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… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.
Human rights are not a matter of opinion!
Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.
Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.
The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
The unpunished coup was a training exercise.
The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.
Not loving this new fraud based economy.
Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?
All hail the time of the bunny!
Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
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Zifnab
It feels so nice knowing that we’ve finally transitioned to a post-racial society.
Hunter Gathers
Stay classy, Rush. Stay classy.
dmsilev
Question: Does it count as a dog whistle if it’s loud enough to be regulated by strategic arms limitation treaties?
Maude
He must be so proud of himself.
He’s taking the oxy again.
gf120581
Um, don’t all Oreos count as bi-racial? Black and white after all. (Besides, the term “Oreo” has been used as a racial term for a while now. Limpdick is merely trying a new spin on it.)
yeahyeahwhatevs (Studly Pantload, once upon a time)
Anyone else around here feel left in the dark when Cole posts an Atrios-style one-liner with a link and those of us with hypervigilant filters on their work stations don’t know quite what’s going on because the link is blocked? Sure, I do have my filter-free smart phone, but nothing says “slacker!” like pokin’ around your Android (or what have you) at your desk. At least I can let a work-station browser peek out from behind a worksheet to give me the cover of plausible productivity.
EDIT: OK, Googled it. O-bam-eo. Towering (t)wit of our times, that Limbaugh.
Linda Featheringill
Barack is of mixed parentage. He is biracial. His color is medium brown, depending on how much sun he gets. And he has physical characteristics indicative of his ancestors on both sides. Barack Obama’s parents were identified and described well before anybody voted for the nominee or for the office of the president in 2008.
What is Rush’s point?
13th Generation
It’s not even clever wordplay, it’s just sounds dumb.
O/T, sort of, polled my 90 year old grandmother about who she likes among the republicans. She likes Mittens, says he’s got class.
Linda Featheringill
@13th Generation:
Compared to a lot of the current crop of Republicans, yes he certainly does have class.
KG
@13th Generation: Romney’s going to win because it’s his turn. that’s how the GOP primary system works. Only time it hasn’t really worked like that was in 2000, and there are plenty of people who remember how bad that turned out (whether or not any of them are still registered Republicans remains to be seen).
yeahyeahwhatevs (Studly Pantload, once upon a time)
@Linda Featheringill:
Rush ain’t doin’ his job unless he’s reminding his listeners there’s “one of those” in the White House.
Oh, and Gordon Gecko had class, too, I suppose.
Violet
Yawn. This is what Rush does. Pretty much everything and anything is reason to take a crack at the Obamas (Michelle included — she’s fat and eats junk food all the time, if Rush were to be believed).
John TK
Rush is just upset because Kraft hasn’t made an Oreo cookie with a creamy Oxycontin center.
13th Generation
@Linda F
yeah, I guess my point was that I was glad she can still see the forest for the trees.
Just glad she doesn’t like Rick or Michele, you know?
priscianusjr
The point is to get a little racism and ridicule in there without anyone actually being able to nail him on it. And he really thinks it’s clever. To genuinely find something like that funny, you’d have to not only be a racist, but have the snickery sense of humor of a nine-year-old. What a dork.
gex
Not only is the content of what he’s saying stupid, but the manner in which it was delivered suggests an imbecile behind the mic. I’ve never seen him and Foghorn Leghorn in the same place…
Steve
You know, no one would pay any attention to Rush Limbaugh whatsoever if people like John Cole didn’t write about him.
Jay in Oregon
I think you’ve pretty much described his audience to a T.
Martin
GOP is whining about the cost of Obama’s $1.1M bus that replaced the $11,200M helicopters that Bush ordered and Obama cancelled.
Tax and spend! Fiscal responsibility!
Dennis SGMM
Limbaugh is the symptom. that he has between 12 million and 20 million listeners (Depends on who’s guessing) is the disease.
yeahyeahwhatevs (Studly Pantload, once upon a time)
@Steve:
Millions of mouth breathers per day listen to that jackwad, and they, sadly, are our co-citizens. I think it’s overall for the best (even if not pleasant) to keep tabs on what’s on your imbicile neighbor’s mind and what sort of poison he’s listening to.
