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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:26 PM
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Rush is incoherent. 13 year listener. He is gone.
I write this at 1:20 p.m. EST. Posted on the other Rush thread, but have to say this here. Have fun, those of you who will say he has always been incoherent. Of course. But this is a new level of incoherence. I have never heard him this disjointed. Those of you who have dismissed him have done so at your (and our) peril; he HAS had a profoundly negative influence on our nation. What I am saying is, that this is a different Rush. His career is over, if this show is any indication. He is simply incoherent (and spare me, "always has been.") This is a person in trouble. And without Rush, GWB is in trouble. Which is a very good thing. But this is a fascinating thing, after all these years - to see the bastard go down this hard. It's been a long and painful fight to outlast him. I think we have done it.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:29 PM
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1. It will be interesting to see... what they say over in Freeperland..
Anyone with a stronger stomach than I, perhaps you could report back?
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Ratty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:39 PM
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54. Oh please
They're cumming all over themselves over there, worshipping their god. What did you expect. "Welcome back, Rush!" "We love you!" "Kissy kissy kissy poo!"

This whole thing has only given his career a boost and if anybody thinks different, can you spell naive?
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:49 PM
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69. See post #67
Yeah, he will hold the Freepers. But that's it. Karl Rove will move him out of the mainstream now; he is too loose a cannon. Hannity is his probable successor. Who is being naive?
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:31 PM
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2. You can listen to him online here:
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:31 PM
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3. You're right.
I've been listening and he is making absolutely no sense at all. I think that Rush listeners are going to have to call themselves "scrambleheads" from now on instead of "dittoheads."

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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:55 PM
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19. ok...i just listened for an hour and i didn't hear a change
i can't get him in the shop because of electrical interference so i hung up an out to lunch sign and sat in the car and listened.

maybe a slight amount of stammer but after a month off and for the reason given, i don't see that as suprising.

i don't think we can bank on him self destructing further based on that hour.
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:03 PM
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26. For example...
he's trying to use the "Democrats WANT bad things to happen to our country so Bush will look bad" talking point to distract from the fact that Bush IS bad for our country and the obfuscation is not well done.

In the past he has done a far better job of talking-point delivery.
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:14 PM
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36. well i'm not a regular listener...anymore
maybe i hear about 40 mins a week but about five years ago, i devoted a year to trying to get him off our local station and i did listen all the time then. as i said, there is got to be jitters, considering.... but i don't see enough of a change to give me hope.
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:45 PM
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64. Well, it's just a subjective judgement, but
it seems to me that if people listen to this prattle regularly, they won't be able to find their way to a polling place to vote for rightwingers. :-)
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:15 PM
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37. Scrambleheads! Good One, Barbaraann!
So let it be written, so let it be done.

Henceforth, I will call them "scrambleheads".
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:42 PM
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60. Thanks! If I could do graphics...
I could do a mean:

This is your brain... (picture of brain)

This is your brain on Rush. (picture of scrambled eggs)

Listening now...he is getting even more incoherent.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:33 PM
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4. They played a clip on CNN. He sounded on the verge of crying
I was waiting for him to start singing a solo version of kumbia. He is done.

Don

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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:34 PM
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5. I don't believe he has escaped the law
I notice a lot of people are saying that his incoherence is due to drug withdraw (granted, that is probably a big reason), but IMHO I beleve they are going to throw his butt in jail with Tommy Chong. They have a witness AND she was wearing a wire. Get ready Rush, your new career will be learning to get along with Bubba, your new roomie. :evilgrin:
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:43 PM
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12. Don't count on it ...
I heard this morning on State Run TV, that prosecutors will be going after his suppliers, and not him.

They are already setting him up as the victim. Disgusting.

Cheers
Drifter
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:50 PM
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15. Well crap
Thanks for the back-to-reality check. At least I got a smile outta thinking Rush was heading for the Bighouse. :)
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 05:34 PM
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94. The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Dept. must have deliberately blown
the case. After all the information they had, they never even bothered to try to get a search warrant to search Limbaugh's residence. Since he was never found in actual possession of any narcotics, he will not be prosecuted.

The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Dept. should be thoroughly investigated for this. It is not possible that this was an accidental oversight. They had to have deliberately failed to execute the law in the Limbaugh case so Limbaugh would skate.
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:35 PM
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6. ok , even MORE incoherent than before...
before he was a arrogant ignorant incoherent jerk....

now he's a doped up ignorant incoherent jerk and I hope you
are absolutly right with "His career is over, ..."
"This is a person in trouble. And without Rush, GWB is in trouble."

