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Limbaugh compares school kids SHOCK VIDEO to Cuba and Venezuela

September 25, 2009 1:16 pm ET

From the September 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Hannity guest Nina Easton on school kids "SHOCK VIDEO": "Mao would be proud"

Hannity guest S.E. Cupp on school kids shock video: "It's like Havana elementary school"

Dobbs on school kids video: "Is this evidence of left-wing propaganda and indoctrination, or what?"

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    • Author by pilotshark (September 25, 2009 1:23 pm ET)
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      wondering went they wake up and realize that this snowball they been making is now a full blow avalanche and you can not stop one of those went they start.
      It just makes them so un-american and well lets face it just plain old un-human and that goes to all the trolls as well.
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      • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 1:34 pm ET)
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        They don't care. I'm quite sure they are very proud of themselves now that the school is on lockdown because of all the death threats they are receiving. The reichwing just put a bunch of 12 year olds in the crossfire and endangered their lives.
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        • Author by worrierking (September 25, 2009 1:38 pm ET)
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          You've got to make sacrifices in order to further your agenda.

          Oops!

          Meant to say that OTHERS have got to sacrifice to further your agenda. I forgot we were talking about the Cyst King.
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        • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 1:44 pm ET)
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          The teachers and staff are responsible for what has happened. Your analogy is like saying the highway patrol is responsible for drunk drivers. It appears that the teachers who were instructing the children must wholeheartedly believe President Obama, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have much in common. What was particularly striking about the video is the climactic right arm salute by the children, choreographed by the teacher, that clearly mimics a nazi salute or a 'black power' fist salute. Nice!
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          • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 1:48 pm ET)
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            Nice try at evading your personal role in endangering childrens lives with your ginned up outrage. Wow, nazi salutes and black power? Your racism knows no bounds, does it?
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            • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 1:59 pm ET)
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              My 'personal role', Joe Cool? My role in this debacle is no greater or less than yours. I gotta read your spin on how this is personnaly tied to me. I just gotta read it from you, Joe. The twists and turns will probably be enough to make Mario Andretti queasy.
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              • Author by vhw28672478 (September 25, 2009 2:13 pm ET)
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                Rush is a moron
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              • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 2:15 pm ET)
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                Yup, your personal role which, btw, is far greater than mine. You know, your efforts to continue stoking up ginned outrage in support of Beck and the other racists. Should someone get hurt because of this, I'll be looking right at you.
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              • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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                And just to add, while beck is racebaiting and stoking racial fears, he isn't doing it for himself. He's doing it for people like you. If y'all didn't support it he'd have no platform to speak.
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                • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 4:00 pm ET)
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                  So, giving one's opinion makes one responsible for the outcome of a remote event. Your response solidifies my low regard for liberals like yourself. That kind of convoluted logic is textbook for paranoia. Everyone's out to get ya, Joe. All those with an opinion that differs from yours is out to get ya, Joe. I'll bet your cat talks to you, too.
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          • Author by mk3872 (September 25, 2009 1:52 pm ET)
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            Oh puhleeeeeessssse ... gimme a stinkin' break!

            A song in bad taste? Perhaps.

            But comparing this to Chavez & Castro is absolutely pathetic!

            So this from the same conservatives that want to rewrite history books to include shrines to Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. That's okie-dokie, right?

            Just no nice things to be said about a Democratic president?

            These same folks who lament not having Christmas songs being sung in public schools now want to stop singing songs about our country's president.

            Of course, unless he happens to be a Republican ...
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            • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 25, 2009 2:33 pm ET)
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              A song in bad taste? Perhaps.
              A song in bad taste? Not in the slightest.
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              • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 2:58 pm ET)
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                A commercial success, "Beat It" was awarded two Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards and was inducted into the Music Video Producers Hall of Fame. "Beat It" (along with the song's music video) helped propel Thriller into becoming the best-selling album of all time. The song was certified platinum in 1989. Rolling Stone magazine placed "Beat It" in the 337th spot on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[2] and on the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[3]


                Just like this school song, weird al's "eat it" did nothing to take away from the commercial success or meaning of the original. Believers will still listen to the original and not think any less of it.

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                • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 4:04 pm ET)
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                  What does the song, "Beat it" and the parody "eat it" have to do with anything? The thread is about song lyrics written to substitute Obama with Jesus. The song, "Beat it" was not used. You're really grasping now.
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                  • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 4:23 pm ET)
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                    It really is sad watching you think you're an adult yet showing us daily that you are incapable of the slightest ability to understand simple things like context or comparison. No wonder Beck likes you, you're perfect for him!
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                  • Author by kfraz43 (September 25, 2009 5:38 pm ET)
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                    Puppie - you remind me of "Ten Second Tom" in 50 First Dates. Don't you remember up the thread a bit when we all said that they took an existing tune and put new words to it? THAT's what "Beat It" and "Eat It" have to do with anything.

                    BTW - I must admit that I've been a Weird Al fan for 25 years now.
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                    • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 5:56 pm ET)
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                      The thread is about a specific song and specific lyrics written to substitute Obama for Jesus and then instructing elementary schoolchildren to sing or chant the altered lyrics to praise a political agenda. Focus like a laserbeam. You'll get there. BTW, I too, am a Weird Al fan. My son wrote a composition about Al 12 years ago, in high school, and we had the opportunity to see him perform live. He is very talented. His father was also an accomplished musician.
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                      • Author by kfraz43 (September 25, 2009 6:06 pm ET)
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                        It's called analogy. It's used to compare one thing with another. The substituting Obama for Jesus straw man that you keep hacking at was being explained by others in this thread by using the Weird Al analogy. Sometimes it's okay to bring in ideas from the real world to explain things in a thread, as we are attempting to do here. The lyrics weren't altered; they were completely re-created - only the tune remained the same. Which is exactly what Weird Al does with his parodies. Although some of my favorite Al songs are not direct parodies, but "style parodies" - such as "Mr. Popeil" (B-52's homage).

