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Rush Limbaugh: NY Times Exaggerated Danger Of Bin Laden Capture To Help Obama Politically

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Rush Limbaugh’s latest proof that this whole “killing Osama bin Laden” thing is just another ploy to make Barack Obama appear presidential is two articles; one from the Associated Press and the other from the New York Times. The AP piece describes how Al Qaeda may have actually been split into two factions with Bin Laden only running one. What a wuss! However, the New York Times wants us to believe that Bin Laden “played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad.” Clearly the liberal newspaper is only exaggerating how dangerous Bin Laden was to make Obama seem like more of a tough guy. For shame.

Limbaugh’s argument was that the AP article actually follows what the administration had been saying for the past few years.

“My friends, this is hilarious. When Obama couldn’t find Osama, even though he promised he would, we were told Osama was of no consequence whatsoever. This regime, they cannot keep their lies straight. They can’t keep their lies straight. We were told for the last three or four years, ‘Hey, y’know, dialysis. The guy’s a shell of his former self. He’s not even operationally in control.’ We’ve heard this over and over again from this bunch. Now, the New York Times, in an effort to build up the strongest guy in the Situation Room, Barack Obama, in an effort to build him up, ‘Guess what, folks. Usama bin Laden has been at the helm this whole time.’ Yes, Osama has to be built up, has to be amplified, has to be blown up, has to be made the Big Kahuna is order to make it seem like Obama has pulled off a major coup here.”

Is Osama bin Laden really someone that needs to be amplified? God, if he’s no big deal, then I feel bad for all the young terrorists just starting out. What do you have to do to impress Rush Limbaugh? Of course, one could say that the attack on Bin Laden wasn’t purely about protecting America but also, as 99% of the statements have claimed, about “justice” or whatever but, sure, lets go with this. Bin Laden was just a weakling and the administration had to send secret messages to New York so that the Times could use their liberal decoder rings and get their mission to pretend he was actually scary.

In that case, how dare they! It’s terrible for someone in the media to force their version of a story down people’s throats repeatedly so as to build up their own version of events. That’s just terrible.

Every day I feel worse and worse about misunderstanding Limbaugh’s first reaction to the Bin Laden news. I’m starting to get the feeling that, ever since people started thinking he actually liked something the White House did, Rush Limbaugh’s been working way too hard to save his rep.

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  • Thelonious Funk

    If there is any guy on the planet that would know the dangers of the mission, it’s that guy pictured above in a green polo shirt sitting at a desk for his talk radio show.

  • Skippy

    I hope Limpo and his zombies DO NOT realize how stupid they sound with their new conspiracies and pettiness.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Rush . Ignore the lowlife roaches wishing you dead and libeling your good name .

    It’s all they’ve got .

  • Barack Must Go

    I believe Barack must engage in phone sex with all these left wing bomb throwing degenerates. They will do or say anything he orders them to without exception.

    I have never seen anything as perverted an grotesque as the quid pro quo arrangement between this president and his sycophant followers in the press.Their behavior is almost as disgusting as ” two girls and a cup ” or so I’ve been told, I’ve never actually seen it myself.

    The closest I’ve come to actually seeing it was to observe the audiences faces to watching it on an episode of Tosh.0.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jt-Childs/1251790025 fah-q

    obama had osama shot and we got the 72 “versions”

  • kvon

    Um, I think someone missed the campaign promise about killing Osama that the President made…funny shit you guys say.

  • TerryDo

    The new mantra: Or a great T-shirt slogan……

    Obama got Osama and we got 72 Versions!

  • Elrod

    This is from a guy who got out of military service because of a pimple on his ass. The chickenhawks are always the loudest screechers.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    What’s up with Rush’s voice?

    Is it the echo from his fatness or the reverb from his deafness?

    He sounds like he has balls in his mouth.

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  • “Real” American

    I sure am glad Rush is around to babysit the wingnuts for a few hours each day. It lets the rest of us have a few hours without the constant “Obama sucks balls” yammering that passes for conversation with those folks.

  • redleaf

    GO CONS!
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  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    Interesting concept for a fat desk jockey. The most action he has ever seem involved the skirmish for the last doughnut.

    This guy is now a total embarrassment to everyone, minimizing the value of killing bin Laden simply to make his fairly pathetic political points.