Dennis SGMM
@Martin:
The usual regime (If you’re not Willie Nelson) is to lease a bus. I doubt that Obama bought the thing with taxpayer funds.
Maude
@Dennis SGMM:
Since November 2010, his ratings are down about 30%.
Spaghetti Lee
He looks thinner than I remember. Pure vile hatred must consume a lot of energy.
J. Michael Neal
Awful. I mean, even my addled brain can tell that “or-BAM-eo” doesn’t scan. Terrible. It rather obviously needs to be “oh-BAM-eo”. If Rush dropped the “r”, he might have something.
I’m not going to touch the ethics of this. The aesthetics are bad enough.
Spaghetti Lee
@Maude:
What I wonder about stuff like that is, are they leaving because they’ve finally realized how vile he is, or is it just Wingularity 2.0 and they’re all migrating to Breitbart and Newsbusters and whatever?
freelancer
@Spaghetti Lee:
His own gravity is overpowering the strong and weak nuclear forces of the atoms that make up his body and he’s beginning to collapse into himself like a neutron star.
The Bobs
@Linda Featheringill:
Linda, no one is biracial. It’s a false concept.
J. Michael Neal
@Dennis SGMM: I’d bet that the Secret Service was involved in the purchase of this bus. The National Security Council may have picked up a part of the tab.
You know, the people whose job it is to make sure that Obama isn’t killed, and the one’s whose job it is to make sure he stays in touch with the White House on matters of national defense.
Clearly evil bureaucrats, all of them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Linda Featheringill:
“The Sheriff is a ni*CLANG*!”
BD of MN
@Dennis SGMM: The Secret Service bought two of them, one for whomever is president, and also for his/her general election rival…
Dennis SGMM
@Maude:
Thanks for some heartening news, Maude. I guess that Limbaugh is just the latest exemplar of the proud American traditions of race-baiting and demagoguery. It disappoints me that there are still so many of my fellow citizens who would subscribe to his views.
Southern Beale
There’s major action calling attention to human rights violations at the Hershey chocolate factory in Hershey PA. I just threw up a quickie blog post because I didn’t have time for more than that, but geeez, I’m thinking our national news media won’t cover it AT ALL. So if anyone can spread the word about this, it would be really appreciated.
Links and video at the link.
John Cole
Strap her to the roof of your car, then drive on the highway to someplace for the early bird special. When you get there, if she screams she wants to go to a doctor, tell her she can’t, because Mitt cut Medicare so that he can continue the Bush tax cuts and corporate tax relief. Then tell her to enjoy her last meal out, because Mitt wants to cut her SS so he can double gitmo and invade Iran.
Hal
Come on folks, stop playing the race card! Rush making a joke about Obama’s racial heritage shows your all reactionary pc Libruls and Rush is just a funny guy.
No really…
Villago Delenda Est
@Dennis SGMM:
The Secret Service is indeed buying the buses, because modifying leased buses with the necessary security and communications upgrades is, over the long haul (ten year expected service life), more expensive than having a couple of buses (which the eventual GOP nominee will have access to, btw) built custom with all those things deemed necessary by the Secret Service.
So this is just typical wingtard bullshit, as usual.
kindness
@Southern Beale: I’m not a fan. Hershey closed a profitable plant not too far from me (Oakdale Ca) & moved the production to Mexico because they could make more money there.
No more Hersheys on Halloween for the kids around me.
Dennis SGMM
@J. Michael Neal: @BD of MN:
Thank you for the correction. In many ways I still haven’t internalized the paranoia (Sometimes justifiable) that characterizes our times. I forgot, for instance, that any vehicle that transports the president has to be armor plated and equipped with bulletproof glass, surface to air missiles, etc. In view of that, it makes more sense just to buy the things.
I’m so damned old that I can remember presidents, and presidential candidates, speaking from the platform at the back of a railroad train.
harlana
and so I actually live in a time when an individual exists who is running for president that, by comparison, makes Bush look like a nice, reasonable, bipartisan human being.
