Limbaugh and Hannity, the True Faces of Conservatism: Impotent, Irrelevant
By David Neiwert Friday Jan 23, 2009 9:00am
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are clearly among the breed of Republicans who refuse to believe that Conservatism failed -- rather, that the GOP failed Conservatism. And so their solution for party renewal is to just go back to embracing the policies and ideas that brought the nation to the brink of economic and diplomatic ruin.
They don't seem to realize yet that the country has turned the page and moved on. And so they rage, rage against the fall of right-wing night. Last night's second part of Hannity's interview with Limbaugh really was more a pathetic display of hapless and unhappy impotence.
It has all the usual Limbaugh flourishes.
White Identity Politics:
Limbaugh: The Republican Party is making a big -- the Conservative movement, too, making a big, big mistake in planning for the future. You hear things like, well, the Republican Party needs to identify the middle class, the Wal-Mart voters, and come up with policies for them. And then we've got to come up with policies for Hispanics, because they hate us because of illegal immigration. That's the way the Democrats do it. You put people into groups and then you victimize them. And give the victims power over the majority. Because they then have grievances that are nonexistent, and the majority gets cowed into fear, because they don't want to be complained at, they don't want to be blamed, so 'OK, OK, you want health care, fine, we'll go get it."
[Did you know that minorities' grievances were actually nonexistent? Neither did I! Did you know that liberals -- and not racists and gay bashers -- actually victimize the minorities they champion? Me neither! Boy, ya learn something new from Rush each time out, dontcha?]
Malarkey Mythos:
Limbaugh: Self interest is different than selfishness. People working in their own self-interest benefits the family, the neighborhood, the community, the state, the city, the whole bit. And this is what I think the Republican Party and Conservatism has lost. The blueprint for landslide electoral victories right there, and the Republican Party and the Conservative movement has just -- they've washed it away.
Planet Bizarro-Style Projection:
Limbaugh: And the reason they [the GOP] lost huge is because in a contest of group politics, the experts are gonna always get group votes before the pretenders will. And we were pretenders trying to get the groups. We gotta get the Hispanics, we gotta be moderate, we gotta prove we can walk across the aisle, the era of Reagan is over.
I never hear Democrats talk about walking across the aisle, never see any of them praise each other or brag about the fact that they do it. They brag about the Republicans that they destroy. They brag about the Republican bills, legislation that they defeat.
Hatred of Youth/Pop Culture:
Limbaugh: The culture -- we've lost the culture, Sean. We have lost pop culture. It is unrealistic to expect the people watching MTV, going to see the rot Hollywood's putting out, listening to the rot music is today, every four years to go into a voting booth and vote Republican or conservative. And this isn't even something we have addressed in an electoral way, or a strategic way, but that's gonna have to be done as well.
Historical Revisionism:
Limbaugh: I get into arguments with people about this. To this day, FDR is a hero. And Hoover is the idiot -- Hoover is the guy that broke the country. If the media wants to prop somebody up, they will do so. Liberalism in the media -- a series of myths. ... Liberalism cannot deal with the light of truth.
Crass Hypocrisy:
Limbaugh: 'Everybody does it.' That's the constant excuse. 'Everybody has sex with their intern. Everybody leaves a stain on a blue dress. Everybody -- '
Hannity: If Rush Limbaugh did it, it would be a different story.
[Hey, everybody gets hooked on Oxycontin and uses their housekeeper as their dealer. Everybody takes 'boys' trips to the Caribbean with valises full of illegal Viagra. Everybody gets divorced three times. And it was indeed a different story when Rush Limbaugh did it.]
Outright Delusion:
Limbaugh: He [Bush] is a decent man. He had a reverence for the office. That's why he didn't get partisan. He thought it was irreverent to turn the Oval Office, or the office of the Presidency, into a partisan strategic battleplace. He just didn't want to do it, he was content to let history be the judge. I think -- I heard Rove say, I think on your network, that they miscalculated in not firing back on some of these things often enough.
