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Is he as much of a dipshit as he sounds?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

That may be a rhetorical question.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

He only ever really shows up on the media radar for buggering his servants these days. He's kind of over.

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Today's fun reading.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

CNN chick was riding him for a while, but ditched his ass. He last got picked up returning from the Dominican Republic carrying enough Viagra left over to give most people back problems.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jon Swift has a great rundown of his shenanigans with enough linkage and info to match more than 20 of Ned & my posts combined.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Merely to raise the issue is seen as conclusive evidence that one is snobbish and effete, and that the subject of one's skeptical inquiry is an authentic man of the people.

Exactly. Why does it seam like contemporary Republican personalities understand basic psychology and tactics so much better than Democrats, especially when it's the same thing over and over again? Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt, amongst other conservatives, have been using the same basic playbook for years, but Dems and libs still deal don't know how to deal with them.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Why does it seam like contemporary Republican personalities understand basic psychology and tactics so much better than Democrats, especially when it's the same thing over and over again?

b/c they poured several million bucks and thousands of man-hours into figuring out how it works, and we still think that the facts stand on themselves.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Back circa 1999 me & my brother had this car game where every time we saw an SUV, we'd say, "THere's a dangerous vehicle!" About four months after this game started, old Limbaugh said, "Now who, when they see an SUV, actally says, 'There's a dangerous vehicle!'" We wrote him an e-mail saying we did, but he never replied.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's too obvious to point out that Limbaugh had to be ordered by a court to go off his "meds"?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

b/c they poured several million bucks and thousands of man-hours into figuring out how it works, and we still think that the facts stand on themselves.

Yeah, totally, but I'm talking about politicians and other public persons who need to get their head in the game.

Also, I think there's something to be said about the bully. To be an effective bully, you have to have a really sharp intuitive grasp of psychology and vulnerability.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, totally, but I'm talking about politicians and other public persons who need to get their head in the game.

b/c they think that they shouldn't need to have to sell things to the public, or they're told by their handlers to do the wrong thing, etc. Lakoff's group wrote a good bit about this kinda thing.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally on the same page.

What I am trying to express is that, given how much attention has been paid to this subject, it's aggravating to watch Democrats fumble time and time again in the court of public opinion.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's aggravating to watch Democrats fumble time and time again in the court of public opinion.

oh hell yeah. you just wanna beat them in the head with a stick for a while, "Bloom County"-style

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Parrish: What do you think the differences are between you and Limbaugh?
Franken: I'm glad you asked me that. I use this example a lot. A few months ago, Rush was talking about the minimum wage. Conservatives like to portray it that no one has to raise a family on the minimum wage—the only people who get the minimum wage are teenagers who want to buy an iPod. So Rush says, "Seventy-five percent of all Americans on the minimum wage, my friends, are teenagers on their first job." And one of the researchers brings this to me, with a smile, and I say, "Well, can you look it up?" And they look it up. The researcher goes to something called the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty percent of Americans on minimum wage are 20 and above. Forty percent, then, are either teenagers or below 12 [laughs]. I had several jobs as a teenager, so you figure, what, 13 percent might be teenagers in their first job. Not 75 percent. So where did Rush get his statistic? Well, he got it directly from his butt. It went out his butt, into his mouth, out the microphone, into the air, into the brains of dittoheads. And they believe this stuff.

So we get our labor statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He gets his from the Bureau of Rush's Butt.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

for more history, see Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything, from 1999.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/rusheats/47a.gif

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

everyone is aware of the michael j. fox incident right?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ned linked to a piece about it upthread.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

Michael's response

keith o's vid on it

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

If you take out the politics, he's about ten times the radio host Al Franken is.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

he'd better be, he's been doing this for ten times as long.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

that rush eats everything graphic novella was completely rad, thank you kingfish. "SCIENTISTS ARE SO STUPID!!!"

― ath (ath), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

That CBS Exclusive video was heartbreaking.

He's become a very eloquent spokesman for this research.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

camille paglia used to go on about what a great satirist rush was, and how everyone who complained about his politics was totally missing the point - that ppl listen to him for the timing, the humor, that sort of thing. paglia's pretty wack but i think she might've had a bit of a point there.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

He's the pride of Missouri.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'd say she WAS right--he was a great radio host back in the mid 90s. sort of lost it now....

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

i guess, but that ppl is my dad and when he wears his rush t-shirt to the polls (yes he really does have a rush t-shirt, no i don't think he really wears it to the polls), i think the political message transcends the entertainment value. then again, he listens to rush BECAUSE he's a republican, not the other way around, but i'm willing to bet there's more than a few instances of rush rhetoric directly determining an impressionable listener's vote.

