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Limbaugh explaining his Nazi reference: "Socialism is socialism," "Hitler, Lenin, Stalin were all men of the left"

August 10, 2009 2:28 pm ET

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

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    • Author by jlw7717595 (August 10, 2009 2:31 pm ET)
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      He is so ignorant it hurts
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    • Author by DAWUSS (August 10, 2009 2:34 pm ET)
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      Somehow, I don't see the Democrat Party committing the same (or similar) atrocities that the aforementioned did.
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      • Author by RABBITLUVR (August 10, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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        The what Party?
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        • Author by DAWUSS (August 10, 2009 2:55 pm ET)
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          The Democrat Party. They're composed of Democrats. Just like the Republican Party is composed of Republicans.
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          • Author by bintx (August 10, 2009 2:59 pm ET)
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            Your logic and your grammar is flawed, but then you know that, right? I'll repeat the Democratic Party is the legal name of the party composed of Democrats. The use of the Rush term for that club shows your pettiness and lack of education.
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            • Author by bintx (August 10, 2009 3:00 pm ET)
                 
              My grammar was flawed, too. Your logic and your grammar ARE flawed. [Added the grammar statement and didn't change the tense.]
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          • Author by vysotsky (August 10, 2009 3:41 pm ET)
               
            Ah yes, just like that country, Canadia. You know, where Canadians hail from. I mean, it must be called Canadia, otherwise why would its citizens be called Canadians, right?

            It's the Democratic Party, and it's composed of Democrats. But I can understand why Limbaugh and those who share his view wouldn't want to call people and things by their actual names. Why, if he started doing that then he'd have to start calling feminists feminists instead of feminazis, and that would deprive him of one of his greatest rhetorical assets: infantile name-calling.
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          • Author by worrierking (August 10, 2009 4:33 pm ET)
               
            The term democrat party was coined by focus groups paid for by right wing think tanks and used as a derogatory name for the Democratic Party. To use the term once in awhile could be forgiven, but to use it as much as you do shows us where you stand.

            Once any group allows itself to be defined by it's opposition, the group ceases to be taken seriously. I'll accept being called a member of the democrat party when Republicans accept being called the chickenhawk, anti-intellectual party.
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      • Author by bintx (August 10, 2009 2:56 pm ET)
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        The legal name of that political club would be the DemocraTIC Party. Use of the Rush Limbaugh version makes the user look petty, small and undereducated. I suppose that you call the other major club the "Republic Party," right?
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        • Author by DAWUSS (August 10, 2009 3:09 pm ET)
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          Repubicans, Republicant's, Rethuglicans, Republikkkans...

          Democraps, Dumbocrats, Thugocrats, Demokkkrats...


          Not that I care what labels are used by whom, but I've made my point.
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          • Author by vysotsky (August 10, 2009 3:47 pm ET)
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            Yeah, who cares about labels, right? After all, what difference does it make if someone calls a doctor who performs legal medical procedures "Tiller The Killer" over and over again? None at all. Or if one calls feminists feminazis. Doesn't matter at all.
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          • Author by worrierking (August 10, 2009 4:36 pm ET)
               
            Really, do we need to check and see how often, in the past, you've called The Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, compared to the number of times you've call it the democrat party?

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    • Author by pasteve (August 10, 2009 2:38 pm ET)
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      And they all got along swimmingly, didn't they Rush?

      Does he realize that if even 1/3 of his argument were true, he'd be off the air and in a work camp already?
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      • Author by Johnny Carp (August 10, 2009 2:42 pm ET)
           
        "Does he realize that if even 1/3 of his argument were true, he'd be off the air and in a work camp already? "

        I am sure Rush realizes this, his listeners do not!
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      • Author by phredicles (August 10, 2009 3:09 pm ET)
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        Not that I'm endorsing work camps, but imagining that drug-addicted blob in one is pretty d@mn funny.

        But it'
        s worth repeating until it sinks in through even a few of the rightes' thick, thick skulls: If Hitler was such a leftist, why were his biggest fans in the US all conservatives?
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    • Author by internet soldier (August 10, 2009 2:42 pm ET)
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      I'm now pretty sure this "Hitler was a leftist" thing is simply a giant mind-screw operation designed to drive liberals crazy from having to constantly defend the obvious. Its certainly tedious to have to explain to these morons why fascists and communists hated each other so much.

      It seems that the wingnuts have decided they will believe whatever they want, screw the outside world! Its that blatant. Its intellectual violence I tell you.
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      • Author by shaggles (August 10, 2009 2:46 pm ET)
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        You are probably right. I suppose either Rush doesn't know or he knows his listeners don't know that communists suffered essentially the same fate under Hilter as the Jews.
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        • Author by magnolialover (August 10, 2009 2:48 pm ET)
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          The argument some conservatives have used with me to PROVE that Hitler was a socialist?

