Drive-By Media. Heh. Limbaugh's slogans are the Dried-Up Media

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Yeah... I'd have to say that is a BAD tactic for someone trying to obtain the Republican Nomination to take. I mean, there are worse things to do (like promising to institute a gun ban) but this ranks right up there in terms of BAD ideas.

I can't find exactly what he said in this article, just quotes from Rush "Gimme Some Oxy" Limbaugh on it. Typical right-wing garbage media: don't let anyone judge for themselves.

Even more typical...the comments from Michelle Malkin's readers. Man, I needed that laugh.

She's still cute, though.

Not a good idea, given that Rush has spent the last week spinning Huckabee as your normal, everyday, God-fearing man being assaulted by the vicissitudes of a Godophobic left-wing media machine.

So he's now a librul in the eyes of his old "friends"... except the real liberals probably won't want him either.

Huck finished?

When even Our Lady of the Concentration Camps admits the rank and file GOP drones are compelled to follow Limbaugh's instructions the charade is tryly over. Don't even bother holding your primaries. Your selection is already made.

meh. as long as chuck norris has his back, huckabee will win

huckabee on norris: Huckabee: "Chuck Norris doesn't endorse, he tells America how it's gonna be."

/wrong thread?

flaEsq: Our Lady of the Concentration Camps

I LOL'd

flaEsq: When even Our Lady of the Concentration Camps admits the rank and file GOP drones are compelled to follow Limbaugh's instructions the charade is tryly over. Don't even bother holding your primaries. Your selection is already made.

Given the alternative of having them think for themselves it's probably better this way. Just give them a list of who to hate and wake them up when it's time to come pull the lever.

What possible benefit could accrue from going after one of the conservative movement's most popular figures?


umm...credibilty?

Limbaugh isn't 'conservative'. He's an entertainer. He makes a living by generating controversy, then selling books and advertisting based on how many pissed off people he's got tuned in and listening every day. So to say he's 'conservative' is inaccurate. He's whatever it takes to get people glued to his show.

In that respect, Rush is a genius. He gets paid VERY well for sitting around all day long and being annoying. If I could figure out a way to do the same, I'd change careers in a new york minute.

I think I am starting to like Huckabee a little bit. Just a little bit.

He called out Rush? That moves him up in my book, although it's hard to imagine a future news conference going like this... Ladies and Gentlemen, President Huckabee.

I hope for every Republican miffed by this that there's a real Conservative applauding.

SherKhan: I hope for every Republican miffed by this that there's a real Conservative applauding.

I think most of us have given up on the Republican party. If there were a viable alternative, you'd see mass defections from the organization.

Lower taxes, cut spending, balance the budget, fix social security, and find a way to limit the collapse of the subprime lender market. Reform the tax code to stop punishing people for behaving in a fiscally responsible manner. Get government OUT of peoples lives. End the war on drugs. Less regulation. Kick RIAA in the 'nads. Tell the NSA/CIA/DEA/FBI to STFU and GBTW.

None of the people in D.C. right now care about any of the above.

helchose: I think I am starting to like Huckabee a little bit. Just a little bit.

I'm sure he'll change that soon enough.

So he got something right for a change. Too bad there's room in US politics for moronic farkmongers who think the Earth is 6,000 years old.

I find the sheer number of supporters that current Republicans have had for years now to be a sign that there's absolutely no hope for real conservatism here anymore. Even allowing for those who just follow whichever way the wind is blowing at the moment there can't be many people left with actual principles.

Weaver95: In that respect, Rush is a genius. He gets paid VERY well for sitting around all day long and being annoying. If I could figure out a way to do the same, I'd change careers in a new york minute.

wait... you're not being paid to be here?

/;-)

Megain: Weaver95: In that respect, Rush is a genius. He gets paid VERY well for sitting around all day long and being annoying. If I could figure out a way to do the same, I'd change careers in a new york minute.

wait... you're not being paid to be here?

/;-)

No, that's incidental. However, if I could figure out a way to make money off my rather insightful commentary - I'd change jobs in a heartbeat.

Weaver95: Megain: Weaver95: In that respect, Rush is a genius. He gets paid VERY well for sitting around all day long and being annoying. If I could figure out a way to do the same, I'd change careers in a new york minute.

wait... you're not being paid to be here?

/;-)

No, that's incidental. However, if I could figure out a way to make money off my rather insightful commentary - I'd change jobs in a heartbeat.

you and me both. except i'm not very insightful, so there's that

It's amazing to me that Limbaugh has any credibility with the Republican Guard. What was that quote from him after the November elections? Something about "I never liked Bush, I just do what I'm told" or something. And yet they all still suckle at his mass-mediated teat like starving piglets at the trough.

Other Republicans say that Huckabee is too liberal.

And now Huckabee is insulting Rush Limbaugh?

/Whoaaaa! We might have a contender!

miseducated: Not a good idea, given that Rush has spent the last week spinning Huckabee as your normal, everyday, God-fearing man being assaulted by the vicissitudes of a Godophobic left-wing media machine.

We'll see -- if Huckabee wins the nomination will that mean Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant?

Tabatha Static: It's amazing to me that Limbaugh has any credibility with the Republican Guard. What was that quote from him after the November elections? Something about "I never liked Bush, I just do what I'm told" or something. And yet they all still suckle at his mass-mediated teat like starving piglets at the trough.

He said: "I'm tired of carrying the water for people who don't deserve having their water carried."

Sure, he can carry around an extra 100lbs and 10,000 Oxycontin...

