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Rush Limbaugh a real bottom dweller

Rush Limbaugh's potty mouth runneth over.

Even some fellow conservatives think the cigar-chomping pundit has gone too far in his latest use of the phrase "anal poisoning."

Limbaugh was ranting against Sen. John McCain on his radio show this week when a caller asked whether he thought McCain would pick Sen. Lindsey Graham as his running mate. Limbaugh doubted it, though he admitted: "I may be wrong ... Lindsey Graham is certainly close enough to [McCain] to die of anal poisoning."

Graham's office didn't return a call for comment, but a McCain staffer tells us, "We've been getting a lot of calls from people who think [Limbaugh] has stepped over the line."

One conservative blogger wrote that Limbaugh's turn of phrase was "nasty, disgusting. It demeans Rush, not Lindsey."

Naturally, liberal commentators seized on Limbaugh's coprolalia - reporting that it was the third time he'd used the term in 13 months. (On Jan. 5, 2007, he said that former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe "will die of anal poisoning because he is so close to drilling Hillary [Clinton]."

A source close to Limbaugh says the right-wing gadfly was merely using a "time-honored" synonym for "brown-nosing." But if you Google the term, the only people who seem to be using it are proprietors of porn sites.

At least Limbaugh has a friend in Glenn Beck. The younger conservative radio star declined to weigh in on Limbaugh's "anal" expulsion Tuesday, which is probably a good thing, considering he's recovering from hemorrhoid surgery. But Beck was happy to fire a few rounds at their mutual enemy, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

"[Olbermann] is never brave enough to say his political position on air," contends Beck. Although he's pleased that his latest tome, "An Inconvenient Book" has so far outsold Olbermann's "Truth and Consequences," Beck argues, "I don't care about other hosts. I don't need to throw people under the bus. If I saw Olbermann standing on the subway [platform], I might think for a moment about pushing him, but I wouldn't."

Olbermann responds: "The subway remark summarizes who Glenn is. If he (or anybody else) fell in front of a train, I hope I'd have the courage to emulate Wesley Autry and try to save him."

Perhaps they can look to Bill O'Reilly and the Rev. Al Sharpton for inspiration. The longtime antagonists had dinner last week at the Harvard Club. You'll recall that Sharpton took O'Reilly to Sylvia's in Harlem last year, prompting O'Reilly to remark on how well-behaved everyone was at the restaurant, "even though it's run by blacks."

This time, Sharpton says he was talking with the Fox News windbag about debating at Sharpton's National Action Network conference. Did he and O'Reilly find common ground over dinner? "Probably the only thing we agreed on," Sharpton tells us, "is that we were both at the Harvard Club."

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