Walker
And he wonders why he will never own a sports team.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: I talked to my soon to be 90 y/o grandmother today, and she said, in the course of a conversation about the WI recalls, that she could not understand how anyone could vote GOP.
harlana
I will never ever forgive the tea party for that
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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It’s about damn time they added some Chocolate cream to that cookie. I think it might go just dandy with the also-new SUPER COKE! also too.
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13th Generation
@ John Cole
I hear ya, but she rufuses to eat the early bird, even at 90 years old. She’s OLD school republican, will probably hold her nose and vote for whoever is the nominee. Can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
KG
@Spaghetti Lee: my guess is people tuned out after the election. Rush is on all the talk news stations, so they tune in to hear what is going on, election ends, they flip back to the music.
Dennis SGMM
@Walker:
Rush is too clogged with bile to realize that it’s for his own good. If he owned a team his own players would sooner or later beat him to death.
Paddy
@Dennis SGMM: Had to look for it, but here is the back story.
The bus, one of two acquired by the Secret Service earlier this year, is government property and will be part of the “protective fleet” used by the Secret Service to transport any official, dignitary, presidential candidate or protectee, officials said.
Its code name when the president is aboard is “Stagecoach,” sources said.
The bus purchases were long overdue additions to the fleet because the agency was never satisfied with the old practice of renting buses and retrofitting them with added security, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told ABC News in April.
“Designing our own vehicle really affords us a level of security that we can’t achieve by leasing a bus and outfitting it with temporary equipment,” Donovan said in the interview.
(snip)
Should the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 want to hit the road, he or she will be able to campaign in one as well, Donovan said.
Blockquoting isn’t working for me
Martin
@Dennis SGMM: Yeah, that all changed somewhere around the end of 1963.
Dennis SGMM
@Paddy:
Thanks, Paddy. So this is a reprise of “Pelosi demanded an expensive airplane!” That would be the same airplane that Boehner flies in now.
Gex
@John Cole: Well done, sir.
@Dennis SGMM: He might be able to peacefully coexist with players if he gets a hockey team. Any other sport, I don’t know how it works with him and the black athletes. Probably like you said – he end up bludgeoned to death.
Just Some Fuckhead
I hope it has a rushmallow center.
Ian
the commenters at Gawker put it best.
“does that make all white pastries crackers?”
“Yes, because no one would buy Saltine fat pieces of crap”
The Other Chuck
Imus got fired for way less.
Clear Channel is the fucking KKK on the airwaves.
James E. Powell
I am right there with you on the existence of the listeners as the problem. Let’s assume the larger number for the sake of discussion.
If there were no Rush Limbaugh, would the number of Americans who believe and act as his audience does shrink? Or would we still have 20 million ignorant, right-wing bigots who would be a potential audience for someone just like Rush Limbaugh?
Is there anything that anyone can do that would reduce that 20 million or cause them to believe and act any differently?
Villago Delenda Est
@Dennis SGMM:
One of the reasons Pelosi “demanded” a new, more expensive airplane, is that she has the unmitigated gall to live in California, not in Illinois, like Denny the Hutt did, and so required a larger, more expensive airframe to make the trip non-stop. Pelosi would have been happy with the plane Denny had, even with a stopover to refuel, but her security people (who were Denny’s security people, I might add) insisted that she had to fly nonstop.
So, more wingtard bullshit. It’s what they do.
danimal
@The Bobs: We are all multi-racial.
The Secret Service (well, you and I and every other American) bought the campaign busses. One of them will be designated for the GOP nominee as well.
drkrick
@Dennis SGMM: Probably not. Range is a factor in the Air Force’s selection of aircraft for this purpose, and Boehner’s home district in Ohio is a lot closer than Pelosi’s in CA. Of course, getting all kinds of pissy about it and pretending this was Pelosi’s (or Obama’s) decision is easy to to do when you want to.
Besides, Boehner’s a white man, so it’s legitimate for him to hold the office and use the perks.
