Rush Limbaugh is a Pathetic Windbag

[TheVictors]

How telling is it that this is the "first time in [his] life [he's] ever been ashamed" ...?


There are a lot of things he should be ashamed of, but copying Susan Sarandon and Timothy Robbins and the Dixie Chicks, circa 2005 is just pathetic...

Fat fuck..

 

[Michchamp]

what did he do now?

the last I heard from him (not directly from him, as I'd never actually listen to him...) was commentary about his statements after the election where he was apparently completely exasperated that women and minorities weren't voting GOP and wondered aloud what it would take... and said maybe they needed to just hand out birth control and abortions to women and let minorities sit on welfare and smoke dope.

the lack of any self-awareness here is amusing.

"Why won't you people vote for us? What more do you want? Abortions? Dope? The rap music? I just don't understand you people."

 

[TheVictors]

Oh no ...now that the election is over and nobody is really paying close attention to the Infotainment sport that is politics, Rush decided he needed to remind people about him.

He's "ashamed of America" and isn't afraid to say it.


Sort of like I referenced ...only now the anti-patriotism is on the other foot. Instead of Susan Sarandon and Timothy Robbins being embarrassed by Bush and Bush policy, now it's FatAss who is "ashamed" and now that he's ashamed, it should be taken as very serious.

Perhaps Bill Maher or Jon Stewart will suggest that he take his fatass to Canada or Europe if he hates America so much.

 

[Michchamp]

I was listening to AM radio today at lunch, and I was happy he was on. I tuned in as he was taking a break from ranting about something and taking callers.

I do question his relevance and claims to have this massive listening audience... seems unlikely given that the two callers he had on were a senile old lady, and an 11-year-old kid from Florida. I am not kidding. The lady was going on and on about how "they" are talking about cutting our public services (police and fire), before jumping topics to mention how her friend was basically groped by airport security yesterday. The 11-year-old told Rush that as "a conservative kid" he was just as excited to talk to him as he was the pro golfers he met at some event. He didn't cut off either caller... he spent almost 10 minutes with them. he started name-dropping golfers he met to the kid and asking him how good of a golfer he was.

I am guessing they're really scraping the barrel here with their listening audience.

The best part was when the old lady - clearly not all there mentally - said that, it was she herself who was groped by airport security, (not her friend) contradicting her prior statement, and that she didn't mind it, but in the next sentence said she did mind it. Rush started to say "I thought your friend was..." before just agreeing with her and going along. It's like he's been doing this long enough to realize his audience isn't all there, and just to play along.

When I turned it off, he had stopped taking calls and gone on to rant about the media coverage of the papal conclave. He was apparently bothered by the fact that the media coverage was focusing immediately on who would be the next pope... which he felt was uncomfortably similar to coverage of the Oscars, and he was concerned that this would lead "low information voters" to believe that the selection of the pope was no more sacred of an event than the Oscars. whatever.

Oh, and he prefaced the last rant about media coverage of the papal conclave with a long, melodramatic lead-in about how he had lost all hope about society and we were past the point of no return because of what he was about to tell us.

 

[Michchamp]

Dang. I just noticed in Post #2 I state I would never actually listen to Rush Limbaugh, yet today, I enthusiastically listened to him.

I am quite clearly a hypocrite, and you should ignore me and never agree with anything I say.

:no:

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'm kind of ashamed as well that people voted for our President. Romney must have been a really bad candidate for Obama to win. My Dad used to say "always listen to the enemy" as in your case, michchamp - Rush.

 

[Thumb]

I'm kind of ashamed as well that people voted for our President. Romney must have been a really bad candidate for Obama to win. My Dad used to say "always listen to the enemy" as in your case, michchamp - Rush.

I can understand that Mitch, I was ashamed when this country elected G.W. a second time.

I guess turnabout is fair play, no?

 

[Mitchrapp]

I can understand that Mitch, I was ashamed when this country elected G.W. a second time.