It's vintage Limbaugh: such an immense avalanche of b-----t that you need a bulldozer to deal with it.
But if you listen carefully, what you hear is the desperate grasping at straws, for which Limbaugh's customary strawmen are indispensable. And you hear the rage of powerlessness -- the impotence of the obsolete.
If Conservatives indeed keep following his lead, he'll lead them all right -- into even further irrelevance. Which, when you think about it, is where they richly belong.
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Comedy gold.
Sham WOW.
My personal political dream team: 2012, Sarah Palin for President with Rick Davis as her campaign manager, and Rush Limbaugh as her policy and strategic advisor.
We are talking about a man that failed out of a state college. Rush is not very well eductated.
he should where his "eductation" as a bag of encourage.
Hey, what's wrong with state colleges? U of Michigan, UNC, Virginia and Cal Berkley just to name a few outrank most private colleges academically. Not everyone can afford or necessarily wants to go to Harvard or Yale.
you are looking for. Most everyone wants to go to Anal Roberts,
Libirdies, and Nostradamus. The latter even had a good football
program before they hired Rush's diet partner as a coach.
Absolutely nothing is wrong with State college.
It would be a different story if he never graduated from Oxford on his Truman scholarship, but he failed out of SE missouri St. in 2 semesters....
in just one semester. Course they took the purple acid instead of any classes.
Upchuck didn't necessarily denigrate state schools. He merely said Limpballs failed out of a state school.
But it is good to point out that there are a great many outstanding state colleges and universities.
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The issue is not that he attended state college, it's that he failed out of it. Anyone who completes a four-year program deserves to be commended. There are various reasons some people drop out (like family/financial issues). However Rush has demonstrated a distinct inability to grasp the facts, which could have contributed to his failure.
nm him he's a lib yuppie
he failed detox, Weight Watchers...
... life.
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Honest mistake. He couldn't figure out how many points to record for kitten sandwiches.
His ticket was "hate"
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I've got a college degree and no job since November. He fails out and gets a truck load o' cash for acting like a bully. I don't have it in me to bully someone, unfortunately. I'm sure there's something out there I can do to make money without all the divisiveness.
some people deserve it. Like the "right".
How dare you say such a thing? Rush Limbaugh's education record is as impressive as Bill O'Reilly's combat record.
Why does Limpballs struggle with it so much?
it's the massive amount of drugs he takes...
He's a true sociopath. They can't accept any reality outside their own narrow perspective - especially when it represents having to, or having had to - relinquish control of any and all situations and persons that cross their path.
and their sociopathy was made to seem AOK to them.
Now it's time for them to pay the piper. My bff from highschool was a very clever sociopath -- it took me decades to figure it out. She thrived on setting people against one another, lied for drill and felt no guilt about lying to and about her friends (me included) and all of her heinous shit was totally justifiable -- to her.
I was dropping her (I'd figured there was no need to inform her of this -- I'd only be hit with the "Are you going to believe me, or your own filthy goddamned lying eyes?" routine), and she was stealing prescription drugs from her head-injury boyfriend -- long story short -- all the shite she was gobbling contributed to a deep brain aneurysm. Brain dead in seconds.
Best thing she ever did for me.
It would be nice if these swollen POSs would do something similar. I was hoping the Oxy-deafness would knock Rush out. Or a jail term for drug trafficking. Because you know, according to the Great Bloviator himself, the real problem in this country is that not enough WHITE guys are in jail for drug criminality. Really. He said it
... he's a pathetic fat whiny-ass baby who was made fun of in grade school.
When non-whites outnumber whites in about 2020, Rush will be the world's greatest CHAMPION of minority rights!
If he's so good at playing the "white majority victum" card when middle aged white men have all the power in the country, just imagine how good he'll be at playing the victum when he's in an actual MINORITY group?
