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Im going back a step or two here, But Caseysmom and Grace are calling Limbaugh a racist when they havent read or heard his comments about a LA Times oped piece?
I may have 2 or 3 learning disabilities but something is wrong here.
ETA: Im still interested on why Limbaugh's weight is an issue?
Yes Im slow some times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Who does Rush wish would die?
I never said that all I said was that you could go out on the internet and find info about Barack the magic negro. I never said anything about his weight either, I could care less. I really can't even listen to him his style is so obnoxious to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
Even the SMART liberal commentators think it is quite stupid to go after Limbaugh...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/03/11/mercury/
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Case in point: The orchestrated attack on radio host Rush Limbaugh, which has made the White House look like an oafish bunch of drunken frat boys. I returned from carnival in Brazil (more on that shortly) to find the Limbaugh affair in full flower. Has the administration gone mad? This entire fracas was set off by the president himself, who lowered his office by targeting a private citizen by name. Limbaugh had every right to counterattack, which he did with gusto. Why have so many Democrats abandoned the hallowed principle of free speech? Limbaugh, like our own liberal culture hero Lenny Bruce, is a professional commentator who can be as rude and crude as he wants.
Yes, I cringe when Rush plays his "Barack the Magic Negro" satire or when he gratuitously racializes the debate over Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is a constant subject of withering scrutiny for quite different reasons on sports shows here in Philadelphia. On the other hand, I totally agree with Rush about "feminazis," whose amoral tactics and myopic worldview I as a dissident feminist had to battle for decades. As a student of radio and a longtime listener of Rush's show, I have gotten a wealth of pleasure and insight from him over the years. To attack Rush Limbaugh is to attack his audience -- and to intensify the loyalty of his fan base.
If Rush's presence looms too large for the political landscape, it's because of the total vacuity of the Republican leadership, which seems to be in a dithering funk. Rush isn't responsible for the feebleness of Republican voices or the thinness of Republican ideas. Only ignoramuses believe that Rush speaks for the Republican Party. On the contrary, Rush as a proponent of heartland conservatism has waged open warfare with the Washington party establishment for years.
And I'm sick of people impugning Rush's wealth and lifestyle, which is no different from that of another virtuoso broadcaster who hit it big -- Oprah Winfrey. Rush Limbaugh is an embodiment of the American dream: He slowly rose from obscurity to fame on the basis of his own talent and grit. Every penny Rush has earned was the result of his rapport with a vast audience who felt shut out and silenced by the liberal monopoly of major media. As a Democrat and Obama supporter, I certainly do not agree with everything Rush says or does. I was deeply upset, for example, by the sneering tone both Rush and Sean Hannity took on Inauguration Day, when partisan politics should have been set aside for a unifying celebration of American government and history. Nevertheless, I respect Rush for his independence of thought and his always provocative news analysis. He doesn't run with the elite -- he goes his own way.
It's not. It's a fact. If it is so bothersome to you, I will go back and delete the comment :DQuote:
Im still interested on why Limbaugh's weight is an issue?
The Chelsea Clinton comment - I saw him say it. Back in the first Clinton administration, Rush had a TV show. I was watching the day he said it. It was then that the bloom went off the rose, so to speak.
As for the Magic Negro thing - I know he didn't originate it. But he sure made sure it didn't die a natural death.
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Originally Posted by Grace
http://www.apostropher.com/blog/img/pot-kettle.jpgQuote:
He is prone to ridiculing the physical characteristics of those he dislikes on a regular basis.
One comment and picture dosent make a misogynist.Quote:
The Chelsea Clinton comment - I saw him say it. Back in the first Clinton administration, Rush had a TV show. I was watching the day he said it. It was then that the bloom went off the rose, so to speak.
And if you actually listened to his commentary you would know why he didnt let it die. It dosent make him racist.Quote:
As for the Magic Negro thing - I know he didn't originate it. But he sure made sure it didn't die a natural death.
I am not ridiculing him - simply stating the fact that he is morbidly obese. I didn't imply he looked like a dog.
