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Calling Bismarck a "lefty," Limbaugh asserts government-run health care laid groundwork for Nazis

August 10, 2009 1:19 pm ET

From the August 10 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by The_Cat (August 10, 2009 1:25 pm ET)
         
      I understand that you are concerned about doctor shopping, Rush. Even with all your money, you may be reduced to buying your particular flavor from a drug dealer instead of three or four area pharmacies, scripted by three or four different doctors. I get it.

      Hey, you know you -just- got done saying that Nancy Pelosi started this whole 'calling people Nazis' thing, and you were wrong about that, weren't you? It was -you- who started it, on July 23rd:
      http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907230023

      I submit that continuing to compare health coverage reform with Nazi Germany could lead to unintended consequences. Not because I think you'll stop, but because I don't wish for you to be able to say, "But, nobody told me!"
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    • Author by John Paradox (August 10, 2009 1:32 pm ET)
         
      Privacy? What privacy? Neocons say there's no such right...
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    • Author by dmhack (August 10, 2009 1:43 pm ET)
         
      You know, that didn't even come close to making any sense at all. And a Bismarck reference? Clearly the Great Gasbag has given up on attracting listeners under the age of 80.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (August 10, 2009 2:06 pm ET)
           
        that bismarck reference was made up. the only thing he cared about was expansionism and staying in power. there was a reason that he was the Iron Chancellor. cause he was that effective a politician.
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 10, 2009 1:49 pm ET)
         
      Government run health care did not lay the groundwork for Nazis. Keep it up Rush. You sound dumber and dumber every single day.

      I mean, let's see. The UK has government run health care. Canada too. As well as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and other countries around the world. Funny thing is, none of those turned into dictatorships and all. I mean, what exactly are you scared of Rush? People actually being able to be healthy? And see doctors?
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      • Author by tman418 (August 11, 2009 1:17 am ET)
           
        Isreael, Limbaugh's 2nd favorite country (or first...who knows), has universal health care, and a very..."active" military at the same time, so to speak.
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    • Author by WhatImlost (August 10, 2009 5:26 pm ET)
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      If when you say that Bismarck was a socialist, you mean he wasnt a socialist then you are correct as he was a devout monarcist and did not think the People had any right to question the Ruler. He believed the king should have absolute power.

      Also with the Bismarck Weimar connection Limbaugh is reffering to
      Bismarck was removed as Chancellor in 1890. He was dead by 1898.

      The Weimar Republic did not come into being until 1918, twenty years later, 28 years after Bismarck left office. This would be like blaiming the current political problems in this country on Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

      I think Rush you might have gotten confused about who Bismarck is, as I think you might have ment to refer to the Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, the guy who actually ruled the Weimar Republic and put Hitler in power. Not that it would matter, Hindenburg was also a monarcist and deciedly anti-sociallist and was only convined to appoint Hitler after he went senile.

      You could learn all this Rush, if you just bothered to read a history book. But I understand that you cant do that, after all History, like reality, has a Liberal bias.
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    • Author by WhatImlost (August 10, 2009 5:26 pm ET)
         
      If when you say that Bismarck was a socialist, you mean he wasnt a socialist then you are correct as he was a devout monarcist and did not think the People had any right to question the Ruler. He believed the king should have absolute power.

      Also with the Bismarck Weimar connection Limbaugh is reffering to
      Bismarck was removed as Chancellor in 1890. He was dead by 1898.

      The Weimar Republic did not come into being until 1918, twenty years later, 28 years after Bismarck left office. This would be like blaiming the current political problems in this country on Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

      I think Rush you might have gotten confused about who Bismarck is, as I think you might have ment to refer to the Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, the guy who actually ruled the Weimar Republic and put Hitler in power. Not that it would matter, Hindenburg was also a monarcist and deciedly anti-sociallist and was only convined to appoint Hitler after he went senile.

      You could learn all this Rush, if you just bothered to read a history book. But I understand that you cant do that, after all History, like reality, has a Liberal bias.
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