(Rush Limbaugh) Must Read: My Interview with Scott Walker

 March 06, 2014




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RUSH: I'm interviewing someone this afternoon after the program concludes (if we don't have to cancel because of the rain). I'm interviewing Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. I've always wanted to talk to Bill Donohue, and I admire the way he does what he does. I admire what he does, too. But I admire the way he does it. And it reminded me, you really need to read the current interview in the current issue of the Limbaugh Letter, and the Limbaugh Letter is now an app. It's digitally available via the iTunes store or at RushLimbaugh.com. We have digitized the Limbaugh Letter.




The Limbaugh Letter is a monthly publication that dates back 23 years. It's been around almost as long as the program has. One of the things that we did and do in the Limbaugh Letter to distinguish it from the radio show is interview people, news makers and whatever 'cause, you know, I really don't like doing that because I don't care what most other people think.

But for the Limbaugh Letter, we do it, it's a marketing thing, to do something in the Limbaugh Letter that is not found regularly on this program. And as it's gone on, it's become a monthly publication, it's become more and more challenging to put unique content in there because of so much material covered here on the radio program and with the daily Morning Update or morning commentary that's heard on all of our affiliate stations all across the fruited plain.

Well, we work really hard on that, and we achieve that, and it's tough. You know, you got a news item, and you say, "Okay, let's save that for the newsletter." "Well, now, wait a minute. What about the radio audience? We owe it to them to mention that." It's a real tight, tough balancing act here. The Limbaugh Letter was always mailed. It was always a printed publication. We just recently, in the past year, took it digital.

You can get the Limbaugh Letter app to go along with the Rush Limbaugh Show app. You get the Rush Limbaugh Show app and you get the Dittocam if you're a subscriber to the website. You can get the Dittocam right directly from the app. You don't have to go to the website. Get it right from the app. Just go to the iTunes store and search it.

Now, the interview that is current in the at-present issue of the Limbaugh Letter is Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin. You know, if you're regular listener, I think that what he's done in Wisconsin is the blueprint for what the Republican Party could do to come back and triumph all over this country. I think it's the story. Scott Walker has stuck to every pledge. Look what he did.



In the bluest of blue states, he took on the public teachers unions. He has created -- via policy, not economic gimmicks -- a $1 billion budget surplus, in this day and age. The unemployment number in Wisconsin is far below the national unemployment rate. You know how the Democrats and the left three times tried to destroy this guy. Not just his political career. They tried to end his professional career in politics in toto.

There were physical threats.

There were physical threats against his family.

It was brutal.



He had his legislature leave the state a couple of times, in cowardly fashion, to avoid votes, and he hung in there. I was always amazed that what happened with Scott Walker and his success there did not become more of a template, and actually not become more of a news story for the Republican Party. It's profound. It is the blueprint, and it's Reaganesque. It shows that it can be done.

It shows that the Democrats can be beat and the media can be beat, with ideas and with stick-to-itiveness, with commitment, with passion, with inspiration. Simply be optimistic. It can happen because it did. If it happens once, it can happen several times -- and when I saw this John Bolton quote from CPAC today in which he said, "Under Barack Obama, with Barack Obama, you can get away scot-free killing his personal representative," that's simple. It cuts to the quick.

So does the comparison, "KGB vs. ACORN" to typify what's going on with Ukraine.

Here's a pull quote from the Scott Walker interview: "The pathway to win..." The whole interview, by the way, you really should see it. "The pathway to win the center isn't to move to the center; it's to lead. Because most people who are undecided or persuadable voters aren't necessarily looking for a candidate they agree with on every issue. They want people willing to do what they say they're gonna do and boldly lead."

Do you realize that may sound simple? "What's so hot about that, Rush? That's kind of a ho-hummer." No, it's not, because the current thinking in the Republican Party is that to win the center you've gotta move left. That's the current thinking of the Republican Party. "To win the center, we've gotta be pro-amnesty. To win the center, we've gotta somehow back off on the social issues!

"To win the center, we can't be worried about the budget because Americans want a Big Government. We have to, instead, position ourselves as better stewards of it." Scott Walker didn't do any of that in vanquishing the left in Wisconsin. He didn't do any of that. The pathway to win the center isn't to move to the center; it's to lead. Stand for things.

Because he correctly has identified who these undecideds are and what it takes to reach them, and he's proven he knows how to do it. I've had a couple people who have read the interview tell me they haven't been this excited about a Republican in a long time. After this interview in the Limbaugh Letter, I got a note from a friend.

