Limbaugh “Dreams” of - Doesn’t Advocate - Denver Riot
Rush Limbaugh says he was not calling for a riot in Denver during the Democratic National Convention - he only “dreams” of it, to the tune of “White Christmas.”
For a second day in a row today, the conservative talker discussed the potential for protests and power struggles at the August convention.
“Now, I am not inspiring or inciting riots. I’m dreaming, I’m dreaming of riots in Denver,” he said mimicking the holiday tune.
He explained on-air: “Riots in Denver at the Democrat Convention would see to it we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said. “And that’s the best damn thing (that) could happen for this country as far as anything I can think.”
Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer with the protest group Re-create 68, called Limbaugh “a fool.”
“We don’t need another 5,000 illiterate Limbaugh listeners coming to Colorado,” he said, mocking a comment this week by State Rep. Douglas Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, calling migrant workers “illiterate peasants” as he debated a bill to accommodate up to 5,000 guest workers in the state.
Calls to a Limbaugh spokeswoman were not immediately returned.
Mayor John Hickenlooper said, “”Anyone who would call for riots in an American city has clearly lost their bearings.”
Jenni Engebretsen, a spokeswoman for the convention, declined to respond to Limbaugh.
“I think we’ll pass on this one,” she said.
Limbaugh is heard by more than 14 million listeners a week.
Limbaugh’s Denver affiliate, 850 KOA, issued a statement today, saying its marquee talker “was not advocating violence in Denver,” according to the statement listing program director Kris Olinger as the contact.
Olinger did not return telephone calls for comment, but the station sent out a second e-mail to local media stating, “Did he go to far? Or is this just Rush being Rush?”
On Wednesday, Limbaugh had been discussing comments by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who had warned of “trouble” at the convention if the nomination was wrested away from Barack Obama by superdelegates.
Local conservative talk show host and GOP activist John Andrews saw what he believes Limbaugh was getting at.
“Look, nobody seriously wants violence and civil disobedience at the Denver convention,” he said. “Rush is just saying, ‘Make our day’; if, in fact, the Re-create ‘68 hooligans or the Al Sharpton street toughs or anybody else wants to disrupt the convention, they’re going to hurt Democrats’ chances in the fall.”
Responding to a caller Thursday, Limbaugh held his ground but softened his tone.
“Who wishes for riots?” he said to the caller, according to a transcript. “I didn’t get the ball rolling. It is Democrats like Al Sharpton who have warned that there will be.”
Denver City Councilman Charles Brown, a Republican and Limbaugh listener, was outraged. Brown was a school teacher in Illinois during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. He recalled the injuries, chaos, lingering tear gas and national disgrace for Chicago as a result of the riots.
“What an insult,” Brown said of Limbaugh’s flippancy. “Regardless of political labels, for any radio announcer to wish a riot on a city so his party could win, that’s disgraceful and it’s absurd.”
He said he has found Limbaugh to be a “great entertainer, but he’s really gone too far. It’s almost juvenile.”
Brown said he did not think Limbaugh was speaking for Republicans when he made the comment.
“I don’t believe there is a Republican in this state that would agree with his comment.”
The station’s listeners had mixed reviews, according to the 850 KOA online discussion forum.
“The man is first and foremost an entertainer, selling radio spots at exorbitant rates,” one listener wrote. “He does however have the best interests of the country at heart. The idea that he is somehow trying to foster riots at the DNC is the typical left-wing dodge resorted to when confronted with the consequences of their own actions.”
Another said, “I am aware that it is all for show, but that fact that many Americans hang their hats on his every word is quite disturbing. They can’t think for themselves. They can’t see that he is all about self gain.”
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
© 2008 The Denver Post
I just saw Rush’s picture, and lost my lunch. Yeechhh.
Can’t all these unhealthy pigs just have heart attacks already?
Better luck next life assholes.
Interesting.
This guy lives less than four miles where I do.
How do you think he would react to a riot in his front yard?
Seriously, if there ever was a case for inciting unrest his pad on Palm Beach would be the perfect spot wouldn’t it.
Not that I’m advocating that of course. I’m just dreaming of it and singing it to the tune of White Christmas.
Got drugs?
Maybe Rush knows something we don’t…infiltrate the dissenters with uncover guys…and like magic…it can get out of control…and guess who gets blamed…the dissenters.
Just like in the 60’s….
Same song, 3rd verse. If they want riots…they can arrange them and suck the dissenters into getting the blame.
Limbaugh is a fat pig of a man – a privileged junkie that connects with a lot of other of his kind though less privileged. It’s a shame he has a forum. It’s a shame he’s an American but there are a lot of others just like him and that is also a shame. He’ll come back as something akin to a beaten dog for his karma is large and unforgiving as was Marley’s chain. Keep eating steak, fat boy for your time as the hunter will close in around you soon enough and then it’s gonna be Alpo time. What a disgusting excuse for a human being is this pig called Limbaugh. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire…
Hey Civil Behavior, I am another local. You know where his house is? I’d love to piss on his lawn,
This guy keeps breaking the law and getting away with it. He shops doctors to support his addiction to pain killers and gets a slap on the wrist. He encourages his listeners, in violation of Ohio law, to switch party affiliation for the sole purpose of voting for Hillary Clinton and then switch back to Republican. No prosecution. Now he’s advocating a violent uprising in Denver. And I’m sure, once again, nothing will happen to him, even though I believe it’s illegal to advocate a violent uprising. We’re a nation of lawbreaker leaders-thugs and law breaker conservative pundits (including Ann Coulter, who committed election fraud), and no one is doing anything. Somebody please help us out of this nightmare!
Unfortunately, there are enough “crazies” listening to this idiot to take his ravings seriously, believing (which is probably true) that as the voice of those in power, his message has been approved, and is sent by god, so they’ll be only too happy to carry out his wishes.
Advocating a violent uprising is a serious violation of the law which makes Limbaugh not only a traitor and a criminal, but makes him a terrorist. Why isn’t this enemy of the US in Guantanamo already?
