Rush Limbaugh on crack.

“From Limbaugh cites claims prosecutorial bias:

...Chief Judge Edward Fine said Friday that judicial commission members investigated Schwartz's situation, consulted with doctors, and that no allegation of anything criminal ever came to light, so there was no criminal investigation.

Schwartz was being treated by a West Palm Beach psychiatrist, Dr. George Kubski. Kubski had been charged with manslaughter in the drug toxicity death of a patient for whom he prescribed more than 20,000 pills in less than a year. If anything, Schwartz should be viewed as a victim of a criminal doctor, not a person who should be investigated, said his brother, Bill Schwartz.

"He was the victim of an unscrupulous physician who is now serving time for manslaughter as a result of what he did to another victim of chronic pain," Bill Schwartz said. "There was never any reason at all to open a criminal investigation on him. To do that would be a fool's errand."”

“Buddha, it is the Democrats whining about the 9/11 reference.”

“They should show the 9/11 ATTACKS everyday! Open and close the news with it! Remind all the pinko commies what those cowards did to us!!!! THEY HATE US AND WANT TO KILL US!!!! PERIOD!!!!”

“Get this man a plane ticket to Afghanistan.”

“Big Sack: An Army of 1/2.”

“I am very suprised that Shtickdewd didn't post this himself. Looks like Rush's point is right up his alley.

With freedom of speech, you have to take the bad with the goot. It's too bad that "people" like Rush, et. al. give a goot arguement for state controled airwaves.”

“THe airways USED to belong to the people until our rouge government gave them away.”

“Hay you guys, shut up! Haven't you heard of 9/11?”

“The degrading of the media started when the media first became to be.

The beauty of this country, is that us, as citizens, should ALWAYS question Government, no matter what, or how good it's going. This let's "them" know that "we" haven't fallen asleep.”

“But if our government disagrees with other media outlets around the world, we should put pressure on their home governments, it would seem.

An independent press, like democracy, is still 'not for export'.”

“Yeah, haven't these iraqis ever seen a madonna video?

Jeez, get a sence of humor already, you iraqi prisoners.”

“I'm sure that most of them were singing "Like a Virgin" as the cem light slid back and forth....




I had an idea on how to get over this whole media thing:

Have the ownership of networks only be possible if the person does not have any other business interests.

For example:

under this idea, GE couldn't own NBC, NBC would have to stand on it's own and operate as it's own company and couldn't be owned by another, and be apart of, another company.

Structure the networks so that they would have no other "adgendas" or influances by default. They would have no other choice other than to be independant, as they could bash anyone.”

“Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.”

“Silence from the righteous right.”

“Newsmax hasn't figured out how to properly spin this yet. As soon as the opinions are created, we'll get them here, hot off the presses.”

“Unfortunately, Q, they'd still have to 'be nice' to these megaconglomerates to maintain their advertising accounts.”

“Nope, not really. Those morons would have no other choice but to advertise and get bashed!


T.V. is WAY too big to be ignored. It's at the root of our economy. That's why it makes it so perfect! They can't say no!”

“But how many other channels are there now?

I think you're going to have to be lots sneakier to outfox the Beer Industrial Complex... In fact you may already be on their side and not even know it!

Remember --- "I Am The Slime From Your Video"! LOL”

“"But how many other channels are there now?.."


Yep, there's a lot, but you could also reel in cable to bow to it.


and trust me when I say I should bought stock in how ever makes Becks Beer.



burrrrrrrrrrp!”

“Published on Thursday, May 6, 2004 by CBSNews.com
Rush: MPs Just 'Blowing Off Steam'
by Dick Meyer

There is one proud and satisfied place where the pictures and accounts of the abuse endured by some prisoners at Abu Ghraib cause no consternation and no outrage: Rush Limbaugh's America, pop. 20 million.

Here's Rush's take, from his Website:

"I'm sorry, folks. I'm sorry. Somebody has to provide a little levity here. This is not as serious as everybody is making it out to be. My gosh, we're all wringing our hands here. We act like, 'Okay let's just die,' you know? 'Let's just give up. What can we do to make these people feel better? Let's just pull out of there, and let's just go. Let's just become a neutral country. Let's just do that.' I mean, it's ridiculous. It's outrageous what's happening here, and it's not -- and it's not because I'm out of touch; it's because I am in touch, folks, that I can understand. This is a pure, media-generated story. I'm not saying it didn't happen; I'm [not] saying the pictures aren't there, but this is being given more life than the Waco invasion got. This is being given more life than almost -- it's almost become an Oklahoma City-type thing. One more Bush sound bite, and the president continued explaining how real democracy works here."

