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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 07:06 AM Aug 2014

The Rude Pundit - Limbaugh: Ferguson, Like Everything Else Everywhere, Is Obama's Fault

Bloated, saggy-titted doom gorgon Rush Limbaugh was talking to a caller to his radio spoogeatorium about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson getting involved in the racial strife in Ferguson, Missouri. After predictably blasting Sharpton in the most predictably specious way (by saying some rumor that he even admitted was probably not true), Limbaugh made a logical leap that'd make Maureen Dowd say, "Oh, fucking come on. You can't do that."

Blurbled Rush, &quot T)his is the Democrat Party, folks. The president of the United States is in charge of what's happened here. I think it is time for everybody to come to grips with a simple reality. I don't care what scandal you name -- Benghazi, Fast and Furious, take your pick, IRS - has anybody involved in any of these scandals been fired? Not a single person." Yes, somehow the diet of steak, cigars, cognac, Twinkies, oxy, and Dominican child semen got to Limbaugh's brain and caused it to overload. That's how he decided that the riots in Ferguson are Barack Obama's fault and are part and parcel of a clusterfuck of every fake scandal conservatives have been humping like a horny hobo with a dead horse.

But Limbaugh wasn't done fucking that corpse. Check out this almost breathtaking leap into the mouth of madness: "This is about wiping out the Republican Party. This is about wiping out the Libertarians. This is about wiping out anybody who opposes Obama. Every bit of this. This isn't Al Sharpton. This isn't Jesse Jackson. They're just tag-alongs now. This is Obama and Holder. But all of this is Barack Obama. Every event, every detail, every occurrence is Obama. And the end result is the end and absence of any opposition. So that's what Ferguson's all about, like all the rest of this has been about."

An average person, spouting this shit, declaring that Obama is all, Obama is eveything, Obama is the alpha, the omega, and every Greek letter in between, would rightly be dragged off screaming to scrawl manifestos in his own shit in a concrete room. How Ferguson is about eliminating the Republican Party is something that Limbaugh doesn't say, but, motherfuckers, it's so obviously true that you shouldn't need it explained. It's Obama, after all. Obama, bitches.

If you ever for a moment doubted that Rush Limbaugh was a dangerous cockhead, a puppetmaster who would delight in causing real and actual violence, here's the context he gives for Obama's maniacal drive for absolute power: "By the way, that's not just Obama. That's been the left. They are power mad. They are statists. You think there was opposition to the Soviet Union? You think Mao Tse-tung had opposition, the Gang of Eight, what happened to them, including Madam Mao? Slit throat, adios, see you, sayonara. I mean, they don't put up with it."

Now, what the fuck is a listener supposed to do with that bullshit? If you believe Rush, you believe that the president is turning the nation into the Soviet Union and will murder anyone who gets in his way. What are you supposed to do to stop it? 'Cause elections won't matter, right? It's an inferential call to violence. And Limbaugh would get off on that more than on a fistful of Viagra and a room of tied-up Salvadoran adolescent immigrants.

Obama, to Limbaugh, is a goddamn wizard of manipulation. See, Obama is appearing disinterested in leading and taking lots of vacations (two things that are totally up for argument) because he's faking us all out. Let Rush explain: "How do you get away with [eliminating all opposition] while everybody's looking? You go on vacation all the time. You act like you're opposed to what's going on. You act like you don't even care...Obama is front and center pulling every string, directing every movement of his administration. He is calling every shot. And, remember, a lot of them he doesn't have to verbalize." Ahh, with a wave of his hand, a wink, a nod, a junk-grab, he can signal that it's time to let Americans die in consulates.