The reincarnated Joseph Goebbels has been very busy the past couple of decades. I don’t know how successful his wish for riots will be, but the mere fact he suggests such a thing sheds light on his just how un-American this troglodyte is. This man is dangerous in that he incites fools. Believe me, I know some of his listeners; they’re incorrigible! If you cite facts, they ignore them. Facts do not matter to brainwashed minions of Rush, aka dittoheads. They regurgitate whatever he says and they NEVER question it. They are perfect little republicans. If the dems don’t unite, regardless of Hillary’s refusal to go away quietly, these people will finish the hit job they’ve started on our democracy.
Stop insulting pigs.
They are benign and intelligent. Cant say the same for many humans.
I thought Limbaugh, the bloated-faced gasbag, had bypass surgery to lose weight. Obviously he didn’t, or it failed.
You know, this slob goes to bed every night with the feeling that he has done his best for the “Party”. And you know, it’s true. And you know that with his kind of rhetoric supporting the party, what the “Party” must be like!!!!!!!!!!
I have a similar dream but of Minneapolis-Saint Paul
My dreams have come true so I am carefull where I go in my dreams.
Wow! I didn’t know that Rush was still news worthy.
I wonder if Rush Limbaugh still dreams of Vicadin (or any of those other pain killers he was addicted to).
Rush not only demeans his fans, he is also a very poor ambassador for gay American men. Oh yes he is–why do you think he can never stay married to any of the several women he has tried it with and is always hanging around football locker rooms?!
Aren’t propagandists and shills for traitors also traitors? And what are people called who hang on his every word?
Almost everybody posting above has agreed to disapprove of and deride Rush Limbaugh. Since he is an arguably smart guy(hey, he makes millions a year) albeit a very hateful guy, and he HATES Democrats, there is a counter-argument to be made that we ought to elect a whole flock of Democrats as the best repudiation of El Rushbo and his brand of hate.
I’d hope all the posters below would agree to that, but I bet that before it gets done, you’ll find some dodo-bird(s) exclaiming that the Democrats hated by Rush are as bad or worse than Rush himself. Whaddaya bet?
Hi Oxycontin junkie!
If people would quit watching this asshole and other FOX propaganda pundits and right wing idiots maybe they’d just crawl back under the rocks that they came from.
The Fox News (I only use this term because that is what THEY call themself) channel has done more to divide this country than any republican conspiracy could ever do. Fox news is right there ragging on all the good liberal stuff that happens and just seems to ignore the really bad conservative stuff. For some reason unknown to me, it seems that people enjoy getting stirred up about some liberal social program and not about really dumb or criminal things that the republican party or its leaders do.
Go figure!!
That picture screams “I’m a closeted, gay, doper who thinks laws are for other people!”
Does the US military still broadcast Rush Limbaugh to our troops world-wide for a couple of hours a day? He is but oral poison to be ingested daily until a person is “right well.” Or, well, right.
Where’s the line between flip and felon?
Where’s Homeland Security when one of their own advocates what could easily be called terror?
When does a public personality become liable for their inflammatory incitations?
Or has the bar for “humor” become so ludicrously low it sounds like stepping on dog-droppings?
The face of the enemy. The face that mocks every good and decent thing intelligent humanity has created.
What’s the difference between the whores on the Street and RUSH ?
He looks more like Karl Rove (another pompous, self-important windbag) everyday. Could they be the same person? This actually sounds like a plan out of the Rove playbook. Wouldn’t be surprised if it came to pass. How much you want to bet most of Hillary’s post PA donors are Republicans?
Ah, Mr. Limbaugh, you are such an historic treasure, rather like an hundred-year old outhouse with a “full” basement and seats that give splinters. Has anyone so enriched a nation’s political discourse since Josef Goebbels killed his children and then himself in 1945?
The IQ of the knuckle draggers who listen to Limpbaugh is
probably about the same as their shoe size. And BTW to the
person who refered to Fox as a news channel. It “FAUX NOISE”
One of you said, you wouldn’t piss on Limbo if hs was on fire–OK, but here’s how it really goes, I wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his guts were on fire. But So, don’t go pissin on his lawn unless your aim is so bad you can’t hit his mouth.
One of you said, you wouldn’t piss on Limbo if hs was on fire–OK, but here’s how it really goes, I wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his guts were on fire. So, don’t go pissin on his lawn unless your aim is so bad you can’t hit his mouth.
Why is this drug addict still on the air?
Seems to me there was a group of Repug “toughs” that broke up the Florida recount not all that long ago…walks like a duck, waddles like a duck…
“Gallup Poll: Many Americans OK With Increasing Taxes on Rich”
Looks like Rush might get his “riot” wish, except it will be the Republican convention and it will be the soon to disappear middle class and lower class rioting to get the wealth to pay their fair share.
And the next “riot” after that will most likely be at Rush’s studio in the form of a lynch mob.
A comment by “offred” on the Huffington post,,,, LOL !
“I’m dreaming of Rush Limbaugh, surrounded by vials of smuggled Viagra and hogtied by underaged prostitutes in the Dominican Republic who record his humiliation for posterity on YouTube.”
He is the hero of the weary white man.
They love to hear his politically incorrect schtick because they are too intellectually lazy to care about people who aren’t just like them. It makes life easier in the short term to get angry and hate them all unapologetically.
Rush probably needed to pills to calm what bit of conscience he had remaining so he could sleep at night.
He should be sentenced to life in the Peace Corps with all the neocons in a land without oxy-c’s
I want to point out that if we had a united Democratic party, as I have been calling for since January, there would not be the opportunity for this Rovian tactic to occur.
The longer the Democratic party stays divided, the more chances Rove and his fellow slime-slingers have to pull this crap.
It’s almost too late for the Democratic party to win this November.
kelmer (2:03 p.m.)
Darn! You beat me to it!
RE: unchained (1:26 p.m.)
Haven’t there been quite a few reports of the government infiltrating peaceful groups and trying to prod them into violence?
www.recreat68.org
Lots of groups are doing a lot of planning for some real democracy in Denver this summer. Come join in.
