Joe Sestak Responds To Rush Limbaugh's Attack
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 15, 2009 5:00pmVideo courtesy of Media Matters
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Rush Limbaugh has some serious issues. I mean, we knew that already, but the anger he uses to mask his blatant fear is quite stunning, and not a little Freudian.
Going after an admiral and counter-terrorism specialist like Joe Sestak? Not so smart, Rushbo:
Following an appearance on Fox News Channel to discuss the federal prosecution of terror suspects, radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked former 3-star Navy Admiral and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Joe Sestak as a "dangerous left wing radical ideologue."
"Rush Limbaugh's attacks on a Veteran for supporting our American values shows a lack of understanding and respect for the very people who serve our country to defend those values," the campaign said. "Instead of helping to bring about justice for the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, too many on the right seem interested in politicizing the issue of prosecuting terror suspects."
Joe Sestak voiced his support for the Administration as part of his continuing call to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Attorney General Holder announced that five high-value Al Qaeda suspects --including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-- will be tried in federal court, rather than be held indefinitely or tried via military commission. Current legal procedures are in place to ensure that sensitive information used to support our national security efforts are kept private.
"As an Admiral, I led this Nation's fighting men and women into harm's way in defense of the United States -- in defense not only of American citizens, but of the beliefs that we hold dear and that define us as a nation, Joe" said in his statement on Friday. "I have watched the legal black hole at Gitmo erode our moral standing in the world -- weakening our hand in diplomacy in all corners of the world and providing Al Qaeda and other extremists propaganda for a new generation of terror. The last thing we should do is allow these terrorists to cause us to abandon our American principles."
Sestak points out some statistics for the WATB Republicans: As of December 2008, there were still approximately 250 detainees in custody. Federal courts have convicted 195 terrorists since 2001 in contrast to just three convictions by military commissions. Here's Sestak on The O'Reilly Factor trying to explain why there is nothing to fear from these trials. My suggestion for next time, Congressman, is to use smaller words. That fancy book-learning elitism is as scary to them as dem Islamofascists.
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...on every subject, he is obligated to go after everyone, all the time, on everything. The man's a genius, so he's obligated to share his perfection with the world.
Why anyone would listen to him on any subject is beyond me.
... every neighborhood bar in the world. Only most people have the sense to understand that guy is a braying know-it-all and just smile and nod and pity the dumb bastard.
like how Limbaugh is sooooooo seriously promoting 'the quitter's' book as being the "most substantiative"...book he's ever read...
(wonder what series of 'superhero' comics he's graduated from..............)
yup, the man's a real genius, he is....
Wassa WATB?
Do I need some kind of dictionary?
with this particular blogosphere idiom:
WATB = Whiny-assed Titty Babies
Mebbe that's because I ween I haven't been weaned meself.
any of those 'idioms,' acronyms, whatever - I have to do it quite often. I was weaned .....but it was a long, long time ago #:{
...is a tradition that made this country great"?
this 'person' is insane ... way to go Ned Beatty wannabe ...
Boy you gotta a purty cochlear implant, he ah heh heh heh.
Guess that means you can really see the superficial dorsal vein throbbin' then.
"..but the anger he uses to mask his blatant fear is quite stunning, and not a little Freudian."
Interestingly,it says volumes that a bit of basic Freudian psychology is all that is required to understand not only Limbaugh,but most of the Republican Party.It's all too painfully obvious in fact.
Name two things that the country can do with out - forever!!???
The Admiral and the Truth can go on about their business as normal....
Joe Sestak led this nation's fighting men and women in the war on terror. As a Coward Pus Phlemball led the neo-cons in hiding under the bed, quivering in fright at the thought of wearing a military uniform.
Heh, I like it. Mind if I plagerize it?
Help yourself. I don't mind a bit. It's a term we used on the workroom floor when "discussing" politics with the flaming rightwingers in our organization. The term would set their hair on fire.
Pus Phlemball. He feeds off the bottom of the no educations.
Does that mean he's a Felcher?
Only on vacation apparently.
So Bill believes in the JAGS. Well, a fair number of them have been outspoken opponents of Gitmo, including military commissions.
I'm a believer in JUGGS.
BillO believes in the JAG Corp and the military but not enough to actually serve when called.