I really really hope so !!!!


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mw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:38 PM
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7. It's his conscience. It's bubbled to the surface
And if Rush ever hears his conscience speaking, we must worry that he will harm himself.

Rush has made a life of being a soulless bastard. Such evil behavior usually catches up at some point.

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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:38 PM
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8. Where is he broadcasting from, do you know?
If he's back in Florida, shouldn't the authorites be banging down his door? Doesn't his employer Clear Channel have to subject him to drug screenings? Are they harboring a fugitive?


rocknation
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:18 PM
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39. Not to mention aiding the "terrorists"..
No, you see Rush is a rich drug addict which means that he can go to a fancy drug rehab, break the morals clause in his contract and not get fired and not be arrested.

I would be in jail right now.

BTW, he sounds boring as hell.

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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 09:44 PM
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100. Morals clause? That's something liberals have to obey!
Rush could screw goats on live TV, light up a genuine Cuban Cohiba after he was done, and they'd ignore it.

Morals clause? We don't need no steenking morals clause!
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:07 PM
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85. New York.
At least that's what he said.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:40 PM
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9. Update: If you want clean air and water, you are a liberal
He just said that. And he meant it critically. The man is either high or not ready to get out of treatment. Never heard him like this. My God, this is incredible.
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Avalon Sparks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:32 PM
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50. Hmmm...
"If you want clean air and water, you are a liberal"

and on the flip side if you want polluted air and water, you are a Conservative...

Sounds like he's making sense for once.
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:42 PM
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62. Sounds like he's telling the truth
If you want clean air and water, you're a liberal. Well, that's true - every liberal I know wants clean air and water. And the only people I see who don't are conservatives.

He'll never last now. :)

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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:56 PM
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79. Ha! His Freudian slip is showing...
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:42 PM
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10. Okay, this thread made me tune in...
I generally try to avoid Rush and the other talk-radio nutballs, but I can never pass up a chance for a good shot of schadenfreude. You're right. He's all over the fucking map. He makes no bloody sense...he sounds like he's just done two or three lines of coke, or something. I'd listened for about three minutes and started laughing because it's so utterly ridiculous that he's even on the air in this condition...
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:49 PM
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14. Thank you. Be aware of the enemy.
That's why I listen to him. The only reason (plus, I like a good argument). He is indeed nuts, is he not? And I mean compared to the last 13 years. He IS incoherent. This is the end for him, except on FR. And they may go down with him. Wow! Big day for our side.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:55 PM
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18. I USED to listen to him...
and Hannity, and Neal Boortz, percisely for that reason; as Sun Tzu said, "He who knows his own mind and that of his enemy need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles." But I quit because it just wasn't good for my blood pressure.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:28 PM
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46. Rush is the mouthpiece for the right wing.....
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 02:29 PM by kentuck
no matter what they say. He is no comedian. Perhaps he was funny at one time, but no more. He is a propagandist. But he is not the propagandist he once was...
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:43 PM
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11. This is the first time I've listened to the fat prick
The fundamentals of being a liberal: "It is fundamental for a liberal to be divorced from reality."

Never listening to this fat shit again...
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:05 PM
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84. Oh, that's nothing compared to the stuff he used to say when
he was high.

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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:46 PM
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13. I took a stroll over to Freeperland
and they have worked themselves up into an emotional frenzy - they think Rush sounds different; but reflective and humble - he'll "probably start going to church soon; bless him".
They're glad he didn't turn into a liberal and now that's he's not high anymore, will be more dangerous to us (liberals).
I couldn't stay there long cause I felt like I was going to vomit. Here's a rather interesting take on Rush's stint in rehab and his counseling:

To: Stop Legal Plunder

Great post.

I'll go you one better. Psychiatry and psychology are Satan's greatest counterfiets for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Freud and Jung, et al didn't "create" psychiatry and psychology. They are empirical bodies of "knowledge", meaning they came from somewhere. And, that "somewhere" is demonstrably the occult. If you follow the trail of influence back from any of the "great thinkers" like Freud, you'll find (among other things) the alchemists and ancient occultist practices that teach Christ as a metaphor, not as God. The result is that, today, there is a pill for everything and repentance for nothing. Christ is the Perfect Psychiatrist and the "healing arts" are subordinate to Him, not the other way around.


