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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Letters such as those submitted by Larry Fuss, “Being unfairly targeted by liberals,” really make one wonder where common sense and relatively uncomplicated human values have gone. Everyone, with the exception perhaps of Mr. Fuss, understands what Rush Limbaugh’s modus operandi is, and that is to make sure everyone recognizes him as the Lion of the Right, the brash tell-it-like-it-is, ultimate conservative among weak-kneed liberals.
Unfortunately for Rush, however, he got carried away with the inflammatory tones of his own rhetoric and was surprised to learn that members of his own political party saw the mean-spirited remarks for what they were, especially when monied support began to evaporate.
Isn't "shtick" suppose to be funny while Limbow is about as funny as sitting in traffic ?
Everyone, with the exception perhaps of John Esperian, understands what Obama's million dollar man Bill Maher's modus operandi is, and that is to make sure everyone recognizes him as the Lion of the Left, the brash tell-it-like-it-is, ultimate liberal among weak-kneed liberals.
Humm why is it with $4.25 gasoline has the Las Vegas Sun not allowed a letter on Obama's high gas prices and the damage to the working poor in the last month.
We need to get back to real issues and not Bill Maher
John Esperian why are you still talking about Bill Maher and others when we have an election. Are you trying to divert attention from real issues?
Time to get back to talking about the morbid 2% economy, food robbing $4.25 gas, Obamacare rationing and increased premiums, the pain of the 25% underemployed, and $16 trillion in debt.
I never cared for Limbaugh's commentary and never will. But he has the right to spew his ilk, up to limit. Like most one sided political big mouths, on both aisles, sooner or later their words do them in with no help from others.
Carmine A. DiFazio
Looks like the dimbotards "All Rush, all the time" 2012 election format is off and running.
Limbaugh gets way more credit and attention than he deserves. He is an entertainer, not a guru. He is less a leader than led by the carbon-based life forms that are his audience. The search continues for intelligent life on Planet Rush.
Two of 5 comments referencing Bill Maher, as of this post. Not a single reference to Bill Maher in the letter.
No one can argue that Bill Maher is a big supporter of the left but we should all realize he'll say things to "liven" the debate. I agree, no one, Maher or Limbaugh, should use the word "sl*t to describe a woman like they both did. Do women use the word to describe other women? Sure, but not on radio or TV, it's done so privately. Both Maher and Limbaugh should avoid the use of such words.
On April 9, former Arkansas Gov Huckabee's radio show will air head-to-head with Limbaugh. Limbaugh's air time and turf are numbered.
Carmine A. DiFazio
If we remembered that all Rush Limbaugh is and ever will be is a talk media "entertainer," and that he went overboard, having an unfortunate diarrhea of the mouth, which he later humbly regreted and apologized, this could be put to rest.
Centainly, his comment was inappropriate. He felt remorse, apologized and has tried to move on. If you don't like him, YOU have the choice to change the channel. Time to move on people, really.
Blessings and Peace,
Star
The main media and liberal talking heads like to point to Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican conservative movement, a contingent to which I identify the most. For years I have listened to this half baked liberal insanity with a grain of salt,chalking up the allegation to mere ignorance, which it is.. But with Limbaugh's latest rant the silence remains too difficult to hold any longer. To the left wing establishment please get this through your heads--Limbaugh is an entertainer with a message--he entertains for hours everyday with his radio show. He is not the leader of a political movement or any party! Rush Limbaugh does not represent me or my political party affiliation. Any part of that liberal charge is pure nonsense. Liberals have it with their DNA to identify and rip to shreds any one who may hold points of view who differ from their own. They require live targets for their nasty and abusive attacks. Lliberals, contrary to their names, attempt to silence the voices who disagree with their creed of false left wing ideology, which ultimately undermines, with the intent to destroy, traditional American values of self reliance, individual responsibility, personal accountability, liberty and free spirited enterprise.
Bob Jack displays an almost perfect case of projection when he accuses liberals of doing what Rush has done consistently for decades. What, exactly, does Bob Jack think is entertaining about this hate monger? His misogyny perhaps?
The rest of Bob Jack's rant is clearly disconnected from actual history or facts.
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Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh chose the wrong words to explain what they're expressing to their audience. Same with Cee Lo Green with him Cursing and Throwing the Middle Finger at an Obama Fundraiser last week Singing 'F--k You'. Those lyrics are inappropriate at the fundraising event for the President or for any elected official. Kids hear that on Youtube and think the President accepts this type of expression, therefore, they can express themselves that way too. Apparently, Obama condones this type of expression at his fundraising events. Maybe Obama's use to this type of expression having listened to his pastor, Reverend Wright's "God Damn America" sermons before at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Perhaps Obama is not fazed by this language.