  • davidson1967

    Well as bald, fat, lying, junkies go I suppose Rush is, at least, coherent in the broadest of senses. Other than that, he’s got nothing!

  • Sam M.

    This is Limbaugh throwing the sycophants a bone. It’s how he makes a living.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Uh… Rush… “this bunch” hasn’t been in charge for three or four years. Now, there were some holdovers from the Bush administration, who wasn’t “focusing on him”, but most of those who may have been belittling bin Laden’s influence four years ago are no longer part of “this bunch”.

    Also as I said in previous comment to another post, I feel it was and is tactically correct to have diminished bin Laden’s influence because to do otherwise inflates his importance. But, even if he had become a retired gardener in Argentina who taught a Sunday School class for toddlers, he still needed to answer for his crimes.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    On Monday, Rush did compliment Obama on killing Osama bin Laden, BUT the rest of his monologue was strictly sarcasm, pointing out the absurdity of Obama taking credit for things for which he does not deserve credit.

    The administration’s story changes with the hour and the changes seem designed to keep Obama from being accused of sending a kill team to “execute” bin Laden while trying to make Obama look like John Wayne. (Do listen to Paul Shanklin’s “The Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden” that Rush played twice today- hysterical, especially if you remember the movie, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”) The Obama WH wants to have it both ways and it’s not working out too well. Rush was right today, too, that once the CIA had identified bin Laden’s location with relative certainty, Obama HAD to take action- otherwise, it would ultimately have leaked out that we knew where bin Laden was but did nothing. The SEAL team did an extraordinary job, but Obama didn’t plan that, it’s the military and the CIA that make the plans.

    Obama and the media have blown the aftermath of this operation because they wanted to make it a political coup for Obama, instead of a coup for the country. They simply cannot seem to think of anything larger than their own political interests.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Also, while I defer to the wisdom of the CiA and the JSOC, I am uncomfortable with some of the information that the Obama WH is releasing. Why did they release the information about the information on the computers and thumb drives? I would have thought that it would have been better to find out what was on the computers but not tell the enemy that we have that intel. Just asking.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    “The Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden” http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-the-man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-liberty-valance-parody-song/

    “The love of a job can make a man do what he should have done-at least once.”

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Obama and the media have blown the aftermath of this operation because they wanted to make it a political coup for Obama, instead of a coup for the country. They simply cannot seem to think of anything larger than their own political interests.

    I’ll admit that I haven’t watched everything, but most of the praise that I’ve seen has been lumped on the intelligence operatives who pinpointed the location, the fact that the operation remained so secret and the brave soldiers who carried out the mission.

    Of course political analysts and pundits have discussed the political benefits and ramifications, but that’s their job and all they know. They aren’t qualified to speak about anything else and if there’s been an overload of that kind of talk, it could be due to the limitation of the station because what else could they do?.

    After all, if almost everyone on the payroll are present, future or past candidates, lobbyists, columnists and bloggers, they can only discuss what they know and if they are politically positioned in opposition to the President, the “vain” and “biased media” cards are just another weapons they can throw.

    (It’d be interesting if someone could put together a contrast between what the military and intelligence experts have been saying, as opposed to talk radio/television hosts)

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    IOW: Pundits on both sides of the aisle have been discussing the politics of this past week because it’s all they can do. Those who are in opposition to the President paint it one way and those who support him use a different brush, but it seems to me that the administration, the military and intelligence analysts and most of the actual journalists have stuck to the middle of the road.

    I don’t know what Limbaugh did before or after the above schtick, but if he stuck with the idea of minimizing the importance of the military victory, then those who actually achieved it could be getting a short shrift.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Magister said:
    IOW: Pundits on both sides of the aisle have been discussing the politics of this past week because it’s all they can do. Those who are in opposition to the President paint it one way and those who support him use a different brush, but it seems to me that the administration, the military and intelligence analysts and most of the actual journalists have stuck to the middle of the road.

    I don’t know what Limbaugh did before or after the above schtick, but if he stuck with the idea of minimizing the importance of the military victory, then those who actually achieved it could be getting a short shrift.