509 posted on 11/17/2003 10:23 AM PST by mrobison (We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.)
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 430 | View Replies >
________________

Before I left, in the same thread - a freep was comparing Clark to Hitler because he raised his voice on Faux today.

Free Republic is a scary, scary place.

:scared:
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Kusala Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:04 PM
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28. I'm all for psychology
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 02:10 PM by Kusala
but i'm also against psychiatry, not because of the reasons he states obviously. I just don't believe most drugs out there are safe, they are politically allowed to pass muster with the FDA, and the psychiatry industry is a slave to the drug industry. Drugs are seen as easy solutions to everyday problems.

However, there are exceptions such as schizophrenics, as oppossed to your garden-variety depressed individual whom I believe therapy is the best form of treatment, not drug industry "experiments".

Of course, if individuals want to be drug industry guinea pigs for their various society-and-media-induced mental disorders, that's their perogative. This is all just IMO of course, so nobody respond with "I NEED MY PROZAC" or anything, please.


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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:12 PM
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34. Ever heard of the placebo effect?
Antidepressant drug trial data shows relatively little difference between real medication and placebo. In fact, subjects in the placebo arms will even report a resolution of their depression. They thought they were getting real medication but weren't. All in their minds?
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Kusala Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:52 PM
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78. i can't say i'm surprised
don't even get me started on Ritalin and ADHD. With the way teachers at my son's public school try to get parents to put their kids on drugs, it'd make you think the school was run by Eli Lilly.

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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:58 PM
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81. Have you ever been clinically depressed?
If not, well, you're welcome to your opinion, but frankly, it doesn't mean a whole fuck of a lot.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:19 PM
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86. Exactly what you said, And even if the poster has experience
with depression, their experiences may be very different from mine or yours. Some of us would not still be in this world without anti-depressants. To opine that depression is a minor psychiatric problem shows a lack of knowledge of depression.


"This is all just IMO of course, so nobody respond with "I NEED MY PROZAC" or anything, please. " What an offensive and ridiculous thing to say on a discussion board. It's very poor manners to throw out a opinion that strongly worded and then try to belittle/forbid those with contrasting opinions from posting.
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Kusala Donating Member (864 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:52 PM
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91. Actually i spent time in the 80's scam
known as psychiatric hospitalization for children(read Glassners "Culture of Fear" for a reality check), so i know a bit about being diagnosed "depressed" and how the medical, insurance, and drug industries work the system. So yes i have been diagnosed "clinically depressed" although i look back now and realize it doesn't mean squat. There's millions more out there that get taken advantage of
on a daily basis with their own special diagnosis which makes them believe they are somehow different, that their lives are somehow worse than every else out there. A security blanket for the mind, if you will.

Of course i knew i'd receive love notes from the believers, who get ever so defensive when someone says they don't believe in their brand of fairy tales(of course, you can't say God doesn't exist without ruffling a few feathers as well. Such is life).

And yes it is my opinion, worth exactly what you pay for it.


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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:53 PM
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16. Is it WhattaRush or is it just pseudo-novelty?
I am wondering if Rush wasn't always this way, and we just got used to it. Now, he comes back after the treatment and we notice again?

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Baconfoot Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:54 PM
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17. I think we should reach out to Rush and try to support his recovery...
I don't know how we could do that without it seeming like we're trying to "rub it in" but if it could be done it might be a nice gesture.



what does everyone think?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:56 PM
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20. Whatever we do or say they'll interpret as an attack.
I don't see any way you could do it. Let him stew in his own mess.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:47 PM
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66. Second thought. Why the hell should we?
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:57 PM
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22. Crush him. Fine as a human being - but crush him as Rush
Karl Rove has worse in store for us. We can't let up. Rush is doing himself in for us.
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:59 PM
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23. Until I found out what he said about Jerry Garcia
I would have agreed with you, but he insulted Garcia for his use of drugs. The man is a racist, coward, draft dodging failure of a human.
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Oracle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:04 PM
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27. You forgot...a lying, hateful, egotistical, junkie!
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 02:09 PM by Oracle
As well as a pontificating, self righteous, self absorbed, fascist buffoon.
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:05 PM
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30. I also forgot...
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 02:07 PM by Neo Progressive
He is an impotent, grotesque, homophobic, sexist, crackhead, dipshit. My bad ;-)
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Paranoid_Portlander Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:41 PM
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57. An unpunished pontificating pill-popping pundit.
.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:00 PM
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24. I have never listened to him, thank God. But I think he has caused
so much damage to this country that pity and compassion are really hard to muster.
He should be subjected to the same laws he wanted to have EVERYBODY else so be subjected to....in a word, he should go to jail. Then he might become a better human being.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:23 PM
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41. Addiction knows NO politics.
It's horrible, and I wouldn't wish ill on anyone who is trying to recover.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:23 PM
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42. I think he should be arrested like any other drug addict with
a stash of over 1000+ pills. And remember "when you do drugs, you help terrorists".........Ha Ha!

