Is Rush coming out?

no shame.

Does this mean Bush and Cheney won't be on his show next week???

Looks like Rush has finally drinken from the well of Freedom and Democracy, and is intoxicated. What was in that water he's been carrying.

Where's that bottle of Oxycontin???

Rush: Republicans dont complain about fraudulent voting, then goes on to complain about fraudelent voting.

There must be some awfully confused dittoheads out there today.

Geez, what a sleeze. Rats are leaving this sinking administration in droves.

Et Tu Fat boy

What a piece of s**t. No class, hypocritical, and constant spewer of half and mis truths.

So who was making him carry all that water in the first place? Who runs Rush? Is he a remote controlled Fear Monger?

Was rush wearing his pretty pretty dress?

Where oh where are all of the right wingers? Most of them hanged themselves? Like a freaking ghost town in here. Maybe chairbitch joined the army to get the arabs.

I guess Rush just wanted to be the first of the right wing pundits to desert the sinking ship. Sean is beating up Laura right now to get the last life jacket.

I feel liberated...

I have lied, often.

I feel a GOP civil war coming on that's going to make Baghdad look tame.
There is going to be some ugly bloodshed. We're going to hear how not a single Republican in Washington is a true conservative. These aren't conservative values, etc, etc...

Get ready for some Orwellian reinventing of the GOP. I have the feeling that Bush and anyone who's ever been within 10 feet of the man is about to be tossed overboard.

'I Feel Liberated'
I Feel Pretty!
Oh, So Pretty!
-Rush

Typical bully, one good pop in the nose and he crys like a baby.

Candy assed cut and runner!!

Does this signal the end of Ann Coulters 15 minutes? Oh, please God...we beg of thee.

What was in that water he's been carrying.

Posted by toecutter at 2006-11-08 02:52 PM | Reply

Liquid Viagara?

Why the hell is he "carrying the water" for people he doesn't support in the first place? I have a few suspicions, but the likely culprit is ratings. Preaching to the choir will always ensure popularity.

Dittoheads get a clue.
Rush is admitting he has been lying to you.
We tried to tell you, you wouldn't listen.
But....you'll be back for more because you can't think for yourselves.
You know it.
I know it.
Why pretend?

So, let me get this straight...

Rush feels liberated and no longer wants to "carry water" for those who don't desrve it...

Rush has openly admitted, then, that he has not spoken from principle, but was rather a party shill.

Well, at least he's admitted it.

Does this signal the end of Ann Coulters 15 minutes? Oh, please God...we beg of thee.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2006-11-08 02:59 PM | Reply |

No, she will return on "Extreme Makeover: Transgender Edition".

Look at all of you guys that hang on every word of Rush's. What else of his do you hang on?

I love it when you clowns have a hissy fit about the guy you all claim to not listen to yet can't stop quoting him or telling the rest of us what he just got done saying.

could this day BE ANY Better.

Perhaps if Hannity was caught in a gay drug scandal.

or

if Coulter got a sex change operation (to a woman of course).

or.

nope couldnt get any better.

If he truly feels liberated he needs to move to Iraq and become a citizen so the administartion can count at least ONE liberated Iraqi. Make sure he has the prerequisite candy and flowers to throw....

Damn,

Meant "she/he"

I was for George Bush before I was against him.

Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict.

Rush Limbaugh: 'I Feel Liberated'


Wow, talk about fat rats jumping off a sinking ship.
Looks like Rush is doing what his ilk do best: look after their own interests.
"So long suckers!!! Thanks for the tax cut!!!"

Absolutely no shame. Why can't any of these wing nut pundits just admit they were wrong. I could accept and forgive that. Just say you were f**king wrong, just once be a man and face the music. Hypocritical pussy.

I have lied, often.

Posted by truthhurts at 2006-11-08 02:57 PM | Reply

You are forgiven, TH. It's been painfully obvious to everyone else for a long time.

What a fucking assklown. He's sorry he pandered to the GOP but his website is still covered with "vote GOP or rot in hell" crap.

tee hee,

Rush is he one who just admitted he is a liar.

Drug addict, liar.

family values.

Danni,

"Dittoheads get a clue.
Rush is admitting he has been lying to you.
We tried to tell you, you wouldn't listen.
But....you'll be back for more because you can't think for yourselves."

but...of course we're seeing the REAL Rush now. Who knows what the man really believes. What a phony baloney!!

What the fuck? What makes him think he "had to" defend people who were fucking up our country?

101---I don't see anyone quoting Rush---I don't see anyone saying they listen to turd breath either. The only reason people are telling what he just got done saying is that it is IN THE HEADLINE of the thread. I do see you throwing up another strawman----good little pants pisser. Now that Rummy doesn't have a job, maybe you can hire him to protect you from the terrorists in your closet.

I have lied, often.

Posted by truthhurts at 2006-11-08 02:57 PM | Reply

You are forgiven, TH. It's been painfully obvious to everyone else for a long time.

How soon before Fox News jumps of the ship too?

doughy Rush Limbaugh....


hahahahahahahahahaha.

"Does this signal the end of Ann Coulters 15 minutes? Oh, please God...we beg of thee."

I second that, except too bad she's already made her millions off of stupid righties

"I love it when you clowns have a hissy fit about the guy you all claim to not listen to yet can't stop quoting him or telling the rest of us what he just got done saying."

What, you don't listen to opposing viewpoints?? I can honestly say I have never listened to his actual show, other than a blurb or two rebroadcasted on some other news/talk show. Yet, I know enough about him to be cracking up over this statement... he flip-flops like a flour-coated porkchop in a hot frying pan.

Next he'll be looking for a job at "Air America".

Hey 101, how's that coffee tasting now... sipped out of your Rush mug.... a little bitter?

What the fuck? What makes him think he "had to" defend people who were fucking up our country?


He HAS no morals. What is so confusing about this?

Alex, don't worry, MAnn Coultergiest will still carry the crazy-ass right-wing torch, 'cause, you know, I think she is actually fucking looneytoons; the rest are just play-acting for money.

Ann's current, pre-election headline is something about making a Jihadist happy by voting Democrat. She basically calls most of America terrorist lovers, etc.

My father listens to Rush as probably his sole source... yeah, it's sad. He's going to be all confused now.

What I find the funniest about Rush is how he lost weight while taking his "hillbilly-heroin" and lecturing people about self control (saying fat people have no self control, he lost weight by having a strong will). The 'skinny' Rush is the one in the pictures on his website. If you see him in a current picture, he has ballooned up back to his giant fatass size now that he is off of drugs. Just one hypocritical statement from a long list....

I went to the Rush Limbaugh web site to see what he actually said. He says he was carrying the water for the Republicans because he believed they had the best potential for the country.

There is nothing un-principaled about that. He also says the Republicans had their chance and blew it, so he's withdrawing his support.

It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot.

Uh-oh, looks like the facade is starting to crumble.

If Limbaugh's being honest today, his decision not to speak out against the GOP before the election helped seal their fate. They might have changed course with more internal criticism before the election.

Dems win House.... Check

Dems win Senate... Check

Rumsfelf thrown out... check

Bush whining.... check


Great day.

Rush is the cherry on top.

I give you 5 out of 10 points on the deflection scale. Nice try...but seriously you could have put a lot more effort in.
Posted by dfiant at 2006-11-08 03:09 PM | Reply

Thanks, but it's really all he's worth. Also, it asn't a deflection. Just a cheap shot. Totally uncalled for.

How soon before Fox News jumps of the ship too?

Well, the NYPost did endorse Hillary. It's owned by the same guy.

There is nothing un-principaled about that. He also says the Republicans had their chance and blew it, so he's withdrawing his support.

It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot.

Limberger also says on his website:

"Democrats Just Do Not Trust Democracy - If the don't win, they squeal..."

And now Rush is squealing like a pig.

What? Did our administration use the waterboarding technique on him to force him to "carry their water?"

Come on, fat boy, you're just another rat jumping from a sinking ship, except you're taking all the drugs, including the Viagra!

You're a liar, just like your buddies!

Ooops! Sorry! They forced you to do it!

'Fess up!

I went to the Rush Limbaugh web site to see what he actually said. He says he was carrying the water for the Republicans because he believed they had the best potential for the country.

True, and I could use the same excuse to hide stuff like Air America's charity shenanigans and Jerome Armstrong's stock fraud from the Retort audience.

I think part of being a good partisan means telling your own side they fucked up when they fuck up.

Rush had a choice. He could have said before the election that the GOP was going the wrong direction, and it might have helped.