I guess turnabout is fair play, no?

The way it works. Maybe they should limit it to one term.

 

[Michchamp]

I dunno why people would be ashamed...

I mean, we're still fighting a war on terror, and you're supposed to support your president during war.

However, those that claimed that from 2002 - 2008 have been attacking the current president pretty consistently.

Me confused.

 

[Michchamp]

The way it works. Maybe they should limit it to one term.

me not understand.

 

[byco42]

I dunno why people would be ashamed...

I mean, we're still fighting a war on terror, and you're supposed to support your president during war.

However, those that claimed that from 2002 - 2008 have been attacking the current president pretty consistently.

Me confused.

Likewise. The NO WAR signs vanished from lawns and windows in November, 2008. So did the world-wide anti-war protests. No Uncle Sams on stilts with a skeleton-head.

 

[Michchamp]

Likewise. The NO WAR signs vanished from lawns and windows in November, 2008. So did the world-wide anti-war protests. No Uncle Sams on stilts with a skeleton-head.

it's almost like some (or is it most?) view politics as a sport between two sides, without regard to actual governance.

to be fair though... the protests were in response to the impending invasion of Iraq and were quite large (the size and extensiveness was downplayed or often ignored in the pro-war US media). Obama hasn't proposed to formally invade anyone else... just fly drones over them and kill people.

 

[TheVictors]

Then there are are some White House protestors that have been there since Reagan was in office....

 

[Thumb]

Then there are are some White House protestors that have been there since Reagan was in office....

...And just like Reagan, they cant remember what they're doing there either.

Ba dum tsss.

 

[TheVictors]

"I do not recall ...."

 

[tinselwolverine]

...And just like Reagan, they cant remember what they're doing there either.

Ba dum tsss.

That is pretty funny.

Hopefully Jimmy Kimmel will get a chance to talk to Matt Damon about it on the show tonight.

 

[Michchamp]

Senate Committee: "Did you sell weapons systems to Iran in order to raise money to covertly supply fascist guerillas in Central America, each of which would be clearly a violation of U.S. law?"

Reagan: "Why now, I don't recall. I says to Jerry the other day, seems to me, a recession is when you lose your job, but a recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. Morning in America. As they said in BAck to teh Future, 'where we're going we don't need roads.'"

AMERICAN PUBLIC: "DUUURRRR HURRRRR THAT REAGAN SHORE IS WITTY, YEP YEP. GOOD ONE, MR. PREZ..."

 

[Mitchrapp]

Without Smith you guys just all agree with each other, boring.

 

[KAWDUP]

Senate Committee: "Did you sell weapons systems to Iran in order to raise money to covertly supply fascist guerillas in Central America, each of which would be clearly a violation of U.S. law?"

Reagan: "Why now, I don't recall. I says to Jerry the other day, seems to me, a recession is when you lose your job, but a recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. Morning in America. As they said in BAck to teh Future, 'where we're going we don't need roads.'"

AMERICAN PUBLIC: "DUUURRRR HURRRRR THAT REAGAN SHORE IS WITTY, YEP YEP. GOOD ONE, MR. PREZ..."

. . . and you're not part of the American public?

Oh that's right I forgot, you are one of the elitest progressives who are above the lowly American public.

HA!

Now watch this folks - Champ will make some comment about how I am a Reagan lover and staunch defender.

Of course, none of this means all that much since you were probably close to 5 years old at the time, but I am sure you know everything there is to know about the Iran-Contra affair. You going to school us on Watergate next? Maybe you can tell us all about the Vietnam War and how it once again must have happened because of some pathetic conservative?

 

[Michchamp]

So, do I have to stick to discussing events that occurred post-1998, the year when I reached the age of majority?

Sounds like I should also defer to your recollection and judgment regarding everything, since you are older than I.

Does the latter apply to the board generally? Because I guess the only opinions that should be expressed here are those of the oldest poster.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it's Thumb.