          It's right there, in the name of their political party. The National Socialists. They HAVE to be lefties because of that.

          Totally ignoring of course, how Hitler ran things.
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          • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 10, 2009 2:52 pm ET)
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            I always want to respond to that with "China and Iran HAVE to be republics!"
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          • Author by MiddleLeft (August 10, 2009 3:29 pm ET)
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            It's right there, in the name of their political party. The National Socialists. They HAVE to be lefties because of that.

            Yes, But the righties also go much farther than that! There's plenty of rhetoric out there (such the Free Republic first page on Google if you search nazi socialism). Claims that since Hitler wanted to control everything, that made him a socialist. Not sure how these loons define fascism. Clever name the Nazi picked for their party alliance to bring in enough disparate groups to break into power.
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            • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (August 10, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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              Clever name the Nazi picked for their party alliance...

              No kidding, ML. It's still fooling some people more than a half century later, probably as they're asking "How could all of those people have been sucked in by Hitler's propaganda ?" and trying to compare their political opponents to Hitler.
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      • Author by pete592 (August 10, 2009 2:49 pm ET)
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        I hear crap like this from professional right-wing liars like Rush, then I read historical references that say Nazi Brownshirt street violence often targeted communists, union organizers and social Democrats. Hmm...which to believe?
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        • Author by Bronwyn (August 10, 2009 5:29 pm ET)
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          They do not want to question or face their own prejudices, beliefs, morals or lack of. Rush sorta confirms for them, that it is okay to think this way.
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      • Author by rms (August 10, 2009 3:45 pm ET)
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        It is really very simple.

        Rush speaks with the assurance that his audience is uneducated. He is confident that he can say the dumbest, most historically and factually inaccurate things, and he knows his "flock" will take it as gospel.

        It has been a very lucrative gig, though one wonders if his sense of self worth comes from (a) his wallet, or (b) the power he knows he has over lazy listeners.

        There is probably a (c) in there as well. Feel free to follow up.
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    • Author by mk3872 (August 10, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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      Of course, the reality is that it is obvious that Rush actually adores Hitler's natioinalism & pure-society themes. It comes out in Rush's daily rants against minorities and "real America".
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    • Author by epkklk851 (August 10, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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      Rush needs to take a political science class. He is using words without a clue to their meaning. The sad part is, he is the blind leading the blind, and I am so sad.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 10, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
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      Socialism is socialism? I actually wonder if Rush knows what socialism means.
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      • Author by magnolialover (August 10, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
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        Nope, it is apparently clear, using his own examples, he does NOT know what socialism is at all.
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 10, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
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      Except that none of those guys he mentioned were, you know, socialists.
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    • Author by bintx (August 10, 2009 2:48 pm ET)
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      Ignorance must be bliss, Rush.
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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 10, 2009 2:49 pm ET)
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      Boy, the Nazis sure had a lot of corporate ties for socialists. (Yes, it's a humor site; that doesn't mean they aren't right.)
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (August 10, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
           
        OMG, Kid, thanks! I may never have noticed the Hitler 'stache on Herbie !

        Good stuff.
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    • Author by Meazy (August 10, 2009 2:49 pm ET)
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      What about Jesus... do I hear socialist? Do I hear a man on the left maybe? If Obama was a Nazi these protesters would have been killed or jailed already. Or if Obama was Bush, these protesters would have gotten a nice visit from the Department of Homeland Security.
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      • Author by Bronwyn (August 10, 2009 5:36 pm ET)
           
        What about Jesus..
        Please don't tell me he was a community organizer.
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        • Author by John Paradox (August 10, 2009 8:06 pm ET)
             
          Matthew 19:21
          Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
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          • Author by Bronwyn (August 10, 2009 10:53 pm ET)
               
            visit prisoners..cloth the naked and there was that big dinner party.........
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    • Author by renardot (August 10, 2009 2:55 pm ET)
         
      There is no way he can give an explanation. Oops he tried and it is so pathetic.
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    • Author by Digital Jedi (August 10, 2009 3:01 pm ET)
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      She started it! She started it!

      Actually, no. No she didn't. And would it matter if she had? You're not an 8 year old.
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      • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (August 10, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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        No, but he's got an eight-year-old deep inside himself. Until his trip overseas ends, that is.
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    • Author by dmp079 (August 10, 2009 8:20 pm ET)
         
      WOW! He got two out of three right. Hitler was not on the left he was on the right. Stalin and Leinin were on the left, but there were all Marx. I think he deserves a cookie from gettin something right for a change even though he was half wrong!
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (August 11, 2009 9:48 am ET)
         
      This man is so ignorant, it is breathtaking
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