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Rush on cities like Flint: "Now I'm sort of looking at bulldozing these cities. ... They should have been let go long ago"

June 16, 2009 2:37 pm ET

From the June 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by magnolialover (June 16, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
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      There goes his fan base in Flint.
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (June 16, 2009 2:48 pm ET)
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      I think it just dawned on Rushy that Flint is Michael Moore's hometown.
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    • Author by shaggles (June 16, 2009 2:54 pm ET)
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      Spoken like a true patriot.
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    • Author by acehigh (June 16, 2009 3:13 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh has been ranting about President Obama on a daily basis since his election. If I didn't know better, I'd think he has a thing for him.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 16, 2009 3:23 pm ET)
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      Who is actually paying this windbag 40 mil a year ?
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      • Author by pete592 (June 16, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
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        3,000 former Clear Channel employees.
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      • Author by kromecom48 (June 16, 2009 6:17 pm ET)
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        Brought to you in 1987 courtesy of the Reagan/Bush administration. The rise in uncivil discourse and hate talk radio in modern times can be directly tied to the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. The demonization of the term "liberal" and the buy in by main stream media is also a direct result. All while most America slept throughout the so-called "morning in America." All part of grand scheme my friends.
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    • Author by TeabagsMcGee (June 16, 2009 3:30 pm ET)
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      Michael is from Davidson. Not Flint.
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      • Author by Kiwi (June 17, 2009 6:46 am ET)
           
        Well he was born in Flint, and Davison is a suburb of Flint.
        It's close enough for government work
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    • Author by princeofwheels (June 16, 2009 3:31 pm ET)
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      This from a man who thinks classy envy is a terrible Liberal problem.

      Hey, Rush, the people in Flint live and breath air like you and me. Some may only have Flint as a home. They may be struggling to make it but their family remains in tact. No divorces, no drug addiction and little money.
      I must ask, WHO are you to even decide anything about another human being. Let us face facts. You cannot go anywhere without security. You home is like a prison. You cannot walk down the street because you have to fear the next person walking past you. You have to always ask yourself, is this guy a nutcase?
      Mr. Limbaugh, stick to your hatred of the titles.. Liberals, Democrats, Gays etc. just leave people alone. You make good money. Spend it wisely and have a good time. But don't forget, you are not liked by many different types of people. Maybe even people close to you.
      What I'd really like to know is how much your X-wives receive to not talk about you and what they would lose should they write a book about you or appear on 60 Minutes.
      THANK GOD for FREEDOM of SPEECH, at a price.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 16, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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        Please leave those poor women out of it. They've suffered enough.

        LOL.
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        • Author by princeofwheels (June 16, 2009 7:36 pm ET)
             
          Ahhh, the stories they could tell. If made into a movie they'd be more sequels than Halloween or Friday the Thirteenth.
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    • Author by pete592 (June 16, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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      How long will it be until Rush has alienated every person, of every walk of life, from nearly every income level, in nearly every city in America?

      Who will be left?
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      • Author by shaggles (June 16, 2009 4:05 pm ET)
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        I thinks he's already done that. Yet miraculously he hasn't lost (or gained) any listeners almost 20 years. It's almost too good to be believed. ;)
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        • Author by kromecom48 (June 16, 2009 4:30 pm ET)
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          Free speech works and works well. Rush and his cohorts have almost singularly destroyed their own movement. That's beautiful. Don't begrudge him the knuckle draggers that cleave to his every syllabic inanity. Knowing that they are there let's us all know the vestiges of Neanthradal society are not extinct after all. Trust me, Rush and his syncophants will end up in the dust-bin of history and only be referenced in cautionary terms. Keep the faith brothers and sisters.
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      • Author by PurpleState (June 16, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
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        Perhaps we need a recount for Rush's fan base.
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      • Author by wzwriter (June 16, 2009 4:22 pm ET)
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        How long will it be until Rush has alienated every person, of every walk of life, from nearly every income level, in nearly every city in America?
        It can't happen soon enough.
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        • Author by christopher howard (June 16, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
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          Won't happen. Remember those movies where the lying politician is caught on tape spewing scorn on his supporters, who consequently turn on him once the veil is lifted? We're way beyond that with the dittoheads. Rush could say he wanted to kill every last one of his fans on national radio and they'd still cheer him for his brilliance.
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          • Author by magnolialover (June 16, 2009 4:44 pm ET)
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            Nah, they'd probably be more like, "Well, if he thinks we ought to die, we must deserve it!"

            Or something along those lines.

            MEGADITTOS RUSH!
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        • Author by captfoster2 (June 16, 2009 7:32 pm ET)
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          "How long will it be until Rush has alienated every person, of every walk of life, from nearly every income level, in nearly every city in America?"

          I would fathom a bet that if one were to go over every transcript, speech, and/or publicly spoken word over the last 20 plus years of Rush's little puke-fest of a show and pathetic life, I can easily imagine that that has already occurred!

          As Shaggles implied, I too get the feeling that his fan base is too brain-dead to even realize it...

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          • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 17, 2009 9:34 am ET)
               
            He could eat babies and they'd still love him.
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          • Author by shaggles (June 17, 2009 12:41 pm ET)
               
            Actually what I meant to imply is that Rush's claims about the size of his listening audience are made up. That's why they've stayed the same for 20 years.
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    • Author by peace4all (June 16, 2009 4:45 pm ET)
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      rush is living proof that when you get to the bottom of the barrel, if you lift the barrel.....
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (June 16, 2009 4:48 pm ET)
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      If people in this country want to at show their displeasure of Rush and his inciteful hate, they can start a campaign of boycotting local advertisers. This can also apply to any other paid RNC hack on the radio like Boortz, Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, Chuck Baker in Colorado Springs, and any local hacks in you city and town. Tell local advertisers taht you will stop using their products or services as long as they put their advertising dollars on these programs.
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    • Author by snoopy (June 16, 2009 5:20 pm ET)
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      First New Orleans, then New York, now Flint. If we put a child sex parlor there would that make a difference?
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      • Author by PurpleState (June 16, 2009 5:56 pm ET)
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        Frankly, attacking individual cities and towns is typical of conservative mouthpieces. Boston wingnut Howie Carr had fun torching my hometown a new one way back in 1991, and we've been known as a budget sinkhole since then.

        Hell, remember Glenn Beck's cake? How "Madison, WI...tasted like garbage?"
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    • Author by jbrantow (June 16, 2009 6:28 pm ET)
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      too bad the surgeon who operated on limbaugh post oxycontin abuse during his drug abuse caused hearing loss.....didn't just bulldoze his patient.......oops I pushed a little too much anesthesia....well no big loss.
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    • Author by pags2 (June 16, 2009 6:35 pm ET)
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      With comments like this I think we should take up a collection and send Rush to China on a leaky slow boat.
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    • Author by mjh (June 16, 2009 7:01 pm ET)
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      Wow ... between Bull OhReally -- who once advocated that San Francisco be blown up by Al-Qaeda -- and Rush Limpballs, it seems there isn't an area anywhere in this country they don't want to get rid of.

      How patriotic.
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