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Rush Limbaugh Declares War On Frank Luntz’s Attempt To Replace ‘Capitalism’ With ‘Economic Freedom’

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At a meeting of the Republican Governor’s Association this week, pollster and strategist Frank Luntz made a bold admission: that he was “frightened to death” of Occupy Wall Street, and suggested their influence had made the term “capitalism” toxic and it should be replaced with “economic freedom.” One person not content to follow those instructions? Rush Limbaugh, who chastised Luntz for “dumb[ing] down” the conservative message for a movement that was “about disbanded.”

RELATED: Frank Luntz Afraid Of Occupy Movement, But Ed Schultz Not Afraid Of Luntz

“He is trying to get the word ‘capitalism’ removed from the conservative Republican lexicon,” Limbaugh explained, over Occupy Wall Street. “What is there to be afraid of?” he asked, noting that the movement, in his opinion, had mostly been dissipated. He argued against the idea that “we dumb down ourselves in order to not offend the uninformed, ill-informed, mal-informed… the people who think the Occupy people are making sense.” “Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” he scoffed.

Later on in the program, Limbaugh went after Luntz yet again, arguing that his claim that the word “capitalism” could no longer be used implied that capitalism was responsible for the current state of the economy. “What has been gong on in this country since 2008 is not capitalism,” he concluded. “It is not responsible for all this unemployment and economic degradation.”

The two segments on Luntz below:



[h/t Daily Rushbo]

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  • Christian Bruun

    I love it when they turn on each other

  • Anonymous

    Let The Jester Save The Lib/Progs Some Trouble –

    Rush Is Fat !!
    Rush Is A Drug Addict !!
    Rush Like Young Dominican Boys !!
    Rush Is Racist !!
    Rush Is A Liar !!
    Rush Is Fat !!  ( I know…but it deserves 2 mentions) 

  • Anonymous

    You know the Republicans are in trouble is when their leader of talk and their leader of sound bites gets into a rumble.  I love it!!  The wheels are falling off the clown car.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Sochor/100001421153331 Mark Sochor

    Obama gave a bailout to the clown car company. You guys own it now. A disagreement is seen as trouble. You guys on the left are the ones in trouble. Even Barny Frank doesn’t believe he can be re-elected next year. Yoda your dreaming. Wake up and smell what your shoveling.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

     All True. Thanks!

    But you forgot bald, ugly, his bad breath, genital warts covered, myopic, insipid, and just plain old mean spirited.

    And on top of that; he’s wrong again.

    I put my money on Luntz. At least he his allowed on TV.

  • Anonymous

    Have you seen those profits from the car companies?  I didn’t think so.   Trying to perform damage control is not helping your cause.  Every time your candidates get on stage they step in it.  By now they’re in so deep they don’t know what to do, but to drop out.  

  • Anonymous

    “we dumb down ourselves in order to not offend the uninformed, ill-informed, mal-informed”

    aka get ratings in this guys case

    this would be more interesting if it didn’t come from the same guy who was praising the lords resistance army in africa because he thought the president was actually targeting them because they were Christians

  • Anonymous

    You mean those profits from the companies that are willing to buy back their defective cars? HAHA Oh Yoda.

    Continue to support the most Wall Street-backed candidate EVAH! But don’t then continue to say that you support OWS.

  • Anonymous

    lol at Economic Freedom.

    And putting school kids to work cleaning bathrooms is Youth Assignment Employment Liberty.

  • Anonymous

    There he goes again! ‘Ol Brush Himoff, spewing his mouth-gagging rhetoric which has no validation or support, trying to super-spin lies into reality like the Texas School Book Commission does when they change history to their liking. This ‘Ol Stoggie chomping addict should be bounced off the air for lying. He spins BS like Ben Stein did in the FOX-hole this morning. There has been upticks in manufacturing, buying, auto purchasing and reduction in the unemployment rate, but Ben Stein went into the FOX-hole and reported there is no good news because the Housing bubble has not been addressed. Every other news outlet spoke favorably of the good news hitting the economy this month, but Stein had the audacity to go on the FOX-box and spewed negative comments to the audience. Every American worker will pay more in taxes because of the TEA-GOP-Republican hypocrites. Every American should call and flood their offices locally and in Washington with letters, emails and phone calls demanding they act for the workers of America and not for Grover Norquist and the other puppeteers! Responsible representation requires reputable persons who have not violated decency or ethics while not giving in to pledges to puppeteers or other controls. One who will stand up strong to any and all who would corrupt American standards. There should be no patronage to any one sect or person in elections. Every American worker will pay more in taxes because of the TEA-GOP-Republican hypocrites.

