Limbaugh redefines dangerous ideologue

November 13, 2009 4:18 pm ET by Jeremy Holden

During a three-hour tirade about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to transfer five detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States for criminal prosecution, Rush Limbaugh attacked the "dangerous" "ideologue" Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), who in a Fox News interview that day discussed his support of Holder's decision.

Sestak's "dangerous" comment was expressing faith in the U.S. criminal justice system, saying that "we don't have to bend our ideals to defend them."

Now you may be asking yourself, "What does Congressman Sestak know about defending America and its ideals?"

It turns out, a bit more than Rush Limbaugh. See, prior to joining Congress, Sestak spent 31 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a two-star admiral. During his career, Sestak rose to the rank of three-star admiral where he commanded an aircraft carrier group, in part conducting combat operations in Afghanistan. On point to the current discussion, in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Sestak was put in charge of "Deep Blue," a Naval think tank devoted to anti-terrorism. You know, thinking about ways to defend America and its ideals from terrorists.

I'll leave it to you to decide if anyone here is a dangerous ideologue.

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In the following, denouncing Sestak, understand absolutely NO endorsement of Lamebrain who is a congenital liar, before being brain damaged with ingested toxins and now a felon at-large to be apprehended on-sight.

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So, Rep. Sestack, before getting isolated in that Deep Blue sensory-deprivation bathyscaphe, back back back before there ever was a nine-eleven and when reality was normal, were you near enough to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Ocean (2/9/2001) to hear the names of 15 civilian guests, ("16 Texas oilmen and their wives" as reported in one AP news version, never seen again), civilians who were aboard underwater U.S. Navy submarine (USS Greeneville) 'joy-riding' (in early reports, subsequently uniformly changed to "on a cruise") south of Hawaii and crashing up ('emergency surfacing' without an emergency) underneath the Japanese merchant marine training vessel (Ehime Maru), causing several (9) fatalities.

Just name the names of 15 or 16 Texas oilmen and their wives, that's what I ask. What are the names of those civilian '16 Texas oilmen and their wives' celebrating(?) derelict of duty(?) the fresh presidential inauguration of the son of another Texas oilman and his wife?

Or, if the civilian subversions on-board cannot be named, then can plausible names be confirmed or denied: Was Pres.Bush, Sr. and his wife on-board that submarine?

Or is it one sort of litmus test of ideological purity or veracity -- or simply political, if not actual life-or-death bodily survival, whether Dem or Rep -- to never speak the names of those (15 or) '16 Texas oilmen and their wives' on-board the Greenville at taxpayer expense without public record or rights?

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RAY SUAREZ: Meanwhile, in a TV interview this morning, two of the 16 civilians on board the U.S.S. "Greeneville" described the incident. One of them pulled the levers of the ballast controls to initiate the rapid ascent to the surface.
JOHN HALL: Once you pull the levers pull them down ...

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I mean Texas oilmen besides the world-famous John Hall ... anyone? ... anyone? ...
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...the average US citizen does not receive an invitation to cruise on a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier. Until this month, the vast majority of Americans were unaware that well-to-do businessmen and journalists routinely take such trips.

In addition, at least a third of the submarine's guests were associated with the Texas oil industry. The Navy would not comment whether any of these individuals were invited to ride on the submarine due to ties to President Bush or Vice President Cheney — both Texas oil men.

________World Socialist Web Site reports ... they seem to always get the news right.

Just saying that for all Rep. Sestak is just saying full faith and credit in U.S. criminal justice system, any harboring of names who attest violations of military code fairly subverts the whole thing -- all of Afghanistan and Iraq and 8-years warring and Bush and Cheney and 'good intentions' IS LOST if torture and worse Human Rights violations are revealed in Gitmo, (or elsewhere); the unnecessarily censored names of civilians onboard the Greeneville sub is 'the hole below the waterline' of the entire 8-year BuChen political atrocity which could have sunk glub-glub before it ever let nine-eleven happen IF relatives and Donors of Distinct Corruption (Ken Lay?) are revealed in that sub.

That, and Lamebrain go stifle yourself.

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- by Limit Corp. Ownership (November 13, 2009 4:58 pm ET)
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  Well,
  Prior to becoming a total conservative dingbat, el Fathead proudly served for 20 years as a lying, disgusting, pathetic radio commentator who did everything in his power to disgrace both himself and America.
  
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- by ReasonAndResolve (November 13, 2009 5:11 pm ET)
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  If a liberal commentator had the audacity to say such a thing about a man with Joe Sestak's distinguished record of service, Limbaugh would the first to villify him/her on his program.
  