I really hope by then he will have retired so I don't have to listen to his absurd hogwash (secondhand, via this site; can't stand to listen to him firsthand).
that needs to be made, but I really don't envy David. Even if it's preaching mainly to the choir on this website, deconstuction of Limbaugh's frantic hyperbole and examination of the divisive falsehoods therein still needs to be done. The best antidote to Limbaugh and his ilk is education.
Unfortunately, subjecting oneself to Limbaugh's tirades cannot be fun. While many posts are entertaining or encouraging and must have been fun to write, analyzing Limbaugh must be tiresome, unpleasant work.
and a cast iron stomach.
Precisely.
had his radio show, he used to have his idiot dittohead friend on to discuss Limbaugh. He used to say that he had to give the producer who listened to Rush a bucket to vomit into when Limbaugh made him sick.
"...the desperate grasping at straws,...rage of powerlessness -- the impotence of the obsolete."
The thing that stood out the most for me in that interview was the greatness that both of those guys see in themselves. They appear to be so consumed with themselves; and what was striking was how bitter the energy that feeds this reality, this worldview that they possess. They both were just intoxicated with each other's ego as well as their own.
I thought this Hannity/Limbaugh interview as a whole was a fascinating look at how powerful the mind is and how it is capable of just about anything. Pretty astounding stuff in my opinion.
...that can't understand that the world is slowly passing them by as they speak.
And Rush, two words...heart failure.
brain anneurism
full coma
i want the repukes to gather around his bed forcing the docs to not remove his life support
a persistant vegitative state for 30 years would be great karma
I'm not sure you understand karma...
..that would be "irony".
.. Rush getting reincarnated as a malnourished child in the Dominican Republic?
Nice!
That would be justice for sure!
Love that one.
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as a test animal locked in a cage, being force-fed massive amounts of dangerous drugs. Oh, wait! He might like that.
Karma is.. Rush getting reincarnated as a malnourished child in the Dominican Republic...and being sold to a fatassed radio millionaire on viagra for sex.
Brain death is fast. Coma, big nap. Vegetative state, no suffering.
An ability to think and not communicate -- that's what would be fitting. They've been all about stifling free speech and shouting louder than their opponents. True punishment would be knowledge and an inability to communicate. And perhaps a caregiver who watches Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in the room. Every night.
Now that would be a true and just karma.
...as powerful an idea that would be--wishing for one or both of them to be banished from the air via hospitalization or a firing--there would be just another crazy conservative ready to slide into his chair.
I pray that Rush is the limit to conservative media, but I'm sure there's someone with even less brain cells ready to pick up a microphone in the future.
there's plenty of Rush wannabees out there, but none seem to have the skill set of El Drugbo. He's that perfect combination of an obese slob who lectures about discipline. A drug addict who condemns others for lack of self control. A serial groom who bemoans the breakdown of the traditional family. A privileged
son of well-connected wealth who has benefitted from nepotism who preaches bootstrap perseverance. A racist who claims the white race is somehow disadvantaged. That's a tough resume to duplicate.
That wonderfully defines the Limpballs. But you left out "blithering idiot"
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meet hammer. excellent description. Bravo!
"I pray that Rush is the limit to conservative media, but I'm sure there's someone with even less brain cells ready to pick up a microphone in the future."
Clearly you haven't listened to the Michael Savage-Wiener enough. The future is now.
the Savage Weiner has too many rough edges to take fatboy's place. His nasally, grating, voice, screaming outbursts, obsession with gay issues and anger at callers will limit him as a fringe nutcase. Limblob has mastered the art of speaking in code; feminazis, drive by media, etc. If he wasn't such a sociopath with such repugnant politics, his voice is perfect for radio. He would be tough, if not impossible to replace. We can only hope.
that you need a bulldozer to deal with it."
Exactly!! And that's Ann Coulter's modus operandi as well. Flinging dung with both hands.
Limpbag is irrelevent and impotent (in more ways than one), so I just don't understand why you even waste your time paying attention to what he (or Colter or Hannity) have to say. It's a waste of my time to spend more than two seconds on their garbage.
