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Rush Limbaugh Bashes NBC For Handling Of GOP Debate, Asks Brian Williams ‘How Do You Sleep At Night?’

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Reacting to last night’s Republican debate on MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh went after moderator Brian Williams for his question to Rick Perry about executions in Texas and then launched into an attack on NBC’s partisan bias.

Limbaugh prefaced his remarks by referring to Williams as a funny person and “good friend,” but then asked Williams how he could sleep at night working for a network that, as Limbaugh argues, has supported President Obama’s policies over the last few years. Limbaugh claimed that during the debate, NBC did everything in its power to “protect Obama.”

Limbaugh then played an audio montage of the debate questions asked, ranging from issues like immigration to “anti-science” candidates when, as Rush stated, the economy is the number one issue for people right now. He expressed his frustration at the way some of the network’s hosts were framing the debate.

I don’t care what they say at MSNBC. That’s the whole point. These people have lost their sanity a lot time ago. They’re poison. They have descended into nothing but full-throated hate. They are supporting, whether they know it or not, policies that are causing people to lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their faith in their country. You’ve got a network that’s supporting this, I don’t care what they say or think.

Newt Gingrich’s response to a moderator’s question last night garnered Limbaugh’s praise. Rush agreed that candidates at a debate should be going after each other, but to him it felt like the moderators were “keep[ing] Obama out of range.”

Finally, Limbaugh addressed President Obama’s speech to Congress tonight, and he highlighted several instances of Democrats expressing their frustration with the president for blaming Congress on inaction on unemployment. He preemptively bashed the president’s “campaign speech,” calling it a “stupid, irrelevant, more-of-the-same jobs plan.”

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  • Bob

    Of course, Rush the coward would never go on Williams’ show to discuss this. Nor would he make any attempt to have Williams on his own show to question him. Instead, he hides in his Florida Neverland compound and talks tough while debating a recorded tape.

  • Sean

    Asking the candidates questions about science isn’t “full-throated hate.” Frankly, if someone is so dense as to not believe in climate change, I want to know. because it means they’re too divorced from reality to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate.

  • Norbit

    Megadittos Rush,
    That sidebar is a perfect depiction of MSNBC.

    Why even bother with the Democratic Media at all?

  • Anonymous

    Rush says: “They have descended into nothing but full-throated hate.”   Rush isn’t saying what you say much like the pot calling the kettle black. You are one of the biggest hate monger on radio.  When are you ever going to say something constructive or would that go against your hate clause in your radio contract.

  • Anonymous

    Of course Mr. Oxycontin goes after the moderators because he has to follow Reagan’s 11th commandment.  

  • Anonymous

    Desperate Rush haters out in force defending President Cocaine .

    Has he quit yet ? No one knows .

  • Anonymous

    That’s no way to talk about W. like that.  

  • Kim Anderson

    What Limbaugh said is exactly what needs to be said to Limbaugh! 40 mil a year to spew crap.It works.And that sucks.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    I noticed that NBC/Politico managed to avoid topics that Obama is failing in…jobs, economy, debt.  How convenient.

  • Anonymous

    “how he could sleep at night”–RL

    Very comfy…tucked right in between Barrack and Michelle with NBC fluffing their pillows!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Brian Williams and Obama? Buddies? Nawwwww. You wouldn’t know it by this video:

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

    Or when Brian bowed to Obama here:
    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/03/nbcs-brian-williams-bows-president-obama

    Buddies? them two? nahhh

  • Anonymous

    Rush wants them to ask “cream puff” questions.Oh my you have a lovely record down there in Texas how do you do it? Everyone wants the hard questions asked to see how they handle themselves!

  • Anonymous

    Were you watching the same program I watched?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t care what they say at MSNBC. That’s the whole point. These people have lost their sanity a lot time ago. They’re poison. They have descended into nothing but full-throated hate. They are supporting, whether they know it or not, policies that are causing people to lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their faith in their country. You’ve got a network that’s supporting this, I don’t care what they say or think.The same can be said for Faux news

  • News Of The World

    Awwwww… Rushie trying so hard to be relevant.  He just sounds like a jaded fat, old, drug-addicted stooge.  

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    it was like he was expecting (hoping for) a goodnight kiss….

