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Limbaugh Slams Arizona “Pep Rally” And “Slobbering” Fox News “All-Stars”

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Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves and wasn’t so eager to echo the overwhelming praise of President Obama‘s memorial speech last night. Not only was he shocked by the “pep rally” tone of the crowd (something that also troubled CBS’ Mark Knoller during today’s press conference with Robert Gibbs), but he also had some complaints about what was said, the timing of the ceremony and the media reaction to it.

Limbaugh first doubted the wisdom of having Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (who Limbaugh affectionately refers to as “Big Sis”) and Attorney General Eric Holder quoting from the Bible, saying:

“Two members of the regime quoting the Bible . . . and I’m thinking, this is not going to play well with the Democrat base. Of course the Muslim brothers might be scratching their heads over that.”

From there, Limbaugh surprisingly turned his attention to the Fox News all-star panel, and claimed that in their review of the President’s speech, they were “slobbering” all over him with praise:

“They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons. It was smart, it was articulate, it was oratorical. It was, it was all the things the educated, ruling class wants their members to be and sound like.”

Wow, conservative on conservative violence alert! Fox News “all-stars” Charles Krauthammer, Chris Wallace, and Brit Hume are certainly all educated, but did Rush just dismissively suggest that these three are also part of a “ruling class” alongside Obama?

Most controversially though, in case you weren’t satisfied so far, Limbaugh wondered aloud why the Obama administration waited a few days to have the memorial, arguing that it could have, and should have held the memorial earlier in the week. Instead Limbaugh theorized Obama waited until the polling data about the tragedy could be collected. And given that polling data demonstrated Americans don’t associate political rhetoric with the shooting, he was able to give the speech that he did last night. And for his final act, Limbaugh joked, “plus they needed time to print those T-shirts,” which were handed out to attendees and read “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America.”

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  • ROCKSTEADY

    And none of you see just where part of the trouble is comming from?Just very sad,nice way to HONOR all involved.What a good Christian, Palrotic UnAMERICAN we have here.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    Patriotic* sorry i was upset

  • SuperChuñdy

    Yeah! Rush Limbaugh is right: Charles Krauthammer, Chris Wallace, and Brit Hume are on Team Obama. That totally makes sense.

    Rush D.I.A.F. (figuratively, of course).

  • cjd ohio 1

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    And none of you see just where part of the trouble is comming from?Just very sad,nice way to HONOR all involved.What a good Christian, Palrotic UnAMERICAN we have here.

    rush is a fool….. yes i see where part of the trouble is coming from, do you see it on the left?

  • BlackWidow

    Rocksteady maybe our expectations are just unrealistic?????

  • BlackWidow

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    rush is a fool….. yes i see where part of the trouble is coming from, do you see it on the left?

    Yes, I have and always have seen it on the left. I have to give you credit for admitting to this. Great first stwep is to identify the problem and only put the blame where it belongs.

  • Hugo Daun

    The EIB (egocentric impotent blimp) continues his appeal for attention.

    Poor little slimeball!

  • cjd ohio 1

    BlackWidow said:
    Yes, I have and always have seen it on the left. I have to give you credit for admitting to this. Great first stwep is to identify the problem and only put the blame where it belongs.

    rush, hannity, savage, matthews, schultz, olbermann are all partisan hacks, it is easy to see

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Tyler/100001071466947 Steven Tyler

    Is it fair to say that The Real Royal King is the most consistantly despised (thumbs down) perspective on Mediaite?

  • ROCKSTEADY

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    rush is a fool….. yes i see where part of the trouble is coming from, do you see it on the left?

    Yes I think everyone has to remeber We all Are Americans and should do what we can to make OUR Country better for Everyone.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    This appears to be breaking Reagan’s 11th Commandment. Why are some of these guys so loath to talk about the tragedy so ready to practice spin control? Need everything be a partisan battle?

  • Truth

    Consider the source of these comments and yes the liberal media can be just as bad. This has got to stop.

