Limbaugh: The Media "Hate" Conservatives "More Than They Hate The Taliban ... Al Qaeda"
January 20, 2012 1:39 pm ET
From the January 20 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Hey, Limbaugh, you ARE the media. Why don't you do something to change the paradigm instead of complaining about it?
Limbaugh has a gigantic radio audience. As do the other right wing talkers. Liberal or progressive radio doesn't really exist. Where it does, it is small compared to the conservative titans of the genre.
And yet, they complain, whine, and complain some more about how awful the liberal media is.
I've asked this question a bunch of times. If the liberal media is so prevalent and all powerful and biased, why don't the right wingers champion bringing BACK the Fairness Doctrine? Then, they would be given their fair shake, and, coverage wouldn't be as biased as they allegedly believe it is against conservatives.
Since they're NOT begging to have it brought back, makes me wonder that of course, they know, the media isn't liberal.
Alex Bennett- crass, disgusting gutter humor, with almost constant cursing, very little actual political talk.
Stephanie Miller- fart jokes, high-pitched breathless laughter from the host, constant references to her "comedy" tour and guest appearances from Miller's equally unfunny "comedian" friends. Oh, and constant requests that Progressives "stop whining" and fall in line behind the Democratic Party.
Ed Schultz- pro death penalty water-carrier for the Democrats, when he isn't pimping Bio-Green Clean and other sponsors. Friend of "Progressives" like Kent Conrad. No patience for anyone with even the slightest criticism of the President from the Left.
Thom Hartmann- fine human being, and intelligent, but addicted to interviewing Think Tank Conservatives, as if they don't get enough air time on conservative shows (hey Thom, how about interviewing liberals?)
Media Matters for America Radio- God-awful hosts who apparently don't do a minute of prep before the red light comes on. More "uhhhhhhhs" and "ummmmmmmsssss..." and missing sound clips than any show I've ever heard on radio.
Sometimes I think that "Progressive" talk radio is a plot to make Right-Wing talk radio seem entertaining by comparison.
Then it got cheap and started dumping talent. It took on Lionel and Jerry Springer. Basically became unlistenable.
Progressive talk radio does every bit as good as Conservative talk radio in the ratings. But it's boycotted by sponsors, forced on to low-wattage stations, kept off the stations owned by the big conglomerates (Westwood One, for ex) because they would rather spread their message than make money. Right wing radio is seen as an investment for the corporations. Air America could have survived and even prospered if a few liberal millionaires had seen progressive talk the same way. Instead Air America got Mark Green and his determination to cut it to the bone to make a quick buck- and when that didn't work, he killed it.
If they are number one, which in many categories they certainly are, then they are the main stream media.
POTUS is a pirate gahhhhh!
>^o.-^<
Rush Limbaugh...working with one half his brain tied behind his back just so it can be nearer to the other half! (Which is you know where.)
I just never thought we'd become so collectively stupid as a society that we'd so eagerly swallow lies this obvious.
Edward R. Murrow, Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963)
A witness in some court case was asked on cross examination how susceptible she was to advertising, and she replied, "Not at all."
The attorney then asked her what tooth paste she used.
"Gleem," she replied. "But it's not because of advertising; it's just that I can't brush after every meal."
Need I mention what Gleem's advertising slogan was?
Murrow was a great journalist but I think his real lasting legacy will be the number of people he inspired to pursue the kind of reporting he was famous for.
"Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do."
Daniel Schorr (August 31, 1916 - July 23, 2010)
I miss Daniel Schorr and what he could have contributed to the discussion in this campaign.
I think that most people on television and radio have made their choice. And we are to blame for buying what they are selling.
That is eloquence. Concise, cogent, clear. Like Hemingway.
When will Fox hijack that prose?
Reminds me that essentially, all republicans who are in elected office are more than welcome to chide and act derisively towards any media source that they choose. A good example is Newt last night and today's invictive directed towards CNN.
But... When a democrat does it, like when Obama called out FoxNews once. Oh. My. God. Democracy is crumbling down around us!! Obama has an ENEMIES LIST!! JUST LIKE NIXON! Obama is trying to stifle free speech!
Anyone see the disconnect there?
Gingrich knows that. Liberals and progressives have nothing to do with it, and the media are not liberal or progressive. They're paid corporate shills.
I just hate you Rush.
Actually, it'd be fairly easy for Limpballs to occupy Wall St. -- just stand in the middle of it.
He would then not only occupy Wall St., but also Water St., William St., Broadway, and most of Lower Manhattan . . .
Mind Blown
See the difference?
If you want to call out his stupidity and things he says that is different than falling back on middle school bantering.
You REALLY need to let go of this silly inability to understand what the word hypocrisy means. Race is not something that you can control. Your weight is. Those two things are not the same. When you treat two DIFFERENT things, that is two things that are NOT the same differently then it isnt hypocrisy.