  • Anonymous

    WELL SAID, RUSH.  WE LOVE YA!!!   The more you get under their skin, the more you know you’re doing a great job.  Thanks

  • Anonymous

    I am sure he sleeps really well because he takes a bunch of oxycontin and goes to bed.

  • Anonymous

    From what I read about the debate, they used the Latino community.

    Typical libs.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget smoking.

  • Anonymous

    And it’s nice to know that you care about the jaded fat, old, drug-addicted stooge.

    Last I checked, Obama smoked….and cigarettes are a drug. Would you call the President drug-addicted?

  • Anonymous

    Obama admitted to using illegal drugs , cocaine,etc.

    Has not said he has quit .

  • Anonymous

    Some say Obama snorts four lines of coke each weeknight and six on weekends .

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Rush was a frequent guest on Brian Williams’ show on MSNBC. And I do believe Williams has praised Rush in the past, and said he listens to him everyday. Needless to say the Left went berserk when he said that. 

  • Anonymous

    With his head shoved as far as it’ll go up the butt of his life size Barack Hussein Obama ll doll.

  • Anonymous

    Rush Limbaugh is a brilliant entertainer. He is also, academically challenged. His critical thinking skills are almost non existent when it comes to science, history, religion, the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Indpendence, Intermingling of Church and State – you name it – he’s an idiot on every level. And the whole time that he’s doing it, he’s lying his ass off, incessantly.

    Wouldn’t it be cool, if someone from the EIB commented on this thread, and challenged me to explain/prove how Rush Limbaugh is “lying” about politics, life, science, history, religion,.. the Founders?

    “Prove it, Mr. Smartie Pants”, would be fun. Say the word, Mr. Snerdley? Dawn? Koko? Maha Rushie?

    EIB, challenge me to prove that Rush Limbaugh is a bald faced liar. I dare you.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what you mean by used the Latino community?  There must have been a bunch of Latino Rep there in that were the case.  They only talked about immigration and controlling the borders which they should have.  The public needed to understand their views on the subject.

  • Anonymous

    No comparison between Rush and Williams. Agree or Disagree, Rush is the most powerful individual voice in Media. Williams is a newsreader who sits atop the decaying throne of the 30 minute national newscast and figurehead for a NBC News. Itself a BU of NBCU that is the “pimp” for an industrial conglomerate that hopes for Green and medical technology spending from Obama.
    Rush would wipe the floor with Williams. You better hope for a debate between Jon Stewart (his writers) 
    and Limbaugh. It would at least be entertaining and more fair.

  • Anonymous

    And your “head”, BMG, would be up whose inflatable “butt”?

  • JP

    Rush is now a part of the LSM… Ron Paul won the debate by a land slide… Also, where are the comments about Perry/Paul confrontation initiated by Perry?

    Limbaugh… you are scared shitless of Ron Paul…. keep going with you “crazy tin hat crap”, I am now seeing you in the same category as Obama/Bush with your terrible coverage of the truth.

  • Anonymous

    oh, hello Sara AKA “tar baby is not racist”

  • Fudge441

    Drug addict shouts at cloud.

  • Texan

    It isn’t.

  • Texan

    I’ve heard the same thing more than once.

  • Anonymous

    It is; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby

    It is simple, why don’t you go and call your black friends “tar babies”? That is, assuming that you have black friends

  • Texan

    off topic

  • Anonymous

    off topic????? 

    lmao…….what a nice excuse to avoid admitting that you were wrong!

    If it was off topic, why did you disagree (thereby, acting on it) with the off topic point?

  • Anonymous

    off topic????? 

    lmao…….what a nice excuse to avoid admitting that you were wrong!

    If it was off topic, why did you disagree (thereby, acting on it) with the off topic point?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Jabba the Slut.

