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Rush Limbaugh: If Mark Halperin Called Bush A ‘Dick’ Media Would Celebrate It

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Rush Limbaugh had a field day today reviewing Mark Halperin‘s explicit description of what he thought about President Obama’s press conference performance. Rush couldn’t stop laughing as he followed Halperin’s lead and referred to the President as “Dick” Hussein Obama. Then he humorously described the fact that today the stock market is booming solely because of Halperin’s comment.

Rush suggested Halperin shouldn’t be too embarrassed by his description of the President, since “everybody’s thinking it.” Yet Rush was annoyed by what he perceived to be a double standard in the reaction to Halperin’s slip-up:

“If Mark Halperin had said this about say George W. Bush, would they be falling all over themselves to apologize? Nope he would be, my guess is [the media would say] ‘new ground had been broken.’ ‘Finally’ they would say ‘a reporter has had the courage and the guts to tell the nation just exactly the kind of President we have. A gutsy move. It might have been over the line. It might have been a little bit risky.’”

Rush said everyone in the media called certain Republicans “dick” all the time and there was never any outcry. Although the two examples Rush sarcastically chose were Richard Nixon and, well, Dick Cheney. And for Rush, apparently “now it’s dick Obama. We got Joe Bite Me, we got dick Obama.” And in case you didn’t get your share of “dick” jokes for the day, Rush caps it off with possibly the best one yet as he randomly decides to switch gears and discuss how Anthony Weiner is in intense “dick rehab” right now.

Yet Rush’s larger point isn’t entirely worth laughing off, and makes one wonder whether Halperin’s infraction here truly deserved the harsh penalty of “indefinite” suspension?

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  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Come on RUSH you will have his back too right! Hahahahahahahaha……………………..

  • brownsound

    If Mark Halperin Called Bush A ‘Dick’ Media Would Celebrate It

    No doubt about it.

  • TangledThorns

    Yeah, you have people on MSNBC called John Boehner, ‘John boner,’ so I’d agree with Rush’s analysis. I think Halperin should use the ‘Im a comedian’ defense to get back on MSNBC.

  • Chuck from Tacoma

    That is exactly what I said right here on Mediaite a couple hours ago Rush. You are obviously a very smart man. Of course the lib donkey lickers ’round these parts are certain to insult you as twas I.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Of course they would.
    Just look at the way the Democratic Media Establishment vilifies ANY Republican threatening the REGIME.

    Bush
    Palin
    Cain
    Bachmann
    Pawlenty
    Newt

    Palin especially!
    We’ve all seen the DESPICABLE way the Democratic ATTACK MEDIA slandered and vilified this poor woman for DARING to challenge the Party’s dogma over how women should think and behave.- similar to Democrats dissdain for black independents and conservatives.

    America – meet 2011′s version of political oppression – YOUR Democratic Party!The Network media, in particular, serves as little more than a propaganda filter promoting

  • Greg

    To employ an imagined offense as justification for an actual offense is child like argumentation…

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Greg said:
    To employ an imagined offense as justification for an actual offense is child like argumentation…

    Then, as was noted earlier, what about the cacophony of “TEA-BAGGER” slurs we heard ad-nauseum spewed against both citizens and elected officials alike? – from myriad “Mainstream Media” hosts and reporters.

    The double-standard and rank hypocrisy of the so-called Mainstream Media is palpable.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Then, as was noted earlier, what about the cacophony of “TEA-BAGGER” slurs we heard ad-nauseum spewed against both citizens and elected officials alike? – from myriad “Mainstream Media” hosts and reporters.

    The double-standard and rank hypocrisy of the so-called Mainstream Media is palpable.

    You are so right- and I wrote Dan Abrams several times when Mediaite first started to ask him to stop and suggested he might not like it too much if his own mother were called a “teabagger.” Thus far, Mediaite has been pretty good about not using the terminology- the Leftist posters sent here by Media Matters, not so much.

  • Yoda002

    We did have a Dick running the White House from 2001-2008

  • Azarkhan

    “What I learned from my meeting with President Assad is that he does care about what’s happening, that he wants to respond, that he’s thinking about the different ways that would be the best way to address the needs of the people,” Kucinich said in the interview, video of which was provided to TheDC by The Middle East Media Research Institute. “And that’s what he’s talking about. He’s talking about the people. He’s very engaged in that kind of a discussion. And frankly, that’s a positive development.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/30/thedc-exclusive-rep-kucinich-praises-syrian-dictator-on-syrian-television-video/#ixzz1QmwyJx1P

    “Dick” Kucinich reminds me of Ramsey Clark.

  • Bill Huggins

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Then, as was noted earlier, what about the cacophony of “TEA-BAGGER” slurs we heard ad-nauseum spewed against both citizens and elected officials alike? – from myriad “Mainstream Media” hosts and reporters.

    The double-standard and rank hypocrisy of the so-called Mainstream Media is palpable.

    Funny how you forget that Teabaggers were CALLING THEMSELVES teabaggers first. It exemplified and personified the cluelessness of the “movement”. Heh heh “movement”.

