.
Quite the contrary, Reuters reported Saturday that she's a 30-year-old women's rights activist making her hardly the victim the press have made her out to be.
But let's get back to Morgan and Jillette for things really took a turn for the surreal on CNN Friday night:
JILLETTE: I stopped listening right after you said you wanted to know all about Rush having sex.
(LAUGHTER)
JILLETTE: I was -- I was so kind of gob smacked by that, because I don't, I'm not sure I share that with you completely.
MORGAN: I'm amazed --
(CROSSTALK)
JILLETTE: But I'll get into it. I'll go -- I'll go with you. I'll go with you. I'll go watch Rush Limbaugh have sex with you.
MORGAN: That's perfect.
JILLETTE: I'll do that. I'm not -- I'm not completely comfortable with it.
(CROSSTALK)
MORGAN: I actually tell you anything I'd rather let's do than watch him have sex, but I would love to be his interrogatory about his private life as he wants to be about this woman, because she's acting perfectly responsibly.
So it's okay for a CNN anchor and a magician to joke about watching a conservative talk radio host have sex, but it's verboten for said conservative talk radio host to joke about women who have their birth control purchased by taxpayers having to make videos of their sex acts in return?
Doesn't make much sense, does it?
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Submitted by BondPlainBond on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 6:55pm.
Sorry, Piers. Ms Fluke does NOT want to take responsibility for her life. She wants YOU to take responsibility for her life by handing over your cash so she (and her friends) can continue to CHOOSE to have recreational sex while attending college on the taxpayer dime (public scholarship). What ever happened to self-respect and self-control?
Pull your head out of your bizarre fantasies and wake up, man! You've fallen for yet ANOTHER Obama con.
You're spot on
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 7:34pm.
This is the liberal mentality.
We see this with the reclassification of substance abuse as "disease." Some celebrity with a dozen booze and drug arrests checks into a clinic and the Left applauds him/her for taking responsibility for themself, when nothing could be further from the truth. With their self-inflicted addiction classified as a "disease," they are "victims" seeking treatment and others become responsible for their recovery.
Piers Morgan -- wanting information on Limbaugh's sex life -- is one perverted twit. What can we do to get Britain to take him back?
Bond you took the words right out of my keyboard
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 7:36pm.
It's not taking responsibility for your life when someone else pays, and I'm sick of Piers on that mantra.
Shallow Minds...
Submitted by Aubrey on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 7:41pm.
Apparently neither of these Pigs knows just how gorgeous Rush's wife is.
Take responsability for her
Submitted by Liberallies on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 8:31pm.
Take responsability for her actions? Are these Liberal wackos for real?
Fluke wants everyone else to take responsability for her sexual actions. She wants me, you and the rest of America to pay for her having sex! I swear, the more I hear Liberals talk about this whole thing the more I agree with Savage, someone whom I disagree with because his tone is very angry Left-wing like, Liberalism IS a mental disease!
Taking responsability for her actions would be....if she can't afford contraceptives, she either has no sex or she finds a way to pay for these herself without demanding that others pay it for her.
But in the life of too many Liberals, having sex is the most important thing in their life and how dare anyone tell them to stop acting like wild animals and control themselves and passions.
Liberallies
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 10:15pm.
you have hit the nail on the head as have so many others. I just say we start calling all whiney Libs/Dims, as you say......"wild animals". RABID WILD ANIMALS. There is no word to describe these inhuman things.
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Surely Morgan can illegally
Submitted by stormy67 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:00pm.
Surely Morgan can illegally tap Rush's phone to find out .... He does have plenty of practice, does he not?
Typical liberal morons. They
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:37pm.
Typical liberal morons. They can't refute what Rush said so they do what liberals do, attack him personally. Rush's sex life is no one's business but Fluke wants her sex life to be everyone's business.
If she wants to be a whore, then that's her affair. We're not paying for it.
And this is all a circus anyway, the issue here is that the gov't is telling us to compromise on our faith and is forcing us to pay for it. I don't have to tell Obama and the rest of the anti-religious left to go to hell, they already know the road.
Actually rbosque
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:00pm.
Penn is a loud-and-proud Libertarian, and I read his comments not as making fun of Rush but rather trying to point out how patently absurd Piers' statement was.
Same boat
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 12:36pm.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm just surprised he didn't rip into Morgan and explain that her sex life IS NOT a government expense.
This is what CNN is reduced to.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 10:10pm.
JILLETTE.......I'll go with you. I'll go watch Rush Limbaugh have sex with you.
Yeah, but first you'll have to convince Limbaugh to have sex with him.
First, I don't understand why
Submitted by wdvander on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 10:23pm.
First, I don't understand why Morgan would want to know how much sex Rush has. Rush has never asked anyone to provide him or his sexual partners with contraception. Rush is one who requires himself to provide his own support, driving his desire to succeed.
When I began working after ending my first effort at university level education, I began working as a union construction craftsman. I was not concerned with the medical package provided by the local union as part of our contract with electrical contractors, I never went to the doctor, never used it. When I married, 5 years into that stage of my life, I discovered that the local union's medical plan did not cover contraceptives. Yes, the unions that are so for the "little guy" and the middle class did not cover contraceptive. If a family desired that they treatment, they were required to pay for it with out of pocket cash.
When I changed career paths, I began working at a petroleum refining facility, I was part of another unionized work force. At this facility though, the benefits package was provided by the employer instead of the union. Guess what, that medical plan provided benefits for contraceptives to families who desired them.
And who have you had sex with, Piers? (Humans only, please!)
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:28pm.
What I find so hypocritical is these jerks like Piers running off at the mouth about keeping government out of bedrooms and then demanding (even if in jest) to know particular sexual details of anyone else. Larry O'Donnell, who's sex life is in his own hands, is the same type of hypocrite.
A magician and a hack talk about Rush's sex life.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 12:34am.
Way to keep it classy, CNN. What's next........an archaeologist that found Dr. Ruth's first known book on contraception, The Kahun Papyrus?
Is Piers coming out of the closet?
Submitted by JohnP in OK on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 1:52am.
I mean, he wants to know about another man's sex life. He and Penn are actually sitting there talking about watching Rush having sex.
I don't know whether they're gay or just really perverted....and come to think of it, I really don't want to know.
I'd suggest that Morgan take responsibility for providing Fluke's contraception himself, if he's so offended...but I don't know if I want to be responsible for introducing such an obviously warped individual to ruin her life. Such as it is.
When was he ever IN the closet?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 2:45am.
Seeing those two libs-and I know Jillette says hes a libertarian, but lets face it-the first three letters in that description fits him to a T-disgust me! And if they want to see Rush have sex, well, need I say more-not that theres anything wrong with it, or is there?
It's pretty obvious Penn
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 3:41am.
It's pretty obvious Penn thinks morgan is an idiot.
Anagramers arise - Piers
Submitted by Papa Sparky on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 4:29am.
Anagramers arise - Piers Morgan is the mother lode of short names!
My three favorites:
A grim person
Smearing pro
Prime groans