― ath (ath), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

rush helped revitalize his medium, at least for a while. it was the combination of his radio skillz -- which are real -- and tapping into an audience that was not, at that time, being served in a mass medium. advertisers and marketers creamed themselves. here was a whole demographic just panting to be catered to, and rush showed them where it was. lots of people made lots of money, rush not least of them. roger ailes obviously learned the most from it and turned it into fox news. they are now, of course, tapped out -- that demographic has its limits, like all demographics. but it's not going anywhere. there are enough hardcore conservatives to keep a segment of the media going, and now they have their segment of the media, they'll keep it going. their heyday may well be passing before our very eyes, but there's no reason to think the 25-year-olds who loved rush in 1993 won't be 75-year-olds who love whatever passes for right-wing commentary by 2043. their grandkids will think they're totally nuts, but ain't that always the way?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I agree with above posts - Rush is very funny and engaging if you can just sort of pretend the politics are part of the joke. I tune in once in a while. Air America could really learn a thing or two from him about what makes good radio.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Whereas Sean Hannity is just a shrill crank and listening to him has actually given me heartburn on more than one occasion (in one of the offices I go to for work I'm forced to listen to it because some jackass there always has it on loud).

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

my dad and i were in the car a few years ago and came upon a car with a "Rush Is Right" bumper sticker. only they had placed their sticker on the left side of the back bumper. a faux pas, apparently. my dad said, "see that son? that guy doesn't have a clue." that was probably 10 years ago. i don't think my dad listens anymore.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, I heard Paglia say pretty much the same thing about Hannity that she said about Rush.

Check out this response to Michael J Fox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nguJQ_dRPXw

Fuck Patricia Heaton.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Based on the people I know who listen to Rush (and what they say about him), a lot of what they seem to get out of him boils down to "He's pissing on the people who think they're better than us". I think there's something very crucial about that perception -- that there's an elite (intellectual, financial, or otherwise) who look down on the common man, on the people who know how to do things with their hands, on the people who don't get it (and so many Rush listeners seem to be the people who Never Get It, who have no...social intuition?).

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Patricia Heaton is a horrible, horrible cunt. I hope she has an accountant diverting her royalties from 'Raymond' and those obnoxious Albertson's commercials straight into an abortion clinic/homeless shelter/gay bar.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

the comments section for the youtube clip of the fox response ad is great! those people are all desperate delusional sick fucks from hell!

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

OMG someone needs to get busy on an animated GIF of Limbaugh shaking in his chair like that.

SRSLY.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Those comments.

Rather than use sick celebrities as HUMAN SHIELDS to shill for more government functionaries to spend more tax money...

Michael J. Fox reminds me of the South Park spoof on Christopher Reeve where he eats the unborn.
It is time for holloween so Fox's desire to feed on the blood of others is timely.

Any bets on how long before YouTube blocks this for containing inappropriate Republican content.

Thanks for Sharing the Truth about Amendment 2. Many are being deceived by this amendment which FORCES taxpayers to pay for cloning. Read the fine print. It is another deceptive tactic to make Missourians fund cloning without their Knowledege. Vote NO to amendment 2!

Yes, the Michael J. Fox ad was deliberately MISLEADING. The poor jerky little bastard is being used by the liberal elite. Oh, and Kurt Warner is still a STUD quarterback!!! VOTE NO on #2

Too bad for twitchy Fox, we aren't going to kill babies to feed his hellish appetite. He shouldn't have snorted so much coke if he didn't want the parkinson boogie.

As a LIBERAL FASCIST, I would like to begin by stumping for mandatory postpartum abortions, starting with these people.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

He shouldn't have snorted so much coke if he didn't want the parkinson boogie.

!!! wow. conservatives have access to some fascinating medical research.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

conservatives' concept of cause and effect is my number one exhibit when explaining that we actually live in a magical realist novel

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kurt Warner recently got benched by God, according to his own words, dudes, why are people listening to him.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Too bad for twitchy Fox, we aren't going to kill babies to feed his hellish appetite.

This is the best one.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

limbaugh appeals to assholes, it's as simple as that. and there are LOTS of assholes all across america. that's why attacks on limbaugh that would cripple other right-wing blowhards don't do much damage to him at all -- his listeners don't give a shit whether he's an overweight 3-time divorcee (their marital histories probably aren't too hot either) or pops more pills than metal machine music-era lou reed ever did.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

omfg this dude:

hmm, it's going to make cloning a constitutional right? So that would mean that Bill Gates could theoritically create, house, feed and train a million man army. Sounds exciting.