    Limbaugh has EMPHASIZED the importance of the military, their heroism, training, professionalism,etc. and has contrasted it with the loose-lipped buffoonery of the politicians. Limbaugh is always appreciative of the military and their families’ sacrifices and hard work. Also, he’s complimentary of the intelligence community and often wonders about the information being put out by leaks from the administration and how it can endanger both the covert operations and the military in the field.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    @TillieGlockenspiel: Glad to hear it. As I said, I only know the content of the above clip and I worried that in his effort to score political points, Limbaugh was minimizing the actual victory.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    Magister said:
    Glad to hear it. As I said, I only know the content of the above clip and I worried that in his effort to score political points, Limbaugh was minimizing the actual victory.

    Actually, that is just what he is doing.

  • Barack Must Go

    Magister said:
    I’ll admit that I haven’t watched everything, but most of the praise that I’ve seen has been lumped on the intelligence operatives who pinpointed the location, the fact that the operation remained so secret and the brave soldiers who carried out the mission.

    Of course political analysts and pundits have discussed the political benefits and ramifications, but that’s their job and all they know. They aren’t qualified to speak about anything else and if there’s been an overload of that kind of talk, it could be due to the limitation of the station because what else could they do?.

    After all, if almost everyone on the payroll are present, future or past candidates, lobbyists, columnists and bloggers, they can only discuss what they know and if they are politically positioned in opposition to the President, the “vain” and “biased media” cards are just another weapons they can throw.

    (It’d be interesting if someone could put together a contrast between what the military and intelligence experts have been saying, as opposed to talk radio/television hosts)

    So basically your stating here you hate ” FOX NEWS ” even though you don’t have all the facts. How very Barack Obama of you.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Barack Must Go said:
    So basically your stating here you hate ” FOX NEWS ” even though you don’t have all the facts. How very Barack Obama of you.

    I haven’t said anything specific to Fox News and the fact that most pundits, panelists or talking heads are from politics instead of other arenas applies to all three cable news networks. Of course, the reason is that politics generates rating and pageviews because they are drama and people from the field don’t have as many employment or side income opportunities.

    Also, because it’s an easy illustration, there’s a fairly obvious contrast between the above clip from Mr. Limbaugh, Micheal Moore’s appearance on Piers Morgan, an MSNBC segment with Mark Murray and the testimony Oliver North and Donald Rumsfeld gave Sean Hannity.

    Sure, the two military leaders did each briefly touch upon something political, but it and abstract opinions from an easy booking isn’t the focus of the clips.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    PS) And if I may tie it back into where I started down this road; The discussion dominating cable news has been on the political questions and because most pundits are partisan, they’ve both equally pushed their own narratives, be it the “victory lap” meme or whether the mission’s success will benefit the President, while by and large the “experts” are talking about something else.

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  • DonnaK

    Limbaugh, Hannity & Beck, they must be three of the most miserable men in the country, because they spread and thrive on hate…..I don’t understand how people can preach such hate, and then profess to want what is best for the country…It just doesn’t compute…I guess it is because they hate all the way to the bank!! I was flipping through last night, and landed on Hannity for a minute, and he was just full of vile about what President Obama is trying to pull over about Osama…they are pathetic..When are their followers going to realize their best interests and turn these fools off?

  • http://pouredwithpleasure.com obillo

    Obama will never appear ‘presidential’ until he and the rest of his administration learn to get their stories straight. Those who seek to avoid crushing disappointment will not wait for this to occur.

  • Hugo Daun

    Skippy said:
    I hope Limpo and his zombies DO NOT realize how stupid they sound with their new conspiracies and pettiness.

    The EIB (egocentric impotent blimp) and his fans have always been ignorant…same as it ever was.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Hugo Daun said:
    The EIB (egocentric impotent blimp) and his fans have always been ignorant…same as it ever was.

    There you’ve done it – you’ve insulted the ignorant everywhere.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    obillo said:
    Obama will never appear ‘presidential’ until he and the rest of his administration learn to get their stories straight. Those who seek to avoid crushing disappointment will not wait for this to occur.

    Obama willl never appear presidential to idiots like you because idiots like you are idiots.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    fah-q said:
    obama had osama shot and we got the 72 “versions”

    Yet Obama had Osama shot and the Republicans, as always, failed. That’s what’s got your panties in a twist.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    “Bush built the gun, Obama just pulled the trigger.” He had no other choice, once the CIA covert ops had determined that it was bin Laden with 90% certainty (the number I heard quoted).