This is the opportunity for American citizens to come tell a Democratic party that has brought them a disasterous war and a collapsing economy exactly what they think of the Democrats. Think you elected the Dems in 2006 to end the war. Come to Denver and tell the Democrats what you think of their continued support of the war. Are you smart enough to realize that its one Clinton-era piece of legislation that’s screwing you … from NAFTA to WTO to the Telecom reform of 96 that brought about media concentration to the Banking reform of 99 that set up the current crisis and the hundreds of billions of your dollars bailing out Wall Steet.
Well, come to Denver and let the Democrats know what you think about all of this!
Who care what Rush Limbaugh thinks or wants.
PS … in America, its always the police that riot anyways.
Limbaugh - savior to the bitter people, who are also bigots, fear based individuals, emotionally reactive as opposed to rational thinking individuals who make up an incredibly large percentage of our country.
I’m dreaming that the BFF (Big Fat F…) will get his just desserts, sooner rather than later. Is he gay?
And yes, peace, social, environmental movements have been infiltrated by undercover agitators.
And yes, Limbaugh is a serious concern not to be overlooked, as long as people think that women, gays, blacks, minorities, Iraqis etc. don’t deserve equal human rights.
Seems to me there was a group of Repug “toughs” that broke up the Florida recount not all that long ago…walks like a duck, waddles like a duck…
erbalist, It wasn’t Repub “Toughs”. It was a group of Republican Congressional Staffers.
That’s right. They were employees of the US Congress. Their transportation and lodging costs for the trip were Paid For by the Republicans who shipped them from Washington for the express purpose of halting the Recount.
And there’s Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos - his urging Republicans to vote in Democratic primaries, even if it means they have to switch affiliation, and vote strongly for Sen. Clinton.
He is intentionally using his position as a charimatic media figure with a public platform to subvert a U.S. national election. And nobody’s doing a damn thing about it. He thinks it’s just hilarious.
Imagine if OBL went on the airwaves saying he’s “dreaming” of riots in Denver during the convention. That would be taken by the corporate media and its pocketed public officials as a threat to our national security. Yet RL does it and it’s just Colorado Dreamin’.
Someone please spend the money to find the little boy in his closet!
Rush is a mouthpiece for the cancer that’s killing this country at the top, which is why he can say these things with impunity (unless perhaps people express some outrage?!). Listen to what he’s saying: “this is about CHAOS” … “burning cars” …”literal riots, that’s the objective here…”
I know how this works,
It will be a repeat of Chicago when our peace movement was infiltrated with government and police provocateurs.
I knew it at the time, I was there and there will be provocations in Denver… The Republicans won’t let a demonstrator near their Party.
according to the prophecy
Now I need to take a break in my bomb shelter… See Ya
Mayor John Hickenlooper said, “”Anyone who would call for riots in an American city has clearly lost their bearings.”
Lost his Bearings?!?!!? Rush Limbaugh is clearly, by his OWN words Guilty of Fomenting Civil Insurrection. Inciting to Riot is a serious Felony. It is a Federal Offence.
Arrest this Man - Now!!!!
Rush Limbaugh may be an idiot, but he is not as big a fool as the “Recreate 68″ guys including our resident hatemonger COMarc, a man who does not care at all about the impact of his own activities on any of the issues he claims to have concerns on.
The original ‘68ers helped put Richard Nixon in the White House, no matter how you try to shift the blame onto Daley’s police, and these jerks are going to do their best to help Hillary Clinton torpedo the extraordinary progressive candidacy of Barack Obama, and put John McCain in the White House.
America and the world cannot afford the price of these people’s self-indulgence. If you don’t have anything positive to contribute to the hard work of politics and building a progressive MAJORITY coalition, please keep out of the way.
Nader for Prez (1:37 pm)
1495 N. Ocean Blvd if the records are correct.
Just remember, the thugs who have built the empire to suit their purposes and reap the profits are surrounded by the likes of Blackwater types at home and out and about. They have to feel safe and if you get too close they’ll haul you in and you’ll disappear.
No joke. It’s a humorous idea you have but remember that Palm Beach is a BIG part of the empire and they mean to keep what they have without the riffraff imposing their will upon them. There are guards at every single one of those estates. Armed.
In the interim join the bandana revolution. Wear one daily on your body, briefcase, backpack or car. It’s kind of like a cheaper vanity license plate so that we can tell how many of us there are that reject Empire and choose Earth Community. We’ve got to get a handle of how many of us there are in numbers.
Pass the word…….the bandana revolution…….
I get the sense that you think there is still a functioning political process in which the public can participate. This is odd coming from a supporter of Nader… The vote count is routinely manipulated and completely unreliable (see the excellent documentary Hacking Democracy at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4463776866669054201 ) The media excludes any candidate whose platform undermines the governing elites’ current course. Our “law enforcement” agencies are routinely caught infiltrating peaceful dissident groups with agents provocateurs (look up COINTELPRO for a historical example) and now Limbaugh is openly calling for COINTELPRO-like disruptive tactics. Isn’t it time for a post-mortem on this nation’s political process, in tandem with a vigorous grassroots movement which recognizes that the greatest threat to this nation comes from the top?
Boy, Rush has a nasty sinus condition and his upper lip has disappeared probably from his malnurishment from substance abuse.
According to a Zogby poll: Rush Limabugh has a diehard core of 16-18 million fans and also has 10’s of millions more listeners, on top of that 14 million core, who find him ‘entertaining’ and ‘generally’ think he makes ‘good sense.’
To get a truer picture of what jjpeter above calls ‘the face of the enemy,’ multiply Limbaugh’s mug by about 35 million other US faces — at minimum.
As I see it, the chief features of such [Limbaugh] folks are: untreated, profound emotional constipation; leading to fear of other people who have less constipated emotions and wider perceptions about reality; leading to attempts to bind that fear through ultra rigid thinking, and/or clever mocking of those with more open hearts; leading to black vs white perceptions of all life uncertainties; leading, in further psychic compensation, to authoritarian/abusive child rearing in the home and embracement of authoritarian political and religious figures, at large; leading to collapse of civilized values both in private and public life, and to a general slide back into exactly that state of Base Nature which such folks claim NOT to want.
