I just had to vent.

I never listen to this guy, but his comments about Haiti are being repeated everywhere. And after listening to his schtick, I’m baffled.

Why is his anti-American anti-social hatred for humanity broadcast to our military personnel via Arms Services Radio? Why is he earning $400 MILLION DOLLARS for his bottomless bottom-feeding screed — when he actually has the audacity to tell people NOT TO DONATE TO THE HAITIAN RELIEF EFFORT?

I don’t understand how someone so hateful can survive as a broadcaster in this country.

Whew!

That felt good.

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javaz
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This is what our troops must listen to from Rush Limbaugh –

“””Limbaugh: “The U.S. military is now Meals on Wheels. It always is with Democrat presidents””””

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001150025

bito
Member

j’avaz, I was waiting for this! “how can Obama send so many troops to Haiti? What about Afghanistan? Doesn’t he know we have wars to fight? We don’t have time to be nursemaids!

KO used the story on Rep King for a comment tonite, j’avaz. Good call, girl.

javaz
Member

Rush is really pushing the envelop on this one, but sadly, his listeners are so blinded by their hate that Rush remains their hero.
It doesn’t say much for the GOP either, since not one Republican has the testicular fortitude to slam Rush for his racist bigotry.
Then again, racist bigots = GOP

kesmarn
Admin

Gotta love the comment one reader left on the Media Matters article on Limbaugh:

“Sure beats being the Obese Lying Drug-Addicted Pimpled-Buttock-Draft-Dodging America-Hating Viagra-Enhanced Race-Dividing Scroogelike-Loser otherwise known as Rush Limbaugh.”

This guy shouldn’t hold back like that!

PS I’m watching Bill Moyers right now. He has the author on who wrote “What’s Wrong With Kansas.”
Looks to be a great episode.

javaz
Member

Oh thanks for telling me who was on Moyers!
If I can make it up until 9:00, I’ll watch him.

bito
Member

Now I did not say this! This is the first comment from your post j’avaz.
Troops helping in Haiti versus:

by The New Pilgrims (January 15, 2010 1:37 pm ET)
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Sure beats being the Obese Lying Drug-Addicted Pimpled-Buttock-Draft-Dodging America-Hating Viagra-Enhanced Race-Dividing Scroogelike-Loser otherwise known as Rush Limbaugh.

kesmarn
Admin

b’ito…we were posting at exactly the same time!
Look down below!

Great minds? 😆

bito
Member

K’es, NOW THAT IS WEIRD!

kesmarn
Admin

It IS a pretty eye-catching comment, but still….Twilight Zone….

🙄

javaz
Member

I couldn’t have said it better!
That’s hilarious and a perfect description of the sulfur-scented-cretin!

Chernynkaya
Member

Nobody really has any idea how many listeners Limp has but that doesn’t stop the MSM from making wild claims of his popularity. This is one of many articles I’ve read that say the same:

It ran Saturday in the form of a Paul Farhi article about the dubious nature of trying to measure the size of Rush Limbaugh`s radio audience.

Farhi stressed that trying to determine the total number of weekly listeners represented an exercise “in guesswork, slippery methodology and suspect data.”

The article detailed how there aren’t any hard ratings numbers within the radio industry regarding Limbaugh`s audience size — a topic of increased interest since the AM talker had emerged as the public face of the Republican Party under the Obama administration.

http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/03/10/rush-limbaugh-has-50-million-listeners

KQµårk 死神
Member

I think the blowback on this is more than Limbaugh expected.

Any American with a soul does not understand this kind of hatred during such a terrible humanitarian crisis. When crises like these occur Americans are usually the first ones to reach out and help. The longer he pushes his hate the more he shows that the conservative base is nothing but a bunch of racists haters.

Tiger99
Guest

The real problem is that it won’t effect his listening audience… He gets away with this stuff because Stations don’t drop him….

Pepe Lepew
Member

And advertisers don’t drop him.

I hate to say it, because it’s totally cynical, and there are limits to my cynicism, but Rush feeds off this stuff … as do his ratings.

Until advertisers drop him, he’s going to keep doing it.

msbadger
Member
msbadger

He is the droppings from a worm in the intestines of a rabid hyena. I know, I’m too kind…

bito
Member

I found this interesting. On a show on NPR today even the conservatives on the round table thought that Rush crossed a line that will damage him. I don’t know about that. I don’t think he cares about “pointy headed” liberal or conservatives. His appeal isn’t to people that think.