As for the rest of your remarks - you have your opinion, I have mine. IMO, he is a racist and misogynist. In yours, he is not.
So be it.
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Originally Posted by Grace
I agree with you Grace. RL's thoughts on anything is worth nothing. He
is a hypocrite & a coward. Anyone over the age of 20 should know this
guy by now.:rolleyes:
And don't forget -- drug addict!Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
And yes...I did listen to his speech. It wasn't easy but I feel it is important to hear both sides of an issue. Why is he - like other of his ilk - Ann Coulter for example - so mean-spirited? So full of hate?
I'd fight to the bitter end over his right to speak his piece. It just frightens me that there are people who see him as someone to be taken seriously.
*pokes head in* I personally think cirtian "sides" would be taken less harshly if those sides wouldn't let obnoxious loudmouths sound off to the masses.
Am I pointing fingers? No, I just think that the Repubs and the Dems need WAY better PR people because what they have going on now makes them both look like arses.
:rolleyes:
Whats not suprising is people are attacking a man who can debate and discuss any topic with just note cards, but defend a man who cant make a simple statement without a telepromter. The first is called a sexist and a racist and the second is called a great orator.
Will Obama, after attacking Limbaugh, take Rush up on his offer and challenge? Obama dosent have the backbone to do so without his staff or his telepromter.
Screw it
You wouldnt have brought up his weight unless it was to ridicule him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
If he is a racist and a mysogynist you have not proven your case. Im open to your evidence.Quote:
As for the rest of your remarks - you have your opinion, I have mine. IMO, he is a racist and misogynist. In yours, he is not.
Weak.Quote:
So be it.
An admitted addict, its part of the healing proccess, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
I will not now of ever deffend Ann Coulter. I also would not compare Limbagh to Coulter, I would question why you would.Quote:
And yes...I did listen to his speech. It wasn't easy but I feel it is important to hear both sides of an issue. Why is he - like other of his ilk - Ann Coulter for example - so mean-spirited? So full of hate?
I call BS to this.Quote:
I'd fight to the bitter end over his right to speak his piece. It just frightens me that there are people who see him as someone to be taken seriously.
President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right - so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer's CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."
LOL Rush is a crazied Nazi.
And why does it frighten you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
It frightens me that there are so many people on this BB who would happily erode our liberties to be a little more "safe".
Rush is a commentator/entertainer. To give him any more clout than that is...well....silly.
Better yet, have you ever wondered why conservative radio and TV shows VASTLY outrate anything Liberals do? I'll give you a hint.... It is NOT that we are all stupid rubes, looking to people for the answer.
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Originally Posted by Marigold2
What an embarrassment that the POTUS actually takes the energy to have his staff engage in a verbal war with a private citizen. It lowers the position AND encourages Rush's fans. If anything, you help increase his reach.
But, this from you does not surprise me. Somebody who is ignorant enough to actually compare Rush Limbaugh to a Nazi. What the hell is wrong with our education system that people can actually think that somebody who is the very enbodiment of the American Dream is a Nazi? You don't have to agree with Rush, but you cannot take away his self earned success.
As ES noted: "I'd fight to the bitter end over his right to speak his piece. It just frightens me that there are people who see him as someone to be taken seriously."
RL's "followers" deserve him and each other. :rolleyes:
Yeah, loving liberty is certainly something to roll your eyes at.Quote:
Originally Posted by sasvermont
All you can do is attack his delivery, which is DESIGNED to piss people like you off. But you haven't got anything on his base message...
Individual Liberty over government control.
I too wish Rush was less caustic in his delivery. But it works for him and he has made millions doing it. Good for him.
Don't hate the player.... Hate the game. :p
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Originally Posted by Puckstop31
The enbodiment of the American Dream ????? I hope not.:rolleyes:
http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.asp
Rush "Ass Cyst" Limbaugh Attacks Vietnam Vet, Calls For Radical Change in Military Policy
Posted December 6, 2005 | 07:20 PM (EST)
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Sometimes you just have to just laugh at Rush Limbaugh. Here's a guy who dodged the Vietnam War draft by citing a cyst on his ass (no joke), and yet who accuses Vietnam War heroes essentially of treason. Today, Limbaugh's attack is on Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). You remember him – he's that guy who actually went over and served in Vietnam, while Limbaugh sat home, dropped his pants, and pointed his draft board to a cyst on his own ass in order to avoid serving his country.