  • greg454

    “Yeah! Rush Limbaugh is right: Charles Krauthammer, Chris Wallace, and Brit Hume are on Team Obama. That totally makes sense. ”

    —Yeah, and sometimes they are WRONG. Of course it was a pep rally, everything with Obama is a pep rally. I’m surprised der fuhrer doesn’t carry pompoms since he’s such a cheerleader.

    By the way, can anyone explain why did der kommandant order the printing of those “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” t-shirts? I don’t remember GWB ordering 9/11 T-shirts for the crowd that heard him speak at ground zero. Gee, I guess GWB was a lot smarter than our messiah from Haaaaaaavaaaad.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/rat-smoking-neighbor-and-pocket-560.html

  • Latin2

    The difference in Memorials;

    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/13/video-flashback-yes-some-college-students-do-know-how-to-act-at-a-massacre-memorial/

    My background:

    I was in the audience in Cassel Coliseum on April 17, 2007. I heard President Bush speak after a crazy b@st@rd (Seung-Hui Cho) shot up my college.

    In a few days I would bury a man whom I had last seen when he came up to me the week earlier to congratulate me on my baptism and entry into the Catholic Church over Easter Weekend. It would be my first military funeral, but not my last.

    His name was Matthew Joseph La Porte.

    I was a sophomore member of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC). Several of my friends and the woman I love most dearly were supposed to be in Norris Hall. Thankfully none of them were due to being late, ill, or simply choosing to skip classes. I was sequestered in the Pamplin College of Business building during the attack.

    President Bush spoke for barely 10 minutes if that. He was solemn, dignified and respectful-although the microphone that broadcast into the rest of the coliseum was barely working and we could barely hear and understand him as a result-we got the point he made.

    President Obama’s disgusting attempt at what appears to be a political rally in the wake of a similar massacre is beyond reprehensible.

    Joshua sends a video reminder that there are young people — taking their cue from solemn adults — who know how to act appropriately at a college campus memorial for victims of mass murder. Flashback:

  • Latin2

    PLUS some at the “memorial” actually BOOED the governor of Arizona.

  • SuperChuñdy

    greg454 said:
    By the way, can anyone explain why did der kommandant order the printing of those “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” t-shirts? I don’t remember GWB ordering 9/11 T-shirts for the crowd that heard him speak at ground zero. Gee, I guess GWB was a lot smarter than our messiah from Haaaaaaavaaaad.

    Maybe because “der Obama” didn’t.

    From that über -liberal Michelle Malkin: “Update: As noted above, the University of Arizona announced the Together We Thrive event — and a few readers write in to say that the campus initiated the logo/campaign. Given U of A president Robert Shelton’s embarrassing, thinly-veiled partisan cheerleading for Obama tonight, it may indeed be a 100 percent-campus-initiated campaign.”

    Wow! But please do keep spreading that lie,it reveals how blinded by partisanship you are; it’s very becoming, douche bag.

    Also, GWB, Giuliani, or the GOP didn’t need t-shirts when they invoked 9/11as a justification for everything; except, of course, when it came to providing the first responders health insurance and other benefits.

  • Latin2

    Latina GOES ON A RACIST tirade on NPR, happy the shooter had a “GRINGO” last name;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLPkzgl3uo&feature=player_embedded#!

  • Stratdude

    What a fine example of an uneducated, racist, draft dodging, junkie piece of anti-American tea bagging scum, as are his white trash listeners and the corporate enablers who pay this pig.

  • Dsiscokid

    Stratdude – Way to be “above the fray”

  • Dsiscokid

    I disagree with him about the Fox panel. I did find it odd that Napolitano and Holder would quote Scripture. I’ve been told my whole life about this “separation of church and state” within the Constitution. Didn’t someone read that part the other day in the House of Representatives? Thoughts?

