Limbaugh: Obama sending out "union thugs," involved in "Mussolini-type stuff"
August 07, 2009 2:16 pm ET
From the August 7 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Yesterday you were talking about Obama's brown shirts and today you're talking about Mussolini. So does that mean I have to take my brown shirts back and exchange them for black ones? Will you please get your fascist references straight.
(psst - here's a hint - it's the people who can't believe a black man is president)
Do you know what I'm referring to when I mention Operation Chaos?
"This is why it's called Operation Chaos! It's not called Operation Save Hillary. It's not called Operation Nominate Obama. It's called Operation Chaos! The dream end... I mean, if people say what's your exit strategery, the dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's the objective here."
If calling out the SEIU makes Obama like Mussolini, what does this desire for chaos and anarchy make Rush Limbaugh? This is a quote from his transcripts on his site about what he was trying to accomplish as far as thwarting the democratic process just this past year.
He was talking about a lib group whose name references
those 1968 riots, and the possibility that they would go nuts if obama did not get the nomination, exposing the democratic party's crazy extremists for all to see at the benefit of the conservative movement. I wish i could remember the exact name of the group, i cannot.
You are, to be frank, lying if you are insinuating that Limbaugh was asking his listeners to riot and burn cars, when it fact it was the group in question who was threatening to do this.
He explicitly stated multiple times that his "operation chaos" should never use or be involved in any kind of riot or disorderly behavior.
Operation chaos was started by Rush, a private citizen. It involved people supporting Hillary so that she would be nominated instead of Obama. The "chaos" is the chaos that would be generated in the democratic party is they fought and bickered over who should be nominated.
Where, exactly, is the analog between that and union groups intimidating and attacking citizen protesters at town hall meetings?
You say these unions have no ties to the obama administration, we say they do, and that they get their marching orders from democratic officials.
If this is true, if it could be shown that these union members are at the beck and call of democratic officials, would you not be concerned?
Do you have any proof that suggests that these union members are not in any way controlled by dem officials?
It seems the wingnuts can no longer be bothered to distinguish between them Afercans....
Ware the Mussolini-type stuff! I've seen what Mussoltoe can do to one's chances in the old weddings sweepstakes.
As for silencing dissent, you're having conservative flashbacks. That was a Bush/Cheney idea. Do you know how strong that idea became? Cheney shot a lawyer in the face with a shotgun, and the lawyer -apologized-!
I understand you're trying to redirect the focus of the town halls away from health coverage reform, and away from media attention on the fact that the insurance lobbies are creating mobs to bus from place to place to shout down the debate, but you're going to have to work just a little harder than this. Don't you make millions of dollars a year? Because you're turning in minimum wage effort here, and that's really an insult to minimum wage workers, most of whom actually -do- work, as opposed to pontificate.
Protest is democracy when done by the left, when it is done by the right, they deserve to be attacked? I know that is a favored tactic of the left but that does not make it right.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/08/union_brownshir.html
"The inevitable violence that accompanies all totalitarian power grabs has begun,"
Inevitable violence? Not in this case. The Right has been plotting and planning and busing and stirring up the mob for over two weeks now. All the conservative media have taken part.
You have absolutely no evidence that the people from SEIU were thugs, but since Rush has been using the word lately, it must be accurate? Sorry, but I'm not a dittohead, and will not fall for that kind of silliness.
Attacked people? There was certainly an altercation, and people were arrested. So far as I know, there has been no trial, aside from the conservative rush to judgment. Funny, you on the Right stir up violence, call for people to disrupt town halls, shout down honest debate, and then, when violence breaks out, you blame the Left.
Peaceable protest is open to all citizens, thanks to the first amendment to the Constitution, fairliberal. That's not what the insurance lobbies and conservatives are calling for, is it? That's not why they bus people from place to place.
Obama did not send 'union thugs' anywhere, to do anything. This is purely a fabrication on Mr. Limbaugh's part.
Do you want to know how much Limbaugh values 'peaceable protest'? Go do some research on Operation Chaos, then come back and talk to me.
And even if they were, private organizations have a right to do so.
You've forgotten acorn haven't you? There is no question that they transported people to Obama rallies to hold signs and cheer. In some cases they even had them *flown* in. This is a fact.
The difference between the two scenarios is the presence of government involvement in the case of ACORN.