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Limbaugh: We’re Supposed To Ignore Obama’s Relationship To Rev. Wright, Yet Santorum Is Responsible For Friess?

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Radio host Rush Limbaugh weighed in one the Foster Friess “aspirin” kerfuffle Friday, calling out Rick Santorum — the candidate whose campaign, of course, Friess has contributed much time and money to — for

Santorum, Limbaugh notes, addressed Charlie Rose‘s questions on the matter this morning by distancing himself from Friess and noting that, actually, he has voted in favor of “Title X” — federal funding of contraception. “My record,” he’d told Rose, “stands for itself.”

RELATED: Furious Rick Santorum Fights Charlie Rose Over ‘Gotcha’ Question On Aspirin Joke: ‘This Is What You Guys Do!’

Limbaugh commended Santorum on contrasting the media’s treatment of Friess’ comment with the way it dealt with President Barack Obama‘s relationship to controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright.

“That’s a good recovery,” Limbaugh told listeners. “And I like that. It’s a point that I made just moments ago — Rev. Wright, Obama’s in his pew for twenty years! He didn’t hear what he said! And if he did, it doesn’t matter. You can’t tie Obama to Rev. Wright. That’s guilt by association. You can’t do that!”

(For those of who not terribly familiar with Mr. Limbaugh: Yes, he was being sarcastic.)

“I just wish,” he added, “that Rick hadn’t thrown Friess overboard. That’s all. But that’s just me.”

RELATED: Greta Van Susteren Holds Santorum’s Feet To The Fire Over Supporter’s Aspirin As Contraception Remark

To really bring things on home for his listeners, Limbaugh played various clips from Rev. Wright’s speeches and sermons, including his cry of “God fuck America!”

So that we’re supposed to either forget or ignore, particularly when it comes to asking whether being exposed — voluntarily and over a long period of time — to such ideas might have, in any way, shape or form, made an impression on Obama. But Friess’ comment about holding an aspirin between one’s knees as an old-timey method of contraception? “This,” Limbaugh said, mocking various pundits, “this is creepy, it’s filthy, it’s trashy, it’s dirty, it’s insulting, it’s repulsive, it’s stupid, it’s off-color, it’s profane, it’s all the rotten, worthless stuff in the world that we’re supposed to never hear.”

RELATED: Santorum Supporter Stuns Andrea Mitchell With Memories Of How ‘The Gals’ Used Bayer Aspirin As Contraception

Limbaugh then offered his impression of Wright’s choicest pearls of wisdom, including one about Bill Clinton “riding dirty.” Which, he pointed out, adds an interesting element to this whole conversation. We’re supposed to laugh at comments about former President Clinton’s treatment of Monica Lewinsky and at JFK’s countless extra-marital relationships and, yet, he asked, Republicans are the party that hates women?

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  • Anonymous

    Making Reverend Wright an issue worked so well for you in 2008. I wish you similar luck in 2012.

  • Anonymous

    I’m more concerned about Obama’s ties to Bill Ayres (you know an actual terrorist).

  • Anonymous

    You don’t have to ignore it Rush… Please use it again. Please Republicans make a big deal about Rev Wright again. 

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Let’s spend as much time on Fries as Fox did on Wright.

  • Anonymous

    Yes wingnuts and dittoheads follow your pied piper to a landslide loss.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe that’s how President Obama is keeping America safer than under President Bush

    O_O

  • Anonymous

     Fries wont hurt democrats…like Rev Wright hurt republicans. If anything Fries supporting Sanatorium makes Mr Frothy look like a woman hater along with many other comments he has made,  Like women in the military.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, I’m sure Rush Limbaugh and the like would love a crushing loss in November. Just makes it so much easier to rattle the cages. 

    “Keep your tinfoil hats tight and your bunker door shut!! Gays and poor people are EVERYWHERE!!!!”

  • Anonymous

    Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.

  • Anonymous

    If you are going to spew far-right talking points try to get the spelling right at least.

  • cabler

    The media didn’t ignore the Rev. Wright issue, it was discussed 24/7 on most news programs and candidate Obama took it on directly and handled it, but of course Rush has a selective memory.

  • Centrist79

    Clinton and Kennedy loved women. Maybe too much, but they loved them.

