The Rush Limbaugh Thread

[Kelly]

Most of the people in office are attorneys by trade...one of the most disgusting and sleazy jobs there is. And the people who work for the parties and help out on campaigns are, in my opinion, dupes who are wasting their time with a country that is dying and a process that is hopelessly corrupt and basically evil. Politics is for *******s and that's what it makes people who take part in it into-*******s. Politics and government itself is a necessary evil at best, and people in politics make me sick. All of them.

One thing my mom taught me a long time ago was, if you see a problem, and all you do is B***h about it...and you take no steps to try and be a part of the solution. If you are not passionate enough of a person to try and be a part of the solution, then you have absolutely no right to say a word. But, if you try and be a part of the solution, and you make a difference, then you have done a great thing. If you try and be a part of the solution, but it just wasn't enough, you can take pride in the fact that you didn't sit by and do nothing but run your mouth. She saw people that just griped about something, and never did anything as the people on the street corner shouting about hell and damnation, yet never held out a hand to the man beside them going hungry. That man dies, and the person yelling is still yelling and nothing is changing. Had he just stopped for a moment, and helped one person...a life could have been changed.

People that only b***h become the boy who cried wolf, and people stop listening, and people stop caring about what they have to say, and they live their lives as people that could have been __________________, done ________________________, but end up living lives that are as empty as those blanks.

She was the smartest woman I've ever known, and probably will ever know. Its a lesson that totally changed my life, I'm glad she thought it important enough to make sure I learned it. My voice isn't always heard, my solutions are not always used, sometimes I'm ignored...but I have just as much to show because of my voice, and my desire to make changes...and it makes for a very content and happy life. I've worked campaigns, I've been energized by some and disappointed by others...but if our forefathers lived by the creed that...once they were disappointed they STOPPED....we would have been screwed.

 

[Wylie Times]

I think that is an example, but I think there are others that are FAR MORE HYPOCRITICAL than this....what I see as the hypocrisy at its worst are those that were quiet about Lott's remarks, and are now crying about Reid's....and in my opinion, THE BIGGEST AND MOST GLARING, AND YET THE MEDIA HAS SAID NOTHING was when some asked for Ferraro's head on a platter with her comments on Obama, including Obama's comments on that subject, yet have no problem with Reid's. Makes me want to throw up.

While I agree It has to be pointed out that all of the comments made by those people were by no means the same.

Reid's comment is a worst a poof choice of words. There's truth in what he said but the usage of the word negro put a bullseye on him.

Ferraro's comments was another case of poor choice of words and her being too stubborn to say that she worded things incorrectly.

Lott's comments at best could be seen as incredibly insensitive and at worst mildly racist. Though I don't think the democrats should have asked for his resignation.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

Personally, I'm right there with CelicPred about the guy. I can honestly say that I hate Rush.

+1. I've always said it'll be a great day for America when Limbaugh dies. After hearing him politicize the tragedy in Haiti today it just reinforces that feeling. When he's finally gone I'll have a big smile on my face.

 

[Kurosawa]

One thing my mom taught me a long time ago was, if you see a problem, and all you do is B***h about it...and you take no steps to try and be a part of the solution. If you are not passionate enough of a person to try and be a part of the solution, then you have absolutely no right to say a word. But, if you try and be a part of the solution, and you make a difference, then you have done a great thing. If you try and be a part of the solution, but it just wasn't enough, you can take pride in the fact that you didn't sit by and do nothing but run your mouth. She saw people that just griped about something, and never did anything as the people on the street corner shouting about hell and damnation, yet never held out a hand to the man beside them going hungry. That man dies, and the person yelling is still yelling and nothing is changing. Had he just stopped for a moment, and helped one person...a life could have been changed.

People that only b***h become the boy who cried wolf, and people stop listening, and people stop caring about what they have to say, and they live their lives as people that could have been __________________, done ________________________, but end up living lives that are as empty as those blanks.

She was the smartest woman I've ever known, and probably will ever know. Its a lesson that totally changed my life, I'm glad she thought it important enough to make sure I learned it. My voice isn't always heard, my solutions are not always used, sometimes I'm ignored...but I have just as much to show because of my voice, and my desire to make changes...and it makes for a very content and happy life. I've worked campaigns, I've been energized by some and disappointed by others...but if our forefathers lived by the creed that...once they were disappointed they STOPPED....we would have been screwed.

Yeah, my mother believed and believes all that stuff too. Maybe it worked for their generation, but this is now an American with two groups that HATE one another with a passion and are more concerned with seeing the other side fail than America win. Obama will be a 4 and out failure, and the Republican that wins will meet massive liberal hatred and they will fail too. Each side even has their own hate channel now. Instead of the center controlling the country, the center is now controlled by the extremes of the left and right as they smash the other side as hard as they can. This is a dead country with no future. Go look at some slideshows of Detroit because that is America's future. We are ****ed and there is no hope. This nation is the Titanic.