Tiger99
Guest

Roger Ebert Gives Rush a Thumb Down….

A Letter to Rush Limbaugh

January 14, 2010
To: Rush Limbaugh
From: Roger Ebert

You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.

Having followed President Obama’s suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims.

Here is a transcript from your program on Thursday:

Justin of Raleigh, North Carolina: “Why does Obama say if you want to donate some money, you could go to whitehouse.gov to direct you how to do so? If I wanted to donate to the Red Cross, why do I have to go to the White House page to donate?”

Limbaugh: “Exactly. Would you trust the money’s gonna go to Haiti?”

Justin: “No.”

Rush: “But would you trust that your name’s gonna end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes?”

Justin: “Absolutely!”

Limbaugh: “Absolutely!”

That’s what was said.

Unlike you and Justin of Raleigh, I went to Obama’s web site, and discovered the link there leads directly to the Red Cross. I can think of a reason why anyone might want to go via the White House. That way they can be absolutely sure they’re clicking on the Red Cross and not a fake site set up to exploit the tragedy.

But let me be sure I have this right. You and Justin agree that Obama might steal money intended for the Red Cross to help the wretched of Haiti.

This conversation came 48 hours after many of us had seen pitiful sights from Port au Prince. Tens of thousands are believed still alive beneath the rubble. You twisted their suffering into an opportunity to demean the character of the President of the United States.

You have a sizable listening audience. You apparently know how to please them. Anybody given a $400 million contract must know what he is doing.

That’s what offends me. You know exactly what you’re doing.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/OPINION/100119985

Khirad
Member

Nailed it. He knows exactly what he’s doing. That’s what’s so crass about it.

I like it when he writes social stuff. It’s almost like a voice of conscience.

bito
Member

Flush, Pat. How long did you think it would take for another wingnut?

Beck: Obama is

boomer1949
Member

bito,

I’ve come to the conclusion Beck and all the rest of them must be on the same meds. Of course, maybe they aren’t on meds at all because there isn’t a medication for stupidity. And, even if there were, all of them would be denied, because we all know stupid is a preexisting condition.

bito
Member

Boomer,
It is baffling. Can hate consume and cloud your thinking that much? You know they had something else prepared if the President would have said something 15 minutes later than what they think should be the right time.
Hate? stupidity?

boomer1949
Member

bito,

It’s the same as trying to talk to the dining room table or beating your head against a brick wall.

And as nellie stated below…Corporatism. These people care only about one thing, okay two…themselves and money. Greed has become a rogue virus in this country, multiplying into compassion-resistant strains.

If one preaches something long enough, especially the likes of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and even Joe and Mika, one eventually becomes the message.

Practice what you preach.

What goes around, comes around, and each of them, including the Corporate Suits, will be bitten in their collective lily-white asses.

javaz
Member

Too bad there aren’t any Republican leaders with a spine to speak out against these clowns.
Republicans lack the courage to take on Rush or Beck.
Despicable.

PatsyT
Member

Dem response to Haiti
” How can we help?”

rushpublician response to Haiti
“how else can we hate?”

KQµårk 死神
Member

Yet millions of Americans will still vote for them. Scary stuff indeed.

Kalima
Admin

Or rushpublican response to Haiti
“Close the borders, quick!”

AdLib
Admin

That’s why I still have to question the meme that the GOP has such great prospects in November.

Are people really saying, “We need those “hate” and “no” guys in Congress, that will make our lives better!”

KQµårk 死神
Member

We will learn allot next Tuesday. If the Republican teabagger wins it could be a bad year for Dems.

Chernynkaya
Member

On the other hand, it could be the wake-up call the Dems need to rouse them from their stupid. Scare ’em into getting off their whiny asses and VOTE.

Pepe Lepew
Member

Meanwhile, TOP story on FauxNews.com — U.S. prepares for wave of illegal immigrants from Haiti.

Birds of a feather…

Kalima
Admin

So f@cking heartwarming, so much compassion, makes you want to really smack someone in the mouth.

Chernynkaya
Member

Nationalism, when you get right down to it is kind of primitive. I mean, boarders are artificial constructs anyway, but the human race is not a construct. Why can’t people just move wherever they fancy? I mean, it’s not as if the air in one country is toxic to natives of another country.

