Limbaugh's Latest Smear: Obama Is "Target[ing] Christians" In Uganda
October 14, 2011 7:55 pm ET by Terry Krepel
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh launched another religion-based smear of President Obama: that he is sending troops to Africa to kill Christians. Limbaugh declared that "President Obama has deployed troops to another war, in Africa," adding that the group being targeted, the Lord's Resistance Army, "are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. ... So that's a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians." Limbaugh then claimed that Obama supports "help[ing] the Egyptians wipe out the Christians."
So proud was Limbaugh of this attack that he posted the transcript of it, complete with audio (for paid subscribers) on his website, under the headline "Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians":
But Limbaugh largely ignored the record of atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army, and the group's claimed Christian ties are reportedly part of a mish-mash of other religious and occult beliefs.
From Limbaugh's October 14 show, as transcribed on his website:
LIMBAUGH: Have you ever heard of Lord's Resistance Army, Dawn? How about you, Brian? Snerdley, have you? You never heard of Lord's Resistance Army? Well, proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That's what the lingo means, "to help regional forces remove from the battlefield," meaning capture or kill.
So that's a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and -- (interruption) no, I'm not kidding. Jacob Tapper just reported it. Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians? Wouldn't you say that we are? I mean the Coptic Christians are being wiped out, but it wasn't just Obama that supported that. The conservative intelligentsia thought it was an outbreak of democracy. Now they've done a 180 on that, but they forgot that they supported it in the first place. Now they're criticizing it.
Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people." Now, again Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord's Resistance Army, what they're trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology." Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.
Later in the show, Limbaugh reinforced the smear by asking a caller, "[H]ow do you react to the news that Obama has dispatched a hundred soldiers to fight radical Christians in Africa?" At another point in the show, Limbaugh again said that Obama was "sending the soldiers to fight the Christians in Africa."
But while Limbaugh was making these attacks, he was seemingly ignorant of the record of atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army. The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for the group's leader, Joseph Kony, states that "the LRA has engaged in a cycle of violence and established a pattern of 'brutalization of civilians' by acts including murder, abduction, sexual enslavement, mutilation, as well as mass burnings of houses and looting of camp settlements; that abducted civilians, including children, are said to have been forcibly 'recruited' as fighters, porters and sex slaves to serve the LRA and to contribute to attacks against the Ugandan army and civilian communities."
While Kony claims to be a Christian, he and his army reportedly practice a syncretic religion of which Christianity is only one part. From Christianity Today:
Kony, 41, envisions an Acholiland ruled by a warped interpretation of the Ten Commandments. He uses passages from the Pentateuch to justify mutilation and murder. He promotes a demonic spirituality crafted from an eclectic mix of Christianity, Islam, and African witchcraft.
Any resemblance to these religions is superficial: While the army observes rituals such as praying the rosary and bowing toward Mecca, there is no prescribed theology in the conventional sense. Kony's beliefs are a haphazard mix from the Bible and the Qur'an, tailored around his wishful thinking, personal desires, and practical needs of the moment. Jesus is the Son of God. But instead of saving the world from sin through his sacrificial love on the Cross, he is a source of power employed for killing those who oppose Kony. The Holy Spirit is not the Divine Comforter, but one who directs Kony's tactical military decisions.
Despite dabbling in the Bible and the Qur'an, Kony's real spiritual obsession is witchcraft. He burns toy military vehicles and figurines to predict the course of battles from their burn patterns. He uses reptiles in magic rituals to sicken those who anger him or to detect traitors in his midst. He claims to receive military direction from spirits of dead men from different countries, including Americans. He teaches that an impending apocalypse will usher in "The Silent World," where only primitive weapons, such as machetes and clubs, will bring victory.
Christianity Today adds that the group's most frequent target is children:
They rape, mutilate, and kill them with a rapaciousness that staggers the imagination. Worse, they compel children to kill one another and their own families, fighting as "soldiers" in an armed force deliberately composed of children.
Perhaps the greatest atrocity is teaching these children that they spread this carnage by the power of the Holy Spirit to purify the "unrepentant," twisting Christianity into a religion of horror to their victims. It is spiritual warfare at its very worst, and it could not be more satanic.
After making his attacks on Obama, Limbaugh then appeared to concede that maybe the Lord's Resistance Army aren't very nice people after all:
LIMBAUGH: Is that right? The Lord's Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff? Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well, we just found out about this today. We're gonna do, of course, our due diligence research on it. But nevertheless we got a hundred troops being sent over there to fight these guys -- and they claim to be Christians.
Too bad Limbaugh couldn't be bothered to do any "due diligence research" on the group's well-documented atrocities and dubious claims to be "Christian" before exploiting the group to smear Obama.
I highly doubt that. I think Rush knows exactly who the LRA are. He just doesn't care. All he see's is just another opportunity to attack Obama, f**k the facts. Nor does he care that he is aligning himself with a bunch of brutal, raping, mudering,kidnapping a$$wipes (the sad thing is that his listeners don't care either)...as long as they're fighting against the scary mooslems (yes, that was intentionally misspelled)...which gives him an added by bonus trying to slyly link the scary mooslems the LRA is fighting directly to Obama...who must be a mooslem...because he wants to kill Christians...