You don't have to watch or listen to it - I didn't. But it is fun to see these two have a private pity-party. You have to admit - that's a bit out of the usual for them, and as such is a bit more entertaining for us.
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threw up on the rug when we heard the news that Tricky Dicky was elected in '68. He died in January 1970 after one year of the Big Dick. I was 17 then, and, he told me to watch out for the years ahead.
He got that correct.
I once saw a quote attributed to Truman, I think, to the effect that Nixon was a lying bastard who, if he accidently ever told the truth, would lie about it just to keep his hand in.
where the pilgrims only survived because they dumped socialism for capitalism
next thanksgiving, forget kids dressing as pilgrims and native americans...have them dress as venture capitalists and robber barons
amen
he knows he is done
And sorry about Inger. I should have clicked first.
just fearful of happy, intelligent, good looking blondes with funny accents
with a death wish?
Those who come as Robber Barons can dress up in Palin's discarded clothes -- the ones they have at the RNC offices in garbage bags?
They said they were going to donate them to charity. But since no one there has any concept of what charity is, they still haven't figured out what to do with them.
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...of Faber College and Animal House, fat, bloviating and delusional is no way to go through life, Rush.
..so that's what happened to him!
became a sensitivity trainer. It would take a Magic Negro to transorm Rush into that.
he changed his name to Rush. He was still a trainer in 2003 according to the dvd.
the direct quote is better. "Fat, drunk, and stupid."
at thinking of having to listen to a conversation between Limbaugh and Hannity. And I won't because I know there is absolutely nothing those two could say I would be interested to hear, other than "I'm retiring."
That Limbaugh is a delusional and self-absorbed dirtbag is without question. That the positions he espouses were decisively repudiated in November is also beyond dispute. However, as the economy continues its downward spiral, the tendency for people to grasp at anything that seems to resonate will only be magnified. Limbaugh, Hannity, O-Reilly, etal have very large microphones. It is for this reason that I urge continuing vigilance against them.
I am reminded of the logic that drove Hitler's propaganda machine. The bigger the lie, the easier it is to sell. And so that axiom remains true today.
These despicable human beings cannot be dismissed. They must be roundly condemned at every turn. They must not be allowed any latitude or quarter. No slack, no exceptions. Period.
It is also without question that many Republicans have rejected this thinking.
Remember when Colin Powell said that the party needed to stop listening to Limbaugh ? His response to that was, "Well he's not really a conservative."
Thanks. It's why we do this.
As some other readers observe, it isn't exactly fun duty.
But these cretins never rest, and they're going to become even more frantic in the coming weeks and months.
Shit decomposes when exposed to sunlight.
On the other hand, mushrooms prosper when kept in the dark and fed shit.
So it behooves us to pour as much sunlight onto ideological thugs like Limbaugh at every turn. Don't be a mushroom.
Americans should at this point in history be able to understand that it was the Republican policies, Milton Freedman, Reaganomics, trickle down, race to the bottom for wadges, world is flat, unregulated capitalism, that got us into the miserable economic situation that we find ourselves in today. Unfortunately I doubt that more than 5 to 8% of those who believed in that economic pholicy have in anyway changed their minds. They are out in force on TV and Raido, in newpapers and magizines, and on blogs and in comments trying their damnest to rewrite history and make some insane claims about a few bad apples and a natural business cycles. It is just so sad and unless people understand what is happinging and has happened we will live it over and over and the super rich will benifit over and over and the bottom 80% will suffer over and over.
"Outright Delusion:
Limbaugh: He [Bush] is a decent man. He had a reverence for the office. That's why he didn't get partisan. He thought it was irreverent to turn the Oval Office, or the office of the Presidency, into a partisan strategic battleplace. He just didn't want to do it, he was content to let history be the judge. I think -- I heard Rove say, I think on your network, that they miscalculated in not firing back on some of these things often enough."