  • VoiceofReason

    SuperChuñdy said:
    Maybe because “der Obama” didn’t. From that über -liberal Michelle Malkin: “Update: As noted above, the University of Arizona announced the Together We Thrive event — and a few readers write in to say that the campus initiated the logo/campaign. Given U of A president Robert Shelton’s embarrassing, thinly-veiled partisan cheerleading for Obama tonight, it may indeed be a 100 percent-campus-initiated campaign.” Wow! But please do keep spreading that lie,it reveals how blinded by partisanship you are; it’s very becoming, douche bag. Also, GWB, Giuliani, or the GOP didn’t need t-shirts when they invoked 9/11as a justification for everything; except, of course, when it came to providing the first responders health insurance and other benefits.

    Won’t you be embarrassed when the links to Big sis and the O team and this college prez are exposed?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    BlackWidow says:
    Rocksteady maybe our expectations are just unrealistic?????

    Please, BOX of ROX says Palin deserves the death threats she is getting.

  • screwauger

    Stratdude said:
    What a fine example of an uneducated, racist, draft dodging, junkie piece of anti-American tea bagging scum, as are his white trash listeners and the corporate enablers who pay this pig.

    and F U too.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Rush was making some GREAT points today that I would love to get some opinions on from some libs. Obama has asked us for civility. So Rox, KIng, BFD, I ask you, :

    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of being a racist when you are not?
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of murder when you are not!
    What is the civil response to someone who says you want old people do die?
    What is the civil response to someone who asks if you spouse that died of cancer, was actually driven to suicide by you:
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of saying vile things that you did not say?

    I’m quite anxious for your opinions on this.

  • SmartAlec

    Gimme an “O”
    Gimme a “B”
    Gimme an “A”
    Gimme an “M”
    Gimme another “A”
    Whaddya’ got??
    ______________ ?

  • redleaf

    Rush’s job is to take whatever a liberal does, create some rationale for hating it and then communicate that to his listeners.

    Rush’s job is not to say, “there were some uplifting things about the speech. He did a very good job at A, B and C. However, here’s where he failed.”

    Rush’s job is to say “here’s where he failed.”

    This is what he gets paid to do. Obama’s speech was universally hailed, so Rush had to go into overdrive to find an opening, an angle, some way to criticize it without being asked about the speech on the merits.

    And so it goes…ignore the issue, find and angle of criticism, whether germane or not, and then watch his listeners lap it up.

  • RichS

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    Palrotic

    Can we do so if we are thinking unObama thoughts? (Guess which movie I’m paraphrasing)

  • greg454

    “Rush’s job is to take whatever a liberal does, create some rationale for hating it and then communicate that to his listeners.”

    —-Nonsense, Rush is a CONSERVATIVE, and Obama is the product of Marxism and Socialism. Getting Rush to like Obama is like getting Malcom X to like white people, ain’t happening.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Rush was making some GREAT points today that I would love to get some opinions on from some libs. Obama has asked us for civility. So Rox, KIng, BFD, I ask you, :

    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of being a racist when you are not?
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of murder when you are not!
    What is the civil response to someone who says you want old people do die?
    What is the civil response to someone who asks if you spouse that died of cancer, was actually driven to suicide by you:
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of saying vile things that you did not say?

    I’m quite anxious for your opinions on this.

    heres your answer…….limpy is the most vile, racist,demogouging, insensitive, give a damn about nobodies life but his own, pieces of fat disgusting dog shit on the planet, who has his balls resting on your chin, for you to have the audacity to come on here and claim he percieved wrong makes you a damn fool, just change your nic to Seeing 2012 From A Rubber Room…..dumbass wingnut

  • juan

    That Obama MEmorial was totally PATHETIC!

    If the Arizona University students decided to use the T-Shirts at their Obama PEP Rally, then an ADULT should have advised them it would be a Big Mistake.

    “Together We Thrive” is probably Obama’s new campaign slogan replacing “Hope and Change.”

    Since Hope and Change became Hoax and Chains, Together We Thrive will become Togeter We Drive right off the cliff.