"Rush, that interview should be read by everybody. It's absolutely inspiring, and there are no platitudes in it. This guy's accomplished, achieved. The accomplishments and the achievements are on record. They're a matter of record, not a matter of opinion. He presents a clear vision of what works and what doesn't work, both politically and economically."

It's really, really good.

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Rush Limbaugh: Pope is preaching 'pure Marxism'

 

December 2nd, 2013
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Rush Limbaugh: Pope is preaching 'pure Marxism'


By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor


(CNN) – Pope Francis: Successor to St. Peter ... the people's pontiff ... Marxist?

That's what conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh suggests, calling the Pope's latest document "pure Marxism."

Limbaugh blasted the pontiff on Wednesday, a day after Francis released "Evangelii Gaudium" (The Joy of the Gospel), a 50,000-word statement that calls for church reform and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

Limbaugh's segment, now online and entitled "It's Sad How Wrong Pope Francis Is (Unless It's a Deliberate Mistranslation By Leftists)," takes direct aim at the pope's economic views, calling them "dramatically, embarrassingly, puzzlingly wrong."

The Vatican issued the English translation of "Evangelii," which is known officially as an apostolic exhortation and unofficially as a pep talk to the worlds 1.5 billion Catholics.

Francis – the first pope ever to hail from Latin America, where he worked on behalf of the poor in his native Argentina – warned in "Evangelii" that the "idolatry of money" would lead to a "new tyranny."

The Pope also blasted "trickle-down economics," saying the theory "expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power."

READ MORE: Pope Francis: No more business as usual

The Pope's critique of capitalism thrilled many liberal Catholics, who have long called on church leaders to spend more time and energy on protecting the poor from economic inequalities.

But Limbaugh, whose program is estimated to reach 15 million listeners, called the Pope's comments "sad" and "unbelievable."

"It's sad because this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to capitalism and socialism and so forth."

In fact, Argentina was a battlefield between leftist socialists and right-wing security forces during much of Francis' early career in the country, where he was a Jesuit priest and later archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Limbaugh, who is not Catholic, said he admires the faith "profoundly." He admired Pope Francis as well, "up until this," Limbaugh said.

The talk show host also said that he has made numerous visits to the Vatican, which he said "wouldn't exist without tons of money."

"But regardless, what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him," Limbaugh added. "This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the Pope."

Limbaugh took particular issue with the Pope's criticism of the "culture of prosperity," which the pontiff called a "mere spectacle" for the many people who can't afford to participate.

"This is almost a statement about who should control financial markets," Limbaugh said. "He says that the global economy needs government control."

"I'm not Catholic, but I know enough to know that this would have been unthinkable for a pope to believe or say just a few years ago," Limbaugh continued.

In fact, Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, now pope emeritus, could be just as strong a critic of capitalism.

In 2009, Benedict, in an official church document called an encyclical, said there was an urgent need for "a political, juridical and economic order" that would "manage the global economy."

As Limbaugh notes, Benedict's predecessor, the late Pope John Paul II, was a noted foe of communism, after living under its oppressions in his native Poland. But even John Paul thought that unregulated capitalism could have negative consequences.

In "Evangelii," Francis called for more of a spiritual and ethical revolution than a regulatory one.

"I encourage financial experts and political leaders to ponder the words of one of the sages of antiquity: `Not to share one’s wealth with the poor is to steal from them and to take away their livelihood. It is not our own goods which we hold, but theirs,'" said Francis, quoting the fifth-century St. John Chrysostom.

Liberal Catholics defended Pope Francis on Monday, calling on Limbaugh to apologize and retract his remarks.

"To call the Holy Father a proponent 'pure Marxism' is both mean-spirited and naive," said Christopher Hale of the Washington-based Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. "Francis's critique of unrestrained capitalism is in line with the Church's social teaching."

Limbaugh is not the only conservative commentator to take issue with the Pope's views on capitalism.

READ MORE: Sarah Palin 'taken aback' by Pope Francis's 'liberal' statements

“I go to church to save my soul," said Fox News' Stuart Varney, who is an Episcopalian. "It’s got nothing to do with my vote. Pope Francis has linked the two. He has offered direct criticism of a specific political system. He has characterized negatively that system. I think he wants to influence my politics.”

It doesn't sound like the criticism is slowing Francis down, however. He's started sending a Vatican contingent, including the Papal Swiss Guards, into Rome to deliver food and charity.