I had an epiphany many years ago. (and I am still ashamed of myself) Anyway, it happened the first time I saw billboards in my neighborhood for national products in Spanish. I resented it. It bothered me– this was MY neighborhood. And then it hit me (thank god). Did I just say “MY” neighborhood? Really? I had no more or less right to be there than anyone else.n How dare I think of any soil as mine! So that’s why I now pretty much disavow any nationalism. It’s pretty cheeky.

msbadger
Member
msbadger

We are utterly tribal and still run largely by the primitive parts of our brain. First come those visceral feelings, then, hopefully, the same process you experienced, of What did I just think??? It happens to all of us. The reptilian brain.

escribacat
Member

What an excellent rant, Nellie. It says a lot about our country that a loathsome, selfish slug like Limbaugh is rich and famous. Luckily, his following is just a small vocal group of people who seriously need to do some “personal work,” to put it kindly. Trust me — I know some of ’em.

Kalima
Admin

In my experience, people who spout this much hate for others openly are dealing with their own feelings of inferiority complex, their loathing of themselves. The only way that they can feel good about their own lives, is to trash and trample on the lives of others, it gives him a rush, pun intended.

bito
Member

I think you and j’avaz get a gold star today. He is a “little man–a little, little man”

Kalima
Admin

He’s an ugly fat tub of lard inside and outside. What if we all decided that because something is not working in our own lives, we store all that hate and dissatisfaction to lash out at people we don’t even really know?
What kind of a world would we be living in, it might as well be hell.

He has a radio show, he doesn’t have an ounce of compassion or integrity, he must have been dragged up instead of brought up, the man is very, very sick and the people there who allow him to carry on with his vile conclusions, are even sicker.

Chernynkaya
Member

I’m with you, Kalima. I loathe this monstrosity, but if I took several big steps back for a moment, I would have to say that he is beyond my doubt even more self-loathing than we loathe him. It drips from his tongue, the bitter bile he has festering inside. I have actually had an brief vision of him as a terrified huddler, crying and begging for help– the smug disguise erased and instead just wonder at his aloneness.

Kalima
Admin

Yes Cher, it’s his way of dealing with his obvious self hate, his disguise as you so rightly said, but this man goes beyond just simple hate, he is vicious and I can feel no sympathy at all. We all have the power to pull back and temper our thoughts whenever we feel strongly about something, Lush Limpb@lls doesn’t possess this power, so shame on him.

KQµårk 死神
Member

The best example of Limbaugh’s self loathing in action was when he was focusing much of his hatred on drug addicts when HE was himself was addicted to drugs. That is classic self loathing behavior. Just like Ted Haggard who preached gay hatred and then was found buying favors from male prostitutes.

Kalima
Admin

More than self loathing, that is downright hypocritical and extremely cowardly, but then again when all is said and done, cowards are what these people are. One hides behind a mike in some sweaty studio, having the power to disconnect any caller who doesn’t agree with him. The other uses God as his shield. As I said, cowards to the very last drop of blood they try to draw with their hate.

Chernynkaya
Member

On a MUCH smaller and less pathological scale:

I used to study in a small group with a very wise old man. Over the course of years, someone would get on someone else’s nerves, or a newcomer would join that one of us took an instant dislike to, for some reason.

This man would tell us that the unfounded dislikes– personality conflicts if you will– are almost always because we see something in that other person that deep down we unconsciously recognize and dislike in ourselves.

At first I rebelled against this idea but I came to realize, after much honest soul searching, that he was right. No matter how different we might seem, the person I took a dislike to actually reminded me of an aspect of myself of which I disapproved.

Now multiply that exponentially and I can see it in that radio homunculus.

AdLib
Admin

Quite a brilliant and intuitive observation.

No wonder I like you, I see how brilliant I am in you. 😉

Chernynkaya
Member

Likewise, Adlib!

escribacat
Member

Cher –I suspect that every once in awhile, Limbaugh must wake up alone in the middle of the night and hear the echo of his own ranting voice, droning on and on, spewing hate and vitriol. And in that quiet moment in the middle of the night, he must have a split second of thought: Gawd, what have I become?

Chernynkaya
Member

Yes, ecat– that’s when it’s time for Oxycontin. That’s why he needs it.

KQµårk 死神
Member

There are haters on all sides and they only need a reason to hate. Like you said it’s because they have a hole in their souls.

