Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael Steele and then Steele apologizes to RushBo.
(Parts 1& 2 are above) Rush Limbaugh came out firing against the RNC's new leader Michael Steele after Steele criticised him on CNN. And as usual, the Republican bows down to the altar of Limbaugh and begs forgiveness. Limbaugh spanks Steele and tells him exactly what Steele's job is and what he should do and how he should do it.
STEELE: So let’s put it into context here. Let’s put it into context here. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it’s incendiary. Yes, it’s ugly.
Michael Steele has been around long enough to know that the liberal media will use him by twisting what I say or what others say. He took the bait, he bit down hard on the bait, he launched an attack on me even though the premise of what was said to him was false. He took the bait and he went for it.
They chicken out when I happen to articulate exactly what their agenda really is. They don't have the guts to admit it, and I do. I'm going further and telling you today it's not that I want Obama to fail; that's not it anymore.
So who's the ugly one now? Michael Steele apologizes to Rush:
My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. "It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently. What I was trying to say was a lot of people … want to make Rush the scapegoat, the bogeyman, and he’s not."
“I’m not going to engage these guys and sit back and provide them the popcorn for a fight between me and Rush Limbaugh,” Steele added. “No such thing is going to happen. … I wasn’t trying to slam him or anything.”
I love this part: "I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking.” OMG, does he have a spine?
I guess Rahm was correct when he said this on Face the Nation:
And whenever a Republican criticizes him, they have to run back and apologize to him and say they were misunderstood. He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.
Don't you just love the authoritarian nature of the Republican Party?
Tom Schaller wrote a great article called: Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party
UPDATE:
But he is, as some of us have been pointing for years, the true leader of the Republican Party and we were told that he was a harmless, mainstream entertainer and we should all just lighten up, even as luminaries of the Republican party and the luminaries of the conservative movement bowed and scraped like abused streetwalkers at the feet of their violent pimp. They defended his comments about Abu Ghraib, fergawdsake. He can literally do no wrong.
Steele isn’t alone. Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) have previously dared to criticize Limbaugh but then quickly backed down. To quote Rush, a lot of Republicans are being told to “bend over and grab the ankles” for him.
I smelled (Sniff! Sniff!)....PUSSY!!!
I guess we know who wears the pants in the GOP family!
size 65-Portly?
;o)
I swear he must have gained at least 100 pounds. He looks as if he swallowed his old druggie self....and a grand piano.
Steele was spineless, personally I would have unloaded on Limbaugh for being a divisive abomination of the GOP. I don't think Democrats though have a lot of room to point this out though, they have been utterly spineless too for years.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
The humiliating acts of this booth licking house negro doesn't have shit to do with the Democrats. Give me one example where a Democrat kissed this John Wayne Gacy look a like's ass. You simply used this GOP in house bullshit turmoil to take a blind gratuitous shot at the Democrats.
How many times did we see the Democrats in Congress NOT stand up for us over the last 8 years. I wish I had a nickel for every time they folded like a cheap suit when it came to funding Iraq. We'd all be better off, if they had.
We as liberals can point fingers, but not as Democrats.
My opinion.
The dems suck, but ...
Re-thug-lics -- the party of immature, voraciously rapacious, depraved, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry troglodytes, bigots, racists, perverts, xenophobes, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, self-righteous hypocrites, self-hating women, fetid wombs, preeminent whiners and consummate chronic liars.
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Also, too, much, by golly?
You related to Sarah?
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... their house negroes know their place. Rush just showed them.
Unlike those god damned Dems with that uppity Obama feller...
Now where is my mint julep!
i finally wrote you back on the maddow thread.
Let me start off by saying HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!But seriously let me add Heehee. I really had something to say on this topic but I forgot. Wait, I got it...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
is intended to be a factual statement
i love watching these maggots writhe and squirm. they're starting to eat each other, and good riddance. may the "best" maggot be the last one standing.
and kudos to rahm emmanuel -i still can't stand him and don't trust him, but sometimes he can be fairly effective.