  • Socratease

    Oh so the science on that is decided? If you just aren’t sure that the changes that are occurring in the climate are caused primarily by mankind, then you’re anti-science? I love how the same people who rail again the Church for suppressing Galileo and Copernicus are the same ones who demagogue skeptics of AGW. If the science is so settled, why did the scientists block the CERN project that is studying the effect of cosmic rays on the atmosphere? They’ve blocked it for the last 20 years? Huh? Why? If the science is settled, then why do they try to stifle these studies that question them? Won’t they just turn out to be wrong? Or in any case, end up supporting their own conclusions? But that’s not what it has shown. Why don’t you take a look Sean, before you mislead others by your ignorance: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html

  • Cheryl

    Bob you have no idea what you are talking about.  Williams is no match for Rush.  What are you smoking?  Obviously, you don’t give equal time to these two fella’s.  Rush is not a coward.  You are just plain rude.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Dockter/1596236310 Tyler Dockter

    Democratic Media?  What is that?  

  • Stevensonology

    Rush is an entertainer, nothing more. His audience is comprised of right wing haters who like this sort of entertainment. Brian Williams is a journalist and a very professional one at that; for Rush to criticize Williams for ANYTHING – after all the crap Rush has put forward over the years – is absurdity itself. Again, Rush is right wing entertainment and he needs to keep his show alive by pedaling such nonsense. Those of you who listen to Rush need to return your college degree to the institution from whence it came – you were short-changed an education and your degree is worthless (if you even happen to have a degree, that is).

  • Brincar

    WIFE NUMBER 4: “Oh Rushie,are you coming to bed??”
    RUSH:..”Right after i take my “pole vaulting” medicine..hee hee hee”

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    i think we have all witnessed recently that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is racist when said to a black non-conservative. 

    Referencing a metaphor for a sticky situation is not racist. Stop your ignorance and go read the book. You just keep embarrassing yourself. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “His audience is comprised of right wing haters who like this sort of entertainment. Brian Williams is a journalist and a very professional one at that”

    WILLIAMS: I do listen to Rush. I listen to it from a radio in my office, or depending on my day, if I’m in the car, I will listen to Rush. And he will tell you I’ve been listening for years. I think it’s my duty to listen to Rush. I think Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due, because his audience for so many years felt they were in the wilderness of this country. No one was talking to them.[...]Rush said to millions of Americans, you have a home. Come with me. For three hours a day you can listen and hear the like-minded calling in from across the country, and I’ll read to you things perhaps you didn’t see that are out there. I think Rush gave birth to the FOX News Channel. I think Rush helped to give birth to a movement. I think he played his part in the Contract with America. So I hope he gets his due as a broadcaster.

    http://qanda.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1002

  • Valkyrie101

    Rush didn’t like the FOX debate either, Brian. And its only going to get worse because the mud slingin’ has not even started. Nor have they seen the last of Sarah.

  • Anonymous

    Oh SNAP!

  • Anonymous

    You are correct…they trotted out the Hispanics and had them asking immigration questions. I felt sorry for the way they were exploited by the Libs and Progs. It was quite pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    He’s admitted as much.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

  • Moosenuts99

    Yeah, all those Mexicans were cheering the Parry Death Penalty stuff

    SUUUUUURRRRRRREEEEEE

  • Texan

    Defend illegal murderers and rapists much?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t wait till we finally start slinging mud at Barak (who’s insane) OBAMO…Mmmm…mmm…mm.

    The Boy has been coddled like a hapless baby…which he really is.

  • Valkyrie101

    No, your wrong on that GRB, Obama is like Rocky, having taken everyone’s best shots, still standing. There is nothing in the republican arsenal that he has not seen.

  • Bob

    Rush never faces opposition views – no guests, hides behind call screeners, only does friendly interviews.
    His arguments are so flimsy that he cant make points unless he has a stacked deck.

  • Roaddog

    Obama is like Rocky; slow to the punch and brain-damaged.

  • Anonymous

    What happens when Rush Limbaugh takes Viagra ?
    His entire body grows three times it’s normal size. [Rimshot]

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between a dittohead and a diaper?
    They both soak up feces from an infantile sphincter, but the diaper has the decency not to spread it around.

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Limbaugh and an Internet pedophile?
    A fistful of Viagra and a plane ticket to the Dominican Republic

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Limbaugh and a septic tank? 50 pounds and a sport coat.

  • Anonymous

    What is fifteen inches long and hangs in front of an a***ole?
    Rush Limbaugh’s tie

  • Anonymous

    How many Rush fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    None. Rush hasn’t shown them how to do it yet!