Where is John Asscroft when you need him?

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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:41 PM
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55. OK, let us know when he starts his "recovery", OK?
All I'm hearing and reading is bullshit. Rush still thinks "12 steps" is some kind of dance they do at the Crawford Pig Ranch.

He's not being honest with his lsisteners, and thus not with himself.
He's not in recovery, he's in denial. I'll bet he checked himself into the Noelle Bush Center and "sat in his shit" the whole month, then signed himself out. He could do that, he wasn't court-ordered into treatment or anything....

So, when he gets serious and STARTS his "recovery", you let us know, OK?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 07:25 PM
Response to Reply #55
96. Now THAT would be a great country song----
The Texas TwelveStep
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:20 PM
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75. Well as Al Franken says
Pray for Rush. We're not small. Pray that he sees the light. He spent years ranting for the maximum penalty for drug abusers, pray for him. Pray that he gets to go to the toughest jail in Florida to be rehabilitated. Pray that his roomate is a big tough black guy that was sent there because of Rush's rantings. Pray for him.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 01:56 PM
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21. Do you think Bill Bennett is willing to bet that....
...Rushmaster OC is still scoring the Hillbilly Heroin?
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:01 PM
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25. I think the over/under
for the amount of pills Limbaugh will be taking is 45, with the spread 7 pills.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:10 PM
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33. Hes trying really hard.
But hes done. Ive listened before and you can tell he doesnt even believe what he's saying.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:24 PM
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43. If he's honest about his recovery, there's no way he could
believe the crap he spewed before. It just won't fly.
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Kurt Remarque Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:04 PM
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29. darn, i can't listen but
has he made even an oblique reference to his hypocrisy concerning his previous advocacy for hating and jailing drug users and/or addicts?
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:06 PM
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32. Do chickens have lips?
:)
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 05:05 PM
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93. Nah, he claimed that he hardly ever said that stuff
And he claimed that if someone called in and mentioned Oxycontin that, far from condemning those who use it, he <and here he uses the language of recovery but not the spirit of it> used to pretend he had never heard of it because he was an addict and addicts are secretive. But he claimed everyone who used his "send drug users to jail" quotes are wrong to label him a hypocrite because he really never said it very often. So he's hypocritical about his own hypocrisy. As was to be expected.
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:06 PM
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31. Good work, soldier!
Thank you for this field report. I feel that I can trust your judgement, as you are a long-time listener and are objective enough to evaluate his level of performance.

Good heavens -- it sounds like you are describing a man in meltdown. Addiction is a powerful monster to be in the grip of, and it can destroy some people utterly. Some people just can't make it beyond rehabilitation, because the substance has fundamentally wrecked them and they never truly recover.

Prognosis: Rush will be back on drugs on the sly again in order to function on the air, or he will "retire" because the executives who manage him recognize that he is out of control.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:25 PM
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44. Hey, no mention of the "lovely Marta"....I guess she is GONE! nt
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:54 PM
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72. Interesting analysis
You may be right. I also think he may become a liability to Karl Rove. And that may ultimately do him in more than his incoherence.
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denverbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:14 PM
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35. Incoherent? What's the problem?
Jebus, freepers listen to Bush say 'nukular' and 'is our children learning', and they think Bush is God. Their greatest President (Reagan) was a marginally coherent pre-Alzheimer's patient.

Incoherence is a virtue for freepers.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:18 PM
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38. He has nothing to say. I'm bored. nt
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:29 PM
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48. I know what you mean
I used to get pissed off listening to what he said. Today I had it on for awhile and he has totally jumped the shark. His blather isn't well directed, its tired, it doesn't have that heavy indignation that made him almost sound believable at times. He is, and I believe it as well as hope it, toast.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:36 PM
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52. If he stays toast in that respect, he'll recover.
If he goes back to the outrageous bashing and lying, he'll relapse.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:21 PM
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40. If that's the case, he'll prolly start up the oxycontin again.
Even if he does go off the air, though, they'll just find some other right-wing fuckwad to take over his show permanently. Right-wing radio show hosts are a dime a dozen. It's easy to find people who are willing to whore themselves.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:25 PM
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45. I hope El Rushbo twists in the wind for awhile.
After today, he can't really be considered an overall assett for the Bush Reich, but they can't cut him off real quick without a public relations disaster.
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:00 PM
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82. Maybe he'll move on to crack.
He can always ask Michael Savage for a hit or two..
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:28 PM
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47. IMPORTANT!!!...Please Read...
As someone posted last night:

WHATEVER you do,
DO NOT mail rush any leftover pain medication you may have in your medicine cabinet.