(off-topic note: i had to work all day, and was unable to respond to tyler durden, debaser71 & tiktokklok regarding our theological discussion on the rachel maddow thread, but have now given my response. anyone interested should scroll down to the bottom of this site and go to page 2 -it's already kinda buried).
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statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
thanks, i should know that..!
does that make the head of the GOP, Rush's prison bitch?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The latest lies from these two clowns is.. Why is it different for us to hope that Obama fails when Dems were saying the same thing about Bush. I for one don't ever remember anyone here on C&L or anywhere else *hoping* Bush would fail.
I wish these asswipes would get it right.. Many of us were hoping Bush wouldn't destroy this country or the Constitution before the next election.
Bush did fail, he was a huge failure but he did it to himself. Wishing Obama to fail is like treason in this economy bordering on depression.
I don't give a crap about limbob, he can go to hell. They are both a couple of clowns, that's all the gop's got these days bozos entertaining their retarded dittoheads.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
which is why we were anti war and anti those massive tax cuts
we all saw the writing on the wall
its one thing to say that you believe a policy is bad...another that you want to see the ruination of america
not one of bush's policy decisions benefitted this country or its people...not one
Bush's massive tax cuts did benefit the rich in this country and the Iraq war benefitted Cheney's Haliburton. But as for the rest of us, well......not so much.........
Well, that didn't take long did it?*
*"Insert" your own Viagra joke here.
Put on your rainjackets folks, this is gonna get messy.
in 92, after clinton won the election...that is when the rnc started feeding rush talking points, in order to get the base to go out and vote
they then embraced him after the house win in 94...saw that he was the perfect point man, and kept building him from there
and now he comes back to bight the hand that feeds him
they still need him...so they will continue to furnish him with talking points
it is truly a sad state of affairs
btw, if you think this is not a scary situation...i would like to remind you all of rwanda...where gov forces used talk radio to foment hate
rush is scary...so are the rest of the wingnut talkers
i hope that congress works quickly to break up the media monopolies
that is the only way we can combat rush and the rest
bring back competition to the airwaves
oh...and that article posted didnt scare me until the final paragraph...about the 21 year old girl who has the hots for the bloated drugged out pedo....she wondered where he had been all this time...
the repugs are an ignorant lot....ignorance breeds fear and violence
well said.
"...and a face like a horse's ass!"
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Where are the drug charges for using and trafficking Oxy?
Busted with not-his-Viagra come home from the DR, while he was on probation for the Oxy. Dionne Warwick got her ass kicked because of a couple of joints concealed in a make up compact at the Miami Airport, over what was pretty much and illegal search (looking for explosives in Dionne Warwick's compact).
Not to mention, he mocked a crippled kid who advocated for children's health insurance, made fun of Chelsea Clinton's looks when she was just a kid (called her the "White House Dog"), mocked a guy with Parkinson's, played 'Barack, the Magic Negro' song on his show.
I think he could punch a baby in the face, then mock it for crying, and his base would think he's really funny. Because they all know that baby had it coming.
me-oww!
Limpballs would justify punching the baby in the face and making it cry as "just entertainment". I'd like to see some entertainment myself - ya know like Rush getting frog walked in handcuffs for one of his many crimes whether it be child porn, drugs, etc. Now that would truly be entertainment!
...you da man.
Let SNL do a skit based showing Republicans
cowering before the crazy Limbaugh!
I'm begging you... Please Seth Meyers...
It won't be long, I'm sure. This material is just too, too rich to ignore.
With Rush - chomping on his fat cigar - receiving visitors who bow down (ankle-grabbing optional) kiss his ring and ask favors.
Someone else mentioned Jabba the Hut, which would make a good SNL skit, as well
;o)
They ar egoign to have to engineer a take down of Rush. Look for something to "happen" later this year. Something embarrassing. Possibly criminal (?) on the part of Rush. Something that will scuttle his leadership. The longer they let him outgas, the more entrenched he becomes, and the more difficult will be his removal.
Heard it here first.
Rush "Toast" by September.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
and he's done the criminal (Illegal drug use)...see my post above.
me-oww!
I cannot think of one good reason.
Some stuff you can't make up!
