Limbaugh Uses Hu's Visit to Mock Chinese Culture
Rush Limbaugh used Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the U.S. as an opportunity to mock Chinese culture, including the sound of Hu's speech, and suggested that "everybody's going to be hungry a half-hour after" the state dinner for the Chinese delegation.
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Limbaugh: Chinese "Sounds Like All The Same Word"
Limbaugh Mocks Chinese President's Untranslated Speech. From Limbaugh's January 19 radio show:
LIMBAUGH: Eh, never mind. We're not gonna gyp Fox. I wanted to gyp it because the -- well, the -- Hu Jintao, he was speaking, and they weren't translating. They -- they, normally -- you have some translator every couple of words. But Hu Jintao was just going [mocking Chinese speech].
Nobody was translating. But that's the closest I can get. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 1/19/10]
Limbaugh Says He Tried To Transcribe Chinese President's Remarks "Phonetically," Again Mocks Chinese Speech. From Limbaugh's radio show:
LIMBAUGH: Hi, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh.
I have to admit I'm amused by this. Probably very few other people are, but I am. During our obscene profit timeout, I'm watching the news conference between President Obama and Chinese ChiCom leader Hu Jintao, and I've not seen this before. Hu Jintao is speaking, speaking and speaking with no translator. They wait till he finishes, and then they read what he said in toto.
And of course, we don't know. The translator could be making it all up. Hu Jintao could be -- he could be telling us -- who knows what he could be saying to us? The translator is saying [speaks with accent]: "We want to work together, two countries in the world. China is developing country. America, developed country -- but not for long."
He didn't say that. But I'm fascinated. I'm listening to this -- I found myself trying to write down what Hu Jintao was saying in Chinese. Phonetically, so I could repeat it to you.
Well, it's a -- it looks like chicken scrawls. I said, "I wonder what -- I wonder to people who can't speak English, what does it sound like to them?" Because when I hear Chinese or Japanese, it sounds like all the same word. And I can't - I can't comprehend of anybody understanding it. But of course, that's silly. But he's sitting there, [mocks Chinese speech].
And I couldn't write down anymore. I was losing track of -- because I'm looking up as he's saying all this, and they cut to Obama looking intently as though he understands every word of it, which -- what would you expect from the - from the ruling class? [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 1/19/10]
Limbaugh: "Real Question" About State Dinner For China Is "Whether Everybody's Going To Be Hungry A Half-Hour After They Eat." From Limbaugh's radio show:
LIMBAUGH: By the way, just to be clear, folks, still not certain here whether Harry Reid meant his comment about the ChiComs being a dictatorship in a derogatory or complimentary way. I mean, China is an authoritarian, collectivist dictatorship, but we don't know that Dingy Harry would necessarily find any fault with that. He seems to be in support of that kind of -- and we certainly know Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times love the authoritarianism of the ChiComs. He says when the ruling elite of the right people meets democracy -- hands down, it's the only way you're really going to get things done. Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times.
The real question about this state dinner tonight is that whether everyone's going to be hungry a half-hour after they eat, but I don't know that we'll get any news on that. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 1/19/10]
Limbaugh Uses China's Visit To Fearmonger About Obama Administration
Limbaugh On Obama's Comment That China's Political System Is "Very Different" From Ours: "Yeah, Maybe -- But Not For Long." On his radio show, Limbaugh said of the press conference:
LIMBAUGH: Obama's up there telling the press corps that China has a very different political system than we do. Yeah, maybe -- but not for long. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 1/19/10]
This post should dovetail quite nicely with the one about Beck complaining about the dangers of political correctness. Maybe he's right.
But that's not his modus operandi, is it?
It all does sound the same to drugged-deaf Rush ... the interior sound of malevolence.
The sound of sponsors who step away from his hate cage.
He mocks the Moon for its mirth melody.
Rush was born under a Bad Sign, defective. Humankind may hope he defects from our world to Mars.
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The only language he understand is his own voice.
LMAO...Beck another bleeting idiot that suckers listeners.
Their economy is light-years ahead of the US's, too!
Leave it to yor cave-apes to drag us beck to 1865, every time, Rust.
Soon, North Korea will overtake America, since Repugs want us broke and begging.
As for Mr. Limbaugh, well, yes, I guess he is trying to joke, but it is really just in poor taste.
But then these same people think Glenn Beck is sane, so we're obviously not referring to discerning people here.
The problem I have with Limbaugh's statements, is that's he's using shtick and jokes that we all got tired of while still in grade school.
For once I have to say Limbaugh's only sin in this instance is being an unfunny, hack.
Is it that the Chinese do not have a sense of humor? or maybe people on this forum?