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                      • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 8:04 pm ET)
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                        That's quite a set of conspiracy theories you've got going there. How delusional is that?
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                  • Author by mjboldt (September 25, 2009 8:08 pm ET)
                       
                    Grasping, is what you and your friends on the Dark Side are doing when you try to blow this performance out of proportion. Making it into something it is not. Black History Month is in February, this took place in February, it was honoring the fact that (like it or not) Barack Obama is the first African-american president. And what is wrong with substituting President Obama for Jesus, it'd be like substituting President Bush for Santa Claus, one's real and the other is a fairy-tale.
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          • Author by DellDolly (September 25, 2009 1:57 pm ET)
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            There was nothing wrong with the song. There was something wrong with endangering children's health by publishing this video and/or linking to it without the childrens' faces blurred out.

            It's akin to someone leaving a knife in their home where a crazed man can get it when he walks into that home through an unlocked door. Then he goes out and stabs a bunch of people, and people like you blame the homeowner for not locking the door and for leaving the knife out where he could easily get to it.
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          • Author by worrierking (September 25, 2009 2:25 pm ET)
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            The teachers and the staff are responsible for death threats?

            Another attempt to excuse threats of violence by the anti-American forces unleashed by Republican lunatics.
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            • Author by neon desert (September 25, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
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              None of us are surprised that a statement that ludicrous would come from a supporter of the party of personal responsibility.

              Maybe what we need to do is take a quick glance at the statistics of violence threats before and after the networks aired the video. Might give us a better idea of how much responsibility the teachers bear.
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            • Author by puppienrainbows (September 25, 2009 4:09 pm ET)
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              They were responsible for the taping of the event and ultimately responsible for the airing of the tape. Taping of schoolchildren and then mindlessly allowing the tape to reach the general madia is their reponsibility, regardless of the content of the tape. They should be fired and then sued by the parents.
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              • Author by snoopy (September 25, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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                Wow, what a delusional paranoia you've got going there! Fired and sued for a song! Hoo boy! But if you want to go there, lets also fire and sue any teacher who makes our kids say a morning prayer or pray before the game. I'm sure you'd be just as outraged letting those teachers try to indoctrinate our children into your 5th reich...
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              • Author by neon desert (September 25, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
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                Are you sure the teachers were responsible for airing the tape? It was posted on YouTube, but there is no information regarding who posted it. Tell me how you reached the conclusion that the teachers are responsible for airing the video.

                And to be honest, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt regarding who taped the event. I haven't seen any information regarding that, either. I presume you're speaking from an informed foundation. I'm not presuming too much, am I?
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                • Author by DellDolly (September 26, 2009 12:22 am ET)
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                  It wasn't taped by the teachers, first off.

                  And secondly, the error by the original poster has been compounded by the multiple egregious errors by the right wing media to continue to publish the kids' faces without blurring them out!

                  This is akin to Karl Rove claiming that he didn't leak Valerie Plame's name because someone had leaked it first. Rove still leaked it, and the scumbags who linked to the YouTube video that didn't have the faces blurred continued to endanger the kids beyond anything the original YouTuber had done!
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              • Author by pete592 (September 25, 2009 5:34 pm ET)
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                Kids were also fed musical propaganda as part of Bush's indoctrination conspiracy.
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        • Author by DellDolly (September 25, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
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          But, but, but, don't you know that once the original person posted the video online, the children's identities were compromised and no further damage could be done to them?

          <end sarcasm>

          When the original person posted this video in June, after the event happened in February, it got no notice. Yeah, it was wrong for her to publish the kids' faces without a consent form signed by the parents that their children could appear in this video online.

          Posting the video originally was bad, but when some rightwing media pushed it into the public's eye with a distorted back story, that was inflamatory and irresponsible and dangerous.
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (September 25, 2009 1:52 pm ET)
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      The other day Limbaugh spent 5 minutes thanking his new sponsor hillsdale college.Because he now has so few sponsors left he can give more personal service to them.Limbaugh,and others are doing a big part of the few commercials they have left themselves.Guess they doing them on the cheap,making them earn their money.Today,Rush Limbaugh could not sell a commercial seconds before or after lunch on a Friday.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (September 25, 2009 2:30 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh compares school kids SHOCK VIDEO to Cuba and Venezuela

      I compare the Jesus Camp video that is on youtube.com to a scarier form of indoctrination! WATCH!

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6rSjrBhUIA
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    • Author by TIM (September 25, 2009 2:51 pm ET)
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      Rush Limbaugh should be crowned the "Hypocrite-in-chief". If GW Bush would have a song about him, Rush would be touting it as patriotic. Also, what does Rush think about all of his parodies of songs about past and current presidents/senators/others that demean the person they are about, and promote his way of thinking. Just as he said on the Jay leno show "Agree with me and everything will be fine" or something like that. The man is delusional and is apparently running scared of Obama due to his attacks.
      I feel sorry for him.
      t
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    • Author by worrierking (September 25, 2009 6:49 pm ET)
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      He's right. I'd compare it to Venezuela or Cuba too.

      Or maybe to the US circa 2006
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