That's the spirit!
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I have a dream of an impending horrible end coming to Der Bloaten Führer Rush.
I start cheering so loudly I wake myself up and I never see how the dream ends.
Am I Cassandra.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
They've got a problem -- he's their Frankenstein.
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The concerning thing is that this demagogue has the ear of 20-some percent of this nation. That isn't unlike Hitler. That Nazi was dismissed as a clown by everyone but his crazy followers, too. This man may be more dangerous than we give him credit for. It is not right that the Republicans kow-tow to him. I am disgusted by the Rethugs, but worried about the "base," even more.
Candideinnc
Rush's ratings aren't anywhere near 20-some percent. His weekly minimum cumes are somewhere near 15 million, which at most would be 5 percent. Still a sizeable chunk.
Rush has eaten the Republican party.
Ha! too much.
He has absorbed the party whole in a grotesque jaw unhinging gullet clapping catastrophe.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Absorbed is a better word than "eaten." It conjures up visions of Steve McQueen and the Blob.
Best assessment of this subject yet. Ha!
and if you think EATING the GOP is ugly...just wait another 8 hours.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
That ship has already sailed. We're just waiting for the flush.
oh yes indeed rush be da man! oh, what could steele have been thinking when he said that he was the leader? grovel steele, grovel. perhaps if you kow tow real good rush will let you be his cabin piss pot boy on the u.s.s. rethug when admiral rush sends it down the ways in 2012 with palin as his 2nd in command.
Its fun watching them eat their own.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Jabba the Rush. All Republicans fear his power. Well, maybe all but Palin. And Joe the Plunger.
You're librul mind tricks won't work on me, boy.
Aww, man, here I was hoping somebody in the modern Republican party had something resembling reason, or at LEAST something resembling a spine when it comes to standing up to their Gassbag in Chief, but sadly, it would seem not.
The lack of spine is seriously kinda pathetic.
Spinelessness -- It's contagious.
me-oww!
When 'the deFacto Republican Leader' bows down to an 'entertainer' in the blink of an eye, saying essentially that he speaks without thinking rather than admitting he admonished Rush Limbaugh, it makes me wonder what Rush has on these people. How much money does Rush have? or is it that he owns major stock in republican business machines? I mean, this is pathetic up to and beyond normalcy, even for conservatives! How can even the farking political game even work when the head of a party is subordinate to a talk/radio show host?
It is absurd to the point that it smells too fishy not to investigate further. You can't stop Rush from saying the most incendiary things, but he can move the Republican Party wherever he wants to. Like Republican in sheep's clothing, snorting Oxy-C's and ready to politically assassinate anyone not as fanatical as himself.
is that he can get hundreds, even thousands, of angry Ditto-heads calling and/or emailing their offices - maybe some death threats, detailed references to their wife & kids whereabouts & movements - gets the job done.
I think the Democrats should do (aside from putting Boxer in as Majority Leader) is make attack ads with the sound of Gingrey and Steele groveling and licking Limbaugh's boots. Tag line: Rush says "JUMP!" Republicans ask "How high?"
P.S. Those who want a Fairness Doctrine to get rid of Rush, Beck, Hannity, et al, are CRAZY - these guys are the best thing the left has going for it! They can't even control Repub voters - Remember, McCain was their FIFTH choice, after Rudy, Fred, Mitt, and Huck. They all claimed they wouldn't support McCain but changed their minds later...
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Honestly, for years the GOP pounded into American minds the Dems were too weak to stand up for America. LOL! Look who is weak now, a drug addicted, fat, hate jock is the idol for the GOPers. Not one damn one of them has enough balls to stand up to the guy. Oh, they try and then the next day they are in tears begging for forgiveness.
Today it was funny watching Steele and Limbaugh duke it out. Tonight it is just pathetic.
Wonder when Rush's new book "My Battle" comes out?
I swear it sounded just like a set of black lips planting a big ole kiss on a white ass
as that giant sucking sound that Ross Perot was talking about? Nah - but probably something similar.