    WHERE ARE THE BAGGERS NOW? Where are the elected officials with (T) by their name? What bills have the Tea Party Caucus proposed?

  • Greg

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Then, as was noted earlier, what about the cacophony of “TEA-BAGGER” slurs we heard ad-nauseum spewed against both citizens and elected officials alike? – from myriad “Mainstream Media” hosts and reporters.

    The double-standard and rank hypocrisy of the so-called Mainstream Media is palpable.

    I have never used the term and would expect all responsible members of the media to avoid it in public and private.

    I don’t remember it being used ad-nauseum by professionals but admit that it has been wildly employed by amateur debaters.

    My position is that Rush is employing the logic of a child. When you catch a child acting objectionably, they often respond in defense with something like, “if ________ did it instead you would not be so upset”… Perhaps the child has evidence that ________ has received favor in the past… But the response ignores responsibility in the present.

  • GoneFishing

    Yoda002 said:
    We did have a Dick running the White House from 2001-2008

    Maybe, but we have an Asshole running it now.

  • Just my Opinion

    Hell, I got a brother named Dick.
    He makes out like a bandit! Good lookin gals!
    We should all be so lucky!
    What’s the big deal???

  • MrsPolly

    No “media analyst” ever called Bush a dick in the course of doing on-camera “analysis.” If s/he had, it would have been a major conflagration resulting in the exact same results as here. As for “Teabagger,” if you guys didn’t waltz around with Teabag hats, Teabag posters, and carrying actual tea bags, your complaint might have a bit more validity. I

    I have been to a few rallies, and talked with folks who had them stapled to themselves and their signs. It has always seemed to me a symbol of the inadequacy and simple-mindedness of your philosophy: a tiny, flavorless, instant solution. It’s too EASY.

    The original Tea Party featured wooden chests hacked open with axes and thrown overboard. Teabaggers like to repeat prefab, simple slogans with great graphics, and don’t have time for any complexity. Forget the sexual innuendo: Teabaggers you are.

  • SNAPTIE

    Here’s the opening for MSNBC Fire the dick, hire the Weiner……

  • BatBoy

    MrsPolly said:
    No “media analyst” ever called Bush a dick in the course of doing on-camera “analysis.”

    I agree, the left is much worse in their descriptions……

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Celebrate? They would give the guy a Pulitzer, maybe a Nobel peace prize.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Who cares? He didn’t call Bush a dick, he called Obama a dick. This is a fantasy news story only to enrage people that are Republicans… Rush does it so well.. he basically made up something for you to be mad at .. and you fell for it, he’s quite the manipulator.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    You are so right- and I wrote Dan Abrams several times when Mediaite first started to ask him to stop and suggested he might not like it too much if his own mother were called a “teabagger.” Thus far, Mediaite has been pretty good about not using the terminology- the Leftist posters sent here by Media Matters, not so much.

    Admirably done.

    To his credit, Dan Abrams has overseen a very good site here.
    It’s definitely a step up from the typical HuffPo-Media Matters-Daily Kos HATEFESTS on the left.

    Not so surprisingly, the Democratic “mainstream media” runs cover for these left-wing hate sites by minimizing or not reporting their egregious excesses and gratuitous vile.
    That however, is all changing by the day.

    If people continue to expose the propaganda outlets of the Democratic “mainstream media”, that will result in further ostracizing these other (Soros-funded) entities.

  • Azarkhan

    MrsPolly said:
    Teabaggers you are.

    Are you done Mrs Polly? Good. Now you can go back to teabagging my balls. Feel free to slobber-I like that.

  • OxyCon

    Dickbama! Now that’s a Big F#ckin Deal!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Greg said:
    I have never used the term and would expect all responsible members of the media to avoid it in public and private. I don’t remember it being used ad-nauseum by professionals but admit that it has been wildly employed by amateur debaters. My position is that Rush is employing the logic of a child. When you catch a child acting objectionably, they often respond in defense with something like, “if ________ did it instead you would not be so upset”… Perhaps the child has evidence that ________ has received favor in the past… But the response ignores responsibility in the present.

    No!
    He’s pointing out the obvious and ubiquitous Double-Standard of an ideologically-driven “mainstream media”.

    Don’t go Jon Stewart on us, and try claiming there’s no media bias – that canard has long-ago flown the coup!

  • OxyCon

    OxyCon said:
    Dickbama! Now that’s a Big F#ckin Deal!

    Speaking of Big F#ckin Deals…the media loved that one, didn’t they? So none of them better be clamoring about how Halperin said a naughty word on air.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Greg said:
    To employ an imagined offense as justification for an actual offense is child like argumentation…

    Translation, don’t bring up the blatant liberal media bias.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    I still can’t believe Jay Carney (Mr. Shipman) got Mark Halperin suspended…

  • SNAPTIE

    A left winger telling the truth about Obama and he’s suspended? The whole MSNBC channel should be suspended indefinitely.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Tricky Dick Obama had Jeff Immelt smack the apparatchiks at MSNBC into party line…

  • Greg

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Translation, don’t bring up the blatant liberal media bias.