Now it's too late until '08. God bless America.

Thanks, but it's really all he's worth. Also, it asn't a deflection. Just a cheap shot. Totally uncalled


Hey Vern, fuck you! :O)

have a nice day.

"they'll realize it was Rush's cruel impersonation of Michael J. Fox that handed Missouri, and the Senate, to the Democrats."

And once again, I just want to say: Thanks Rush!

Danforth great point. I had totally forgot that JMFJ and I believe Vern, along with others, were thanking Fox for handing the GOP the Mo. Senate seat.]

Vern and others are you willing to take it back now? It seems as though Fox delivered and it was Rush who fucked it up for the GOP.

101---I don't see anyone quoting Rush---I don't see anyone saying they listen to turd breath either. The only reason people are telling what he just got done saying is that it is IN THE HEADLINE of the thread. I do see you throwing up another strawman----good little pants pisser. Now that Rummy doesn't have a job, maybe you can hire him to protect you from the terrorists in your closet.

Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2006-11-08 03:09 PM | Reply


You see it Gramps. It's here on a daily basis. You leftist fruits know when Rush farts and then run here and post it.

You clowns listen as much if not more than Lokisfur or BL2.

Boo!

Rcade,
Yeah, I agree. He betrayed his Conservative principals and became a Republican.

Rush is not worth the time of day. Those who listen to such outright crap are not individuals who are interested in a better country, they are individuals who follow blindly to situational thoughts without really ever knowing the true issues.

Rush is the king of solipsism and runs his life by such.

Running ones life by self will makes up a messed up would. Think of that the next time one listens to Rush, if only you did exactly how Rush sees it the world would be such a better place.....!!!!

"It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot."

Posted by vernon

No Vern, its because we know Rush does NOT agree with us. He is a liar and a neo-con. He has no morals and only wants to remain popular, so he'll do what he has to now, in order to stab us to death down the road.

Let Rush sink with the rest of em.

Someone should take him out behind the shed...starting with all those he slandered with no shame in order to "carry water". Incredible, next Pat Robertson will come out and praise Allah.

Taxi,
All I said about Michael J. Fox was that he was a stooge (hadn't read the legislation he was supporting) and that he was confusing the message.

1. The bill he supported in Missouri was a cloning bill.
2. Embryonic stem cell research is not banned, and is going on today. It is only not funded by the federal government.
3. The greatest potential for stem cells is adult and peripheral, so that's where the money ought to be going. And in fact, is.

My discussion on the subject was limited to that. I didn't get into prognosticating the winner.

You clowns listen as much if not more than Lokisfur or BL2.

Boo!

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2006-11-08 03:18 PM


Your delusions are showing again. Be careful with your BOO's I wouldn't want you pissing all over yourself again. It was really embarrassing at Chucky Cheeses birthday party. Maybe put a lock on your closet door to protect you from the terrorists in there---of course you should be aware that they only attack pants pissers like yourself---everyone else overcame their fear long ago.

Rush Limbaugh is your classic opportunist.

The only thing that has changed in the last 48 hours is the GOP has gone from winners to losers. Ideology, policies, the vast number of personalities - all the same.

Rush is the sort of guy that, once they close in on Dear Leader's bunker, comes out with his hands up proclaiming "I always hated that guy! I am on your side!"

Those who listen to such outright crap are not individuals who are interested in a better country, they are individuals who follow blindly to situational thoughts without really ever knowing the true issues.

Uh huh.

And what are you basing your assessments on?

Let me guess, it's cool to bag on Rush on a Lefty blog and you want to fit in?

I'm really surprised to see Rush do this. With Democrats in control of the legislative branch he's actually got a shot of saying that liberals are destroying America.

Let me guess, it's cool to bag on Rush on a Lefty blog and you want to fit in?


sounds like rush wants to fit in with the bush bashers.

Has it occurred to any of you that perhaps, just maybe that Rush feels that the Republicans have abandoned their conservative principles in a big way?
That in spite of such they are still preferable to the Democrats?

I know it's how I feel about this.

I think it sucks that the Dems won so convincingly. Yet, I don't feel a sense of loss because the Republicans weren't governing according to Conservative principles anyway.


Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity.

Be careful with your BOO's I wouldn't want you pissing all over yourself again. It was really embarrassing at Chucky Cheeses birthday party. Maybe put a lock on your closet door to protect you from the terrorists in there---of course you should be aware that they only attack pants pissers like yourself---everyone else overcame their fear long ago.

Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2006-11-08 03:24 PM | Reply


To think that all of this time I was just assuming you were a senile old bat...Now you've gone and proven it (as if Bush molesting kids, 911 conspiracies, calling mother teresa a whore, and stealing the neighborhood kid's baseballs weren't enough proof...)

How many Chucky Cheese's have you been thrown out of Creepy?

Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity.


because I hate the fact that a lying drug addict holds such sway with people.

JeffJ,

Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity.

Well to be fair, Rush is the sort of guy who puts people he disagrees with on the defensive. When defending your own position, the mind also considers how the guy attacking you could be wrong.

I'm always talking about how much my party sucks, so I think it's pretty safe for me to say that if I was a pundit, I would be doing the same thing. Focusing on how my party can do better as opposed to lecturing on how the opposition will destroy America.

Has it occurred to any of you that perhaps, just maybe that Rush feels that the Republicans have abandoned their conservative principles in a big way?

If the Reps had held both Houses, Rush would be carrying a 50 gallon barrel of GOPwater and praising them to high heaven. Using "Rush" and "principles" in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Rush by himself is an oxy'd moron.

As Limbaugh ventures forth yet again to cash another 7 figure check, I'm sure that Truthhurt's words will be echoing in his once working ears like the sound of his ex-wife's nasal whining.

(EEEEEERRRRIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG
GG ... EEEEERRRRRIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG
)

Whoop! Whoop!

- Pelooney's Toe Sucker

Posted by corporal



demonstrating that all you believe in is lies and bullshit, well done.

"Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity."

Jeff, if he wanted to come out and say that he disagreed with them, that would have been fine.

But he's been 100% behind their agenda the whole time and now he comes out and says he was only supporting them because he "had" to? He didn't have to do anything. If he chose to support policies that he didn't agree with (and it such a manner that was condescendig to others), then that makes him a lying shill and that is all there is to it.

"It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot."
Posted by vernon at 2006-11-08 03:11 PM


YEAH! Sort of like stopping a rape you witnessed ---- after the rapist has already finished and left.
You're a chump vern!

P-Ville,

Rush certainly brings some of this on himself.

He relentlessly employs sweeping generalizations and as such, he tends to lump ALL liberals into the same categories. He rarely ever clarifies that he is not speaking about ALL democrats or ALL liberals.

So in that regard he has reeped what he has sown.


However, many of his detractors honestly believe that he is 100% wrong about everything 100% of the time. It's humorous to watch.

Rush is a parlor trick.

When Al Gore spoke after his nomination, Rush proclaimed 'See? He didn't disown Clinton. That proves he's just Clinton's lapdog!'

Of course, had Gore disowned Clinton, Rush would've said 'See? He's been faking the support all along!'

Opportunist, water-carrier, liar.

classic example of politics over principal.

Sully,

I would agree with you except that Rush was a critic of the Harriet Miers nomination. He has been a staunch critic of the illegal immigration policy. He has criticized a lack of fiscal constraint.

Granted, he has been a lot less vocal about these short-comings than has Hannity; but he hasn't been lockstep with the Republicans.

Rush Limbaugh: 'I Feel Liberated'

Why? did you burn your bra?

I think the only person on Earth to support the Harriet Miers nomination was Niceville.

"I would agree with you except that Rush was a critic of the Harriet Miers nomination. He has been a staunch critic of the illegal immigration policy. He has criticized a lack of fiscal constraint."

Fair enough. Then why is he now claiming that he "had to" defend any of their policies? He didn't have to do anything. He made his own decision to support certain policies and now he's trying to claim it wasn't his choice. Sorry but that is bullshit any way you look at it.

"and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot."
Posted by vernon at 2006-11-08 03:11 PM


YEAH! You know what this is really about? He is positioning himself in an attempt to avoid future prosecution for his participation in the con game that was run on the American people.
Remember, to witness a crime and not report it is the same a perpetrating that crime! Limbaugh not only participated, he knowingly propagated lies and was monetarily rewarded for it. I suspect Hannity, Hume and the rest of the criminal excuse making cover up cabal to follow shortly!