Okaaaaaaaaay.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

that is to say -- limbaugh's ENTIRE appeal to his target demographic is as a big fat "FUCK YOU!!" to their countless bogeymen (gays, liberals in general, hollywood celebrities, women, etc.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

magical realist novel OTM.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the other thing, like with the rest of the rightwing authoritarian fucks. They're shot thru with a paranoid sense of holding back True American Values Wot Are Always Under Attack and being persecuted for it.

So it gets to a self-fulfilling part when the response and/or rejection inevitably comes, they just hold that as proof positive of their righteousness.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i hate magical realist novels too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

dare we ask what tom clancy's magical realist novel would be?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

From the youtube comments:
Vote No ! The bill as written allows "embryonic" stems cell research, after abortion, using TAX MONEY, and prohibits ANY future laws from "discouraging such activities". It ALLOWS "cloning" Sect 6(2), but not BIRTH. Research - READ THE BILL . . . an M.D.
After abortion, eh doc?

Another legal / medical expert weighs in.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

dare we ask what tom clancy's magical realist novel would be?

He already wrote Red Storm Rising.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

And then you have Michael Crichton.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Another one of Dubya's faves

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

isn't the whole "left behind" series magic realism?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

uh i guess you guys don't read much

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

The following elements are found in many magical realist works.

* Contains fantastical elements
* The fantastic elements may be intuitively "logical" but are never explained
* Characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical element
* Exhibits a richness of sensory details
* Uses symbols and imagery extensively.
* Emotions and the sexuality of the human as a social construct are often developed in great detail
* Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent. Another technique is to collapse time in order to create a setting in which the present repeats or resembles the past
* Inverts cause and effect, for instance a character may suffer before a tragedy occurs
* Incorporates legend or folklore
* Presents events from multiple perspectives, such as those of belief and disbelief or the colonizers and the colonized
* Uses a mirroring of either past and present, astral and physical planes, or of characters
* Ends leaving the reader uncertain, whether to believe in the magical interpretation or the realist interpretation of the events in the story

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html
http://health.howstuffworks.com/adam-200107.htm

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

HI I CAN QUOTE WIKIPEDIA TOO

History

The term magic realism was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh to refer to a painterly style also known as Neue Sachlichkeit. It was later used to describe the unusual realism by American painters such as Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, George Tooker and other artists during the 1940s and 1950s. It should be noted though that unlike the term's use in literature, in art it is describing paintings that do not include anything fantastic or magical, but are rather extremely realistic and often times mundane.

The term was first revived and applied to the realm of fiction as a combination of the fantastic and the realistic in the 1960s by a Venezuelan essayist and critic Arturo Uslar-Pietri, who applied it to a very specific South American genre, influenced by the blend of realism and fantasy in Mï¿½rio de Andrade's influential 1928 novel Macunaï¿½ma. However, the term itself came in vogue only after Nobel prize winner Miguel ï¿½ngel Asturias used the expression to define the style of his novels. The term gained popularity with the rise of such authors as Mikhail Bulgakov, Ernst Jï¿½nger and Salman Rushdie and many Latin American writers, most notably Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende, Juan Rulfo, Dias Gomes and Gabriel Garcï¿½a Mï¿½rquez, who confessed, "My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic." Mexican author Laura Esquivel also wrote in this vein when she penned Like Water for Chocolate. The book, which sold three million copies worldwide, was later made into a film. Upon its release in the United States, it became the highest grossing foreign film in U.S. history. (It has since been surpassed by the current record-holder Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.) The most widely read of the South American magical realism narratives is Garcï¿½a Mï¿½rquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Today, magical realism is perhaps too broadly used, to characterize all realistic fictions with an eerie, otherworldly component, such as the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, or realistic fictions where magic is simply an overt theme in the narrative, such as The Stepford Wives or the Harry Potter books. The latter pair of examples are probably best categorized as works of fantasy, since they utilize magic and other supernatural concepts and ideas as primary elements of plot, theme, or setting.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

as in, i actually found that an apt metaphor, tombot. i'm a little worried for our ilx friends here who, when magic realism was first mentioned, brought up tom clancy and the left behind series.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Seems to be the most important part of what you've posted. xpost AH now I see what your point is.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

unless it has gunslingers or a complex history of a spanish-speaking family, don't bother me with it.

okay, maybe "A Wrinkle in Time"

xpost

dammit, i was making JOEKS, since these people likes the clancy, and they dig on the magical realism so much they live it.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

basically, i fucking hate both rush limbaugh and gabriel garcia marquez.

borges is cool tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Isabel Allende deserves to rot in hell for eternity in the same room with Ann Coulter.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

i had to read the one about the foretold murder in spanish for junior-year spanish class. nothing better than trying to wade thru a novel told out of chronological order in a different language.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

^ How American!!!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

one of my classmates read the spanish-language novelization of "Temple of Doom" for his book, and we punished him for it.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a little worried for our ilx friends here who, when magic realism was first mentioned, brought up tom clancy and the left behind series.