Daniel Burke - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor


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How the Catholic Church Got Roped into Liberalism

March 16, 2012

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RUSH: To the phones we go on Open Line Friday, starting in Santa Barbara, California. Hi Diane, you're up first. Hello.

CALLER: Hi, Rush! I was wondering if you noticed a pattern starting with Georgetown University, who's heavily funded by federal money, and how they abandon their principles? I noticed that the Law School Reproductive Health -- or Reproductive Justice -- was started like in '09. So it's just kind of crazy how just a lot of pressure to abandon their principles.

RUSH: You know, I was talking to somebody about this the other night, Diane. This is actually a very brilliant point that you've come up with. Somebody was asking me, "What are they mad at you for? You're not the one denying them contraceptives. Georgetown is." Except, Diane, you should know that we looked into this. Georgetown University does provide contraception when it is prescribed for medical conditions that have nothing to do with birth control. Contraceptives sometimes have other medicinal benefits, and Georgetown will allow the coverage for the prescription of contraception in those circumstances but not to be used for birth control. So I'm not the one denying anybody birth control and Georgetown is.

But that's why these activists enroll there. One of the questions that came up was, "Well, why would you enroll? If you're a big birth control activist, and if for some reason you think that your country is denying you all the birth control that you want, why would you enroll at a place that doesn't offer it?" Well, duh. If you're an activist, by definition, you are enrolling to stir it up there. You are enrolling to tear down the moral and conscience policies of that institution. That's the express purpose. The Catholic Church is under siege. The Catholic Church is under attack. It's a huge target. And the Catholic Church finally knows it.

The Catholic Church is finally standing up in defense of some of this stuff. Diane, you should know -- and the rest of you, too -- that I learned a lot during this whole fiasco. One of the things that I learned was the reason the Catholic Church (all the way back to the days of FDR) got roped into the liberal socialist agenda is that they became convinced that welfare was charity, and churches are big on charity. And they thought that it would sound good for them to support massive government wealth-transfer programs, welfare programs, under the guise that it was charity. So the Catholic Church and its hierarchy in this country slowly but surely migrated to socialism, in terms of its political preferences.

Now, not so much the way it dealt with its flock, but outwardly -- with its political associations and attachments (i.e. people that they voted for, supported) -- under the notion that liberalism is charity, under the notion that welfare is charity. Well, it isn't. Welfare is the willful absconding of money owned by others and giving it to other people for your benefit, not theirs. Liberals give money to people wanting a payback. The payback is the vote. Liberals are not giving people money to increase their lifestyles or improve their lifestyles. It doesn't happen, does it? The poor are still poor. The homeless are still homeless. Despite all these great liberal programs, the numbers, the percentages never change.

Liberalism doesn't solve problems. It doesn't fix anything. It just exacerbates them. So it isn't charity. Real charity is targeted to people in genuine need who cannot help themselves. The purpose of welfare is not to help people who can't help themselves. If I may be blunt, the purpose of welfare is to create as many people as possible who refuse to help themselves because they don't have to anymore. They've got welfare plans. Welfare is robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote. It's insidious. It destroys people's humanity and their dignity. It takes away their ambition, their desires and gives them a life of squalor, under the guise of big-heartedness and charity and so forth.

And what it comes down to, Diane, is the left -- the Democrat Party, however you want to describe them -- never want to be judged on the results of their so-called good works. They want credit for their good intentions. (sobbing) "Well, we want to end homelessness and we want to end poverty, and that makes us good people." They never do end homelessness. They never do end poverty. You're never supposed to point that out. You're just supposed to talk about how big their hearts are. But the Catholic Church got roped into this whole notion that all of that is "charity," so they became big supporters of it. This is now causing some lights to go on at the upper levels of the Church and they're starting to see things the way you do, Diane.

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Obama joins in assailing Limbaugh slur of Georgetown student

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In this Jan. 27, 2010 photo, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a Miss America news conference at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Brian Jones)

Stepping into an emerging culture clash over women, President Barack Obama made a supportive phone call Friday to a law student who testified before Congress about the need for birth control coverage, only to be called a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh.

For Obama, it was an emphatic plunge into the latest flare-up on social issues. Democratic officeholders and liberal advocacy have accused Republicans of waging a "war on women" because of GOP stances on contraception and abortion rights, and Limbaugh's tirade on his radio talk show was seen as an escalation.

