Limbaugh on Hannity: Racism is 'the exclusive province of the left'
Something seems strangely off about Rush Limbaugh in his interview with Sean Hannity yesterday on Fox. Of course, there's also the crazy things he says, such as his further explanation of why he hopes Barack Obama's presidency fails:
Hannity: So this raises this question: You are the leading voice of opposition -- conservative. And have defined conservatives for over two decades. You celebrated your twenty years on the air, by the way, congratulations. Coming off a record ratings year for your.
Bu you are a passionate conservative. You've defined conservatives for many people in this country for years. He [Barack Obama] represents the antithesis in terms of his worldview. So then the question becomes, do you want him to succeed?
Limbaugh: No this -- I am so glad that he asked me that question, that you asked me this question. I'll tell you why.
I am hearing many Republicans say that, 'Well, we want him to succeed.' And, uh, prominent Republicans -- "Yes, we want him -- " They have laid down. They have totally -- they're drinking the kool-aid too. They have no guts to stand up for what their beliefs are, because they're afraid of criticism. They're afraid of being called racists. They're afraid of not having gotten with the program.
Now, success can be defined two ways. I said earlier, I don't know about this guy, I really don't. But I've got my suspicions and they're pretty close to convictions, but we're gonna have to wait to see what he does. Now if he turns out to be a Reagan -- if he adds Reagan to his recipe of FDR and Lincoln, and if he does cut some taxes, if he does not eliminate the Bush tax cuts, I would call that success. So yeah, I would hope he would succeed if he acts like Reagan.
But if he's gonna do FDR, if he's gonna do the New New Deal all over, which we will call here the Raw Deal, why would I want him to succeed? Look, he's my president. The fact that he is historic is irrelevant to me now. That matters not at all. If he is going to enact a far-left agenda -- look, I think it's already decided. Two trillion dollars in stimulus. The growth of government.
I think the intent here is to create as many dependent Americans as possible, looking to government as their hope and salvation. If he gets nationalized health care, I mean, it's over. We're never going to roll that back. That's the end of America as we have known it. Because that's then going to set the stage for everything being government owned, operated or provided.
Why would I want that to succeed? I don't believe in that. I know that's not how this country is going to be great in the future, it's not what made this country great. So I shamelessly say no, I want him to fail if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism. As a conservative, heartfelt, why would I want socialism to succeed?
Hannity: You want your country to succeed, and you believe that his views implemented represent a failure, predictable failure. And conservatism would represent predictable success.
Well, yeah, because conservatism has been such a big stinking success.
See, fellas, there was this thing called an election. And in it, the people decided that conservatism -- conservative governance, conservative politics, conservative belief -- was an Epic Fail. They repudiated it for its manifest failures. And they handed over the keys to someone who's going to try something different.
So of course we understand that you're going to oppose his policies. But his success or failure at this juncture in history means more than just the success or failure of an ideology -- it means the success or failure of the American economy. Rich conservatives like yourselves may be immune from that fact, which gives you the luxury to hope for his failure. But the rest of us -- especially the working class you all like to pretend you represent -- do not.
Limbaugh and Hannity only care about their ideological well-being. The rest of us, in contrast, are focused on our national well-being.
Limbaugh goes completely off the deep end, however, later in the interview when he posits that Obama was elected because of the Librul Media and their death grip on American voters:
See Sean, they've got an investment. He's too big to fail. They wanted him elected because they wanted to reassert their power -- the media here -- in being able to sway public opinion to get the result that they wanted. So they were going to cover up the Jeremiah Wright -- all these things that give indications of radicalism in Obama -- cover that up, portray him as he wants to be portrayed, somebody who's not to be questioned. Somebody who's not to be doubted. We're just supposed to accept and trust, because -- most of these guys came alive and came of age in the Civil Rights battles of the '60s. It defines who they are. They've trained the young drive-bys to look at events through the same prism.
You know racism in this country is the exclusive province of the left. We're witnessing racism all this week that led up to the inauguration. We're being told that we have to hope he succeeds. That we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend forward, backward, whichever. Because his father was black, because this is the first black president. We've got to accept this. The racism that everybody thinks exists on our side of the aisle has been on full display throughout their primary campaign.
Oy. Where to begin.
First, I don't exactly recall the mainstream media covering up the Jeremiah Wright thing. In fact, I recall exactly the opposite -- that for about three weeks, they were absolutely obsessed with it. You couldn't turn on a channel without hearing about Wright. But when Obama gave a major speech on race and then repudiated Wright finally, the story withered on the vine. How long exactly did Limbaugh want people to keep beating that dessicated corpse of a horse?
Second, there's no doubt that racism exists on the left, but it seems Limbaugh believes the only kind that remains in America is anti-white racism -- because that's the only kind he sees. The logical conclusion is that he sees the ascension of a black man to the presidency -- the fall of one of the great racial barriers -- as a racist attack on whites, because that's what we've been celebrating this week.
