Limbaugh, no holds barred: Sheehan "doesn't have the IQ of a pencil eraser"

This was expected and unnecessary on either end. We know that Limbaugh's going to throw around this type of jargon and IMHO, I don't think Sheehan's that smart. Really, when I see this, Limbaugh's just trying to keep his track record going. It's a typical instance of name-calling. Just noise.

So stating opinions in a fairly outspoken fashion is enough to make a person a radical?

I'm actually going to agree with you here, Jeter. In the last couple of weeks it does seem as if she could benefit from a Rovian-type taskmaster to keep her "on-message." However, since she is not a politician, this is rather unlikely to happen. Rather, some (brave?) Democrat should step up to take the helm of the movement Sheehan has mobilized, to manage the public image, etc., leaving Sheehan to continue doing what she, thus far, has been very effective at doing, rallying the anti-war base.

The weird thing is that it doesn't seem to be aimed at ideology, off topic posts, cursing, rudness or anything else. It seems to be somewhat random. Almost 2/3 of the thread was deleted on the Intelligent Design thread the other day, and just about everyone got swept up in it. If someone is flagging these posts, does the moderator just automatically delete them? Don't they even look to see if the flag is valid?

The longer Cindy Sheehan remains outspoken, the lower Rush and the other bobble heads will go to smear her. I guess grade-school level insults are all he's got left.

She is a dumb uneducated women. She hurts the antiwar cause. We needed people like her to stand up in March of 2003 not now. Rush is a jerk but he is right about her intelligence, just listen to her.

Rush is a pundit, not a rporter..what are we correcting here; That Cindy does know she is being manipulated by the 'world workers party"?

If you use Rush's words to describe the dittoheads, they are right on target.

"...they are being led and inculcated, manipulated, and promoted in ways -- by people who actually do have an agenda -- actually do have an anti-American agenda."

Cindy Sheehan is an exploiter. She abandoned her son when he was very young. She eleft him to be raised by his father. Cindy Sheehan went on to activism in the Democratic party. When her son was killed in combat she exploited the situation, to further her agenda, and standing in the Democratic party. Cindy didn't care about her son, if she had why would she abandon him? So my question is how many readers out there heard this bit of information? Probably none of you, but that's the liberal media for you

The politics of personal destruction at work.

Whoa! I just posted a response to a thread about the random deletions going on in this forum lately, and as I was typing it, the whole thread was deleted! How creepy is that? This forum is going down the tubes!

Read fast!

Limbaugh refers to her as not being the "leader" of a movement. He doesn't get that she just represents a significant and growing sentiment in this country that will, hopefully, continue rise to the point where it helps sweep this corrupt, soulless corporatocracy out of office. She was a lightning rod at the right time. I'm sure the "radical anti-war fringe' will have many prominent figures step forward in the months and (hopefully not) years to come.

It's the ultimate in hypocrisy for this drug-addled morally bankrupt goon to criticize anyone.

Interesting that the rights Ms. Sheehan uses for free speach is also the same rights this blowhard uses every day. Rush is an idiot and belongs in jail for selling and using drugs.

"... these are people who haven't amounted to diddly-squat, who desperately want to matter." --Limbaugh

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If Sheehan didn't matter, Limbaugh wouldn't be talking about her. The fact that Limbaugh spends time pushing back shows that Sheehan and "these people" are having an effect.

I had a post removed from this thread, in which I commented on the supposedly Christian Limbaugh's name calling.

Why was it removed?

Hey, I had a comment on here re. nerzog's query about his comment that was wiped out. Mine was on for about 2 minutes and it's gone now. What gives???

whoa - weird - I just checked this again, and it's back - guess my computer is running on parallel universe time. Never mind... (Emily Luttila)

Instead of actually debating Sheehan, Rush's argument adds up to, "Oh, yeah? Well, you're stoopid!" I find myself wondering if he will follow up this deeply insightful argument with a coup de gras about Ms. Sheehan having cooties.

Irene

Another intelligent comment from the guy who kept getting fired from jobs until his father hired him; the same guy who endorsed the death penalty (Yes, he did!) for drug abusers, while he was strung out on a prescription pain killer; the same guy who endorses family values despite his having been married, what, only three times so far?

Well, there are pages more of this imbecile's hypocrisy and idiocy. And why isn't he down at the enlistment office where Cindy Sheehan's son went which led to his eventual death? Why, because HE'S ALSO GOT NO BALLS!

I'll see you on the street corner, Rush, you spoiled adolescent.

What's worse is that some people take this Untermensch seriously. God help them.

Sheehan, no holds barred: W. "biggest terrorist in the world."

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See, it can be applied to either side.

According to research IQ has a large genetic component... Is Rush also consciously or otherwise implying her offspring suffer from dimwittedness?

Maybe Cindy would gain a little more Rush style sanity if we JACKED UP HER OXYCONTIN DOSAGE.

Yeah, maybe Cindy isn't as smart as Rush, who got deferred from the military for having a pimple on his ass. These chickenhawks wouldn't be caught dead in a uniform.

Question Authority and see if it ATTACKS!