Limbaugh apotheosizes what Wilhelm Reich called The Emotional Plague, but Reich hardly confined diagnosis of this plague to Capitalist societies.
Limbaughoma of the Left can easily occur, too. E.g., the top Bolsheviks who came to rule the USSR were uniformly rigid, fascistic personalities, also direly in need of psychic enemas; not availed of which, they also proceeded to lie and murder out of their unseen, constipated shadow-sides.)
We should take some stock that the USA, depsite its monstrous contradictions and actions over the years, was at least conceived out of a healthier wisdom about human foibles and possible fixes thereto vis-a-vis democratic governance, than anything embodied by the likes of Stalin or Limbaugh, bewteen whom there is in the end no difference worth a fig.
Rush was a minor Denver radio personality when his career was suddenly shot to the top. By an Uzi, as I recall, that was used to assassinate the major radio personality. That was many years ago when only Israeli death squads had Uzis.
Anyone notice the moment when what Rev Sharpton said gets neatly conflated with what Limbaugh said? Sharpton allegedly said there would be ‘trouble’ at convention
He may be stupid, but he is playing us for fools. Our nomination process would be over but for him. His “deployment of troops” to cross over and vote for Hillary has prolonged our process, and will change our eventual Senate and Congressional gains/losses, as well as possibly changing the outcome of the race.
The fact remains that he needed a willing manipulee so to speak, and Hillary is more then willing to oblige. So depraved is her ambition, that the fact that she is playing into his plan to destroy the Democratic party, doesn’t bother her.
He says on his website that the way for Obama to end it, is to simply state it publicly. He knows he won’t, and the “drive by press” as he aptly calls it, is not going to state it if no newsworthy Democrat has.
Rush is not an idiot. He has the power, given to him by Hillary’s cooperation, to completely change our political future. There isn’t much we can do besides watch.
I encourage you to go to his website and read his thoughts on this.
Rush Limbaugh? I thought he died years ago.
Me again, got cut off.
Then Limbaugh sings about dreaming of a riot in Denver, and his excuse is Sharpton said it first, he was just doing a follow up.
If the nomination goes all the way to the convention of course there’ll be ‘trouble’ as in expressions of major disappointment, shouted protests probably. But that’s is NOT synonymous with ‘riot’.
Lanaguage matters.
One could thank Limbaugh for raising the spectre of 1968, being alert to infiltrators, and incitement to riot.
Limbaugh is your typical right wing-nut type.. he prattled on endlessly about the criminal drug addicts all over the states,and how they should all be locked up and the key thrown away, all this in between shopping doctors for his own hillbilly heroin FIX.
Yet NO republican will ever believe he or they ever do anything wrong.. has to be genetic or something, that close to half the US still believes this tripe that he spews
I share Rushes dream,but in my version it would turn out to be Rushes nightmere.
In my dream there would be enough progressive and those Democrats that still had a spine,to dislodge the traitorous Republicans posing as Democrats and enabeling the Repugs in their fiendish agenders.These traitors would be rounded up along with the Repugs and their fiendish friends such as Rush ,and be transported to the ICC for trials of crimes against humanity
and sentenced to life in servitude.
Oh well - just a dream !!!!!!!!!
Fight fire with fire. You Dems are just jelous cause the moron is on the other side. What you need is a moron of your own. If Rev. Wright is a burden to the Obama camp, why isn’t Limpbutt a burden to McCain? Create your own news, videos, etc.; put them out everywhere and fight back with some class instead of constantly crying about what the Repugnancans do. Are they smarter than you? Don’t the dumbest American white trash support McCain and listen to Limpbutt? FIGHT BACK….
The only riot at the convention will be when they drag Hillary from the podium while she clings to the mike after losing. (If you’re a Hillary supporter, I’m sorry. She just doesn’t know when to quit and this is hurting the dems solidarity for the November election.)
So, Poobaugh sez he wasn’t advocating riots, merely dreaming of them.
And what percentage of his Mensa Club listenership do you suppose will pick up on that distinction?
As to prosecution, that only applies to those who would advocate against the empire. Incitement in support of the Reich, on the other hand, will likely warrant a Medal of Freedom (sic).
whatfools 5:47; what keywords might I use to Google that?
Thanks, mikepeters
Elliot Sanders was Rush’s lover’s name in Ohio.
Rush is a stain on the reputation of drug addicts everywhere.
Let us pray for him (to die an agonizing death tonite).
Peace of Heart.
Take the hint!
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln
Limbaugh is perhaps the most dangerous un-elected person in the entire world. Sadly, he has a large “Christian” following here.
The Hacking Democracy video is excellent. Thanks for posting the link!
Just don’t punch Mike Wallace again. He isn’t quite as tough as he was 40 years ago. Trivia question: What did Mike say to the delegate that got him punched out? (I forget, but I was only 17.)
A demonstration or even a (very) small riot would be more fun than watching McCain fall asleep as Dubya stutters and rambles about “activist judges”, tax cuts and the war on terror.
ARREST THE FAT DRUG ADDICT FOR INCITMENT TO RIOT
Quit complaining here Ya all and call the FCC. Is this not like yelling fire in a crowded theater?
Rush dreams of being sodomized by his drug dealer.
I guess Limbaugh is thinking of something a little bigger than the fascist GOP-sponsored rally outside Miami-Dade Election Headquarters to STOP the recounting of votes ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. No one reacted to that . . . no court, no police department.
No election official —
Neither did the public demand an investigation and arrests!
Why . . . ???
Remember the “Night of the Broken Glass”? Is it not V.P. Richard Chaney that would only talke to Rush when Harriet Meyers was nominated A.G. If a liberal entertainer puts out something that conservatives find offensive then they get trashed and theaten with jail time, but nothing happens to Rush. When I studied Broadcasting in High School, back in the 70’s we were taught that “Talk Radio entertainment” audiences were people on the “Lower Social Economic Level”. It amazes me how many people with education higher then High School listen to Rush.
Limbaugh is perhaps the most dangerous un-elected person in the entire world…..
No he is not!