"And what are you basing your assessments (of Rush) on?"
Posted by JeffJ

Probably this:

"And what are you basing your assessments (of Rush) on?"
Posted by JeffJ

Probably this:

YEAH! Sort of like stopping a rape you witnessed ---- after the rapist has already finished and left.
You're a chump vern!

Posted by Redneckville at 2006-11-08 03:38 PM | Reply


I just wanted to post that again. I know it's unintentional, but this pud makes me laugh sometimes.
Is there any doubt he recieves a check from the Government because he's incapable of taking care of himself?

101's just miffed Rush can hold his, or anybody else's water.

"It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot."

you have to understand, and if the shoe were on the other foot... you would, that few things rile up folks as political rhetoric. and rash rush makes his living spewing such rhetoric with filtered and venomous half truths. now after years of it he says... 'on second thought' or something the equivelant. that is noteworthy.
is he cutting and running?
and please remember how everyone listened to the other quack, zed miller when he turned on the dems a couple of years back.

while i am not a dem, i appreciate the removal of power that the neocons once had in their hands. bush's subsequent squirming is also most enjoyable... and praise god, rummy is gone before virginia give the dems the senate.

yes, i enjoy the embarrassment that the reps are enduring... and i hope it continues until something sinks into the chimp's head that he has been WRONG!

is that wrongof me?
me thinks not.

peace

101---You are the only one on this site to ever call Mother Theresa a whore---and you've done it repeatedly. I never said W molested kids---I said his father, H W was a pedophile(there have been books written and plenty of witnesses,try googling HW BUSH pedophile). Bush isn't a pedophile as far as I know, but his homosexual encounters have been well documented(just ask--I'll be glad to provide.

As far as the 911 conspiracies--I accept your statement as fact. There are too many unanswered questions. As to the stealing of baseball bats--never happened.

As to you pissing your pants over the terrorists in your closet---I imagine it happens once a day

Yes, why didn't he say so before? Who was "making" him carry Bush's water?

What a pathetic, fat, lying piece of shit.

Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict.

he felt he had to carry the water of republicans cause he felt democrats would do a worse job.

what a wimp.


hey rush, ever hear of hte word principle?

Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity.

I have to laugh, really!

One would have to be objective to capture the view.

Rush appeals to your value because he spouts out human behavior you seem to carry. Those behaviors are ideals and not realistic in any sense of the world.

It is sad you seem to lack the ability to grasp the difference between your ideals and reality.

12 years of being sore losers and now one day of being bad winners. .



yep wasnt rush the one who had the countdown to clinton leaving office, something about country held hostage or something?

Republicans have for the past 15 years played partisan nasty politics with a vengence.

You lose one election and so quickly the rat bites its master.

BuffloBoob,
So one is a pedo, the other is gay. Gotcha. Do you have slogans that reflect that on each side of your sandwich board you crazy old codger?

Hmmm, let me guess...
Upwards of 30 cats, 1 bedroom apartment, no friends (except Alex Trebec and the Gieko Gecko), an 84 Ford Escort, well over 250lbs, and you wear a white belt with gold buckle. Something tells me you have a bowl full of Butterscotch Drops on the kitchen table.
Am I close?

nicevilles back on the pelosi thread.

sorry spoofer.

Liberalism aka brain rot is such an insidious affliction.
Posted by corporal at 2006-11-08 03:56 PM |

Denial is such a sad and pathetic state of human existence.
Posted by stopthebox_itch at 2006-06-28 10:58 AM | Reply

Denial is such a sad state of being.
Posted by stopthebox_itch at 2006-06-26 11:53 AM | Reply

101---You are almost correct. H W Bush is a pedophile(books written about it--plenty of witnesses). But W Bush is not gay---he is bisexual(plenty of witnesses). Who's dick do you think Jeff Gannon was sucking in all those Whitehouse midnight visits?

he was lonely on PWZ

Crassus,

You should laugh at yourself.

You make the classic Rush blunder.

You assume that because one listens to Rush that one automatically agrees 100% with what he says.

Speaking for myself, that is not the case.

Bush? Bisexual? DO NOT WANT

It is sad you seem to lack the ability to grasp the difference between your ideals and reality.

Posted by Crassus at 2006-11-08 03:57 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
FunnyNewsworthyOffensiveAbusiv
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Not at all.

It's called a difference of opinion, Crass.

Difference of opinion is part and parcel of politics. Who has the best ideas for the greatest possible good? That is the quintessential argument. Performing a cost/benefit analysis and agreeing upon the results is difficult enough.

My ideals are in line with most others. It's HOW to best achieve the agreed upon societal goals is where the disagreement comes into play.

Discourse disappears and partisanship consumes when one side adopts the tactic: "If you don't agree with my policies, then you are out to screw _____________"

This is the tactic you just employed.

Once again, Mr. Limbaugh has had a quote taken out of context and splayed all over the internet without any inclusion of the posted transcript it was lifted from.

He explains this statement in its entirety if you read the transcript. I am on board with everything he had to say. I've been in awe of the charges leveled at Bush by the left over the last six years of his "neo-conservatism" Which oh so amusing to hear liberals throw around this term because they think it sounds "evil;" look it up. How is this a bad thing?

The whole reason the Republicrats lost big is because they are no longer the conservative voice for the country. They continue to pander to the left in hopes of appeasing them; not understanding that it only serves to embolden them.

I hope the G.O.P. learns a valuable lesson from this, but in light of President Bush's comments today, I fear this is not going to be the case.

Congratulations to the left, you truely beat something with nothing...well played.

What's the deal here? Is Rush your boyfriend or something? He just plunged a knife into each and every loyal (AKA rabid) Bush supporters back!
Now you say he wasn't "in lockstep"? Hell, so when did you call him a "liberal" like you did everyone else who dared critique master Bush?

Brentrice,

Would you link to a transcript?

Brentrice,

Have you ever posted on the Drudge Retort under any other name(s), and if so, which one(s)?

I'm an idiot, not sure why the direct link did not show up. If you go to the link that displayed, the transcript link is directly under the photograph of Rush with "I Feel Liberated" above him.

Danforth, I think my name usually shows up as brentrice1. I only posted for the first time this week, but I've been visiting the site for over a year.

"""Has it occurred to any of you that perhaps, just maybe that Rush feels that the Republicans have abandoned their conservative principles in a big way?
That in spite of such they are still preferable to the Democrats?

I know it's how I feel about this."""

Jeff, if that is the case, he should have started barking at the reps. long before this mid-term fiasco...the conservatives have deviated to a perverted degree from their core ideology, but they did that long before yesterday.

From the Limbaugh link:

"But it has been difficult sometimes, when these people on our side have not had the guts to stand up for themselves, have not had the guts to explain what they really believe and why they're doing what they're doing. When they haven't had the courage to be who they are..."

Just like Rush: bagging on someone else for the selfsame thing he's doing.

"neo-conservatism" Which oh so amusing to hear liberals throw around this term because they think it sounds "evil;" look it up. How is this a bad thing?
Posted by brentrice1 at 2006-11-08 04:13 PM

YEAH! As evil as "liberal" I suppose!

Once again, Mr. Limbaugh has had a quote taken out of context and splayed all over the internet without any inclusion of the posted transcript it was lifted from.
Posted by brentrice1 at 2006-11-08 04:13 PM

Awwwe! Strange how someone who makes a very lucrative living holding people accountable for what they say, using out of context blurts and distorted "stories" to lambaste "liberals" all of a sudden needs to be given a break! Get Fucking Real!

You live by the sword you die by the sword! Be a freakn man for once how bout it!

Brentrice1,

Thanks for the answer, and welcome.

Danforth, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that? I listen to Rush Limbaugh periodically, one might even say regularly; and I have never found myself for want of him standing up for himself; nay, I may even be as bold to say that there are times I wish he wouldn't have the courage to be who he is.

If this administration loses the support of talk radio, what will become of them???

George Bush will be very very alone...

Brentrice,

Ok, I read it and I can honestly see where the man is coming from. I'm also the Democrat everyone confuses for a Republican because I'm constantly saying "wow, the Democrats sure are fucking up." So I can't really agree with the man's actions.

Since I was driving from Rochester to Baltimore today I decided to listen to Rush (something that's hard to avoid when you have your radio on AM ;-). At least he didn't disappoint me. Right after he was 'interrupted' by Bush's Rumsfeld speech and press conference, he tore into Bush and compared his behavior to Clinton after the 94 and 98 elections. Rush claimed that Clinton wimped out as part of his plan to assure himself a high approval rating and it sounded like he was accusing Dubya of trying to do the same thing.

