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Limbaugh defends health care protests: "it's not ginned up, it's genuine. It's real"

August 04, 2009 2:16 pm ET

From the August 4th edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh:

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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 04, 2009 2:23 pm ET)
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      It's always entertaining when he does impressions of his dealer.
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    • Author by RABBITLUVR (August 04, 2009 2:25 pm ET)
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      Then what the hell is that leaked memo from 'Right Principles', moron?
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    • Author by harley (August 04, 2009 2:27 pm ET)
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      So, according to the unhinged and radical reich-wing, the health care "protests" are "real", but Obama's birth certificate is "fake". Laughable.

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      • Author by foghornleghorn (August 04, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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        You must remember their "logic":

        Up is down

        Black is white

        War is peace.

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        • Author by christopher howard (August 04, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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          Rush-world...

          East is West, left is right,
          Up is down, and black is white,
          Inside-out, wrong is right,
          It's back to front and I'm all uptight.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEeKAXkiAE
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    • Author by The_Cat (August 04, 2009 2:42 pm ET)
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      The 'people' who do not want health coverage reform are insurance companies, drug companies, and hospital chains. Their dislike is genuine enough. The fact that they've paid lobbyists to bus protesters from place to place to shout down the conversation we're actually desperate to have on health coverage makes the protesters closer kin to rioters than debaters, Mr. Limbaugh. A good attempt, and it will sadly likely confuse at least some of those who listen to you as though you were an actual source of news and not in the entertainment industry.
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      • Author by taliesin (August 04, 2009 9:35 pm ET)
           
        Please supply proof of this "conspiracy to protest." In your reasoning
        insurance companies are evil therefore any protests about healthcare reform must benefit them. Therefore they must be orchestrated by them,
        since no one can oppose Obamacare who isn't being bussed to town meetings
        and paid to do so, right? Surely there is some actual proof of this,
        or is that too much trouble?
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    • Author by marco21 (August 04, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
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      These are real... douchebags on an astroturf tear.

      Please, Rush. Try googling something that makes you feel uncomfortable for once. No, not women, the truth.
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    • Author by blueline99 (August 04, 2009 2:47 pm ET)
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      When they all arrive together on a bus from out of town (as was the case in the Austin town hall meeting) they aren't real.

      One of the commentators on KO last night said that they need to shame these fanatics... bring up a local person who has been damaged by the health care industry, either through lack of care of rescission... there are millions of them out there...

      Let them shout "Just Say No!" to a mother who lost their child due to lack of insurance or a family who filed bankruptcy because the insurance company stuck them with $30,000 in hospital bills.
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      • Author by RABBITLUVR (August 04, 2009 2:58 pm ET)
           
        I see a good opportunity for the Sarkisyan family here...
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (August 04, 2009 3:32 pm ET)
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        Then KO can start shaming the CBO! The CBO says Obama's figures don't add up when it comes to his health care initiatives!
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        • Author by vhw28672478 (August 04, 2009 3:38 pm ET)
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          Rush is a moron
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        • Author by marco21 (August 04, 2009 3:55 pm ET)
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          Wow pupple. Are you in a race to win laziest wingnut today? Why do I ask? Why, here's a headline from Fox News about the CBO & healthcare- Obama's Health Care Numbers Don't Add Up

          Try again. Try harder. Hell, at least try to form your own argument.





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      • Author by fairliberal (August 04, 2009 4:46 pm ET)
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        Did you object when acorn was busing protesters and paying them to boot?
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        • Author by RABBITLUVR (August 04, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
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          Nope. They were protesting AIG scum which is much different from the mouthbreathers who are stifling debate at the townhalls. Once again, apples and oranges do not mix.
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        • Author by Tbone Slickens (August 04, 2009 6:38 pm ET)
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          No they didn't mind. When the left uses these tried and true methods developed in the thirty's and honed in the sixty's, and now used by ACORN with help from our agitator in chief then it's OK!

          If the right uses them, then it's now not "real". Well, it's real if it works.
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        • Author by tman418 (August 05, 2009 10:37 pm ET)
             
          It sure has been awhile since you displayed your ACORN obsession. Were you about to die from not saying anything about it?
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    • Author by dmhack (August 04, 2009 3:12 pm ET)
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      The Great Gasbag knows these people are genuine because Dick Armey told him they are. And since Armey is footing the bill for these thugs, he ought to know.
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    • Author by fantagor (August 04, 2009 3:42 pm ET)
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      I want everyone to spread the word that these protesters are

      DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

      Use that phrase repeatedly in the context of the astro-turf demonstrators

      DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

      Their side lost in a legal election, so now they will resort to the extra-legal by disrupting town hall meetings. You do NOT have a Constitutional right to stir up a riot. These people are

      DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

      They don't care about America. They care about the GOP. They cannot stand that the Democrats won fair and square. All they want is for the country to FAIL so they can regain power and pillage the middle class a little more.

      Randy
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      • Author by fairliberal (August 04, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
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        Maybe it is time to listen to Hillary..http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908040032
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (August 04, 2009 8:17 pm ET)
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        Everyone, Randy? Isn't that, like, unrealistic? But if you're serious, I'm down!

        I'M A DOMESTIC TERRORIST

        MY NEIGHBOR IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST

        MY FAMILY MEMBERS ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

        ANYONE WHO DOESN'T SUPPORT TUTENBAMA IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (August 04, 2009 5:28 pm ET)
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      Real cow patties,be careful don't step in it, wear your boots
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    • Author by paul8616 (August 05, 2009 3:25 pm ET)
         
      When can we call them 'useful idiots?'

      Or 'tools?'

      Can we start doing that now?
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