Strangely, despite this massive amount of power that Obama uses with razor-sharp precision, Rush Limbaugh is allowed to go on the air and announce these theories without being silenced or murdered. Unless...Limbaugh himself is a tool of the Obama administration, making people believe they understand the truth when, in reality, it's...what? oh, hell, let's say lizard people.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/08/limbaugh-ferguson-like-everything-else.html

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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. Obama should say exactly that at the next correspondent's dinner.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 07:22 AM
Aug 2014

"The time has come to reveal my grand plan, my master-piece. Don't be fooled, I'm not some comicbook-villain giving it all away while there's still time to stop me. The plan had come to a conclusion with my reelection.

The answer is Yes: Every single rumor and conspiracy-theory you have heard about me and my administration are true. All of them. Except one thing. I am not some ally or lackey of the lizard-people, I am one of them, I AM THEIR KING! We are everywhere. Other lizard-people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly were unleashed upon unsuspecting public to conceal the precious truth about the grand conspiracy by feeding it with mind-boggling and ridiculous conspiracy-theories to take their minds of the truly important topic: Making humans tastier by encouraging them to have a healthier diet."

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
13. I re-read that several times lol'ing. It's hard to get through an entire Rude Pundit
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:33 AM
Aug 2014

piece when it starts with an epithet like that.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
6. Both corporate parties are complicit in militarizing the police.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 08:25 AM
Aug 2014

The militarized police, mass surveillance, assaults on journalism, persecution of whistleblowers are all BIPARTISAN efforts by corporatists who are protecting their own takeover of this nation and turning people here into indentured wage slaves.

Police Militarization (including the Obama administration's role)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html

It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.

The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.

The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter&quot , its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”

Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Link to the final ACLU report on militarization of police in America
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-police-report

The entire Democratic leadership opposed Grayson amendment to stop arming cops with DOD weapons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424

WOW... Went Looking For Connections Between Furguson And ALEC... Found This Piece Of The Puzzle...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025413841


deutsey

(20,166 posts)
7. Back when hate radio in Rwanda helped to incite the massacre there
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 08:36 AM
Aug 2014

I remember thinking how easy it was to imagine Limbaugh and his ilk doing the same here.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
8. Rush is responsible for Fergusion, although using "Responsible" and "Rush" in the same sentence
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:06 AM
Aug 2014

has to be done with precision for he is anything but a responsible person! He gins up hate, adds to the myth of blacks are animals and free loaders! He gives his listeners reasons to be angry and fearful of black Americans! If he wants to know who is primarily responsible he just needs to look in the mirror, he and his ilk!

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
11. Hell his hometown is just an hour or two away from Ferguson.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:32 AM
Aug 2014

Cape Girardeau.

Wife and I stopped there on a vacation trip one year on the way to St. Louis. Knew nothing about it, except it looked quaint.

Went to the Visitor Center and lo and behold the nice old lady working there bragged that it was the boyhood home of good ole boy Rush. "Did we want to buy a Rush coffee mug or tee shirt?"



After I finished wiping the vomit off my face, I said no thanks and we left the Cape never to return.

Talk about Fear and Loathing.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
10. Uproarious K&R! So, is El Drugbo actually claiming that Obama is
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:15 AM
Aug 2014

playing some form of multi-dimensional chess?

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
12. Stochastic terrorism
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:33 AM
Aug 2014

Constant spewing of hate on our airwaves must stop. Its the same way they demonized Kennedy in Texas so that when he was assainated 4th grade studebts applauded. Its evil. Plain and simple and millions of people eat it up.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
14. We continue to reap the fruits of the evil of slavery.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 10:07 AM
Aug 2014

I wonder if our nation will ever overcome the racism that slavery produced. Yes, we have come a long way, but the road ahead seems endless. A significant portion of our population still harbors hatred of African Americans. The hatred is maintained and cultivated by politicians to gain office throughout the entirety of the nation as witnessed by the popularity of the Tea Party. It is not limited to just the South. Right Wing radio, taking the lead of those such as Rush Limbaugh thinly veil their racial attacks on President Obama. They cast the entire Black community in general as lazy welfare bums that live of the backs of hard working White folks. Nixon's Southern Strategy is alive and well.

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