    No… don’t point to imagined liberal bias to justify real conservative bias.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    MrsPolly said:
    As for “Teabagger,” if you guys didn’t waltz around with Teabag hats, Teabag posters, and carrying actual tea bags, your complaint might have a bit more validity.

    we don’t… you just saw a picture of that on Media Matters and substituted that for reality…

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Greg said:
    No… don’t point to imagined liberal bias to justify real conservative bias.

    Not imagined, nitwit.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    If Rush Limbaugh died, the media would mourn. So what’s your point? The media is stupid and improperly reacts to some events?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Now if I say that conservatives would attack Obama if one of his daughters was pregnant I get attacked for hypotheticals with “no proof”. But Limbaugh can say this with even less proof and gets celebrated?

  • Laddy Go-Rod

    Rush is, as usual, absolutely RIGHT.

    -Democrats – Happily, willingly effing-over the country since… . …well, pretty much, always-

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    The Left is having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that Obama went from being a worshiped cult of personality to turn out to be a… DICK.

  • Greg

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Not imagined, nitwit.

    You attack with ease…

    “If Mark Halperin had said this about say George W. Bush, would they be falling all over themselves to apologize? Nope he would be, my guess is [the media would say] ‘new ground had been broken.’ ‘Finally’ they would say ‘a reporter has had the courage and the guts to tell the nation just exactly the kind of President we have. A gutsy move. It might have been over the line. It might have been a little bit risky.’” -Rush

    This is literally, by definition, an imagined scenario…

    Please employ your emotions with less gusto and your literacy will undoubtedly improve.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Poor Lefties…
    June started with Weiner and ended with a DICK…

  • Cecelia

    Greg said:
    No… don’t point to imagined liberal bias to justify real conservative bias.

    huh? Are you saying that the action against Halperin came about out of conservative bias?

  • Azarkhan

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Now if I say that conservatives would attack Obama if one of his daughters was pregnant

    We would just be returning the favor. After all, leftist swine have been attacking Bristol Palin for 2.5 years.

  • Greg

    Cecelia said:
    huh? Are you saying that the action against Halperin came about out of conservative bias?

    Good God…

    Please do me the favor of pressing “previous” and taking the the 60 seconds it will take to comprehend my argument… Thanks!

  • Yoda002

    SNAPTIE said:
    A left winger telling the truth about Obama and he’s suspended? The whole MSNBC channel should be suspended indefinitely.

    Halperin a left winger? Oh because he thought Beck was idiot? But even most of FOX thought he was an idiot!!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Carney says that the GOP Senators invitation to meet w/ Obama the Dick about the debt crisis was not “a conversation worth having”… yet Carney calling MSNBC to have Halperin suspended is a conversation woth having?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Yoda002 said:
    Halperin a left winger?

    Now the Lefties are saying Halperin is not a Liberal?!
    oh, this is too much fun…

  • cjd ohio 1

    Yoda002 said:
    Halperin a left winger? Oh because he thought Beck was idiot? But even most of FOX thought he was an idiot!!

    you bet

  • AIO_7

    Let’s be fair to Rushibo: He knows all about dicks…his own. He knows his reaches it’s full length of 3 inches when he pops a fist full of his mis-labeled Viagra and all those Oxy’s his maid got for him.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Greg said:
    Good God…

    Please do me the favor of pressing “previous” and taking the the 60 seconds it will take to comprehend my argument… Thanks!

    If only you were as smart as you seem to think you are.

  • valkyrie101

    Poor Rush. Reduced to that. :-(

  • AIO_7

    Rush must have fond memories of little brown Dominican boys named ‘Dick’.

  • BatBoy

    skoorbekim said:
    I still can’t believe Jay Carney (Mr. Shipman) got Mark Halperin suspended…

    The White House told MSNBC to fire him before he left the set.

    Most likely Valarie called in on a conference line for that “after the show meeting!”

  • Greg

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    If only you were as smart as you seem to think you are.

    You have attacked me as a “nitwit” and then miscomprehended my position. By providing you with added clarity I have received criticism of my intelligence as reward… which is an unproductive cognitive step for you.

  • Cecelia

    Greg said:
    Good God…

    Please do me the favor of pressing “previous” and taking the the 60 seconds it will take to comprehend my argument… Thanks!

    Well, I did, Greg, and I agree with you entirely that outrage over an imagined injustice is merely an exercise in meaningless partisan blather

    I just don’t understand your comment about using such blather to justify “conservative bias”?
    Conservative bias against the media?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    BatBoy said:
    The White House told MSNBC to fire him before he left the set.

    apparatchik rhymes with dick…

    this has been an embarrassing month for the Left…

  • Yoda002

    BatBoy said:
    The White House told MSNBC to fire him before he left the set.

    Most likely Valarie called in on a conference line for that “after the show meeting!”

    Making up stuff again? You really need to lay off that Kool AId.

  • Cecelia

    valkyrie101 said:
    Poor Rush. Reduced to that. :-(

    Yeah, it’s pretty stupid.

  • juan

    Mark could end up filing a lawsuit against A-MESS-NBC because he was told the delay button was on!

    This has destroyed his career bcause of them!