Tabatha Static: It's amazing to me that Limbaugh has any credibility with the Republican Guard. What was that quote from him after the November elections? Something about "I never liked Bush, I just do what I'm told" or something.

I would love to see a link for that quote

Really stupid move. Considering that Limbaugh has been and is the most popular conservative commentator in the country.

Malkin vs. Huckabee vs. Limbaugh? Ugh. Is there a way they can all lose?

thank god we now know what malkin thinks about this - or at least someone writing on her behalf. how lucky is she to still be around? christ, can't these people come up with pundits who are, at least now and again, right about something?

FTA:

"The Huckabee campaign is trying to dumb down conservatism in order to get it to conform with his record."

You're gonna have to try awful hard, Mike, do dumb down conservatism.

Guys like Rush have already dumbed it down about as far as humanly possible.

Megain: meh. as long as chuck norris has his back, huckabee will win

huckabee on norris: Huckabee: "Chuck Norris doesn't endorse, he tells America how it's gonna be."

/wrong thread?

Bob Ross doesn't endorse. He has all ready pre-ordained our destiny.

how stupid does someone have to be to listen to limbaugh or read malkin by choice, Hang On Voltaire? in your opinion? what are we talking, do you think, as a 'conservative,' bottom 15% of intelligence?

21-7-b: thank god we now know what malkin thinks about this - or at least someone writing on her behalf. how lucky is she to still be around? christ, can't these people come up with pundits who are, at least now and again, right about something?

What is she wrong about?

Limbaugh is a prime example of a multi-millionaire convincing the working stiff that he's one of them. He is part of the elite, absolutely.

Hang On Voltaire

What is she wrong about?

damned near everything she says.

21-7-b: how stupid does someone have to be to listen to limbaugh or read malkin by choice, Hang On Voltaire? in your opinion? what are we talking, do you think, as a 'conservative,' bottom 15% of intelligence?

You need to reread your question and type it coherently.

Since when did Michelle Malkin feel the need to lick Rush's fat sweaty ass-crack for approval ? Oh yeah, to appease her white audience who still threatened by her ethnicity. Don't let it worry you theo-cons, Michelle is the biggest lemon in the USA. She's only yellow on the outside.

vdantev: Don't let it worry you theo-cons, Michelle is the biggest lemon in the USA. She's only yellow on the outside.

No hate like liberal hate

Hang On Voltaire: Really stupid move.

What, exactly, did Huckabee do?

I can see where one of his supporters may have said something about Rush, but all we have on this is Rush's word--at least in this article.

Considering that Limbaugh has been and is the most popular conservative commentator in the country.

I don't remember which farker said it, but it is really sad to see that the true heroes to the right wing are their propagandists.

QU!RK1019: Malkin vs. Huckabee vs. Limbaugh? Ugh. Is there a way they can all lose?

Nuke. From. Orbit.


/Obvious

Hang On Voltaire

You need to reread your question and type it coherently.

no, i don't. try reading it slowly, but failing that, you can ask me to rephrase it for you

I thought it was funny how Rush's defense was he was neutral and not insulting any of the candidates then 2 sentences later insults McCain.

This is what is called "Preparing for the general election". He is distancing himself from someone, and it might make him more palatable to voters who might be on the fence. This is a smart campaign move.

Hang On Voltaire: I would love to see a link for that quote

LIMBAUGH: Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that people have been asking me how I feel all night long. And I got, "Boy, Rush, I wouldn't want to be you tomorrow. Boy, I wouldn't want to have to do your show. Boy, I'm so glad I'm not you."

Well, folks, I love being me. I can't be anybody else, so I'm stuck with it. But the way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm just going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high.

Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat Party does and liberalism.

And I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it's much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now, I'm liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don't deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don't deserve it. I just -- I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat Party by sabotaging my own.

But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future -- both in Congress and the Administration -- are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that's liberating. I don't say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don't mean to make this too personal.

I'm not trying to tell you that this is about me. I'm just answering questions that I've had from people about how I feel. But there have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs. I'm a radio guy. I understand what this program has become in America and I understand the leadership position it has. I was doing what I thought best, but at this point, people who don't deserve to have their water carried, or have themselves explained as they would like to say things but somehow don't be -- aren't able to, I'm not under that kind of pressure.

Perhaps "'I never liked Bush, I just do what I'm told' or something" was a mischaracterization by me of what Limbaugh said. Or not.

Hang On Voltaire: 21-7-b: thank god we now know what malkin thinks about this - or at least someone writing on her behalf. how lucky is she to still be around? christ, can't these people come up with pundits who are, at least now and again, right about something?

What is she wrong about?

You mean aside from her claim that Japanese internment was a good idea and that we should relocate every Muslim into "camps" until these wars have finished?

he's giving them what they want the most: self righteous manufactured persecution.

This folks is what happens when a real christian runs for president. Some devout Republicans will want him, but the big blowhard neocons will rip him up.

Skleenar:
What, exactly, did Huckabee do?

I can see where one of his supporters may have said something about Rush, but all we have on this is Rush's word--at least in this article.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/a_huckabee_ally_on_el_rush b o.php

I don't remember which farker said it, but it is really sad to see that the true heroes to the right wing are their propagandists.

Propagandist how?

Hang On Voltaire: Really stupid move. Considering that Limbaugh has been and is the most popular conservative commentator brainwasher in the country.

B-b-but I thought he was just a comedian! Rush can do no wrong!

It never ceases to amaze me how many people carry water for Rush. Most of the chickenhawks wouldn't take a bullet to defend America, but they'd be more than willing to take one for old Rushbo.