Political control goes to the highest bidder, and no one else. If you're George Soros and you throw your money behind some smooth talking puss then you can make a difference; if you're joe schomo not so much, IMO. Our country is bought and paid for and that's never going to change until it collapses. The founding fathers had good intentions, this was a good try, but ultimately it was a failure. Nice know you world, meet your new leader: Communist China.

 

[Paradoxium]

Maybe the new master Commy China can have awesome bloody tournaments between companies who are corporatist ****es, against Politicians and the civil service in epic bloody duals.

No gloves.

Eye gauging allowed.

Winner gets to keep their pension.

 

[Kurosawa]

Maybe the new master Commy China can have awesome bloody tournaments between companies who are corporatist ****es, against Politicians and the civil service in epic bloody duals.

No gloves.

Eye gauging allowed.

Winner gets to keep their pension.

Whatever they do it's gonna be a sucky world getting even worse.

 

[Paradoxium]

One thing my mom taught me a long time ago was, if you see a problem, and all you do is B***h about it...and you take no steps to try and be a part of the solution. If you are not passionate enough of a person to try and be a part of the solution, then you have absolutely no right to say a word. But, if you try and be a part of the solution, and you make a difference, then you have done a great thing. If you try and be a part of the solution, but it just wasn't enough, you can take pride in the fact that you didn't sit by and do nothing but run your mouth. She saw people that just griped about something, and never did anything as the people on the street corner shouting about hell and damnation, yet never held out a hand to the man beside them going hungry. That man dies, and the person yelling is still yelling and nothing is changing. Had he just stopped for a moment, and helped one person...a life could have been changed.

People that only b***h become the boy who cried wolf, and people stop listening, and people stop caring about what they have to say, and they live their lives as people that could have been __________________, done ________________________, but end up living lives that are as empty as those blanks.

She was the smartest woman I've ever known, and probably will ever know. Its a lesson that totally changed my life, I'm glad she thought it important enough to make sure I learned it. My voice isn't always heard, my solutions are not always used, sometimes I'm ignored...but I have just as much to show because of my voice, and my desire to make changes...and it makes for a very content and happy life. I've worked campaigns, I've been energized by some and disappointed by others...but if our forefathers lived by the creed that...once they were disappointed they STOPPED....we would have been screwed.

I understand your angle. What your mom is saying. And it makes a lot of sense - action means more. I just don't think this current course of action is correct.

I just don't think employing Progressive tactics or "activism" is a great strategy. It doesn't click. I just don't feel comfortable playing their games against them. It's like in martial arts, why the hell do you want to out-strike a striking specialist? You develop your evasions and takedowns instead and employ grappling. The reverse is also true. This is how the Gracies shot to fame. Now every mixed martial artist needs a balanced game. So it's not some fictional impractical abstract concept.

It also makes no sense to give your opponent a target to zone in on, and activism gives them a target. You are better off doing things when their guard is down. It's like a virus, you don't want to stimulate their immune system.

Just think about it carefully. Don't mind the Yoda-moment... but you won't find a lot of hate in the absence of fear, this seldom occurs. This is the fuel for all movements, i.e. the progressives. This is their fulcrum, their weakness. Why give them fuel, why let them gel? It makes no sense.

Or I am overthinking.

 

[CelticPredator]

+1. I've always said it'll be a great day for America when Limbaugh dies. After hearing him politicize the tragedy in Haiti today it just reinforces that feeling. When he's finally gone I'll have a big smile on my face.

for the record, I didnt say anything about him dying. t:

 

[Kurosawa]

I understand your angle. What your mom is saying. And it makes a lot of sense - action means more. I just don't think this current course of action is correct.

I just don't think employing Progressive tactics or "activism" is a great strategy. It doesn't click. I just don't feel comfortable playing their games against them. It's like in martial arts, why the hell do you want to out-strike a striking specialist? You develop your evasions and takedowns instead and employ grappling. The reverse is also true. This is how the Gracies shot to fame. Now every mixed martial artist needs a balanced game. So it's not some fictional impractical abstract concept.

It also makes no sense to give your opponent a target to zone in on, and activism gives them a target. You are better off doing things when their guard is down. It's like a virus, you don't want to stimulate their immune system.

Just think about it carefully. Don't mind the Yoda-moment... but you won't find a lot of hate in the absence of fear, this seldom occurs. This is the fuel for all movements, i.e. the progressives. This is their fulcrum, their weakness. Why give them fuel, why let them gel? It makes no sense.

Or I am overthinking.