Funny to see how upset everyone gets... Thanks for a good laugh!
I agree.. It was a joke! Who hasn't tried to talk Chinese.... come on!
Is it that the Chinese do not have a sense of humor?
Well, not everyone has tried to 'talk' Chinese - because they are really just trading on old tried and true racist stereotypes - just throw in a lot of words ending in 'ing' or 'eng' or 'chin', and voila, you're speaking 'Chinese'.
The fact is that Chinese (in both it's major dialects) is very complex and only sounds simplistic to Western ears, especially because the tone of many 'words' changes its meaning. But I'm not here to teach you about that.
As someone who knows (or has known) Chinese-speaking people from the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore, the US & Canada, and Taiwan (from whence my best friend comes), I can assure you that they have very good senses of humour, but not over the kinds of racist claptrap that Rush and his friends spew (which is not funny, by the way). And as pointed out before, many Chinese (and more and more these days) speak very good English (Hu is from an older generation so likely doesn't). In fact, my Taiwanese friend speaks better English than many Americans I know, AND she also has much better comprehension of English (and likely more than Rush, but that's not hard).
And if you need any further proof of how bigoted his rant is, you need only look at this part of Rush's comment...
"I found myself trying to write down what Hu Jintao was saying in Chinese. Phonetically, so I could repeat it to you.
Well, it's a -- it looks like chicken scrawls.."
Notice he says 'phonetically' - which would mean he is writing it down in either international phonetics or (more likely) English (Romanised) phonetics. Why then would he not be able to read his own handwriting and why would it look like 'chicken scrawls'? That sounds more like what his idea of Chinese characters would be like than his own writing. Or does Rush write English in chicken scrawls? That could explain a lot.
Sorry, but Rush is a huge bigot and it was not funny on any level.
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So of course I had to wait a couple weeks until I had a little scalp stubble before posting, but it's growing like a weed now. And thanks again for caring. Muah!.....
Then there's Archie Bunker.
Remember: it's all entertainment.
And no, it is not entertainment for his listeners, it is Gospel.
No. China is nothing like the US in its rise and industrial expansion over the last century. The US didn't build its wealth or might on the backs of over 30 million of its dead citizens in democidal famine, forced labor camps, and gulags like China. Nice revisionist history there.
So sit back and enjoy the backslapping, bows, and state dinner in honor of Pres Hu. Just remember that the Dalai Lama was ushered out by the trash so China wouldn't be "upset". The Israeli PM wasn't given a state bash.
So cozy with communists we are now...
-Yes...we never had unsafe work places...oh wait yes we did.
-Yes...we never had people imprisoned falsely...oh wait yes we did.
-Yes..we never went to war falsely and killed...oh wait yes we did.
-Yes we never had prisoners doing work...oh wait yes we did.
Yeah we don't give Israel $5 billion+ annually for military aid?
I guess the dinners for Y Shamir, Y Rabin, Ehud barrack, Ehud Olmert and all the other Israeli Pms never happened?
Not mention using our Vetos in the U.N. Security council to prevent resolutions affecting Israel.
You know that many in the Israelis leadership were considered "terrorists" originally , right? Yitzak Shamir was wanted by the British for involvement in hanging a Brithish Soldier? He was a member of teh Leh'i ( Stern Gang). And before say anything stupid...I lived/worked/consulted for the IDF and Shin-Bet.
Yeah it wasn't Kissinger and Nixon who sought to better U.S./ Chinese realtions.
I am so glad you are concerned about the Dalai Lama, Bush had 8 yeasr and did nothing...and suddenly you care. Do you even know what type of Buddhist the Dalai Lama is? And no cheating...
Gulags are Soviet/ Russian prisons, not Chinese. I think you are very guilty of rivisionism. You should learn how to use the word before you go accusing people of it.
Also, China, India and Brazil are the 3 countries we are trying to focus on because of their rising economic importance. The world has changed either keep up...or shut up.
He's the definition of a time-waster troll.
Oh, yeah, very nice job of politely and thoroughly serving him his azz. He gets a lot of that here.
I feel that true about alot of human pursuits.
If we could get rid of lobbying we would move alot faster toward real solutions.
I live in a pretty "conservative" area, and find myself having to bite my tongue in social and work situations, so I like to come here to do really outrageous things like asking right wingers to support their claims, or to point out that they're lying.
I don't have to worry so much about the hurt feelings and sulking of the trolls here, as with people I need to get along with in real life.
I was in my field before it was "fashionable". Most of my friends were Soviet Studies, but that of course started collapsing while in university..LMAO... they all went into business.
I live in a very conservative area. They whorship Bush down here. He actually doesn't live that far from me.
