Limbaugh Olympics

Regarding Claudia Puig’s “Rush Limbaugh Gives Liberals the Business, Gets Plenty Himself” (Nov. 25): So, Barbara Cross, who was in the audience at a Limbaugh talk, is quoted as saying Limbaugh “espouses traditional values.” Making fun of homeless people is a “traditional value”? Well, excuse me, but where I come from, that is nothing more than nastiness and meanness--behavior befitting a bully.

Fine, true conservatives (Barry Goldwater comes to mind) must cringe when yahoos such as Limbaugh become spokesmen for the conservative viewpoint.

JOANNE C. MURRAY

Santa Barbara

In Puig’s article, Limbaugh is quoted as joking about a “homeless Olympics” featuring “the 10-meter Shopping Cart Relay, the Dumpster Dig and the Hop, Skip and Trip.”