    The more concerning thing is what I heard this morning from a Pakistani expert (both Pak-born and an expert on the country), that the Pakistani military and the civil government are essentially separate entities, allowing the president of Pakistan plausible deniability re. issues like bin Laden’s location and, earlier, their nuclear capabilities. He also conjectured that Pakistan may experience a military coup as a result of the current upheaval over bin Laden. According to this man, the Paki military will pay whole towns to act as protection and as informants on Westerners, thus making the CIA covert operation in Abbotadad even more remarkable.

    If it is true that bin Laden has been sitting in one or two cities in Pakistan for the past six years and has been protected by the Pakistani military, we have a far bigger problem on our hands than we have ever known. India has been telling us for years that Pakistan has been hiding bin Laden, but we thought he was in the tribal regions. Obviously, not so.

    If some of you could possibly stop trying to pretend that Obama is some sort of macho “commander-in-chief” and realize that the problem is far larger than Osama bin Laden, perhaps we could have an intelligent conversation about how we deal with “friends” who are, in reality, “enemies.” Obviously, Obama has not made the rest of the nations in the world love us, even with all of his “Muslim outreach” and bowing and scraping.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    If binnie Laden were ensconced in Pakistan for the last 6 years he spent half of Bush’s two terms safely eating Arab cuisine in the comfort of a villa within the boundaries of our Bush designated ally, Pakistan. If some of you would finally concede that as military genius goes Repubilcans are military idiots this nation might actually advance out of that long national nightmare that was the Bush Administraiton. From Blunder in Iraq to poochscrewing in Afghanistan to giving binnie Ladena decade long head start, the Repubicans are weak, weak, weak on national security.

  • Sam M.

    Limbaugh is just angry because a black president killed OBL. Limbaugh is being small, figuratively speaking, and simply tossing red meat to his audience.

  • Cpm

    You really did misunderstand Rush’s first reaction to bin Ladin’s death. His first reaction, like that of his ‘ignorant’ fans was happy and congratulatory. This article is about the clusterflop in the White House’s handling of the story in the days that followed. It always amazes me that when liberals disagree with conservatives it is ‘patriotic’ or ‘dissent’ but when it is the other way around it is ‘hate’. Just one more thing about liberalism that doesn’t make any sense.

  • labman57

    Standard right wing tactic by a bombastic, bellicose blowhard spewing his daily dose of vitriolic, inflammatory rhetoric: “When all else fails, make crap up.”

  • Jayson

    Its too bad Limbaugh can still talk.

  • Sheeeeeit

    Barack Must Go said:
    I believe Barack must engage in phone sex with all these left wing bomb throwing degenerates. They will do or say anything he orders them to without exception.

    I have never seen anything as perverted an grotesque as the quid pro quo arrangement between this president and his sycophant followers in the press.Their behavior is almost as disgusting as ” two girls and a cup ” or so I’ve been told, I’ve never actually seen it myself.

    The closest I’ve come to actually seeing it was to observe the audiences faces to watching it on an episode of Tosh.0.

    , said the Fat Man’s lapdog.

  • Davo

    DonnaK said:
    Limbaugh, Hannity & Beck, they must be three of the most miserable men in the country, because they spread and thrive on hate….

    Nahh. That’s just commandments #3 and #4 in the 10 Commandments in the Democrat Playbook put into practice:

    “3. Whatever illegal and unethical thing Democrats are about to be exposed for doing, or are planning to do, instantly rush out and accuse Republicans of that exact infraction. Remember the 3 D’s. Distraction, diversion, and deception are our most powerful weapons.

    4. Anytime you find someone supporting the Constitution and traditional American values, call them “extremists” and belittle their intelligence with name-calling. These people are obstacles to our overthrow of the American system and must be marginalized.”

    Rush, Hannity, and Beck “hate” in the same sense as America’s founders “hated”………………..they hated Liberalism, and identified it as the threat to freedom and the pursuit of prosperity. A single read of the Constitution proves beyond question that it was adoped as the law of the land for the sole purpose of protecting America from Liberals.

    And a single read of the history of Liberal policy in America proves beyond any doubt that Liberals have endeavored to pervert and marginalize the Constitution, as it IS the main obstacle to the Liberal agenda to reduce and remove power from individuals and centralize it into the hands of the ruling elite.