For an obese four-time divorced former-drug addict who sits a chair for three hours a day ranting about traditional American values and personal responsibility, Limbauh has had a good run. No one can lie, slander and accuse like Rush, the guy who practically wrote the book on conservative talk radio misinformation.
But with his Sandra Fluke feminazi jihad, the era of commercial-sponsored broadcast hate might finally be over. For Limbauh and other right-wing radio blowhards who make stuff up, the age of information and social media doesn't blend well with their kool-aid. As Limbauh's comatose audience waits patiently for him to tell them what to think, everyone else has Google and the internet.
Facts and figures easily expose GOP storytelling. All it took was for Rush to cross the line just once more. He did, and then some.
BobJack - You say Rush is an entertainer, I would agree. But I would never consider that calling a young woman a slut and a prostitute is entertaining in the least. In addition to being an entertainer, not a comedian, Rush is also the person steering the sheeple of the GOP just as much if not more than Hannity and any other entertainer at Fox. They are nothing but hate enticing talking heads, spewing lies on a national level.
Frank
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Head Man Maher, leader of the Democratic Party of Today is a jerk
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He is into self adoration like Simple Minded Obama ... folks who cannot get enough of themselves ... which is why they are addicted to staying in the ' limelight' by doing anything they can no matter the price
Frank Time to get back to talking about the morbid 2% economy, food robbing $4.25 gas, Obamacare rationing and increased premiums, the pain of the 25% underemployed, and $16 trillion in debt.
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Limbaugh, Hannity, and Glenn Beck have made America what it is today, a nation full of misinformed people created by these buffoons that is backsliding as a world leader due to their divisiveness. 37th in healthcare, 34th in infant mortality, 49th in literacy, 23rd in infrastructure, 17th in poverty, and 14th in education.
Wake up America and reject these hate mongers!
The first time Bill Maher is mentioned here is when a poster says "We need to get back to real issues and not Bill Maher" and "why are you still talking about Bill Maher" and "Maher, leader of the Democratic Party of Today".
I know how little that poster likes facts and truths, but here's one for you: Bill Maher is NOT a registered Democrat!!!
Anyone who blames the high price of gas on President Obama, or on any other President past or present, shows how little they know about the free market system. It is however good political BS for like minded under-informed people.
It would be wise for everyone to tone down the rhetoric a little. Cops investigated over the weekend an Occupy Wall Street supporter who made threats on Twitter this past weekend about killing police officers.
"We won't make a difference if we don't kill a cop or 2," someone with the Twitter handle Smackema1 posted about 11:40 p.m. to Ustream, which showed footage of the protests at Zuccotti Park.
I don't blame Obama solely for these hateful, dangerous and threatening comments but I think his class warfare rhetoric has contributed to it.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manha...
Enjoyed the letter, but from the tone of it, there seems to be a belief that it's over with.
I say it isn't.
If you were to actually check on Mr. Rush Limbaugh's show ever since his horrific three day attack on Ms. Fluke and somewhat lame apology for two words he said (but not the other 40 or so relentless and savage attacks on her character), he has not curtailed the rhetoric; he has actually double downed on it.
He seems to have declared total war on women. In the last few shows I have heard from independent sources, he refers to women groups as "NAGS." Not sure what that means, but it sure is probably something derogatory. And that's just one instance. He seems obsessed and a man on a mission against any person that has equipment between their legs that are different than his.
And STILL to this day, not very many Tea/Republican Party politicians are holding him accountable for his rhetoric, either in the past or now.
So, that tells everyone that he is in charge of the Tea/Republican Party's policy of attacking women. In essence, they let him speak for them. But then when they are asked about him, they say, oh, he's just an entertainer, he's a comedian, oh, that's Rush, what a kidder he is, and look at those OTHER people, get on them, don't get on Rush, what THEY said was bad, even worse.
The arguments are dumb and don't make sense. There seems to be more effort in making up stupid propaganda excuses for Rush than there seems to be any effort to correct this all attack mode all the time.
All indications show this double down effort by Rush Limbaugh is going to be the norm for him from now on.
But, on the other hand, a lot of American people, PARTICULARLY women, simply don't like it.
Alot of indications show that women simply don't like this vitriole spewing from him. And they are fighting back just as relentlessly and savagely.