I dont care that Rush is fat. I care that he has no decency and no integrity. I care that he is vile, loathsome and just a flat out horrible human being, AND a liar.
I also dont care if mjh cares when I dont. See we are different people. So like my example us having different opinions about this is also NOT hypocrisy.
Oh, WAAAAAAHH!!
Rush Limpballs regularly
- calls Michelle Obama "fat"
- refers to her as "the First Linebacker"
- calls her "Michelle Antoinette"
If he and his dittos want to dish it out, they had d@mned well better be able to take it . . .
You can't accept bad behavior by saying Well he did it, That is more School ground bantering.
Your WWWAAAHHHH is noted Ghandi. When a guy punches you in a bar feel free to avoid being like a school kid and punching him back. Just TAKE the beating. However that doesnt mean that if someone ELSE decides to fight BACK, even if they dont really like violence that will make him a hypocrite because it wont
This is a reasonable point, Psycho3D, and so I will attempt a reasonable answer.
Race is something that can't be helped. It's just how you were born. And there is massive evidence that mere skin pigmentation has no effect whatsoever on intelligence, ambition, talent, honor, etc.
Fat is something you choose. Rush chooses to be fat. In my mind, this choice of his is fair game for comment. For example, I wouldn't say Rush is obese, you just need to paint stripes on him so you can tell if he's walking or rolling.
Lastly, Rush IS a racist, at least on the radio. He drags race into almost every single show he does. In light of that, poking fun at his weight is no more than his just deserts.
In fact, I think they are both massive impediments to progress.
Unfortunately, what that's turned into is Republican and Republican-lite.
We need opposing ideologies in much the same way we need the separation of powers, but what we have instead are people enslaved to campaign contributions.
Themedia (sic) - This is a word that has never been (and probably will never be) defined by Limbaugh, FOX NEWS or their ilk.
This word should not be confused with the English word "media."
>^o.-^<
Now, show me a big, liberal corporation.
But he didn't see the humor in it, that by his same logic, he's comparing himself to Al Qaeda.
Is their a difference?
He's complaining about somebody using the term "cockfight" as being prejudiced and elitist (he's imagining this, of course), but then asks if he's comparing the south to Cuba.
In other words " Hey, quit trying to use the bigotry we use against those dang Mexicans in Cuba against us!"
This is why they don't understand what 'hypocrisy' means.
And I always thought this would be
The land of milk and honey
Oh but I come to find out
That it's all hate and money
And there's a canopy of greed holding me down
If this is true then include me as definitely part of the media!
Well, Limpy, the Taliban is on the run and the Al Qaeda leadership is dead . . . so, right now, the neoKKKons are the bigger threat to the country . . .
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Why Newt Should Thank Occupy Wall Street
Limbaugh is primarily interested in:
1. Himself
2. Those who support his lifestyle
His lifestyle is to gather adoration and to acquire & maintain wealth.
To keep his $400 million dream afloat, telling the truth would alienate (2). They would, once suddenly educated, vote for people and policy that would make him less obscenely rich. That would make them, and him, think less of number (1).
So what to do? Create your enemies. Divine them from the sky and rant and rave about how dangerous they are: taxes, certain news media, SpongeBob, regulation, abortion, unions, etc. Those are more important than real enemies, like poverty, "free" trade, lack of public education, losing habeas corpus, money=speech, etc.
That's why it doesn't make sense when he crows about the enemy-of-the-day, because those fake enemies always change according to convenience. Take one off the shelf, spout about it, put it back on the shelf, take another one... That's why "the media" are useful when he likes what they say and bad (enemies) when they "hate conservatives."
You know that abortion isn't the enemy; blocking health education is the enemy. Taxes aren't the enemy; regressive tax policy is the enemy. The news media that "hate conservatives" aren't the enemy; the news media that aren't honest are the enemy.
For Limbaugh, honesty is a problem, because it can't sustain his lifestyle. What well-informed person would want to pay more in taxes for working than someone who receives investment income? What educated person would support people who want to raid their pension? So Limbaugh will do all this hand-waving, invoking fake enemies to keep his audience afraid and angry and upset with each other while adoring him. The real enemy for him is the truth about himself, and he has to fool his audience into paying attention to anything but that truth, which supports his lifestyle, which means that every day--each and every day--his audience, if educated, is one step away from being his enemy. That's a tough way to live.
Dishonesty maintains his fortune, and to give that up would be a serious blow to number (1). That would change his lifestyle. Sure, he'll have money for life, but the adoration..gone. He has nowhere to go but straight ahead, performing his self-aggrandizing / bogeyman schtick, until a force bigger than him knocks him off course.
Great Mother Jones article here on conservative news and radio.
if the politicans', want to liberate another country, we accept cash,oil, check or master card or visa, PLUS ALL THE OTHER PAY BACKS' MENTIONED ABOVE............