{"id":5970,"date":"2009-08-19T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/rush-limbaugh-makes-gay-joke-about-barney-frank-he-spends-most-of-his-time-living-around-uranus-audio\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:10:30","slug":"rush-limbaugh-makes-gay-joke-about-barney-frank-he-spends-most-of-his-time-living-around-uranus-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/rush-limbaugh-makes-gay-joke-about-barney-frank-he-spends-most-of-his-time-living-around-uranus-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh Makes Gay Joke About Barney Frank: &#8220;He Spends Most Of His Time Living Around Uranus&#8221; (AUDIO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/s-RUSH-LIMBAUGH-BARNEY-FRANK-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-RUSH-LIMBAUGH-BARNEY-FRANK-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/19\/rush-limbaugh-makes-gay-j_n_263405.html\">\n<p>Rush Limbaugh has made what appears to be a joke mocking Barney Frank&#8217;s sexuality in response to Frank&#8217;s tough stance with a town hall protester Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Frank asked a protester who had compared President Obama to Hitler, &#8220;On what planet do you spend most of your time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his show Wednesday (via Mediaite), Limbaugh responded, mocking Frank and asking, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frank was the second openly gay member of Congress and is &#8220;one of the most prominent LGBT politicians in the United States,&#8221; his Wikipedia entry states.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/19\/rush-limbaugh-makes-gay-j_n_263405.html\" ><cite>Rush Limbaugh Makes Gay Joke About Barney Frank: &#8220;He Spends Most Of His Time Living Around Uranus&#8221; (AUDIO)<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/s-RUSH-LIMBAUGH-BARNEY-FRANK-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-RUSH-LIMBAUGH-BARNEY-FRANK-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   Rush Limbaugh has made what appears to be a joke mocking Barney Frank&#8217;s sexuality in response to Frank&#8217;s tough stance with a town hall protester Tuesday night.  &#8230;  On his show Wednesday (via Mediaite), Limbaugh responded, mocking Frank and asking, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1yi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}