Limbaugh whitewash continues: "Nobody's calling Obama Hitler; nobody's calling Pelosi Joseph Goebbels"
August 14, 2009 1:23 pm ET
From the August 14th edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh:
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What's the big deal?
Wingnut FAIL #7,345
. . . even though, in the very next clip, Limpballs claims Obama has "surrounded himself with Jew-haters" . . .
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If you use that word in the style that Rush used it, all it takes is one person to refute the entire claim.
great
Okay, so let's assume that Rush has not explicitly called Obama Hitler or Pelosi Goebbels. The comparisons between Democratic figures and Nazi figures, as well as the Democratic Party and Nazism, have been made by Rush and his cohorts, but let's assume that he hasn't called Obama "Hitler".
The fact is that your listeners, Rush, MAKE THAT ASSUMPTION. They hear you making the comparisons, and the psychology alone is enough to have your Dittoheads MAKE THAT ASSUMPTION. You're not calling him "Hitler", but your implications and words are Pavlovian bells for listeners with itchy trigger-fingers.
And THAT is where the "busted" swastika signs are coming from--your egging of their fragile psyches until they make the connection for themselves. And there ARE people who are calling Obama "Hitler"--just do a freaking Google search on those two words, and you'll find 1,760,000 images connecting the two words with DISTURBING imagery.
You're being ignorant, Rush. That will be your undoing someday.
However, I notice that some of those images are simply Bush being Bush (throwing up the "Go Horns!" sign of the "Devil"). There are simply more disturbing images of "Obama + Hitler" than that of "Bush + Devil".
Trying to tie Obama to the most murderous fascist regime and evil man the world has ever known is quite another.
http://images.google.com/images?q=bush+hitler&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=HyKHSvDNHdiQtgfe693nDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/stunner-pelosis-supporters-and-allies.html
http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html
Bad analogy there, Dave, but keep trying.
I want to say that I am appalled by his lack of morals, but that would make me a laughing stock. At no time in his tabloid-Jerry-Springer-style career has he displayed any compunction about attacking an elected official that doesn't espouse his strict, if deranged dogma.
Limbaugh panders to those who are least able to draw their own conclusions, the supposed disenfranchised white male. The very male that has been entitled to all sorts of privilege throughout the history of our nation. These men, who are now having to contend with other races and genders who are making their place in his insular, privileded world, are extremely susceptible to they type pseudo-sympathetic brainwashing which Limbaugh employs.
His rhetoric has inspired acts of vandalism and even violent outbursts. If anything were to happen to any of the congress people who are trying to communicate the FACTS to brainwashed individuals, Mr. Limbaugh and his Fox cronies should be prosecuted. This is a country of laws that is becoming increasingly lawless due to their irresponsible ramblings.
To end, I would like to remind Mr. Limbaugh of Harry Truman's statement, paraphrased because I'm too tired to look it up. If you don't respect the man, you should at least respect the office he holds.
Oh, but Harry Truman was one of those demonised Dems, so that comment won't do him any good.