Limbaugh is actually claiming that Kerry called American troops terrorists this weekend on CBS. Boy that would be real bad...if it were even close to true. So let's go to the transcript, shall we, to see if old Rush "Ass Cyst" Limbaugh is telling us the truth:
KERRY:... There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children...
Yes, that's right – Limbaugh and other right-wing outfits claim that means Kerry is calling American soldiers terrorists. Clearly he's not – he said "there is no reason" for them to be required to do that as the war intensifies. He went on to say that it is time for the Iraqis to enforce their own security.
And that begs a question: does Ass Cyst Limbaugh – the same guy who avoided combat – actually WANT American troops to start "going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children?" Because that's what he is actually endorsing. I don't know about you, but I'd bet military commanders in the field would think that's a bad idea.
Actually, we don't have to bet - we can just look at the record and see that yes, top military commanders agree with Kerry - not with Ass Cyst Limbaugh. For instance, back in 2003, the UK Guardian reported that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, head of the allied forces in Iraq, "said the US had decided to revise its strategy and limit the scope of raids after being warned they were alienating the public." He said, "It was a fact that I started to get multiple indicators that maybe our iron-fisted approach to the conduct of ops was beginning to alienate Iraqis. I started to get those sensings from multiple sources, all the way from the governing council down to average people."
Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. military was rightly questioning its own raid strategy – as Kerry alluded to – because:
"The raids turn up little and leave hard feelings among civilians who resent foreign soldiers bursting into their homes, breaking doors and gates and pointing guns at their heads. They resent these men catching their wives and daughters in their bedclothes. They resent them barking orders, telling them to get on the ground, invading their homes, emptying drawers and turning over mattresses."
So let's be clear: what Ass Cyst Limbaugh is doing is both lying about Kerry, and frontally endorsing a radical change in U.S. military policy whereby our soldiers actually do start terrorizing people. He is doing this, even as our own military says that would be a mistake.
But then, Ass Cyst Limbaugh always talks with such confidence that maybe we should we should call him Sgt. Ass Warts Limbaugh, issue him a weapon, put him in uniform, and send him over to actually implement his new house-to-house urban combat raid strategy. He seems so excited and supportive of it – and so determined to have the U.S. military commanders adopt his ideas - I'll bet he's ready to go serve his country, right?
Don't hold your breath - you can bet if we tried that, he'd simply start crying in fear, beg for mercy, and then desperately unveil his fat ass and point to it as an excuse to once again avoid actually living by his own rhetoric.
Sure he is... He came from less than wealthy roots, worked his arse off (Ok, not literally, it IS large and apparantly full of cysts...) and made something of himself. You don't have to agree with him or even like him. But you cannot deny his success.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
What, pray tell, do you think the American Dream is Liz?
Sometimes you just have to just laugh at Rush Limbaugh. Here's a guy who dodged the Vietnam War draft by citing a cyst on his ass (no joke), and yet who accuses Vietnam War heroes essentially of treason. Today, Limbaugh's attack is on Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). You remember him – he's that guy who actually went over and served in Vietnam, while Limbaugh sat home, dropped his pants, and pointed his draft board to a cyst on his own ass in order to avoid serving his country.
LOL, did he really? LOL LOL it's so Rush. I can't stop laughing. I happen to think that Rush is the best thing that ever happened to the Dems, open mouth in Rushes cyst.. LOL :D:D
Do you mean Mr Kerry the admitted war criminal? The same Mr Kerry that threw another Vet's medals away?
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Originally Posted by Marigold2
Check it out. http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.asp
Truth is stranger than fiction.:)
Thanks Liz for that mental picture...blech!
Yet it seems ES and others support those who support the Fairness Docrine.Quote:
Originally Posted by sasvermont