  • Davo

    Now before any of you ill-informed Liberals jump to the erroneous defense that our founders were true “liberals,” The above observation is in reference to MODERN Liberals……………the Socialists who hijacked the term “liberal” from small government conservative individualists after Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini showed the world the end results of Socialism.

  • ChrisNH

    All the Obamo back-slapping from Liberals is a blatant political stunt; ‘theatrics’…to use a word Libs love to toss out there. The New York Tmes is an Obamo mouthpiece, we all know. That is a declarative statement.

  • TrollJuice

    ChrisNH says:
    May 8, 2011 at 11:53 am (Quote)
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    All the Obamo back-slapping from Liberals is a blatant political stunt; ‘theatrics’…to use a word Libs love to toss out there. The New York Tmes is an Obamo mouthpiece, we all know. That is a declarative statement.
    =========================

    And we all know where your mouth is…….

  • Mosesdinoark

    Too bad Rushomo was too much of a coward to go The Nam….maybe he’d have a better perspective on things.

  • Mia Kulper

    Davo said:
    Nahh. That’s just commandments #3 and #4 in the 10 Commandments in the Democrat Playbook put into practice:

    My playbook only came with 9 commandments! WTF?

  • Mia Kulper

    Plus 9 principles and 12 values.

  • Davo

    Mia Kulper said:
    My playbook only came with 9 commandments! WTF?

    Well let me help you out. Here are all 10 that are practiced by Democrats with complete dedication:

    10 Commandments in the Democrat Party Playbook

    1. Never concede a victory to Republicans, even if the nation suffers greatly as a result. If Republicans win an election, claim corruption and contest the outcome. Remember, no one has the right to be in power but Democrats. If all else fails, find an activist judge to overturn any Republican policy. Thwart the will of the people and the democratic process in any way necessary to get your way. Never forget………rules and civility are for wuss’s and not meant for you.

    Always campaign against every Republican bill in Congress or any Republican idea, no matter what the benefit to America may be. Never agree with a Republican in public. Solidarity trumps truth and righteousness.

    2. Always remember to use the deception that has brought us to power. For example, if you author a bill to raise taxes, name it “The Tax Reduction Bill.” If we need to confiscate more freedom, call the effort “The Increased Freedom Initiative.” That’s the way to get things done. By the time the “little people” figure it out, you will have stirred enough hatred against Republicans that they will still support you.

    3. Whatever illegal and unethical thing Democrats are about to be exposed for doing, or are planning to do, instantly rush out and accuse Republicans of that exact infraction. Remember the 3 D’s. Distraction, diversion, and deception are our most powerful weapons.

    4. Anytime you find someone supporting the Constitution and traditional American values, call them “extremists” and belittle their intelligence with name-calling. These people are obstacles to our overthrow of the American system and must be marginalized.

    5. Always consider bi-partisanship, compromise and “fairness” as weaknesses to exploit. Lure Republicans into the false sense of bi-partisanship that will lower their guard, and they will be easier to destroy when you spring the trap.

    Always stay vigilant and on guard against falling into the altruistic trap of American pride and patriotism. Those are also weaknesses to the exploit.

    6. Repeat a lie often enough for our voter base to accept it as truth. Always spin a defeat as a victory for your side and your opponent’s victory as a failure, no matter how uncomfortable you may be in doing so. Remember, our voters are emotional, not logical, and they easily led to think what we tell them to think, and repeat what we tell them to repeat.

    7. Never take sides against the Democrat Party leadership. Stand with your party NO MATTER WHAT. Always discourage the voters from considering the consequences of Democrat proposed legislation, and instead appeal to their stronger emotional urges. Remember to stir hatred, envy, and the divisiveness of class warfare, and you will “own” your voter base forever. Party first, country…….never. There is NO time this will not apply.

    8. Never miss an opportunity to adopt and use double standards. That’s powerful tool to use against our enemies. Hold them accountable to a different standard than we practice, and you will be rewarded by your emotion-driven voter base who will never notice the difference.

    9. Always side with America’s enemies against her. Remember, you are both on the same side against American liberty manifested in capitalism. Find a way to present America’s enemies as “victims.” And remember to always describe treason as “patriotism.”

    10. Endeavor to punish the innocent in order to avoid punishing the guilty. This is the purpose of the Department Homeland Security and the excuse we use to impose gun control.

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