Steele is truely an example of a modern slave as he bowed down to his Master Rush. Steele tried to be a free man and have a spine but the GOP put him in his place quick. Now Steele has learned the Republican Party only needs him as their Token Black but he's still nothing to them. Rush is the Republican Leaders who is a child molester and drug addicted that the GOP feels we should follow. Lock your doors and save your daughters, sisters, wives and all woman from this pervert. Foley is coming back too now that it's ok. This is a true example as to how far back the Republican Party really is. It's 2009 and Americans have moved on as we're all Americans while a small few idiot Republicans are still fighting the US Constitution and Freedom.
between an empowered President Obama, who sticks up for and fights for his principles, and an absolutely impotent Steele, who gladly takes on the Uncle Tom ("yes, massa!") role.
The REALLY scary thing is that these wingnuts THINK they're the ones standing up for the Constitution and freedom - when in fact they do everything possible to undermine it.
I know, I know, but the schadenfreude was eating me alive! It's like a schizoid fruit punch party over there. This is awesome!
and the rest of the right wing media, how can some of you blame the Democrats for not being able to combat them? I hope we don't see the words "Spineless Democrats" on this site again.
I said pretty much the same thing. Don't EVER let the media or the GOP get away with Dems are weak. These hypocrites known as the Republican party are disgusting.
Better yet, the new Democratic campaign slogan should be "If the Republicans can't even stand up to Rush Limbaugh, what are they going to do with (insert latest bad guy's name)?"
This is the Republican strategy and it always backfires on them. They have nothing to offer except an attack.
They created Saddam Hussein to fight the Iranians and he bit them.
They created Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians and he bit them.
They created Rush Limbaugh to fight the Democrats and he bit them.
They created Ahmed Chalabi to fight Sadam, and he bit them.
They created Nouri Al-Maliki to fight Chalabi and he bit them.
They created Parvez Musharaf to fight bin Laden and he bit them.
They created Scott Mclellan to fight the Dems and he bit them.
The list goes on.
nuff said!
Some stuff you can't make up!
for that part about Rush being the "intellectual force...," he should have said the anti-intellectual force.
Obama apologizes to this turd I know it's all over but the crying. The way things are going it wouldn't surprise me.
Why in Hell would President Obama kiss this fat, nasty mother fucker's cyst laden ass? Micheal Steele is just what everyone thought he was(check out the previous thread on Steele and Rush)a world class house negro...Obama is the most powerful man in the Goddamn world, and he's already proved himself on a world stage. Rush the disgusting child raping coward only has his fringe.
It's hillarious! This fat-ass, over larded "mouth"(that's all it can do. It can't golf. It can't teach. It can't do anything but sit on it's seat)... making it just a "MOUTH" and this slimey mouth is the Jabba the Butt character out of Ronald666WilsonReagans Star War years....Give me a break. I thought Steele was made out of something more than blackaroni....He cowed to the white, fat kid bully. Give me a break. It's a side-splitter. Flush is the Republican MOUTH....and they are all going for it. THE GOP IS DEAD AND FLUSH IS THE FAT BOY WALKING....like a Hutt. This is easier than it looked. Get Skywalker...Get Solo...they gotta see this!
ObiWan
Flush Limbaugh. El Flushbo.
I like that too. Flush Limbaugh. It has a nice ring to it.
All in favor? Say Aye!
Aye!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
How about Flush Limpballs!
Gee, this is fun to watch, but now I'm out of popcorn... off to the store to grab me some...
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Its time to wrap Limbaugh around the GOP's collective neck like a 300lb. bag of lard.Anytime any republican does anything,for any reason,it can be justifiably asked:well did you check with Rush?That unelected blob of opiate saturated rotting flesh?No?Oh oooooh.
*cue scandalized canned audience laughter*
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
You stick with people who help you win, not people who just kiss your ass.
I agree.
This sentence pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
"There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
There you have it: the elected leader of the GOP acknowledging that Rush really is their de facto leader.
frigging scary, peeps. sad, lame, and yet in a way, scary.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
More like "de fatso" leader!
Truly comedy gold, the in-fighting that is!!
It will be impossible now for any reasonable person, were they to exist in the Republican party, to take control. The neocons have it for good.