What drugs is Rush on this week? Next he'll be telling us NIxon's "Southern Strategy" was a librul myth designed to tarnish Nixon, that Reagan did everything he could to fight AIDS and that Bush never used gay marriage as a political tool to get elected. If this lying pasty white pill popping fat ass pedophile drug addict would just keel over from a heart attack now he'd be doing humanity a great service.
rove said the exact same stuff in an oped
Maybe the GOP needs to replace the pachyderm with an irrelevant.
Is there such a thing as a pachyderm abrasion?
I figure only when an elephant skins his knees roller skating.
When you tell a pachyderm to bend over and grab its ankles they are supposed to resist and not reach around the aisles.
YAAAAWN!
and raise ya a ho-hum!
What a pathetic man , how small and pathetic is his world ! Hey Limbaugh , it's over , you and your kind are nothing but society's rejects and you're becoming more irrelevant and laughable by the day .
As they spit and sputter in their apoplectic fit - they make it so easy to imagine that things beyond their world are small and pathetic.
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The far right have circled the wagons and are shooting their guns inwards.
Second amendment right. And it should be "guns in wads" not guns inwards."
... guns 'n wads?
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yet.
here is a man who spends a good portion of his day attacking the msm
as the zieg hielizer pointed out, he and the other reich wingers spent alot of time digging into obama's background and talking about bs issues like wright and ayres
yet, according to the drugged out one...the msm didnt do its job by investigating obama
huh???
btw, rush's numbers did not go up the past year...dont know where hannity gets that
And Rush has looked up on him!
(You got any better way to explain how he could be so utterly insane?)
So he doesn't want the Republicans to "come up with policies for Hispanics", yet they "gotta get the Hispanics"?
"I never hear Democrats talk about walking across the aisle, never see any of them praise each other or brag about the fact that they do it." WHAT?! They spent the last two years walking across the aisle to felate Congressional Republicans every bloody day.
This whole tirade is just too surreal a comment to be chalked up to intentional ignorance on Limbaugh's part. There is only one explaination: Rush Limbaugh is insane. Loco. Batshit. Playing with just the Jokers. So forth.
rush truly doesn't want policies that would be favorable to Hispanics.
And the only "gettin'" he wants regarding Hispanics is of the 10 year old boy variety.
He's a sociopath. Know your enemies.
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get all the time that they want on the teevee and radio
they are neither impotent or irrelevant.
It would be a mistake to assume so.
Wish it weren't so.
Maybe his Escalade will go off a bridge with him in it. Karma's a bitch.
He reminds me of one of those mentally ill people who stands on the street corner yelling and raising hell at what would appear to be an invisible person.
When I lived in Salt Lake, we had a few of those wandering around, ranting about the Mormons supposedly having their hands in everybody's pocket. A choice irony for me, considering that "Utah Mormon" and "Utah Republican" are practically synonyms, and they're always ranting about the "Guvmint" having its hand in everybody's pocket.
Never mind the fact that these groups of people ARE actually victims.
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of nonexistence is blatantly false. Conservatives believe that the victims did something to deserve their treatment. There are no victims. Only criminals and welfare queens.
Limbaugh's crowd either likes to think of themselves as rich, or soon to be rich. If they're rich, they sure don't want to share any. If they think they're about to be rich, they sure don't want taxes increased on the rich before they get there, notwithstanding the improbability of their dream. So its easy for them to feel victimised by those in the lower classes or soon to be lower classes when there is any talk of spreading the wealth or social programs. It's sad, as they are an emotionaly damaged bunch that should be having therapy, and not daily reinforcement.
of the electorate (of those who bothered to vote) agree with Faux Noise. That's about 60 million folks. They ain't gonna change their minds, no way, no how.
Faux (Murdoch) is gonna get RICHER than Croessus railing against the wicked libruls.
They're gonna get more, not less, influential...
Well - I'd like to believe that getting on the tube, pretending you're bat-shit crazy while you have a private pity party -- isn't going to help your cause. But I know it's not that simple.
America still has about the most politically uninformed and ignorant electorate in the entire world. Additionally, the reich-wing still has their corporate owned and run media pushing their cause daily.
