Keep up the crazy Rush, keep it up right until someone shoots at the Whitehouse, or trys to fly a plane into it. Wait a minute, that was in the 90's, the last time Rush was railing against a Democratic President. MMMM

I can only think of a few people that I know in the military that listen to this clown... I outrank them, so there.

He's becoming more and more inflammatory in hopes of someone finally just saying "stop" so he can scream "FIRST AMMENDMENT BLAH BLAH BLAH." It's win-win for him. Either someone eventually caves in and actually does something, or someone steps up and tries to get him off the air and he gets to scream about his freedoms.

This will continue until the conservatives take power, or Rush/O'Reilly pass away.

If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

Subby is Al Franken? Should have listened to the quote. Coup was not encouraged, just wished by many. Subby gets his own FAIL tag.

This is pretty much playing to the Wing Nut base, and the Chicken Hawks who love him.

Pretty much most of the military people I know, are happy as hell to getting the hell out of Iraq, and while they're not happy about Afghanistan from a logistical or deployment point of view, they all pretty much agree that more troops, and greater resources need to be shifted there--not just for safety's sake, but for the over all mission.

Rush loves to talk tough, but it's about as deep as PETA...

He has to step it up since Glenn Beck is encouraging Osama to attack America again. He's been out-crazied for a week, and on TV.

For those not keeping track of right-wing agitator logic:
- calling for international terrorists to attack your country: NOT treason
- calling for the illegal overthrowing of the US government in total violation of the Constitution, with or without a military component: NOT treason.
- disagreeing that a foreign war in Iraq is necessary: treason.

WTF.

eep in that Limbaugh is the only pundit still broadcast daily on Armed Services Radio, so our men and women in uniform are getting fed this garbage on a daily basis.

holy shiat, really? we give this assbag a direct line to our active servicemen?

bobbette: He has to step it up since Glenn Beck is encouraging Osama to attack America again. He's been out-crazied for a week, and on TV.

For those not keeping track of right-wing agitator logic:
- calling for international terrorists to attack your country: NOT treason
- calling for the illegal overthrowing of the US government in total violation of the Constitution, with or without a military component: NOT treason.
- disagreeing that a foreign war in Iraq is necessary: treason.

WTF.

But Rush/Beck/O'Reilly loves 'Murica

nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

We'll just lock the doors to the country kitchen buffet

thomps: eep in that Limbaugh is the only pundit still broadcast daily on Armed Services Radio, so our men and women in uniform are getting fed this garbage on a daily basis.

holy shiat, really? we give this assbag a direct line to our active servicemen?

Yep. For years now. Every goddamned day.

I Said: We'll just lock the doors to the country kitchen buffet

For god's sakes whatever you do, stay the HELL away from farmer's markets for awhile!

They should quickly arrest Rush and make a strong example that this type of traitorous douchebaggery isn't tolerated.

Elzar: They should quickly arrest Rush and make a strong example that this type of traitorous douchebaggery isn't tolerated.

I think that would only galvanize his broad fanbase and supporters. The best thing you could do is point and laugh at this douchbag.

Beatle_Matt: Elzar: They should quickly arrest Rush and make a strong example that this type of traitorous douchebaggery isn't tolerated.

I think that would only galvanize his broad fanbase and supporters. The best thing you could do is point and laugh at this douchbag.

Yeah, what is needed is for some dirty tricks team to hack into his home computer and plant some horrifying stuff on it. Mess around with his bank accounts to make it look like he is donating to Muslim charities. And best of all attach his name to shell companies that he does not report the profits to.

In the end he will not be convicted, but the exposure will kill his career as a radio personality. Problem is that Rush wants the Democrats to come after him... so the only way to deal with him is surreptitiously.

Elzar: They should quickly arrest Rush and make a strong example that this type of traitorous douchebaggery isn't tolerated.

Why, you've perfectly summed up the libruhl position! This is exactly what all those lefties have been calling for!

hubiestubert: This is pretty much playing to the Wing Nut base, and the Chicken Hawks who love him.

Pretty much most of the military people I know, are happy as hell to getting the hell out of Iraq, and while they're not happy about Afghanistan from a logistical or deployment point of view, they all pretty much agree that more troops, and greater resources need to be shifted there--not just for safety's sake, but for the over all mission.

Rush loves to talk tough, but it's about as deep as PETA...

Oh, low blow!

I agree with you about the military side. I recall from when I was in that one of our bigger fears was being sent somewhere half assed. Several of my fellow Marines had served in Beruit, including one I remember lost several friends in the truck bombing of the barracks. He told us all several stories that were clues to me that :1. More stuff went on there than is widely known and 2. He was still bitter about not being allowed to do more, hit back, you know what I mean? Either go in all out, or get out. Coincidently, he seemed very pleased about the massive build up for the first Gulf War, always commented about how it didn't look so half assed.

thomps: eep in that Limbaugh is the only pundit still broadcast daily on Armed Services Radio, so our men and women in uniform are getting fed this garbage on a daily basis.

holy shiat, really? we give this assbag a direct line to our active servicemen?

Yeah, for over a decade now, I think.

In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

PurplePimpSaber: In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

He's busy pitching the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Hour...

mediablitz: PurplePimpSaber: In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

He's busy pitching the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Hour...

His performance in yesterday's thread made me want to put my keyboard through my monitor.

So, what is going to happen first? He dies from a drug overdose, has a heart attack/stroke, or is executed for treason?

You know, if I don't like someone I usually just try not to talk or think about them.

From reading Fark posts, I'm doing it all wrong.

propasaurus: Elzar: They should quickly arrest Rush and make a strong example that this type of traitorous douchebaggery isn't tolerated.

Why, you've perfectly summed up the libruhl position! This is exactly what all those lefties have been calling for!

On the contrary - he and Ann Coulter have been indispensable in showing 'Merica the true face of the Republican party. As a liberal, I say bring on the WARGABLE.

You know? If I listened to, or watched as much right wing punditry as the Outraged Fark Liberals^tm do, I'd go nuts as well.

hubiestubert: Rush loves to talk tough, but it's about as deep as PETA...

holy crap dude, that is HARSH.

PurplePimpSaber: mediablitz: PurplePimpSaber: In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

He's busy pitching the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Hour...

His performance in yesterday's thread made me want to put my keyboard through my monitor.

you know he was just trolling, right?

GAT_00: So, what is going to happen first? He dies from a drug overdose, has a heart attack/stroke, or is executed for treason?

Heart attack. Looks like he gained back all that weight he lost a few years ago. Plus, it's really hard to convict someone of treason.

Rush has been making...questionable...comments about this sort of thing for the past month or so. I honestly don't know how to write any of this stuff up on my blog, it just sounds so crazy when I stop and try to put it into words for people.

Your_Huckleberry: GAT_00: So, what is going to happen first? He dies from a drug overdose, has a heart attack/stroke, or is executed for treason?

Heart attack. Looks like he gained back all that weight he lost a few years ago. Plus, it's really hard to convict someone of treason.