  • NDanielson

    That’s because the media didn’t cover Wright 24/7, attacked the people and news outlets that did, then, played it down, lied, covered up for him, and people like yourself apparently will vote for people who hate this country, but love free contraception. Your wishes for America are always duly noted.

  • Anonymous

    I missed something. Did Rush and Fox ignore Wright? Hell they still talk about everyday. I don’t care about Fries cause what he says wont not get Santorum elected. Santorum wont get Santorum elected.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    “Piles and Pills” Limbaugh tells the ditto head masses what’s good and proper, after all, he:
    - was married four times;
    - Ruined his hearing and lost teeth by using un-prescribed cracked Oxycontin – Google “opiate hearing loss”;
    - Dodged the draft to Viet Nam because of “extreme anal cysts” (baboon ass);
    - was stopped at customs with a thousand unprescribed Viagra tablets coming back from a “sex resort” in the Dominican Republic.

    He’s a moral disaster making over 57 million a year and a working class hero to those whose technology is limited to AM radio.

  • Anonymous

    I must have missed where Jeremiah Wright introduced Obama at a major Democratic conference and donated millions of dollars of his own money to almost singlehandedly bankroll his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    You mean the Jeremiah Wright who was in the news everyday for months and almost crashed Obama’s campaign until the media forced him to address it personally?

    Right wingers rewriting history, as usual.

  • http://twitter.com/FullMtlPatriot FullMetalPatriot

    As I remember, Rev. Wright didn’t say “God f*ck America!” he said “God damn America!” 

    If that’s the case, the author of this post might want to correct the error.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry, but what planet are you from? The media played DOWN the Wright story? LAMEStream stalwart ABC News broke the story! That guy was everywhere for WEEKS!

    P.S. Your post on Anthony Shaddid got erased. I mean….you should really find some new hobbies to deal with your anger. Politics is a bit much for your frontal cortex to handle.

  • Anonymous

    Limbaugh uses a false equivalency arguement.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Clinton actually just loved his cigars… enough to want a “Humandor” for them to be kept moist!

  • NDanielson

    Again, the liberal party denounces the likes
    of Rush Limbaugh, to the point of absurdity. They poke fun of the party
    that accepts many of his views. They poke fun of his addiction which he beat, and celebrate their liberal heroes who never beat their addictions, but die from them. Never showing equal derision for their heroes addictions.

    They welcome into their party the likes of David Duke, cowards like the late Ted Kennedy, Bobby Byrd, John Murtha. Racists, Al Sharpton, Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan, serial adulterers, rapists, race-baiters, impeached presidents, convicted felons, people that burn the flag, sh!t on police cruisers, are un-proud of America, and who are liars, tax cheats and low life’s into their party???

    Apparently
    they are fine with these types that speak on behalf of and vote with
    the party of liberals. Feel free to add to the list. And libbies, Duke
    was of the party of liberal, and never accepted into the party of
    liberty.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    I’ll give Rush credit for this, he was the first to realize how the goopers and hicks can be fleeced for personal gain. Then came Fox News which built a complete network around it.

  • Anonymous

    Sad thing is that Rev. Wright said “God DAAAAAAMN America” and he was able to justify it with Bible verses. Do you believe that America will last forever? Won’t God go on? Don’t hate on Rev. Wright for just speaking the truth.

  • NDanielson

     PS calling someone from the NYT a journalist should have been what was erased. The NYT brought him disgrace. My condolences for friends and family were edited out as well. There is your media.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1252130808 Paige Cohen

    Rush is an idiot who wants 4 more years of Obama.  Pig. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anybody-But-Santorum/107269866066108

  • Anonymous

    I would rather listen to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years than to be in the Catholic Church were grown men are molesting little children.

  • NDanielson

     Wouldn’t want to misquote Barry’s preacher now would we?

  • NDanielson

    Crashed his campaign??? You leftnuts are Laughable. You all-Americans voted for him anyway. Can’t rewrite that history can you? You liberals trashed anyone who even brought up Jeremiah Wright “everyday for months”.

    Type Larry Craig on google you get 28.9 million hits, type in Reverend Wright you get 28.2 million hits. Rewrite history? How about wash, twist, and hide your history?