  • juan

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    heres your answer…….limpy is the most vile, racist,demogouging, insensitive, give a damn about nobodies life but his own, pieces of fat disgusting dog shit on the planet, who has his balls resting on your chin, for you to have the audacity to come on here and claim he percieved wrong makes you a damn fool, just change your nic to Seeing 2012 From A Rubber Room…..dumbass wingnut

    You, Obama, and his Agenda have been “Shellacked!” HeeHee

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Iris, you asking for civility is really rich considering some of the things you’ve said to me. NO ONE thinks you have it in you to be civil, so don’t even bother. Even you libs buddies have had to call you out on your hate.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    This is classic Limbaugh

    “They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons. It was smart, it was articulate, it was oratorical. It was, it was all the things the educated, ruling class wants their members to be and sound like.”

    It was also everything that Rush Limbaugh fears because his audience is made up of people who lack those very qualities.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    greg454 said:
    “Rush’s job is to take whatever a liberal does, create some rationale for hating it and then communicate that to his listeners.”

    —-Nonsense, Rush is a CONSERVATIVE, and Obama is the product of Marxism and Socialism. Getting Rush to like Obama is like getting Malcom X to like white people, ain’t happening.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com

    Then obviously you have never read the “Autobiography of Malcolm X”. It amazes me how people post here without the slightest clue what they are writing about.

  • cjd ohio 1

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    rush, hannity, savage, matthews, schultz, olbermann are all partisan hacks, it is easy to see

    and anyone who is blind to this needs too look at themselves

  • Jerps

    Mediaite’s one of my favorite sites, but must every comment board turn into juvenile name-calling finger-pointing “your side is evil”? Seriously even if you don’t like Obama, pretend Bush said last night’s speech and try abiding by its spirit. The internet would be a better place.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Iris, If I thought you meant it even the slightest, I would agree. Based on your past behavior, I can guarantee you aren’t being geniune. I would prefer to just ignore you.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Latin2 said:
    The difference in Memorials; http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/13/video-flashback-yes-some-college-students-do-know-how-to-act-at-a-massacre-memorial/ My background: I was in the audience in Cassel Coliseum on April 17, 2007. I heard President Bush speak after a crazy b@st@rd (Seung-Hui Cho) shot up my college. In a few days I would bury a man whom I had last seen when he came up to me the week earlier to congratulate me on my baptism and entry into the Catholic Church over Easter Weekend. It would be my first military funeral, but not my last. His name was Matthew Joseph La Porte. I was a sophomore member of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC). Several of my friends and the woman I love most dearly were supposed to be in Norris Hall. Thankfully none of them were due to being late, ill, or simply choosing to skip classes. I was sequestered in the Pamplin College of Business building during the attack. President Bush spoke for barely 10 minutes if that. He was solemn, dignified and respectful-although the microphone that broadcast into the rest of the coliseum was barely working and we could barely hear and understand him as a result-we got the point he made. President Obama’s disgusting attempt at what appears to be a political rally in the wake of a similar massacre is beyond reprehensible. Joshua sends a video reminder that there are young people — taking their cue from solemn adults — who know how to act appropriately at a college campus memorial for victims of mass murder. Flashback:

    Michelle has the most hate filled website I have ever seen!

  • SuperChuñdy

    VoiceofReason said:
    Won’t you be embarrassed when the links to Big sis and the O team and this college prez are exposed?

    The Truth About the ‘Together We Thrive’ T-Shirts at the Tucson Memorial

    Oh! Voice of Reason? More like Voice in My Head

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    and anyone who is blind to this needs too look at themselves

    Wow, we are agreeing a lot. Keith Obermann bores me to tears.

  • cjd ohio 1

    not a problem armwood, people have more common ground than they realize

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Rush was making some GREAT points today that I would love to get some opinions on from some libs. Obama has asked us for civility. So Rox, KIng, BFD, I ask you, :

    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of being a racist when you are not?
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of murder when you are not!
    What is the civil response to someone who says you want old people do die?
    What is the civil response to someone who asks if you spouse that died of cancer, was actually driven to suicide by you:
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of saying vile things that you did not say?

    I’m quite anxious for your opinions on this.

