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Limbaugh: "We are not a Third World country ... putting up shacks and huts like the president's brother lives in"

July 02, 2010 2:01 pm ET

From the July 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by shaggles (July 02, 2010 2:03 pm ET)
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      Huh. I'm pretty sure you're one of the guys who was saying we were a third world country not so many months ago.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 02, 2010 2:08 pm ET)
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      new batch of fresh oxycontin ??/
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    • Author by Gravity_78 (July 02, 2010 2:12 pm ET)
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      Talk about racist remarks, "putting up shacks and huts like the president's brother lives in." The fact is only 30% of home are weatherized to the 1996 Home Build Standers.
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    • Author by dkylep (July 02, 2010 2:25 pm ET)
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      Actually Rush, you ARE indeed a third world country for many. There are many Americans who live almost precisely the same lives that they would live in a third world nation. They can't afford health care (actually, in many third world nations, at least you get health care provided to you), they can't afford a place to live, they don't have many possessions, they can't eat properly, they don't have a job, etc. And have you looked at some of the tent cities that have sprung up because of the recent depression? I know that the media has been VERY careful about not covering the abject poverty that many Americans find themselves subject to though, since covering such would make your remarks even more meaningless and inconsequential than ever.

      America has the highest disparity of wealth distribution and the highest disparity of living standards for a 'first world' nation in the entire world. By far. It's sick when you see just how much of the wealth is controlled by a select percentage of the population. What's even more sick is that you and yours, Rush, scream and shout that it should be even more so, and that anybody who is poor in America should shut up, because it's their fault they're poor.

      The system in the U.S.A. is busted beyond all hope of repair. The rich oligarchs have enshrined theft from the lower classes as sacrosanct, and the media refuses to acknowledge the class warfare being waged (more than likely because they're owned by those same oligarchs). And just like in any type of warfare, there are pawns and minions, grunts if you will, that do most of the work for the relatively few generals and commanders. In this case, the right-wing nutters have a giant support base of people who will willingly scream, fight, and die, all for their right to be abused and stolen from by fat bastards like Limbaugh.
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    • Author by New Frontier (July 02, 2010 2:53 pm ET)
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      Maybe the President's brother would rather be an honest man and live in a shack or a hut than to be a hate-filled, bigoted, lying big mouth and live like Mr. Limbaugh:

      [http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/03/05/gal_limbaugh_home.jpg]
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    • Author by 4teepee (July 02, 2010 3:45 pm ET)
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      Instead, we have homeless.
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