Limbaugh: Trying To Understand A Dem Like Trying To Understand A Murderer Or Rapist

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Huffington Post

Coming off of a tone-death cartoon that compared the author of the stimulus bill with a crazed, shot-dead chimpanzee, it seemed likely that, for the time being, provocative political metaphors would be put on hold. But on his radio show Thursday, Rush Limbaugh pushed the envelope once more. As spotted first by Media Matters:

RL: This is... it's about power, it's about control. These people genuinely look out over this country from their lofty perches. They don't like what they see. Otherwise...

Caller: So they can go somewhere else! Like, I don't understand, why do they have to stay here? Like, leave us alone!

RL: At this point, at this point Gretchen, I don't care about the why. They're not going to leave. They're trying to control it. At this point, the only thing is they must be stopped!

Caller: I agree...

RL: Within the confines of our Constitution, and the political arena of ideas, they must be stopped. I don't care why they see this country the way they see it. I don't care why a murderer does it. I don't care why a rapist does it. I don't care why this Muslim guy offed his wife's head. The NOW gang is out there saying 'oh, that's not domestic violence, that's just, uh, that's just...' what do they call it? 'Culturally honor killing. Or this woman was going to divorce him, that's against the law. That's his diversity.' I don't care, I don't care why anymore. If I figure it out, I'll be glad to tell you because it's interesting to know, but it doesn't matter in terms of defeating them.

The defense seems obvious. The remark came in the context of trying to understand the motives of Democrats who have disdain for America. "Who cares what drives a murderer, rapist or Democrat," Rush seemed to be saying, "just stop them from doing what they're doing." But, on the heels of Wednesday's New York Post cartoon, one has to wonder what's going on with all the lurid political analogies.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/limbaugh-likens-democrats_n_168323.html

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Rush is certifiably insane.

[daggahead]

1. Since when does Rush give a shit about The Constitution? n/t

[Cheap_Trick]

2. That's almost funny

considering that it's coming from a fat fucking pill-popping, child molesting sack of shit like him.

[keroro gunsou]

31. isn't rush

a junkie pedophile? i heard it on the internets.

[LakeSamish706]

3. Wonder if he knows that many of us Democrats dislike him as much as he does us?

I would dearly love to know why the Republicans don't leave actually. They are in the minority, they are responsible for the past 8 years, they are the ones that have almost destroyed this country. Many try to disassociate themselves from the Bush Administration, but he ran under a Republican banner so good luck with that.

[treestar]

4. Caller is still calling for us to leave - shouldn't they leave at this point?

Did anyone send them a memo that they lost? Because it seems they need one.

[LynnTheDem]

5. Not to mention the way Dems constantly INSULT and NAME-CALL!

Dontcha just hate that!


:eyes:

[Idealism]

6. I was reading an interesting article about right-wing yesterday

The article was written for an English Journal and it was titled http://books.google.com/books?id=H2hRAVkc0nMC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=patricia+j+williams+hate+radio&source=bl&ots=gWhOoKohQk&sig=CInAmsgMjbosQyrqzpBjEGOvep0&hl=en&ei=3s2dSanALuH8tgeumITqBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA22,M1">"Hate Radio" written by Patricia J. Williams, a Law Professor who currently writes a column at The Nation. The reason I bring up this article is that in the article, Williams wrote about what the draw of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, etc is: they project a message of victimhood to their mostly white, mostly male constituents. The message is that they are being mistreated, abused, and cheated out of their due- which is of course ludicrous when you think of how high up there a white male is compared to say a black lesbian, like Prof. Williams. She points out that "hate radio," programs that encourage violence and dehumanizes "the other" has led to horrible things in the past. She uses Hitler, Stalin, and more recently the Rwandan Genocide.


http://www.idrc.ca/rwandagenocide/ev-108178-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html"> Call to genocide: radio in Rwanda, 1994

[grannie4peace]

7. that is true!

[LWAG]

17. Consider Rush in the following light

From Wikipedia

Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on
solving economic, political, and social problems that its
supporters see as causing national decline or decadence.
Fascists aim to create a single-party state in which the
government is led by a dictator who seeks unity by requiring
individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective
interest of the nation, a race or even a social class. Fascist
movements promote violent conflict between nations, political
factions, and races as part of a social Darwinist view that
conflict between these groups is natural and a part of
evolution.