THIS IS IMPORTANT.
PLEASE...
DO NOT mail rush any leftover pain medication you may have in your medicine cabinet.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:32 PM
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49. Okay...
how about if I e-mail him and tell him how to procure opiates easily and legally by, say, making tea out of dried poppies or soaking poppy seeds in lemon juice? Sounds like he needs it.
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spindoctor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:34 PM
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51. LMAO
TOO funny :)
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:44 PM
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63. And he should stay away from paregoric-soaked cigars.
:evilgrin:
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:57 PM
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80. mmmmm...paregoric...uhhhhhhh
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:38 PM
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53. I've Never Listened to Rush Before
It's as if he's making it all up as he goes along.

Does this guy have any idea how the world actually works? He certainly must not want his listeners to know! His fan base of Republican Consumatrons must be so politically naive -- it would be touching if wasn't so nauseating.

It's funny though, as I'm listening, Rush seems to be serving as the hypnotic mouthpiece for that little devil of contempt the propaganda machine installs in the malleable, uncritical, fallacy-adled brains of any "real" Americans who drink this brand of Kool-Aid. This faire is strictly for the numbed-out peasants and groundlings who have no other way to vent the rage of their ignorance and powerlessness.

What I take from his style is the intent to polarize America to the point of entirely gutting the value and power of any debate or discourse. It's a way of creating a defacto one party mainstream in America. Rush isn't just incoherent, he's beyond the pale of critical thinking. Does he ever refer to facts?

This is pure totalitarian demagoguery.

(forgive my spelling)
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ArtieBoy Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:41 PM
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56. Occassional listener of 10 years here...
As a radio fan I've listened to Rush off and on since `93. After reading this thread I thought maybe you guys were saying all this just because you don't like Rush's politics, but I've tuned him in...yep, he sounds toasted. He interrupts himself with asides and tangents and mumbled jokes, making his point and flow of thought nearly impossible to follow. "Five weeks in here isn't going to make ME an idiot!" he just said.

The prediction that the GOP will slowly shed him is probably a good guess.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:48 PM
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68. "Five weeks in here"
Is he broadcasting from the rubber room?

:shrug:

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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:19 PM
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74. Yep. It's hard to follow what he's saying. But that's to be
expected; he's only 30 or so days into recovery. It's far too soon for him to be on the air.
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King Coal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:41 PM
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58. My God
He is really out of it. "Five weeks in rehab and I'm going to make you an idiot." (Crazy laughing)
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 07:09 PM
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95. Hi oldtimer1942!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:41 PM
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59. I guess Klear Channel contracts lack a 'morals clause'.
Nice that they have such a liberal, open-minded policy.

:evilgrin:

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PatrickS Donating Member (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:42 PM
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61. 13 years?!?!
Wow...
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:47 PM
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67. That's why I know he has cracked
Listening for so long: That's how I saw what was coming in 1994, with the Gingrich (yecch) Revolution. That's how I saw what was coming in 2002, when the Dems laid down and said, "do me" to the GOP. And on, and on, and on. Knew he was as dangerous as any person in American by the early '90s, and was ridiculed by those who should have known better and were bulldozed as a result. And that's why I say now, he will hold the Freepers - but he is finished as anything else but a marginal figure. His time has come and gone. And thank God I am here to see it.
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:04 PM
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83. Can you be more specific? For those of us who won't listen to the git...
Not that I don't believe you; I never thought he was incoherent, per se. His logic was full of holes, but he at least was able to make it *sound* like he knew what he was talking about: the tone of his voice, and the fact that his syntax at least made sense. Is that what's different now? Weird tangents about unrelated stuff? Sentences that aren't? What's his voice like? Are his callers saying anything?
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ElementaryPenguin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:45 PM
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65. Ding, Dong the Crush is done, the big fat pig, the liberals won!
Ding Dong, the big mouth slush is scum!!

