Rush Limbaugh, Master of Eliminationism
By David Neiwert Thursday Oct 29, 2009 1:30pmRush Limbaugh, on his radio show yesterday, via Media Matters:
You -- In 2008, in our presidential election, we had a, a, a war veteran, Vietnam War veteran, John McCain, against an elitist, five-minute career senator of a hundred and fifty days. That senator was running as a Democrat, and had actively sought the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq -- had actively sought to undermine General Petraeus, who was the author of the surge that led to a turnaround in Iraq and a victory. And now that same man is dithering in Afghanistan while American soldiers -- not Bush soldiers, not Obama soldiers, American soldiers -- are dying. At record numbers.
The threat that people in this country who want to be free face is now within our own borders. That's the stark reality. We'll be back.
Obama and the liberals are, in the land of the Limbaughst, the True Enemies of America.
If only Limbaugh really were "just an entertainer." Then we could dismiss him as a clown. But "entertainers" don't have audiences of "dittohead" acolytes who absorb their every word as gospel truth. "Entertainers" don't make condemnations of half the country as being the "enemy within" and actually stand -- and actually stand a chance of the other half nodding its head in agreement.
This, of course, is how you whip up violence: You scapegoat, you demonize, you dehumanize, and most of all, you paint a target on people's backs and say they're they Enemy. And you can't help but suspect Limbaugh is perfectly aware of this.
I devote a fair amount of space in The Eliminationists to Limbaugh. For a lot of reasons. Obviously, he's been doing this for awhile. But he's also stepping it up quite bit.
PROMOTIONAL NOTE: I'll be speaking tonight in Mount Vernon, Wash., at the Lincoln Theater at 7 pm. I'll be discussing my book as well as the recent visit to the city by Glenn Beck.
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And Beck, the other "entertainer" is just as bad. These tea party people believe every word both Beck and Rush say. Like you say, they take it for the gospel, and just like with the gospel, they believe each and every word without question. A country where every crazy person can get a gun, or I should say guns, and they are being preached to by people who don't give a tinker's damn about any of them, but love the money the "entertainment" business brings in, is playing with fire.
For the almost inevitable Rwanda-like moment on American hate radio/tv when someone like Limbaugh or Beck says something that gets a lot of people killed.
The only difference is that the Hutu weren't as heavily armed as the teabaggers and the militias.
Ahhh...not enuf Glen Beck today...so we get O'Reilly AND Limbaugh.
You just had to post this right when I was eating dinner!
Why don't YOU pay for the funerals for the nearly 150 men, women and children killed there on Sunday?
Oh, that's right, you're "just an entertainer."
FUCK YOU, pigboy.
I think Beck is more worrisome than Rush. With Beck his followers get props and chalkboards and reassurance that they are victims.
Beck pretends he is speaking up for these victims and looking out for them. He feigns his outrage and broken heart for what the President is doing or trying to do for these victims. He tells them the white house thinks they are stupid while at the same time drawing pictures on a chalkboard so that they might follow along. Of course his pictures and his theories make no sense, but because he has used such a simple message sender, his fans believe he has told them some undeniable truth. They grab the catch phrases and run with them as though they had just been handed to them on tablets brought down from a mountain.
Any more I don't know if I'm more afraid of what they might do or if I'm afraid of the number of people who believe what he says.
send me Dad's 45 just to be safe. The boys inherited the gun collection. May as well be an "Armed Liberal" at the rate things are disintegrating in this madhouse of a country.
I don't think all the tea party people are dangerous, but there are some out there just sitting on the fence of sanity and words from Beck and Rush could easily incite them to take that next step they might not have taken without encouragement. They are the truly frightening ones.
Sadly, if another such event happens, Beck and Rush will not accept any responsibility for that action and they won't be held responsible for it either. Because, hey, they were just "entertaining". Yes, entertaining thoughts that they passed along to some mentally unsound people who carry loaded guns.
this worked for hitler with the germans
it may well work in america
as the country declines in wealth
must find someone to blame for decline
the greatest threat to our republic are these hate mongers
they have a lot of company: listeners
many are old folks like me. what a selfish generation my generation has become
corp fascism has come to america
with russ as their mouth piece he makes a fortune
americans wanted capitalism now they have it and whine
it is only doing its thing: perfectly
creating a have more and have not society
mostly have not society
congress is controlled by these corp facists
they pretend to care but only to get the demo votes
sign up independent demos your party no longer represents you
they are in bed with the corp facists and wall street
nancy and reid will fold on health care like a deck of cards: but will pretend to fight.
most demos are naive enough to believe them
The stark reality is that self-centered people like you who can never get enough face time or attention, with the sole personal agenda to line their own coffers with gold, are the true enemy of this country. People like you who would sell their souls to the devil through your drug use and then go live publicly telling the majority who voted for this president that he is the enemy. Why a scumbag like you has any ANY credibility is beyond imagination.
but when
No doubt about it - Limpballs and Becker - at least - want their followers to start shooting.
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If we're lucky they'll all shoot one another in the face.