But trying to claim that anti-black, anti-Latino, anti-Arab, or anti-Asian bigotry, all of which have long been immanations of right-wing belief systems, no longer even exists ... well, that's just outright delusional.
Which seems to pretty well describe not just Rush Limbaugh, but the right in general these days.
In a way he's right. [**gag**] He's right in that the "left" is the only party that actually acknowledges racism as being a problem. The right thinks everything's hunkydory except for all the disadvantages whitey is forced to endure...
Let's actually be truthful here or try to comprehend the true meaning of what he said on race.
"when Obama gave a major speech on race and then repudiated Wright finally, the story withered on the vine. How long exactly did Limbaugh want people to keep beating that dessicated corpse of a horse?"
I will be glad to explain why it kept being brought up. It was brought up because Obama said for the many numerous years he attended the church,that he NEVER heard ANY of the sermons that were racial or un-American, he just heard the good ones and had no idea his good friend was like that. If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you.
To address the race issue is very simple. What he is saying is that if anyone doesn't support him as President, they will find themselves being called racist because they must be if they don't support our first black President. I have seen this at work and other places. You can compare this to when people who did not support the Iraq war were considered Un-American.
I myself have been called a racist just because I do not like some of his policies, I am no racist, I just do not agree with the policies. On the other hand race is an issue on the left, especially when over 90% of African Americans voted for Obama and many, said it was because of the color of his skin. Yes, this happened on both sides, many people voted just because of skin color and not because of ideals and policies. Personally, I do not see how this great divide will ever be bridged, there will always be people who vote only vote D & R or skin color.
Pull your head out of your arse, tool. The new generation of voters does not give a rats ass if the President is black, white, red or green, it's what he DOES that counts. Obama represents the NEW generation, intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful. We've had enough of old white men who only serve their greedy masters, thank you very much.
I think you should re-read what was typed and think about it before responding with such a limited view point....."old white men".....really? Do you have some prejudice against a persons skin color and age?
As for intelligence, < does not equal common sense> If this is the base line, both Obama and Bush went to Harvard. Here is something else a lot of people don't know, George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. So before you start using the words intelligent, well informed, etc... think about policies being more important instead of platitudes.
You’re absolutely right about formal education not equaling common sense. That’s the curse of the Democratic voter. But the corollary isn’t true either. If educated people can lack common sense, it doesn’t necessarily follow that uneducated people, or people who like to play up their folky side HAVE common sense. That’s the curse of the Republican voter.
In either case, he didn’t SAY “educated.” He said “intelligent, well informed, and thoughtful." No matter which way you slice it intelligence DOES always equate to intelligence, and I have to agree that the younger generation is better informed than the older generations. Maybe not as temperate, but better informed, and probably more intellectually curious.
As for the bit about both Bush and Obama having gone to Harvard, Obama EARNED his way there, Bush didn't. If Bush's father hadn't been a Harvard Alumnus and gotten his son in on the founders program, George Jr. couldn't have worked or studied his way in to Huston Community College.
nobody gives a fuck about common sense RUBE, i want my president to be as intelligent and higher IQ and/or logic than the average american drone as possible thank you.
..yea except for the fact that alot if not most of the people who find "reasons" (Rofl.) to not "support" obama really ARE racist and its just code to hide those true beliefs (possibly even to themselves).
Seeing as you typed another few worthless paragraphs after this, i can't be bothered with it since the rest just like the first part is prolly not worth reading.
of a pathetic battle of wits by two unarmed people.
and all that inteleshual stuff gives me and my dittohead homes the munchies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ci3zaBwxs&fe...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
...talk about a brain trust!
Good analogy, and Bubbles is obviously the Alan Colmes of the group.
Watching it play out before my eyes it felt like two guys sitting there talking off the cuff. But you know these two idiots had to read a script to get these words out. I wish to god some intern at Fox comes out of the shadows with video tape of the crap that goes on behind the scenes! Watch these clowns get cued as to when to lean forward in earnest, when to scratch their head in disbelief.....
Let the ditto heads see they have been played for all these years of their being "loyal dittoheads".
I see he is still carrying water. f-ing lying camel.
This is more about morality than intelligence. Limbaugh and Hannity don't care whether what they say is accurate or whether their comments damage America. They care about their influence and the money they make as a result.
Absolutely. An ass-kicking contest between two, one-legged men.
They've definitely hit rock bottom when the last two remaining sh!theads from the Movement Conservative media takeover have nobody left to interview but EACH OTHER. Next week Bill O'Reilly will interview Britt Hume, Anal-cyst Limbaugh will interview Glenn Beck, and that's the lot. They'll have to fold up shop and go out to look for REAL jobs.