  • Anonymous

    Rush is a big fat idiot and another observation is that Wright did not establish a PAC for Obama and did not campaign for Obama and did not do major network TV interviews for Obama as did Freese did for Santorum. 

  • Anonymous

    Danielson lives in a total bubble. Don’t even try. Facts are impervious to his tin foil shield.

  • Anonymous

    Who is uneducated, fat, profane AND MAKES MORE MONEY a year than the dozen or so libtards  that come on this board every day calling him names and insulting him, does, combined in a LIFETIME.
     Why he is so stupid he has to HIRE A PILOT to fly his private JET!!
    But stay with it. That ought to fix his fat ass eventually!!

  • Anonymous

    Bill Ayers launched Obama’s political career in his living room.

  • Anonymous

    So you agree, then, that mainstream media barely addressed the Rev Wright issue?

  • Anonymous

    Obama addressed it by throwing him under the bus, then hoping that America would forget the previous 20 years of him listening to Wright bash America.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t know how much money Wright donated.

  • NDanielson

    An American bashing preacher-to-your-president was a big deal to liberals??? Really? When? Hell, the rest of us know that it is WHY you voted Barry in the first place. Is big bad America unfair, porkchop?

  • Anonymous

    Wow, like what’s the difference.  He spewed anti-American rhetoric.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget antisemitics.

  • Anonymous

    Right, and Obama never heard any of that.  His rhetoric says otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose you do? Please feel free to enlighten us as we’d love to know. Also, make sure to report it to Conservative news outlets, they’d have a field day with such a revelation. :)

  • Anonymous

    When did Obama ever say anything remotely close to Wright’s GDA sermon?

  • Anonymous

    LOL.. boy this guy can MAKE SOME MONEY off the backs of truly stupid followers. HE has the order reversed. WE have attempted to ignore the BS about Obama’s reverend connection because its STUPID, so we SHOULD attempt to ignore the BS about Santorum’s money-guy. BUT, the same people who brought you Obama’s reverend are bringing you ISH about Santorum’s money dude. Rush is ALLLLLMOST correct on this one, but he started with Obama and the rev., so he needs to accept crap about Santorum and his money. In truth, I worry more about a guy who is getting a lot of cash from someone than a guy who sat in a church a few times.

  • NDanielson

     Oh, no, sweetpea, ol’ Jeramiah just offered moral support, silly! Hey, how’d that work for Michelle? LOL. Wow.

  • NDanielson

     Wright offered the best support of all to Barry and Michelle. Moral support. Don’t you know?

  • NDanielson

     He sure inspired Michelle to be proud of America, huh?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR81pFJI4

  • Anonymous

    Feel free to provide evidence that Jeremiah Wright had more of a role in Obama’s campaign than just a pastor. Please keep in mind that absence of proof that he didn’t do something is not proof that he did it, and that things claimed by right wing commentators aren’t automatically true because you agree with them. :)

    And Sweetpea? Really now.

  • Anonymous

    No Rush no one is asking you or your lemmings to ignore that relationship, it can’t be ignored, he was there, admitted he was there,and dumped him as he should have. We know he originally defended the man but as the info trickled out he dumped him. If he had done it any differently it wouldn’t have changed a thing, the man going to be elected. But rest assured something else that won’t be ignored, is your, I’m a Rich Guy, Felony, Doctor Shopping, and Got Away With It Episode either.

  • Ben

    The Reverend Wright story was ignored huh…that’s funny,since they won’t stop talking about it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    I could barely understand the contexts and sentences in that story. Did you type that on your iPhone on a roller coaster? Alvarez, Martel, Christopher. If you didn’t treat gander/goose as some impenetrable Gordian Knot as mysterious as the Sphinx you might be right 50% of the time simply by chance.

  • News Of The World

    GOPBagger desperation.  Seems a little early in the election cycle to be so desperate, but desperate they are.. fun, indeed.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    What’s your point? I can’t curse out trees or rivers?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    Snow plows are tough places to post blogs from. They jitter and shake like anything.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    the GOP acts like Wright was never an issue in 2008. He was. It led to Obama disowning him.
    And now Santorum has to answer for his backers.