Sounds like more of the same-the idea of seeing progressives as the enemy if you are conservative, or vice versa. Getting rid of those labels and those institutions would be the first thing that could save America. We are stuck with two groups of liberals and conservatives whose main mission is to beat the other side is why this country is dying a slow death. Neither side puts the nation first, ever. It's Dem/Rep first American >>>>>>> who knows where being an American ranks.

If WWII broke out now we would get raped while we bickered over it. Our country is just dead.

 

[Paradoxium]

The difference between the two is progressives actually win as far as activism goes. As long as they have some focus to hate on. The reactionaries trying to do mimic the same thing will almost always fail.

Name me three reactionary/conservative insurgencies that were actually successful in the world?

 

[Kurosawa]

The difference between the two is progressives actually win as far as activism goes. As long as they have some focus to hate on. The reactionaries trying to do mimic the same thing will almost always fail.

Name me three reactionary/conservative insurgencies that were actually successful in the world?

I guess that's according to how you want to define conservative and liberal and where you decide to place various fascist states within those confines.

 

[Tally Man]

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/OPINION/100119985

I stumbled on this checking out some movie reviews of all things and felt it was more than worth a post here.. I tend to think Ebert is right on the money with his assessment of the type of news casting/commentary people like Limbaugh do.

 

[Oddzball]

Way to go Mr. Ebert!

 

[Oddzball]

Limbaugh's comments weren't as bad as Reid's - though you are correct that Limbaugh could call Obama a n***** and they would still find Reid's more offensive.

How so? Reid's comments were on teh political strengths Obama had in the election. Observations by an obama supporter about obam to what he thought were private conversations.

Absolutely NO malice in those comments.

Limbaugh's comments were intentionally insulting -- HELL by stating openly that money sent via the White House would NOT go where it was said to be going, he's accused the President of the crime of wire fraud.

That's slander unless he can back that claim up.

Malice? Yep.

 

[Nivek]

Way to go Mr. Ebert!

No kidding, but he is just another voice in the crowd.

 

[StorminNorman]

How so? Reid's comments were on teh political strengths Obama had in the election. Observations by an obama supporter about obam to what he thought were private conversations.

Absolutely NO malice in those comments.

So one of Obama's strengths was not having a "negro dialect"? His strength was that he wasn't "too black"?

Also, are you still an Obama supported?

Limbaugh's comments were intentionally insulting

Yes, Limbaugh's comments were carefully crafted to optimal controversial impact - but the context did not display any racist thoughts by Limbaugh, but implying racist thoughts of Kennedy.

-- HELL by stating openly that money sent via the White House would NOT go where it was said to be going, he's accused the President of the crime of wire fraud.

That's slander unless he can back that claim up.

Malice? Yep.

He never said your money isn't going to Haiti. He did say your name would end up on a mailing list. And it almost certainly would.

 

[Wylie Times]

So one of Obama's strengths was not having a "negro dialect"? His strength was that he wasn't "too black"?

Why did you put too black in quotations as if that's an actual quote?

Reid was basically talking about Obama's viability as a canidate and just choose his words poorly. If he had said "black slang" instead of "negro dialect" we probably wouldn't be hearing about this. Is that any different that the republican party playing up the fact that Bush was able to speak bad spanish?

He never said your money isn't going to Haiti. He did say your name would end up on a mailing list. And it almost certainly would.

He never flat out stated it but he damn sure implied it with his question.

 

[Kurosawa]

http://www.myfoxmaine.com/dpps/news/dpgo-rush-limbaugh-haiti-comments-draw-ire-fc-20100115_5591394

This subhuman piece of excrement is worth $400 MILLION.

 

[The Overlord]

I understand your angle. What your mom is saying. And it makes a lot of sense - action means more. I just don't think this current course of action is correct.

I just don't think employing Progressive tactics or "activism" is a great strategy. It doesn't click. I just don't feel comfortable playing their games against them. It's like in martial arts, why the hell do you want to out-strike a striking specialist? You develop your evasions and takedowns instead and employ grappling. The reverse is also true. This is how the Gracies shot to fame. Now every mixed martial artist needs a balanced game. So it's not some fictional impractical abstract concept.

It also makes no sense to give your opponent a target to zone in on, and activism gives them a target. You are better off doing things when their guard is down. It's like a virus, you don't want to stimulate their immune system.

Just think about it carefully. Don't mind the Yoda-moment... but you won't find a lot of hate in the absence of fear, this seldom occurs. This is the fuel for all movements, i.e. the progressives. This is their fulcrum, their weakness. Why give them fuel, why let them gel? It makes no sense.

Or I am overthinking.

So protesting is bad no matter what? So do you think it was wrong for MLK to organize protests against the Jim Crow laws?

So one of Obama's strengths was not having a "negro dialect"? His strength was that he wasn't "too black"?

