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Limbaugh: "[T]he Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo"

August 06, 2009 12:55 pm ET

From the August 6 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by dmhack (August 06, 2009 12:58 pm ET)
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      Looks like it's Nazi day on hate radio.
      Funny, I thought Thursdays were socialism days.
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      • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 06, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
           
        Under socialism, all bats__t-insane historical comparisons are given an equal share of the wealth. JUST LIKE YAKOV SMIRNOV WARNED.
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      • Author by christopher howard (August 06, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
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        You are confused. The talking point schedule is supposed to be as follows...

        Monday: Obama is iron-fisted dictator (Hitler and Stalin) day.

        Tuesday: Obama is weak leader (Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter) day.

        Wednesday: Liberalism = Communism/Socialism day

        Thursday: Liberalism = Fascism/Nazism day

        Friday: Obama is secretly a fanatical Muslim and/or non-believer Atheist/the anti-Christ day. Also Taco Night!

        Please adjust your calendar accordingly.

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        • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 06, 2009 1:36 pm ET)
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          ...And for all you atheists, FRIDAY is BACON-CHEESBURGER night!
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        • Author by fauxpopuli (August 06, 2009 10:22 pm ET)
             
          Wait, there are tacos? No wonder this dude's so popular. I would've happily gone insane years ago if I knew there were tacos.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 06, 2009 1:01 pm ET)
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      I wonder if Rush pulled a muscle making that stretch?
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (August 06, 2009 1:02 pm ET)
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      Trebek: The answer is: Obama Health Care equals Nazism.
      Contestant: What is the GOPOS talking point of the day.
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    • Author by pete592 (August 06, 2009 1:05 pm ET)
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      IS THIS IT???
      [http://sacascuhs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/obama_healthcare_logo.jpg]
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      • Author by dmhack (August 06, 2009 1:06 pm ET)
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        You have to blur your eyes and be strung out on prescription meds to properly see it.
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      • Author by vysotsky (August 06, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
           
        Now why did you have to post that horrible symbol of hatred and genocide on this site?!?!
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      • Author by pete592 (August 06, 2009 2:12 pm ET)
           
        I think I know where he's going with it now that I see this one...

        [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Nazi_eagle_swastika.png]

        So Obama's use of the Caduceus, a symbol long synonymous with medicine and healing, in conjunction with his campaign logo, is now evidence of brutal, dictatorial fascism.
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        • Author by malacandra (August 06, 2009 2:16 pm ET)
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          Mark Twain famously noted that the name of the community of "Middletown" was derived from the name of "Moses".

          Just drop the "-oses" and add "-iddletown".
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        • Author by vysotsky (August 06, 2009 2:36 pm ET)
             
          It gets worse. Apparently Rush and company are suggesting that the United States of America was actually founded by Nazis. I mean, just look at the visual evidence:

          [http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:p8_xcyrdeYwE7M:http://www.warelics.com/images/1stheerparadehelmetEagle.jpg]
          [http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:iDSj3hbpJVwZXM:http://www.madingleyamericancemetery.info/images/visitors-center-eagle-large.jpg]
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        • Author by killerfurball (August 06, 2009 4:37 pm ET)
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          Yeah, there is a resemblance in the whole eagle thing and a circle. I mean, good going Rush you can properly identify shapes congratulations on passing kindergarten.

          Other then that the Caduceus is only recently identified with "healing" which makes me tickled. It was the wand used to guide the dead to the underworld by Mercury. It would make more sense for them to use the Asklepian which was associated with healing.
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          • Author by pete592 (August 06, 2009 5:09 pm ET)
               
            If the Caduceus is not synonymous with healing, then I stand corrected. Both the rod of Asclepius and the Caduceus have been used to symbolized medicine and medical organizations in the US for decades.
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            • Author by killerfurball (August 06, 2009 6:37 pm ET)
                 
              The major change occurred in the US in the mid 19th Century when it started appearing in the Army. I like Stuart Tyson's quote about it's usage (you have to know the Caduceus is used by 76% of commercial organizations while the Asklepian is used by 62% of professional associations):

              "As god of the high-road and the market-place Hermes was perhaps above all else the patron of commerce and the fat purse: as a corollary, he was the special protector of the traveling salesman. As spokesman for the gods, he not only brought peace on earth (occasionally even the peace of death), but his silver-tongued eloquence could always make the worse appear the better cause. From this latter point of view, would not his symbol be suitable for certain Congressmen, all medical quacks, book agents and purveyors of vacuum cleaners, rather than for the straight-thinking, straight-speaking therapist? As conductor of the dead to their subterranean abode, his emblem would seem more appropriate on a hearse than on a physician's car."
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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 06, 2009 1:07 pm ET)
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      He's got... wait for it... talent on loan from Godwin.
      Thank you, I'll be here through the weekend.
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    • Author by vysotsky (August 06, 2009 1:18 pm ET)
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      This is forehead slappingly painful. Nevermind that the caduceus looks about as much like an eagle holding a swastika as does the American eagle holding olive branches and arrows. These geniuses think that they just cracked the Da Vinci code and have discovered that Barack Obama is, in fact, a black Nazi.
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      • Author by dmhack (August 06, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
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        With all the doctor shopping and prescription filling the Great Gasbag does, you'd think he was very familiar with the symbol.
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        • Author by vysotsky (August 06, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
             
          Such a shame. First he loses his hearing to his narcotics addiction*, and now apparently he's losing his sight.

          *Allegedly, of course.
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      • Author by neon desert (August 06, 2009 2:11 pm ET)
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        Apparently, "these geniuses" are only slighty less observant than the freepers, who picked this up from Drudge's site where it ran 2 days ago.

        Here's something else to ponder:

        [http://www.topnews.in/files/Hitler-salute3.jpg][http://www.tourismjunction.com/images/statue-of-liberty-ny.jpg]

        Coincidence? Or diabolical plot to nazify us all?

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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 07, 2009 12:36 am ET)
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      Well, all, considering how much Limbaugh looks like Goering...
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 07, 2009 12:38 am ET)
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        The place for a favored old M*A*S*H quote on Goering:

        "He also wore tutus and ate whole bakeries." Boy, Rush is like Goering, come to think of it...
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