During the Clinton years is when his radio show actually starting gaining momentum and skyrocketed. Something tells me over the next four years his show will get even larger and even more nationwide.
Do you have any evidence to back up that assertion? I recall his radio show picking up momentum and skyrocketing during the mid to late 1980s, and staying at a plateau during the Clinton and Bush administrations. There must be a graph of his yearly listenership someplace.
Doctors today announced that an earlier surgery to remove a pilonoidal cyst from Rush Limbaugh was actually a failure.
"We accidentally terminated the patient and not the cyst," said one surgeon. "I mean, it was already difficult to tell the difference, and it's a simple mistake anyone could have made ..."
A [member of the current scapegoat group] had an anus transplant. The anus rejected him.
One can see the possibility of Rush getting himself so worked up that he blows a major cerebral blood vessel.
There's a limit to knowledge, but idiocy has no bounds.
I don't think there is a limit to knowledge, just what we as human animals may be able to comprehend.
There are many things yet undiscovered is sort of what I meant.
admitting that we really have yet to discover so many things.
Conservanards have tried to use the racism card to defend opposition to powell and rice, and even feminism in her case. It just didn't work nor was believable.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... Proposition 8 in California. "Oh, it's not the white evangelicals who are doing it, it's the black churches!"
I agree . . . to an extent he is correct. Because the Right IS racist it doesn't care about racial, or any, inequality.
Also, how shrill the Right has become since Jan 20. They are slowly loosing it. The wheels are flying off their wagon now. It's a wonderful thing to watch.
They're afraid that Obama will repudiate Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Larry Kudlow was whining about that the other day, in between the blubbering about Bernie Madoff. I think this is a great development for progressive and liberal causes. If Jabba The Rush continues to play this idiotic tune, the repukes are going to be in the minority for a long time. We can only hope.
No problems.
They're safe as houses...
But not for the angry bigots, who somehow have been convinced that Obama's Presidency is at their expense, Rush, Sean and their ilk have no audience.
Limpbaugh is talking through an OxyContin haze?
He sounds wasted to me.
They must be trying to fool themselves and their troglodyte listeners/viewers...cause not one person "of the left" is that fuckin stupid.
Talk about projection!
This is hilarious!
Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest of your ilk...LMAO!
You fuckin dipshit fucktards!
Any idea how clueless you assholes REALLY are? Nope, of course not, because you are all fuckin dumbasses.
Classic!
"They must be trying to fool themselves and their troglodyte listeners/viewers"
Yeah, pretty much. Their crop is all but gone, and now they're just going ape-shit trying to protect their putrid SEED MELON in the hopes that it can form the "nuculus" of another crop of idiot followers someday.
Both of these screeching baboons are conservative all right--conservatively 10 bricks shy of a load. A little anti rabies medicine might do them a lot of good controlling their persistent dementia.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Care to remind us, Rush, how you got sacked from your Sunday Night Football gig?
Hells yeah! These conservatards need to be reminded about their rank HYPOCRISY again and again and again.
Hey. Lets leave Kate O'Bierne out of this.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
That picture ruined my lunch! :)
What a tool. Nationalized healthcare would be the end of this country? That's nice coming from a multi-millionaire.
said of Limbaugh: If you remove all of the parts of the Bible which refer to helping the poor, sick, disadvantaged, underprivileged, etc., it makes a great place to hide Rush's drugs.
Does rash have to go to the wharves where the trawlers bring in their fish-haul to have himself weighed on the scales?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The first word that pops into my head is delusional. Might have something to do with the fact, proven in the above blog post, that he makes up his own facts. But he does this to cover up for exactly how wrong he is. Because admitting that the "Librul Media" was going all over then Senator Obama for Rev Wright, the Flag Pin BS and "hanging out" with WTF is his name I forget, would be admitting that the "Librul Media" is not all that "Librul". If anything it is more leaning to the Conservative ideology.
BTW speaking of the media, I took JOUR101 - Intro to Mass Communications over the winter and our teacher left us with some words of wisdom that I think would be appreciated here.
"People say we need a better press; I think that's true, but mostly, we need a better consumer audience to demand that the press perform better!"
BTW, Georgie Poo of ABC still isn't wearing his. :P
Let's say Obama's "post-partisan" group hug thingy works and in two years the troops are out of Iraq, somehow, miraculously, Obama manages to make a deal with the Taliban and the pharmaceutical companies to allow their poppy growing to be monitored and sold legitimately for medical use and that the wind gets pulled out of the sails of Al Queda and they decide to make nice and Obama and Clinton (I can dream, can't I?!) talk Israel into backing off tons of land they've taken from the Palestinians and the Palestinians get their state officially and the borders are safe and the Israeli's and Palestinians decide to play nicely together in the sandbox, and a national health care system is instituted here and people LOVE it and it's working and saving money by eliminating the insurance company middlemen, and Obama pulls a wabbit out of his hat and fixes the economic quagmire, all his jobs are created, there is world peace.....you get the idea.