He is by the people of the people and for the people. That is the American way.
I’m dreaming of a secret weapon that can render these traitors mute. Not dead, just mute.
I’d like to leave them alive to face the music some day.
I frankly don’t care which democrat takes the White House, as long as its a democrat.
McCain recently called for dropping gas taxes and suggested we conduct a ‘War on Poverty’ WITHOUT ‘wasteful government spending’.
That americans could still swoon for this talk is evidence that this country JUST DOESNT GET IT. Gas prices are high BECAUSE OF TAX CUTS, and the resultant increase in our national debt. International finance no longer believes the U.S. can PAY her many debts, and THUS they are dumping dollars. As the dollar goes down, WHAT YOU PAY FOR FOREIGN PRODUCTS, like OIL, goes UP!!!
Folks, Its time to pay our Republican-gifted NATIONAL DEBT, before we start cutting taxes more and REALLY destroying our own children. Geesh, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!?!
A ‘War on Poverty’ without the government spending money? What… are we all just going to grow wings???? EARTH TO MCCAIN!!! If we were ALL angels already, THERE’D BE NO NEED FOR A GOVERNMENT AT ALL!!! Government, in a democracy, is US as a community imposing our will on US as individuals. If you leave it up to US as individuals, I’ll tell you what, I’m spending what I’d give to the poor on a trip to Cozumel. YOU can form a ‘thousand points of light’ with whoevers left. Friggin’ NAIVE!!!
We need democrats in office to, frankly, increase taxes to begin paying down this debt, prepare for the impending retirement of the Baby Boomers, end the wasteful, Republican-pride-folly called the Iraq War, and, YES, conduct a REAL ‘war on poverty’. The rich have gotten WAY too rich, for THEIR or anyones own good. For the good of the COUNTRY, its time to raise their taxes, begin to repair roads, dams, electric lines, etc.
ANYONE who thinks McCain can do that without raising taxes is a fool.
jtarleton April 25th, 2008 2:17 pm
“I have a similar dream but of Minneapolis-Saint Paul”
Me too, jtarleton. It’s good to read the Declaration of Independence at times like this.
Here are a few choice quotes from that document which incited a revolution. Methinks it’s time for another revolution.
“…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
“…all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Yes limbaugh is perhaps the most dangerous un-elected person in the world. He don’t speak for me, speak for yourself if you wish ~KALIA~.
Just find a good place within yourself and live there.
PIG BOY JUST KEEPS ON PISSING IN OUR FACES!
Could somebody tell me if Limburger would be liable if there was a riot in Denver? I’m not a lawyer, but I do know somwething about these type of things. At the very least it seems to me there could be possible law suites, if for some reason people was hurt as aresult of riots. This could draw an injured persons into the courts at a very significant expense to the state, and be very time consuming. Denver leaders have to realize that the cost of tying up their courts with these suites would be costly to tax payers of the state.
There could, it seems to me , be possible criminal charges filed by the state of Colorado holding Limbaugh responsible for inciting a riot.
Limbaugh is heard by more than 14 million listeners a week.
Aren’t most of them repeat listeners each day? That would make Rash’s real audience about 3 million.
the station sent out a second e-mail to local media stating, “Did he go to far? Or is this just Rush being Rush?”
So when Rash is just being Rash he’s not going too far. All the good ol boys can just “be themselves” and it won’t be too far. Isn’t that about as corrupt as it gets?
I’m sure some of his listeners are just there for the laughs. I’ve been guilty of tuning in for a chuckle in years past. However, after seven years of Bush in the White House, his rants aren’t funny to me any more. Hearing his name in the same sentence with “an overdose of pain medication” might get a smile. It is disturbing to think that 14 million people are seriously buying into his bullshit. Listening to that bullshit everyday would have to turn ones brain to mush.
OPERATION CHAOS was a CIA/FBI/Pentagon joint operation in the 60’s, for domestic espionage and counter-insurgency, to disrupt democratic dissent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
CIA’s Domestic Operations Division (DOD) was created in 1963. The division’s main function was to manage the direction, support, and coordination of clandestine operations and activities within the United States.
CIA director John McCone was assigned to the DOD in order to set up espionage operations on the uprising of college student protests against the U.S. government’s Vietnam foreign policies. Two new units were set up to target anti-war protesters and organizations: Project RESISTANCE, which worked with college administrators, campus security and local police to identify anti-war activists and political dissidents; and Project MERRIMAC, which monitored any demonstrations being conducted in the Washington D.C. area. Local police departments also worked with the CIA by monitoring student activists and infiltrating anti-war organizations. Some of their assignments involved initiating staged burglaries, illegal entries (black bag jobs), interrogations and electronic surveillance.
When President Nixon came to office in 1969, all of these domestic surveillance activities were consolidated into Operation CHAOS.
… during the life of the project, the Church Committee and the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (the Rockefeller Commission) revealed that the CIA had compiled files on over 13,000 individuals, including 7,000 US citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations. (On Jun. 27, 2007, the New York Times asserted that, while conducting Operation Chaos, “The agency compiled a computer index of 300,000 names of American people and organizations, and extensive files on 7,200 citizens.”
I insist Limbaugh be arrested by Homeland NOW! Homegrown Terrorist at work, FCC WHERE ARE YOU??? Oh, you are already in the room with us, sorry.
Indeed keep at it CD, not a whisper re; Young Sean Bells Murder Verdict, so you are saying Race is NOT an Issue????????
Yes, digby, fine job with wikipedia, nothing can be changed, altered, fine tuned, damn bold faced lied about there, huh?
“Limbaugh is perhaps the most dangerous un-elected person in the entire world…..”
I have to disagree with this statement. Resident bush and penis-cheney are, without any doubt, the most dangerous un-elected persons in the world.
shouldn’t Limbaugh be in prison for possession of a sufficient quantity of opiate narcotics to come under the mandatory minimum laws?
[Quote]Flush the Rush[/Quote]
Here’s an eerie thought for everyone:
If this were the 1930’s, Limbaugh would’ve been wearing a NAZI outfit and working for Goebbels in the Ministry of Propaganda; exhorting Brownshirt thugs to commit mayhem against the Gypsies and Jews! Seig Heil!