I still can't believe how much rash limpballs and me look alike.
Why anyone listens to an uneducated buffoon like Rush Limbaugh baffles me.
It's very simple: Know Knothing Knation, of which Rash Limbo is King, does not believe in the American system of government.
Its citizens are frightened by it, just as they are frightened of everything they do not understand.
The idea that the president is not really a dictator, unfettered by checks and balances, who can declare war on anyone who seems like a potential threat frightens them.
The idea that even the most hardened terrorist defendants will receive a fair jury trial frightens them.
The idea that all persons are created equal frightens them.
The idea that all persons are endowed with the inalienable right to pursue their own happiness frightens them.
It's very simple: If you are a citizen of Know Knothing Knation, you do not believe in America.
Keep scaring everybody Rush. And don't stop going after guys like Congressman Sestak, because his credentials come nowhere near the credentials you have.
Congressman Sestak is the highest ranking former military officer serving in Congress (Rear Admiral). . . Naval Academy Grad . . . Masters (Harvard) . . . Ph.D. (Harvard). In other words, "a dangerous left wing radical idealogue."
Keep feeding your know-nothing, brainless blather to your scared sheep, ditto head masses.
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If he doesn't, or they like someone else better, the "pro military" party will attack his patriotism (too many to count), accuse him of collaborating with the enemy (McCain), of self-inflicting wounds to get medals and shirk further duty (Kerry), and finally, if the soldier really makes them mad, they will upend his wheelchair (Ron Kovic).
rush limpballs is not only an
enemy combatant of the USA, but
of the world. we should rendition
his ass to one of the countries he
constantly bellows against and let
them torture his ass and then convict
him of the crimes they will easily
pry from his cowards mouth.
WATB he will be from the least of
the practices against our Constitution
he accuses others of committing, but he
actually commits. limpballs would violate
all our constitutional rights to promote
his criminal agenda he clearly shouts
over the airways daily.
Were gonna have to take some time to list all the different permutations of Rush Limbaugh's name one of these daze.
There's some good ones for sure.
When they removed Flush Rimjob's pilonidal cyst, they threw the wrong bit away.
Flush Rimjob is doing Todd Palin at the moment.
"... Al Qaeda suspects --including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-- ..."
insert "ALLEGED"
[It's a quote from another source. Click the link and inform them. We'd catch all sorts of trouble for altering quotes-Sitemonitor]
confessed to 9/11. Sure, after being waterboarded 183 times in a month, but that is not torture. 210 times in a month is torture, everyone knows that. How else would C&L know of his guilt before his trial? I heard he was the mastermind of JFK's assassination, as well.
[If either one of you had looked carefully, you'd have seen that is a quote. It's in a blockquote, the link to the source is just above the quote. We print quotes as is, and assume readers will engage in due diligence and click the links. Apparently neither of you did that-Sitemonitor]
Dear Sitemonitor, I certainly 'looked carefully' and was well aware that it was a quote. And I don't doubt "ra-ra-raw" did likewise. mark
Hi Sitemonitor, I looked carefully and I knew the post was quoting, and apparently commending, the views of a man accepting the outcome of torture and the presumption of guilt before trial, without comment. In my thinking, his credibility was shot by presuming guilt, and C&L's credibility deserved to be mocked by presenting him as an expert. Raw
Nobody has explained yet why KSM was waterboarded 183 times. What exactly was the CIA looking for?
very good at staying on message and expressed himself w/o distraction. good stuff.
"Going after an admiral and counter-terrorism specialist like Joe Sestak?"
A blowhard chickenhawk who used a cyst on his ass to get out of war knows a lot more about war, counter terrorism and protecting this country than any ole admiral.
If waterboarding isn't torture than why doesn't the Lard-Ass, Limp-Dick volunteer to be waterboarded. What a BIG crybaby.
Limp-Dick and little boy chaser, is going to be wearing tent material if he keeps putting on the lard sitting on his huge ass.
According to repug policy they are required to oppose everything the President does - without exceptions.
This is sometimes easy just changing a word here and there, or inserting one or deleting one. But sometimes that does not work, so they distort, lie and just simply make up things.
In addition to presenting themselves as experts on just about everything - and then some - they get away with it
missed out on Vietnam.
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