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

    Frank sure got the radio troll`s knickers in a bunch. LOL

  • Henry Wood

    Frank Luntz:

    “Rush Limbaugh is an enlarged opiate enthusiast with a great deal affection for Dominican children.”

  • Henry Wood

    Frank Luntz:

    “Rush Limbaugh is an enlarged opiate enthusiast with a great deal of affection for Dominican children.”

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t it get old shoveling that crap all day long?  I know it’s tough when your candidates aren’t doing too good.  Maybe you can ask your buddy Palin to get in the race, they can use her.  

  • Katechon Phosphene

    Newsnight (British week-nightly news show) used to utilise Luntz for polling purposes during the last couple of general elections. I was unaware of his partisanship at the time, but he still seems fairly likeable and….humble, perhaps?! Penn and Teller ripped him to pieces and he still took it on the chins. Carry on!

  • William Howell

    Nice boy you stay on that plantation. Aren’t you concerned one bit that blacks are marginalizing their political power. Come 95-5 for the democrats

  • Henry Wood

    Sure, they call black men “boy” and tell them to “stay on that plantation” BUT THEY ARE NOT RACIST!!!

    Psst.  Billy.  You are the reason that 90+% of black people vote democratic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aio.seven Aio Seven

    Rush Limbaugh: A mucous filled pustule on the asscrack of America for the past 23 years.

  • Anonymous

    WTF man… Where did the plantation thing come from…Really? Was there really the need to go racist? This is why the republican party is branded racist. F@CK YOU!  WTF man!

  • Anonymous

    Does that mean you have “Seven” homosexual partners?

  • Anonymous

    Sent from your tent at Occupy Wall Street? Clean up that sh it on the sidewalk while your at it.

  • Anonymous

    Howdy senilesenior! Turn down the Richy Maddow show, it makes you type infinite, deranged liberal spew.

  • Anonymous

    B_F_Douche, go clean my bathroom.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the clown car ran out of gas. President hip hop forgot to fill it up and the first homegirl is pissed!

  • Anonymous

    Henry Wood:

    “I hope that I look exactly like Richy Maddow when my gender reassignment surgery is complete”.

  • Anonymous

    I am a dark black, Puerto Rican, German transsexual and I agree with William Howell. You be callin me a raaayciiis, yo? Esplain yoself, Mr. Error. STOP THE LIBERAL BLACK HATE

  • Anonymous

    I am a dark black, Puerto Rican, German transsexual and I agree
    with William Howell. You be callin me a raaayciiis, yo? Esplain yoself,
    Mr. Error. STOP THE LIBERAL BLACK HATE
    Reply
    0 minutes ago in reply to logic_error

  • Anonymous

    Luntz knows what he is talking about. Rush is just making more money talking shit.

  • Anonymous

    This is  fucked up really… i guess I am not going to waste my time. I am black and I don’t find that stereotype funny at all

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    1NotAngry:

    “I am very angry.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Why are you so angry and racist?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Why are you so angry?

  • Anonymous

    uuuhhh… Because I’m a liberal, like you.

  • Anonymous

    Angry because I’m a liberal, like you. Racist? I am a black, Chinese, homosexual transsexual. Why are you calling me racist liberal names? Stop the raaaayyyyyyycism, Sappy.

  • Anonymous

    Angry liberal syndrome really bothers you, Sappy. You have it in ‘spades’. Start typing, fruit…

  • Anonymous

    the cons always trying to con–
    they do not want jobs for americans–there idea of job creators are lawyers and wall street gamblers–they do not create jobs..

    frank will next take the gop plan and make it sound sweeter..
    it is called the TURD salad sandwich..
    TASTY
    UNIFIED
    RECYCLED
    DELECTABLE 
    sandwich..

    see if the cons were honest–and there plans were good..THEY WOULD NOT NEED FRANK TO PUT A SPIN ON IT…
    again–conservatives make their own argument–AGAINST THEMSELVES..
    as always all dems have to do–is get the hell out of the way~

  • Anonymous

    you forgot liar..