In addition to her call from the president, the third-year Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, was backed by members of Congress, women's groups, and the administration and faculty at her Roman Catholic university.

Demands for Limbaugh's sponsors to pull their ads from his rocketed through cyberspace, and at least three companies, Quicken Loans and bedding retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, bowed to the pressure.

Obama considers Limbaugh's remarks "reprehensible," according to White House spokesman Jay Carney. He said the president called Fluke to "express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks" and to thank her for speaking out on an issue of public policy.

"The fact that our political discourse has become debased in many ways is bad enough," Carney said. "It is worse when it's directed at a private citizen who was simply expressing her views."

Obama reached Fluke by phone as she was waiting to go on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."

"What was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud," a choked-up Fluke told Mitchell. "And that meant a lot because Rush Limbaugh questioned whether or not my family would be proud of me. So I just appreciated that very much."

By calling Fluke and injecting himself into the Limbaugh controversy, Obama sent a message to more than one law student. He was reaching out to young voters and women - two groups whose support he needs in this re-election year. And he was underscoring that the White House, despite bungling its rollout of the birth control policy, sees it as a winning issue and welcomes Obama's name next to it.

Fluke was given a chance to talk to Congress on Feb. 23, even though lawmakers were on a break and just a few Democratic allies were on hand to cheer her on. The previous week, a Republican-controlled House committee had rejected Democrats' request that she testify on the Obama administration's policy requiring that employees of religion-affiliated institutions have access to health insurance that covers birth control.

Republicans have faulted parts of Obama's health care reform as unconstitutional, including an initial requirement, since withdrawn by the president, that contraceptives be covered under the insurance policies of businesses, including those with religious affiliations.

Fluke said that Georgetown, a Jesuit institution, does not provide contraception coverage in its student health plan and that contraception can cost a woman more than $3,000 during law school. She spoke of a friend who had an ovary removed because the insurance company wouldn't cover the prescription birth control she needed to stop the growth of cysts.

On Wednesday, Limbaugh unleashed a lengthy and often savage verbal assault on Fluke.

"What does it say about the college coed ... who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?" Limbaugh said. "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex."

He went on to suggest that Fluke distribute sex tapes of herself.

"If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it," he said. "We want you post the videos online so we can all watch."

The backlash began quickly and showed no signs of abating as scores of Democratic members of Congress denounced Limbaugh and urged their GOP colleagues to do likewise.

The Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, responded through a spokesman.

"The Speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," said Boehner aide Michael Steel.

Later, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the committee that blocked Fluke's original testimony, issued a letter repudiating Limbaugh's comments but also excoriating the Democrats and their supporters.

"I ask that you join me in a broader condemnation of the attacks on people of faith ... and the regrettable personal attacks that have come from individuals on both sides of the issue," Issa wrote to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Boehner and Issa are among the GOP leaders accused of waging the purported "war on women." The topic has been cited often in recent fundraising pitches by many liberal advocacy groups, and they recently have shown more aggressiveness.

In early February, after a three-day furor, the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity dropped plans to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood, a leading abortion provider. And more recently, after incurring protests and ridicule, Republican politicians in Virginia backed away from a bill that would have required invasive vaginal ultrasounds as a pre-condition for many abortions.

Amid this controversy, polls show that Obama's support among women has been increasing.

At Georgetown, more than 130 faculty members signed a letter praising Fluke for her "grace and strength" and condemning Limbaugh's remarks. The university president, John J. DeGioia, did likewise.

He said Limbaugh and others responded to Fluke "with behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student."

On Thursday, aware of the firestorm he had ignited, Limbaugh was unapologetic.

"I think this is hilarious. Absolutely hilarious" he said on his show. "The left has been thrown into an outright conniption fit!"

On Friday, still defiant, Limbaugh scoffed at the concept of a conservative "war on women."

"Amazingly, when there is the slightest bit of opposition to this new welfare entitlement being created, then all of a sudden we hate women! We want `em barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen," he said. "And now, at the end of this week, I am the person that the women of America are to fear the most."

Longtime Republican strategist Terry Holt suggested voters might see Obama's response to an over-the-top radio host as "pure pandering" to woo women's votes.

"This conversation seems to serve Rush Limbaugh and president Obama equally well," Holt said.

Fluke, in Washington, issued a statement expressing gratitude for the support she's received and resolve to continue speaking out.

"No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner. This language is an attack on all women, and has been used throughout history to silence our voices," she said.