Come November 2012, there's going to be a lot of Tea/Republican Party politicians out of office and knocking on Rush Limbaugh's door asking for a job. Because their silence and inaction signal they have indicated he's their last resort for employment if they get smacked out of office by the overwhelming majority of women voters.
All of this non-stop total war on women is being noted. And it's simmering. It will reach a boiling point in November 2012.
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More partisan blather from both sides.
Why don't you folks simply declare your own partisan performers/comics as saints and then go and worship them and get it over with?
While you are at it you can get a law passed by your a united RINO/DINO party to officially ban any discussion of the ongoing incompetence of the party.
Bill Mahr is a fouled mouthed and sometimes funny comedian, period.
Rush Limbaugh is invited to speak at CPACs (Conservative Political Action Conference) and is a leader of the far right political agenda. He is feared by Republicans running for office because his audience is influenced by his rants. "Lonesome Rhodes" Limbaugh screwed himself by thinking he was untouchable.
The two CAN NOT be compared and those doing so are ridiculous!
Vernos, inappropriate language is inappropriate language, whether it's Bill Maher or Limbaugh. Both characterized women in the wrong way.
Kirsten Powers, a left-leaning writer, wrote her second article on the subject last week titled "Limbaugh Critics Ignoring Liberal Mysogyny as Critics of Rush Limbaugh Ignore Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi Misogyny". In her article she writes:
"Many of the professional left seem incapable of distinguishing between a few blog posts and comments condemning left-wing misogyny and a full-scale war to remove someone from their job. This really shouldn't be so hard to grasp: If you hate misogyny and sexism in the media, then react to the consistent and repeated misogyny of men on the left with the same fervor that you have reacted to Rush Limbaugh's sickening outbursts."
Even left-leaning women writers see the hypocrisy from liberal democrats. When your own side starts to write about it then it's time for the left to understand that it's noticeable to everyone.
The liberal hypocrisy has never shown brighter for all to see Vernos.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...
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Malous,
I respect what you are trying to do, but I feel you are espousing a false equivalency here. I consider myself to be an independent that more resembles an Eisenhower republican than anything around today, which is what a current day mainline democrat looks a lot like. So I really don't like a lot of the characters in the Dem party, but the radicalization, in my very humble opinion has been heavily tilted to the republican side. They have become the party of hell no, and at every opportunity try to make Obama (and by connection - the USA) look bad.
The attitude needs to be from the right, "hell no, Obama is not a Muslim, and he was born in the USA, and anyone who believes otherwise is a complete idiot, fool, and needs to find a new home in another party". The rational discussion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0g5l9kq...) without the calling these people out is what leads to a significant number of republicans believing our president is committing fraud on the world by not being an American and further by believing he is a Muslim. When we all step to the table and accept that Barack Obama, Mitt, Newt, and Rick are 3 Christians and a Mormon, and we respect that, and have no undertones of anyone being a terrorist, at that point I will line up behind your "Can't we all get along" logic.
Until then, I feel like you are giving the 50% republicans in Alabama and Mississippi an unearned free pass in the national dialog they have clearly not earned. To be able to have a meeting point there has to be a starting point of good will. Until the right clearly, demonstrably, and loudly denounces these people, rather than using the cloak of "discussion".
I am sorry, but the right needs to clean up its act, the implication Obama is a Muslim terrorist is alive in a significant number of republican/tea party people. Until this imbalance is fixed, there can be no meeting of the minds, no starting point.
Respectfully yours,
JeffFromVegas
Moderator; Tell that to Gogo.
No Obama is much worse than any muslum terriost could ever be, his agenda is to destroy the country from within.
Jim Reid, Thanks for the comedic relief! You don't actually believe that college dropout Rush Limbaugh can think at all do you?
Dipstick:
Maybe if he had adopted a kid or something to tie him to the future he may have evolved into a man of good will. I think his lack of family fuels his internal rage.
In certain ways I feel for the guy.
When he finally exits, stage Right (pun intended) aour country may begin a healing process. As long as his 4F butt is on the national radar I see little change in store.
Nez Sez Obama worse than bin Laden?
As I said...
Jim the Joker:
There are 535 members of Congress. 2% of congress would be (old math) 11 members. If the Tea Party is as open minded as you you say, and as independent as you claim, name me 11 democratic members of congress supported by the Tea Party.
If you can't, I would say that your argument is rather shallow.