Rush also claimed that this was not a victory for liberals or even Democrats; rather it was an humiliating loss for Republicans, but NOT for conservatives, who stayed true and were the real winners yesterday. To hear him talk, every Republican who lost deserved it while the ones who didn't were the ones he had always felt was going to win in the first place (as if it was his opinions and his alone that had influenced the voters).

OCU

Redneckville, all I was trying to point out is that this is being quoted as if Rush has somehow turned his back on his beliefs; which couldn't be further from the truth. In his transcript he explains his reasoning for continuing to support the Rupublicans leading up to the election, despite their spineless pre(and I hope to God not post)-election stance.

Oh, side note, pundit newsletters make horrible gifts. Don't let the pundits fool you.

Once again, Mr. Limbaugh has had a quote taken out of context and splayed all over the internet without any inclusion of the posted transcript it was lifted from.

He explains this statement in its entirety if you read the transcript.

At the time he said it, the transcript wasn't available. His words were so incendiary to his listening audience that Matt Drudge put it on his front page with a siren within moments of him saying it.

OCU...I don't know if it's just that Rush is the patron saint of the inability to accept responsbility...or he's just jacked up on one of his Malibu Rum, viagra, oxycon, coconut snow, tomato bisque cocktails...or both.

Pleasantville,

I'm laughing at your pundit newsletter comment. In agreement with you, but who can blame someone for a shamless plug when it helps them rake in the dough.

Danforth,

thanks for the welcome...I'll try to keep myself out of the vicious threads I see from time to time.

Jeff J said:
"Has it occurred to any of you that perhaps, just maybe that Rush feels that the Republicans have abandoned their conservative principles in a big way?"

Just what are those conservative principles? He is divorced a few times, dodged the draft, dropped out of college, is an admitted drug abuser, carries viagra (what use is there for that outside of wedlock?). I have never seen the guy shoot a gun (he doesn't wear jeans so I have a hard time imagining him as an outdoor type) and seems to have ZERO problem with the government spending more money than they take in. Further, he applauds the erosion of civil right, etc. Please tell me one issue where he has not been lockstep with the President? Further, show me one way in which he lives his life which is consistent with 'conservative values'. At least a guy like Hannity could potentially claim he is abondoning ship based on principles - but Rush has not only walked lock-step, but has been the main cheerleader. Please Jeff/Rush, tell us one issue where you disagreed with Bush.

Rcade,

Didn't mean to insinuate this was your doing, it's all over the internet...conservative and liberal sites.

Is this your site?

doughy rush limbaugh...

Jacque_Strap

At least you don't have us conservatives stereotyped ;)

They continue to pander to the left in hopes of appeasing them; not understanding that it only serves to embolden them

You're delusional if you think the Pubs have been pandering to the left for the last 6 years.

Oh so an Ammendment to ban gay marriage was pandering to gays?

Call people traitors was pandering?

Calling people Godless, terrorist loving Defeatocrats was pandering?

"Is this your site?"

Posted by brentrice1



Catches on fast.

Brentrice1,

Rush is slamming folks who don't have "courage" at the same time admitting he didn't have the courage to tell the truth. He had every chance, for years, to call out the same (not-conservative-enough) Republicans and lead a sea change. ("There hasn't been ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism, for at least two to maybe four years.") Instead, he slapped them on the back an nearly every interval.

Then he goes on to say he didn't do it because he wouldn't, "particularly when the country is at war", as if peace rang out overnight in Baghdad.

""Is this your site?"

Nope. This is GalTuesday's site.

TFDNihilist,

My comment was not intended to convey my belief that EVERY action by the Republicans was pandering to the left, rather that if you look at some of the social programs they have jumped on board with; they are closer to 50's-60's era democrats than they are to traditional conservative values. Look at the budget for example, historically Republicans have been the "fiscally responsible" ones. This could not be further from the truth now.

As far as your statements about calling people traitors and such, I try to seperate pundit's comments from the actual politician's comments...on both sides of the aisle.

Jock Strap,

Quick answer to your post:

Do as I say, not as I do.


And when I talk of conservative principles, I am talking about governmental policy, not necessarily personal code of conduct.

"Look at the budget for example"

How did they 'pander to the left' on that one? They wrote the energy bill, the transportation bill, and the tax code, which the Republicans designed to lose money. "The left" voted lockstep against the last tax code. How did they "pander"?

Jeff J.

"And when I talk of conservative principles, I am talking about governmental policy, not necessarily personal code of conduct."

That is exactly my point. Rush has walked lock-step on every political issue from torture, to tax cuts, to social security, to banning gay marriage, to invading Iraq. Just what does not not agree with that the Republicans have done? As I said before, if it was on lifestyle issues (against cheating on your wife, having gay sex, or drug use) and he lived his life like Santorum, I could understand, but his personal life is as anti-conservative values as I can imagine.

Danforth,

I can't agree with what you have to say about Rush Limbaugh; mainly because as I have listened to him over the last few years, there have been numerous times that he has been critical of the Republican administration on some of the issues he spoke of. Immigration and Medicare are the only two that come to mind at the moment, but there have been others. I think as a whole, conservative talk-radio has been critical of what Rush spoke of leading up to the election. That's why we saw the White House trying to rev up talk-radio in the weeks prior to the election. Laura Ingrham and others had plenty of bones to pick with the administration about playing politics instead of standing behind their core values. I don't think you can honestly say that Rush was misleading before the election, he espoused these views beforehand. I think what we heard today was just the result of exhasperation, which is understandable. I recall hearing similar statements from the liberal pundits after the last election.

Danforth,

I'm new at this blogging thing, so please excuse my inability to clearly convey my thoughts. In regards to my comment on the Budget; I did not intend for that to come across as an item that I felt was "pandering" to the left. I meant to say that it was one of the issues that the Republicans used to be strong on, and no longer are. The modern day Republican Party has turned into the "Big Government" that they used to speak out against.

Jacque_Strap,

"Rush has walked lock-step on every political issue..."

Rush had plenty of vocal objection to the administrations plans with medicare and illegal immigration.

Discourse disappears and partisanship consumes when one side adopts the tactic: "If you don't agree with my policies, then you are out to screw _____________"

This is the tactic you just employed.

Posted by JeffJ at 2006-11-08 04:13 PM | Reply | Flag

Not what I said at all Jeff.

I did not imply you were out to screw anyone but YOURSELF!

Rush is a convoluted talk shock hoste who appeals to people over ideals and not reality.

He attacks the pyramid from the top without ever an understanding about the foundation of the base.

This is exactly how he has over the last few weeks spouted off and got burned.

And what is even more humorous is I don't ever listen to the guy because I prudently can see the crap being spouted even from afar.

And when I talk of conservative principles, I am talking about governmental policy, not necessarily personal code of conduct.

And what is conservative government policy.............Attacking oil country because they won't listen to us, redistributing money from the less to the more, giving benefits to those that have while trying to cut benefits from those that have not.....the list is endless.

Jobs
wages
health
retirement
education

all being reduced by conservatives, but some how in that dweeb mind of yours these are all good things.

I wonder how long your stigmata of conservatism and republican will remain........years of lackful mind thought.

I'm new at this blogging thing, so please excuse my inability to clearly convey my thoughts. In regards to my comment on the Budget; I did not intend for that to come across as an item that I felt was "pandering" to the left. I meant to say that it was one of the issues that the Republicans used to be strong on, and no longer are. The modern day Republican Party has turned into the "Big Government" that they used to speak out against.

Posted by brentrice1

Brent, you could be starting today or you could have been blogging for years. Many on the left here will attack you for any misinterpretation on THEIR part.(Not Danforth necessarily) It will be their fault but they will blame you.

being the victims they are it is just in their nature....especially Crass.

Rush is a Reagan Conservative first and formost. It's amazing that people who don't listen to Rush have such "unique" thoughts about him and who he is, let alone, be intolerant of someone who differs with themselves when discussing in the areana of ideas.

And what is even more humorous is I don't ever listen to the guy because I prudently can see the crap being spouted even from afar.

Posted by Crassus

Lie.

being the victims they are it is just in their nature....especially Crass.

Yes, I play the victim all the time. Poor me, I don't know what happened, I thought all of the repodweebs policies were great and the nation agreed with that.

Eberly,

How did those Republican changed to democrats do?????????

My concern is just how far left this new group will go to reverse whatever we've tried to accomplish over the years. I suspect we'll a status quo - lots of bickering and little accomplished.