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that it took Bush MONTHS of "dithering" (if you really want to call it that) before he decided to let the "surge" go forward in Iraq. Obama will be ready with a decision within the next two weeks, it has been reported, and this is after deliberation with people who are approaching the Afghanistan issue from every angle.
To say this after it took Bush 6 years, 4000 dead troops, a million dead Iraqis, and millions displaced, before we saw anything resembling a turnaround, is about as dishonest as a person can be. And that was Iraq, for crying out loud! That was supposed to be a cakewalk!
Rush just got his talking points from Cheney, like all the other right wingers have. "Dithering" is their word of the week. Plus they have managed to just sort of skip over the horrors of the history of the last eight years.
http://www.joshreads.com/images/09/07/i090712...
Would y'all prefer diddling?
And don't forget that there had already been four such surges, all encompassed by the strategy "stay the course." So it took months to come up with a different name for "stay the course," not to actually change strategy.
David I would love to come and hear you speak but damn the distance thing is a problem. If I left right now I wouldn't come close to making it on time and shoot, I would miss happy hour here at my house. But give 'em hell and the truth.
You just had to promote yourself, didn't you? I can't possibly prep and get down to Mount Vernon by 7. Too much to do.
(I haven't read David's book yet.)
What exactly drives people like Limbaugh and Beck? Simple fear of change? Fear that they aren't in control, aren't really powerful or influential? Why is this fear so contagious, so easily spread?
Or is it simply that Rush has led the way and enjoys the influence of a cult leader, controlling his adherents' thoughts by the simple expedient of supplying their thinking ... which makes his drivel a drug for (far too) many people.
He's basically a religion - at least by the standards author Dan Brown mentions in "The Lost Symbol":
ASSURE. Rush assures his listeners that he is watching out for them, that he is standing guard, and as long as that's being done, they're safe.
BELIEVE. No one is allowed to disagree with Rush without being cast into the outer darkness. Even when he denounced certain Republicans, they were suddenly beneath his moral and conservative loftiness.
CONVERT. This guy is a fucking brain cancer. He's given rise to Beck, Malkin, Hannity, and others eliminationists. He's perceived as being so influential, Republicans hasten to kiss his pasty white ass.
To be honest, the cancer simile is entirely apt - it's killing us slowly. We're losing weight - from economic might to military might, our former strength is ebbing away in plain sight. It hurts, like nothing else that has ever brought us pain - we understand a part of our body is actively making us ill, running amok and spreading. It may go into remission, but it always comes back, stronger, more virulent ... and requiring either stronger, equally unpleasant remedies, or a staid resignation and acceptance that we're gonna die. Even our friends and family are helpless to save us. Prayer won't fend it off.
Uh it wouldn't be $$$$ would it?
Money is an incidental. I think they were like this before they rose to prominence.
He's no exception.
I wouldn't underestimate the spell MONEY has had on this "we're going to be better off then our parents were" generation.
I'm a boomer. I wouldn't mind having a few million in the bank.
So what's the difference? Education? Ethics? The fact that I'm a minority?
Money does not create people like Rush Limbaugh. Money enables them, certainly, and makes their venom easier to spread, more palatable to the masses ... but it doesn't explain how the ambulatory pustule we know as Rush Limbaugh came to be. His race hatred of blacks, for example - is that caused by money? Or anger that there are prominent and wealthy blacks who will always be worth more because of their character?
Money is not the root of all evil.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
Rush was a small time broadcaster that copied Stern and made it big. He sells everything he can with an "E.I.B" logo on it...it is definitely $$$$
Rush said in an interview recently, it's all about the money. The more people listen to his show, the higher his ratings go, the more money he can charge sponsors to run their ads. At least for that moment, he was honest.
... honesty.
Besides, money is not his product. He makes money because of the crap he sells, just like a drug dealer.
He's worse than a drug dealer.
I think he's up in that part of WA.
I would like to meet Dave though.
Dave's not home, man.
What kills me is that dittoheads are always calling Rush and telling him he should run for office. His response is always that he doesn't want to take the pay cut and the dittoheads don't see how they are being manipulated for his gain.
Someone should warn this bloated, saltine that African Americans like myself will not sit by while he attempts to have someone take a shot at our President. God forbid something happens to him because if it does, there won't be a safe place to hid him. He should remember that we all have the right to bare arms!
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I hear a lot of hyper-macho pro-war talk coming from this swine and I hear nothing of substance. Rush makes me want to puke.
Rush is a pig....
He needs crazy-glue to be used on his lips and butt cheeks..which-ever aren't in use at whatever point in time you get to him...
Lessee, boosh sent troops in the first place to Afghanistan, but before there was any clear win diverted large numbers to an unnecessary invasion of Iraq, and allowing Bin Laden to bugger out, and leaving others soldirs in a forgotten war is better than
Obama leaving troops where they are, with a little bolstering to help Pakistan, but he now faces a power vacuum, and more troops could just mean more casualties
And boosh's "plan" was better how?
question a draft dodgers military analysis.