God, I hope I get to see him die of a heart attack before my liver gives out.

I'm really not a nasty person by nature, but I hope Rush Limbaugh dies a painful death. I'll make it my mission in Hell to cause pain to him.

The Fourth Karamazov: PurplePimpSaber: mediablitz: PurplePimpSaber: In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

He's busy pitching the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Hour...

His performance in yesterday's thread made me want to put my keyboard through my monitor.

you know he was just trolling, right?

I actually got angry emails from people who just didn't get it.

netweavr: The Fourth Karamazov: PurplePimpSaber: mediablitz: PurplePimpSaber: In before netweavr and "OMG RUSH IS TROLLING U LULZ!!1!"

He's busy pitching the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Hour...

His performance in yesterday's thread made me want to put my keyboard through my monitor.

you know he was just trolling, right?

I actually got angry emails from people who just didn't get it.

I don't usually literally laugh out loud when reading through these threads, but I laughed repeatedly at the number of people who just didn't get it. I have the thread saved as a "Master Class in Trolling."

Those curious what we're talking about:
Link (new window)

nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

Why else would Gold Bond Medicated Power be among his biggest advertisers?

/Old people are stupid.

Is this not a repeat?

I'm sorry, but out of all the crazy things Rush has said this week alone, this is what they went with. Sorry, but the case isn't here. His whole "The Democrats want us to lose in Iraq" has been a mainstay of his show for years.

It is nothing new. Its just playing to the far right wackos.

CitizenTed: nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

Why else would Gold Bond Medicated Power be among his biggest advertisers?

/Old people are stupid.

Hey! Watch it Ted!

Gold Bond Medicated Powder is good stuff!

ecmoRandomNumbers: Your_Huckleberry: GAT_00: So, what is going to happen first? He dies from a drug overdose, has a heart attack/stroke, or is executed for treason?

Heart attack. Looks like he gained back all that weight he lost a few years ago. Plus, it's really hard to convict someone of treason.

God, I hope I get to see him die of a heart attack before my liver gives out.

I'm really not a nasty person by nature, but I hope Rush Limbaugh dies a painful death. I'll make it my mission in Hell to cause pain to him.

Dang, feel the love....

It would not surprise me at all if some person inspired by Rush Limbaugh's antics--whether direct or indirect--makes some sort of "revolutionary' move.

To paraphrase Mr. Limbaugh, "I hope he fails. What is unfair about my saying I hope Limbaugh fails? Limbaugh is our problem. Limbaugh is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here."

only with young Dominicans

Rush is laughing at his audience all the way to the bank.

GAT_00: So, what is going to happen first? He dies from a drug overdose, has a heart attack/stroke, or is executed for treason?

I'm open to all three happening at once...

ShawnDoc:
It is nothing new. Its just playing to the far right wackos.

Slipping on a banana peel is nothing new either. It's still hilarious.

This is just one step towards Rush's actual goal: Establishing a permanent Democratic People's Dictatorship.

aba: bobbette: He has to step it up since Glenn Beck is encouraging Osama to attack America again. He's been out-crazied for a week, and on TV.

For those not keeping track of right-wing agitator logic:
- calling for international terrorists to attack your country: NOT treason
- calling for the illegal overthrowing of the US government in total violation of the Constitution, with or without a military component: NOT treason.
- disagreeing that a foreign war in Iraq is necessary: treason.

WTF.

But Rush/Beck/O'Reilly loves 'Murica

I am not sure why, he doesn't seem to share many of its values.

Alaska, Texas, and now the de facto head of the GOP have shown us the traitorous face of the Republican party. Love it or leave it folks.

I tried to follow the author's line of reasoning, and I couldn't see it. I mean, it is incredible douchebaggery to say that many of us hope for a coup that removes Obama, but I don't see the military connection.

I think this guy is applying too much coherence to Limbaugh. The guy just looks for any chance and takes a shot.

CPT Ethanolic: I can only think of a few people that I know in the military that listen to this clown... I outrank them, so there.

Out of curiosity, does Limbaugh actually do anything for the troops? Organize care packages? Sponsor entertainement? Anything?

milk_plus: Alaska, TexasConnecticut, and now the de facto head of the GOP have shown us the traitorous face of the Republican party. Love it or leave it folks.

Had to. We don't claim him.

Obama has been President for 6 months.

Before he became President, conservatives mocked him as having no experience.

After all, he was just a community organizer. Thats not a real job!

Now, of course, he is responsible (along with Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank) for making America a Muslim socialist country, inviting terrorism, and killing Michael Jackson.

RevMercutio: Out of curiosity, does Limbaugh actually do anything for the troops? Organize care packages? Sponsor entertainement? Anything?

He gives out all the verbal handjobs they could ever desire.

Rush Limbaugh: Encouraging a military coup?

FTFY, subby.

/no question mark needed

vernonFL: Obama has been President for 6 months.

Before he became President, conservatives mocked him as having no experience.

After all, he was just a community organizer. Thats not a real job!

Now, of course, he is responsible (along with Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank) for making America a Muslim socialist country, inviting terrorism, and killing Michael Jackson.

He is an over achiever after all...

netweavr: I actually got angry emails from people who just didn't get it.

Most people got it. You were just really farking annoying. Nothing to be proud of.

hubiestubert:
Rush loves to talk tough, but it's about as deep as PETA...

By jove, I think you've got it. Rush is PETA for the Neo-Con set. Someone should make a banner or a motivational poster with this.

chestermania: Subby is Al Franken? Should have listened to the quote. Coup was not encouraged, just wished by many. Subby gets his own FAIL tag.

Ah, semantics and weasle wording, the last bastion of the right.

Some people say you suck donkey balls, chestermania...

It would be a shame if the whackadoodles tried something as stupid as a coup or revolution. I would have to shoot a lot of otherwise nice people that live around me. Eventually you have the cull the stupid out of society.

just a few weeks ago he was all about how the stimulus spending was not going to start until right before the midterm elections, you know so the Dems could buy their way into office. Now he is all about how the stimulus isn't working. before that he was saying how the illegals should vote for conservatives because "George Bush and John Mccain practically wrote the defeated immigration bill last year", except when the bill came up to vote he said it was hand written by Pelosi and Kennedy.

You know what? I don't care. Really. I don't care what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter have to say. No one who believes them is going to be convinced they are wrong by rational argument and facts, and no one rational believes them.

So let him yell and scream and rant, and people will listen to him, and that's too bad, but publicizing it in this manner is not going to do anything to make people stop believing him.

Sure, if someone is spreading deliberate misinformation in what appear to be trustworthy news sources, report on that and correct it, but no one needs to be informed everytime Rush says something retarded or offensive. MediaMatters and Crooks and Liars occasionally play an important role, but with articles like this all they are doing is feeding liberals' egos and conservatives' persecution complex.

No one tunes into Rush Limbaugh expecting anything else but the most right wing slant on everything. Either they believe that and you aren't going to convince them its wrong with facts on a web page, or they know it's slanted and don't need to be told.

