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Limbaugh calls Krugman "a genuine idiot" before declaring, "There's no such thing" as green jobs

November 30, 2009 2:57 pm ET

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

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    • Author by MickD (November 30, 2009 3:01 pm ET)
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      Okay, Rushbo, time to have Krugman on your show for a debate. Or better yet, let's have Jon Stewart host it as a pay-per-view.
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    • Author by progressiveright (November 30, 2009 3:11 pm ET)
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      This is a perfect example of the pot (Rush) calling the kettle (anyone he disagrees with) black.
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (November 30, 2009 3:11 pm ET)
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      All part of the GOP mafia which attacks anyone that they find a threat.
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    • Author by shaggles (November 30, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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      I suppose Rush thinks he deserves to have a Nobel Prize in economics more than Krugman.
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      • Author by dmhack (November 30, 2009 3:58 pm ET)
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        There you go again, Shag---bringing up that Nobel Prize Krugman won. When are you going to let that go? Big deal... the guy can add.

        Krugman's Nobel pales in comparison to the Great Gasbag's six NAMBLA Man of the Year awards.
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    • Author by toombsie (November 30, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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      So Limbaugh thinks that the multitude of papers and documented scientific evidence of glaciers melting is some big liberal conspiracy. The research done on his show is just so impressive. It basically consists of him inventing a show each day just based on whatever conspiracy fantasies are currently twirling around in his large egg shaped head. That's all he needs. He asks the question: what would Limbaugh like to believe today? If it's in his head, then it's obviously what is happening in reality.
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      • Author by westofkanye (November 30, 2009 3:19 pm ET)
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        Glaciers melting is serious business. I hate it when glaciers melt each year. It gives rise to the notion that humans are causing it ensuring Al Gore a dubious place in history.
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        • Author by bintx (November 30, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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          I don't know of anybody who claims that humans are causing the glaciers to melt . . . most of us understand that humans and their activities are ACCELERATING it. Not sure why global climate change has become a partisan political issue. Why not just try to be more careful? Doesn't hurt anybody and it could help. You just never know, now do you?
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          • Author by markbfoot199 (November 30, 2009 4:11 pm ET)
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            http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/comment.php?comment.news.113
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            • Author by bintx (November 30, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
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              Yeah, as I said, I don't know why it has to be turned into a partisan political issue. Me, personally, as a Christian, I believe that I am to protect what God gave me.

              There is no hoax, but you are too invested in your silly political club loyalty to see it. How very sad for you.
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              • Author by toombsie (November 30, 2009 5:59 pm ET)
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                Yea I don't get why it's a partisan issue either. It's like Republicans are fighting for the conglomerates to allow them to pollute rivers, streams, and the air as much as they wish in the name of capitalism, even though their actions have consequences on their own health.

                I live in Houston, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't notice the huge smog clouds that engulf the city. It's pretty disgusting and only stands to get worse unless the government makes rules that push us to use more renewable energy sources that are less detrimental to the environment. Global warming and glacier melting is just more evidence that fossil fuel burning, in general, is bad for the environment.
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                • Author by alienofwar (November 30, 2009 6:04 pm ET)
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                  And that's why Texas is one of the most polluted states in America. But hey, didn't you know that pollution is good for plants? It makes them grow you know.
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                  • Author by toombsie (November 30, 2009 6:12 pm ET)
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                    There is some credibility to that claim, and some science to back it up. However, the amount of deforestation in this world that's going on is making the pollution problem worse. Rainforests are constantly being mowed down every year, and with them goes hundreds of thousands of acres of potential C02 consuming forests. Even if you replant those trees it takes 30 years for the trees to be old enough and large enough to consume C02 on the scale that the previous trees were consuming it.

                    And that's just talking about rainforests. Houston is another example of a city that every single year hundreds of thousands of trees are mowed down and a strip center is erected in their place.
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            • Author by ScienceBuff (November 30, 2009 5:03 pm ET)
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              And here's a response to Dr. Weinstein, pointing out some of the problems with his cherry-picked data.
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    • Author by wzwriter (November 30, 2009 3:17 pm ET)
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      And there's no such thing as the "Rush Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Study", because listening to this loser only makes his listeners more and more stupid.
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      • Author by bintx (November 30, 2009 4:04 pm ET)
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        Nor is there an entity called the EIB . . . it's one of Rush's affectations. He just pulled it right out of his ample backside like he does just about everything else he says.
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    • Author by 4teepee (November 30, 2009 3:23 pm ET)
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      Regarding green industries, capitalists will not risk money on investments that take a very long time for a payback. Government has to do it if it is to be done. The Internet is a case in point -- a government invention.
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      • Author by blueline99 (November 30, 2009 3:50 pm ET)
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        It's totally understandable, something that Rushbo and his ilk will never get it, because they believe the free markets drive everything.

        I think there is a parallel with the 1930s where the large cities all had power and the rural areas did not because it cost too much to get power to those areas and would service so few people.

        Enter the REA (Rural Electrification Administration), a department that FDR created to get power to the farmers.

        I'm sure if Rush was around then, he'd be calling out FDRs New Deal as socialism and how how there's an REA Czar (there was one, his name was Morris Llewellyn Cooke.

        This was one of the most successful projects in history... and if Rush had his way, Farmers today would have their own diesel engines, because there was no such thing as Rural Electricity.
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        • Author by magnolialover (November 30, 2009 4:10 pm ET)
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          Umm, there were plenty of folks calling FDR a socialist back in the day. Their "arguments" or lack thereof, haven't really changed since the early 1900's.
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        • Author by rwk0007 (November 30, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
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          I don't know about Rush, but Savage has called the new deal socialism on numerous occassions.
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      • Author by markbfoot199 (November 30, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
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        I am still waiting on all the green jobs Obama was going to create.
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        • Author by bintx (November 30, 2009 4:16 pm ET)
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          No, you aren't. You are so deeply invested in your partisan political club loyalty that you really don't care about it one way or the other. Nice snark, though.
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        • Author by mikelartist (November 30, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
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          You can keep right on waiting because they are never coming to Republican Bizarro-world. When you decide to step into reality you will be amazed at the progress of humankind.
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    • Author by caels (November 30, 2009 3:45 pm ET)
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      Krugman is obviously a moron. It's not like he's an economist that has done groundbreaking work in international trade, economic geography, international finance, and some interesting work in monetary policy in relation to liquidity traps - you know, stuff that might win someone a John Bates Clark Medal or a Nobel Prize. We need a real economist, like Glenn Beck or John Stossel.
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      • Author by alienofwar (November 30, 2009 6:07 pm ET)
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        Don't you know speaking in front of a microphone makes you an expert on everything? Especially if your audience is large, than you are a super genius according to logic of Republican kool-aid drinkers.
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        • Author by Lord of Light (November 30, 2009 7:48 pm ET)
             
          That's part of it, but what really makes one an expert is attacking those you disagree with and dismissing them with insults -- and doing it in the most tactless, obnoxious manner possible. That shows character and toughness, especially when you refuse to even debate your opponents.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 30, 2009 8:01 pm ET)
         
      Limbaugh calls Krugman "a genuine idiot" before declaring, "There's no such thing" as green jobs

      He is tough behind that mic calling people out and not have a reply because he is scared to debate. Soooo we will let you rant, and call you out on the blogosphere.
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    • Author by Publius39 (November 30, 2009 8:08 pm ET)
         
      Limbaugh calling someone ignorant is the ultimate in the pot calling the kettle black.
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