"The millions of American women who have and will continue to speak out in support of women's health care and access to contraception prove that we will not be silenced."

Rick Santorum, one of the Republican presidential contenders seeking to oppose Obama, commented to CNN about Limbaugh's remarks.

"He's being absurd," Santorum said. "But that's, you know, an entertainer can be absurd."

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"Fight The Real Enemy"

This morning I heard a sound byte on the radio by Rush Limbaugh that brought back many memories; And, boy is he right, but, Sinead was right on!

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Here's what Rush said this morning:

You can sum this up with the immortal words of that bald chick, Sinead O'Connor: "Fight the real enemy!"

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You can sum this up with the immortal words of that bald chick, Sinead O'Connor: "Fight the real enemy!" And it's not the insurance companies -- and it ...

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As I reflect upon the huge child molestation scandal that plagues the Vatican; I wonder if anyone can see how this relates to other disturbing trends we see in our midst? The pedophilia and pederasty in the Roman Catholic hierarchy is a clear indictment that its Popes, Bishops, and Priests are all guilty of either abusing innocent children or condoning it. It's just the tip of the iceberg... There can be no other explanation, the facts speak for themselves. However, there are other issues in which the Roman Catholic Church's involvement are not so easily distinguished.

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"Fight The Real Enemy":

When I heard these words reiterated by Rush Limbaugh, I thought about all the Right-Wing Talk show Hosts. I thought about Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Jerry Doyle, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Steven Caine, Alex Jones, and even Rush Limbaugh; The enthusiastic "Conservative" patriotic Americans who spend countless hours on the radio speculating about all the problems that American Society experiences. Are they really clueless?

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I wonder if Rush Limbaugh really understood what he was implying?

I wonder if Rush and his fellow radio personalities really know who's behind the drastic changes in our freedoms, in our dwindling economy, our growing immorality?

I wonder if any of them really know what organization is working behind the scenes wholeheartedly to subvert the U.S. Constitution, and impose totalitarian government? An entity conspiring to impose World Government and a World Religion?

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"Fight The Real Power"

The Roman Catholic Church's current dismissal of criminal deeds of its priests and its bishops who have allowed these atrocious assaults on helpless children are positive proof that this is not a church, but rather a sinister idolatrous organization that condones shameful aggression upon the innocent and the gullible.

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Yes, Rush was right! But, he is still ignorant of who's behind most of the chaos we see in the world. The nefarious powers that be which are actively fomenting war around the world, calling for distribution of wealth, attempting to restrict freedom, Overhauling the Health care System, dividing the world into 10 regions, etc.

Can they identify who is transforming our country into a Banana (Nana) Republic?

Can the "Patriots" identify who is flooding the nation with Catholics, Muslims, Hindus, and Pagans?

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The current child sex abuse case is an indication of who is behind many of the world's ills. No, it's not only restricted to Ireland; It's far wider than that since in Germany, Austria, and Italy there are currently many similar accusations.

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Sinead O'Connor: Fight The Real Power

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O'Connor's career took a political shift — especially in the United States — on 3 October 1992, when she appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest. She was singing an a cappella version of Bob Marley's "War," which she intended as a protest over the sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, by changing the lyric "racism" to "child abuse."[14] She then presented a photo of Pope John Paul II to the camera while singing the word "evil," after which she tore the photo into pieces, said "Fight the real enemy," and threw the pieces towards the camera.[15]

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I wish more people were as brave and as wise as Sinead O'Connor. She knew who the enemy of her brethren, her people was. Sinead knew something that the "experts" with all their degrees and their experience somehow fail to recognize. I do not know what religious beliefs, or what lifestyle Sinead O'Connor espouses; Yet, I congratulate and encourage her for saying something that all the hypocritical celebrities -$ out of convenience $- refuse to say.

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Rush Limbaugh's Letter to President Obama

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From the January 28, 2010 edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show: Rush reads his letter to President Obama. pnI

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The State of Obama is Delusional

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"This must be what it feels like to live in a monarchy when some little kid becomes king due to a premature death."

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We found out what it's like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. And if you didn't see it, and if you want to know what sitting through a speech by Castro or Chavez is like find a way to watch a little bit of it and you'll get a grand idea. It was disjointed. I thought it was pathetic.

And Nancy Pelosi, she missed her calling. She's up and down, a Jack in the Box. She should have been a trained seal at Sea World the way she was behaving last night. She and Biden and everybody color coordinated in purple.