Hey Ned, Red Storm Rising is not actually a work of magic realism. Don't you feel the fool now.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

OMG! *cries*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was said somewhere up there already, but that interview with Michael J. Fox is hopeful, intelligent, and heartbreaking all at the same time. I don't know how anyone can watch that and not be won over.

He's truly an inspiring guy and I haven't felt inspired by such a public figure in quite a while.

― Wookie Rookie (Wookie Rookie), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

hey man, this is ilx. you can never be too careful.

xpost

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a little worried for our ilx friends here who, when magic realism was first mentioned, brought up tom clancy and the left behind series.

no, i have of course never ever heard of "magic realism," gabriel garcia marquez, or any other kind of literature and i need to have a link to wikipedia to explain it all to me.

looks like morbius has rubbed off on someone.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

"rubbed off"

(pre-empting jblount with the homo joek)

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I suggest using Carpentier as a way of diverting the discussion from magic realism back toward politics.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/RUSH.gif

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 28 October 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

worst numa numa vid ever

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 28 October 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

he doesn't look much like matthew perpetua, like the numa numa guy

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 28 October 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow I imagine all the guys that call into George Noory and most of his guests look like that.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

how about the numa numa guy's pilled-out uncle?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

I really really LOVE that picture upthread. Bump so that anyone who missed it sees it. I want to make a poster of it and frame it.

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

GLARSH!

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Limbaugh is the Al Franken of the right wing.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Rush: turd-muncher

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Limbaugh is the Al Franken of the right wing.

ok. sure.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think:

What Rush is to Right Wing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What Franken is to Left Wing.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

mikhail bulgakov is the best!

― gear (gear), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

al franken probably does more harm than good to the left

― gear (gear), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Limbaugh is the Oprah Winfrey of the right wing.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Limbaugh is the Fatty Arbuckle of the right wing

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Don Cherry is the Don Knotts of canadian hockey.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I've honestly never met a loyal Al Franken fan - at least not since he started Air America.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

i've met quite a few.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

rush limbaugh is the Jabba the Hut of the right wing.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Limbaugh is the Esther Rolle of the right wing.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

al franken is the jimmy walker of the left wing

― gear (gear), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.alfrankensense.com/images/Mr.gif

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

kid ... DY-NO-MITE!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I always figured Rush Limbaugh's shtick was really pretty close to Howard Stern minus the strippers. They both know their audience and how to give them what they want.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

MJFox doing more events for Democrats, incl. Sherrod Brown in Columbus

and here's his foundation

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

DNC website
Official House site for Pelosi
National Governors Association
Picture of R-rated pumpkin carving

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

wait-- have we talked about how jim caveziel begins that response ad by SPEAKING IN ARAMAIC????!!!!?!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

well, naturally -- what OTHER language would Jesus speak, silly amateur(ist)?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

koine greek?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Rush Gets Bush Interview
There are high-profile guests, and then there's snagging an interview with the President, which is exactly what PREMIERE's RUSH LIMBAUGH is getting WEDNESDAY (11/1). President BUSH, in the last week of a pre-election blitz campaigning for Republican candidates, will discuss the vote, the war on terror, and the economy with RUSH.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3715/rushskidsmr8.jpg

Limbaugh is for the children.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

So many things wrong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

His tie? I think I have that album somewhere.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

proof that even ol' rush was a white-belted hipster once upon a time

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like he could be jack white's dad!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

only thing i can find mentioning Rush's take on the Pastor Ted thing is here. Anybody find a better transcript or commentary?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

That didn't take long:

Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that people have been asking me how I feel all night long. I got, "Boy, Rush, I wouldn't want to be you tomorrow! Boy, I wouldn't want to have to do your show! Oh-ho. 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.) The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm 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 Party and liberalism does.

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 did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat 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.