THEN!!! what what would the Vicodin devouring fat-ass have to say??!!
What could ANY of the "conservative Republicans" say???
"LIB!!! Tham darn Democrats was right!!!"
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
THEN!!! what what would the Vicodin devouring fat-ass have to say??!!
The exact same thing he is saying right now.
They are the dinosaurs, we are their meteor.
Sadly, they continue to bleat and moan even as they sink into the primordial muck.
Progress is hell, only the fit and determined can keep up. *G*
they continue to bleat and moan even as they sink
I like that image.
Rush is just pulling ConcernedCanuck's leg. He's the only one in a Province of the left. The rest of us are in red states or blue states. Rush knows that.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
In my opinion, they have very few middle class listeners. They have the trailer trash crowd, as one of their own pundits phrased it. Then they have their rich elite. But it seems there's little in between.
Well the majority of the middle class realizes that life isn't as hunky dory as the kind people at FOX Noise portray it to be. The majority of the middle class lives in that little thing we like to call "reality".
not alot of the middle class left.
To see the lowest educated and the highest educated agreeing on the same platform of flawed, even manufactured beliefs.
That is a good point.
In one week, I had
-the daughter of a VP at a major company who is currently at a top university, family has international ties, all well-educated
and
- a rural friend who never had a credit rating worth anything in 25 years of adult life, drop-out, odd-job taker with lots of using friends, and self-admitted redneck, not sure anyone in her family has been to college or even a tech school
Both repeat to me the exact same Fox talking point. Both are avid Republicans and consider themselves conservative. Didn't really notice the cognitive dissonance, had been putting it down other things.
The scary thing. Both were politely told they during the elections that may have a problem with information since they only had one source (FOX both cases).
The next week, one started talking about what they saw on CNN, and MSNBC, and read in the local paper as well as FOX. They pointed out CNN broke one story before and differently from FOX. The other considered the point and rejected it, listening only to FOX still, and increasingly tells us how we are all doomed.
Can you guess which was which?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvm-n6gwPCY&fe...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
no bigger sucker than a blue-collar worker who votes for a right-wing political party in any country at any time. For some reason, these dimbulbs actually think that they will benefit -- typically financially - by voting for such a party. Of courese, just the opposite happens. A recent example is the election/appointment of the Fuckhead Bush who very soon enacted tax cuts for the very wealthy. These sorry ignorant dupes deserve no sympathy.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
wonderfully human and elitist of you!
The ones I know, the really poor rednecks, vote out of fear, moral outrage and indignation. She was convinced it was illegal to vote for Obama. They are pretty sure they are going to get screwed by all of them, and .. so often, they are.
And interestingly, it's the one with all the advantages that is so self-centered and self-assured of her world view that she can feel Fox gives her all the information she needs. She is secure in her status, place and intelligence. Survey of alternate views not needed.
My redneck friend has been around the block a few times. The concept that rich folks in some TV might be playing her, now that is a concept she can grasp.
Native intelligence is nice, but it's not all it's cracked up to be. The school of hard knocks is a cruel teacher.
I became a big fan of Rush while hanging out in Wasilla volunteering as a member of the Palin extended political family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPfraJiTmo&fe...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The only thing I listen to on the radio (and only when I'm driving) is NPR or Springsteen on a CD.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
rush, like all the hypocritical and ignorant members of the diaper-class, slobbers and foams in his silly attempt to continue the policy of fear that the right has been so dependent on.
case in point:
I think the intent here is to create as many dependent Americans as possible, looking to government as their hope and salvation. If he gets nationalized health care, I mean, it's over. We're never going to roll that back. That's the end of America as we have known it. Because that's then going to set the stage for everything being government owned, operated or provided.
the hypocrisy, the cognitive dissonance, the brash stupidity, the ignorant mouth-farts...
the conservatives have controlled economic policy since the late 70s--how do you like the result? the BEST weapon against their ranting and lies is the growing agreement that the GOP and conservatives are fucking terrible stewards of anything of importance--and the intelligent rebuttal of supply-sidism (or whatever name you prefer: reaganomics, neoliberalism, piss-down, washington consensus, friedmanism, etc.)
Friedman is a Monetarist, not a Supply-sider.
Monetarism is different from Supply-side in that Monetarism believes in no deficit spending and leaving the economy to its own devices, because they feel it will correct itself over time (time not being specified because it is never known how long it will take).
I can see why some Monetarist views are practiced, but I myself am a Keynesian, which just so happens to be the majority make up of economists.
moderates from Louisville, Keynesia right off. But which is the communist and which is the monotsarist?
http://blog.creativethink.com/images/2007/08/...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
yet the notion that monetarists prefer to leave the economy "to its own devices" seems more misleading rhetoric on their part than actual reality.
well the reason they feel that way is because they think if we try and correct it ourselves, we'll just mess it up more.