Rush's paranoid fantasies have launched a successful coup against his sanity.

I_Approve_Of_This_Message: Encouraging unstable people to travel to Florida and attempt to blow Limbaugh's brains out?

nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

RemyDuron: I don't care what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter have to say.

I'm convinced that Ann Coulter is an act. She is Andy Kauffman in drag.

Rush believes maybe half of what he says, he's a polemicist and makes a fortune at it.

Hannity, I think he really believes it.

Hannity is no Andy Kauffman, he's too stupid. He isn't joking.

One of the problems with trying to track the flood of wingnuttery emitted daily by Rush Limbaugh is that there's so much of it, and it's so ceaseless, that one becomes overwhelmed trying to keep up with it.


SO STOP KEEPING TRACK OF IT
STOP REPORTING IT
STOP TALKING ABOUT IT

/then again some folks'll

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: I tried to follow the author's line of reasoning, and I couldn't see it. I mean, it is incredible douchebaggery to say that many of us hope for a coup that removes Obama, but I don't see the military connection.

I think this guy is applying too much coherence to Limbaugh. The guy just looks for any chance and takes a shot.


This

Liberals just don't like his opinions so they nitpick lines and hope they can get some justification for censorship.

Standard leftist hyperbole...

An a.m. radio talk show host disagrees with the politics of our beloved president and legislative branch! He must be stopped! Any counter opinion to the desires of the politicians in power is hate speech and dangerous! His listeners are dangerous to the common good as well! We should find some way to identify them! Make them wear some kind of mark or patch so we can know who these enemies of the state are! Take there means so it can't be used against us! Sieg Heil!

MilesTeg: An a.m. radio talk show host disagrees with the politics of our beloved president and legislative branch! He must be stopped! Any counter opinion to the desires of the politicians in power is hate speech and dangerous! His listeners are dangerous to the common good as well! We should find some way to identify them! Make them wear some kind of mark or patch so we can know who these enemies of the state are! Take there means so it can't be used against us! Sieg Heil!

Do me a favor and NEVER quote me as the precursor to a paragraph like this again. I'd prefer not to be associated with it. Thanks.

Limbaugh: So we've got hell breaking loose in Honduras. You know what we learned about Honduras? We learned the Obama administration tried to stop the coup. Now what was -- the coup was what many of you wish would happen here, without the military.

The next day, describing Obama talking to troops about the withdrawal from Iraq, he described the president thus:

"This is a guy who sought their defeat."

And then yesterday, he expanded on these thoughts even further:

This is Barack Obama, who led from the United States Senate his party into doing everything he could to ensure the defeat of the U.S. military. ... This party was doing everything it could to impugn and dishonor the military.

All true...what's the problem? Is Limbaugh supposed to say Obama was a big supporter of the troops while he was in the Senate? He'd be lying if he did that. Are we supposed to pretend that Obama is no longer a traitor because he's POTUS now, even though everything he has done as POTUS is designed to destroy the United States?

MilesTeg Liberals just don't like his opinions hate-mongering.

We're liberal like that.
Wouldn't want anybody hating you either, Miles.

vernonFL: RemyDuron: I don't care what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter have to say.

I'm convinced that Ann Coulter is an act. She is Andy Kauffman in drag.

Rush believes maybe half of what he says, he's a polemicist and makes a fortune at it.

Hannity, I think he really believes it.

Hannity is no Andy Kauffman, he's too stupid. He isn't joking.

And they're all huge cocks, because regardless of whether THEY believe it, their viewers and listeners do.

thomps: eep in that Limbaugh is the only pundit still broadcast daily on Armed Services Radio, so our men and women in uniform are getting fed this garbage on a daily basis.

holy shiat, really? we give this assbag a direct line to our active servicemen?

I'm a serviceman and I like to listen to Rush. What's wrong with that?

Noam Chimpsky: Are we supposed to pretend that Obama is no longer a traitor because he's POTUS now, even though everything he has done as POTUS is designed to destroy the United States?

if you're gonna be politically emo, you should at least make the effort and do it in poem form.

MilesTeg: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: I tried to follow the author's line of reasoning, and I couldn't see it. I mean, it is incredible douchebaggery to say that many of us hope for a coup that removes Obama, but I don't see the military connection.

I think this guy is applying too much coherence to Limbaugh. The guy just looks for any chance and takes a shot.


This

Liberals just don't like his opinions so they nitpick lines and hope they can get some justification for censorship.

Standard leftist hyperbole...

An a.m. radio talk show host disagrees with the politics of our beloved president and legislative branch! He must be stopped! Any counter opinion to the desires of the politicians in power is hate speech and dangerous! His listeners are dangerous to the common good as well! We should find some way to identify them! Make them wear some kind of mark or patch so we can know who these enemies of the state are! Take there means so it can't be used against us! Sieg Heil!

In the entire history of the world the stupid have never been singled out for persecution, it is simply not necessary for any government to do anything special to control you.
You just need a pat on the head and a straw man to play with.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: milk_plus: Alaska, TexasConnecticut, and now the de facto head of the GOP have shown us the traitorous face of the Republican party. Love it or leave it folks.

Had to. We don't claim him.

I'm not sure milk_plus was referring to Dubya. I assumed he meant Rick Perry and all his talk of secession.

vernonFL: RemyDuron: I don't care what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter have to say.

I'm convinced that Ann Coulter is an act. She is Andy Kauffman in drag.

Rush believes maybe half of what he says, he's a polemicist and makes a fortune at it.

Hannity, I think he really believes it.

Hannity is no Andy Kauffman, he's too stupid. He isn't joking.

I think you're right about Limbaugh, but I think Coulter is in the same boat. The is probably actually super-conservative, bust most of her crazy statements are just her controversy-whoring. Hannity though. . . I think he both believes it and sees it as a path to career advancement. He's a career suckup who will believe whatever his superiors want him to believe.

Glenn Beck is the best bet for a Kaufmann, IMO. He's either completely insane or completely brilliant. Kaufmann didn't seem like he was faking Tony Clifton either, in fact there is some belief that he actually was kind of crazy (Tony loved oral sex, Andy did not, and it's hard to fake sexual arousal or fake not being aroused). The fact that Beck is the most outrageous and the most seemingly genuine makes him the most likely to be a faker. Although odds are he's just milking it like the rest.

Noam Chimpsky: Are we supposed to pretend that Obama is no longer a traitor because he's POTUS now, even though everything he has done as POTUS is designed to destroy the United States?

You're saying he's ACTIVELY trying to destroy the country he lives in? Really?

vernonFL:
Hannity is no Andy Kauffman, he's too stupid. He isn't joking.

And I'll bet Hannity would lose in a lady wrestling match.

juniperwasting: Keep up the crazy Rush, keep it up right until someone shoots at the Whitehouse, or trys to fly a plane into it. Wait a minute, that was in the 90's, the last time Rush was railing against a Democratic President. MMMM

Yeah, back then he told the military not to salute the president. And some of them were stupid enough not to salute. I hope they enjoyed being the black hole of Leavenworth.