Posted by OohRah

And yet the stooges who complain about everything will think it is all better now.

How did those Republican changed to democrats do?????????

Posted by Crassus

Are you referring to the Kansan's? I'm not sure but I think pretty well. At least Morrison beat Kline for AG. Kline got whooped. He deserved it.

It is a good thing. We kept our democratic governer and I believe the state house picked up dem seats...repubs still have majority.

Funny thing though. Despite all of that I am still happy. I was happy yesterday and I am happy today.

My concern is just how far left this new group will go to reverse whatever we've tried to accomplish over the years. I suspect we'll a status quo - lots of bickering and little accomplished.

Talk about arrogance and being arrogant. The nation did not like the direction your party was trying to accomplish.

This is the exact reason I left the Repo party, they have absolutely no idea how to listen.

Nope, this is Galtuesday's site.

What kind of response is this? Afraid to state who's site this really is?

Hahahahaha. Here's a dime. Go buy yourself a sense of humor.

"...repubs still have majority. "

In Kansas? Well that's something to be excited about.

Crass,

You don't get it.

You are equating current Repblican politics with Conservative politics.

Haven't you seen me rail on this gov. for NOT governing according to Conservative principles.

You are assigning a position to me that I haven't taken.

Some might say you are constructing a 'scarecrow' just so that you can knock it down.

Oohray,

If they'd "listened" to the voters who put them in office they'd still be there. You're correct.

No, you miss how the process works.

They have to listen to all, even those who did not vote for them. That was Bush's failure, he did listen to those strong holds that supported him while ignoring those that were falling.

He listened to Walstreet and ignored main street.

He listened to corporate production and ignored labor wages.

He listen to those who have and ignored those who have not.

The economy is far more vast than corporate success and bringing dollars to those few who profit.

The war was a factor but by and large the economic family house holds spoke out.

Jeff J.,

Haven't you seen me rail on this gov. for NOT governing according to Conservative principles.

Some might say you are constructing a 'scarecrow' just so that you can knock it down.

I already knocked it down. The republican party over the last 25 years has not been conservative and the facts prove it.

Why you stay in the paradymn of your belief that the republicans are conservative is beyond me.

You are sticking with a party you know is not following your principles. That is funny in and of itself.

"You are equating current Repblican politics with Conservative politics."

Conservatives are what conservatives do. Face it, Jeff, modern conservatism has changed. Sound familiar? People on your side say that modern liberals are not liberals like Truman and Kennedy. Does that keep you from calling them liberals?

I recommend you vote Libertarian.

You republicans used all the solipsism of how great your lifes are and tried to extrapolate those greatness to the rest of the nation.

So much so that you ignored the facts and data that suggest most are not in the same boat you're living.

They now have spoke out and your confused, and asking yourselves if you missed something.

People like Bill, Danforth, and I with a host of other people who look at the data will change the republican party from our red meat yellow dog postings.

The big difference from the republicans from the democrats are the republicans give the money to the corporate rich and hope it filters down while the dems try and give it to the ones who need it.

The republicans have failed to understand that the economy no longer is the domestic filter down economy. It is global, the corporations no longer invest in America so there is no filtering down process.

My concern is just how far left this new group will go to reverse whatever we've tried to accomplish over the years. I suspect we'll a status quo - lots of bickering and little accomplished.

Posted by OohRah

Right, wouldn't want to reverse the record deficit, or medicare entitlements, or the downward spiral in Iraq, or the endemic corruption. It took six years of hard werk and to think the dems want to erase it all, scarey.

Crass,

They still better represent my viewpoint than the Democrats - which admittedly isn't saying much.

They now have spoke out and your confused, and asking yourselves if you missed something.

Not at all.

Most Conservatives have been very critical of the bad direction the Republican party has taken.

"Most Conservatives have been very critical of the bad direction the Republican party has taken."

Nonsense. Rush? Hannity? Coulter? O'Reilly? They are all just as entitled to call themselves conservatives as you are. They are the face of modern conservatism, for better or worse.

JeffJ-
In what sense is Limbaugh a conservative?

Jeff J.,

Conservative values = Ok to give corporation tax cuts and subsidies their growth but don't ever give tax cuts to lower less fortunate middle and lower classes they are not productive members of the economy.

Well guess what Jeff, in todays economy if you want small government you have to take away the subsidies to corporations, force them to hire the people to make a living, not the government.

"I feel liberated," Limbaugh said. "I no longer have to carry the water for people who don't deserve it."

Last week when a pollster called me, I told her I was going to vote straight Democratic ticket this time because it was my way of sending a message to President Bush and to the Republican congress who never opposed him or questioned him on anything until very recently. If people like Rush had spoken up sooner and not played the role of waterboy, the Republican party, and more importantly the nation, might not be in the position it's in today in Iraq.

I just got finished watching an interesting exchange between Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough. Joe said this is the end of the neocon agenda. I believe he hopes this signals a return to Reagan Republicanism. As far as I'm concerned, those folks should have liberated themselves from Bush before this, but I'm glad to see they are free at last. I once heard Nick Nolte say in an interview that failure is a good thing because it brings you back to yourself. It will be interesting to see what kind of Republican party emerges from this election.

Look at the budget for example, historically Republicans have been the "fiscally responsible" ones. This could not be further from the truth now.

You are delusional if you think the present budget problems resemble even anything close to what liberals would do. Has the money gone to social services and education? No. Has it gone to corporations, War suppliers and Churches? Yes

As far as your statements about calling people traitors and such, I try to seperate pundit's comments from the actual politician's comments...on both sides of the aisle.

"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses,"
--G.W. Bush

just goes to show that when you vote you need to be voting FOR someone instead of going to vote AGAINST someone.

that was Kerry's problem, no one really voted FOR Kerry, they were voting AGAINST Bush. And that's what happened to the republicans yesterday.

I've already started to put extra money back for taxes

What a lying SOB. If He kjnew they didn't deserve it then why didn't He step up long ago. Nah Rush is just another lying shmuck trying to deflect away from His support of the conservatives. What an ass.

Larry

Larry,

Nah Rush is just another lying shmuck trying to deflect away from His support of the conservatives. What an ass.

What is funny is his followers and listeners will sheep his lines of not knowing and continue listening because they are unable to think for themselves.

They have to have someone telling them how to think.

Now this is the real lazy mind!!!!

"Look at the budget for example, historically Republicans have been the "fiscally responsible" ones. This could not be further from the truth now."

This is complete and utter bullshit. Look at the growth in debt and you will see Reagan, Bush II, and Bush I taking on trillions of dollars in debt and unfunded mandates while the Dems controlled spending and streamlined government. We have 26 years of history now to prove the Republican fiscal responsibility myth is utter and complete bullshit!

Today is a HUGE boost for Limbaugh's career. You have to remember that he started back in the Clinton days and was very popular and started the right-wing talk radio.

I listened to him in the beginning, but I drifted away as he became too much of a Bush-Lover. It was a big turn-off.

But I still voted Republican for Congress. Hey! I don't like Bush, but I am not stupid! I'm not going to vote Republicans out of office because I don't like Bush. It's just stupid and the the people who switched parties out of ignorance are going to pay more taxes.

But taxes won't be raised in this Congress, thank God. Nothing is going to get done. The most impotent Congress in History.

Mark my words. Right-wing radio will grow out of control!

Nope. This is GalTuesday's site.

LOL Bill. But credit where credit is due: I'm not the conductor or even a relative of the engineer. I'm just a fellow passenger on this train wreck of a site. Many thanks to Rcade for hosting it and tolerating all of us.

I read Limbaugh's essay today. His critique of Bush is often remarkably like my own, save that he made twenty-two million dollars last year lying about it.

But I still voted Republican for Congress. Hey! I don't like Bush, but I am not stupid! I'm not going to vote Republicans out of office because I don't like Bush. It's just stupid and the the people who switched parties out of ignorance are going to pay more taxes.

Now here is the real intellectual and individual who really understands the health of the nation.......LOL!!!!!

Not interested in the economy, the war, the plight of America, only no more taxes and life is great!!!!!

The true heart and mind set of the staunch republican.

I'm so sorry Rush has to be such a martyr for all those Republicans so beneath him. I wonder when he'll have Cheney back on?

What is funny is his followers and listeners will sheep his lines of not knowing and continue listening because they are unable to think for themselves.

They have to have someone telling them how to think.

Now this is the real lazy mind!!!!