Dennis SGMM
@James E. Powell:
I sincerely and regretfully doubt it. My (biased) observation is that over the years the divide has grown wider. I was sufficiently naive in the Sixties to believe that the passage of the Civil Rights Act would begin some healing. It didn’t. This country was colonized by people who were exclusionists and parts of it have never really abandoned that notion.
geg6
O/T, but I want to thank all the well wishers on the morning open thread for their kind thoughts. John just got the diagnosis yesterday and I’ve been working such long hours with move-in on campus that we haven’t talked in depth about it yet. He’s 64, so this isn’t an unusual diagnosis at his age, but I’m terrified at the moment and, I think, so is he. Anyway, I appreciate all the good thoughts.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I think Fat Bastard El Oxy Con Lardbaugh ought to STFU and start stuffing his face with the lard that his ass is made out of. I can’t wait until that fat fuck croaks from the coronary that he is overdue for. I bet they could bury him as-is and centuries later archaeologists would dig him up and find that he hasn’t rotted away.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that worms and bacteria would avoid that toxic piece of shit.
Martin
@James E. Powell:
Well, people believe and act within the social norms that they’re exposed. Rush has become a social norm by being given public airwaves and by having a large national audience. Take that away and remove this kind of speech from the public arena, and people will believe and act differently.
This is the flipside of the ‘deranged lunatic’ argument for folks like Jared Loughner and Anders Breivik – yes, they may be unstable and suggestive, but that doesn’t mean we need to feed them this kind of stuff. They aren’t random actors when they act along lines of reasoning that are clearly spelled out by various public figures like Rush. Eliminate those lines of reasoning and they might do other things, but then, they may not either.
Dennis SGMM
@drkrick:
Good points. In view of the range requirement Boehner should be more than happy to travel in a C47.
lamh34
OT, but relevant:
Air Force discharging sergeant who doubts Obama
Odie Hugh Manatee
@lamh34:
Interesting how that idiot is claiming to be getting an honorable discharge. If that was the case I bet there would be a flood of people doing the same thing.
I call bullshit, which is what this asshole is full of. His Dad is proud of him so you know that apple fell right at the base of the tree.
lamh34
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
reading what this idiot and his idiot father said, it just confirms, that there is no shame in being idiots anymore. I blame reality TV.
licensed to kill time
@John TK:
Hillbilly Her-Or-in-eos.
quannlace
Oh…..Rush…….
*Sigh*
It has nothing to do with political correctness, or insensitivity or any of the other things you’d accuse of Liberals of whning about.
The fact is…you’re just not funny.
You’ve got all the sparkling wit of a table of 12 year olds at 5th period lunch hour.
cckids
@priscianusjr:
Derf
Who do you think you are trying to kid Cole. You voted for Bush twice. I have no doubt you could be persuaded to vote for Perry like a lot of other idiots will be.
Anyone who voted for Bush twice has got to be way up there on the gullible scale.
Dennis SGMM
@lamh34:
Oh, come on; running away from military service has become a proud Republican tradition.
cckids
@cckids: ok, sorry, f-d up the blockquote.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Derf: You’re a tiresome, tiresome motherfucker, you know it?
Southern Beale
@kindness:
I wonder how much corporate tax Hershey pays?
Derf
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Hugs and kisses my little groupie.
Ben Cisco
@lamh34: Well, at least he has an appropriate name.
catclub
@Walker: maybe a polo team, since race baiting does not have a recognized sports league
Petorado
Please, people, please. It been like forever that we’ve all known that a mixture of both white and brown frothy substances is known as “Santorum.” How Rush came up with this bit of political overcompensation, and bringing our president into it, is … well … Rush assuming the role of the first person to mention a lie that will become “A lie repeated often enough …” But that’s what he gets paid to do, and, hell, it explains why Grover Norquist still has a paycheck to cash in this economy.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
i am used to rush being a bigot who talks to bigots who hate their driving jobs, but have nothing but sanctimony for how hard they work doing them.
i am used to the use of race to transcend dittoheadom, to get attention.
what bothers me, is that we are a country with so much racial provocation and a wealth of racial, and racist humor. knowing you are tapping that treasury for attention, and knowing that by doing so, you are reminding everyone who could go on giving less than a single fuck about your existence, that you are still around, why so lame? rush?
i mean its not funny or clever, nor does it draw on anything but the cheapest, laziest of racial metaphors. i mean for your big attention seeking purpose, i would think you would want some better material.
(no wishing it was funny, does not condone it)
seriously rush, hire a writer.