LordJiro: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: milk_plus: Alaska, TexasConnecticut, and now the de facto head of the GOP have shown us the traitorous face of the Republican party. Love it or leave it folks.

Had to. We don't claim him.

I'm not sure milk_plus was referring to Dubya. I assumed he meant Rick Perry and all his talk of secession.

Ah. Well in that case, it's neither Texas nor Connecticut. Perry was spontaneously generated on the floor of a barber shop.

Noam Chimpsky: Limbaugh: So we've got hell breaking loose in Honduras. You know what we learned about Honduras? We learned the Obama administration tried to stop the coup. Now what was -- the coup was what many of you wish would happen here, without the military.

The next day, describing Obama talking to troops about the withdrawal from Iraq, he described the president thus:

"This is a guy who sought their defeat."

And then yesterday, he expanded on these thoughts even further:

This is Barack Obama, who led from the United States Senate his party into doing everything he could to ensure the defeat of the U.S. military. ... This party was doing everything it could to impugn and dishonor the military.

All true...what's the problem? Is Limbaugh supposed to say Obama was a big supporter of the troops while he was in the Senate? He'd be lying if he did that. Are we supposed to pretend that Obama is no longer a traitor because he's POTUS now, even though everything he has done as POTUS is designed to destroy the United States?

Hell yes, he's a traitor. We elected him under the assumption he'd have dissolved the United States by now. I want to see you suffer, you worm. I don't care if it destroys the nation, I want Obama to take away guns and then free prisoners. I want a socialized economy, no matter how it hurts my profits. I want to see Christianity outlawed.

He hasn't done any of that yet. I want more action. I want banned private insurance, I want cars that get fewer than 35 mpg to be illegal, I want a gun ban on any caliber larger than 22. I want rivers of blood. I want abortion and gay marriage to be legal in all 50 states. Obama hasn't delivered on any of that stuff so far.

I want you and your ilk to suffer through the agonizing death of your country, knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it, and I'll be laughing the whole time, because I like Europe better anyways. I want all TV to be run by the government so that they can show the footage of Israel being wiped off the map by Islamic nuclear weapons 24/7. I want Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly to be publicly executed for speaking against the President.

I want apocalypse and this prez of ours isn't delivering yet. I just hope he can pull it off before 2010. Election season is such a bore.

It seems the troops like Obama. But if the bible thumping rednecks and teabaggers (redundant?) want to give it a shot please, PLEASE, try it.

EL_FABREZ: It seems the troops like Obama


Please...

So much for the "questioning the President is treasonous and anti-American" rhetoric that right-wing pundits were pushing just a few years ago.

My God, he's ordering our phony soldiers to attack the Secret Muslin.

MilesTeg: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: I tried to follow the author's line of reasoning, and I couldn't see it. I mean, it is incredible douchebaggery to say that many of us hope for a coup that removes Obama, but I don't see the military connection.

I think this guy is applying too much coherence to Limbaugh. The guy just looks for any chance and takes a shot.


This

Liberals just don't like his opinions so they nitpick lines and hope they can get some justification for censorship.

Standard leftist hyperbole...



Meanwhile, conservative fans commit murder.

Oh, I'm sorry. That's not hyperbole. That actually happened, unlike anything you actually said, you disingenuous shiatbag.

Limbaugh can biatch about supporting the troops when he's actually done something for 'em. Since Rush cares only for Rush, that's not likely to happen.

Well, if the military does take over, at least the 3rd Amendment to the Constitution will protect me from having to provide them with quarters in my apartment.

Wait. What?

fifth_of_november: So much for the "questioning the President is treasonous and anti-American" rhetoric that right-wing pundits were pushing just a few years ago.

that type of consistency requires integrity.

/Stolen from another thread

In all seriousness, I was impressed with Limbaugh's defense of Michael Jackson against the media recently. It's the one and only time I've appreciated him.

juniperwasting: eep up the crazy Rush, keep it up right until someone shoots at the Whitehouse, or trys to fly a plane into it. Wait a minute, that was in the 90's, the last time Rush was railing against a Democratic President. MMMM

Exactly. Remember the headline about Fox News having a guest suggesting that an attack against the US would wake America up? You remember how Fark treated that guest as a monster?

Yeah. You are the exact same monster. Happy to have a tragedy happen to justify your pathetic political motives.

What we need to do is go over to the Dominican Republic, and find some boys who will testify that he took a Gannon in the Haggard.

Subby is an assclown. Rush is talking about ME during the Bush years. Rush is talking about impeachment which I wanted then against Bush (and apparently can still be done now against Bush and Cheney).fark Rush, but this link is stupid and David Niewert is a farking hack. He claims he's worried about hate speech, but what he really likes to do is go around monitoring other people's speech.

Thank you, no thank you, Dave.

netweavr: Those curious what we're talking about:
Link (new window)

My favorite post in that thread:

netweavr: How many people try trolling because they've seen someone master the art and completely jack a thread?

Those are the same people who repeat Limbaugh, they've seen him troll radio and basically take-over. They're just repeating his technique.

You guys are the butt of a joke and you still don't realize it.

Oh, the dramatic irony.

/come here, irony basij

bobbette: He has to step it up since Glenn Beck is encouraging Osama to attack America again.

From the same interview:

Glenn Beck: I think we are headed for extraordinarily dangerous times. I think we are I think wee headed wee headed toward civil unrest. God knows what?

Please, America please, keep things under control and look at Martin Luther King and Gandhi as an example.

/James Earl Ray, Nathuram Godse unavailable for comment.

chapman: juniperwasting: eep up the crazy Rush, keep it up right until someone shoots at the Whitehouse, or trys to fly a plane into it. Wait a minute, that was in the 90's, the last time Rush was railing against a Democratic President. MMMM

Exactly. Remember the headline about Fox News having a guest suggesting that an attack against the US would wake America up? You remember how Fark treated that guest as a monster?

Yeah. You are the exact same monster. Happy to have a tragedy happen to justify your pathetic political motives.

Uhhhh.. except for the fact that he was not wishing for that to happen, just stating that it did before. Unlike Scheurer (sp?) who is essentially hoping for a terror attack to prove Obama wrong. Yeah, there is a big difference.

I think Rush has been off his feed lately. He should probably eat a bowl of this delicious ham.

HairBolus: I think Rush has been off his feed lately. He should probably eat a bowl of this delicious ham.

.......WAIT, I GET IT!

There's a very easy way to stop Limbaugh from encouraging a military coup... Just enact a draft for it.

Limbaugh wouldn't be able to get to the front of the line for the 4-F handouts soon enough with his anal pimples on display for all to see.

Speaking of which, it's a weird circle of life for Limbaugh... going from displaying his anal pimples to old doctors in the 1960's to showing them off to young DR's 40 years later...

WFern: pudding

You know, I was on the can surfing my blackberry when I saw that yesterday.

Fortunately I was alone, but I am pretty sure anyone in the adjacent ladies room could hear the echoing of my howling laughter.