Posted by Crassus at 2006-11-08 06:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yeah amazing isn't it. What's even sadder is the fact that they seem to follow their words hook line and sinker like robots being programed by their Builder. No wonder I don't list to them anymore and stick to people like Norm Abrams and Roy Underhill and the like. I get much more education from them and they are fun.

Larry

Look at all of you guys that hang on every word of Rush's. What else of his do you hang on?

I love it when you clowns have a hissy fit about the guy you all claim to not listen to yet can't stop quoting him or telling the rest of us what he just got done saying.

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2006-11-08 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

???

Nobody here is having a 'hissy fit' as you call it. We're all just laughing at you and Rush and the rest of the bunch.

This is pure entertainment.

No hard feelings, right?

E Pluribus me.

Is that it, coder?

Rush says today Democrats won because they acted like conservatives whereas Republicans did not. I eagerly anticipate the support he gives the new majority over the coming months.

I went to the Rush Limbaugh web site to see what he actually said. He says he was carrying the water for the Republicans because he believed they had the best potential for the country.

There is nothing un-principaled about that. He also says the Republicans had their chance and blew it, so he's withdrawing his support.

It's funny how many people around DR have been screaming for years, criticizing people for supporting the Republicans, and when someone comes around you trash him for agreeing with you. You are a crabby and unkind lot.

Posted by vernon at 2006-11-08 03:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

You don't find it the lest bit strange that he "comes around" 24 hours after the election?

If he really thought the repubs had messed stuff up, why didn't he say so before the election?

Rush is a pandering douchebag, but I won't let stop me from enjoying the GLORIOUS DAY!!!! BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

You don't find it the lest bit strange that he "comes around" 24 hours after the election?

You mean the way Andrew Sullivan did?

Sorry. Meant to quote this above:

If he really thought the repubs had messed stuff up, why didn't he say so before the election?

"Why didn't he say so before the election....?

Because he puts his rice bowl above country. I think over the next two years we're going to find a whole raft of such people.

"You mean the way Andrew Sullivan did?"

I haven't looked to see what you might've posted earlier, Gal, but Sullivan has been banging away hard at Bush & Co. for a while now. His reputation and a person of principle survives the deluge. (I'm by no means a conservative, but I respect people of any politial hue who are at least forthright, honest, capable of seeing the problems on their "side." Sullivan's been doing that. Limberger is just the rightnuts version of Henny Youngman.)

Rush "firmly" has an act. Get back to us when he's again advocating mandatory prison for drug addicts.

"Would you're solution be to vote Republican....?"

What gets me is all the gnashing of teeth today about "pseudo-conservatives" from the Right.

Many of us liberals were BEGGING conservatives to act like conservatives these last six years. Where have you all been?

"LOL Bill. But credit where credit is due: I'm not the conductor or even a relative of the engineer."

At least somebody around has a sense of humor. But then, this has been a rough day for Repukes.

Oorah-
In several key areas I think most of those who voted for Democrats in this election -- in which Republicans suffered a humiliating defeat -- would prefer a return to some semblance of sanity, accountability and transparency, competence and honesty. These are areas in which the "accountability party" has failed.

Rush Limpbaugh is just a shmuckazoid that is all He will ever be unfortunately.

Larry

but I respect people of any politial hue who are at least forthright, honest, capable of seeing the problems on their "side." Sullivan's been doing that.

Quite right, which is why I mentioned him.

So, like I'd said earlier this evening, keeping Reps in charge is the lesser of two evils.

It would only have been the lesser of two evils if Reps had gotten the message of dissatisfaction voters were sending. I think some voters decided after all this time that the message without an accompanying wake-up call would have fallen on deaf ears.

But then, this has been a rough day for Repukes.

I heard some Reps on cspan and the radio saying how sad and upset they were today. I thought to myself, "I feel your pain." Actually, I do. It's the way I felt at first in 2004.

Rush Limpbaugh is just a shmuckazoid that is all He will ever be unfortunately.

I guess 'shmuckazoid' loosely translated means: One of the most successful radio talk-show personalities on the planet.

Care to see my impersonation of Rush being deaf? (No..I won't. That would be tactless and all around awful)

Did you hear that there's a new dog in the White House?....

I guess 'shmuckazoid' loosely translated means: One of the most successful radio talk-show personalities on the planet.

Posted by JeffJ at 2006-11-08 07:41 PM | Reply

When You sell Your soul for the all mighty Buck. You reduce Your value to that of a shmuck.

Larry

If I'm proven wrong I'll do some fucked up sign-off thing, but I have a teeny inkling Beatrice is a PWZ troll or an RNC hired "little ol' lady." Call me a skeptic but...

That was poetic, Larry!

Bocaink,

Beatrice?

Do you mean BrentRice1?


I don't think he's from the PWZ crew.

Oops! JJ, Freud did it to me again!

I'm just saying, A newer, more moderate conservative emerges acting naive enough to get attention yet seems to know an awful lot. Granted I really did read this site for over a year but only comment recently, but it didn't take me a freaking year to figure out who Rcade was. Like I said, call me a skeptic but they are getting pretty easy to sniff out. Keep probing, they all slip up eventually.

Funny flag Larry, but can you expand it to include the word "duck." I love that word!

When You sell Your soul for the all mighty Buck. You reduce Your value to that of a shmuck.

Larry

Posted by LarryMohr at 2006-11-08 08:01 PM | Reply

Just ask GWB.

Would your solution be to vote Republican?

The solution for true conservatives should have been to send up primary chalangers to get the party back on track. That way, you're voting Republican no matter what.

But you didn't do that. As long as you were getting the taxcuts, you looked the other way.
There's no reason to 'hold your nose' and vote the lesser of two evils. Use the primaries for their intended purpose, not just as a rubber stamp for the incumbent.

I wish both parties would do this much more often.

When You sell Your soul for the all mighty Buck.
You reduce Your value to that of a shmuck.
So You see Rush does indeed suck.
For He supporteth a Lame Duck.

Larry

PS You asked so I delivered.

"That's maybe hard for you to understand, but I think if the tables were turned and Congress started acting pretty conservatively these next couple years... you guys would feel betrayed."

The main problem most liberals, and alot of others, have with republicans these days is that they don't practice what they preach.

If consevatives actually acted like anything but power seeking politicians I think most everybody would like them.

DOGMAN

Interesting. Someone has been voluntarily supporting those who are unethical and justifying their actions because of a his hatred of those investigating the truth and others ethical people running for office to oppose the evil.

Interesting definition of liberation. Makes you wonder what you should think about those he continues to support.

Interesting. Someone has been voluntarily supporting those who are unethical and justifying their actions because of a his hatred of those investigating the truth and others ethical people running for office to oppose the evil.

Interesting definition of liberation. Makes you wonder what you should think about those he continues to support.

"Rush Limbaugh declared that he wouldn't carry President Bush's water any more"

Don't let Hannity hear about this.... he was banging the war drum hard on the radio this evening.

All the while, Hannity was decrying Pelosi's call for bi-partisanship as hypocritical.

Sounded like he was making a call-to-arms to wage cultural guerrilla warfare on both "liberals" and defecting conservatives.

That would be an interesting bit of fistacuffs. I'd have to lay odds on Hannity. Rush couldn't run fast enough.

This is the best thing that could have happened for Limbaugh.
Now he can cry and play the victim for two years; and his sheeple will lap it up.

I had the biggest chuckle with an old friend of mine who lives in Maryland, and has always shared the same level of disgust at Bush that I do.

I told her (she's 70) about this blog, and how this morning, almost synchronized I heard the insulting, right wingers jumping in suddenly with 5, count 'em, 5 brand new Democratic villians and baseless, meaningless, irrevelent-to-anything- that-matters accusations. Funny, funny dribblings from the right nuts here seemingliy coordinated like a Karl Rove robocall. The wording, the tone, the sighing, and the condescending know-it-all rhetoric of Rush and his ilk. It was REALLY funny. I laughed like I'd laugh at a cranky baboon showing everyone his butt and farting.

Man, what a great 24 hours for our country and it's future this has been.

Man, Rush is such a turd. He basically said that he puts his party before his country.

But at least he gets good pills. Or sends his maid to get them.

Hey folks, don't forget that Limbaugh was one of the original NeoCon-boosting 'haters' back when Clinton first came to power.

I recall him deriding the Clinton presidency on his TV show by parodying the Iranian hostage scandal. Every night his show would start off with the tagline..."America Held Hostage: Day 4xx."

Talk about mean spirited. Rush was the original right-wing junkyard dog while O'Reilly was still fronting "A Current Affair."

Amazing how so many Americans allow such immature personalities to mold their opinions.