I wonder if the fat bastard would still be free to spew his mental diarrhea on the airwaves if he’d had a slightly different dream. Could he get away with–say–talking about dreaming of an assassin’s bullet piercing Obama’s cerebellum? Anal rape of a 13-year old boy? A perfect way to use up that ton of fertilizer stashed in his basement?
The whole crap about “not inspiring or inciting riots” is just that: crap. You can’t even joke about killing the president in America (yes, that’s true!) without the Secret Service showing up on your doorstep. The word “dream” has several meanings. Limbaugh used it in the present-continuous form, which makes it a “wish.” Broadcasting such a wish for a riot to 3 million listeners IS inspiring, inciting, fomenting, suggesting violence.
Bill Maher shot off his mouth and got canned. Rush oughta get the can.
Um serious I had a dream the other day I would take out rush and then there would copy cats to take out the rest of the wacky pack. But it was only a “dream”. But some dreams come true.
The republican party needs to have their license to operate pulled. This current republican party needs to go out of business, and a new party for political conservatives needs to be created.
With Cheney preparing to attack Iran, and Limbaugh calling for riots at home, the republican party has proven itself to be a danger to the United States both at home-and abroad.
What hasn’t the republican party destroyed?
The economy is in shambles.
The military is in shambles.
Our ability to respond to a national emergency, is in shambles.
Wall Street is in shambles.
Healthcare is in shambles.
The prescription drug program is in shambles.
The price of gas and oil is in shambles.
Home ownership is in shambles.
Our foreign policy is in shambles.
Credit card industry is in shambles.
Student loan program is in shambles.
The list goes on……..
What hasn’t the republican party destroyed?
They have proven themselves incapable of governance. The plug needs to be pulled, here.
A litle something else: a college student gets tasered at a townhall forum for asking an extra question-but the Limbaugh’s of the world can incite riots-like yelling fire in a crowded theatre-and there are no consequences to him.
A man who does not speak the language gets upset at an airport, throws a table-hurts no one and gets tasered to death, while the Limbaughs of the world call for riots with no consequences. Republicans are the most elite group out there.
Limburger Through the Looking G-ASS!
The Blob and spin Meister Rovien have plans
Who is going to RIOT?
The DARK ARMY?
Corpirate Thugs- in ski masks.
Have a Heart Attack Already.
Democrats are going to Celebrate
The end of
The Shrub and DEAD Eye Dick!
Bring on
McPain
The Fossil
Raised from the DEAD.
With there
Way Back Machine.
Never speak of
Him again.
His foul breath is a
Stench on Humanity.
Yes,
There are a few
Ignorant
Bass-Turds
Left,
That listen to his
BU__! SH__!
I wonder if the 14 stooges
include
All grunts forced to list on
The Armed Frosted Network
A captive audience
Uniquely American
Frozen in Time.
1969
LIMPBURGER
SAME TIME
SAME
Propaganda
Channel!
This sorry excuse for a human being is not an “entertainer” and the stuff he comes out with is “not just for show.” He and the politicians who lick his boots are serious demagogues intent on bringing down the Republic.
This story is already a waste of intelligence. AND we have to look at a photo of this replusive prick too??
Christ, ya know it ain’t easy, but the way things are goin’ can’t we just….
Everyone should be forced to watch 5 minutes of RUSH before they enter the voting booth in Nov.
Eventually Limbaugh will be caught violating the law with his nasty, destructive comments. His modus operandi is simply to try to destroy by ridicule or incitement what he dislikes. He ought to be in jail, not in the public eye.
If Rush thought these strange things and kept them to himself, it might be funny. The fact that he influences a large number of US citizens is terrifying. But I think people’s derogatory comments about his weight and addiction are offensive and beside the point. If he were thin and straight-edge would that make his war-mongering, racism and classism (and, and, and…) any less offensive and dangerous? Al Sharpton could lose some weight,too, that doesn’t negate the power or insight of what he says.
If you wouldn’t pick on fat kid in school, don’t pick on the fat facist for his weight. Pick on him for his facism.
And addiction sucks. Rush is low on my list of people to empathize with, but I don’t think anyone should be mocked for it.
I would like to see everyone just stop giving not only him but FOX any air or print space.
BUT on the other hand web sites like this are the opposite with some of the postings ( yes I do it to) that are no better than what RUSH has to say about people places and things.
I don’t understand why anyone with any taste listens to this toad???????? At best he is obnoxious and offensive. The sort of hate he and people like him spew is what is destroying our country. It warps people’s minds and personalities to where they are no longer normal. I can remember a day when people like him were on the fringes of society and were seen for what they are…destructive. It’s a sad day when people like him become icons of the media. It tells you how low this country has sank.
Nader2000 April 25th, 2008 5:19 pm
Bla,bal,bla “extraordinary progressive candidacy of Barack Obama”
What the heck are you sniffin’ there Nader200. Get some perspective, go back and listen to some RFK speeches for cryin out loud. Barack Obama ain’t no progressive! He is a corporatist just like the rest.
As for Rush, why isn’t this drug addicted criminal in Jail? Because he is a rich white mouthpiece for the extremeist wing of the new American Fascists, that’s why!
Cynthia Mckinney 08!
Let the @%*# laugh. He’ll get what’s coming to him. The Lady is pissed, and isn’t going to stand for his “christianity” any longer. Ditto all the other so-called “Christ-loving” neo-cons. Rise up, all those who are not hypocritical religi-cons! We need to keep the real faith of innate human decency and act accordingly, even with such jerks as this one in our midst.
Rush has more common sense in his little finger than most contributors of CD combined.
You people live in such denial.
pissandmoan pissandmoan pissandmoan
Don’t like Limbaugh? Fine…Try Bill O’Reilly on FOX news at 8 PM. There’s a true gentleman journalist.
Plenty of fine looking females there (FOX(y) NEWS), too. The world needs more “eye candy” anyhow….
your friend, Banjoman
Shades of Rwanada Radio…just wait for Rush to call to “cut down the tall trees”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.”