  Rush Limbaugh is a coward and a complete idiot.
  
  Say it to his face, Limbaugh. Get off your fat tuchis and out of your air-conditioned studio and stand in front of this distinguished gentleman and tell him what you think.
  
  This is appalling.
  
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  - by shaggles (November 13, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
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    Limbaugh never says anything to anyones face.
    
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- by paul8616 (November 13, 2009 6:12 pm ET)
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  Vaguely reminds me of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7IY1wQDkWU">Kos whuppin' ass on Tancredo</a>. Same deal: Deferment Hawks pretending to know what they're talking about.
  
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- by tangaroa (November 13, 2009 6:18 pm ET)
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  Who knows how far Limbaugh would have gone in the military if only he hadn't had that pimple on his butt.
  
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  - by Lord of Light (November 13, 2009 6:52 pm ET)
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    Probably would have been dishonorably discharged within a month for whining about the exercise and making disparaging remarks about black soldiers.
    
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- by Meremark (November 13, 2009 6:26 pm ET)
  
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  In the following, denouncing Sestak, understand absolutely NO endorsement of Lamebrain who is a congenital liar, before being brain damaged with ingested toxins and now a felon at-large to be apprehended on-sight.
  
  - -
  So, Rep. Sestack, before getting isolated in that Deep Blue sensory-deprivation bathyscaphe, back back back before there ever was a nine-eleven and when reality was normal, were you near enough to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Ocean (2/9/2001) to hear the names of 15 civilian guests, ("16 Texas oilmen and their wives" as reported in one AP news version, never seen again), civilians who were aboard underwater U.S. Navy submarine (USS Greeneville) 'joy-riding' (in early reports, subsequently uniformly changed to "on a cruise") south of Hawaii and crashing up ('emergency surfacing' without an emergency) underneath the Japanese merchant marine training vessel (Ehime Maru), causing several (9) fatalities.
  
  Just name the names of 15 or 16 Texas oilmen and their wives, that's what I ask. What are the names of those civilian '16 Texas oilmen and their wives' celebrating(?) derelict of duty(?) the fresh presidential inauguration of the son of another Texas oilman and his wife?
  
  Or, if the civilian subversions on-board cannot be named, then can plausible names be confirmed or denied: Was Pres.Bush, Sr. and his wife on-board that submarine?
  
  Or is it one sort of litmus test of ideological purity or veracity -- or simply political, if not actual life-or-death bodily survival, whether Dem or Rep -- to never speak the names of those (15 or) '16 Texas oilmen and their wives' on-board the Greenville at taxpayer expense without public record or rights?
  
  __________________
  
  RAY SUAREZ: Meanwhile, in a TV interview this morning, two of the 16 civilians on board the U.S.S. "Greeneville" described the incident. One of them pulled the levers of the ballast controls to initiate the rapid ascent to the surface.
  JOHN HALL: Once you pull the levers pull them down ...
  
  - - -
  I mean Texas oilmen besides the world-famous John Hall ... anyone? ... anyone? ...
  _____________________________________
  
  ...the average US citizen does not receive an invitation to cruise on a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier. Until this month, the vast majority of Americans were unaware that well-to-do businessmen and journalists routinely take such trips.
  
  In addition, at least a third of the submarine's guests were associated with the Texas oil industry. The Navy would not comment whether any of these individuals were invited to ride on the submarine due to ties to President Bush or Vice President Cheney — both Texas oil men.
  
  ________World Socialist Web Site reports ... they seem to always get the news right.
  
  Just saying that for all Rep. Sestak is just saying full faith and credit in U.S. criminal justice system, any harboring of names who attest violations of military code fairly subverts the whole thing -- all of Afghanistan and Iraq and 8-years warring and Bush and Cheney and 'good intentions' IS LOST if torture and worse Human Rights violations are revealed in Gitmo, (or elsewhere); the unnecessarily censored names of civilians onboard the Greeneville sub is 'the hole below the waterline' of the entire 8-year BuChen political atrocity which could have sunk glub-glub before it ever let nine-eleven happen IF relatives and Donors of Distinct Corruption (Ken Lay?) are revealed in that sub.
  
  That, and Lamebrain go stifle yourself.
  
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- by Jurgan (November 16, 2009 7:36 am ET)
  
  "retiring as a two-star admiral. During his career, Sestak rose to the rank of three-star admiral "
  
  Huh? Is that a typo, or am I misunderstanding how the Navy works?
  
  Reply Report Abuse

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