Rush knows he now a pirahia around Republicans because his disgusting mocking of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson disease probably cost the Republicans the Senate seat in Missouri. The Democrat who won the Senate seat had the same number of people who voted for her as who voted "yes" on the stem cell research initiative also on Missouri's ballot.

Rush has always been a pompous, arrogant ass constantly putting down people who do not make the kind of money he does, arrogantly saying everyone should "be responsible for yourself and don't expect any help from anyone" as he continued to live in his parent's basement as he floundered from job to job long after he should have left home.

After all Rush's rotten put-down comments to everyone who wasn't in his monied class -- even to his loyal followers who he would insult on his show but they still drank the kool-aid -- he now expects to be accepted (and forgiven) by the millions of middle class voters who handed Bush and the Republicans their heads on a platter last night?

Sorry, Rushbo, your rotten true colors will never change. You're a fat, boil on your ass, thrice divorced, arrogant, drug addicted snob who carries the water for the corporatists who own the White House and you'll never be anything better.

Rush can truly be blamed for Republican losses on Tuesday...

I am sure he cost votes across all races if just among Michael J Fox fans...

And Kerry apparently didn't do enough harm to outweigh Rush...if you put his statement on paper and look at it, it is incomplete and your only hope of understanding it is conjecture...it was obviously a botched joke...

Kerry isn't so stupid as to insult the troops, but that didn't stop the spinmeisters on the right....

I am very happy with the election results...

Rush has been bad mouthing the admins current agenda. He felt Repub's were fiscally irresponsible.

Maybe he did polarize people in Mizzouri, but it was gw who lost these elections.Just last week he said Rummsfield had a job for the next two years. Maybe if he had fired him 6 months ago things would have been different. He's just mailed it in for the next two years. The problem is..if he resigns the Hunter takes over...

GW is actig like an Alcoholic, isn't he?

I think Chris has a point. Mocking Fox was a new low, even for Limberger. It made him look like the bully and buffoon he is...he's a clown, but one who snarls rather than laughs. Unattractive, to put it mildly.

Rush Limbaugh -

Issue him a M-16, stick him in a Hover-Round and ship his ass to Baghdad.

"I guess 'shmuckazoid' loosely translated means: One of the most successful radio talk-show personalities on the planet."
Posted by JeffJ at 2006-11-08 07:41 PM
YEAH! Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity --------- nothing but cheap Howard Stern imitators selling a different kind of smut! And that's your measure of "success". No wonder you're a pathetic loser! Anybody can get on the radio and say outrageous shit simply in an effort to excite people by pissing them off or pandering to their fears and prejudice's and be successful at it! Just look at the reading challenged Boortz as an example! And that's what you "respect"! No, you adore it!
You sure have some fucked up values jj! No wonder America is going to shit with people like you voting!

You sure have some fucked up values jj! No wonder America is going to shit with people like you voting!

Posted by Redneckville

Oh, come on rediamsamcocovilleidiot. What Jeff posted was true and you question his values? Actually it isn't exactly true....He is THE MOST successful radio talk-show personalities. (notice the word "personality")

It is YOUR values that are fucked up idiot. Jeff, like myself and many others have plenty of criticism for rush and all talk radio pundits. You conveniently ignore that fact when you accuse others of having "fucked up" values......which says plenty about yours.

"Anybody can get on the radio and say outrageous shit....". Can they? who? you should probably qualify that to add "and get people to listen to it".

"pathetic loser". Man, I guess the euphoria of the election has worn off and you are back to the same pathetic, piss and moan loser you are 100% of the time.

"Rush can truly be blamed for Republican losses on Tuesday..."

Agreed. He only hurt them and behaved like a republican shill in the last month.

Live by the sword........

So, Rush is a hypocrit. If that isn't enough for those that believed in his drivel to abandon him, I don't know what is.

RUSH MOCKING MICHAEL J. FOX AND COSTING THE REPUBLICANS THE MISSOURI SENATE SEAT and switching the balance of power.

Either the author of this article or Missouri voters are very, very stupid.

So, Rush is a hypocrit. If that isn't enough for those that believed in his drivel to abandon him, I don't know what is.

Posted by FedUpWithPols

If you expect that to run people away from rush then you clearly don't understand why people listen to him in the first place. I've never heard the % but I know a lot of his listeners hate him. How many libs here hate him but still claim to know what he says all the time?

rush does 3 hours of dialogue every day......with a camera on him. That is an awful lot of exposure to critique. Yes, there are rush disciples who love him and think he is the greatest thing since sliced bread but don't expect people to stop following his show.

What's he on now?

Stupid fucking windbag!! He's not qualified to even be a DJ, much less a political commentator. The fucker only took TWO college classes his entire worthless life. Yet the neocon puppets cling to his every word. Moron leading the morons.

Rush: "I feel pretty, witty, and GAY!"

I Told Everyone Rush Was A Lying Sack Of Doped-Up Shit !!

Crooks And Liars !!!

Just Like Bush When He Out Rightly Lied When He Stated The SECDEF Would Stay Until The End Of Bush's Term And Had Total Confidence In Him !!!

Then "BAM"! He Is Gone, You NEOCONs Are Mindless Puppets And Listen To All The NEOCON Crap That Is Shoveled To You !!

When The Hell Will You Ass Clowns Wake The Fuck Up ?!!!

-Sarge

Hilarious.

Rush sucks, but Air America, Ed Shultz, the Retort, Daily Kos, Daily Show, and Colbert are all great sources for talking points...errrr...news.

Just to show we aren't hypocrites, Fuck Alan Colmes.
Sincerely,
The Left (and those pretend not to be the left)

When The Hell Will You Ass Clowns Wake The Fuck Up ?!!!

Judging from the two posts that followed that one?

"I feel liberated," Limbaugh said
and a little bloated
kinda hungry
tired
dizzy

eberly ... I agree that people aren't going to stop listening to Rush. Hell, even I listen to him on occasion but I don't believe anything he says. I think I listen to Rush for the same reason I listen to Fox: it fires me up and helps to "sharpen" my views on various topics.

However, there are people who actually believe what he says. Those are the people that should wake up.

Rush is getting his panties in a bunch because he thinks someone has taken his lengthy diatribe about feeling liberated out of context. Apparently they have taken a couple of sentences out of a ten minute monotonous-log and represented it the way they wanted. So the master spin doctor has gotten a taste of his own medicine and is already on the defensive. What an anal orifice. Must be drugs.

TFDNihilist,

This is a pretty late reply to your 6:44 p.m. post from last night, but I just got into the office.

"You are delusional if you think the present budget problems resemble even anything close to what liberals would do. Has the money gone to social services and education? No. Has it gone to corporations, War suppliers and Churches? Yes"

I'm not really sure what you're debating here with me? It sounds like we're in agreement.

"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses,"
--G.W. Bush

I don't understand how that counters my comment on seperating pundit comments from politicians in regards to calling people seditious or worse. I think you're interpretation of that comment from Bush is going to differ depending on where you already stand. I don't see that as calling Dems perfidious. Saying that he believes they are weak on security and will lose the war through policy is pretty far from leveling a claim of treason. Not to say that those things aren't said, but most politicians (left and right) are smart enough to steer clear of incendiary comments like that.

Jacque_Strap,

Regarding your comment on Reagan and his deficit spending. I don't think you can accurately use him as an example for the fact that he was using the economic power of the country as a weapon against the U.S.S.R.

JeffJ,

"Bocaink,

Beatrice?

Do you mean BrentRice1?


I don't think he's from the PWZ crew."

Apparantly not, since I need to ask you what the PWZ crew is?

Bocaink,

"Oops! JJ, Freud did it to me again!

I'm just saying, A newer, more moderate conservative emerges acting naive enough to get attention yet seems to know an awful lot. Granted I really did read this site for over a year but only comment recently, but it didn't take me a freaking year to figure out who Rcade was. Like I said, call me a skeptic but they are getting pretty easy to sniff out. Keep probing, they all slip up eventually."

I take offense to the comment charging me with naivety, but your conflicting comment about "seems to know an awful lot" is about as close to a compliment as I can probably expect from an unfriendly post such as yours. The reason I asked about Rcade was because I knew he was the moderator of the blogs from what I could see, but I did not know if he was the actual creator of the Drudge Retort. So what does PWZ stand for?