  • Anonymous

    Once again Republican’s don’t want the rules they apply to others to apply to themselves. They are like petulant children.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Conservatives can’t accept that America rejected them in 2008. That’s why they try to rewrite history and pretend Obama never faced any tough questions – despite the fact that Wright, Ayers flag lapel pins and all that other nonsense got tons of coverage.
    They keep making excuses – but the reality is Grandpa McCain and Secessionist Sarah are losers.

  • Verreauxii

    Don’t you just love these revisionist morons? yeah….nobody AT ALL heard of Rev. Wright in 2008! Hahahahahaha…!

  • Verreauxii

    Don’t forget the birther nonsense.

  • Anonymous

    I think people have to read the Book of Revelation & then see this video,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    What Rev Wright said was actually historically & theologically accurate.

  • Anonymous

    I believe that was the title to a book, Rush is a Big Fat Idiot or Liar, one of those.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    George Soros has more money than Limbaugh, so obviously George Soros is a better person than Limbaugh, or you, for that matter.

    At least by what you seem to think is logic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    So, if something gets 28.9 million hits on google, it’s common knowledge, but if it gets a measly 28.2 million hits, nobody knows about it.

    Got it!

  • Anonymous

    Duke was a Republican and the Republicans embraced him. Talk about tax cheats, Romney’s money is in Swiss bank accounts, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. And Murtha was loyal America that fought for this country, a real hero.  It sounds like your anti-American and that’s a shame.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    Yeah, that craven Liberal Chris Christie, slobbering over the memory of Whitney Houston.

    He’s just like all liberals, harping on Limbaugh’s drug addiction and love for little Dominican boys, while ignoring the fact that Houston never beat her addiction, and lowering the state’s flags for her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    And you’re here trashing liberals every day, including today, for not paying sufficient attention.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    Yes, and Paul Bunyan dug the Mississippi  River, too.

  • Centrist79

    Rush must be a Democrat, because he is dong his best to get Obama elected, all while sucking money from the people who listen to his spew. God Bless America

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Machina/504478557 Carlos Machina

    The Rev. Pat Robertson said much the same thing about God’s attitude toward America.  He said God had damned America to be attacked by tolerating gays.

    Rev. Wright said that God “damned” America for enslaving blacks and otherwise treating them unfairly.

    And yet, Robertson is a hero to the right, despite the fact that his dismay about America is still broadcast daily.  But we’ve heard nary a peep out of Rev. Wright since 2008.

  • Anonymous

    There is a reason McCain & Huckabee defended Rev. Wright. They know religious people say stuff like that all the time. Governments fail, empires fall, civilizations are lost, God is eternal. Nothing lasts forever besides God. He is the alpha & the omega. God must always come before anything. No matter how much we love America it will fall, humankind will eventually fall, but God will go on. Nothing extremist about this. All the religions believe in the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    Her is the difference Rush.  Obama could distance himself from Rev Wright, but it is a little hard for Sanitorum to distance himself from his banker.

  • Anonymous

    Please express your concerns in detail, we’ll listen.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, then which approach of the President would have satisfied you?

  • Anonymous

    Are you prepared to live another 4 years in a USA that you despise?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Lefties will scream and rant (Did the Race Card come out yet) – but that’s old, and the New GOP wasn’t getting the voters that’s appealing to anyway.

    Good Job Rush in EXPOSING the manipulation of the Media Matters-White House “News” Outlets!
     

  • Anonymous

     That’s original.

  • Anonymous

     Rush is right. The same libs that are all over this stupid Bayer aspirin comment excused Barack from “God Damn America” and everything else. Hypocrites, all.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    says the party of America-hating secessionists like Perry and the Palins.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    yet Grandpa McCain was never questioned for his friendship with convicted felon and burglar G. Gordon Liddy.

  • Anonymous

    “They welcome into their party the likes of David Duke”

    David Duke was a Republican Louisiana state representative, tried running for President as a Democrat in 1988, then again as a Republican in 1992, and currently claims that “thousands of Tea Party activists (ed. note:  people like NDanielson)” are encouraging him to run in 2012. 

    “They serial adulterers [...] rapists, race-baiters, impeached presidents,
    convicted felons…”

    Newt “I-Want-An-Open-Marriage” Gingrich won handily in the 2012 South Carolina primary, and as I recall, outgoing Republican Mississippi governor Haley Barbour just pardoned 203 prisoners, which included rapists, murderers and armed robbers on his way out of office without alerting any of the victims families.  His predecessor, Ronnie Musgrove (a Democrat) only pardoned one. 