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenberg? One’s a flaming Nazi gas-bag and the other is a zeppelin.

  • Anonymous

    Yes I would . If he still smokes and can’t stop. Same with alcohol Nicotine is a drug, But it’s not Oxycondine which is a very dangerous drug which alters the mind and Obama doesn’t have to Doctor shop to get his drugs,

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, He,s snorting lines off Michelles belly button on that rug that Bush 43 had installed in the oval roam.

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Limbaugh and a septic tank? 50 pounds and a sport coat.     

  • Anonymous

    What is fifteen inches long and hangs in front of an a***ole?
    Rush Limbaugh’s tie     

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenberg? One’s a flaming Nazi gas-bag and the other is a zeppelin.     

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between a dittohead and a diaper?
    They both soak up feces from an infantile sphincter, but the diaper has the decency not to spread it around.     

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between OBAMO and a Donkey’s ass?           Nothing.

    (I didn’t laugh at yours, either).

  • Anonymous

    The most jaw-dropping spectacle one can witness is how Right Wing politicians drop on their knees on the alter of the Church of Limbaugh     

  • Scarlet_begonias81

    .. step away from the computer Cheryl.   Rush is a gutless coward..  if he doesnt agree.. or like what YOU have to say.. he can just Hang up.  that simple..  he’s only powerful ENOUGH because there are Just ENOUGH sheeple out there who arent smart enough to press the oFF button when they hear that EIB Network jingle..  time to crawl out of your hole, people.. there are better ways to get the truth..

  • Scarlet_begonias81

    did you not realize that it took them almost the WHOLE debate before they ACTUALLY got to the Jobs portion of it?  PRIORITIES.. 

  • Anonymous

    Mine was funnier becase it is true.

  • Scarlet_begonias81

    nope.. you can walk into a store and buy cigarettes legally.. unlike the coke that bush snorted.. or the pill mill that Rush got his illegal oxys from that he was addicted to. dont pull that cigarette is a drug nonsense..  apples to oranges, guy.. Seriously?  stop grasping at straws..  (ps  i am NOT a smoker…in fact.. i hate everything about cigs.. the smell the taste) but stop trying to make something out of nothing.. Rush cried for YEARS about getting illegal drug dealers off the streets.. Moral Majority..   MORAL MY FOOT!!  can you say HYPOCRITE, boys and girls? .. i knew ya could..

  • Anonymous

    Law breaking Prescription seeking Mr Feelgood creep ! Yes, remember when he told it on T.V. that anyone on drugs should go to jail ! The Jerk Hypocrite !

  • Anonymous

    The comedy is the Republicans that listen to him, and believe what he is saying. Rush can’t hear them to reply anyway, so that is gasbag too. It’s all of the synthetic heroin he is on I suppose (Oxycontin).

  • Sharpo

    why are you a poosey?

  • Sharpo

    youre a coward with no balls

    why do you think anyone should give you any cred?
    lolz

  • Brenjlit

    Rachel Maddow looks just like ron reagan   are they brothers?

  • Brenjlit

    Rachel Maddow and Ron Raegan look just alike.  Are they brothers?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I think Brian did a good job handling the debate.  

  • Ckwcolin12

    Please list at least four times Williams had Rush on his show. Second why is that Rush who has backed every tea party movement in congress can explain that they have done nothing in the nine months they have been in office.

  • Michael

    You’re ridiculous if you honestly think scientists blocked research. As if one group of scientists has say over what another group does.

  • ASAP

    I love how you repeat the same stupid joke, and the other sock puppets like that you repeat the same stupid joke. 

  • Anonymous

    What’s your problem? Huh? Are you accusing Hispanics of being against capital punishment? What EXACTLY is your point? If you were trying to be funny you failed. Oh…and I like the way you intentionally misspelled Perry’s last name. It gives your post that grown up feel.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s the full quote, without getting the Dittohead treatment:

    Oh, often, often, and I’m one of the few in a very select group that Rush has allowed on when I’ve called in from the car. I do listen to Rush. I listen to it from a radio in my office or depending on my day, if I’m in the car, I will listen to Rush and he will tell you I’ve been listening for years. I think it’s my duty to listen to Rush. I think Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due because his audience for so many years felt they were in the wilderness of this country. No one was talking to them. They would look at mainstream media and they’d hear sentences like the following: Conservative firebrand Newt Gingrich today accused Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy….

