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Limbaugh defends his "artful" "media tweak" -- "How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn't we?"

August 26, 2010 1:34 pm ET

From the August 26 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Limbaugh asks: "How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn't we?"

Rush: Obama, Muslim, Obama, Muslim, Obama, Muslim

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    • Author by bt8257 (August 26, 2010 1:38 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh defends his "artful" "media tweak" -- "How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn't we?" Fixed the typo in the title
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      • Author by The New Pilgrims (August 26, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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        Thanks for doing that. I was wondering why Rush was giving any consideration to whether America has a problem with Rocket Ismail, the football player.
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      • Author by mari2jj (August 26, 2010 1:46 pm ET)
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        I guess Rush is so foolish he does not realize that President Obama is a Christian. Rush's statement is just racist and it has absolutely no basis in fact. But Rush NEVER passes up a chance to display his so obvious racism when he speaks of our wonderfully talented President. Poor Rush is so insanely jealous of President Obama that he stoops to lies to TRY to disparsage our President. In the end, all Rush does is make himself look truly stupid and racist! But Rush's silly, hateful statement actually has done the opposite of what Rush intended. It made us all realize that President Obama is our President because of his brilliant campaign and his clear vision of what America needs. But nice try Rush but you just flunked out!
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        • Author by indigo1968 (August 26, 2010 2:04 pm ET)
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          The only "artful" thing Limbaugh has ever produced is typically floating in his toilet every morning at 7:08AM.
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        • Author by DellDolly (August 26, 2010 2:43 pm ET)
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          Rush knows that Obama is a Christian.

          He is actually being fairly honest here, in a back-asswards way.

          He is telling us that he purposefully has been saying that Obama is a Muslim to attract that negative attention that rightwing trolls so love to get. And he appreciates that so many people snap up that bait that he's trolling with.

          It's wrong to assume that he is REALLY trying to actually have a reasonable and fair debate on this topic - like he actually believes that Obama is a Muslim, or that he's simply lying to lie.

          His goal with comments like these are very similar to the troll posts we see here, where people like Seaslug and Bobby Jindal Fan and FairLiberal make totally ridiculous comments to simply derail threads and attract negative attention!
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    • Author by bahamut75 (August 26, 2010 1:46 pm ET)
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      "...I say what I mean. I mean what I say, and I love to hear myself say it..."

      The ONLY true statement out of that entire, ridiculous spiel is what i just hi-lighted.

      This man has no conscience and absolutely no sense of decorum.
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      • Author by John Paradox (August 26, 2010 4:45 pm ET)
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        ***Limbaugh Classic***
        I have a fantasy of doing a whole show of nothing but applause
        [undated]
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    • Author by Litwiz (August 26, 2010 1:48 pm ET)
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      Methinks he doth protest too much.
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (August 26, 2010 1:55 pm ET)
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      This again?

      Rush, you could save yourself a lot of time if you'd just open your show with, "The opinions expressed on this program come from a hate filled, megalomaniac who is incapable of editing out his own stupidity."
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    • Author by New Frontier (August 26, 2010 1:56 pm ET)
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      Hey Limbaugh: Obama's doing stuff only to tweak you.
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    • Author by Brian Griffith (August 26, 2010 2:05 pm ET)
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      Rush never passes up an opportunity to toot his own horn. He's in love with his own supposed cleverness.
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      • Author by MidnightWriter (August 26, 2010 2:09 pm ET)
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        And what an amazing coincidence he's always having to defend his "cleverness" after he's said something that has most of society convinced he was just being a d!ck.
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    • Author by worrierking (August 26, 2010 2:09 pm ET)
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      Artful?

      Someone has a head as big as his a$$.
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    • Author by bintx (August 26, 2010 2:18 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh doesn't do these things to "tweak" the media; he does them to misinform and indoctrinate his avid followers. He drops this crap out there because he knows that they will repeat it as fact. He covers his ample backside by later claiming that he was just "tweaking" the media. The seed has been planted in the unquestioning brains of his followers.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 26, 2010 2:18 pm ET)
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      he probably confused his listeners so badly there is no return.
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    • Author by nerzog (August 26, 2010 2:18 pm ET)
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      I'm just impressed that Blimpy even admits he said it.
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    • Author by AB-001 (August 26, 2010 2:57 pm ET)
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      Tweak of the week?

      Whatever. Let the lemmings leap after it; no one else is
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