WTF?
Does anyone on the Republican / Conservative side of the aisle have any stones?
Why are these wimps afraid of a drug addled pervert that doesn't even hold an elected office?
Even the media is afraid of him. I watched MSNBC tonight and was fascinated by Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan squirming as they reported on Michael Steele daring to question the Almighty self appointed leader of conservatism. It was as if they knew that his lordshit was going to Bitchslap Steele and it made them very uncomfortable, and apparently Steele is now doing a tap dance and sucking Lush's ass, hoping that his highness will forgive him and not call out his minions of Shitto-Heads against him. This completes the pussification of the Republicant Party!
What does Lardballs have on these people that they quake at the very sound of his voice? What a bunch of pussies!
Keith Olberman and Jon Stewart seem to be the only media types to openly disrespect him. They apparently have figured out that Lardballs is just a drug addled Korporate Sycophant.
BTW has anyone ever actually seen Lardballs debate anyone?
How did he do when confronted with an opposing opinion?
Is there video of it? please share
The Republican Party truly represents ole time racist, keep n****r's in their place theories. A black man in the Jim Crow Party isn't even a human being. This is one of the main reasons why I get pissed when some of the bloggers spread that ridiculous lie that both parties are the same...both parties sure aren't the same to us black folk!
The Republicans only want black people who fear telling the truth, and who will always capitulate to their masters(Juan Williams, Ron Christie, Tara Wall, Condi, Clarence, et al).
I am one who doesn't give the Democrats much credit, as you know, but I am completely with you on this one.
The RNC elects Michael Steele and then they kick him in the face. They have no respect whatsoever, it is pure tokenism.
Who is surprised? Not me. I have a good friend, he served in Nam. Until Obama won the primaries he claimed he was a Republican.
He is brother and I kept after him. He finally came around. I don't know what he was thinking.
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it kinda reminds me of South Park, and token's relationship with Cartman... 'shut up Token, you black asshole!"
except Token kicked the shit out of Cartman by the end of the episode. I hope Steele watches South Park so he can learn how to deal with Rush Cartman Limbaugh.
...(and we shouldn't) but this is a historical no-brainer. The fact that the Republican Party has no true black people in it's organization is no accident. This act of pure cowardice by Steele will only push decent, intelligent and socially aware black people even further(if that is possible) from this final bastion for race haters in America.
All the repugs who say that blacks just voted for Obama because he's black... well, let's just say that Michael Steele would not have been elected as the first black President.
Bwhahahahahahahhahahahahaha! It was a gaffe? Like Joe Biden not remembering 'recovery.com?'
Yeah. I always do that -- when I'm totally stoned.
me-oww!
who's the head of the Republican party. A doughy gasbag hate radio host.Canadians are not impressed, as we don't allow hate radio stations in Canada.
Jealous, I am.
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Radio waves don't stop at the border.
This is good and bad though.
I can sample the pigboy any afternoon and it makes me glad we have some basic rules on what can be put out on our airwaves.
Of course I can't say we're immune to the cant, ever heard Lowel Greene from Ottawa?
I find the dichotomy interesting but disturbing.
That which would have the church ladies down south clucking their tongues and demanding baninnation as child destroying filth might be standard fare here in the late evening.
They refuse to believe people might not be born, live and die fully clad or that human sexuality is more than a myth.
Juxtapose that to what is prime time content such as the pussbag spewing hate speech which would be more than frowned on here.
We Canucks must be depraved perverts and not even know it.
Not true! It may not be as over the top, but its there. Have you listened to syndicated radio talk show host Roy Green lately?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
...to the Rush Limbaugh wing of the Republican Party, and say F@ck this country, the way Rush's boy GW Bush did, because we don't care for our country, but the RNC is all we care about!!!
I like it and it works!
microphone
that's what rush described with loving adoration- a private lunch with bush a week before the obama inauguration- bush gave him a chocolate microphone as if saying thanks for fucking up the election - holding back support on mccain and making us pick palin now here , suck on this for 4 years.
"you not da man". I'm sure she got a call from Rush too.