/snark
Why doesn't anyone ask him if he would support a war tax to actually PAY for the war he endorses? Ask him if he thinks borrowing from China is preferable to being self-reliant and fiscally conservative, as we used to call it.
That fuck used the cyst on his fat ass to get out of combat duty in Vietman with little regard the troop who had to go in his place.
You want the other troop to sit on rash's anal cyst?
What a trouper!
of the pimple ass fans being all gungho military cheerleaders and worshiping pimple ass at the same time is something to behold. I'm guessing the dittoheads in the Pentagons Domestic Propaganda division who make sure that pimple ass is on Armed Forces Radio would go AWOL in a heartbeat if they were given orders to report for combat duty in Afghanistan.
...be nice. You KNOW it was a TAIL!
I would say I would love to see his fat ass keel over from a heart attack were it not for the fact that I think he and Glen Beck are 2 of the best things to happen to the Democrats for them to solidify their majorities in 2010 and beyond.
Rush, I saw recently you lost weight, keep it up! Stay healthy! And above all else, keep talking!!
Chicken hawk Rush and his minions touted the "Vietnam veteran" credentials of McCain as an election issue. But they lied about John Kerry's "Vietnam veteran" credentials in order to help elect the draft dodging chicken hawk Bush.
Rush and his ilk support veterans if they are Republicans, but if they happen to be Democrats, well that's a different story.
cares about troops dying overseas?
Fuck him.
Limbaugh believes you're not free in America unless you're allowed to gouge and outright steal as much money from the consumers as you possibly can. Now that's freedom baby.
The Fat Boy is so smart, yet he has to copy Cheney, using the term "dithering."
I bet Rush hadn't even heard of the word before Darth used it. The poor fat boy undoubtedly ran to his dictionary to find out what it meant. (Did I REALLY write "ran?" He can't run!)
Pathetic little boys who were made fun of in elementary school never change -- not even 40 years later.
If people could think for themselves, both Rush and religion would have long gone the way of the dinosaurs.
To a creationists themepark?
Republicans are confusing tyranny with LOSING AN ELECTION.
whilst they know better no less.
disgraceful
Rush Limbaugh - self ointment-ed lord of the bigots.
Serious question; at what point is a line crossed and when do people like the Secret Service get involved?
If limpballs jsut had a heart attack and died. More proof that only the good die young! and republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Some of you might remember that my dad and I are polar opposites on the political spectrum; I've detailed some of our grander fights on here. Anyway, I was at his house yesterday during the day for about a half hour while he was listening to Rush, as he does every day, all day.
Rush was blathering on about something, when he said something completely contradictory, I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was something like "no one will stick up for you in the government until someone you vote for does." It totally didn't make sense, and I had to break my silence and say out loud: "Did you just hear what he said? He just contradicted himself in the same sentence! Logic, anyone?" My dad laughed his self-satisfying patrician oh-silly-stupid-little-girl laughed, and told me that Rush always tells the truth, even when it's hard for liberals like me to hear it.
I said it must take a lot of effort to believe lies you know to be proven false, and he challenged me to name one instance where that was true. I presented Rush's endorsement of the not-Obamanian thesis, and my dad completely changed the subject to ask me what was going on at work.
Can't beat 'em, distract! I told him work was fine and Rush is a proven liar. Shut him up for a few minutes until Rush started railing on Pelosi for the twelfth or thirteenth time in that half hour.
It's a sickness. The best remedy is unassailable truth.
I would say master of evacuation,
As in evacuating his bowels.
I'm sure you have a lot in common, now. As in fomenting discord and spewing propaganda...and having some unsavory sexual aspects as well. Maybe there is such a thing as reincarnation...
It is like Howard Stern says, until Rush heard Stern, he was a nobody, then he listened and figured out he could talk on the air about something besides sports or local news, (Rush took on politics whereas Stern took on a much more widely entertaining twisted look into his own arrested psyche) and, voila, now Rush is the defacto (dick)head of the Republican Party. I prefer Stern. I prefer his humor, his self effacing style, his honesty. He makes fun of the screwups of politicians, right or left, but supports his country, no matter who the boss in the White House is. He called Bush on all his failings, and picked on him mercilessly, yet always reiterated that he really didn't WANT to see Bush fail, because (duh!) if the President fails, the country is likely to follow! So far he supports Obama, yet has no problem poking fun at his screwups and failures either.
I know Howard isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I guarantee, if you give him an hour, he'll make you laugh and make you think, and probably make you mad and maybe a little sad too. The laughs are worth it.
One of the best riffs in the past couple weeks has been on ol' Rush himself. Stern is amazed at the amount of pure crap Rush is selling, everythng from a "Gitmo Soap on a Rope" to an "Excellence in Broadcasting" armchair. One thing about Stern, aside from a couple books and a video, he hasn't hawked a load of junk to his fans to make an extra few bucks. If you see a Stern mask or a Stern t-shirt, it is bogus. He puts his name on NOTHING, whereas Rush is taking all those simpletons who sit and nod along with him to the cleaners.
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