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: ... Just enact a draft



"I got athsthmaaaa....I can't bweeeve"

gilgigamesh: You know, I was on the can surfing my blackberry when I saw that yesterday.

Fortunately I was alone, but I am pretty sure anyone in the adjacent ladies room could hear the echoing of my howling laughter.

That's okay. The first time I saw it, I literally snorted and shot mucus out of my nose.

EL_FABREZ: It seems the troops like Obama. But if the bible thumping rednecks and teabaggers (redundant?) want to give it a shot please, PLEASE, try it.

Clearly you've never been in the military. And yes, I have.

RemyDuron: I don't care what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter have to say.

So you're a Beck fan eh?

/snark

MSNBC would have 9 viewers if not for Rush. Without Rush they have 3.

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Oh my - the usual right-wing suspects told me at great length only yesterday that Honduras was, like, so not a coup. Weird, though - I don't see them in here.

I say we put Rush on a treadmill and let him broadcast his show while walking at 5 mph. EVERY time he says bullshiat, it speeds up 1 mph. If he lives to the end of his show, we let him do it all again tomorrow. He either gets a massive coronary and falls over the microphone or he learns to STFU and get in shape while orchestrating fair and balanced political commentary without being a Republican Goebbels and a coward.

/I hate Rush

When Clinton won in '92, I borrowed a pic of RL that our office dittohead had over his desk and taped a headshot of Clinton over the RL head and ran it thru the copier (Protoshoped^tm?)and substituted it for his pic. Much merriment was enjoyed after he spotted it, as the entire rest of the office was very liberal.

Noam Chimpsky: Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: ... Just enact a draft



"I got athsthmaaaa....I can't bweeeve"

His son is overseas serving. What have you done, chickenhawk?

godofusa.com: MSNBC would have 9 viewers if not for Rush. Without Rush they have 3.

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So what you're saying is that Fox is the Mainstream Media?

milk_plus: Alaska, Texas, and now the de facto head of the GOP have shown us the traitorous face of the Republican party. Love it or leave it folks.

EL_FABREZ: It seems the troops like Obama. But if the bible thumping rednecks and teabaggers (redundant?) want to give it a shot please, PLEASE, try it.


I like Obama.

/Troop

WFern: /Stolen from another thread

In all seriousness, I was impressed with Limbaugh's defense of Michael Jackson against the media recently. It's the one and only time I've appreciated him.

That pic should be called Chinese Phone Book (just look at the CHINS). The GOP looks like House Harkonnen in it.

Noam Chimpsky: Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: ... Just enact a draft



"I got athsthmaaaa....I can't bweeeve"

(checks thread)....

nope, still don't see the words "Joe" or "Biden" in it...

/me thinks you're in the wrong thread, sparky

nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

So what? The Holocaust museum shooter was in his 80s.

chestermania: Subby is Al Franken? Should have listened to the quote. Coup was not encouraged, just wished by many. Subby gets his own FAIL tag.

Some say...

RevMercutio: Noam Chimpsky: Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: ... Just enact a draft



"I got athsthmaaaa....I can't bweeeve"

His son is overseas serving. What have you done, chickenhawk?

Well, in Limbaugh's defense, none of his three beards marriages produced any children.

/republican marriages... keeping it holy 'n all

Judging from the Rush listeners I've met, it would be the shortest, stupidest, most doomed coup attempt ever seen. It would make the Bay of Pigs look like D-Day. Please, by all means, go for it.

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: RevMercutio: Noam Chimpsky: Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: ... Just enact a draft



"I got athsthmaaaa....I can't bweeeve"

His son is overseas serving. What have you done, chickenhawk?

Well, in Limbaugh's defense, none of his three beards marriages produced any children.

/republican marriages... keeping it holy 'n all

And interestingly enough, Biden's in Iraq right now.

Argh2: Judging from the Rush listeners I've met, it would be the shortest, stupidest, most doomed coup attempt ever seen. It would make the Bay of Pigs look like D-Day. Please, by all means, go for it.

They would be too busy trying to find huts with little boys in them.

Well, those anonymous blog posts in the link are certainly calling for Sedition.

Just FYI, I was in the Army in Germany in 1982 and AFRTS was broadcasting Limblabb daily way back then.

Tor_Eckman: Just FYI, I was in the Army in Germany in 1982 and AFRTS was broadcasting Limblabb daily way back then.

Heh, was he an "entertainer" back then?

Tor_Eckman: Just FYI, I was in the Army in Germany in 1982 and AFRTS was broadcasting Limblabb daily way back then.

I don't think he was syndicated then. Typo?

Lenny_da_Hog: Tor_Eckman: Just FYI, I was in the Army in Germany in 1982 and AFRTS was broadcasting Limblabb daily way back then.

I don't think he was syndicated then. Typo?

Yeah, had to have been 1992. Limbaugh wasn't on the radio in '82

Milkbeer: GO RUSH!

Please. Think of your family.

hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

thomas666: hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

Shut up dude. Anal cysts are rough.

aba: He's becoming more and more inflammatory in hopes of someone finally just saying "stop" so he can scream "FIRST AMMENDMENT BLAH BLAH BLAH." It's win-win for him. Either someone eventually caves in and actually does something, or someone steps up and tries to get him off the air and he gets to scream about his freedoms.

My thoughts exactly. He's going to keep ratcheting it up until someone says or does something that he can play the victim and the martyr over.

Then he'll start the cycle over again.

THE most important thing for the American right at the moment is for their propagandists to convince them thoroughly and irrevocable that they are victims. And they're willing to glorify attacking their own country in order to do it.

This shiat will get out of hand. (Cue Fred Thompson pic)

I was stationed in the Army in Germany in 1982 and I don't remember ever hearing Rash Limpballs on AFNR...if he was my soldier comrades and I would have laughed at him as a loon!!

Sabyen91: thomas666: hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

Shut up dude. Anal cysts are rough.

so are bullets...

sic semper tyrannis??

So people who don't want tyranny in the form of Obama et al (let's stipulate that is even happening for now) would prefer if the military took over? In America? What, a Junta?

Coo coo for cocoa puffs.

thomas666: Sabyen91: thomas666: hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

Shut up dude. Anal cysts are rough.

so are bullets...

Not as bad as cysts! Didn't you know they make you have sex with Dominican boys?

He's encouraging his hardcore listeners to keep listening, before he ends up on shortwave like Alex Jones.

Sabyen91: thomas666: Sabyen91: thomas666: hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

Shut up dude. Anal cysts are rough.

so are bullets...

Not as bad as cysts! Didn't you know they make you have sex with Dominican boys?

so he bends and they send then...??

"Not that there's anything wrong with that..." ;-)

Why would the military pull a coup on Obama?

He's not the one who lied in order to send them to war.

The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

Sabyen91: mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

WTF are you trying to say you illiterate imbecile?

Are you surprised that I think Rush is an idiot?

Have you no sense of sanity?

erik-k: Well, I should've known I was a fool to think I'd get more than 24 hours before one of them did something to justify posting this.