Bush, to his credit (or his stupidity, idk which), did a good job in making their point. >.>
i submit that their "free market" rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. they don't actually believe what they are peddling. in some circumstances they feel that the govt should not be involved in the economy, but, at the same time, advocate and urge the govt to be active in the economy. hypocritical, really.
there is no such thing as a "free" market, and there never will be.
The only reason why rethugs advocate a "free market" is to have a venue in which to try to financially screw everyone else.
... it's like monkeys climbing a tree. Those on top look down and see only smiling faces.
Those on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
Yeah but which ones get shat upon?
Remember the days when NASA was well funded and space exploration was a priority?
No, neither do I.
...blasting with complete racism or they need to begin to put a Goddamn muzzle on sick angry fucks like these two little men.
Condi, Clarence, Larry Elder, Tara Wall are about all the negroes they've got left.
Don't forget Steele
Remington?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Levelhead.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii8/flymec...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
the mere sight of his stupid fat face, makes me want to pick up a blunt object and....
I hate that man.
My parents raised 8 kids and taught us not to hate anyone. We now all hate the likes of Limpballs and Hannity, Coulter and Malkin, and all of the idiots who publicly espouse their own vile, vicious brand of hate.
I drive between St. Louis and Memphis a couple of times a year to visit my sister, and every time I drive through Limpball's home town of Cape Girardeau, I really want to stop, find his birth place, and take a dump on the front lawn. He's nothing but a pile of dung.
I thought rash limpballs IS a blunt object.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
He's not only "strangely off;" he's a nutjob; he's wacko; he's a frgn' hate monger of a pig.
I saw part of the Insanity/Limpballs lovefest last night....don't know how I did it because they both make me want to puke. I just want to throw 100 shoes at each of them.
Well, let's just say that once upon a time I had an oxycontin prescription for about a month after knee surgery. And Limbaugh on this tape acts the way I felt at the end of that month: interpersonally disattached, easily aggravated, almost wormy with suppressed anger, but still voluble. Boy was I glad to get off that drug.
When you mix it with Viagra....hooo boy.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
And a can of Red Bull...THEN you have a hoooo boy.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Didn't watch the clip...and won't.
Does anyone with half a mind really care what this bloated bastard thinks or believes?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
to see that boy-bumping traitor Limbaugh in jail for the rest of his life
Talk to him a little. He can come with his date; a twelve year old boy that he bought in Vatican City.
continues talking like this. He is absolutely sounding as if he is having a psychotic break and if he keeps this up they will have to physically restrain him and get him to a hospital quickly. Additionally my brother, who lives and dies by the nonsense that this fool spews is actually saying that Rush may have gone off the deep end! (Really???)
so the crazies have to interview eachother to get their talking points out?
what does limbaugh know? what is he an expert on? its circle jerk reporting on fox news for the next 8 years.
In a twisted way, I feel sorry for Rush Limbaugh's listeners. They are being pimped out worse than a $2 whore.
Rush, Hannity, Fox and the others have duped them into voting against their own interests for so many years it's unreal. Now, Rush is telling his listeners that the very programmes that will help them will destroy America. If it wasn't for Roosevelt and the New Deal, how long would it have been before the Appalachian area would have had electricity and running water? Yet the the decendants of these people vote for rich white assholes that don't give a fuck about them.
Jobs are being cut, wages slashed, people have to choose between losing their homes and getting healthcare, and he talks shit about these programmes?
Race is all they have, and now that is slipping. If his listeners ever woke up and realised how they have been played, there would be a revolt in this country. There ain't no way in hell any of Rush's base would even be allowed in the same places his fat ass eats in. They couldn't marry one of the Bush girls or the sons of the real power players in the world. Ole Rush is getting pimped too, but at least he is getting well paid for it. Super rich white people think less of white trash than they do of minorities. Hell, white trash can't even get jobs as nannies, cooks, cleaners or gardeners. They don't want them in their schools, neighbourhoods, country clubs or anywhere near them. But as long as Rush and his ilk keep peddling that race shit, they will continue to fall for it and continue to be played.
...is the worst thing that could ever happen to these segregationists. They're trying their best to turn back the clock to a time when minorities were invisible props. The multicultural future of the Nation both frightens and makes these bigots quite angry.
I am in an interracial marriage and when I visit the USA to see my parents, I get some hella-nasty looks from people when I am out with my husband. Forgive me for being crass, but why is it your business who I screw? Multi-culturalism is a good thing and when communities intergrate it's even better. L&L, I'm from Chicago, just like you so I know how our city can be outside of Hyde Park and a couple of other areas. I live in London in an area with many different races and cultures. My kid's best friends at school are of Turkish, Bangladeshi, African, Pakistani and a myriad of other heritages. That's how people should be. I've lived in all white and all black areas and there is nothing better than being able to see the world walking down your main street. Rush and his listeners are sick and sad.