  • Azarkhan

    AIO_7 said:
    Let’s be fair to Rushibo: He knows all about dicks…

    El Rushbo is a big dick. And he likes to work that leftist a@@. Feel the burn leftist?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    AIO_7 said:
    Rush must have fond memories of little brown Dominican boys named ‘Dick’.

    any evidence?

    I can show you evidence of Obama being called a dick on MSNBC…

  • Cecelia

    juan said:
    This has destroyed his career bcause of them!

    I doubt that, really. He’s too experienced, widely known, an author of a bestselling book…etc.. He’ll recover.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Yoda002 said:
    Making up stuff again? You really need to lay off that Kool AId.

    Well we know, but Mika’s own admission that they get fax’s from the WH while on air, so is this really a stretch?

  • TfT

    wELL, Martin Bashir can claim that the Senate Minority Leader is suffering from “mild dimentia” and he can keep his job; Mika can essentially call Sarah Palin “ParisHilton” andshe can keep her job.

    MSNBC does NOT PERMIT anyone to criticize a democrat, if you doyou arefired. However, you can and are encouraged to trash/slander/demean any republican.

    COMCAST has no standards for MSNBC; they allow the continued slandering of all republicans, but don’t you dare criticize hehimselftehone…then you will be fired.

    Rush, as usual,. is 100% dead on balls accurate.

    I don’t remember Erin being fired for calling Bush a “monkey” oro even Halperin haveing any problems when he claimed Obama “was like a god”…those were perfectly acceptable.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Yoda002 said:
    Making up stuff again? You really need to lay off that Kool AId.

    Carney admitted it…

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    juan said:
    Mark could end up filing a lawsuit against A-MESS-NBC because he was told the delay button was on!

    This has destroyed his career bcause of them!

    He’d have a good case, considering some things that Big Ed and Keith got away with saying.

  • Cecelia

    I’m not defending MSNBC though, Juan.

    It’s inexplicable how Joe and Mika can get away with encouraging a guest to behave in a way that gets him suspended.

  • Giant Forehead

    Limbaugh sounds like a 6-year old. That’s a six year olds logic.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    I’m sorry,
    but this is hilarious…
    Halperin calls Obama a Dick on MSNBC — the WH demands that he be suspended and 10 minutes later Halperin is suspended…

    lookin’ good msnbc///////

    what a bunch of dicks…

  • juan

    Bill Huggins said:
    What bills have the Tea Party Caucus proposed?

    We’ve stopped Obama’s and the DEMs big spending spree! Remember his State of the Union Address with all of the promises? It ain’t gonna happen!

    What else do you want to know about the Tea Party and Tea Party Caucus?

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Wasn’t it Anderson Cooper who first used the derogatory term “teabagger?” I never heard ANY Tea Partier use the term and, frankly, because most of us don’t inhabit “Weiner-world” like the Lefties here, we had no clue initially about the disgusting terminology.

  • Greg

    Cecelia said:
    Well, I did, Greg, and I agree with you entirely that outrage over an imagined injustice is merely an exercise in meaningless partisan blather

    I just don’t understand your comment about using such blather to justify “conservative bias”?
    Conservative bias against the media?

    Conservative in that Rush, after his exercise in imagination, referred to our President using “Di*k” multiple times… you can even see here the multiple uses of the term by conservative commentators.

    What Rush effectively did was to provide a justification through use of a hypothetical, modeled the words use and trusted that the combination of his justification, use and right indignation over transgressions (some real and others imagined by my estimation) would result in the terms acceptance.

    Even if I am wrong and simply inferring, the result was the same.. some right leaning folk’s now feel perfectly vindicated by parroting the application of the term to the President… vindicated because they are convinced a hypothetical might be true.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Geithner jumping ship? This June can not end fast enough for the Left…

    Weiners and Dicks…

  • juan

    Cecelia said:
    I’m not defending MSNBC though, Juan.

    It’s inexplicable how Joe and Mika can get away with encouraging a guest to behave in a way that gets him suspended.

    I’m not defending any of them, either!

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Cecelia said:
    I’m not defending MSNBC though, Juan.

    It’s inexplicable how Joe and Mika can get away with encouraging a guest to behave in a way that gets him suspended.

    Yes, I LOVE the way Joe and Mika “had his back!” That’s why you never want to go into battle with a Lib, you can’t count on them.

  • Cecelia

    TfT said:
    COMCAST has no standards for MSNBC; they allow the continued slandering of all republicans, but don’t you dare criticize hehimselftehone…then you will be fired.

    Ed Schultz was suspended for using sexist language against Laura Ingraham.

  • Cecelia

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Yes, I LOVE the way Joe and Mika “had his back!” That’s why you never want to go into battle with a Lib, you can’t count on them.

    Well, I hope at least they feel awful about this.

    They SHOULD.

  • juan

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Wasn’t it Anderson Cooper who first used the derogatory term “teabagger?” I never heard ANY Tea Partier use the term and, frankly, because most of us don’t inhabit “Weiner-world” like the Lefties here, we had no clue initially about the disgusting terminology.

    Yep, it was Anderson Cooper and David Gergan giggled with him about it!