You know, they may be assholes, and they may occasionally inspire killers, but the second you start blaming speakers for the actions of doers you are entering dangerous territory.

Although it is deliciously ironic that some of them have railed on rap music, video games, and Hollywood for making people violent.

mud_shark: Sabyen91: mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

WTF are you trying to say you illiterate imbecile?

Are you surprised that I think Rush is an idiot?

Have you no sense of sanity?

Excuse me?

Sabyen91: mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, but you strike me as the type of person who is too narrow-minded to see anyone else who doesn't agree with you as a GOP tool.

Have a nice night....my beer is almost done with, so I probably won't be saying much more tonite.

mud_shark: Sabyen91: mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, but you strike me as the type of person who is too narrow-minded to see anyone else who doesn't agree with you as a GOP tool.

Have a nice night....my beer is almost done with, so I probably won't be saying much more tonite.

Finish your beer. Enjoy.

I can think of few things less likely to happen than a military coup in this country.

Jesus coming back, for one. Or Rush getting it up without Viagra.

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'" - Hillary Clinton

farkuufarkinfark: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'" - Hillary Clinton

Are you crying? Disagree if you like. Fark righties don't disagree, they condemn.

concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Hey, great idea, Crooks & Liars!

There's nothing like exacerbating counterproductive political sentiments instead of defusing them easily.

I mean, how many clicks would you have counted had you not hastily connected the dots, and refuted Limbaugh's argument on an intelligent, non-DID-YOU-HEAR-THAT-OMG!!!!! manner.

But I get it -- it's all about clicks and ad revenue and there's no better way to do that than to go for the quick, Fark-stirring sucker punch. Gotta make money somehow, and there's nothing illegal about doing it in an intellectually dishonest manner.

juniperwasting: Keep up the crazy Rush, keep it up right until someone shoots at the Whitehouse, or trys to fly a plane into it. Wait a minute, that was in the 90's, the last time Rush was railing against a Democratic President. MMMM

No, those were just pissed off husbands/boyfriends of women Clinton boned.

SynthLord: Hey, great idea, Crooks & Liars!

There's nothing like exacerbating counterproductive political sentiments instead of defusing them easily.

I mean, how many clicks would you have counted had you not hastily connected the dots, and refuted Limbaugh's argument on an intelligent, non-DID-YOU-HEAR-THAT-OMG!!!!! manner.

But I get it -- it's all about clicks and ad revenue and there's no better way to do that than to go for the quick, Fark-stirring sucker punch. Gotta make money somehow, and there's nothing illegal about doing it in an intellectually dishonest manner.

So, C&L is at fault for Limbaugh wanting a coup. Got it. Typical Republican projection.

Sabyen91: So, C&L is at fault for Limbaugh wanting a coup. Got it. Typical Republican projection.

A. I'm not a Republican.

B. C&L is repeating Limbaugh then expressing outrage. That's not even opinion; it's rabble-rousing.

siennaskye: concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Can't count on soldiers doing the right thing.

/lived near Kent State

Lenny_da_Hog: siennaskye: concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Can't count on soldiers doing the right thing.

/lived near Kent State

that was national guard...quite a difference from federal troops...really!

thomas666: Lenny_da_Hog: siennaskye: concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Can't count on soldiers doing the right thing.

/lived near Kent State

that was national guard...quite a difference from federal troops...really!

Sociology is the same.

These folks take orders. They get punished if they don't. Anyone using troops against US Citizens would also be pumping the soldiers full of propaganda.

Can't count on the soldiers. I'm sure some of them would break away and do the right thing, but you can't count on it.

Lenny_da_Hog: thomas666: Lenny_da_Hog: siennaskye: concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Can't count on soldiers doing the right thing.

/lived near Kent State

that was national guard...quite a difference from federal troops...really!

Sociology is the same.

These folks take orders. They get punished if they don't. Anyone using troops against US Citizens would also be pumping the soldiers full of propaganda.

Can't count on the soldiers. I'm sure some of them would break away and do the right thing, but you can't count on it.

maybe...but if they were my troops they'd obey the constitution...and I served with some good ones. We looked down on the NG as amateurs...my guys knew their mission...and it wasn't to shoot/rebel against the people...just saying.

SynthLord: Sabyen91: So, C&L is at fault for Limbaugh wanting a coup. Got it. Typical Republican projection.

A. I'm not a Republican.

B. C&L is repeating Limbaugh then expressing outrage. That's not even opinion; it's rabble-rousing.

That's David Niewert for you. In my brief look at what he clipped, it didn't seem like Rush was calling for much more than us liberals called for during much of the Bush years.

I've been unimpressed with Niewert for years. He seems to think that he is the big defender of civil liberties but mainly he comes off as a scold that hates free speech for anyone but himself.

thomas666: maybe...but if they were my troops they'd obey the constitution...and I served with some good ones. We looked down on the NG as amateurs...my guys knew their mission...and it wasn't to shoot/rebel against the people...just saying.

There have been lots of military coups over the years. I doubt they involved many people that joined up thinking that if there was a military coup, they would be the first to take part in it.

Ah, 4th of July! Family BBQ and rednecks hopped up on crank, armed to the teeth pretending they're John Rambo.

Summer is here again.

Avoid large crowds - there are going to be a bunch of farkers in blackface trying to stir things up like in Iraq.

OK, meanwhile, on planet Earth, thanks to everyone in the armed forces who has to put up with this shiat. You are apparently making an even greater sacrifice for your country than we knew.

And remember, kill the bankers first, freaky wingnutty Travis Bickle wannabes!

Oh, and keep your powder dry - that weird yellow shiat you snort, I mean. Be sure to leave a nice manifesto in red crayon for us to ooh and ahh over during your 15 minutes.

Just know that no matter how many Americans you kill, a farking pedophile will get more press than you.

And for the record, the FBI has several open investigations currently involving Fox News anchors for "provocative" language - that's "incitement" for those on the other side of teh pond.

You give these morons enough rope and they'll hang themselves just like David Carradine, and for much the same reason - they cannot control their sick desires.

/My apologies to the Carradine family who was not in the LEAST surprised by his end.
//Award shows are going to suck this year with all the tributes.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: RevMercutio: Out of curiosity, does Limbaugh actually do anything for the troops? Organize care packages? Sponsor entertainement? Anything?

He gives out all the verbal handjobs they could ever desire.

What?

Sabyen91: mud_shark: Sabyen91: mud_shark: The only people more batshiat crazy than Rush are those who listen and believe what he says

Wouldn't you rebel against being a ditto-head? That hardly seems complimentary.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, but you strike me as the type of person who is too narrow-minded to see anyone else who doesn't agree with you as a GOP tool.

Have a nice night....my beer is almost done with, so I probably won't be saying much more tonite.

Finish your beer. Enjoy.

That was classic! Talk about being too itchy for a fight...


..thomas666: Lenny_da_Hog: siennaskye: concidering most in the military actually believes in the constitution... i have problem with a coup.. the next set of elections might actually straigten the government out

Can't count on soldiers doing the right thing.