4cats4
Member
4cats4

Probably no one will see this because it’s yesterday’s thread, but I want to add… last night I realized that had Limbaugh lived in Germany during WWII, he would have ENJOYED being head of a death camp.

bito
Member

Oh, you’re going to love this one! Speaking of loathing and stooopid.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/14/limbaugh-haiti-tampons/

Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she

javaz
Member

Don’t get me started on Rush when it comes to women.
But, Rush does want some of that Sarah Palin.

KevenSeven
Member

Hey, some restraints and a ball gag, and I might take a shot at that.

Chernynkaya
Member

He wants to BE Sarah Palin.

Kalima
Admin

That is what I would call being desperate and desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

escribacat
Member

Does anyone else agree that Limbaugh truly hates women?

Chernynkaya
Member

Yes and no. He worships women and hell hath no fury like a closeted woman scorned. He’s barely latent in his homosexuality.

escribacat
Member

That would certainly explain his obvious frustration.

Kalima
Admin

Makes you wonder just how many times this loud mouthed oaf has been rejected. Not tonight Nappy!

PatsyT
Member

He hates women, yes,
but maybe humanity more,
and if black …. look out …he is going to try to sit on you.

bito
Member

there is a commenter on the “ThinkProgress” that I would like to quote on both Flush a Pat comments. As Zooy would say:
” I am so tired of Stoooopid”

javaz
Member

Our best friend, Dick, and I’ve written about him before on here, and how he sent Reagan 25 bucks for his campaign, and then received a thank you and photo of St. Ronnie, and how Dick framed that for all to see.

Dick did not vote for GWB and he’s a bigger person than either my husband and me, as he bought both Obama’s books, and shared them with us to read.

My husband is big on spring training for baseball and I used to be the designated driver, and used to go to all the games, and those are quite fun.
Since both Dick and my husband retired, and both are older, they no longer need me as a chauffeur, but I still do one or two games per season, because I love baseball, and seeing it live.

We actually saw Michael Jordan in the fall league play!!!

Anyway, Dick is a true-red-republican, and way back when, when I’d drive, we always had to listen to Rush on the radio.

Dick stopped listening to Rush during Bush Jr’s reign, and it shocked me.

Dick became disgusted with Rush, and believe me, he used to quote Rush, so that was shocking, but Dick explained that he stopped listening to Rush because, in his opinion, no one person or party, could be wrong all the time.

Not sure if any of what I’ve just written made sense, but for our friend, Dick, to stop listening to Rush because he finally figured out that Rush was a LIAR, is something.

bito
Member

j’avaz, I have to agree with something that k’es told you last night. ‘You write like you’re sitting across the kitchen table, talking to your friends.’ They are so down to earth and real. You had me sitting in the car with you going to the ball game.
Dick sounds like a decent fellow with an ability to figure somethings out all on his own–thank you!

Emerald1943
Member

Hey bit…love her style, that javaz! She’s easy to love! 🙂

kesmarn
Admin

b’ito, I just got home from work and there’s nothing more fun than seeing yourself being quoted in your absence… 😉

How are you doing?

And to get back on topic, may I join you and nellie in the anti-Limbaugh sentiments? The one exception I can think of to Cher’s wise professor’s maxim is Rush when he hates Obama. There’s nothing in Obama that Rush actually has in common with him and reacts angrily against…not that I can see, anyway. I think Rush deeply envies everything about Barack Obama–most of all Obama’s obvious joy in life.

And, j’avaz, your friend Dick sounds like a smart man…and I think he got that way by hanging out with you and your husband!

Chernynkaya
Member

Kes, but you nailed it– envy. It is obvious to me that he envies everything about Obama– most of all, how loved and respected he is my so many. And to add to that envy, it must gall him to no end– has actually driven him to distraction– that Obama is an African American.

Just to clarify, what I learned from my teacher is a bit different than what Limp sees and hates about Obama. But I am sure that Limp would vehemently deny that he feels envy towards the president.

But think about what he finds so infuriating about Obama: He always accuses him of grandstanding, of doing something so that people will worship him, that he wants to be seen as a messiah. Well, that EXACTLY what Limp wants! That’s why he hates what he thinks he sees in Obama. Projection, pure and simple.

kesmarn
Admin

Projection, Cher, is exactly the word for Rush’s m.o. regarding the President.
I think your teacher was truly correct in that most of the time when I find myself disliking someone almost at first sight, there’s some less-than-praiseworthy aspect of myself that I’m probably reacting defensively to. That really is a wise observation.
But Rush’s hostility, as you noted, is rooted in envy rather than defensiveness.
Some of the things he has said about Michelle Obama, too–e.g. that she is “angry, full of rage”–wow, that is not the First Lady. That is prima donna Rush!