I wanna come and visit!
That sounds awesome!
I was hoping we could start ignoring Rush and concentrating on more important things. Like.....um.....idk......maybe this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/22/obam...
There is a lot going on in the new administration - too much to waste space on Rush IMO.
or this.......http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html?wprss=rss_politics
the note bush left obama, said "give rush his oxycodone and he'll behave." without it he becomes a raging idiot with delusions of being liked.
Sorry I missed *that* circle jerk!
(410 days without cable and STILL loving it)
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Lard-ass Blimpaugh is definitely on drugs again. Fat-Ass Hannity is just plain stupid.
By hoping Obama fails, he's hoping America fails. He's now put all of his big name supporters in the position of supporting his hopes that Obama and America fail or abandoning Rush. He may have gone too far this time.
My family was hit hard during the Depression, and were dependant on the bread lines for food- But FDR's programs eventually put my grandfather and uncles back to work, and saved my family-and this country...
Rush simply wants america to return to the era of the robber barons of the 19th century, when there was no regulaltion, when the rich got rich and the poor got poorer....Hence his hatred of FDR.
Rush's desire to see Obama fail is striking- Rush is not a patriot- He cares not about America- but rather about the Republican party-
And if the republicans can't be in charge- Rush would rather see the country go down in flames. Obama will be a good president, and rush hates him for that..
I do think Obama could be another FDR- which is a good thing- but this is the reason why Rush wants him to fail- Rush holds distain for the poor, and his overt hatred of African Americans is well documented.
And I think the past 8 years has proven that right wing Republican ideology is a failure.
You can think of Marx's World View as a Hagelian Dialectic transposed upon economics in a broader historical context.
The thesis would be the Industrial Revolution; it would come into conflict with the anti-thesis, which in a broader context would be the humanity of the working class. The clash of the thesis with the anti-thesis would lead to something new which would be the synthesis. The synthesis would eventually become the thesis; and, clash with a new anti-thesis that would result in a new synthesis. This is how a Marxist would interpret history as well as the future.
Rush Limbaugh's own words: "He [Barack Obama] represents the antithesis; in terms of his worldview."
This statement could not be any more Marxist.
My question is two fold; why would a college drop out like Rush Limbaugh be so well versed in Marxist Theory and choose to interpret Obama, using Marxist theory? Could it be that he and his Neocons are all closet Communists?
is that made with Gin or Vodka?
Sorry...couldn't resist.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
If you make it with gin your upchuck results in a new synthesis.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegelian Dialectic
Jalapeno Con Big RED.
Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Pepper Pot
Looks like Rush is getting fat again. Why the hell is he so angry?
But who knows, just as there are twisted right wing men who find the anorexic masculine Ann Coulter to be hot, some women (or men) may dream of an image of a shirtless sweaty Rush in Speedos, covered with oil and eating handfulls of grapes..
Did you have to go there!
Ewwwwww. I just ate lunch. Brain bleach, please.
What tha hell man?
I'm gonna chunder now, thanks to you!
Days of Chunder
Starring Carrott-top, Pauly Shore, and Paris Hilton
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hannity refer to the "course of success we've been on?" What the hell planet do these guys live on?
Two big fat blowhards for the price of one. Lovely. John Cleese was right on - "Hannity The Manatee".
sorry to keep repeating, but "Hannity" in Northern Ireland stands for "miniature wanker"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvm-n6gwPCY&fe...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Is this fat slob really citing Reagan as a success?
He actually excused Hoover for the Depression, and blamed FDR?
This guy is sickening, and I'm not just refering to his morbid obesity....
And given that the right wing treated Bush as a diety, odd how they condemn people for fawning over Obama...
And fatman insists racism is mainly a think of the left?
Last time I checked, the KKK, the Neonazis and skinhead groups were right wing.....
Jesus, let Rush drop dead already, the guy is a walking barrel of toxic waste...
... because when Rush sings, 'Barack, the Magic Negro,' the left gets upset. Therefore, it's because they enjoy victimhood. Therefore, racism is a fiction perpetrated by the left to unfairly punish the right.
Or maybe we just don't like it when fat white globs of pus sing derogatory ditties on syndicated radio.
That was a noble attempt to ferret out some logic in RL's argument. And yet, you still came up empty handed.
The Devil has been negotiating with God for 10 years. He simply refuses to allow Rush into Hell. Unconfirmed reports say that the Lord has offered two despots, a mass murderer and a cannibal to be named later, if the Devil will accept Rush.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Dang, Rush, how's that diet working out for ya?