  • Anonymous

    Rush Limbaugh is the scum of the scum.  a blowhard and a liar.  good thing for you cons there’s no such thing as heaven and hell cuz if there were, there’d be a long line waiting to get through those doors of hell.. and they’d open them wide for the likes of this fat azzhole.

  • Anonymous

    makes revisionist historians look like students. the entire world knows that 2008 was a result of unfettered unregulated milton friedman capitalism… except in the bowls of the cocoon that is the selective thin memory of the far right

  • Anonymous

    Keep believing that, most if not all of this countries economic problems can be directly traced back to democratic decisions, Best example Bawney Fwank not wanting to reign in F and F.
    You describe how everything turned around in 08, please describe Obama successes that aren’t going to drive the American economy of the preverbal cliff, of course this arrival at cliffs edge won’t happen until Obamas done with his second term ( he won’t have that chance though )

  • Anonymous

    Wow, your a mess

  • Anonymous

    Where in the world do they operate separately and successfully?

  • Anonymous

    What flavor koolaid do you old folks drink ? Some kind of herbal bohemian flavor.

  • Anonymous

    I’m willing to bet we won’t see Yoda on this site after Nov 2012, the previous shellacking was nothing compared to what’s coming.

  • Anonymous

    Not about Obama, my statement includes the actions taken by Paulson, Bush’s treasury secretary in their last few months which helped unfreeze the credit markets

    One thing Obama has been a failure at was in the ‘method’ of implementation of the stimulus and other remedies as prescribed. He half-baked his way through as he has many other policies and that, and only that, will, and I agree with you, be the reason for his downfall

    By consensus, a v-shaped slingshot recovery was the expected result of a properly sized and properly apportioned stimulus (there should not have been tax credits) that even an invasion of an army of tea partiers and total take over of both chambers of congress would not have been able to derail such recovery

    Any how, keep at it, you’re succeeding, you got your debt downgrade and you might just manage to bring about your sought after collapse just in time for next year’s elections

  • Anonymous

    And by the way, most who have this country’s best interest in mind don’t want an Obama second term in this environment, he’s too classact

    And supporters of his like me have to face it, he’s no LBJ, the only type personality who would be suitable to move this country forward & knows how to deal with trailer trash currently occupying congress

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHN3RE2ZBMIVWN5HJBGDPTNOYI Tom

    Hot website. Don’t miss it.

    http://www.worldhappyshop.com/

  • Anonymous

    thank God for the tea party!

  • Anonymous

    I really sometimes wish I was a simpleton too. Then details and fact don’t get to matter and typing a one liner like this put a sunny bright smile on my face for days to come

  • Anonymous

    you are.  with the other 47%

  • Anonymous

    go, get going, time for church.. & pray the lord blesses you with continued protection from consciousness

  • Henry Wood

    China, Vietnam…capitalism with no democracy.  Sweden, Denmark…democratic socialism.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, misogyny tastes so sweet in your mouth doesn’t it.

  • Anonymous

    Because you’re angry doesn’t  mean you make sense. Dittohead?

  • Anonymous

    You just have to remember one thing. This guy’s groupies are proud to call themselves dittoheads!

  • Anonymous

    you’re so kind. bless you my son

  • http://www.facebook.com/aio.seven Aio Seven

    I prefer to call them DittoDunces.

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

    Rush Limbaugh and idiots like him do not know the first thing about capitalism.  A loser like Rush Limbaugh speaking to the subject of capitalism makes about as little sense as a member of the mormon cult speaking to the subject of God, Jesus Christ or the Christian Religion.

  • Anonymous

    poor poor poor  Ruut Limpballs he has nothing to cheer about….the GOP has real good crop of candidates …a pervert; “another” idiot gov from Texas; .a former speaker who resigned in shame; ..2 former wannabe losers that have failed in their bid before…oh.. and a bimbo who can pray the gay out of you….Obama will win easily

  • Anonymous

    You are a simpleton, a homosexual liberal simpleton. You thought we took you for a pseudo intellectual liberal? Pffft… A common liberal dunce by indication of your vacuous commentary.

  • Anonymous

    he’s a drug addict too?

  • Anonymous

    REPUBLICONS…theyre acting like the last scene of Reservoir Dogs. shooting each other .

    Newt vs Mitt..Trump vs Paul… Cain vs Mrs Cain

    Hannity is digging up Reagan as we speak crying with shovel in hand.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    A-H

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