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I don't know that they'll get more influential. They could just as easily remain flat, gaining no new viewers, and being left with just the wingnuts, or even slowly declining as their viewer base continues to age.
He blathers and all I hear is "You kids get the hell off my lawn!"
LOL!
It's Statler and Waldorf only a lot less cute and funny.... and without the brains.
..that Limpballs and Manatee should get a room.
... no kidding.
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plenty of room for those fascist fucks there.
ROTFLMAO!
Thank you for that!
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I'm just here to help!
might give Gitmo a bad name.
shy and harmless sea cows with a comparison to KKKlannity.
Rush Limbaugh. The father of modern stupidity.
In any other arena, this would be fiction. It would be a skit on SNL.
Let's hope this stuff keeps coming out just like this. The American people will get enough of both of them and send them to the attic of history in short order.
Freakin' waste of flesh, the both of them.
...only the hardcore bigoted freaks remain to believe this bullshit.
And that self loathing, closeted, racist pig Limbaugh is a modern day J. Edgar Hoover.
without all the fabulous dresses.
"If Conservatives indeed keep following his lead, he'll lead them all right -- into even further irrelevance. Which, when you think about it, is where they richly belong."
Best blog post I've read so far this year, and typically-- a C&L one.
the two most PATHETIC AND USELESS human beings in the planet...
and incredibly STUPID...
Throw in Coultergeist and I'm with you.
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For some towns, Limplimb and his ilk are the only programs on the radio. He has a well-entrenched following who will not budge toward reality. It is sad on so many levels.
in the form of an economic multiple rabbit punch jack-hammers their preciously false beliefs into a semblance of reality perception.
Only Pr. Pain can crush beliefs effectively.
Of course, I'm assuming that perception of reality won't get trumped by a deadly mix of social isolationism and excessive inbreeding.
A rather generous assumption, come to think of it. :-D
Video links don't work for me.
..just for the record.
All of O'Reilly's rants are always easily downloadable though, to his credit.
Sounds to me like Rush might've hired Joe the Plumber as a personal internet "cleanup man" for him or something.
Arrrrrrgh. Working on it.
I changed my processes on wmv files so hopefully the previous issues for some readers would be resolved. But this isn't related to that, because the QT file isn't working either.
OK, I've put it up on YouTube and added the link up top until we get the videos running. It may take a few more minutes to process at YouTube still.
:D
I though fat asses were supposed to die early. When is he going to expire, already?
Hard to say.
Remember, Rush has his meds to take. Alas, it seems to help him thus far.
..that he doesn't consult his doctor if he should spring a boner which lasts more than four hours..
directly to the Dominican Republic
..those poor Dominican boys.. :(
I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone!
probably don't have to suffer for long...I'm bettin el rashbo is a minuteman...or maybe even a premature ejaculator...which would explain ALOT about him being such a flamin asshole.
... He must need the Viagra to get him through his show.
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the ones that don't go extinct will evolve into birds, Limbo's already starting to look like the dodo.
I have elsewhere coined what I call Woody's Corollary to Poe's Law:
Woody's Corollary to Poe's Law, states that is possible to substitute "Conservatism" (e.g., Hannity. Limbaugh, Beck) at every appearance of the word "fundamentalism" in Poe's Law.
Pretty sharp thinkage there.
Kudos
I mean in what bizzaro world would you conclude that being MORE conservative will get right of center to the left voting for you? It's like saying that the Left could get Dennis Kucinich elected. I love DK but no way he's ever going to be Pres.
Most of America is not extreme Left or Right. More power to 'em i say. I hope the run as far Right as would be permitted by the laws of physics. They'll even start losing the deep South soon. Those old, white southern males won't live forever. (I'm an old white male, formally southern, so I know lol)
Unfortunately, I don't think this brand of conservatism is limited to the elderly. Check out the crowds in the megachurch evangelical broadcasts. Or NASCAR.
brand of fear, hate and mind numbing ignorance to their kids.