The reactions to this have not been kind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i dont quite get what he means

― -- (688), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah me neither. what's with all the water-carrying? who's he referring to? he's been covering for people he didn't actually support?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

It means the conservative movement is showing signs of fatigue.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

he's saying the Republican party let down the conservative movement by failing to strictly adhere to its tenets, and he's supposedly no longer going to equate unyielding support for Bush and the leadership with support for their ideals, but he admits that it's not like they actually have anywhere else to go. the 'liberating' part means that it's a good thing that the party leadership is going to turn more moderate because then he no longer has to pretend (to his listeners, to himself) that the leadership is really down with the program.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Rush has a brother? The things you learn...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think he also had a cousin on American Gladiators that had to forfeit the final gauntlet round because he twisted his ankle or something.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Limbaughs, the wacky new sitcom.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Olbermann's The Worst Person in the World basically put forth the theory that Limbaugh really wanted to be a sportscaster but somehow settled for conservative punditry instead and then eventually grew into it, which makes me wonder if, given a different path towards the broadcast booth and assuming he didn't bring politics into his analysis (a'la the McNabb thing), he'd be better or worse than Joe Morgan.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my God JS Kingfish, that Rush picture is far and away the funniest fucking thing you have ever posted, wow.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Rush has a brother? The things you learn...

yeah, and if anything he's even more inhinged wr2 his political views.

also, the uncle of the bros. limbaugh is a federal judge, and their cousin is a judge on the Missouri Supreme Court.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, they're like the Kennedys of Missouri or something.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh-ho. 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.)

I hope this was his yearbook quote!

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's a good thing that the party leadership is going to turn more moderate because then he no longer has to pretend (to his listeners, to himself) that the leadership is really down with the program.

No longer has to pretend? Oh, that moral beacon, Limbaugh. Now he can tell us the REAL Truth.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

the carnahans are the kennedys of missouri. Stephen Limbaugh is actually an ok dude.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I still miss Mel. First governor I ever voted for.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Still swinging for the stands:

Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

ugh.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, "There, I said it." As though that's what everyone else was already thinking.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

as though he was taking some brave, highminded stance against corrosive "political correctness" by saying it.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

"What we really should do is forget about building a border fence and just cook and eat any Mexican who tries to immigrate illegally. There, I said it."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

"I think we've all probably written a letter or two to Nancy Pelosi requesting dirty panties, even if we let them remain unsent in our desk drawers."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.

Ha, the best reason for not saying "there, I said it" after this statement is that this statement doesn't actually explain what it's saying, or what it means -- its whole point remains unsaid!

(Mostly because he uses the word "game" -- I would actually hope that if the Bloods and Crips organized a football game, without weapons, it would resemble pro ball.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm sure they could summon the capital and organizational skills to put on a real nice game.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

His od can't come fast enough.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Can't be posted enough:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3715/rushskidsmr8.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Um... I think that quote needs a little bit more context. Was his point that there's a lot of black people in football or was it that football is such a violent sport or was it just him letting off some racist team because he's pissed that a black coach is going to win the super bowl or what?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

check for yourself

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, like anyone wants to register. The only caching I could find suggests that was up as a single quote, as if its meaning was meant to be self-evident without context.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/Cliquey_Black_People

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/4779/thatsracistshoopjr4xu8.gif

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

omg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

But it's hard to imagine what context would excuse the comment when speaking about a sport that is, in fact, heavily black, not to mention when two black coaches are going to the super-bowl, unless, I dunno, in every football game one team was wearing red bandannas and the other was wearing blue bandannas and they were shooting at each other.

I mean maybe if he said that ice hockey matches were looking like games between the bloods and crips that'd be different.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm sure they could summon the capital and organizational skills to put on a real nice game.

There's an episode of "The Wire" that has something akin to that!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Called antiwar veterans "phony soldiers," is now enraged that Reid and Harkin took note:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/10/limbaugh-dems-w.html

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

It's funny because (even assuming Limbaugh's statements should be interpreted exactly as such) when FoxNews goes all "Left-wing Hollywood Liberal Jewish Communist Nazi Actor ATTACKS AMERICA WITH HIS HATEFUL WORDS" and the non-story gets all this media attention the Left would (somewhat wisely) usually complain that it's a red herring that distracts us from the real issues concerning our time.

Was John Kerry's joke about non-students, etc winding up in Iraq considered by the Left something that the Senate needed to denounce, send complaint letters about, etc? Or was it considered to be dumb political posturing by the Right?

Similar kinds of stories but people react completely different to them when they find out which team is which. Now the US senate should be wasting time, money, etc making sure talk show hosts are officially condemned.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

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