If only the Dims spent the same amount of time on a creating budget as they do on el-rushbo...
Can't expect them to do any governin during an election year though can we?
As I'm reading these posts, I'm laughing my rear end off and crying my eyes out, at the same time, and for the same reason, I just can't believe how uninformed we have become. To believe the President of our country doesn't love our country is just plain ludicrous.
Bill Maher is not the Leader of the Dem. Party, he is just a stand up comedian that skewers everyone.
As for Limbaugh's apology, That was not an apology, at least one I would accept. Go listen to it again, Rush is a wordsmith and he apologized without apologizing.
I get it.
Democrats think it is A-Ok for someone on national TV to call public women C*nt and Tw*t.
Boy, how you guys really progressed on respect of women?
OH, I forgot....I am talking to the crowd that worships Bill Clinton and, Ted Kennedy Robert Kennedy three famous serial sexual harassers of the world.
Please keep showing the world that you have lost all credibility on the topic.
Yo Rusty:
The dems can't offer a budget without the repubs allowing it, and that isn't going to happen. Here is an alternative budget offered last year http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?... it was not allowed either.
Who is Bill Mahr??? Never heard of him. Anybody out there see the CBO numbers today, The great Obama has spent more in three years than bush did in 8. This country is DONE, it does not matter who you vote for it is already over.
Anyone who doesn't recognize a shtick that is (clearly) designed to draw attention to the perpetrator almost deserves to be taken in by such.
"The great Obama has spent more in three years than bush did in 8."
@HackDelahunts- I don't think liberals want to talk about this subject, hence, the reason they want to talk about Limbaugh and contraceptives from now until the election. I can't say that I blame them....what a terrible record this President has managing our nation's finances.
Wow, some watch wrestling for entertainment. It is all fake or real depending on your stupidity..
I am sure there are no left wingers(Mike Malloy,Alan Berg,Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes,Ed Schultz and Montel Williams) out there on the radio so everyone has to listen to Rush!
IT'S A COMMUNIST COVERT OPS HAPPENING UNDER OUR NOSES:
Seems as though there are Tea Bags leaking a foul smelling mixture of delusion, misinformation, and discriminatory gender bias -- are these tea bags filled with Tea from China?
Hmmm.... could communist China be behind the Tea Bag movement??? Seems to fit. A special ops propaganda strategy to subvert democracy. Could Rushbo be a paid operative??
Yeah, I'm going with this theory.
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Jim the Joker:
So I understand it, you may have been unwittingly honest here. If you are an extreme right winger. (I take you at your word) we could agree that your views about running this country would likely be in close agreement with 1% to 5% of your fellow countrymen. It would just depend upon your level of extremism, which is hard to ascertain. This means you are wanting to run this country as a quasi-dictatorship, where a rabid minority makes and sets the rules.
Just so we know where each other stand, I am for a constitutional democracy, and you favor an semi-dictatorship.
Yo Jeff,
I can see why that budget didn't go far. Rather give more money to drunken sailors.
The only question now is how much longer will Limbaugh be allowed by his sponsors to spread more of his hatred and filth against women on the public airwaves?
COLIN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. Who are going to criticize when the REPS take back the Senate and hold the House and win the Presidency? U never criticize Sleaze Reid when he panders to the Latinos or Mexicans for votes. U never criticize Sleaze Reid when he called your Community Organizer that light skinned Negro? How about criticizing the community Organizer to release his school transcripts? What would u say if it was a REP.The Rep are going to win the 2012 election and u will have to wait 4 more years. isn't America wonderful when a Community Organizer can be come President with no experience? He couldn't get a job in private industry without the Dems lobbyists.
I speak as a Conservative voter. I am a registered Republican although I vote for as many Democrats as I do Republicans. Rush Limbaugh is a disgrace to the profession of talk show host. The same shame can be applied to Ed Schultz. He is a renegade Republican and he is a loud mouthed Democrat now. There is no room for that kind of reporting anywhere in the world. We should all try to keep an open mind when it comes to politics.
Rusty57: I was a drunken saior for thirty years, but I wouldn't touch your money. I'm sure it would have the stink of Tea Bags on it.
Well Gigi, now that you've asked nicely, nah, that wasn't nice at all.
I guess using the Brietbart model you have now seen how those with a good heart and sound morals viewed his attacks on Acorn, Planned Parenthood, Shirley Sherrod, et el.
You can tell you REALLY REALLY don't like it. It is the point I tried to illustrate to you and it worked, it really sucks when people aren't decent, doesn't it?