    What is the civil response when somebody accuses you of being sexist?
    What is the civil response when somebody says that your side is murderers?
    What is the civil response when somebody accuses your entire side of being racist?
    What is the civil response when somebody tells you as an african american to take a bone out of your nose and call back?
    What is the civil response when national media personalities tell you that your beliefs are and will destroy America?
    What is the civil response when people tell you that you want to take something from them?
    What is the civil response when people essentially tell you that your autistic siblings are leaches on society if they get signed up for federal aid?
    What is the civil response when somebody continually tells you that you are evil, want to destroy america, are un-american, are socialist, are marxist, sympathize with terrorists?
    What is the civil response here?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Lombardo/1279912867 Richard Lombardo

    I cannot imagine a bigger jerk than Limbaugh….beck, Hannity and Palin come close, but Limbaugh is in a league all his own. To the list of tragedies that occurred in 2010, you can count his recovery from heart problems as one of them.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    and anyone who is blind to this needs too look at themselves

    It’s a sad day when the clowns are the only ones being fair to anybody. If you get the chance watch Colbert destroy Ford Jr., really made me cringe the way he took him down.

  • Grammie

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    heres your answer…….limpy is the most vile, racist,demogouging, insensitive, give a damn about nobodies life but his own, pieces of fat disgusting dog shit on the planet, who has his balls resting on your chin, for you to have the audacity to come on here and claim he percieved wrong makes you a damn fool, just change your nic to Seeing 2012 From A Rubber Room…..dumbass wingnut

    iris said:
    We could go on and on but on this day I am willing to do what our president asks and from here on out act with civility and reason for little Christina. How about you? Deal?

    Iris, so how do we handle a problem like him?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Grammie said:
    Iris, so how do we handle a problem like him?

    That guys obviously a parody, just ignore him.

  • WillP

    Rush Limbaugh couldn’t say a nice thing about a Democrat if his life depended on it. He has no interest in debating principles or values just personal destruction of political opponents. I hope and pray for the soul of America that the next leader of talk radio has some core values of decency and comity. It is frankly not healthy for our society to have him spewing nothing, but slime and hate three hours every weekday on the radio.

  • Grammie

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    That guys obviously a parody, just ignore him.

    Are you sure?

    I’ve seen similar language here quite often from various commenters.

    A ceasefire has to be broadly accepted and enforced to not become a suicide pact.

    Additionally I, just as 2012 and Cecelia, have been the objects of some very vile personal and sexual insults from several commenters here on a regular basis.

    Are the decent men here who don’t treat women that way ready to jump in and offer some protection to us?

  • CosmosDan

    You gotta admit, Rush ought to be a good judge of what’s in bad taste after giving us a living example day after day for years.

  • TrollJuice

    LOL! Grasping like a desperate man!

  • CosmosDan

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    and anyone who is blind to this needs too look at themselves

    I’m not blind to that but I still like to look at myself. Is that wrong?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chas-Holman/1333779011 Chas Holman

    If you have a few moments moment I have created a quick sentiment about Mr Limbaugh

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=676362

    For simple entertainment only..

  • cjd ohio 1

    CosmosDan said:
    I’m not blind to that but I still like to look at myself. Is that wrong?

    lol no cosmos

  • CosmosDan

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of being a racist when you are not?

    You say it’s my right as a citizen to criticize my president when I don’t like his policies and it’s not about race.
    It’s kinda like when people accuse you of being unAmerican and unpatriotic for being against a war.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    What is the civil response to someone who accuses you of murder when you are not!

    I say, let’s see your evidence, or hear your argument, providing you’ll also listen to my response.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    What is the civil response to someone who says you want old people do die?

    Are we talking Grayson in congress of the campaign about death panels? There is a difference between one over the top congressmen and an organized campaign based on a lie isn’t there?
    IMO, you set a standard for yourself about what’s acceptable and how you personally will participate. Such as without, name calling. You do your best to resist the temptation to sink to their level, and if you occasionally slip up you can apologize or admit a mistake like a grownup.

    You try to be aware of your own bias so you can better judge people and situations by the same standard.

    I think there will be people on both sides tat like to resort to name calling and bomb throwing, but we’re not forced to participate, and maybe we should not try and keep a running tally of who sucks less by counting insults.