Fat bloviating slob.
Give him a break...without the oxy-monkey on his back, he was bound to pick up a few ozs...but DAAAAAMN! That bobble head of his is starting to look like a pumpkin balanced on top of a dog food dish! Reminds me of the old joke:
Q: Do you know what the difference is between the Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh?
A: One is an dangerously overinflated windbag that constantly spews noxious gasses into the atmosphere, forever teetering on the brink of self-destruction, and the other one crashed in Lakehurst New Jersey in 1939.
I could stomach about 3/4 of it and had to turn it off- I just find these two manatees to be offensive in every level- If there is a Hell, I assure you both are going there..I thought greed and sloth were sins?
That the province of the right?
Rush says the Pilgrims were failures, hmmmm, I did not know that. Sounds a bit un-American if you ask me.
I am convinced these right wingers are dinosuars- in a short time, people will look back on them the way most people look back at Joe McCarthy and J Edgar Hoover- with bewilderment that anyone ever gave these clowns the time of day....
I for one hope Rush keeps up his repulsive antics, and leads the Republican party so far to the right, that they'll nominate Palin in 2012- and thus assure a Democratic victory.
The only ones who can save the Republican party are the moderates- the section of the party Rush hates-and since most reich wingers hate the moderates with a passion, odds are the Republican party will go down in flames..
the exclusive province of the right.
Of these two comments, neither is true, but mine is more accurate.
What a c*** old fat drug gobbling Mr Lump-of-flesh is.
me-oww!
failing, rather than a systemic, structural program by which ALL people of the privileged group benefit, adn ALL members of despised groups are penalized.
Racism is not just bigotry, or bias, or discriminatory behavior. There are bigots and biased assholes in EVERY community.
Racism is the system that makes bigotry, bias, and discrimination acceptable, permits and excuses them.
Give the gassbag a megaphone. The louder he bloviates, the better. How ridiculous does he look and sound! I want to hear him broadcast this crap like I want Palin to stay in the news. They might rally their base, but it's an ever smaller one.
than we ever could.....
The fact they seem to think Bush's years was a success is mind numbing..
I wish there was a quote feature....this is QFT material.
Quoted For Truth for anyone who may happen to wonder.
These people are done, and they know it. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
To a man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Since the oxycontin-popping, impotent, fat gas bag has nothing left BUT to spout his racist bull hockey, he's gonna pound that baby over and over until it comes out in China. The good news is, he'll be so busy putting ice on his thumb, he won't notice his dwindling audience until its too late.
The noise you hear from Rush makes sense only when you realize what is really happening. He walks and talks but he's dead inside. What you hear is the result of decomposition and the squeaking of the putrid gas escaping from all his pores. The only question that remains is will he explode or slowly dry up and blow away. I'm hoping for the former. A sharp stick touched to a bloated corpse. Stand back. Don't get any on you.
He and his kind pass their verbal flatulence off as opinion, but it's only hate for the sake of self promotion. Old junkers painted up for one last self-demolition derby. They make a lot of smoke and noise, but they're obsolete, destined for the crusher.
So take cheer and don't let him ruin the party. All you need for a reply is "PRESIDENT Obama" or "SENATOR Franken" or "REPRESENTATIVE Ellingson".
The thing is, there are millions of people (some your neighbors, friends, relatives) who listen, believe, and worship these idiots. Were that not so, the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. could not have gained power in this country.
We can't afford to have Obama fail, because Americans are fickle and self-serving to boot, we will end up with another winger in power if we don't see results, and that is truly frightening!
Conservatism is such a colossal failure and that, knowing that the GOP was going to lose, Bush setup the Dems by deliberately tanking the economy. The Conservative Media is now directed to blame Obama for everything the GOP has done in the last year.
Limbaugh and Hannity, and Fox and the rest of the mainstream media, are desperately hoping that the US economy does go into a severe Depression, because only by having millions of once prosperous Americans starve to death, and having CNN, et al blame the Democrats for it, only then will the GOP have any hope of winning another election.
This is what the Conservatives want: millions of dead Americans. Mass death is the only way the Conservatives can win.
Go, Rush, go!
Give him all the airtime he wants. Let him talk and talk and talk. Let him be the public face of the Republican party.
Because as long as the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Coulters dominate the right side of the dialog, we’ll never have to worry about a Republican majority again.
Hannity & Limbaugh are sleazy morons, whose only loyalty is to their paychecks. They are not Free Agents. Who, exactly, is giving them their latest "Talking Points"?
Take away Rush's Oxycotin and Viagra and you have a clown with man breasts that lives in a Greenspan bubble.
It looks to me that if Rushbo gains much more weight, his eyes will no longer open. This will not. of course, impact his information gathering. And the seeming obsession with buggery.......what is up with that? Just what does he do on those trips to Central America with the huge Viagra stashes?