    CNN’s ratings havee not recovered since, thanks to Tea Partiers!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Weiner should have tweeted a pic of Obama…

  • Just my Opinion

    AIO_7 said:
    Let’s be fair to Rushibo: He knows all about dicks…his own. He knows his reaches it’s full length of 3 inches when he pops a fist full of his mis-labeled Viagra and all those Oxy’s his maid got for him.

    AWWWWW Now that will fix him!
    Be Proud! You will be celebrated!!
    Good Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • OxyCon

    Well, well, well, lookie what I found…Chris Matthews holding up a t-shirt with the acronym for “Big F#cking Deal” written on it. while hosting his show on MessNBC.

    So MessNBC and the rest of the lamestream media better not even mention any contrived revulsion to vulgarity.

  • AIO_7

    .” That’s a six year olds logic.”
    Comment by Giant Forehead

    No one ever accused Rush of being mature.
    He’s probably one of the most immature 60 year old that’s ever existed, and a loud mouthed one at that.

  • Azarkhan

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Wasn’t it Anderson Cooper who first used the derogatory term “teabagger?”

    It came naturally to him. I believe Mr. Cooper has some expertise in that area.

  • Cecelia

    Greg said:
    What Rush effectively did was to provide a justification through use of a hypothetical, modeled the words use and trusted that the combination of his justification, use and right indignation over transgressions (some real and others imagined by my estimation) would result in the terms acceptance.

    I get you now with the “conservative bias” comment. Thanks.

    I agree. People earlier today were saying that Fox would have celebrated Halperin’s comment, etc. etc… and I made pretty much the same point.

  • OxyCon

    skoorbekim said:
    The Left is having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that Obama went from being a worshiped cult of personality to turn out to be a… DICK.

    >>>Hey thanks for the plug…CLICK HERE<<<

  • juan

    skoorbekim said:
    Carney says that the GOP Senators invitation to meet w/ Obama the Dick about the debt crisis was not “a conversation worth having”… yet Carney calling MSNBC to have Halperin suspended is a conversation woth having?

    Yep, and Obama is gladly talking to The Muslim Brotherhood and Taliban!

  • MadCharles

    TfT said:
    Martin Bashir

    This guy’s a fruit cake no one can take seriously. He knows Rush will never name him on his show no matter how stupid he makes himself sound on his no watch show. He was just whining about the grandma’s diaper inspection vs the black guy who sailed through TSA’s all over America. Of course the black sailed through. This clown was one of the biggest loudmouth to whine about profiling while Bush was in office. ACLU lawyer after ACLU lawyer was on his show for months. He’d be the first one praising the lucky journolist calling Bush a dick. He’d talk it for three months as all the msm would.

  • TfT

    Yes they did, but they haven’t suspended Mika or Joe or Chris or Martin or…..all of whom have made horrific comments about Palin, W, Bachman or other republicans.

    The WH calls and tells MSNBC to jump, they say, yes sir, how high? And they say suspend him and MSNBC says, yes boss. But if a republican complains about they way they are treated, they are told to grow thicker skin.

  • Greg

    Cecelia said:
    I get you now with the “conservative bias” comment. Thanks.

    I agree. People earlier today were saying that Fox would have celebrated Halperin’s comment, etc. etc… and I made pretty much the same point.

    No problem… sorry for being a bit testy at first… thanks for giving me a chance to explain my thinking further… Cheers!

  • Just my Opinion

    Oh, Just another desperate plea for Ratings by MSNBC Mgt.
    Each show tonight will get about a half dozen viewers extra.
    Morning Goober will get about a Dozen or a Dozen and a Half in the morn
    just to see what is being said about it

  • juan

    AIO_7 said:
    .” That’s a six year olds logic.”
    Comment by Giant Forehead

    No one ever accused Rush of being mature.
    He’s probably one of the most immature 60 year old that’s ever existed, and a loud mouthed one at that.

    Nah… he’s a GENIUS College Drop-out making Millions with Millions of listeners!

    HehHehHeh

  • AIO_7

    You ever notice whenever there is a thread about their fallen dimigog Rushibo that all the TeaBagging DittoDunces show up here to defend him?

  • OxyCon

    Why did MessNBC suspend Halperin?

    It certainly wasn’t because he used a vulgarity on air.

    And it certainly wasn’t wasn’t for disrespecting the President.

    MessNBC allowed instances of both in the past when the comments were pro-Obama and anti-Bush.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    AIO_7 said:
    You ever notice whenever there is a thread about their fallen dimigog Rushibo that all the TeaBagging DittoDunces show up here to defend him?

    And do you ever notice when there is a Rush, Palin or Beck thread, the liberal crazies flock to it?

  • juan

    Just my Opinion said:
    AWWWWW Now that will fix him!
    Be Proud! You will be celebrated!!
    Good Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sorry, I meant to give ya a LIKE!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    To be serious (if possible w/ this subject matter)… it’s these little things (being called a dick and having everyone hear it) that eats away at the image or “cool factor” of particular personas…
    being called a dick will kind of stick…

  • AIO_7

    Enjoy your Tea-For-Two Kool-Aid, you DittoDunces, Rushibo and his child bride Katy pissed in every bottle…and Rushibo pisses in your brains everyday and forgets to flush.