  • milynily

    Don’t rag on Fox Rush, ya got nowhere else to go.

  • CosmosDan

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    lol no cosmos

    Thank God, I guess that means touching myself is okay too. That’s what my jr high health book says. {that’s why I kept it for 45 years}

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    I usually don’t comment on Rush because I feel like liberals make too big a deal when he says something dumb (he wants liberals to talk about him)… but god this is just so infuriating. “Rush Limbaugh slams memorial”… great, well it wasn’t for Rush, it was for Americans that actually have a heart.. and it was for the people who died that day.

    Now Republicans are supposed to get mad at democrats for being more Republican. So what if Obama’s staff said bible verses? I’m atheist and I think it’s retarded but I understand it’s a memorial.

    Rush is a douche… this memorial was also a big tribute to that little girl that died, it really sucks when Rush opens his mouth and lets this crap fly out. -_-

  • cjd ohio 1

    CosmosDan said:
    Thank God, I guess that means touching myself is okay too. That’s what my jr high health book says. {that’s why I kept it for 45 years}

    lol enough

  • SarahP.

    These types of comments make me wonder if Limbaugh’s anal cyst is flaring up. Gordon Bloyer would know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Bowen/100000575396892 Alexander Bowen

    Latin2 and Juan are for real or just stupid by nature

  • skyfet

    All he wants is a friendly phonecall from BO or an invitatin to the whte house. All of these W gave it to him, that’s why he sucked up like a big baby. If only BO would recognize him. Self pitting joker, get a life.

  • roxsteady

    Classless, ignorant, trash. He seems obsessed with Obama. There’s some serious envy going on there.

  • bdpritch

    Oh. it’s No Hush Rush L again. This guy is a too far right bigot who spews his venom with to a group of people that will never leave his side. Even though the conservative base and politicians don’t support (financially) a large majority of their followers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Marie-Lovison/1607994524 Linda Marie Lovison

    Rush has a unique point of view, and as an American he is allowed to express his opinions.

  • stephenpyle

    I would respect Rush’s point of view if everything wasn’t so black and white to him. If it’s anything supportive or positive for Obama or the democratic party, he’s upset and complaining about it. If it’s about the Republican party, he’s nothing but positive. At least with other talking heads (Beck, Palin, Olbermann, Maddow), sometimes you feel like they can think for themselves (not often, but sometimes). With Limbaugh, it’s black and white. It doesn’t matter the issue. If its left, he hates it. If it’s right, he loves it. Think for yourself RL.

    Their’s absolutely no reason to go after trashing the President’s speech. If you don’t like it, that’s okay. But to lay down rude and prejudice comments is too much.

  • Grammie

    Linda Marie Lovison said:
    If it’s about the Republican party, he’s nothing but positive

    How then do you explain his strong opposition to GWB/McCain/Graham Immigration Reform AKA amnesty and TARP?

  • murf

    Grammie said:
    How then do you explain his strong opposition to GWB/McCain/Graham Immigration Reform AKA amnesty and TARP?

    So true.

  • screwauger

    Grammie said:
    How then do you explain his strong opposition to GWB/McCain/Graham Immigration Reform AKA amnesty and TARP?

    clueless.

  • Davo

    I love Rush. He sees the whole picture, not just snippets. The Left acts like out-of-control spoiled brats in shamelessly trying to make political “hay” out of a national tragedy, then instantly gets indignant when the innocent they blame call them out for it. It’s as simple as that.

    Rush realizes that the Left was emboldened by Bush’s disgusting “New Tone,” and by Republicans who “reach across the isle.” He knows Liberals always treat kindness and fairness as weaknesses to exploit, and that Conservatives need to “buff-up” to that exploitation, setting aside trying to be “fair and balanced” until such time as Liberals can prove themselves worthy of fair and balanced treatment.

    Objectivity, fairness, and civility must be a two-way street.

  • nighean donn

    Grammie said:
    How then do you explain his strong opposition to GWB/McCain/Graham Immigration Reform AKA amnesty and TARP?