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. I
www.recreat68.org
Lots of groups are doing a lot of planning for some real democracy in Denver this summer. Come join in…
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From what I’ve heard, THIS GROUP IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED. BE WARY. They might just give limbaugh the riot he wants.
I guess that Adolph Hitler quote posted by canuckchuck explains the mind of Banjotroll, I did not know that trolls played the banjo. Go back to LGF would ya.
I guess it’s official, then. From a September 5, 2006 speech (quoted on CNN):
Isn’t this encouraging a terrorist act?
Why are Homeland Security(ha)agent’s not knocking on this clown’s door, flashing badges in his ugly, smug mug and ordering him to place his hands behind his back?
KeeeeeeRist!
Curtsie!
“The IQ of the knuckle draggers who listen to Limpbaugh is probably about the same as their shoe size.”
Would that be in metric or domestic size?
Hey, I just looked at my “Impeach Cheney?” hat and the sum of a beeches got it made in China!
Oy.
Rush is my shepherd,
I shall not think, (bahhh!)
He maketh me to lie about my party affiliation,
and leadeth me to vote for Hillary in the primary.
He exploreth boy’s holes in Costa Rica, and uses his doctors viagra.
He leadeth me to the paths of righty-ness for his own sake
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of his ass,
I will fear no evil
for I have multiple deferments for anal cysts;
His rod and his staff they exciteth me,
If only I could find them under all that fat.
He preparest a table before me, then eats it all himself;
He annointest my head with piss;
His gut floppeth over his belt
Surely goodness and mercy shall elude him all the days of his life.
and he will stink up the house of Satan forever
Power slave
the last defense of a fascist…piss and whine about being compared to Hitler.
That’s funny…. I have a similar dream… only… it’s me with a Louisville Slugger taking batting practice on Rush Limbaughs head.
Rush is such an a$$hole. Why isn’t he in jail like other drug addicts? Could it be his money and power? Naww! Not in America. He won’t be bothered by DHS for inciting a riot or a terrorist act either. If he were black, Muslim, Hispanic, the DHS would have hauled his fat a$$ away before his radio show was over.
banjoboy..weren’t you that kid in Deliverance?
or maybe you were just one of the guys ass-raping Ned Beatty?
Thank you Canuckchuck for that post! (6:43pm) I did laugh out loud.
I think Ned was starting to like it
Hey folks—-the vitriole for Rush seems abit over the top. Having never heard him, but having heard plenty about him, I agree he represents a blight on the concept of useful input on the airways. But it is disheartening to come to CD and read posts that are so hateful and ugly.
I thought we were trying to be different than the right wing hate machine. Aren’t we? Come on…we’ve got more important things to do thanb trashing ol Rush. He’s sooooo yesterday. And make no mistake, he’d be lovin every one of these remarks—it means we are paying attention.
staroftheresa:
Excuse me, vitriole over the top you say? Who are you to judge those here who in all probability, know Rash Limpballs a lot better than you do; and certainly have good reason to loathe or despise that cowardly partisan bigot and two-faced piece of shit, who never gave either a quarter, or respect to anyone not sharing his pseudoconservative, parochial outlook.
Before chiding people here for “speaking their minds, you should do research on Rush Limpdick’s background on, for example:
1) his multiple deferrements to avoid getting his ass shot off in Vietnam; or
2) when he committed a federal crime by forged his doctor’s name on his Rx pad for a narcotic and then instead of an arrest and a conviction that should’ve sent him to the SLAMMER for maybe 20 to life…his pal Wackjob Bush intercedes and gets him off the hook!
3) And of course, his latest federal offense stint, that nearly everyone here agrees, should’ve netted that mental midget the title of one of America’s Most Wanted [top 3] and, again, pounding sand in a federal prison for boku time (good riddance to fat offal boy)….
In short, while you wanna pretend that he’s a Mr Rogers kind of guy, I and a lot of others here would prefer `ole Flush-the-Rush lined up against wall and shot for being a traitor!
banjoman:
Hey knuckledragger….Why don’t you take that fuggin banjo and put it where the sun doesn’t shine; preferably up Rush’s arse.
… wouldn’t be nice for a change,
to actually feel GOOD and joyful after submitting a comment to an ongoing thread ?
I do feel that a load has lifted from me, just now, and I believe that it is WORTHWHILE to consider the value of that for ALL who still have so so much more to say … … …
or
Guess what answer Rush would likely choose, to aid your own choice …
Look at the wolf pack frenzy here.
Scratch deep any human surface left or right and it’s always the same:
We Don’t Know Ourselves.
Hey Namaste,
Mujay, bahout maloom hoah. (phonetic spelling?)
Lets see if I have this right Rush can Dream of or call for a riot in Denver but we can’t mention the phrase Gen. stryke in this column? And when asks why not there is no answer forth coming even to the tune of white christmas?
As of this posting, 137 comments. All you have done is bring attention to a thing called Rush…he won! YOU (and I) have served HIS purpose.
Rash, take your Fourth Reich and shove it where the sun don’t shine!
Typical repug talk. First they say it, then say they didn’t say it. Like bush saying we can’t win the war on terror, then the next day saying what he meant to say is we can win the war in terror.
How can 14 million people actually listen to this idiot? How can one person listen to him? Or o’reilly? Or hannity? Etc…
These politicians, city officials pass off Rush like he’s just entertainment. Where have they been these past 20 years. Many people take this nazi pig seriously. HOw,I can’t understand, but I have run into neighbors who adore this piece of garbage. And, he was advocating violence in Denver, no matter how he twists his lying tongue. And some of his idiot followers will probably do something to make the Democratic Convention another 68. He should be taken seriously and should be handcuffed and led to jail for advocating violence and his play on words should be noted by the best of lawyers who are skilled at the art of lying and twisting.
Hey NAMESTE April 27th, 2008 12:32 pm
You are a genius, thanks allot..
a little more complicated than I thought…
and a nameste to you too!!