Is it just me or do repugs seem to have 'daddy issues'?
They seem to crave the authoritarian and strict Old Testament character.
Or maybe they just like to wear diapers and get spanked by hookers.
Title line;
Daddy, daddy. Why is mommy so cold and pale?
The evil extremist Rush Limbaugh is leading the death march of democracy, but there is help on the way!
"Democratic National Committee chair, Governor Tim Kaine, just released the following statement:
Kaine Statement: Steele Apology to Rush Limbaugh Proves the Point:
Limbaugh is Leading Force behind Republican Party
Washington, DC – On the same day GOP Chairman Michael Steele apologized to conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh for courageously challenging Limbaugh’s role as leader of the Republican Party calling his show “incendiary” and “ugly,” Governor Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, issued the following statement calling on Republicans in Washington to stop following Rush Limbaugh’s lead:
“I was briefly encouraged by the courageous comments made my counterpart in the Republican Party over the weekend challenging Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and referring to his show as ‘incendiary’ and ‘ugly.’ However, Chairman Steele’s reversal this evening and his apology to Limbaugh proves the unfortunate point that Limbaugh is the leading force behind the Republican Party, its politics and its obstruction of President Obama’s agenda in Washington. Just this weekend, Rush Limbaugh repeated his claim that he is rooting for the President to fail. The last time Rush Limbaugh said he wanted the President to fail, virtually every single Republican in Congress followed his lead and voted against the President’s plan to create or save 3.5 million jobs.
“As Congress works to pass the President’s budget, Republicans need to stop following divisive figures like Rush Limbaugh, stop apologizing to him and put aside the failed politics of the past so we can put our economy back on track, reform our health care system, break our dependence on foreign oil, improve our schools, and lay the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st Century.”
http://www.americablog.com/2009/03/dem-party-...
I keep thinking of Sejanus in the context of Rush Limbaugh's ambitions. Sejanus was a power broker in Old Rome, and all the senators had to respect him or face dire consequences... right up to the point that they decided he was more trouble than he was worth. Rush, just keep ripping at your Republican buddies. My experience is that they have no morals and huge egos, too.
Please! Don't conjure up images of fat-ass having kinky sex with Livilla.
Jon had this to say after Repugs questioned Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton's patriotism during the Election campaign last year.
"Republicans as everyone knows love America, they just hate half the people living in it!"
Reminds me of Flush Lardballs!
We knew that the moment he spent his first weekend as head of the RNC touring the talkies and telling us there's nothing wrong with conservative values, in fact, we need more of them.
Off the hook? Beyond cutting edge?
Oh, and the GOP can forget appealing to minorities. Steele was made to kowtow to his white master. I mean, these guys can't even manage convincing apologies!
Please please please, someone needs to find a video clip from the 1980s (I think)
Rush had just lost a lot of weight and was trying to get his show back up so he was making the talk show rounds. On David Letterman, Dave asked him if he really believed "all that crap" he said on his radio show. Only Dave can get away with a question like that.
Well, the audience howled, Rush paused, gave a great big smile and said; "Dave, I'm an entertainer, just like you." Everyone howled even louder.
That video has to be in some vault somewhere.
Please please please. Does anyone know a big shot at NBC or CBS who can try to find that clip? Wouldn't that clip be great right now?
Someone here probably can find.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Rush Limbaugh - How Talk Radio Works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRmgJw8muw&eu...
It's pretty funny, since it gets completely away from him. I don't think Sejac's audience was receptive to Limbaugh's far-RW message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w&fe...
No Viagra in Old Rome, and Rush's taste runs more to little slave boys anyway
or do columnists only suck up some of the "entertainer's" cash flow thus remaining unscathed?
Frum wrote today
"And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence – exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we’re cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush’s every rancorous word – we’ll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time."
What can I say? Luck for us - he's right.
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Wow, a conservative columnist who actually GETS it? Will wonders never cease.
Also, please, don't listen to him. Rush's ascendency may be a little unnerving, but I'm pretty sure it's also just distilling the party down to the pure nutcases, and there aren't all that many of them.
