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Quote of the Day - 5.12.09

From Rush Limbaugh, commenting on the deteriorating economy:

In the Oval Office of the White House none of this is a problem. This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and return to it to the nation’s quote, “rightful owners.” Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on.

The tendency of liberals to shout "racism" a little too often is not one of my side's most attractive qualities.  But it's a damn sight less disturbing than the tendency of conservatives to ignore racism when it comes crawling out from under rocks on their side.  Limbaugh's message could hardly have been more obvious if he'd donned blackface and performed a soft-shoe in his studio.

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Really?

Really? Liberals shout racism too often? Like when?

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the quote of today 51209

I don't see were the quote is racist at all. Most people I know are receiving some form of government assistants and they are all white. More government, more benefits for those that need them, well that is exactly why I voted for President Obama.

Chris Ramsey

Art Eclectic

clue

Chris, the clue is in the word "reparations."

Art Eclectic

Credit where credit is due

You gotta give Rush credit, he does know his audience. They will eat that stuff up.

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The tendency of liberals to

The tendency of liberals to shout "racism" a little too often is not one of my side's most attractive qualities.

You honestly feel that way? Because you never call out members of your blogroll for it. I figured you didn't care about it, or enjoyed it's meager fruit.

Whatever, you're complicit you know.

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Limbaugh is worse than racist

Calling Rush Limbaugh a "racist" is typical liberal mush-mouthed namby-pambyism.

Rush Limbaugh is a virulent bigot, a malicious liar, and a vicious hate-monger.

And he is all of that for one simple reason: because that's what he is paid for.

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If they had said it

Certain ripostes to this execrable drivel get tiresome but they're so apt their use continues. One is "If (name here) had said such a thing every cable news show would be flogging it for the next week." I'm at a loss as to why someone from the Left is pilloried so thoroughly for a bit of occasional hyperbole and Limbaugh can barely rate notice for outrageous bigotry, hatred and misogyny. Is it because diverting a cup of water from a raging waterfall is so futile? I'll be faced with Fox News on one of the TVs at the gym and in just a few minutes Beck or Hannity will spew so much inflammatory, false inanity my head spins. If faced with them at the dinner table you'd never eat for having to continually put down your fork and cry "Bullshit!" at every utterance. Beck's schtick is especially loathsome, a maniacal marionette afflicted with Tourette's. Comedy gold if it wasn't so terribly misguided and hateful.

Trippp

You really don't know?

I'm at a loss as to why someone from the Left is pilloried so thoroughly for a bit of occasional hyperbole and Limbaugh can barely rate notice for outrageous bigotry

Money. Who funds Rush and Fox News, eh? Rush's lucrative contract is not paid by ad revenues, because most big companies won't advertise on his show.

So who is paying for all this, and how much are they paying?

Tripp

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SecAn forgot to mention

that Rush is a sick fuck who vacations in the Dominican Republic, famous for underage prostitutes, with a bottle of Viagra in his luggage.

Patriot4Peace

The previous Oval Office

Let's take the quote and push it back 7 years.

In the Oval Office of the White House none of this reality is a problem. Iraq is the objective. The objective is revenge. The objective is the removal of Saddam Hussein. The objective is occupation of an oil rich nation. The objective is political points by propaganda and blood. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and waste it on the Middle East folly. Think renditions. Think forced renditions and torture abroad if you want to understand what actually is going on.

Who is going to say that on the radio?

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Return the nation to its

Return the nation to its "rightful owners?" Obama has a secret plan to give America back to the Indians?

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rush

that limbaugh has two nickels to rub together is a discouraging comment on the excellence of the US educational system.

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that Rush is a sick fuck who

that Rush is a sick fuck who vacations in the Dominican Republic, famous for underage prostitutes, with a bottle of Viagra in his luggage.

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