    He’s against them now because Obama likes them and he and the other righties contantly use TARP as an example of Obama’s out of control spending.

    By the way, I just have to say (in the most civil way I can of course) that you going on about sexist comments to you is a bit rich. You have not been in any way, stretch or form civil to anyone here who disagrees with you. For the most part, unless someone says so, the gender of these posters remains unknown. I do see rather crude, of’t times sexually degrading name calling being substituted for commentary here (to many male or female I suspect), but to make yourself to be a victim of it because you are a woman is rich. You spout and carry on and then when one sexual word comes your way….oh poor you ~ won’t someone protect the women here? Gimme a break, I’m not a fan of misogyny, but your repsonses here are……..hmmmm……..well virtually Palinesque. Poor you ~ such a victim.

  • TrollJuice

    Fox News’ Glenn Beck

    “[Becoming influential quickly is] much simpler than it appears…because you think in personalities…but dear me, the lifetimes of a hundred press agents wouldn’t be enough. It can be done much faster….if you want something to grow, you don’t nurture each seed separately. You just spread a certain fertilizer. Nature will do the rest.” Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead explaining, through the book’s villain, Ellsworth Toohey, how to control the mass of weak-minded people. Yes, the right misreads Rand, too.

  • hickory2011

    Clearly, there is a higher echelon demonic principality operating through Limbaugh.

  • Joe Astroturf

    Is Charles Krauthammer a liberal in sheeps clothing. Check out his meeting with Obama below. I wonder if this is like a CBO( Doug Elmendorf) meeting moment below. Afterwards Elmendorf started making up better numbers. I remembered reading it somewhere before. googled and found guess who’s report on it below. Please pass around . More liberals are quoting Krauthammer now. I used to think he was a conservative. I wonder if Charlie is going to get the head job at NPR job or maybe setup up like Andy Stern was at SIGA to make millions from HHS.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/obamas-dinner-with-conser_n_157701.html
    Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation’s most prominent conservative pundits.
    The president-elect arrived at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of syndicated columnist George Will shortly after 6:30 p.m., according to a press pool report. Greeting him at the residence were other luminaries of the conservative commentariat, including the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post

  • jamesphilip

    Rush…. you are right on…. guess where we can find the Together We Thrive theme? back in 2008….
    gosh, you don’t think it had anything to do with the Democrats and Obama, do you?

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnberry_iv/C94H

  • greg454

    “Rush has a unique point of view, and as an American he is allowed to express his opinions.”

    —For now, because what do you think will happen when the government passes the Fairness Doctrine and he’s forced to hire a liberal that will interrupt him at every point? Or what if the government decides to pass some law barring “hate” speech? Don’t take your freedoms for granted, progressives are on the rise and they’re gonna use the Tucson tragedy as an excuse to pass many laws.

    http://www.libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ace-Duncan/506976382 Ace Duncan

    Rush, the original right wing showboat, spouting opinions not because he believes them, but for ratings and relevancy. He has discovered there is a large market in this country for ignorant racism.

  • notatall

    Scratching my head in wonder that people actually pay to listen to the gibberish this hateful, dishonest man spews and camoflauges as news.

  • Grammie

    nighean donn said:
    Grammie said:
    How then do you explain his strong opposition to GWB/McCain/Graham Immigration Reform AKA amnesty and TARP?

    He’s against them now because Obama likes them and he and the other righties contantly use TARP as an example of Obama’s out of control spending.

    I’m afraid that that is completely wrong. Rush opposed them at the time and at that time GWB was the President and it was his Admin’s policy that they pushed hard on.

    As for the rest, that of course is your decision/opinion to make as it is for us all.

  • X-3

    As I watched 0bama’s speech a thought–a description–kept trying to surface. I heard eloquent reminders of a tragedy that should not be focused toward anyone. I heard a pleading for the time that Americans should come together in healing. I heard how we must honor our brave public servants. And then it hit me: It was the kickoff of the 2012 campaign.

  • timcajun

    So now the ‘tea network” are RINOs?

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