The Rush Limbaugh Thread

[Wylie Times]

Also ironic is that according to Limbaugh, everyone else is a racist.

Here's a funny column that outlines of Rush's "You're Racist!!!" allegations.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...rush-the-race-baiter/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1

Obama the Halfrican American is a racist. Sotenmeyer is a racist. The NFL is racist. Liberals are racist. That guy who got arrested in his home is a racist. The media's racist. This makes him different than the Jesse Jacksons how exactly?

"It is also understandable that a professional sports league wouldn't want to associate itself with someone who so frequently plays the race card. That doesn't mean Mr. Limbaugh is a racist. I take him at his word that he isn't."

To me that's just stupid. How often does someone who is racist come right out and say it? I've seen Klan members deny being racists.

 

[Marx]

"It is also understandable that a professional sports league wouldn't want to associate itself with someone who so frequently plays the race card. That doesn't mean Mr. Limbaugh is a racist. I take him at his word that he isn't."

To me that's just stupid. How often does someone who is racist come right out and say it? I've seen Klan members deny being racists.

That's because those people believe that there is nothing wrong with their views.

 

[The Overlord]

He just lost nearly 100 pounds. He's been talking about it for months.

I have seen recent pictures, he seemed to have gained it back.

 

[DreamScape]

Yeah, Fox especially. Rush doesn't need NFL, but Fox does need the NFL demographics for their rating and market share. If Fox pushes this too far, NFL may not want to renew their contract when it is up for extension.

Wow, I've never seen such a poor understanding of how business works than those who would claim that Fox is somehow wholly reliant on the NFL. Remember - Fox is the media and the NFL is not. They have a symbiotic relationship, but if the NFL wants to be stupid enough to pull its presence from Fox, so be it. It will result only in diminished returns to them, not Fox. Fox's viewership is not built around the NFL...

 

[Nivek]

He just lost nearly 100 pounds. He's been talking about it for months.

The guys up and down, but he isn't that skinny right now. Just a couple months ago he was doing that jumping up and down Cartman thing on stage in that black suit.

 

[The Overlord]

Wow, I've never seen such a poor understanding of how business works than those who would claim that Fox is somehow wholly reliant on the NFL. Remember - Fox is the media and the NFL is not. They have a symbiotic relationship, but if the NFL wants to be stupid enough to pull its presence from Fox, so be it. It will result only in diminished returns to them, not Fox. Fox's viewership is not built around the NFL...

How will it hurt the NFL to move to ABC or CBS? Seems like the NFL moving away would be a bigger blow to Fox, rather then the NFL.

 

[Nivek]

How will it hurt the NFL to move to ABC or CBS? Seems like the NFL moving away would be a bigger blow to Fox, rather then the NFL.

No kidding, I don't know much about sports, but Fox should kiss the NFL's ass, given they make alot of revenue off them. The NFL can make any Network a fortune. Not vice versa.

 

[Wylie Times]

That's because those people believe that there is nothing wrong with their views.

which is why it's silly to take peoples like that word that they're not racist.

I agree that the words racist and homophobic are thrown around WAY too much, but some people go to the other extreme of needing videotaped evidence of someone on camera saying a slur 15 times in a 2 minute span while committing a hate crime before they might even consider calling someone a racist or a homophobe.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yeah, Fox especially. Rush doesn't need NFL, but Fox does need the NFL demographics for their rating and market share. If Fox pushes this too far, NFL may not want to renew their contract when it is up for extension.

This is true. If it wasn't for the NFL, there would be no Fox Network and therefore no Fox News. The NFL pretty much saved the Fox Network from extinction.

 

[Nivek]

I agree that the words racist and homophobic are thrown around WAY too much, but some people go to the other extreme of needing videotaped evidence of someone on camera saying a slur 15 times in a 2 minute span while committing a hate crime before they might even consider calling someone a racist or a homophobes.

It is a popular distractionary tactic. I think that is why sites like Media Matters have 28 quotes with audio clips, and sites like Snopes note that where there is no proof of the James Earl Ray comment, there are plenty more racist comments on record.

 

[Varient]

I'll take what John Wayne said when JFK became president: I didn't vote for him but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job

Filed under: Things people ignore when they don't get their way,...

 

[Bathead]

Filed under: Things people ignore when they don't get their way,...

Funny thing when compared to today's Republicans, John Wayne now looks like a moderate.t:

 

[SuBe]

Compared to Today's Democrats, JFK was a Republican.

 

[Varient]

ouch.

 

[Marx]

LIMBAUGH QUESTIONS IF OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS CARE ABOUT AMERICA
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...stions-if-obama-democrats-care-about-america/

Stay classy Rush.

 

[Addendum]

In other comments, Limbaugh called Obama "immature," "a child," "narcissistic" and "over his head."

Pot meet Kettle. Have a good laugh, throw back a couple drinks, make a great dinner. Enjoy the party.

 

[voyzovrezon]

When does a political joke become sedition? Rush Limbaugh is calling for a military coup, and the joke, if it is a joke, is not funny. Rush, speaking about President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point, expressed hope that military officials at the Academy would "detain" President Obama.

Regardless of one's politics, to suggest that military officials at the United States Military Academy detain the President of the United States is to suggest a military coup. Such a suggestion is sedition. Limbaugh is advocating military insurrection.

read more here

 

[Bunker]

Can't the feds arrest him now?

 

[StorminNorman]

 

[Marx]

read more here

Wow...

 

[The Overlord]

So wait Rush said it was UnAmerican to criticize the President when Bush was the President and said the protests against Bush were unAmerican.

Now that Obama is president protesters are patriots and its okay to have a military coup against the President.

How is this man not a total hypocrite? Hell you can tell me if there is anything likable about him? It seems like he has these rues that he applies to everyone but himself, stuff like personal responsibility to everyone but himself. How is he not a scum bag?

 

[Marx]

Got to love partisan politics.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I guess we're supposed to call him Un-Patriotic and Un-American, right?

Isn't that how Republicans did it?

 

[Marx]

...by Limbaugh's own definition during the Bush years...yeah I'd say that he meets his own criteria for 'unpatriotic' and 'unamerican' now.

 

[voyzovrezon]

Limbaugh had a "firing of the neurons in his exceptional, unique brain." What's the real reason for the healthcare reform bill? The democrats want to "ration the care of old people" because, like Chairman Mao and Stalin, they want to take out people who have a "cultural memory." In other words, those who supported Reagan.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912030026