Seriously, to the current Mrs Limbaugh, please tell me that you are just a gold digger and that you don't think that this moron is worth any sort of respect.
If fat boy is a Christian, then that surely leaves me in a fog.
"Well, if I came out and told people I was Jesus, I'd probably get shot, so I'm going to work in a record store".
But I'm of the opinion that Jesus already came down, appeared in Mexico, called himself Jesús Christophoro, and then walked across the border to the US looking to tell the Christians that he had returned...and was shot and killed by a Christian militiaman.
But, I like your idea!
Though I have to ask, why would Jesus bother traveling to the US? There are more devout Christians in Mexico and South America then there are in the US.
Far too many American Christians do not practice Christianity as Jesus commanded to Paul when the religion was being created.
He did a little of the Sean Hannity act, reading quotes or a news item while adding his own editorializing to the "quote". Hannity likes to use "quote" and "unquote", while not understanding that you don't get to add embellishments in between those two words.
Lispy was loosely referencing the item he was reading, while tossing in his interpretations of Obama's thoughts ( I'm going to kill Christians").
I can almost excuse some dimwits for buying Lispy's dopey opinions, I can see frightened old religious racists eager to believe him when he's obviously giving his twisted take on reality.
I can't really, even as a non-religious person, excuse anybody dumb enough to buy this stuff, that the president ( a Christian) was specifically allocating resources to attack Christians for being Christians.
This is a new low for Limbaugh. I don't see any posters here defending him, and there's probably a good reason for that. Once in a while, Lispy gets too stupid even for the dittoheads.
If this is your idea of a "problem", I'd hate to see your idea of a crisis.
Your initial comment, though clearly made in a jesting manner, required no defense in my opinion. If someone else can't handle the truth, that's their issue. There was no need to apologize or trivialize the reference in your comment because of them.
Regardless, I think we can all agree that the real problem here is Obama and his blatant plan to murder the world's Christian population in defense of his Muslim brethren...
In fact, anywhere there are young people there are sexual predators. The most important thing we can do is to be aware of this and then take sensibel precautions.
The Anglo Celtic part of my career was entirely acoustic based, although we did use sound reinforcement for stage performances. Accompanying morris dancers was entirely acoustic - at times using button accodion and 4 fiddles.
I do love the feel of an acoustic instrument as it vibrates in my hands and through my body.
My pet hate is sporting events where they get some juvenile soap "star" who has no real singing voice to sing the National Anthem. In lieu of a voice they shove a microphone down their gullet and simulate constipation whilst in search of a note.
The resultant sludge is barely sufficient to inspire a person to get out of bed, let alone win a footy match.
/grumpy rant off
My major problem with national anthem singers at public events is that they fail to realise that they are not giving a performance for an audience, they are leading an important community singing event.
Showing off with crude attempts at inappropriate ornaments is a no-no. Sing it straight and sing it clean. I would also add that national anthems must be sung with spirit. It is so easy to turn them into dirges if the lead isn't spirited enough. The Italians seem to have the most dirge-proof of the European anthems.
Amen?
And that pretend story is the one we'll run with.
These days evil comes in so many different flavors.
Who listens to, much less agree with, this clown?
It must hurt that so called Christians can be murderous beats too.
If that's the case, then the current population of "atheism" is 100%.
On a related note, Penn Jillette was on a segment of Real Time last night. I'm not in agreement with a lot of his politics, but there was an interesting conversation between him and Bill Maher ( which would definitely be called "Religion bashing" by the hyper-religious and insecure) about atheism.
Jillette suggested asking the question " If God told you to kill your child, would you do it?"
If the answer is "no", you're an atheist. If it's "yes", he suggested you reconsider, ;0)
God told Abraham the very same thing, and Abraham was committed to sacrificing his child Issac as a response.
He was stopped of course, and everything was just a test of fate.
However to my knowledge God doesn't really do these types of tests of faith any more.
(Romans 3:23)
I agree cause it wasn't that long ago that blacks where hung daily from a tree by there necks and beaten as the photo's show right in front of the church for over a hundren yrs. during this time the bible stated that blacks can not be apart of the christian church accept being hung in front of it, and where did the KKK come from...the christian church OF COURSE. with the POPE himself as the founder, of the christian church, so again I agree with RUSH AND GLEN when they say black americian's or ignorant, cause there, should not be a single black person calling themselfs a christian in this country.
And for sure, not,calling themself a DEACON of any so call christian church, which the lost gospels say that the lord himself call them a thorn in his ASS....LOL
So Rush and Glen keep up the good work broadcasting JESUS WHOM IS ' HEY ZOOKS THE LATIN DEVIL ] you shall live a long time... AS YOU HAVE MAKE HIM YOUR GOD.... JESUS THE MIGHTY LATIN DEVIL.... AS STATED IN THE DEVIL'S BIBLE ITSELF...
http://pulitzercenter.org/slideshows/images-perfect-place-hell-part-i
"I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Gandhi
If Limbaugh suffers no humiliation from the blowback to this load of old cobblers then you have a real problem. This little outburst should be enough to render him a figure of ridicule and utter contempt by any and all in the media. Joseph Krony presents as the archetypal anti-Christ and, it seems, Limbaugh is his apologist, if not disciple.
I look forward to seeing him in the dock at the ICC as a crony of Krony.