This guy is going to have to learn the Founding Fathers of this country were not Saul Alinsky and Karl Marx. Banana republic, to sit there and attack the Supreme Court for protecting the First Amendment, the least accomplished man in the room, folks, lectured everyone as if they were freshmen in their first last year of college.


Now, that is petulant. That is unpresidential, and it's immature. "Not my fault! Not my fault!" It's like Bart Simpson, "You can't prove it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove it, I didn't do anything. It's unseemly, it's embarrassing, folks, to have a president talking this sarcastically.


Awe. By the way, he used the word "I" 96 times in 70 minutes. That's more than one time a minute. Okay, so remember this: I never suggested it would be easy or that I could do it alone.


"Whoa, that last five minutes, I have never seen anything like it."


"The last five minutes of that downer was strange to the point of needing psychological analysis. It's above my pay grade, but the best spin I can put on it would be to say an elitist professor was speaking to a freshman class. The worst case is I found his final comments to be disturbing, meaning I don't know anybody who speaks that way to adults, as if Congress has no idea why it's even there, as if his stupid little pep talk was inspirational. It was a failed attempt at wisdom. He came off as immature, out of his league who bounced --"


But I don't think I heard him say that because it was not the State of the Union. It might have been the state of the "unions," or more appropriately, it was the state of Obama.





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Limbaugh rushed to hospital in Hawaii

Conservative Radio Talk Show Host, Rush Limbaugh has been takien to the hospital in Honolulu Hawaii, complaining of chest pains. Limbaugh was visiting at a Hawaii Resort when the incident occurred.

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P.S. President Obama and his entourage is also in Hawaii on vacation.

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Rush Limbaugh Hits Back at Sheila Jackson Lee, Others for Racism Charge

October 14, 2009 by
Mark Whittington

New Hardball Strategy from Limbaugh

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Democrat of Texas took to the floor of the House to explain why Rush Limbaugh ought not to be allowed to own a NFL football team. Rush Limbaugh took to the airways October 14th to make her wish she hadn't.

Sheila Jackson Lee was only one of several people who felt Rush Limbaugh's ire over the controversy in which Rush is being accused of racism based on fabricated quotes. Other people feeling Rush's wrath included CNN reporter Rick Sanchez, whom Rush Limbaugh mentioned had been involved in a hit-and-run accident while drunk while a reporter in Miami, and Senate Majority Harry Reid, whom Rush reminded his listeners is—well—Harry Reid.

Rush Limbaugh told an old story about how Jesse Jackson had lied about Martin Luther King dying in his arms, though apparently he had arrived in time to smear the blood of the iconic civil rights leader on his own clothes to make it look like he had been present. Tawana Brawley was trotted out to beat Al Sharpton over the head with. Rush also accused Al Sharpton of running a shake down racket.

But it was Sheila Jackson Lee who was the special subject of Rush Limbaugh's new policy of answering attacks. Rush inquired, "I wonder if Ms. Jackson Lee to have any regard for the truth. Does she have any regard for hoping, desiring to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, or is she content to be happy and proud to go the floor of the House of Representatives and make a fool of herself?

"Rush Limbaugh went on to relate an old story about Sheila Jackson Lee. It seems that Sheila Jackson Lee was present at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the Mars Pathfinder landed in the mid 1990s. Sheila Jackson Lee inquired whether the rover would be able to roll over to where astronauts had planted the American flag.

The problem is that astronauts have yet to visit Mars at all, not to mention plant any flags on its surface. Sheila Jackson Lee, who represents a district in Houston and sits on committees that deal with NASA, did not know that astronauts had in fact planted flags on the Moon

Rush Limbaugh is apparently adding to the legal strategy that he explained on October 13th's broadcast. The idea seems to be that if you launch against Rush Limbaugh, call him names, or lie about him, he will launch against you in responds with overwhelming force. If you go after Rush and have a skeleton in your closet, that skeleton will be trotted out for all to see.

Sources: Limbaugh fires back at 'fool' Jackson Lee for NFL floor speech, Bob Cusak, The Hill, October 14th, 2009

Rick Sanchez of CNN Ran Over a Man Then Fled the Scene. Two Hours Later, Sanchez Was Still Drunk, Erik Erikson, Red State, October 14th, 2009

Jesse Jackson Aims For The Mainstream, Joyce Purnick and Michael Oreskes, New York Times, November 29th, 1987

Sharpton's Million Dollar Shakedown Racket, Sabel Vincent and Susan Edelman, Sweetness and Light, June 15th, 2008

The Smearing of Rush Limbaugh, Mark R. Whittington, Associated Content, October 14th, 2009
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Democrat Congresswoman Bashes Rush Limbaugh on House Floor

By Noel Sheppard (Bio Archive)October 14, 2009 - 11:39 ET







Monday night's football game between the Jets and the Dolphins might have been the best so far this year, but nothing is matching the entertainment value of the Left's hysteria concerning conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams.