  • AmericaSucks

    Well, with all due respect to Rush, Bush really was kind of a dick.

    Kidding!

  • Cecelia

    TfT said:
    Yes they did, but they haven’t suspended Mika or Joe or Chris or Martin or…..all of whom have made horrific comments about Palin, W, Bachman or other republicans.

    The WH calls and tells MSNBC to jump, they say, yes sir, how high? And they say suspend him and MSNBC says, yes boss. But if a republican complains about they way they are treated, they are told to grow thicker skin.

    I think you have to be careful here because there is a difference between inflammatory political speech (even wildly inflammatory) and a mere ad hominem.

    It’s inflammatory and hyperbolic to say that Pres. Bush is a war criminal or a fascist, but that is political speech. That’s different from calling him a dummy or a jerk, etc.

    It’s up to news companies to determine if they want analysts who have so little commonsense that they engage in wild conspiracy theories and speculations of dire motives and misdeeds in political opponents, etc…

    However, there is still a difference between THAT and merely throwing a vulgar epithet.

  • juan

    AIO_7 said:
    Enjoy your Tea-For-Two Kool-Aid, you DittoDunces, Rushibo and his child bride Katy pissed in every bottle…and Rushibo pisses in your brains everyday and forgets to flush.

    We LUV to UPSET you LEFTIES!

    LoL

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    OxyCon said:
    Why did MessNBC suspend Halperin?

    It certainly wasn’t because he used a vulgarity on air.

    And it certainly wasn’t wasn’t for disrespecting the President.

    MessNBC allowed instances of both in the past when the comments were pro-Obama and anti-Bush.

    Flashback: MSNBC Hosts Called Bush Fascist, Murderous and War Criminal, Never Faced Suspensions

    On MSNBC you can call a sitting president a “murderous” “fascist” even muse about putting the President on trial for war crimes, so long as that president is a Republican. But if you dare call a Democratic president a “d–ck,” as MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin did this morning it’s grounds for indefinite suspension.

    While calling any president the D-word is probably not showing the proper respect for the office, it has to be asked where does it rank compared to essentially accusing a president of mass murder and war crimes?

    The following is a collection of quotes from MSNBC employees past (Keith Olbermann) and present (Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan Jr.) who had some particularly distasteful things to say about a then sitting President George W. Bush:

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/06/30/msnbc-double-standard-you-can-call-president-murdering-fascist-if-#ixzz1QnL5VHPF

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    BatBoy said:
    The White House told MSNBC to fire him before he left the set. Most likely Valarie called in on a conference line for that “after the show meeting!”

    The Iron Fist of tyranny befell one of the journOlists that went awry!

  • Greg

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    The Iron Fist of tyranny befell one of the journOlists that went awry!

    Or… A private news organization sanctioned an appropriately contrite analyst for inappropriate public verbal attack… Who do you write for NORBIT (Jr.)? Your hyperbole appeals only to the choir… Does that excite you?

  • cjd ohio 1

    Greg said:
    Or… A private news organization sanctioned an appropriately contrite analyst for inappropriate public verbal attack… Who do you write for NORBIT (Jr.)? Your hyperbole appeals only to the choir… Does that excite you?

    by the white house direction, oops

  • jakester

    jakester: If Mark Halperin Called Limbaugh A ‘Dick’ He would be spot on.

    Does anyone really care what that fat phony has to say any longer?

  • Slapnuts

    I want candy……….

  • jakester

    Azarkhan said:
    It came naturally to him. I believe Mr. Cooper has some expertise in that area.

    You earned the name teabagger. Maybe you saps should have done some research before one of your teabag leaders told his mob to “teabag” their congressmen. But doing some real research is the anathema of the average teasapper. So STFU quit milking this worn out issue for more sympathy

  • jakester

    brownsound said:
    If Mark Halperin Called Bush A ‘Dick’ Media Would Celebrate It

    No doubt about it.

    Got any proof or are you just spouting the usual right wing media bashing rubbish like you always do? If you rihgt wing bags are so upset over media bias, then why do you celebrate it when it is on your side? Your pettiness and hypocrisy are only exceeded by your capacity for self pity.

  • jakester

    skoorbekim said:

    The White House told MSNBC to fire him before he left the set.

    apparatchik rhymes with dick…

    this has been an embarrassing month for the Left…

    Sounds like total garbage to me.Got any proof or are you just spouting the party line? Typical dittohead rubbish anyone who takes Rush seriously is as trashy and stupid as the slop he serves.

  • cjd ohio 1

    jakester said:
    Sounds like total garbage to me.Got any proof or are you just spouting the party line? Typical dittohead rubbish anyone who takes Rush seriously is as trashy and stupid as the slop he serves.

    jay carney called msnbc executives, lol………..whiner in chief

  • 2012freedom

    jakester said:
    You earned the name teabagger. Maybe you saps should have done some research before one of your teabag leaders told his mob to “teabag” their congressmen.

