Limbaugh greets Democrats as liberators

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611090005

On the November 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to "feel liberated" by Democratic victories in the House and Senate on November 7 because he is "no longer going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried." Limbaugh added that the Republican Congress has produced "some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs."

From the November 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that people have been asking me how I feel all night long. And I got, "Boy, Rush, I wouldn't want to be you tomorrow. Boy, I wouldn't want to have to do your show. Boy, I'm so glad I'm not you." Well, folks, I love being me. I can't be anybody else, so I'm stuck with it. 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. Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat {sic} Party does and liberalism.

And I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it's much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now, I'm liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don't deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don't deserve it. I just -- I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat {sic} Party by sabotaging my own. But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future -- both in Congress and the administration -- are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that's liberating. I don't say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don't mean to make this too personal.

[LynnTheDem]

1. So rush; if ya didn't think bushCabal deserved to have their water carried...

Why did you?

Mindless MFer.

[originalpckelly]

2. I think he meant to say "retaining water," that would explain the pudge.(nt)

[Stardust]

11. Maybe he meant "because the steaks are high."

[L A Woman]

3. i don't get it....is he ON or OFF his meds???? n/t

[Olney Blue]

4. Poor baby. Carrying water is hard work.

[Ian David]

5. Rush already ate the chocolate. You don't wanna know what he did with the flowers. n/t

[Autonomy]

6. Somebody give lil Rushie a candy bar

[Cleita]

7. He misses the good old days when he could attack Clinton

and the libruls. He's got them back now. However, is anyone going to listen to him after the way he attacked Michael J. Fox?

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Who was making you carry the water Rush?

Perhaps, twenty or thirty years down the road, long after the Democrats have run their course and the Republicans are petering out after another, you will again be in a situation where the Republicans in Congress had grown too drunk with power and began to think they could get away with taking money from crooked lobbyists or sweeping another Mark Foley under the rug, you will still be liberated enough to say, "It's time to at least give these guys a rest."

[walldude]

9. LOL.. Great headline... I braved Rush's site to read the

whole transcript. The funniest thing was Rush trying to convince his audience that he wasn't lying to them, he just wasn't going to carry "the water" anymore. What an ass.

[TheBaldyMan]

10. how long before he joinss the insurgents?

not long IMO.

[Skittles]

12. what a pissant arrogant asshole

Rush, it was YOUR KIND of sniveling, dirty, no accountability, lying CRAP the voters voted against in DROVES - GO TO HELL ALREADY

[JohnnyLib2]

13. When will "you people" understand --

that every story, every issue revolves around Mr. Limbaugh, who is the center of the known universe?

[upi402]

14. Flip flopper n/t

[Geek_Girl]

15. The Biggest Fattest Rat Jumps ship

I can't understand why people listen to this wind bag.

[Clark2008]

17. Did he jump?

I would think a rat with his girth would ROLL off the ship.

:)

P.S. And I say this as a small woman 9 weeks pregnant with a little round belly, herself. :7

[Geek_Girl]

21. Congratulations!

:toast:

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. He has to carry a lot of water - to wash down all his freaking pills.

He is such a sick asswipe.

[peacetalksforall]

18. So, how much are they paying him?

[Diogenes2]

19. Are we expected to believe that Rush

is no longer representing the extreme Right? If so, I guess the question is, "How much does he want US to pay him?" If he's stopped "carrying water" for Neo-Fascism, we must now expect his broadcasts to represent the Reality-based community, & we should pay him accordingly, just as he was being paid by his previous Fascist masters.
Oops... no $$$ from us? Right back to Neo-Fascism!

[progressivebydesign]

20. Maybe he'll feel free enough to finally come out of the closet.

You never know.. seriously. maybe he's tired of the bullshit and leading a double life.