The fiscally-challenged Democrats could actually balance the budget if they sold beer, popcorn, and hot dogs every time some liberal politician or media member stepped in front of a microphone to express why the Excellence in Broadcasting chief isn't qualified to own a football team.

On Tuesday alone Congress could have raised a fortune if it would have sold tickets to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-Tex.) hyperventilation about Limbaugh on the floor of the House of Representatives (video embedded below the fold with transcript, relevant section at 2:30, h/t Story Balloon, file photo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhSo5E492lg&feature=player_embeddedhttp://

Let me finally move to another topic and offer my thoughts. Even though I believe in the first amendment and the right to freedom of association, but I stand with the NFL Players Association not to make Rush Limbaugh any kind of national standard or a national hero or the national issue. I'll let my friends on the other side of the aisle determine what he is and what he is not.

Stop the tape: notice how she just said, "I'll let my friends on the other side of the aisle determine what he is and what he is not." That sentiment didn't last long:
But I know that he is not the kind of owner that the NFL needs.

Didn't she just say she was going to let her friends on the other side of the aisle determine what he is not? But I digress:

He does not represent the fullness of appreciation of athletes of all diverse backgrounds no matter what he wants to pretend to say on his radio station. But he is one who is divisive just as they're about to select him as a judge for a Miss America contest. I can't understand that, but that is their choice. Maybe they think he'll bring in millions of listeners, but can you imagine a poor girl scared already to be able to ask a question about the person she admires most, and she says somebody that happens to be a different political affiliation. She is, of course, not a winner. But that's their decision.

Hmmm. You mean like how Carrie Prejean didn't win the Miss USA pageant a few months ago because of HER political views? Where was the Congresswoman when THAT happened?
From this act of uproarious hypocrisy, Jackson Lee predictably moved to Donovan McNabb:
NFL has become one of America's pastimes. All of us from all walks of life and economic backgrounds look at the NFL. I know that there are far better owners that could be selected than one package that has this gentleman in it. I'd ask the NFL owners to put standards in place, criteria, base it on integrity, not just the bottom buck. Anybody that wants to call a quarterback in Pennsylvania and call him out - he happens to be African-American - as not being competent, just somebody that the media has promoted, not being talented. Interestingly enough, that football player is, happens to still be playing and doing a great job.

Well I don't know why in the heck other than the big dollar that Rush Limbaugh would be interested in the NFL. And so, we're not interested in him either.

Wait a minute. What if it is exclusively about money. What's wrong with someone investing in a sports franchise because he or she thinks it's a good longterm investment? Would that be terrible if that was Limbaugh's sole motivation?

Of course, it isn't, for Limbaugh is a diehard football fan who now finds himself in the financial position to invest in something he loves. I guess the Congresswoman doesn't understand that:
And I would hope, though this is not my choice, this is not a government issue as well as it is an issue of integrity for those of us who believe that this is a great sport that brings all of us together.

Well, if this isn't a government issue, why are you talking about it on the House floor?
I would hesitate to say that he is not someone who brings people together. And I just simply ask those owners to do the right thing, have a criteria, a standard, a bottom line of integrity. It's not all about the dollar. It's about the value of sports and teamwork and working together and bringing young people together and looking at values that are not political that are simply about us getting along as a nation, being admired by the world for having a great sporting community if you will whether it's baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, golf. That's what it's about. NFL owners, have some integrity. I think you need a different owner team.

Hmmm. So sports aren't about the dollar? Then why do athletes make more in a year than most Americans will in their entire lives? And why do companies spend so much to advertise during games?

And what about her comment that sports are about "looking at values that are not political?" Isn't that EXACTLY what the Congresswoman did on the House floor Tuesday -- look at Limbaugh's values that ARE political?

Indeed, this entire issue has become political because Limbaugh represents conservatism, and the Left along with their media minions just can't stand it.