    Dude, what is the Liberals obsession with teabagging? You do realize if you are not a teabagger that only leaves you to be the teaBAGGIE? If I had to make the choice I would much rather be the teabagger vs. the teabaggie, but I don’t you so you might like some Schwetty Bawls on your chin. If that is the case then feel free to continue your obsession with teabagging.

  • jakester

    2012freedom said:
    Dude, what is the Liberals obsession with teabagging? You do realize if you are not a teabagger that only leaves you to be the teaBAGGIE? If I had to make the choice I would much rather be the teabagger vs. the teabaggie, but I don’t you so you might like some Schwetty Bawls on your chin. If that is the case then feel free to continue your obsession with teabagging.

    Maybe if you so called historically minded people did some research, you might find out that teabags didn’t exist back then. They bought tea in bundles of leaves.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    jakester said:
    You earned the name teabagger. Maybe you saps should have done some research before one of your teabag leaders told his mob to “teabag” their congressmen. But doing some real research is the anathema of the average teasapper. So STFU quit milking this worn out issue for more sympathy

    Have you thought about therapy for your “condition?”

  • http://danny6114.posterous.com/ danny6114

    Limpdick knows a dick when he sees one!

  • purveyor

    TILLIEGLOCKENSPIEL,

    I’ve been reading your Posts for some time now and I find them insightful, accurate and entertaining. Although our paths have not crossed, so to speak, I look forward to “being on the same page” sometime.

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • purveyor

    jakester said:
    Maybe if you so called historically minded people did some research, you might find out that teabags didn’t exist back then. They bought tea in bundles of leaves.

    Good Lord JAKESTER, sometimes you say things that are intelligent, then you say things, when you should have remained silent! Reminds me of the old Chinese Proverb: “Better to remain silent, to have others wonder if you are a foole, then to speak, and remove all doubt.”

    I am a member of the Tea-Party and you know, damn good and well, I know what I am talking about! I represent a plurality of American’s who desire America return to the Philosophy of the Founding Fathers, and The Constitution. It is NOT that complicated.

    Socialists, are the ones who have trying to make a mess since Felix met Karl bark in the 1840s.

    The Tea-Party is willing to let American’s try and succeed, or fail. Then try again. Thats Free Enterprise. Socialists want to be everything to every one. To pick up after them and wipe the snot off their nose. The Problem is, who is going to generate the income for your Socialist lifestyle?

    Oops, silly me—Taxes!

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • Tedderman

    Dick Bush, I get it, that old drug addict dude is funny.

  • purveyor

    Tedderman said:
    Dick Bush, I get it, that old drug addict dude is funny

    Tedderman said:
    Dick Bush, I get it, that old drug addict dude is funny.

    Have you been drinking again?

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: It was Bushes fault he said Obama was a dick anyway!

  • Steve_27

    Jakester said: “Does anyone really care what fat phony says anymore?”

    jakester said:
    You earned the name teabagger. Maybe you saps should have done some research before one of your teabag leaders told his mob to “teabag” their congressmen. But doing some real research is the anathema of the average teasapper. So STFU quit milking this worn out issue for more sympathy

    jakester said:
    Got any proof or are you just spouting the usual right wing media bashing rubbish like you always do? If you rihgt wing bags are so upset over media bias, then why do you celebrate it when it is on your side? Your pettiness and hypocrisy are only exceeded by your capacity for self pity.

    jakester said:
    Sounds like total garbage to me.Got any proof or are you just spouting the party line? Typical dittohead rubbish anyone who takes Rush seriously is as trashy and stupid as the slop he serves.

    jakester said:
    Maybe if you so called historically minded people did some research, you might find out that teabags didn’t exist back then. They bought tea in bundles of leaves.

    Seem’s like you do.

  • donalan

    Whenever you start an argument with ‘if’ you qualify it as speculation – thats all this is. ‘If’ Rush’s listeners were critical thinkers they would realize Rush is speculating about a hypothetical. His theory cannot be tested (Bush wont be POTUS again) therefore the whole of any argument is moot.

    ‘If’ the media were fair they would always mention Rush’s drug conviction whenever he was quoted. If Rush had not been addicted to huge amounts of illegally obtained Oxycotin he would not have gone nearly deaf. If wishes were horses beggars would ride…

  • purveyor

    “Tea- Party” is a metaphor. A superb and historical metaphor, as it fits the time and situation in America perfectly.

    Respectfully, I urge anyone to “Google” the Tea-Party Platform. I challenge you to find something radical or Un-American?

    Purveyor

  • purveyor

    donalan said:

    Whenever you start an argument with ‘if’ you qualify it as speculation – thats all this is. ‘If’ Rush’s listeners were critical thinkers they would realize Rush is speculating about a hypothetical. His theory cannot be tested (Bush wont be POTUS again) therefore the whole of any argument is moot.

    ‘If’ the media were fair they would always mention Rush’s drug conviction whenever he was quoted. If Rush had not been addicted to huge amounts of illegally obtained Oxycotin he would not have gone nearly deaf. If wishes were horses beggars would ride…

    DONALAN,

    You are mechanically correct. Aside from English, you may had some communication/argumentation courses?