Given that the Republican party core has been said nutcases for a while, having Rush out front advertising it will finally drive away some of the people who are actually CONSERVATIVE, as opposed to just retrograde. Maybe they'll start a reform party and create something resembling an actual conservative opposition party in this country, as opposed to some sort of psychotic old boys' club that makes conservatives look like flaming liberals by comparison.
That is exactly my hope - to cleave thoughtful conservatives from the retrograde. The media needs to start asking these elected individuals do they think of feminists as feminazis? Is the magic negro song appropriate? Did Michael J Fox need to be ridiculed for having a disease? Is the reason people cow tow to Obama because his dad is black? Who are the phony soldiers? Do women actually wish to be sexual harassed?
I want to know where republicans and their lieutenants stand on these issues if Rush is their defacto leader
It's just embarrassing. How exactly were this bunch ever considered to be the ones best suited to stand up to the Terrorists™ when they can't even stand up to this cantankerous slimy pudgy pill-guzzling pissant?
What a circus. These GOPers are great. Keep up the good work Steele!
You be da man, Mikey Steele... you be da man!
I wonder if Limbaugh is ever going to hear an apology from Al Frankin.
Jeanne
side note, Coleman rested his case yesterday.
There's only one re-Thuglic that would have been powerful enough to take on Rush and cut him down -- that would have been Reagan.
He's their Frankenstein. They made this bed - they get to lie in it.
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There is no way in hades I'd ever apologize to someone like Rush Limbaugh. In my view he's lower than a snakes belly!
Now that's some biblical dissin' right there ...
Steel the cheater is a weaselly succubus on the fat of the pig mans rump.
But courage is quite another matter. I think it's time Rush really stepped out of his little studio and opened up to the public. He should become a much more accessible voice, engaging freely in extended debates with the most skillful liberal debaters, people like Howard Dean, Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, Al Gore and Thom Hartmann.
The right needs you, Rush. Step out of your little protected booth and be all you can be.
Did I mention that chicks dig it? Goes without saying. Please, Rush, come out and play. It'll be fun. I promise.
by the defatso leader of the Group of Pigs.
For the GOP at least...
When you force everyone in your party to march lockstep by coercion and blackmail, eventually, when all the leaders fail or get hoist by their own petard due to their corruption, then it leaves a vacuum of leadership. And who is there to fill the void? A big bunch of gas. And wresting control from the big bunch of gas is proving problematic for the new would-be leaders...
May they enjoy the battle for the heart of the GOP. This civil war has just begun.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
So, the Clown Prince takes his rightful place on the throne at last.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Is Rush bigger and idolized more than Ronald Reagan?
Will Mitt Romney be next to apoligize to Rush that Mitt actually at one time in his life idolized Ronald Reagan instead of Viagra-Oxicodone man. The doctor shopper himself.
Next GOP nominating debate will be on Limbaugh's Radio instead of the Reagan Library.
Instead of Rudy, McCain, Huckabee, Mitt and Fred Thompson singing out the name of Ronald Reagan it will be Rush Limbaugh.
Makes one long for the old GOP days of fawning and idolizing a dead President and re writing the president's legacy. Like Lebonnon never happened, Iran-Contra was throat lozenge.
The Repugs love idolizing their false gods. Reagan and now Rush.
to stand up to Rush.
One of the few people in Congress, on either party, to really tell the truth about the mess we are in.
and now I back it up with a source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_Pretty...
No matter what Rush says, he is more useful alive and brodcasting is filth. He may lead the lower confused 15% of the country, but his ravings repulse the other 85% of us. Let him blast his horrendous ideas where all can here them. Who will vote for a party when their programs are well known?
Tom Schaller's article definitely was not great.
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So, who's "Da man" NOW?
Fasten the seat belts GOP...
... The ride gets bumpy when Steele throws Steel under the (R)ushpublican limpBUS.
Somehow, hitting "Submit" seems appropriate for this thread...
... NO?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
If you know a "moderate" GOP politician, the most hurtful thing you
can call them is a Limbaugh Lemming.
My Congressman cringes at the label but he is a GOP Lemming.