Few mouths have ever done as much damage to this country as his venomous one has! Incredibly good riddance. The man belongs behind bars - where, I might add, I hope he lives a lengthy lifespan! Just keep the souless prick away from a microphone - FOREVER!
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adriennel Donating Member (776 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:50 PM
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70. high functioning republican, I mean addict
Rush is incoherent now that he has been through rehab? Sounds like an addict to me!! I wonder how long he has been doing his show under the influence. Clearly he seemed to be a high-functioning addict and I think it will be damn funny if people are now turned off by his show.

BTW, I have lost hope that Rush will ever face charges. This is disgusting, and I am outraged, but if it came to betting money, I'd put it all on "he walks, continues bashing drug users". :puke:
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:51 PM
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71. Baby Boomers didn't have to grow up like the previous generation...
without a single workd of deference to those who served in Vietnam. It's such arrogance to lump all boomers together. I think those who served in SE Asia had to grow up pretty darned fast. And there were plenty of them. Rush is insufferable and deserves to have his ass kicked in.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:43 PM
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89. Recreational Drug use is another Boomer sterotype that Rush should adress!
He knows a thing or two about getting high on illegal street pharmaceuticals...
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 02:58 PM
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73. He'll be back on Oxy within 60 days, if not sooner.....
NT
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:21 PM
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76. He just referred to "people like Howard Dean running around
saying we have to get out of Iraq."

Dean has never said anything like that. It's Dean's opinion that we shouldn't have been there in the first place, but that we can't cut and run now.

He has mentioned Dean about three times, but he has not called him "Nikita Dean" as he did before.
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VeniceBeat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 03:32 PM
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77. Father Coughlin Would Be Proud


Too bad there isn't a Bishop that could force Limbaugh off the air.

Perhaps a concientious District Attorney will. :)
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:23 PM
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87. If you haven't already seen it
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:41 PM
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88. His Closing Words: Terroristic Threat Against Liberals
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 04:42 PM by UTUSN
Caught bits, then the closing, where he said: "A final note to you Liberals out there:: The party's over. I'm back."

It was said with the most menacing, threatening tone.

He was more arrogant and hate-filled than ever.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:44 PM
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90. Interesting choice of words "The PARTY is over"
Edited on Mon Nov-17-03 04:56 PM by Dr Fate
Hey Rush, your'e the one who has been partying on DRUGS for years and years, not us hard-working regualr folks...
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1songbird Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 04:54 PM
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92. In order to spew hatred all day
he needs his drugs. Without them he can't cope.
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 08:26 PM
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97. Twisted Tune
Oxycontin Eater

(Parody of Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley)


Well I was in the car and I heard this guy
He sounded all shook up and he told me why
His voice was shaking on the E.I.B.
Sound like an Oxycontin eater to me

It was a bug-eyed, tone deaf, flying Oxycontin eater
Right Wing, syndicated, spinning Liberal people beater
Right Wing, strung out, hypocrite prescription cheater
Rush looked strange to me
That guy?

Well his housekeeper picked up some drugs on the street
And she brought the stuff home for the boss to eat
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
“I tried to quit twice but it was just too tough.”

He was a big mouth, blow hard, Right Wing propaganda reader
Bad ear, sore back, 30 dose a day pill eater
A three time, retread, frequent Betty Ford repeater
Still looks high to me
One more time?

I said Mr. Oxycontin guy the show sounds fine
I see you beating up on Liberals using half your mind
So what’s the real reason that you’re in Rehab?
“I wanna get my job back and slam Mcnabb.”

Well bless his soul, no control, former jelly donut eater
Dope stashing, Clinton bashing, flying Oxycontin eater
ESPN SPORTS
Fired color commentator
What a site to see
Pill popping’s evil

And after 30 short days well what do you know
He pops back up on his radio show,
He was preaching away to the ditto heads
While his maid faced the music cause he sang to the Feds

I am not a victim in this. I… Criminals like this should be put in jail off the streets.
They’re the worst kind of offenders. I blame Hillary Clinton. She’s the reason for all of this.

I should’ve stuck with tequila.
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 08:38 PM
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98. Well done undergroundpanther!

Sheb would be proud. :)
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 09:05 PM
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99. OMG! 13 years!! Don't know how you did it, but thanks for your insight, do
you think he's still on the pills? What was it that you noticed was different that he seemed incoherent. I didn't hear him, but your perspective must be incredible having listened all that time!

Thanks!
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