BOCAINK,

One more thing, I'm hardly a moderate conservative. I am very conservative; however, the term conservative conjures stereotypes just as "liberal" does. The fact that I'm willing to challenge those in power, and question their policy in no way makes me less of a conservative. I'm not an ignorant, church-going, animal shooting, homeless beating, race bashing Republican; just like all liberals aren't God hating, fetus killing, homosexual, America bashing, seditious movie/music stars.

Don't put me in a box, I'll return the favor.

Maybe it's Powerpoint Wizard.

I googled PWZ group, and the closest thing that I think could be a match is a blog called "politicalwarzone" on blogspot.com

I am listening to Rush for the first time in a long time right now...too funny. I should listen to him more often for the laughs.

Danforth,

Okay, that clears some stuff up. So apparantly I sounded familiar; hence your asking me if I had ever posted under another name (I think it was you that asked anyways)

I'm not quite putting together how BOCAINK would think I was in that group, I don't see how anything I've said was offensive (other than ideologically offensive, but what's debate sans that?) or crass.

"Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity."

He reaps the objectivity he has sown..

Very few of you have the ability to regard Rush with any sense of objectivity."

He reaps the objectivity he has sown..

Posted by mcbass at 2006-11-09 01:58 PM | Reply


Translation: We have become exactly what we piss our panties over.

"He reaps the objectivity he has sown."

?

i read the transcript...rush is right. like i have said few repubs are what conservatives are looking for but we have had to support them because the alternative is a democrat.conservs tried their best to get rid of spector in pa but the PARTY came to his rescue ...we are looking toward a third party candidate in '08!reduce the size of gov,ssi accounts,hsa,cut welfare to farms,corps,and people sucking off the tit!border enforcement,workplace enforcement ,no anchor babies,sensible guestworker progam!

BR-

Sorry to say but I found your comments and responses to be a little too, how we say, well timed, to be just a little coinkidinki. We got a lot of people that have been booted off of here that reincarnate into a different screen name, yet are able to channel knowledge of past convos and inside info on other users. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, I'll be very surprised if it is a Mayna bird. As far as being put in a "box," this isn't Rush my friend. I actually have degrees in Political science and I know what I observe. You can call yourself whatever you want to call yourself. I was merely going by the comments you were making on this thread, which reek of moderate conservatism. Not that there is anyting wrong with that, and if you say you are a hardliner or not an anything, so be it. I just suspect that you have been on this page before under a different username, that's all. Either way, if you are not, you only have to maintain a presence on here for a little while and I will be proven wrong. But those peeps that try that crap get sniffed out eventually by ill-timed statements. That's all.

WHEN WILL WE BE LIBERATED FROM RUSH?

oh yeah, no wonder the repubs lost

The arguements got a little bizarre in the end..

That black guy likes white women...

Stem cells research takes too long!

Vote republican the democrats are worst!

sheese no wonder we are in such a mess!

Perhaps we can now get back to working on real issues like solving the energy problems and saving the freakin planet instead of blaming the gays for failing marriages?

Remember...Time may heal all wounds but wounds all heals!

The republicans have been such heals!

bocaink

I can live with that

So, basically, and forgive me if someone besides Olberman has pointed this out:

Rush was a shill for the Republicans, and now he feels "liberated".

Isn't anyone going to tell this guy it is the politicalwarzone....

Didn't Limbaugh recently use the word "shill" to attack an actor or something?

And now Limbaugh has admitted to being a shill?

Crazy.

Oohrah-
Carefull as I was to absorb the meaning of life and smell the roses yesterday, I somehow missed your commentary on how Rush no longer being obligated to "carry the water" for Republicans did not amount to an admission that met the dictionary definition of "shill". Perhaps you can enlighten me. Perhaps you have a different dictionary.

As you define it, keep in mind how your side clung to Clinton and how your side wanted to keep the Dems in the majority in '94.

My "side" is not me, and has nothing to do with Rush either being a shill or not. Do you understand this?

Here's a good definition from Princeton that I found online:

shill: a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others.

Here's what Rush said, in part, after the R's got smacked:

"I no longer have to carry the water for people who don't deserve it."

I would feel liberated too if I had 40 mgs of oxycodone before noon.....

I guess I'm bored again.

Scarey,

Thanks, I googled it and figured that was it. Danforth pointed me to a past post of his that explained it.

I can't conjure an argument against the term shill in light of Rush's admission.

He flat-out admitted that he filtered his personal thoughts and feelings and put his best face forward 'for the good of the cause' - the Democrats are worse so he just 'had' to pull his punches when it came to addressing Republican short-comings.


I periodically defend him because some of the criticisms levied against him are ridiculous IMO. However, I can't defend him against the term 'shill' as describing him for what he is.

oohrah-
Yes, I scanned the thread. You made a clumsy case attempting to justify Rush being a shill.

Congrats.

It's nice that Rush can be "honest" now, or at least be "honest" under new terms to be specified at some later date now that he is no longer a shill "carrying water" for the Republicans.

Oohrah-
This seems to be a man you trust for information and analysis, and yet he himself says that he has been "carrying water" for a political party regardless of the merits of their case.

Are you really such a dittohead that you'll line up smartly again?

Jeff J-

I can't conjure an argument against the term shill in light of Rush's admission.

Neither can Oohrah, but that you understand and concede this obvious point is a testament to the ultimate foundation in reality of your opinions.

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keep trying Oprah, we just don't get it. Just say it one more time and you will convice me that Rush isn't a shill. I know, put capital letters and exclamation points and sloganistic wrestling reference and I might alter my perception of Socratic logic. Don't worry, I trust you, Rush is "Captain Principle!"

oops! Sorry Freud got me again, I meant Oorah.

"But trust me on this one."

Lol!!!

But the way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm just going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high....

Shill.

A few of my favorite Limbaugh moments are when he claimed that rising sea levels due to global warming are a lie because if ice melts in a glass of water the level remains the same (Most of the ice is on land...anyone ever hear of
Antarctica???) or when he claimed recently, being the shill that he is, that Iraq was a bloody clusterfuck not because Bush and co. were incompetent failures, but because the terrorists wanted the Republicans to lose the midterm elections.

Pathetic.

Oohrah-
You're an idiot on purpose. Some people have an excuse, being stupid by the lottery of birth. You don't.

Later.

...and how did this uber-patriotic Republican shill avoid going to Vietnam?

Was it a boil on his ass? Maybe Oohrah can tell me what Rush's explanation was.

While you are at it, Oohrah, maybe you can explain how Rush is not the very definition of a shill by his own admission instead of repeatedly attempting to justify his actions.

You could also give me some info and insight on why Rush, an adult man, chose to ridicule a pubescent girl on his TV show before a national audience, or how he chose to accuse a Democratic Iraq vet. candidate as only volunteering to "pad his resume".

Oohrah-
No. It's guys like you who make me fear for our future.

Oorah,

Don't let unhappy humans like this guy/gal upset you. It is them who is unhappy and they want to dragyou down with them.

Alas, I don't have the resolve to read all 300 posts before mine. But lets put things into perspective shall we, Rush earns 30 mil a year speaking on am radio espousing his opinion and has probably as many listeners. You have a couple of hundred who perhaps care what you say and pay you nothing so who is the the bigger fool here. As far as the drug issue goes, Rush doesn't dictate legislation but that drunk Ted Kennedy does. Peace out

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101Hairy Balls:

Well, well well, finally pulled your stanky hand outta your crack, huh? How are the bruises healing? So sad to see your little fascist dictatorship CRUMBLE under the weight of America's desire for REAL FREEDOM and LEADERSHIP.

I thought you must have used your emergency Ascroft-approved Duct-Tape to seal your mouth, cause we ain't heard squat from your superior brain!

Ready to replace Rumsy with all your superior military experience?

Two things in this life worth seeing:

San Francisco Values two heartbeats away from the presidency and:

101hairbyballs scrotum knotted like an M&M.

BWAWAWAWAWAWAW

BRENTRICE 1 - In your post earlier you wrote:

BOCAINK, One more thing, I'm hardly a moderate conservative.... I am very conservative...Don't put me in a box, I'll return the favor...

Gosh, as a new poster here it took you all of about two hours before you started tossing threats, huh?

So why don't you cut the act, you smug faced liar! Why don't you go back to using your real poster name...whatever the hell it was.

Cause no one's buying the act.

Now now dumpling, maybe he is just a newer, more sophisticated Republican that appreciates nuance and discards the us vs. them mentality....... And being such a elequent and resonable gentleman, I am sure that he sat idly by for a year refusing to add his two cents worth out of sheer humility and restraint before he finally decided to join the fray....right?

(goes into a spazmatic fit of laughter) Call the paramedics!