    What say you, NDanielson? 

  • Anonymous

    …and completely true.

  • batlcrewzer

    Rush is a whore. He knows he will be able to make more money and buy more Oxycontin with smooth”B” in the house. The incensed and piss-off t-bag act is just for the idiots that vote against their own self interest.

  • Anonymous

    I finally believed the economy is getting today when I heard Limbaugh refer to the President as Barack Hussein Obama today.

    It’s morning in America, people.

  • batlcrewzer

    Looks like Newt has banged his last 9 lives. So long to bad Rubbish. Looks like the “smooth one” put him in his place. haha

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    “Duke was of the party of liberal, and never accepted into the party of liberty. ”
    um…David Duke is a Republican. He’s one of yours, dumbass.
    Might want to do your own research, rather then relying on a botched delivery of Hannity talking points.

    “serial adulterers”
    Gingrich, Giuliani, Arnold, Kerik, Ensign, Vitter, Livingston, Sanford, Hyde, O’Reilly, Dick Morris, Strom Thurmond, etc

    “convicted felons”
    Godon Liddy, Elliott Abrams, Ollie North, Scooter Libby

    “un-proud of America”
    secessionists Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Rick Perry

    and so on.

  • Anonymous

    Another Rush-Hating Manifesto !!

    at least it’s not a unreadable poem.

  • OSTL

     post links to olbermann, maddow, etc mentioning him except to defend him

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Democrats Ginned Up Contraception Debate to Fire Up Their Base, Divide the GOP and Distract from the Economy
    At a press conference, Leader Pelosi was asked by The Weekly
    Standard: ‘The Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., is a self-insured
    institution. Should the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., be required
    to pay for these morning-after pills and birth control if they find
    that morally objectionable?’” And Nancy Pelosi, who claims to be a
    devout Catholic, said, “Yes, I think that all institutions who cover,
    who give, health insurance should cover the full range of health
    insurance issues for women.”So Pelosi is suggesting the Catholic
    Church (unlike what everybody thought) damn well should provide
    abortion, damn well should provide contraception, damn well should
    provide abortion pills or contraception pills or birth control pills.
    Damn right they should! Why shouldn’t they? They have insurance
    companies. Why should they be given an out and not have to cover health
    issues for women? At the same news conference, Pelosi said 98% of
    Catholic women use birth control. Are even 98% of Catholic women within
    childbearing age? Really, keep an eye on Pelosi. They will tell you, the
    Democrats will tell you exactly who they are. That’s why I’m able to
    predict back in December 20th what they’re gonna be doing today.
    Speaking
    of which, grab audio sound bite 22. This is just now, moments ago on
    PMSNBC. John Podesta, the former Clinton chief of staff, was on. He now
    runs Think Progress, Think the American Way, some uber-leftist think
    tank. And he was asked, “Do you think there’s a risk here of Democrats
    in the White House getting overconfident, what with all this great
    economic news out there? Do you think so?”
    MORE (AND GREAT PHOTO OF OBAMA  SMOOCHING PELOSI) HERE:   http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/16/democrats_ginned_up_contraception_debate_to_fire_up_their_base_divide_the_gop_and_distract_from_the_economy

  • labman57

    Nonequivalence … typical of the illogical Limbaugh.  Obama did not ask Wright to finance his campaign, nor did he invite him to stand beside him on the dais during campaign speeches, nor was Wright encouraged to actively campaign on Obama’s behalf.

    It’s not guilt by past association — it’s guilt by current personal and political alliance.

  • Carlos Machina

    You know, I agree with you on this one.  Wright’s support was moral!

  • Anonymous

    Well this is 2012, and it’s working now for US. Or didn’t you see how veteran journalist Charlie Rose got OWNED by Santorum, and essentially forced to change the topic rather than talk about hard-core racist fringe Rev. Wright, which would hurt their beloved Obama?…LOL

    Watch the video again http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/santorum-plays-reverend-wright-card-while-doing-d

    Gingrich and Trump both know how to counter-attack the liberal media when they systematically lunch their stealth attacks through highly irrelevant issues like these. But also Santorum seems to have learned what antidotes to use in repelling stealth attacks from the left-wing media. I just cant wait until the ECONOMY becomes the main topic for the 2012 election, it would be interesting to see Obama run against Obama, since he cant run against W.Bush in 2012, after using him to win the 2008 elections,even though Bush was not on the Ballot. Hope and Change worked in 2008, since Obama was new and had no record to run on, and Bush was used as their punching bag. In this election is it Obama who will defeat Obama.

