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Limbaugh ratchets up health reform fearmongering: "They're going to get rid of your old clunker grandparents"

July 31, 2009 1:07 pm ET

From the July 31 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Limbaugh on "rumor" that "older citizens will just be put out to pasture": "Obamacare plan contains ... end of life"

Limbaugh fearmongers about health care with falsehood about euthanasia

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    • Author by DAWUSS (July 31, 2009 1:09 pm ET)
         
      Anyone have a spare tin-foil hat?
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      • Author by Leftym0m79 (July 31, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
           
        I don't think that there is enough tin-foil in the world.
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    • Author by mjh (July 31, 2009 1:10 pm ET)
         
      Limbaugh ratchets up health reform fearmongering: "They're going to get rid of your old clunker grandparents"


      Earth to Rush Limpballs: simply repeating something does NOT make it come true.

      Didn't work for the belief that Dubya was a great president, and it doesn't work now . . .
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    • Author by The_Cat (July 31, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
         
      So, I heard that correctly? Rush Limbaugh, speaking for the Republican Party, threatened to use Obama's health care plane to kill the elderly? "We're gonna get rid of your old clunker grandparents, with Obama health care..."

      Glad to know where you stand on euthanasia, Mr. Limbaugh!
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (July 31, 2009 1:19 pm ET)
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      If anyone on the left had gotten this nasty and seditious about anything Bush did, the Cons would have been screaming for treason trials...wait they were, except it was for just questioning the validity of Bush's reasons for going into Iraq.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 31, 2009 1:27 pm ET)
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        Limabugh and co. have revealed the right in this country to be nothing more than unpricipled, whiny, anything-goes, win-at-all costs, hypocritical, self-righteous SCUM.

        And to any of you posters out the who would say, "I'm a conservtaive, and he doesn't speak for ME! I don't agree with what he'd doing!" I have news for you:

        1) Accordign to HIM, you are not a conservative.
        2) HE speaks for conservatives.
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    • Author by dmhack (July 31, 2009 1:26 pm ET)
         
      As stupid as this assertion is, there's clearly an effort underway to repeat it enough times so the ill-informed start believing it's real.

      This is the standard MO of the right's fear machine--don't just lie, lie over and over until some little old lady is so fearful she asks the president if it's true.

      What kills me (no pun intended) is that the right does this over and over again and we on the left still try to be reasonable in rebutting these lies. You can only have civilized discourse when both parties agree to be civilized. When only one party is civilized and the other is screaming and peddling fear, the louder voice gets heard even if it it's all lies.

      I'm not advocating that the leaders on the left abandon reason, but it would be great if they could speak just a little louder.
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      • Author by phredicles (July 31, 2009 2:56 pm ET)
           
        And judging from the letters to the editor in the LA Times, the dodoheads are buying it. I agree that our side needs to be louder.
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    • Author by John Paradox (July 31, 2009 8:53 pm ET)
         
      So, Rush, can I trade in, say, an 80 year old mother for four twenty year old 'hotties'??
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