I'm more about solutions. Those that are enslaved to dogma often sacrifice solutions for party belief.
I spent alot of year working against propaganda. I think it is why I dislike Fox so much. I see so many classic propaganda moves: say something to get the rise, then deny it. Claim to be the only dispenser of truth. Demonize your opponents. Take a fact and bend it. Make up facts and spread the meme.
Anyway, my wife loves that I do this..It means she doesn't have to hear me talk about politics and religion. She only has to listen the history and philosophy stuff now. LMAO...
I sure hope you aren't a supporter of the republican party saying this. Seems to me over the last few years the ONLY thing republicans have been interested in is obstruction and the politics of personal destruction.
The republicans offer no real solutions other then, "taking our country back" and "Stopping the Obama agenda" or "being for the Constitution". Bumper sticker slogans and broad, sweeping, buzzword rhetoric DOES NOT constitute solutions.
The democrats have been trying to make some positive change, and they've succeeded to some extent over the last few years despite the unprecedented lockstep obstruction by the GOP.
You do look good in bobby socks sweetheart! ;)
And just to head you trolls off at the pass- I don't pay a lot of attention to "oh you are a teacher that explains the sad state of American education" snarks, either. Go read a book.
Yes, it would be interesting to see Rush write hisory book. LMAO...
It's funny that some adults are so willing to buy the whitewashed version of the world, even funnier is the absolute confidence they have in coming here to lecture others about their fantasies.
Let me guess. You don't pay a whole lot of attention to communist atrocities because it just doesn't fit the meme?
-Ask someone who grew up in Haiti about the Duvaliers and how we let them run the country.
-Ask someone who grew up under Saddam in Iraq what it was like. We funded him through the 1980's and never really questioned him or his practices.
-Ask someone who lived under the Marcos regime what it was like.
-Ask someone from central america what it was like.
-Ask someone who lived in Chile in the 1980's what it was like.
-Let's not forget all the "terrorist" groups we funded.
-Let's not forget we backed Zia in Pakistan and used the ISI to fund Mujahadin in the 1980's.
-Apartheid was also supported.
I am perfectly willing to admit the negative side of the Left, maybe you should try to live with the not so pretty history of America, the right and its corporate masters.
China enslaving even more= deplorable, not to be compared to the English colonies and the United States.
Whatever, dope.
After trying to bankrupt the Soviets it turns out we are nearly bankrupt too. So let's fight some fake wars and wrap our selves in the Flag, drunk on dreams of yesterday that never really existed.
I think you have missed the point, you are the slave. They enslaved you with the lies you bought into...Now be a good little follower and turn on Fox news and drink it up.
Wait wait - are you saying you support forced prison labour?
Mostly, though, the Chinese laborers were given the boot, but not until the work was done.
So much for the good old fashioned conservative values of hypercapitalism that Beck, Limbaugh and Palin are so nostaligic for. Their "conservative base" are useful idiots, lapping up right wing propaganda and thoughtlessly voting the Republican pro-corporate ticket. And you? are you paid to post nonsense and revisionist history? Project much? Shame on you! Go back to school.
el blimpo will burst one day.... the law of physics demand it.
I recommend watching the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version.
I also remember the time he helped difuse tensions in Paris so we could negotiate with the Norht in Vietnam.
Didn't he help in Sinai when he told the joke of two jews and an Egyptian in a bar?
Rush is the greatest example of "ignorance is strength". His listeners are empty headed, white trash that hide behind the flag.
WTF is the idea behind "transcribing phonetically" a foreign language ? At first I thought maybe he was poking fun at his own stupidity, but then I remembered that he isn't smart enough to see what an idiot he is.
Is his audience so enamored of this blob of dullness that they actually think he could figure out Chinese by writing down the sounds he hears ? I seriously cannot understand any adult wanting to listen to his show for any other reason than to sadistically laugh at a washed up old bigot slowly deteriorating over the airwaves.
Sadly, this is what America is coming to in many parts. People come up to me in Texas and go," Did you hear...Obama spent $200 million a day on his trip to India"...LMAO
I usually follow it with," Weren't you abducted by aliens?" To which I get a vigarous affirmative nod.
Oh, come on, those must be the Ditto-Cadets. His audience has to average around 80. I'm pushing 50, and when I hear the callers to his show, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on my grandparents.
Maybe it's all in the head. I think the right wing brain, with its tendency toward fear and the status quo, goes into a premature senility. Some of them might be 40 according to their drivers license, but the skull-meat is already in the complaining and double-locking-the-doors years.
Let's see what are some of Rush's other fine hallmark moments...