Limbaugh, Drudge, Breitbart, all the same scum...
...you can stand with em, or be a man and renounce them.
Jeff as you know and as we've talked back and forth, I disagree.
I dislike the nasty tone that both sides adopt. I really find it funny that each side has their partisan talkers that they find to be ok no matter what they do.
Partisanship in general is sidetracking us from important issues that are hounding our country. Just one issue, the treasury is borrowing massive amounts of money to spend on needed services (around 40% of each dollar spent) and meanwhile both parties are consumed by fake controversy such as this.
Finally, I refuse to continue to be drawn into agreeing with people that are odious for the good of the party. I used to listen to them all and agree with what I saw as good. No longer possible. If we all ignored them the nasty extremes would disappear back where they came from.
John.....Very good letter.
YES, Rush is the radical leader of the greedy
republican party.
Because the radical republicans waged a war on
women, we Democrats will keep the Senate, take
back the House and YES,
WE'RE KEEPING PRESIDENT OBAMA!
FOUR MORE GREAT YEARS!
Thanks Rush, you help the Democratic Party
everyday.
DEMOCRATS FOREVER!!!
im amazed how many people listen to this moron...this guy is as conservative as a porn star. what is really sad is so many people getting their information from these sources like rush, and fox...the people i work with are addicted to this crap and walk around parroting what ever these idiots say....all the american media is tainted with their agendas more than ever. THINK FOR YOURSELF PEOPLE.
I listened to an entire episode of the Rush Limbaugh show, then I listened to an entire Thom Hartmann show.
After Rush I was sad that a guy like this was allowed air time,
After Thom I felt like I had learned a few things, and knew where to go to learn more.
There has to be an IQ dividing line that keeps people tuned into the Rush show. He is really bone numbingly misinformed.
Thom Hartmann has written over 20 books and has on guests as diverse as David Horowitz and Bernie Sanders.
Wake up dittoheads, yer a bunch of dummies fer lissnin to that pablum.
Jim the Joker:
Your sophomoric analysis of my decidedly unscientific listening party of Limbaugh vs. Hartmann shows how utterly mordant the extreme right wing/conservative/teaBagger/Dictator wannabees (or whatever they are calling themselves today) has become. It is like there is a virus that has rained down on these people. I remember people calling Nixon "Tricky Dick" but not questioning his religion, his nationality, his citizenship, and on top of it Nixon would play into this too. Hard to believe, but congress actually functioned during Watergate.
The new breed of zealots, many of who post on these pages need a rabies shot, or to be put out of their misery with the re election of President Barack Hussein Obama, He was BORN IN THE USA...
the elitist rich using the media have convinced a bunch of working people that they too are part of this "conservative" group when in fact they are using this false sense of belonging to control the agenda towards their goals. I dislike both parties so it is amusing watching both sides drifting further apart on the extreme spectrum. Whats scary is listening to all the individuals who think they are part of both group---the elitist rich bought and sold this country long ago--WAKE UP PEOPLE--you've been had by the rich folk--they are laughing at you.
Jeff....Good comments.
Extreme republicans, like joker, are so brain-
washed, they wouldn't know common sense from a
hole in the ground.
He thinks his crazy conservative movement is big.
Numbers don't lie, he's with the MINORITY PARTY.
He doesn't understand that his GOP IS DOA.
PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL HAVE AN EASY RE-ELECTION.
Fringe zealots can ignore this post.
The extremists on each fringe are at war with each other and the middle. They love to engage in repetitive verbal confrontations that often degenerate into name calling. They seek to bring the middle to their fringe viewpoint.
Face it, zealots on the right and left care passionately for sociopolitical subjects most people find possibly interesting but unimportant. One cannot convince, out argue, nor out fact them. Zealots often reject or ignore established fact or actual math that contradicts their personal beliefs. They can become quite insulted and insulting when you contradict their assertions. In a pinch, they may dump repeated personal messages to "convince" you and then block your reply.
Historically the middle gets pulled into extremist conflicts because they try to apply logic and debate to passionate illogical zealotry.
I've gradually re-learned some things I learned while at college. I lost them in the real world of actual cause and effect. For the middle of the roaders here I would say:
Your posts here are to express reasonable opinions. While posting clearly state your opinion or cited facts using neutral language and leave it at that.
You will almost never convince and should never expect to convince an extremist that they are incorrect in the least detail.
Your best hope is that you may give a person with an unformed political opinion a refuge in a pointless partisan world.