These guys are such pigs and they are only going to get piggier - Is there anybody who doubts that if ESPN or another network offered Rush another shot at a another sports show he would leave coulter, hannity medved, o'reily and all the other truly ill people standing at the altar.
I suspect that rush has regularity issues and it makes him cranky.
I can tell you that I don't think about "race" and everything it entails on a daily basis. I'm aware of history, and of cultural biases, I understand they exist, and I wish they didn't. I don't feel any guilt about cultrual biases. I judge people on their own merits. I don't focus on differences between people. And I think this is fairly representative of most liberals. Explain to me how I'm racist, Rush; cure me of the suffering that I afflict on wealthy media pundits.
This man really is a pile of SHIT.
Is this big fat windbag back on drugs? Obama has been in office TWO days and he's already foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. What worries me more than even him are the people who think he makes sense! Who are THEY??
Rushie, it's going to be a long 4-8 years for you, so you'd best get that prescription filled.
I just watched the Dark Knight the other week, which was an awesome movie, and I just can't get over the total unfairness of life that drug abuse took such a talented man away from us, yet left us with this. Can we set up a room somewhere that looks like a television studio, gather Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, et al, and leave them in there to blather at nothing? I highly doubt they'd realize they weren't really being broadcast.
Chubby white douchebags afraid of losing their priviledge.
Everybody now:
"Awwwww.....dont cry widda boys... "
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
pudgy pastey white, combat dodging coward, drug addicted blow hard.
...and those are his good points.
you forgot pedophile...
Rush is a racist - we've known that for years. After all this is a man who lost what he called his dream job because of his racist commentary; who would expect anything else from him?
But while he will keep his show he has lost his influence and his whining about conservatives wishing Obama well shows that he knows it.
Rush, John Cornyn, John Kyle, Arlen Specter, et al. are like bullies who have been put on notice by the teacher - they don't believe anyone can control them, but all they have left to kick is the desk.
Apparently he's making big news in Green Bay, Wis. According to the local newspaper, the GB school district played the local station he was on over the loudspeakers of the schools during the Inauguration. Thus all the kids were forced to hear his spewing until I guess the district realized what Comedian was saying and turned to another station.
One of the teachers wrote to the local station to complain about airing Comedian, and Comedian caught wind about it, making fun of the letter and saying he 'wants to come to the Green Bay school so he can teach the children about civics and take some for rides on his private jet' and all.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/2...
Can we add another tag to this? I was thinking along the lines of "Republican Fail"
This is a note-for-note echo of Limbaugh's trashing of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb during Rush's short-lived stint as a football commentator on ESPN. When McNabb's Eagles lost the first two games of the 2003 season, Limbaugh made sure to excoriate the media for its insatiable desire to see a black quarterback succeed. (Despite being paraded as a football "expert," Limbaugh had apparently never heard of Doug Williams or Steve McNair.) None of this had anything to do with the fact that McNabb demonstrably improved his team, leading the Eagles to consecutive conference championship games *before* Limbaugh went off on him. Of course, the Eagles also managed to recover and make the conference finals in 2003, for the third year in a row.
So the next time Limbaugh declares Obama is some kind of media creation, I hope someone asks him if he still feels that way about Donovan McNabb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Etf8R-MSaE&fe...
The only time you will ever hear truth from this Concentrated Pile Of Human Waste.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
More than a putz, he is also a patsy. Obama's strategy for dealing with the conservative noise machine is to divide and conquer, cozying up to some while leaving others like Limbaugh and Hannity as figures of derision for his co-opted right wing sycophants to repudiate.
I just took about a 25lb. "limbaugh"...I feel SOOO much better.
Back in the days of the 2000 campaign I used to occasionally tune in to Rush, and "his guy" was G W Bush. He was so confident in good old Dubya. Same thing after his selection. Can't say I've tuned in to Rush in years, but boy-oh-boy was "his guy" Dubya ever an unmitigated disaster as President.
Now old Rushbo wants a truly remarkable individual such as Barack Obama to fail in his Presidency! What's wrong with this picture?
Could it be that old Rush cares more for his ideological stance than he does for this Nation...so in need and want of competent leadership?
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..for babies. She's keeping an eye on Russia!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Our democracy needs and thrives on diverse views and opinions. We "leftists" should not allow our brother republicans to be taken over by a thrice married, viagra popping, oxycontin addicted, overweight, egomaniac to assume the role of the "opposition." Mr. limpballs and Mr Mannattee are not the "voice of conservatism" nor do they represent the GOP. These fools are nothing but entertainers, much like actors and reality game contestants. Thier opinions and views only represent a small sliver of idiots who never made it past 10th grade. We do ourselves a disservice by granting them any position of power or influence. We need to ignore them and focus on elected GOP idiots who at least have some accountability to the public.
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