  • Anonymous

    New Rule:  The party of Lincoln members shall now be known as “rebubbleicans.”

  • Anonymous

    obama will be lucky to get 40% of the vote and will have his LYING politically butt throwed out of the White House on Nov 6, 2012. obama-axleslob are complete FAILURES and are a disgrace to the USA

  • Anonymous

     Honesty.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly are your expectations and which phrasing would have satisfied you? Where did you see dishonesty in the handling of the Wright affair?

    Cheers

  • Sean Smith

    I haven’t read this particular piece of mediate crap, but YES we ARE supposed to ignore Obama’s 20-year relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. For if we didn’t “ignore it” he wouldn’t be president.

  • Sean Smith

     McCain most explicitly DID NOT make Wright an issue in 2008. And Obama STILL accused him or running a racist campaign. It is hoped the Repub in 2012 won’t be half the sap McCain was.

  • Anonymous

     Zing!

  • mori bund

    Relationship To Rev. Wright?
    I’ve thought Obama is a secret muslim who happens to be an atheist?
    Cons and logic…

  • Anonymous

    If five (5 or 6) disturbing to some but not untrue to others sound bites is all you got from a black preacher in 20 years, would have to say Rev. Wright is a man of unparalleled restraint and dignity

    All that needs to be pointed out is the very Rush Limbaugh 2004-2007 business of selling Club Gitmo paraphernalia celebrating a culture of torture and human rights abuse and still remain a celebrated distinguished member of society to get what the rev Wright might be disturbed by & have grievances about.

    In an ideal world, Rush would in court as a war criminal and at the very least a war profiteer

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA – Yes, I sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and I did hear his sermons putting down America.  Of course I support what Rev Wright said; why would I stay in his church? I plan on fundamentally transforming America using the Marxist principles (Black Theology) taught in Rev Wright’s church.  I’ve been careful in surrounding myself with Marxist men and women my whole adult life.  Rev Wright’s church completed my personal transformation and philosophy.

    There.  That’s the honesty I wanted to hear. Wouldn’t it have been refreshing to hear him come right out a admit it.

  • Anonymous

    Numerous studies have shown that Obama’s only supporters are black racists and guilt ridden white people so it is no surprise that Rev. Wright was ignored. 

  • Pablo

    Yeah, we went from:

    I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

    These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

    …to Wright being thrown under the Obama Express in the space of a month. Because Obama had no idea that Wright was such a racist, America hating piece of shit in all those years he sat in a pew in Wright’s church. Took him completely by surprise, it did. Because he’s stupid, apparently. Or you are.

  • Pablo

    One of these things is not like the other.

  • Anonymous

    The Rev. Wright kerfluffle from 2008 is all the proof you need to know that the media was (and still is) in the tank for Obama.  Can you imagine if John McCain or any of today’s GOP candidates went to a church that preached the inverse of Wright’s sermons (white supremacy, separate but equal for whites, etc.) ??  The media would destroy that person in no time.  I know John McCain wanted to take the high road, but he should have put an ad on every tv station in the country with clips of Wright’s sermons and note that Obama was part of his congregation and considered this man his mentor.

  • naikod sorparap

     Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  • Anonymous

    Please provide that link to when Obama accused McCain of running a “racist” campaign.

    Good luck finding it, because you won’t. You lied.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the media ignored the Rev. Wright issue so much that Obama felt the need to make a speech about race to address it.

    I had no idea that Canadian conservatives were as retarded as American conservatives.

    I guess  you learn something new everyday.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but why does he have a Viagra prescription in someone else’s name?

  • Anonymous

    you really need to be able to REMEMBER longer than the last talking point.  The GOP and right wing zealots went BATS@#$ crazy on the Reverend and Obama’s Church.  Not ONLY attacking the Obama family for worshiping there but for the entire black RACE and their churches.  STOP WITH THE VICTIMHOOD.  Rush is FAMOUS for spinning crap.  When he was shown up as a drug addled maniac he whined about ‘WHERE IS THE FAMOUS LIBERAL BLEEDING HEARTS???’  And then turned around and attacked them for feeling sorry for the old fat racist.