/lived near Kent State

that was national guard...quite a difference from federal troops...really!

Huge difference, and I don't say that to disparage the National Guard, I say that as a former active duty Marine with a great deal of respect for those serving today.

Sabyen91: thomas666: hypocrite 4-F fat a$s chicken hawk MF...don't the repugs realize what a millstone this puke is...Actually I hope they don't and I hope they disintegrate...limpdik is a sociopathic puke laughing all the way to the bank...scum.

Shut up dude. Anal cysts are rough.

As a medic, I can attest that anal cysts are very rough. The fewer people with chronic anal cysts they let in the army, the fewer I have to lance and pack.

/oh god now I'm picturing having to do it to Rush.
//the horror...

farkuufarkinfark: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'" - Hillary Clinton

Disagree != call for a coup.

Disagree all you want. If your disagreements are stupid, we will make fun of you, which we also have a right to do.

RemyDuron: Glenn Beck is the best bet for a Kaufmann, IMO. He's either completely insane or completely brilliant. Kaufmann didn't seem like he was faking Tony Clifton either, in fact there is some belief that he actually was kind of crazy (Tony loved oral sex, Andy did not, and it's hard to fake sexual arousal or fake not being aroused). The fact that Beck is the most outrageous and the most seemingly genuine makes him the most likely to be a faker. Although odds are he's just milking it like the rest.

Back when Beck was on 970 WFLA in the Tampa market, he was pretty much completely sane, I liked to listen to him because while he was pretty much right wing on everything, he'd be willing to take the other side when that side made more sense. He certainly wasn't the sort of wingnut who was hoping for terrorist attacks that he is now, and if anything, he was more of a libertarian bent.

The one thing he would do periodically, and which leads to the theory that he's a faker, would be to do a bit where he'd take some kind of extremely ridiculous position, the people who were listening before the drive time hour would be in on it and call in to keep it going. Unless you knew that he was pulling one of those stunts, you'd think that he actually believed whatever it was that he was going on about because he was always really good at never breaking character. It was like IRL trolling of his listening audience, and most of the time when he did it he'd be arguing really extreme right-wing positions that he had made it clear beforehand that he didn't believe.

I think somewhere along the line, he realized that no matter how extreme he went, people would agree with it, and that the more crazy he acted, the more money he'd make. That's the only explanation that makes sense given what he was like in the past. Either that or he's just plain gone nuts.

rynthetyn: RemyDuron: Glenn Beck is the best bet for a Kaufmann, IMO. He's either completely insane or completely brilliant. Kaufmann didn't seem like he was faking Tony Clifton either, in fact there is some belief that he actually was kind of crazy (Tony loved oral sex, Andy did not, and it's hard to fake sexual arousal or fake not being aroused). The fact that Beck is the most outrageous and the most seemingly genuine makes him the most likely to be a faker. Although odds are he's just milking it like the rest.

Back when Beck was on 970 WFLA in the Tampa market, he was pretty much completely sane, I liked to listen to him because while he was pretty much right wing on everything, he'd be willing to take the other side when that side made more sense. He certainly wasn't the sort of wingnut who was hoping for terrorist attacks that he is now, and if anything, he was more of a libertarian bent.

The one thing he would do periodically, and which leads to the theory that he's a faker, would be to do a bit where he'd take some kind of extremely ridiculous position, the people who were listening before the drive time hour would be in on it and call in to keep it going. Unless you knew that he was pulling one of those stunts, you'd think that he actually believed whatever it was that he was going on about because he was always really good at never breaking character. It was like IRL trolling of his listening audience, and most of the time when he did it he'd be arguing really extreme right-wing positions that he had made it clear beforehand that he didn't believe.

I think somewhere along the line, he realized that no matter how extreme he went, people would agree with it, and that the more crazy he acted, the more money he'd make. That's the only explanation that makes sense given what he was like in the past. Either that or he's just plain gone nuts.

That's a great story. Limbaugh really got his start here in Sacramento in the 80's and I vaguely remember him on the local air. But I'm pretty sure he hasn't changed all that much, if anything, he's become more unyielding in his views. One of the reasons I stopped listening to him even occasionally.

And again, that brings us back to Hannity being the 'true believer?'

Your_Huckleberry: rynthetyn: RemyDuron: Glenn Beck is the best bet for a Kaufmann, IMO. He's either completely insane or completely brilliant. Kaufmann didn't seem like he was faking Tony Clifton either, in fact there is some belief that he actually was kind of crazy (Tony loved oral sex, Andy did not, and it's hard to fake sexual arousal or fake not being aroused). The fact that Beck is the most outrageous and the most seemingly genuine makes him the most likely to be a faker. Although odds are he's just milking it like the rest.

Back when Beck was on 970 WFLA in the Tampa market, he was pretty much completely sane, I liked to listen to him because while he was pretty much right wing on everything, he'd be willing to take the other side when that side made more sense. He certainly wasn't the sort of wingnut who was hoping for terrorist attacks that he is now, and if anything, he was more of a libertarian bent.

The one thing he would do periodically, and which leads to the theory that he's a faker, would be to do a bit where he'd take some kind of extremely ridiculous position, the people who were listening before the drive time hour would be in on it and call in to keep it going. Unless you knew that he was pulling one of those stunts, you'd think that he actually believed whatever it was that he was going on about because he was always really good at never breaking character. It was like IRL trolling of his listening audience, and most of the time when he did it he'd be arguing really extreme right-wing positions that he had made it clear beforehand that he didn't believe.

I think somewhere along the line, he realized that no matter how extreme he went, people would agree with it, and that the more crazy he acted, the more money he'd make. That's the only explanation that makes sense given what he was like in the past. Either that or he's just plain gone nuts.

That's a great story. Limbaugh really got his start here in Sacramento in the 80's and I vaguely remember him on the local air. But I'm pretty sure he hasn't changed all that much, if anything, he's become more unyielding in his views. One of the reasons I stopped listening to him even occasionally.

And again, that brings us back to Hannity being the 'true believer?'

I dunno. I almos think that title is too good for Hannity. I think he's just a suck up. He may really believe it, but it's not because HE believes it, but because Rush Limbaugh believes it.

I don't like Hannity. Beck is the craziest, but Hannity is the most infuriatingly douchy. Coulter and Limbaugh are just trolls.

O'Reilly is probably the most talented of the bunch. Maybe not the smartest, but he's a god damn master in his format. Sure, he falls like a house of cards if you take him out of his show (though he stood up okay on the Daily Show, although Jon has never gone all Jim Cramer on his ass), but on his show he's a wizard. I think, in that way, he's comparable to Olbermann. I think he's a worse person, but I think they are both more about putting on an entertaining show, and their politics is just the niche they've found.

nekom: If a recent Vanity Fair article is to be believed, the average age of Limbaugh's audience is 67. I don't think you have anything to worry about there.