As a result this battle has a long way to go; folks better stock up on peanuts, popcorn, and Cracker Jacks if they REALLY want to enjoy the show.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters


Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/14/democrat-congresswoman-bashes-rush-limbaugh-house-floor

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White House Keeps Distance From Joke

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Comedian Wanda Sykes has President Obama in stitches as she performs at Saturday's White House Correspondents' dinner in D.C.

Read more: "David Feherty shouldn't get pass for tasteless joke - but neither should Wanda Sykes" - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_a_red_herring_called_wanda.html#ixzz0FFz0SHRg&A

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WASHINGTON (May 11) -- The White House is keeping its distance from an entertainer's joke comparing commentator Rush Limbaugh to a terrorist.

Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday was asked for President Barack Obama's reaction to the joke by comic actress Wanda Sykes at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Obama took part in the event.
Sykes jabbed at Limbaugh for suggesting that he wants Obama to fail. She said Limbaugh's view was essentially the same as al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's. She suggested Obama might want to look into the matter "because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker."
Gibbs said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is a topic "better left for serious reflection than comedy."

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David Feherty shouldn't get pass for tasteless joke -

but neither should Wanda Sykes

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Updated Monday, May 11th 2009, 8:34 AM Read more: "David Feherty shouldn't get pass for tasteless joke - but neither should Wanda Sykes" -

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_a_red_herring_called_wanda.html#ixzz0FG0kYtQq&A

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Here is what David Feherty, a golf guy who poses no threat to the memory of Lenny Bruce, wrote in a Dallas magazine recently:

"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death."

Not funny. An old joke, tastelessly retold. Feherty of CBS - who once wrote a book called "Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot" - is drawing fire because of it. But you have to wonder how a similar joke might have played at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday night, as long as it was about a Republican.

Because here are a couple of jokes Wanda Sykes wrote and then delivered to that crowd:

"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight. ...

"Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails? I hope his kidneys fail, how 'bout that?"

Somehow Ms. Sykes got laughs with this material, and draws no fire. It is all supposed to be about the setting, or so we are told. President Obama was there, the dinner is always the Washington version of a Friars Club Roast, just without the Sopranos language.

So Sykes, a comedian, gets a pass because of where she was, and whom she was talking about. And maybe who she is. David Feherty, who fancies himself a bit of a comic himself, doesn't, at least not so far. As always, the rules on all this change from day to day like baseball's strike zone.

This isn't about condoning what Feherty wrote. It sure isn't about running interference for Limbaugh. He has become the clown at the right-wing circus and has had the bully pulpit for a long time, not just banging away at people who think like President Obama - or Wanda Sykes for that matter - for a long time.

Limbaugh is another gasbag in this country who has gotten rich on meanness, and so if he is getting a taste of his own medicine now, prescription or otherwise, that is probably just swell with the people he has trampled on the way to the buffet table. Then the bank.

But what if Limbaugh, white talk show host, goes on the air and says that Sykes, black comedian, is about half-a-terrorist and that, oh by the way, he hopes she dies? Is he allowed to say he's just an entertainer, and tell everybody to lighten up?

Feherty? He has been condemned by representatives from Pelosi and Reid and even the PGA Tour. CBS issued a statement that said, "Feherty's column for a Dallas magazine is an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned."


It remains to be seen whether Feherty, whose work on television I usually like, and whose writing I like a lot, will be forced to issue an apology. Or if he might even lose his job over this. This is what Pelosi's spokesperson, Nadeam Elshami, said about the things Feherty wrote in D magazine, in what was supposed to be a piece about George W. Bush moving back to Dallas:
"Such comments are beyond the pale and an insult to our patriotic men and women in uniform."
Really? It sounds like they are a whole lot more insulting to Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid. But if context does matter here - which it only occasionally does when the thought police get righteously cranked up about something and turn into vigilantes - it is worth pointing out that Feherty has become a tireless, passionate advocate for injured soldiers. Pelosi went to Iraq this weekend? Feherty has been there, too.

It doesn't get him over on what he said. We'll probably find out soon enough exactly how much trouble he has gotten himself into. He thought Pelosi, liberal Democrat, was fair game. Limbaugh thinks everybody who disagrees with him is fair game.

Wanda Sykes thought Limbaugh, a loudmouth white conservative, was big game, thought she could say whatever she wanted because she had the bully pulpit for a night, and she didn't have to take it from Limbaugh anymore, she could dish it out.

And if Nancy Pelosi had been in the room, she would have laughed along with everybody else, for the best reason in the world: It wasn't about her.

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