... the world IS catching up with them. They will be increasingly marginalized because they will be increasingly be seen as egregiously intolerant. The brown majority is coming. They can't stop it and they can't adapt. They lose.
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is all the interbreeding that IS happening...
I gotta say, I ain't never seen an ugly bi/multi-racial person.
A country filled with attractive, olive/mocha skinned people...
Hell on earth I tells ya! LMAO!
wankers!
don't know what conservatism is.
Typically conservatives support small government, government involvement in private lives...at ANY level is anathema, a lack of trust in government (particularly in areas of privacy), and a distinct fear of government as big brother.
Just think what these bloated buffoons, these bitches of big business, these concubines of corporatism would be saying if a Democratic Administration had done what the Bush Administration had done.
Nice description - it has a hauntingly nauseating ring of truth to it.
I'll agree with you here. My father was a conservative. He hated Reagan - this bunch would have driven him out of his mind.
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I object to the association of Hannity with manatees.
Manatees are gentle, intelligent, sea faring mammals. They are a stark contradiction to Hannity...who is a sub human species unto himself.
Family Guy is pretty good even if it is on Fox. My 13 year old seems to like it.
Manatees have produced and/or written The Family Guy??
That plot was uncovered by the youngsters on South Park.
Living proof that manatees are smarter than Hannity.
President Bush.
My three twenty-something kids adore this show. All three very political. My son canvassed door-to-door in the Bellevue WA area for Obama.
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"They don't seem to realize yet that the country has turned the page and moved on."
I'm seeing this idea repeated more and more often these days. It's remarkably similar to another idea that was frequently talked about starting about 8 years ago - "the permanent Republican majority." Anyone remember that? Didn't quite work out that way, did it?
Old dough boy is looking porkier than usual. Must be all the comfort food he's consuming. He also looks puffier around the eyes, like he's not sleeping well. He must be anxious about something, like his own irrelevance and the fact that his big fat conservative gravy train is about to skid right off the tracks, as more Americans realize how badly they've been bamboozled by the GOP (Greedy, Opportunistic, and Predatory). Old fat drug addicted Limbaugh has been a whore for the GOP for quite some time. Must be rough seeing it end in such disgrace and shambles. America finally woke up, and we're seeing with Obama what leadership and good govt is supposed to look like.
should be glad this isn't the '70s.
If it were, they would now be relegated to popping out of the joke wall on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
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A couple of true Sociopaths having a private pity-party.
Come'n you two - stamp your fat little feet ... wave your tiny little fists in the air and scream ... hold your breath while your angry little mugs turn bright blue. This is the only time you come close to being truly entertaining.
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Rush just told y'all where the 'mainstream media' nonsense comes from.
You put people into groups and then you victimize them. And give the victims power over the majority. Because they then have grievances that are nonexistent, and the majority gets cowed into fear, because they don't want to be complained at, they don't want to be blamed, so 'OK, OK, you want (balanced coverage), fine, we'll go get it."
Thanks for being honest, Rush.
Hyper-Conservative wingnut self-promoting blowhards who will say anything to make a buck like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Ingraham, Beck, Coulter, Matalin, Savage, Giuliani and Thompson will see their audiences shrinking rather than growing. The majority of Americans have grown beyond their mercenary dog and pony shows as well as their own primal fears and cultural ignorance. People who promote hatred and division will always find the most damaged elements of the lunatic fringe to incite, manipulate and exploit, but the heady days of race baiting, war-mongering and bogey men are dying much like the days of McCarthyism died and faded into ignominy.
Bravo.
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Limbaugh: "Self interest is different than selfishness. People working in their own self-interest benefits the family, the neighborhood, the community, the state, the city, the whole bit."
I don't have a problem with self interest in general, but there's a huge difference between self interest and unadulterated greed with total disregard for the welfare of the community. There are many occasions when self interest conflict with the good of the community. The Rethuglicans have been systematically waging war against the middle class. That's what I have a problem with. They've managed to stack the deck in favor of the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else.
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