  • Anonymous

    he never was and saying it over and over won’t make it so.  You are a fool and a total moron to ever believe anything that comes out of Limbaugh’s lips.

  • Anonymous

    You are truly stupid. I’m not here to defend that blowhard Rush Limbaugh. I’m simply stating that the media – not conservative pundits – gave Obama a huge pass on Rev. Wright that no conservative would have gotten.

  • Anonymous

    ooooooooooooo ‘stupid’…and you are the one that can’t ‘remember’ the brouhaha that happened.  It almost took Obama out and the reverend had to make a national statement and step down from the church.  Grow up.

  • Anonymous

    Name one pundit that isn’t Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity et al that called him out. Olbermann didn’t. Maddow didn’t. Matthews didn’t. ABC, NBC, CBS?? Name one.

  • Anonymous

    The Difference, oh gutter-brain one, is that Obama doesn’t agree with or accept Wright’s tirade.
    Santorum, on the other hand, is 100% aligned with Friess! 

  • Anonymous

    The “media” covered Wright more than enough.  Look at how long and how often Fox News covered Wright.  Isn’t FNC part of the “media”? 

    Even if you are referring only to so-called “liberal media,” they covered Wright  more than the current media has covered what Friess said.  I bet you in a couple of days, Friess will no longer be in the news.  Wright was constantly in the news.

  • Anonymous

    “Ditto!”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Good Lord those Liberals are smart.
    They even got a Kenyan into the WhiteHouse with NOONE askin questions.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Post links to Hannity, or any right wing outlet mentioning freiss except to defend him

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Thanks.
    That really brightened my day.

  • Anonymous

    OK ready???  Clearly you would rather argue than research.  ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN…the vitriol was SO bad that even your great hero John McCain had to tell them to STOP it.  Do you REMEMBER ‘God D’ America’???  Where DO you think you heard that?  How about that Obama’s church wasn’t quite CHRISTIAN enough?  Where did THAT come from?  If you want to stay in your bubble then remember that the media was in the ‘tank’ for HILLIARY and not Obama…of course, that wouldn’t fit your meme that everyone is attacking the poor GOP and I guess, you mean the super whiner and victim, Santorum.  I’m done.

  • Anonymous

     i’d love to smash your face in.

  • Anonymous

    and then cut your ugly face into shreds.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, a liberal that’s meets a low standard of behaviour.  Surprise, surprise!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Rush Limbaugh is such a pathetic loser and those who religiously listen to and believe his lies are such stupid people who will believe anything.  Reverend Wright was not Obama’s banker helping to finance his campaign when he ran for President.  As such, Obama was in no way beholden to Reverend Wright or his views.  However, Friess is bank rolling Santorum and as such….Santorum is extremely beholden to the twisted skewed views of Friess.  Once again, Limbaush is simply spinning things in an erroneous direction for the benefit of his minions of mindless sheep who do not think for themselves.  

  • Anonymous

    In the tank for Hillary??? You have to be kidding me. In the tank in the way that David Schuster called Chelsea Clinton a whore for Hillary’s campaign? Or how the media went from calling Bill Clinton the first black president to a racist, race-baiter on the campaign trail? I can’t believe you would even suggest for one minute the media was behind Hillary over Obama in 2008.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The hypocracy of the Leftists and MSM amazes me.  All of them are on their knees with their hands on Obama’s pants zipper, waiting for a little bitty worm!  The also hate the Death Penalty but love murdering unborn babies.  They will all burn in Hell and they all deserve it, sick Ba$tards!

  • Anonymous

    I see alot of Obama fans here..I didnt vote for him nor will I in 2012..I got no use for a man who uses that office to make a mockery of this country and his flaunting ways..He is a disgrace to the office and has done nothing for this country but abuse the power the idiots that voted for him gave him. Nor do I have any use for a President to call on his color to vote for him..He asked all African Americans to vote for him so he can continue his path of destruction.

  • corri anderson

    Update:  We’ve already stopped talking about Friess.  We are still talking about the Rev.  Nate, shut up already.

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