RUSH LIMBAUGH MENTIONS DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, SORT OF.

[JEFF9K]

I often listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show to hear what his latest easily-refuted lies are and marvel at the stupidity of listeners who believe what he tells them.

Today he was talking about the Pope's Apostolic Exhortation and, with his typical dishonesty, saying that the Pope is against capitalism. Rush said the Pope's comments are like something you would see at “Democrat” Underground.

If Rush or his followers would go to the original document ( http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html ) they would see that Pope Francis isn't against capitalism, rather he is against Republican-style capitalism and especially trickle-down economics.

The document contains 288 numbered items, which is about 287 more than Rush or his listeners are able or willing to process.

Many of these items deal with poverty and inequality. The Pope shows support for lots of things that Democrats are FOR, and Republicans are AGAINST. Among them:

* Fighting poverty and inequality.
* Women's rights.
* The environment.
* Saving endangered species.
* Helping the cities.
* Science.
* The common good.
* Unselfishness.
* A living wage.
* Full employment.
* Belief in reality, rather than ideas that don't work.
* Diversity.
* Peacemaking.
* Access to health care.
* Adequate food for all.
* Gun control.
* Paying one's fair share of taxes.

And finally, to really get under conservatives' skin:
* REVERENCE FOR THE TRUTH!

[LumosMaxima]

1. Betcha anything

that MIRT has ejected Rush's azz from DU at least half a dozen times without even realizing it.

[Agschmid]

3. What do you think his username would be?

[LumosMaxima]

5. I can't imagine.

But it would probably be something juvenile and deliberately offensive.

[lpbk2713]

6. TheViagraKid

[stevenleser]

20. Is his middle name really "Hundson" That sort of means "Son of Dog" in German.

[lpbk2713]

22. I guess he must have grown into his name.

Mama Limbore must have had a crystal ball.

[stevenleser]

23. Alas, I think that was a typo. His middle name is Hudson. I checked. nt

[KamaAina]

24. I thought it was Hudson

is this another Ann Coulter deal?

[stevenleser]

26. I think the photo had a typo. nt

[JaneyVee]

7. OxyContinCandy

[davidpdx]

13. Could spell it OxyCottenCandy as well

My guess would be ILUVLITLLEBOYS

[eggplant]

11. AssBoyle? n/t

[KamaAina]

25. OxyMoron

[Squinch]

30. Always my favorite name for him.

[SummerSnow]

27. TheDrugster

[Warpy]

9. I don't alert that often

and when I do, it's usually 6:0 to hide, it's that bad.

I would imagine those are the sorts of clueless posts that Lardbutt would make over here.

[Squinch]

31. Now I feel all dirty.

[Deep13]

2. Catholicism vs. Capitalism

Not a huge fan of either, but still, I wish capitalism all the luck in the world, because they are really going to need it.

Don't believe me? Long live the Roman Empire! It will rule forever!! Huh? Oh, well then, long live the Carolingian Empire! It will reign forever!! No? Long live the Ottoman Empire...all right, not them either. Hapsburg? No. British? No. French? No. Bell system phone company? No. Soviet? No. MySpace? No.

Roman Catholicism? In embryonic form since the 1st c. In fact, the centuries are numbered according to the RC calendar.

[Amonester]

12. Yep. All that time on their hands, and still no progress on GLBT Rights.

That, and patriarchal structures to boot (not to mention too many criminal 'deviances').

[Deep13]

19. Well, it has actually gone backward on GLBT rights.

The Church did not make a concerted effort to squelch homosexuality until the 13th c. And even then the effort was modest compared to what came out of the counter-reformation.

Of course the whole idea that progress is about individual rights is itself a modern concept. The idea that sexual orientation is part of ones identity was not really understood until the 19th c. Before that, it was simply a seen as a deviant behavior, one of many. Before the consolidation of royal power in the 1200s, sodomy was not seen as much different than fornication or a variety of other petty sins. Adultery was the one that was considered really bad, because it involved the violation of an oath. During the late Middle Ages and into early modernity, people saw the increasing hierarchical, patriarchal power structure as progressive. They equated rationality with nobility and masculinity, so any move in those directions were good things.

Obviously, I agree with the post-sexual revolution view, but history has to be understood by the values and norms of their time and place and not by ours.

[TeeYiYi]

4. Well, now that GD is 'Pope Central'...

...he may not be too far off the mark re: using DU as an 'all things pope' repository.

TYY

[BlueStreak]

8. Limbaugh? Why does that name sound familiar? Did he used to have a radio program

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or something like that? That quote about the "Democrat Underground" sounds like something you would hear on the Huckabee show.

[Lint Head]

10. The Pope of Viagra speaks of the "hush, hush" Demo-Crat Underground!

Rush. You would make a good priest.

[tavernier]

14. Wow. You have a stronger stomach than me. (I?)

Be careful, though. Too much of that and and your Democrat self will start to puke pea soup.

[JEFF9K]

15. Rush is hard to take, but ...

... if you find out what his latest lies are, you will have ammunition to argue with his followers. Some of them may even respond to proof that Rush Limbaugh lies to his audience.

[ecstatic]

17. +1000 nt

[madokie]

16. Stupid bastard

my apologies for using that word but what else fits
A lot of the problems of this country is rush pedoboy limbaugh.
If it was a fair and balanced world he would be behind bars not on the air spewing his stupid ass shit for the stupid to hang on.

yes rush limbaugh I'm talking to you
there is a day coming when you will be penniless and shunned by the same people who support your stupid ass today and I must say I am looking for that day.

[underpants]

18. I didn't hear that but I did hear "it doesn't matter what he said"

"He" being the Pope. What he said in the interview doesn't matter, what matters is that the Pope was talking about HIM (Rush). The Pope wasn't of course but for Rush it is just self glorification.

[Frustratedlady]

28. If the shoe fits, wear it kind of thing?

Rush knows he's wrong. He must have had a lot of rejection in his childhood to spend so much time trying to get attention.

Is it true his new wife lives in a separate house? It's on their property, but separate? I heard that somewhere, but never heard it confirmed.

[underpants]

29. No idea

[quinnox]

21. Not surprised, Alex Jones mentioned Democratic Underground once too

and even showed a screen shot of a thread he was talking about on his show, which is filmed while he is doing them, I saw it on you tube.

[Shankapotomus]

32. The Pope

must read DU. : )