[ CaridadPuente: Yes, digby, fine job with wikipedia, nothing can be changed, altered, fine tuned, damn bold faced lied about there, huh? ]
EVERYTHING can be lied about, and IS lied about, in the New York Times, NEWSPAPERS, magazines, TV, everywhere. Wikipedia is probably the *least* dishonest, *most* open to scrutiny.
Gulf of Tonkin was a lie, it was lied about for 20+ years.
Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait was encouraged by the State Dept.
The “sobbing Kuwaiti-girl-nurse about the ‘incubator babies’” was an acted role and a complete fabrication by a PR group (ad agency) hired by Kuwait on behalf of Bush Senior. (Hill & Knowlton, Burston-Marsteller)
The freedom-advocating “Iraqi National Congress” was created by an Ad Agency (just like Ronald McDonald), with Chalabi placed at the head of it. (Rendon Group, for CIA, on behalf of Bush … long story there)
And we will find — if we have not already sufficient info — that the 9-11 story/investigation is not only jammed with tiny lies and contradictions within their own official stories, the entire event was a military operation with the primary purpose being psychological warfare to shift the public mood towards war (this was stated in advance), carried out by those people who most benefitted politically in the aftermath. (Hint: Not “the Arabs”.) (Hint: These people published in advance that they needed a bloodbath in America to jumpstart their planned war, to overcome public apathy. It’s not even a secret.)
And, yes, Wikipedia IS subject to edit … it’s also subject to correction by members for slanted or incorrect info … so rather than a authoritarian source like most news sources, wikipedia is actually democratic!! … therefore the commondreams crowd ought to hate it??? … it’s been judged to be NO MORE INACCURATE THAN Encyclopedia Brittanica.
On the other hand, an emailed conspiracy was recently uncovered (leaked to Electronic Intifada) where the rabid Israeli front group “CAMERA” planned to join the senior membership group of Wikipedia, slowly begin editing and/or challenging factual articles on Israel-Palestinian issues, and to literally RE-WRITE HISTORY, and to infiltrate and eventually take over the entire board, by stealth, without anyone understanding their hidden agenda.
CAMERA tried to say the emails of their conspiracy were forged.
So in any democratic forum or body, keep an eye out for possible infiltration and subversion.
That said, Wikipedia is usually accurate, or ‘conservative’ about harsh criticism (i.e. the reality may be far worse than the limits of what wikipedia permits), and especially accurate about non-controversial historical events.
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That said, with 1000 variations of banal (but deserving!) “I hate Rush” comments, why would CaridadPuente go out on a limb to try to discredit the one post that tries to supplement the anti-Rush *SENTIMENT* the factual clues that:
Rush Limbauch is not merely a news jock.
RUSH LIMBAUGH is most likely a quasi-public-private AGENT WORKING ON BEHALF OF CIA/FBI/HOMELAND SECURITY, because he is acting in the role of PAST illegal COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE/COUNTER-INSURGENCY OPERATIONS, carried out on the American public
Rush Limbaugh even arrogantly names his campaign of hate and disruption of dissent after a PRIOR CIA DOMESTIC OPERATION of the EXACT SAME NAME, carried out on the American public during the Vietnam War.
Doesn’t anyone find these damning facts at least a bit more interesting than expressions of emotional outrage?
This is really informative and worth a look if you haven’t seen it:
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=87
Treefrog April 27th, 2008 4:51 pm
Excellent Website Thanks a million
This man is a menace to democracy, but his listeners are even more a threat. Abraham Linclon was right: you can fool some of the people all of the time. Those people are called republicans. Lincoln would have been ashamed if he could see how far his party has fallen.
In my opinion, the documentary entitled Orwell Rolls in his Grave is good, but somehow leads under the assumption that we should EXPECT the corporate-military-government media to be honest and to not have an agenda of social control.
That’s ridiculous. During most of the Cold War, some of the most liberal media outlets ran CIA-managed news. Some of it was actively Limbaugh-like, the Birch Society type stuff. Some of it hyped the more frivolous aspects of “counter-culture”, trying to appear “hip” and intellectual, but never revolutionary, only metaphorically subversive. Much of it served the purpose of diversion.
The CIA, tiring of human rights exposes on their activities, even founded their own “human rights” organizations, that even criticized the USA but in relatively narrow terms, a few mistakes. The main thrust was to create institutions used to demonize the opposition, not only the Soviet Union, but genuine liberation movements, as well as even dictatorial statists who got “too independent”. Human Rights Watch was one of these. For example, they could slam Saddam’s horrendous human rights record, then chastize the US for dealing with Saddam, for placing foreign policy above human rights. A mistake in judgment. What they did not say is the CIA established in Saddam a ruthless hitman, someone willing to murder the CIA’s political opponents — Gen. Kassem, the Left, republicans (who believed in popular govt), Liberals, the left side of the Baathist Party, anyone opposed to Washington’s dictates.
The history of the CIA and the Washington Post, the CIA and the New York Times, the CIA and Time Magazine, the CIA and foreign press bounced back into the USA, is all pretty astonishing. No one seems to remember the Church Committee and the Pike Committee, hampered though they were. I guess everyone thinks that all went away when CIA director Bush said he’d clean it up, shut access for the investigators, after he replaced Colby.
The main reason the voices are more hysterical and more angry now, is there is less of a need for Liberal-sounding media to counter-balance the idealism and egalitarianism of socialism, so the mask is removed.
As some point out, Hugo Chavez is not a socialist, he’s more like the type of “New Democrat” that JFK tried to develop in foreign nations, a liberal who wanted to lift society as a whole, and somewhat limit corporate greed. Yet the media paints Chavez as if he were a full-blown Red, despite the fact that Big Oil operates freely in Venezuela, they just have to pay some taxes for “Bricks and Milk”. That’s an example of the shift.
The media reflects the current phase of corporate authoritarianism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, renegade finance (debt) capitalism, with only a vestigal countervailing force in society. To expect it to be different, as the Orwell movie pretends, is self-delusion.
After nearly 8 years, the New York Times finally admits its “mistake” in parroting the lines of CIA-asset Ahmed Chalabi to sell Bush’s war. Some liberal media.