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Limbaugh says Obama has "created or saved 4.5 million pick-up basketball games, many of them at midnight"

October 30, 2009 12:34 pm ET

From the October 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by soze169880 (October 30, 2009 12:39 pm ET)
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      IF U THINK RUSH IS RASIST 4 THIS IT JUS MEANZ *U* ARE RASISTER! TELEPROMPTER BIRTH CERSTIFIKUT![/troll]
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      • Author by princeofwheels (October 30, 2009 12:42 pm ET)
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        Thank you for your insightful comment. I can't wait for your book to come out.
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        • Author by The New Pilgrims (October 30, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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          Um, that was the book. I think.
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          • Author by soze169880 (October 30, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
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            Actually the book is called "Going Rogue". Maybe you've seen it.
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            • Author by slowtyper (October 30, 2009 4:59 pm ET)
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              Haven't seen it..but heard about it..but i thought it was titled "Going Rouge"

              as for limpburger..guess he's blown his shot at owning a nba team too..!
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        • Author by soze169880 (October 30, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
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          That was snark. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
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          • Author by usp (October 30, 2009 12:48 pm ET)
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            loved it!
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          • Author by vysotsky (October 30, 2009 12:48 pm ET)
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            It was plenty clear, and I thank you for making the point before someone came along to express the same point sincerely.
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          • Author by princeofwheels (October 30, 2009 12:49 pm ET)
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            I am snarkly sorry..didn't catch it.

            "Going Red"..oh that Sarah..or is it "TOO MUCH ROUGE"..
            Again, I am confused.

            Sarahs' book..it is now selling for $8...I'll wait until they start giving it away at Newsmax. The fireplace beckons this book.
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            • Author by Conchobhar (October 30, 2009 1:19 pm ET)
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              Sorry. Can't abide book-burning, not even of tripe.
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              • Author by John Paradox (October 30, 2009 3:09 pm ET)
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                Apparently two of the drive by thumbers support book-burning.
                No surprise there.

                Personally, I have both of Limbaugh's books, bought for $0.20 each at the Library (or, as I Neocon it: Socialist Bookstore) annual sale some time back. Useful as 'evidence', since the use of his radio show transcripts can be 'plausibly denied' as 'misspeaking'.. the books are supposedly edited (for grammar and spelling, too) to be sure the content is what the author (ghostwriter) intended.
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                • Author by bintx (October 30, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
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                  You know, that's funny, because I always hear these guys brag about their No. 1 bestsellers, but at our local booksellers and even at Wal-Mart and Sam's, these books don't sell. One would think that living in the second most conservative area in the country, these things would sell better. They are always on the $5.95 bargain book stacks.
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                  • Author by jjamele2880 (October 30, 2009 6:15 pm ET)
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                    The moment any of these books goes into publication ( I won't say "hits the shelves," because they generally DONT) they are bought in bulk by Conservative Think Tanks like the Heritage Foundation, and either warehoused and later destroyed, or given away at fundraisers or through websites. The idea that Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. could actually produce a book that millions of people would buy and read is laughable. It's all about creating the illusion that the nation is "tilted to the Right," and BS "best-seller" claims are part of creating this illusion.
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      • Author by gs-425 (October 30, 2009 2:54 pm ET)
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        What??
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    • Author by princeofwheels (October 30, 2009 12:40 pm ET)
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      Rush, interested in buying one of those teams that play at midnight? Why don't you just take a ride and view a game at midnight..and let 'them' know you are coming. 'They' will be honored to halve you. ( the L was an accident)
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (October 30, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
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        He thought about it while making another business deal as a game was going on
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    • Author by mjh (October 30, 2009 12:53 pm ET)
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      From wiki:

      Midnight basketball was a 1990s initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States by keeping urban youth off the streets and engaging them with alternatives to drugs and crime.
      In 1994, Bill Clinton pushed for an anti-crime bill that would lead to 100,000 more police officers as well as a number of programs intended to "deter crime where it starts" by providing "community activities like midnight basketball".[1] The plan was widely lampooned by conservatives such as House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, who cited midnight basketball as an ineffective and wasteful use of federal funds.[2] Some, such as Rush Limbaugh, even called the proposal racist, given the largely African American populations targeted by the program.[3] Midnight basketball was not a proposal unique to the Democrats as it was one of George H. W. Bush's "Thousand Points of Light".[4]

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    • Author by shaggles (October 30, 2009 1:15 pm ET)
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      What is that evensupposed to mean?
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    • Author by The New Pilgrims (October 30, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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      And for his part, El Rushbo has procreated 4.5 million times, sometimes with a consenting adult, and usually around midnight.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (October 30, 2009 1:22 pm ET)
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      From a man who needs a golf cart to go from one end to the other.
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    • Author by fantagor (October 30, 2009 2:41 pm ET)
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      No racism here. Rush just really likes midnight basketball games where large sweaty shirtless men rub up against him with rough familiarity.

      Randy
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