My mother is 67. She exercises five days a week, ran a marathon last year, has all her teeth, low blood pressure, and a great body for a woman of her years. She's one of the leading edge Boomers.

67 isn't old anymore, folks. People in their sixties still have good eyesight, steady hands, and plenty of stamina. And think clearly enough that stupid ones could take a shot at someone if St. Rush told them to.

RemyDuron

I dunno. I almos think that title is too good for Hannity. I think he's just a suck up. He may really believe it, but it's not because HE believes it, but because Rush Limbaugh believes it.

I don't like Hannity. Beck is the craziest, but Hannity is the most infuriatingly douchy. Coulter and Limbaugh are just trolls.

O'Reilly is probably the most talented of the bunch. Maybe not the smartest, but he's a god damn master in his format. Sure, he falls like a house of cards if you take him out of his show (though he stood up okay on the Daily Show, although Jon has never gone all Jim Cramer on his ass), but on his show he's a wizard. I think, in that way, he's comparable to Olbermann. I think he's a worse person, but I think they are both more about putting on an entertaining show, and their politics is just the niche they've found.

I remember O'Reilly handled David Lettermen pretty effectivly, too. In a lot of ways, I like Olbermann. I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I like his show more than O'Reilly's. Olbermann used to have a show that ran Sunday nights on Fox Sports Net that was called the Keith Olbermann Evening News or Sports Report or such. I thought that was a great show! A better version of some of the stuff Costas does, I thought. The early Countdown was good, too. But along the lines one of two things happened:

1. He just had enough...of the Bush Adminstration. Took the show into a harder edge, highly critical of the adminstration-especially with his formidable Special Comments and along the way provided a voice for frustrated liberals, increasing his ratings and visibility along the way.

2. He had enough...of getting trashed in the ratings, decided to reach out to frustrated liberals by shifting to a harder edge, very critical of President Bush vehicle in order to boost his ratings and visibility.

In other words, I'm saying his "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" stance is genuine and heart-felt. Or it's a persona desighned to generate better ratings.

Oh, and I totally see the Hannity suck-up to Limbaugh angle, you can see that he just wants to be like Rush so bad! Kudos Sean, you might just be worse.

That fat prick knows he's at the end of his life and he's getting the same urges that Cheney has, they all want to make their mark on the world before they dissolve in the ether. So they do and say crazier and crazier shiat as the days go on. If they can kill a million people or cause an uprising in their home country, they succeed.

Sabyen91: Lenny_da_Hog: Tor_Eckman: Just FYI, I was in the Army in Germany in 1982 and AFRTS was broadcasting Limblabb daily way back then.

I don't think he was syndicated then. Typo?

Yeah, had to have been 1992. Limbaugh wasn't on the radio in '82

Aaargh! Here's a tip kiddies: Don't get old.

Although Limblabb started as a regular radio talk show host in 84, it's unlikely that he was on AFRTS way back then. I can't find a source that says when they picked him up. My broken brain still thinks he was on when I was over there, but I think a few more whacks with my ball-peen will make it stop.

I definitely wasn't at Woodstock though. At least I'm pretty sure I wasn't.

Tor_Eckman:
Aaargh! Here's a tip kiddies: Don't get old.


NOW you tell me.

Triaxis: EL_FABREZ: It seems the troops like Obama. But if the bible thumping rednecks and teabaggers (redundant?) want to give it a shot please, PLEASE, try it.

Clearly you've never been in the military. And yes, I have.

Were you in the Marine Core with TheConvincingSavant?

Sygerrik: Noam Chimpsky: Limbaugh: So we've got hell breaking loose in Honduras. You know what we learned about Honduras? We learned the Obama administration tried to stop the coup. Now what was -- the coup was what many of you wish would happen here, without the military.

The next day, describing Obama talking to troops about the withdrawal from Iraq, he described the president thus:

"This is a guy who sought their defeat."

And then yesterday, he expanded on these thoughts even further:

This is Barack Obama, who led from the United States Senate his party into doing everything he could to ensure the defeat of the U.S. military. ... This party was doing everything it could to impugn and dishonor the military.

All true...what's the problem? Is Limbaugh supposed to say Obama was a big supporter of the troops while he was in the Senate? He'd be lying if he did that. Are we supposed to pretend that Obama is no longer a traitor because he's POTUS now, even though everything he has done as POTUS is designed to destroy the United States?

Hell yes, he's a traitor. We elected him under the assumption he'd have dissolved the United States by now. I want to see you suffer, you worm. I don't care if it destroys the nation, I want Obama to take away guns and then free prisoners. I want a socialized economy, no matter how it hurts my profits. I want to see Christianity outlawed.

He hasn't done any of that yet. I want more action. I want banned private insurance, I want cars that get fewer than 35 mpg to be illegal, I want a gun ban on any caliber larger than 22. I want rivers of blood. I want abortion and gay marriage to be legal in all 50 states. Obama hasn't delivered on any of that stuff so far.

I want you and your ilk to suffer through the agonizing death of your country, knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it, and I'll be laughing the whole time, because I like Europe better anyways. I want all TV to be run by the government so that they can show the footage of Israel being wiped off the map by Islamic nuclear weapons 24/7. I want Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly to be publicly executed for speaking against the President.

I want apocalypse and this prez of ours isn't delivering yet. I just hope he can pull it off before 2010. Election season is such a bore.

10/10

That was beautiful :D

Halli: Triaxis: EL_FABREZ: It seems the troops like Obama. But if the bible thumping rednecks and teabaggers (redundant?) want to give it a shot please, PLEASE, try it.

Clearly you've never been in the military. And yes, I have.

Were you in the Marine Core with TheConvincingSavant?

I don't think he capitolizes 'marine core'

xria: thomas666: maybe...but if they were my troops they'd obey the constitution...and I served with some good ones. We looked down on the NG as amateurs...my guys knew their mission...and it wasn't to shoot/rebel against the people...just saying.

There have been lots of military coups over the years. I doubt they involved many people that joined up thinking that if there was a military coup, they would be the first to take part in it.

not in the US...only one I can remember is a pathetic attempt (by xxtremmee!! repugs against FDR...Commandant Smedly said no to leading it...)

BTW off topic Lindeberg was a fascist and to their credit the military wouldn't let him enlist. He became a 'military contractor' at his own expense in the pacific. Wouldn't do to shoot his fellow nazis down...)

thomas666: xria: thomas666: maybe...but if they were my troops they'd obey the constitution...and I served with some good ones. We looked down on the NG as amateurs...my guys knew their mission...and it wasn't to shoot/rebel against the people...just saying.

There have been lots of military coups over the years. I doubt they involved many people that joined up thinking that if there was a military coup, they would be the first to take part in it.

not in the US...only one I can remember is a pathetic attempt (by xxtremmee!! repugs against FDR...Commandant Smedly said no to leading it...)

BTW off topic Lindeberg was a fascist and to their credit the military wouldn't let him enlist. He became a 'military contractor' at his own expense in the pacific. Wouldn't do to shoot his fellow nazis down...)

Smedly Butler was badass.