Fascist governments permanently forbid and suppress all
criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist
movement. Fascist movements oppose any ideology or political
system that gives direct political power to people as
individuals rather than as a collective through the state
(liberalism, democracy, individualism); that is deemed
detrimental to national identity and unity (class conflict,
communism, internationalism, laissez-faire capitalism); that
protects and enhances the power of "weak" people
rather than promoting "strong" people
(egalitarianism); that may oppose major changes to
institutions and cultural values that it proposes
(conservatism) and that undermine the military strength and
military ambitions of the nation (pacifism).

According to Paxton, fascism is
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation
with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by
compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a
mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working
in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites,
abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive
violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of
internal cleansing and external expansion.

This is what it is really all about folks. 

[mwb970]

27. republicans and right-wing crazies *love* being victims.

Their one permanent stance is outraged victimhood. Their cry is "Waaaah! It's not fair!" (a cry familiar to parents of small children). If someone says "Happy Holidays" there is suddenly a War On Christmas. Crazy!

This is a political party consisting of rich, white, straight, Christian men, the very group that has enjoyed countless privileges for decades, and yet we are to believe that they are a beleaguered, depressed minority. Oh, and the media is "in the tank" for Obama, despite the 2-1 edge enjoyed by republicans in terms of TV guest appearances.

Exactly how stupid do they think we are?

[kimmylavin]

8. That's rich.

He's lecturing about LIBERALS on "lofty perches".

[primavera]

9. In fairness, that's pretty much how I feel about Repukes. n/t

[No Elephants]

10. Rush who?

[ZombieHorde]

11. Sticks and stones...

[TWiley]

12. oh for fuck's sake

that man has his head right up his own ass

[bulloney]

25. That's a big target to stick his tiny head.

[judesedit]

13. Rush feeling inadequate and sexually frustrated

The poor man has overcompensated for his feeling of inadequacy and sexual frustration, by becoming an overgrown bag of hot air. I feel sad for the ole boy. He's pretty pathetic.

[Initech]

14. Eventually that fat piece of crap will get what's coming to him.

[Raine]

15. Ironic, that's how I feel about understanding ReTHUGs. nt

[Stevenmarc]

16. And why people listen to Limbaugh is like trying to understand why a dog would eat it's own shit

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. There are nutrients in shit.

As junk food inviscerates poor health, Rush's splutterings provide nourishment for listeners' hatred.

[Cha]

19. rush limpbaughs is a dangerous fucking

asshole and the sooner more people in our country realize that the faster our country will succeed.

[LynneSin]

20. Trying to understand Limbaugh is like trying to understand a Prescription Drug abuser that...

diddles lil boys.

I just can't put my mind there at all

[bobthedrummer]

21. Ever see broken teeth all over a floor, Rush? Wanna see yours? eom

[AndrewP]

22. In trying to understand a Neocon, one would need to get a lobotomy to see their point of view.

[BlueIdaho]

23. My consolation...

I will live plenty long enough to piss on his tombstone - repeatedly.

[Jawja]

24. Uh, excuse me, Rush,

but "they" do control it and "they" are not going to leave because "they" are the MAJORITY, asshole!

Rush Limbaugh is a pile of shit and his ditto heads are flies.

[struggle4progress]

26. Still wondering why Rush, with no wife/girlfriend and no prescription, had Viagra in his possession

when he came back from the Dominican Republic in 2006

Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra
Held At Airport After Drug Lacked Prescription; Could See Deal In Prior Case Collapse
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 27, 2006 | by Jarrett Murphy
... Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription .... the alleged violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor ... Under the deal reached last month with prosecutors, Limbaugh was not to be arrested for any infraction for 18 months in exchange for authorities deferring a charge of "doctor shopping" ... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml

Fighting Child Prostitution
by Rebecca Brookes
... The Dominican Republic is one of the most popular sexual tourism destinations in the world ... In a survey done by MAIS in 2006 with teens aged 13 to 16 in eight schools in Sosúa, a neighboring resort town, adolescent prostitution ranks as a main concern ... http://www.plannedparenthood.org/issues-action/international/dominican-republic-13159.htm

[LiberalPersona]

28. Trying to comprehend the republican party

is like trying to make sense of complete chaos... because that's exactly what it is.

[PVnRT]

29. What. The. Fuck. Does this shitheel really think NOW defends honor killings?

I will celebrate on the day this scumbag dies.

[BreweryYardRat]

30. Ol' Limpballs is being nastier than usual, eh?

This crap's really rich coming from a known drug abuser who took a trip to a country that's rife with child prostitution...and came back with a suitcase full of Viagra.