Emerald1943
Member

Hi Kes! Great to see you tonight! I think you guys are spot on! Jealousy! Barack Obama is everything Rush is not! Harvard grad, successful, admired, married with a beautiful family, US Senator, articulate and educated, smooth, slim, good athlete, and President of the United States of America…the most powerful man in the world.

Rush is a first-year college drop out, over weight, addicted to pain medications, single (complains he can’t get a date), and questionable sexual orientation…at least that’s what I hear.

What a poor, pitiful loser of a man! Oh, don’t get me wrong…I don’t feel sorry for him in the least. He deserves the karma that is coming to him!

Chernynkaya
Member

So well put Em! can you help me out with your insight and read my latest comment on the OT thread– I am at a loss as what to reply. (That’s a first, huh?)

kesmarn
Admin

Em! I just left a note for you, too, on the OT thread, saying that we’ve been missing each other of late (in both senses of the word, I think)!

Good to see you here!

bito
Member

k’es, and good to see you. test days can be quite tiring for me.Read your post this morning from last night. That wasn’t a dream, that was a nightmare. 😀 Thank you much for your concern. Next week, blood tests and the verdict.

Flush looks at Obama and sees he has a loving wife, two wonderful and loving kids
and he’s black. His heart must be very dark to be filled with so much contempt, envy and hate

kesmarn
Admin

b’ito you’re so funny! There’s a difference between a nightmare and an anxiety dream! You caught me worrying about you! 😳

See? Y’all on the Planet have made your way right into my subconscious. I think about you (apparently fret about you, too) even in my sleep. I’ve never felt closer to a bunch of people I have met yet!

And you’re right, Obama’s happy family life must be galling to Rush. It’d be nice if he figured out that he could have the same thing if he started acting like a human being!

Emerald1943
Member

Ed Schultz on MSNBC getting ready to talk about the White House response to Pat Robertson now!

javaz
Member

Ever since Nellie wrote about a reply she received from Ed, I so dislike him.
I never trusted him when I listened to him on Air America, but that reply Nellie got from him, turned me off from him completely.

Emerald1943
Member

Javaz, what reply? I didn’t see it. Was it recent? Nellie, are you still here? What’s the name of the article? I’d love to read it.

SueInCa
Member

I forgot, isn’t his REAL name Jeff Christie? LMAO

Chernynkaya
Member

I don’t think so Sue. I read a piece somewhere written by his niece (yeah, it seems he was actually born, not spawned) and she talked about “Uncle Rusty.” She didn’t agree with him; the piece was how hard it was to be related to him, and having the same last name.

SueInCa
Member

Oh Nellie, that was not a rant, if I had been writing it, the F bomb would have been dropped. Only for that sick piece of inhumanity also known as Rushlimp. The man needs to be stopped. Someday he is going to say something and something bad will happen, then it will be directly his fault. I relish that day.

KQµårk 死神
Member

You have a point.

FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH!!!

Emerald1943
Member

Ditto! Co-sign!!

SueInCa
Member

Well alright then, Fuck Limbaugh

javaz
Member

X2

I promised myself for a New Years resolution to never use the F-bomb again, but I agree with you, KQ!

Is there any other word that sums up the total of our feelings at times, than the F-bomb?

KQµårk 死神
Member

I could never give up my favorite sentence enhancer. But I promise I don’t use the F-bomb around kids.

PatsyT
Member

FRL !

Emerald1943
Member

OMG! Chris Matthews showing the Sarah clip about the Founding Fathers! LOL

“Washington was the consummate statesman”???? LMAO

Edit: I am so sorry for the OT comment! I forgot where I was! My bad!!

SueInCa
Member

Was Chris drooling at the site of Palin? she belongs in this rant topic LOL

Emerald1943
Member

Salivating all over his desk, but at least, he is no longer saying that she “could” be qualified to run for President like he used to. He was actually making fun of her tonight…a little improvement. I’ve been wondering when the MSM was going to call it like it really is…my doggie is more qualified to be President than this nitwit!!

SueInCa
Member

I would have thought he would be drooling. I will watch at the 4 slot out here.