    Well, what’s wrong with that sentence? My friend Brit Hume – we covered the White House together, always would call reporters on this. Where’s the appellation for Ted Kennedy in that sentence, you remembers of the perhaps unintentionally liberal media? Why aren’t you calling Kennedy something if you’re going to label Newt Gingrich a conservative firebrand? That’s what Rush did. Rush said to millions of Americans, you have a home. Come with me. For three hours a day you can listen and hear the like minded calling in from across the country and I’ll read to you things perhaps you didn’t see that are out there. I think Rush gave birth to the FOX news channel. I think Rush helped to give birth to a movement. I think he played his part in the contract with America. So I hope he gets his due as a broadcaster.

    Nice try, but this was not Williams saying that he “enjoyed” listening to Rush Limbaugh, or that he agreed with Limbaugh ideologically. When he said, “I think it’s my duty to listen to Rush”, he was saying that, as a journalist, it was his duty (job), to be familiar with what extremists Conservatives were advocating. Where better to keep on top of that, than listening to the King of extreme Conservatism. Basically, Williams was saying that Limbaugh was a lying propagandist, that was manipulating a small segment of America’s voting block that enjoys ignorance based ideology. I agree, and that’s why I, as a proud Liberal, listen too (in small doses, his new lisp is like fingernails on a blackboard).

  • Anonymous

    Mine was funnier because it demeans the Donkey

  • Valkyrie101

    You sound like Apollo Creed.

  • Valkyrie101

    The best Paul can hope for is to be as successful as Ross Perot was.

  • Joshbeahm

    How can Rush be scared if he is talking alot of shit about Willams? Willams won’t do anything about it because he is scared.

  • Anonymous

    So who the hell is Rush Limbaugh?  What kind of name is ‘ Rush’  anyways? Sounds pretty gay to me…
    Who cares what he thinks, what he says, what he smokes, what drugs he uses, how much money he’s worth, what he drives, how much his real estate is worth, who his wife is, what he drinks, what he eats, where he shops for his clothes, what God[s] he may or may not believe in.

    Limbaugh will be a rotting corpse in the ground or a pile of ashes someday, just like the rest of us. So who gives a crap who ‘ Rush Limbaugh ‘ is…

  • Socratease

    It’s called politics, and you’re naive if you don’t think it happens in the scientific community. Talk to anyone who has ever had to apply for research grant money. If you’re not researching the hot new thing, then you don’t get the money.

  • Fudge441

    Limbaugh listeners are either suffering from dementia or are drug addled. That’s all you need to know about Limbaugh. Sadly he’s back on the sauce .

  • Anonymous

    You SF. Jon Stuart doesn’t need writers to mop up fatass rush- the college dropout who can’t get it up and can’t keep a wife- guess he’s gay like most righties.

  • Anonymous

    You must have stopped checking about a year ago doofus.

  • Anonymous

    I completely understand that sentiment. However, Limbaugh steers the conservative movement in America. That “conservative movement”, aka, the GOP, kowtows to Rush Limbaugh’s every whim… at least, that’s what the Maha Rushie thinks. What Limbaugh wants, the Limbaugh gets from the GOP… at least that what the Maha Rushie thinks. And, I hate to say it, but half the time, he’s right.

    Limbaugh is the guy that gives the GOP the “balls” to do the stupid things they do. His “ideology” must be exposed for the “idiocy” that it is.

    If you haven’t read them, read Thomas Paine’s brilliant works, Common Sense and  The Age of Reason. You’ll understand why the only cure, for collective ignorance, is critical thought, brilliantly written. America, would not be America, without Thomas Paine.

    If Rush Limbaugh had never been born, America would have still been here, spinning like a top. That fact, drives the “Maha Rushie”, absolutly, crazy. Unlike Obama, when history tells its story, it will show that Limbaugh has had a negative effect on the success of the “United States of America” experiment.

    Limbaugh understands the Constituion not.

      

  • Anonymous

    Of course it isn’t,…… to a “tea”!

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    what was the question Brian Williams or politico guy asked about what they candidates would do to fix the economy?

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