Part of Rush's job is to keep the base pumped up and angry. He does this very well. Yesterday, he reminded his listeners of all the investigations and indictments that the Clinton Administration had endured, then didmissed Delay's indictment as a political witch hunt. If Rush were half as smart as an eraser, he would have seen his own pathetic hypocrisy.

The folks who followed Ms. Sheehan in Washington last weekend were hardly radicaly anarchists. They were working people, college students, retirees, and clergy. Cindy has galvanized a large and growing anti-war movement. Limbaugh and his ilk are very threatend by that and they resort to the usual name calling and sliming. Regarding the "freedom figher" remarks - there is irony here. When Reagan's contra thugs were doing all sorts of bad things they were called "freedom fighters" and not a peep from Rush and the right wing.

What is interesting to me about the pro-war faction is how they they personalize their campaign by attacking Cindy Sheehan. To them, it is all about her. Even in that pathetic 400 person pro-war protest in DC last week, many of the signs carried, the chants shouted and the quotes to the media were all about Cindy Sheehan. What a joke. If all you pro-war types are so certain of your position, let's hear your rational arguments how this disaster has made America safer without one reference to Cindy Sheehan. My guess is that among the MANY reasons the pro-war side is now a clear minority of the American people is that the public hears the same Cindy Sheehan bashing and is fed up with it.

Limbaugh is offensive and racist. He is particularly venomous towards those whom he (and the republican religious right) deem unsuitable. He uses epithets like "feminazis" for women who believe in a women's right to choose. He said that the torturers at Abu Ghraib were "just having a little fun." He markets a bright orange Club Gitmo tee shirts with "clever" sayings like "your tropical retreat from the stress of jihad." But there is alway outrage from Rush and his ilk when "liberal Hollywood" types indulge in a little satirical humor at the president's expense. Those who criticize the war are, according to Rush and his ilk, traitors of the worst degree. There is no room for dissent in Rush's universe. Notice that he does not engage in any debate with anyone from the other side; unlike Al Franken who is willing to go one on one with any right winger. Rush is a lying propagandist - that so many people hang on his every word is quite disturbing and does show many adults left behind.

Re Limbaugh & other pundits: Heck of a way to make a living, bearing false witness on a daily basis!

I'd like to say also to guys sitting on their behinds talking about and judging this women who has the balls to challenge this horrible invasion, to camp in a ditch for a month, to put her entire life on hold and be slandered and mis-represented: She outshines the whole lot of you.

Yes, she says some "radical" things. Perhaps some day her "radical" sayings will be judged as truth-telling in an US that accepts insanity as normal.

Yes there are military occupying New Orleans. The same mercenaries that are in Iraq are there, too. Here's a link to Stars & Stripes (scroll down) where a soldier complains about the private army that has been unleashed there. (are soldiers in Iraq also "nuts" for pointing this out?)

[link to www.estripes.com]

to WTFD - Your reaction to Ms. Sheehan is the same as mine when I watch GWB do his Beavis and Butthhead laugh and move his shoulders up and down. I am especially amused when he says things like subliminable and other unintelligible things. But when I start thinking about the almost 2,000 Americans killed in an illegal and immoral war (which we are not winning), I am sad and very angry. Sliming Cindy (the way you creeps slimed Kerry and are trying to slime Hillary) just won't work. She and her grin are the face of the growing anti-war movement. "The times they are a changing" so get used to it!!!!

"She has been elevated as the front person for this group because she evokes sympathy. She is no more -- way of leading a movement than the neighborhood mouse that goes from house to house in your neighborhood looking for cheese is leading a movement. It's just -- it's just funny as it can be, but it's also sad at the same time because these are people who haven't amounted to diddly-squat, who desperately want to matter, and they are being led and inculcated, manipulated, and promoted in ways -- by people who actually do have an agenda..." -- Limbaugh

I'm confused. Is he talking about the Twitty woman, or the Schiavo's?

It's alway funny to see Rushbo gets all excited like this, his blustering has an direct realtionship to how much the topic gets under his skin. I would say on the Rush-O-Meter this one registers is about a 5 out of 10, a couple of childish insults about her IQ and lack of common sense and how she's being controlled by those with a anti-american agenda it's all just so laughable. Rush's empty rhetoric appeals to his audience because they are afraid of anyone that exposes the incompetance of this administrations blunder after blunder methodology of running this war of choice. Cindy Sheehan raises questions regarding the 'Noble Cause' for which her son and many others have given their lives, questions that are unanswerable as the reasons for the war are extracted from the shifting sands of opinion polls and political self preservation. Rush is merely a guage of those frustrations externalized and framed in palitable reasurring terms, pablum, that prevents his audience from having to move from their comfort zone of self righteousness regarding the war.

Rush is right. Sheehan doesn't have the IQ of a pencil eraser. Neither does Rush and neither do I. I know pencil erasers. Highly intelligent inanimate objects, they are. Able to do so much and never says a word in order to be criticized. Noone ever questions a pencil eraser and that's because it rules us all. Expect a ruler, the most dictative inanimate object ever.

For those reading to this point and still think I'm being serious, it's ok. You're permitted to take this as a joke now. :-)