-pointing out how Michael J. Fox was faking his parkinson's disease
-There's always the "Barack the Magic Negro" comment
-Calling soldiers who criticized the Iraqi war "phony soldiers"
-who could forget the immortal line "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." (cause Rush is one to talk about unattractiveness amirite? What a hottie!)
I mean the list could go on and on and on and on....
More people need to be exposed to THE WHOLE PICTURE rather than his heated rhetoric. But then again... if people are stupid enough to listen to him without questioning then there's probably not too much hope for them in the first place...
Rush has the easiest job in the world.
But see this is why conservative though should eventually give way. I mean, the Catholic Church in the dark ages were able to keep such a strangle hold on things because they were the only ones left with books really, once the Roman Empire fell. Information was near impossible to get outside the church.
In today's day and age, the internet (check your sources of course) makes it almost near impossible NOT to find information on ANYTHING. Now it's just a race against time of either the sheep figuring out how to work the thing or them getting old and dying. Generally speaking of course, it's easier for young'uns to be more sauvy when it comes to the internet AND learning in general. Put 2 and 2 together and eventually you should have a more informed future generation. I hope I'm not being too idealistic in that sense.
If the GOP doesn't steer themselves back to reality in the next decade or so, they're going to face extinction.
That's pretty scary to people, the possibility that everything they know is wrong, and trying to fix the situation in their later years.
I know enough people in this group that prove it. No new information, no amount of facts, no debunking of their beliefs can affect them. I used to work with a guy who said over lunch one day, when Obama was first publicly known, that he "didn't think America was ready for a Muslim president".
He got a few laughs, but responded by implying that everybody who laughed was naive.
After a few weeks of emailed links, mountains of evidence (from his fellow Republicans,too) he stood his ground, letting everybody know that they were entitled to their opinion, and he was entitled to his.
He'll probably go to his grave "knowing" that Barack Obama is a Secret Muslim.
But the internet can be a great resource for ignorance, misinformation, and propaganda as well as actual knowledge.
Nothing wrong with being in the age range - I am. But he doesn't attract a wide variety - a very narrow set, indeed.
Oh, that's right.
No one sane or not watches Keith O.
i also have a suspicion that rush is a closeted gay. guys like him have so much guilt about their preference, that they project their hurt outward....
It's not to Americans' credit, but it is to his own credit that he's done so well as a propagandist.
Rush is a propagandist or I prefer the term "Propatainment artist". And no, there is real news and debate. Watch a real journalist like Diane Sawyer, Jim Leher, Christian Amanpour, etc... they have their own slant, but they try to not let it DOMINATE the narrative.
Also, Fox tries to overwhelm the conversation with myths, fear and disinformation. Take for example Sean Hannity a huge supporter of Bush and the War in Iraq. He will claim they found WMDs, which is not true. But he says it. Ask any analyst from the CIA, Mossad or MI-5 and they will tell you Saddam had none. Hannity will claim that Saddam had ties to Al-Queda. Ask any expert on terrorism and you will find them telling you " NO, absolutely not true".
So why listen to a source that really want to disinform you? Why listen to Rush when the goal is not to inform you, but to create false beliefs?
The arguement of "fair and balanced" only holds true if the arguement being made is a real arguement from fact. I don't invite the"Flat earth society" to a discussion on planetary thinking, because they have a false belief.I don't invite a psychic surgeon to a medical discussion on surgery now do I?
This site is well on its way to becoming a comedy site because it seems like all they do lately is post minimal, petty things now.
Rush Limbaugh is no patriot. He is not a a believer in democracy. He believes in money and from what I've heard, illegal drug use. He's also always been overweight, which suggests that he probable overeats. He's a glutton, a criminal, a drug addict, a racist and pretty much just an all around bad fellow. America may still be ahead, but as the old show business joke goes, America will meet China on on their way down as China passes them on their ascension to the top.
The most important thing to note is that for all of Rush Limbaugh's wining, mocking, insulting and sheer lack of intelligence, it won't make any difference in the rise of China as a global power. In that respect, your comments are somewhat correct. It doesn't mean anything. Rush Limbaugh doesn't matter. He's just trying to make a buck by insulting people without the benefit of being humorous. His opinions are irrelevant and insignificant.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/01/rush-limbaugh-defends-his-what-some.html
Actually, he's got his own ideology. Back in eighth grade we had two words for this, "acting stupid".
He will be missed!
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Let's be thankful his lies won't be aired any longer for the gullible lemmings who actually believed all of his garbage.
He "can't comprehend of anybody understanding it [Chinese]." Well gee, there's only like a BILLION or so people who do.
And maybe if he can't comprehend THAT, he can't comprehend some other HARDER subjects like science, philosophy, or economics. Maybe people shouldn't take this guy so seriously anymore...