It is fun watching the GOP "moderates" struggle with hugging the sweaty fat man
while attempting to appear engaged, thoughtful and intelligent.
It's not possible and their voting records prove it.
These "guys" have made their names in GOP moderate districts but
are being slowly but surely eliminated. Phoniness can only last so long
and during hard times it is nearly impossible.
They voted with Bush except when the Party didn't need their vote.
So shout it from the housetops and make these idiots answer.............
Are they one of the Limbaugh Lemmings?
This is the 2nd Republican politician that's publicly castrated himself in order to save face with Rush--it's sickening to the point of being nauseating, to say the least.
As a man with a very real sense of personal integrity, I can't imagine being so spineless as to virtually emasculate myself in front of God & everyone for any reason...let alone a reason so devoid of honor as sacrificing your manhood in order to remain a politician. They are repulsive cowards.
These so-called "men" deserve nothing but ridicule, scorn & public humiliation from here on out--this is what they have earned and that is their true worth.
How the hell can this dude be a "leader" after this gutless exhibition? Steele also recently said that he was going to try to recruit minorities from the inner cities into the GOP.
Good luck with that, Mr Bojangles.
..let Rubble actually RUN the party.
Guaranteed Progressive agenda for decades! Do you think the majority of Americans really listen to the comedian? He may have high ratings but he's not that important in the grand scheme of things; he's an f*&^-ing entertainer ferchrissakes! His words mean no more to me than does Matthew McConaghy's.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I believe that that is precisely what President Obama has in mind.
Chief-Of-Staff Rahm-bo began laying the groundwork for this plan on Sunday's Face The Nation, and Robert Gibbs continued implementation of "Operation: Titular Republican Leader-By-(Pr)oxy-Moron" in yesterday's White House press briefing.
I think ol'Mr. Head Ditto has made a grave error by misunderestimating our mega-moxie'd president...
Steele should change his name to Marshmallow.
I haven’t read all the comments so I don't know if I'm repeating anyone here but...
Isn’t it just wonderful to have the Democratic Party framing the Republican Party for once?
You think they want this?
You think they like answering these questions?
Think they like having to marginalize their leader to the reality crowd then go kiss his ass because he’s truly the most powerful Republican and they need what he holds in his hand?
You think this infighting isn’t fostered right along by anyone who can help it along on the D side?
Genius political strategy … they are totally making the Republicans decisions for them and characterizing them the way THEY choose …
God(s) I am loving this.
There's only one way to get to this enormous bag of dung....the GOP is too afraid of him to tell him to quit the venom. Boycott his advertisers. I just read that one of my favorite websites, Overstock.com, advertises on Rush. I sent their public relations guy an e-mail telling him that I'm taking my business elsewhere, since they feel it's okay to support a man who is hoping that the government and the economy fail...just so that he can be right. What a pig. Anyway, I am hoping that others will go to the overstock.com website and tell him the same thing. If they can get by on selling things to the 20% of the people in this country who like what this hatemonger has to say, then fine. But they need to know that progressives can find somewhere else to shop.
I'll boycott every advertiser that facist hate-monger does business with...gladly.
In the meantime, it's going to be sooooo thoroughly enjoyable watching that greased up porcine thug crash & burn over the next few months as more and more Good Americans band together and destroy him like the social malignancy that he is.
He doesn't realize yet what a grave mistake he made in spewing his I hope Obama fails poisonous filth to the masses.
Watching clips of el rashbo on Countdown last night...looked to me like ol' stinky pants limbaugh was wired out of his gourd!
Was he chanthing his name along with the rest of the idiots a CPAC?
What a bunch of assholes!
Steele said he wanted to broaden the appeal of the Repuke party. How's his batting average?
When asked if they'll soften their stance on gay marriage, he answers "Are you crazy?"
And the hip-hop community is absolutely THRILLED, I'm sure, with the take-home message that you have to say "YAS-suh, massa boss!" when you piss off a white guy.
My prediction: For his next trick, he's going to claim that the Hispanic community should adopt that little dog from the Taco Bell commercials as their official mascot, because he's so CUTE!
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