Also, are you still an Obama supported?

Do two wrongs make a right now?

Yes, Limbaugh's comments were carefully crafted to optimal controversial impact - but the context did not display any racist thoughts by Limbaugh, but implying racist thoughts of Kennedy.

So he was just race baiting, instead of being a racist? That's so much better. What are Rush's positive aspects again?

Rush is essentially using this tragic event that killed thousands of people just make shocking statements in order to get ratings, he is essentially making light of this of whole thing. That is psychopathic behavior. Rush is an awful person.

He never said your money isn't going to Haiti. He did say your name would end up on a mailing list. And it almost certainly would.

You do know what innuendo is, right?

 

[StorminNorman]

Why did you put too black in quotations as if that's an actual quote?

Reid was basically talking about Obama's viability as a canidate and just choose his words poorly. If he had said "black slang" instead of "negro dialect" we probably wouldn't be hearing about this. Is that any different that the republican party playing up the fact that Bush was able to speak bad spanish?

I think there is a difference in commenting that Obama is a good candidate because he doesn't sound like a negro and commenting that Bush happens to speak spanish like your average Jose.

He never flat out stated it but he damn sure implied it with his question.

Of course he did. But I wouldn't trust Obama's government in giving my contribution to Haiti either.

http://www.myfoxmaine.com/dpps/news/dpgo-rush-limbaugh-haiti-comments-draw-ire-fc-20100115_5591394

This subhuman piece of excrement is worth $400 MILLION.

I actually agree with Rush's comments here 100%

Obama WILL try to use Haiti to help him with minorities. Obama will use this to try to make himself seen as a humanitarian. This administration DOES see every crisis as a chance for their political gain. To quote Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

He is also right that every American that pays income taxes have already contributed to Haiti relief.

Rush has made some stupid comments in the past, but he is correct on the content of these comments. The question is, obviously, whether they are needed during this time - but that's what Rush is paid to do, to ask those questions of Democrats during times of crisis.

 

[StorminNorman]

Do two wrongs make a right now?

Where is the second wrong?

So he was just race baiting, instead of being a racist? That's so much better. What are Rush's positive aspects again?

No, he wasn't race baiting - he was KENNEDY baiting. If I make a joke about Colonel Sanders being racist - does that mean I am being racist? No. It means I am joking about Colonel Sanders being racist. This was a joke about KENNEDY being racist.

Rush is essentially using this tragic event that killed thousands of people just make shocking statements in order to get ratings, he is essentially making light of this of whole thing. That is psychopathic behavior. Rush is an awful person.

It's not about ratings. At this point Rush doesn't do anything to improve his ratings. Rush is simply criticizing the administration - whether it's criticizing their handling of an American crisis (the economy, terrorist, etc.) or criticizing a Haitian crisis. It's what he does.

You do know what innuendo is, right?

Isn't it a Spanish television station?

 

[Kurosawa]

I think there is a difference in commenting that Obama is a good candidate because he doesn't sound like a negro and commenting that Bush happens to speak spanish like your average Jose.



Of course he did. But I wouldn't trust Obama's government in giving my contribution to Haiti either.



I actually agree with Rush's comments here 100%

Obama WILL try to use Haiti to help him with minorities. Obama will use this to try to make himself seen as a humanitarian. This administration DOES see every crisis as a chance for their political gain. To quote Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

He is also right that every American that pays income taxes have already contributed to Haiti relief.

Rush has made some stupid comments in the past, but he is correct on the content of these comments. The question is, obviously, whether they are needed during this time - but that's what Rush is paid to do, to ask those questions of Democrats during times of crisis.

Rush's comments here just prove further that the best way to be successful in the world is to be the biggest piece of **** you can be. I mean, I get it-slamming the left and doing everything you can to support his side is how he got so rich, and I know that him and his counterparts on the left have made a great life while tearing the country apart, basically destroying what was left of America...but with 50,000+ people dead, he couldn't dial the hate back for just a few minutes?

I'm glad there is a hell and I'm glad this piece of **** is going there.

 

[That-Guy]

Rush's comments here just prove further that they best way to be successful in the world is to be the biggest piece of **** you can be. I mean, I get it-slamming the left and doing everything you can to support his side is how he got so rich, and I know that him and his counterparts on the left have made a great life while tearing the country apart, basically destroying what was left of America...but with 50,000+ people dead, he couldn't dial the hate back for just a few minutes?

I'm glad there is a hell and I'm glad this piece of **** is going there.

Agreed. I wish the f**ker would have died when he had that heart attack. I'm not kidding.

 

[Kurosawa]

Agreed. I wish the f**ker would have died when he had that heart attack. I'm not kidding.

He'll get what's coming to him if not in this world than in the next. I do believe that.

 

[That-Guy]

As do I.