    However, (Always a “however”) This is, perhaps, an example of the utility of the English language: Colloquial, crude, vulgar or profane, a message sent, a message received, hence comprehension is, usually, possible.

    The language of Shakespeare, is flexible and adaptable. Sophistication is not a guarantee when communicating with fellow Americans, but, the message does, usually, get through. LOL

    Point taken, my compliments

    Purveyor

  • runner165

    Guess what you blowhard, back then, nobody on air would talk about the President of the United States like that. If you can’t see that, you’re blinder and dumber than I thought. Lord, I hope we can dump Rush next. What a drug addicted pig — or should I say elephant.

  • runner165

    @purveyor – in theory, you’re probably partiially right, in practice, you’re so very wrong. And that is the problem with the idiots in the Tea Party. I want a big house – doesn’t mean it’s practical. Tea Party would rather that poor people fend for themselves and the rich get all the breaks. THAT is Un-American.

  • purveyor

    runner165 said:

    @purveyor – in theory, you’re probably partiially right, in practice, you’re so very wrong. And that is the problem with the idiots in the Tea Party. I want a big house – doesn’t mean it’s practical. Tea Party would rather that poor people fend for themselves and the rich get all the breaks. THAT is Un-American.

    First, you diminish your argument to the point of “dismissal,” by using the phrase “idiots in the Tea-Party.” Your argument is already obviously weak by such usage.

    Second, The very essence of the American way is to try and succeed, or fail. Then try again. That is Free Enterprise, Self Determination and Self Reliance. That is the history of America, The Pioneers that crossed the prairie did not, could not whine because life isn’t fair. It isn’t!

    However, you attempt to embellish your position by denigrating the Successful, ergo, the rich. Shame on you! That is the quintessence of class envy, a common trait among Socialist-Liberals.

    I don’t assume, as do you, that the successful are rich by some magical formula or legerdemain. Rather, the successful, frequently, work hard, get good grades, don’t break the law, don’t have children out of wed-lock, etc. Hence they have earned their wealth. Moreover, American’s have proven to be the most generous people on earth.

    American’s (Conservatives) resent the hell out you making pathetic accusations and then trying to impose you values on us. You think I would willingly follow a collection of self righteous thieves? NO! But, I just might be wiling to let you follow me.

    But hatred and envy were promulgated by Lenin and it hasn’t gone away. HAS IT?

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Terry-Woodburn/1072268975 Terry Woodburn

    Matt Schneider (and many other Mediate so-called journalists) once again demonstrating what a sweet little lap-dog they are for blowhards and intellectual cowards like Limabaugh, who “hilarously” (in Scheider’s words) and apparently celebrate the downfall of journalistic integrity and civility with TIME writers calling Presidents obscene names on camera. FACT: No past journalist has referred so crassly to ANY president, Dem or GOP, a fact that neither Schneider or LImbaugh seem to be able to grasp as reality in their fog of “pro-wrestling-as-discourse” world.

    I am not a journalist. Schneider, you ARE a dick along with anyone who finds Halperin or Limaughs’ comments as either informed, funny, witty or anything resembling what one would expect from someone other than a knuckldragging redneck.

  • LAPhil

    jakester said:
    jakester: If Mark Halperin Called Limbaugh A ‘Dick’ He would be spot on. Does anyone really care what that fat phony has to say any longer?

    Does anyone care what you have to say any longer?

  • LAPhil

    purveyor said:
    Good Lord JAKESTER, sometimes you say things that are intelligent,

    When?

  • LAPhil

    skoorbekim said:
    Poor Lefties…June started with Weiner and ended with a DICK…

    Funny!

  • purveyor

    LAPhil said:
    When?

    I know, sometimes my innate civility (pity) takes over. I’ll say 5 Hail Mary’s and self flagellate.

    You know, it would be helpful if you went back a page to my conversation with RUNNER165 and dole out the appropriate thumbs up, thumbs down?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    skoorbekim said:
    The Left is having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that Obama went from being a worshiped cult of personality to turn out to be a… DICK.

    And you’re sucking all this “Dick” stuff up, aern’t you? You love all this “Dick” stuff, don’t you? You’re a big fan of “Dick” name calling, aren’t you? Well I think we all get the picture.

  • purveyor

    Hey BRUCE,

    Have you ever seen flocks of Geese flying North for the summer, South, for the winter?

    Did you notice how Geese tend to fly in a V formation?

    Did you, also, notice that the V is usually longer on one side, than the other?

    Do you know why that is BRUCE?

    Answer: There is more Geese in one side of the V, than the other, Bruce. Its common sense.

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    purveyor said:
    Hey BRUCE,

    Have you ever seen flocks of Geese flying North for the summer, South, for the winter?

    Did you notice how Geese tend to fly in a V formation?

    Did you, also, notice that the V is usually longer on one side, than the other?

    Do you know why that is BRUCE?

    Answer: There is more Geese in one side of the V, than the other, Bruce. Its common sense.

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

    Thank you Dr. J. J. Audoban. Which of the “V” are you on?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    Bruce said:
    Thank you Dr. J. J. Audoban. Which of the “V” are you on?

    OOPS! I meant J. J. Audubon, my bad.

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