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Limbaugh says Founders "rose up against a tyranny that is nothing compared to" health bill, liberalism is "un-American"

December 21, 2009 3:01 pm ET

From the December 21 edition of Premiere radio Netowrk's The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by nerzog (December 21, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
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      Well, I guess we know what to expect the next time the Troglodytes take over Congress.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (December 21, 2009 3:09 pm ET)
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      I think what the Founders did is consistent with liberal thought. According to this logic, the Founders are anti-American.
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      • Author by bintx (December 21, 2009 3:59 pm ET)
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        Exactly. If they had been "conservative," they would have just continued with the status quo.
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        • Author by wzwriter (December 21, 2009 4:13 pm ET)
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          That's right. The liberals of 1776 wrote the Declaration of Independence. The conservatives were the Torries who remained loyal to the British Crown.
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    • Author by enjoyingtheshow (December 21, 2009 3:11 pm ET)
         
      Well, Rushbo, I don't know about having no moderate Dems, but at this rate there sure won't be any moderate Republicans left soon... you and your fanbois will have made sure only the ideologically pure remain. Also, I'd personally love it if they could do a seance or something with the founding fathers telling Rush just what they think of his drivel.
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    • Author by enjoyingtheshow (December 21, 2009 3:11 pm ET)
         
      Well, Rushbo, I don't know about having no moderate Dems, but at this rate there sure won't be any moderate Republicans left soon... you and your fanbois will have made sure only the ideologically pure remain. Also, I'd personally love it if they could do a seance or something with the founding fathers telling Rush just what they think of his drivel.
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    • Author by Lord of Light (December 21, 2009 3:19 pm ET)
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      This coming from someone who would have been too chickenshirt to fight in the Revolutionary War. The founders would've laughed at and then ignored an inarticulate, fulminating, closed-minded idiot like you.

      Oh, and you should love the bill, tough guy; it has all kinds of (stupid) breaks for your corporate buddies who supposedly know more about what's better for ordinary Americans than dastardly liberal lawmakers.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (December 21, 2009 3:34 pm ET)
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      Go see your doctor, Rush...a man in your condition shouldn't be hyperventilating like that.

      On second thought, Rush, seeing your doctor can wait...like until next August. And keep getting worked up over liberals, Rush...it's good for your heart.

      Have a blessed holiday, Rush...eat and drink a lot. You deserve it...
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    • Author by doggeddem (December 21, 2009 3:43 pm ET)
         
      From the bigot who roots for the president to fail, who uses racism to denigrate the CIC, who cheers when the U.S. fails to get a bid to host the Olympics games, calling liberalism "un-American" is like being called a cheater by Bernie Madoff. There is no one more "UN-AMERICAN" that this fatuous pig.
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    • Author by marco21 (December 21, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
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      The tyranny of health care.

      You heard it here first, folks. Following the tyranny of the armed services, social security, medicaid and welfare - the type Rush was on in the 1980s.
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    • Author by bintx (December 21, 2009 3:48 pm ET)
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      If the folks who established this country had not been liberals and/or progressives, we'd all be speaking the Queen's English and singing "God Save our Queen."
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    • Author by Dee (December 21, 2009 3:48 pm ET)
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      It makes me want to take a shower after listening to scum like Rush spew who is un-American.
      Sorry tubby, you're no judge of anything.
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      • Author by wzwriter (December 21, 2009 4:33 pm ET)
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        Un-American people are those who avoided military service because of a boil on their butt......
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    • Author by jeff191 (December 21, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
         
      Deny it all you want this type of talk by Rush and Glenn is tantamount to calls for violence. Those secret service folks are earning their pay
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    • Author by jeff191 (December 21, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
         
      Deny it all you want this type of talk by Rush and Glenn is tantamount to calls for violence. Those secret service folks are earning their pay
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (December 21, 2009 4:54 pm ET)
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      Actually, RUSH, if anything is UNAMERICAN it's you and your inconsiderate, uncaring, hatespewing a$$.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (December 21, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
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      I'll say it here NEO-CONSERVATISM is UNAMERICAN.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (December 21, 2009 6:18 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh says Founders "rose up against a tyranny that is nothing compared to" health bill, liberalism is "un-American"

      If Rushie knew his history he would notice that most of the founding fathers were liberal.

      Boy would that steam his pot!
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      • Author by mescal (December 21, 2009 6:33 pm ET)
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        Rush goes down to the Dominican Republic to get his pot steamed, if you know what I mean.
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    • Author by Reinhard (December 21, 2009 7:35 pm ET)
         
      I'm not sure why right wingers look upon the men who wrote the Constitution and BOR as some sort of gods, They weren't infallible, in fact they were wrong about many things.They knew they were wrong about certain provisions,attitudes, and responsibilities, which is why they made it possible to make changes. They were smart enough to know times change. Attitudes change.
      I also find it ironic that right wingers loathe lawyers given the fact that most of the Founding Fathers were <gasp> lawyers!
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (December 21, 2009 10:08 pm ET)
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      What really bugs me about these wingnuts (Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Levine) is that they don't understand how liberal our Founders and Framers truly were.

      Quotes like "we are endowed by our Creator with certain inanlienable rights" (Declaration of Independence 1776), and "We The People in order form a more perfect union" (Preamble to the Constitution, 1789) proved them to be more liberal for their age than any other existing nation, ever. The were classic liberals.

      It must be said, although Adam Smith wrote his tome, "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776 capitalism was not a verb at that time. Although, the practice was around for sometime, it was the first time it was articulated as a theory.

      The American colonists wanted to be freed from Great Britain, importantly to some (John Adams) assert their ancient rights as British citizens (English Bill of Rights 1689), but also to free the colonies from the mercantile system.The colonies were only allowed to trade with other countries (like France) thru England. Hence, the tax. Further, under the mercantile system they were only allowed to manufacture what Great Britain allowed us to do.
      We wanted to be an independent player on the global economy without the hindrance paying a tax and having our ecomomy set by what the British currency held.

      In contrast to the Congress of Vienna (1815) after the French Revolution, and the defeat of Napoleon, they wish to defeat and destroy the Rights of Man, written by Lafyette with the help of Thomas Jefferson.They fought for the old rights (blessed by God, and the rights of the King and the aristocracy) back The Rights of Man was very similar to our liberal ideas given credence and a nation in the U.S. It had nothing to do with economics

      I am asking a question, I guess, more than an answer, who are we as a nation. Are we a people who want freedom (which I heard ad nausem from Limabugh) to let go of the poverty strichen. Or are we a nation who have progress to allow, the maybe, the best what what we don't know is possible.

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    • Author by edgewaterprog (December 21, 2009 10:28 pm ET)
         
      Just a poorly read, poorly educated loud mouth.
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    • Author by SLRTX (December 21, 2009 11:04 pm ET)
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      Oh Limburger, you are SO the expert on what is or is not American!

      Wanna see something REALLY unamerican?

      Look in the mirror.
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    • Author by tman418 (December 22, 2009 3:23 am ET)
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      Wow. I think he just dissed what the founding fathers fought for.
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