Here's Rush's sociological evaluation of what really happened at Abu Ghraib, as quoted in a piece in The New Republic on Limbaughism:

"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You [ever] heard of need to blow some steam off?"

Now, don't you feel like a dopey dittohead for letting a little outbreak of prisoner sadism bug you? These were just boys and girls blowing off steam during a stressful situation. Let's not make an international incident out of it, for crying out loud.

In Rush's world, this is essentially geopolitical spilled milk:

"I don't understand what we're so worried about. These are the people that are trying to kill us. What do we care what is the most humiliating thing in the world for them? There's also this business of them all wearing hoods and how that’s also very humiliating. You can see more guys wearing hoods at a [Sen.] Robert Byrd birthday party 40 years ago than we've seen in these prisoner photos."

So what's the moral of the story, for Rush?

"There's only one thing to do here, folks, and that's achieve victory over people who have targeted us for loooong, long time, well over 15, 20 years. It's the only way to deal with this, and that's why obsessing about a single incident or two of so-called abuse in a prison is nothing more than a giant distraction and could up being something that will really ties [sic] our hands and handcuffs us in what the real objective is here, which is the preservation of our way of life and our country."

"And that's why I'm not going to sit here and obsess and join the rest of the media with this and turn this into a campaign issue, try to convince as many people that George Bush is incompetent and needs to be thrown out of office -- because that's all this is. But in the process, what all that does is weaken the resolve of the people of this country…"

Now, don't you feel like a dopey dittohead for wasting time worrying about how this incident was preventable fuel for anti-American hate? For worrying that soldiers under our flag did something profoundly wrong by our own measures? For feeling anything remotely like what Limbaugh diagnoses as liberal sniveling?

President Bush, however, has not been comforted by the Limbaugh analysis. "It's a stain on our country's honor and our country's reputation," President Bush said. "I am sickened by what I saw and sickened that people got the wrong impression."

There has been a good deal of attention in the U.S. to how the Abu Ghraib episode has been covered and perceived around the world. I present these passages of America's most listened to political theorist, Rush Limbaugh, in that spirit. Many, many Americans seem to share the views Limbaugh expresses in these quotes -- a fact that people who don't share those views had better understand loud and clear.

I admit to finding several points of agreement in Rush's rush of pronouncements about this saga. (For the record, I'll get more hate mail for that admission than I'll get from Rush's backers, though that too will be voluminous.)

"There are probably some good people in the bad guys and some rotten apples in the good guys, and these people that did this so-called torture may in fact be the rotten apples of the good guy group. But it's like I said: it doesn't taint the whole military effort and it doesn't taint us, but the world is joining in now trying to taint us as a nation, as a people, and as a culture by virtue of these pictures on the basis that we have humiliated these people. What is hijacking our own airplanes and flying them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? How humiliating is it to blow up American civilians in a convoy and have their charred bodies dragged from the car and dragged through it streets? There seems to be no sensitivity, concern or outrage for any of this anywhere in the world. So pardon me if my patience is a little short."

I think Rush is right: the world was not properly outraged when jubilant Iraqis desecrated the mutilated corpses of Americans.

And Rush is right: this is not who "we" are. Some of "us," like some of all peoples, are capable of great cruelty and great evil, in some circumstances. "We" are probably no more or no less susceptible than other groups. What is different about "us" from so many others is the institutions, the laws, the habits, the openness and the idealism that we have developed. All that broke down at Abu Ghraib and in the bureaucracy that managed it.

It is precisely the rebellion and repugnance at such failures that makes us vigilante against them in the future. An it is precisely the skilled sophistry, the chauvinism and the fear mongering of Limbaughism that corrodes the vigilance we should be proud of and that we need to ever cultivate.”

“That's stratdood's brain for ya.



From Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com on Rush's comments:

"You know when you're worked to the bone and you really need to unwind there's just nothing like grabbing a half dozen Arab dudes, stripping them naked, tying their bodies together against their will and pressing one guy's penis up against another guy's butt to make it like they're having anal sex. Right?"”

“Sorry for the long cut and paste, BTW. I didn't realize it was that long beforehand.”

“I've finally put on enough weight to play the part of the old Rush--liberal,liberal,liberal, Klintoon,two more Oxys,Klimtooooon,libbbreal,three more Oxys,KKKlintoooooon.....................................anyone have more Contins? My personality hurts.”

“You're absolutely correct, Q.

I should've invested in the Pilsner Urquell brewery ten years ago --- I might've made some of my money back!



Limbaugh said something offensive?!? Well, I Swanneee.

(and they talk about Rumsfeld having a tin ear, LOL)”

“Rush is like my morality barometer....as long as he keeps offending me, I know I'm OK.

If I start thinking.... yea, you go baby, right f$%#ing on dude!.... my wife has permission to put me down.”

“I bet she is watching you for the slightest sign, too. ;)”

“"All right, so we're at war with these people. And they're in a prison where they're being softened up for interrogation. And we hear that the most humiliating thing you can do is make one Arab male disrobe in front of another. Sounds to me like it's pretty thoughtful. Sounds to me in the context of war this is pretty good intimidation -- and especially if you put a woman in front of them and then spread those pictures around the Arab world. And we're sitting here, 'Oh my God, they're gonna hate us! Oh no! What are they gonna think of us?' I think maybe the other perspective needs to be at least considered. Maybe they're gonna think we are serious. Maybe they're gonna think we mean it this time. Maybe they're gonna think we're not gonna kowtow to them. Maybe the people who ordered this are pretty smart. Maybe the people who executed this pulled off a brilliant maneuver."

-snip-

"Nobody got hurt. Nobody got physically injured. But boy there was a lot of humiliation of people who are trying to kill us -- in ways they hold dear. Sounds pretty effective to me if you look at us in the right context."


Rush Limbaugh - 5/6/04”

“Sounds like el Pigbo is back on the stuff.”

“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has purchased full-page ads in two Florida newspapers to charge that local prosecutors are politically motivated in investigating him for "doctor shopping."
Limbaugh's company, EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting), said the ads, which would run on Thursday in the Palm Beach Post and South Florida Sun-Sentinel, reprint a May 9 editorial from the conservative Washington Times that accuses West Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer of political opportunism.

Limbaugh, one of America's most influential conservative commentators, last October publicly admitted an addiction to prescription painkillers and checked into a drug rehabilitation center.

He is being investigated by Democrat Krischer's office.

The Washington Times editorial cites as evidence of Krischer's bias his stated policy against prosecuting those with addictions so that he could focus on dealers.

The paper calls the case against Limbaugh "shaky" and based largely on the testimony of his former housekeeper and her husband, who sold their story to tabloid newspapers and were accused of trying to blackmail the talk-show host.

The editorial also said that the Florida attorney general, the Florida State Bar Association and the American Civil Liberties Union have criticized Krischer's handling of the case.”

“Why are liberals campaigning against radio personalities?”

“Ask yourself that question in reverse.”

“Why does Limbaugh hate America?

We know.




Why does Sun Myung Moon hate America?

Same reason.”

“tilt, do you really think he hates america? i would like to know why y ou think that. it seems odd....that you think that. micheal moore, i could see him hating america, but not limbaugh....


Why We Took Out This Advertisement

May 13, 2004


Listen to Rush…
(...explain why he took out an ad to confront the Palm Beach State Attorney's offensive)

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

Folks, if you will indulge me for just a moment. Well, it's a personal matter, but it actually is. Now that it's been tied into the news of the day, I want to alert to you something that we did today. We've been working on it all week. Today in the Palm Beach Post and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, I have purchased and am running two full-page ads. (Press Release || .PDF of ad) They're the same ad, and the ad consists primarily of a reprint of a Washington Times editorial that ran on May the 9th, and it is an editorial that has to do with the Times opinion and impression of the excessive prosecution that is being conducted against me here in Palm Beach County. It was a Sunday editorial in the Washington Times, last Sunday in fact, and when I saw it, I was stunned by it, and so we sought their permission to reprint it, and we bought full-page ads in the Palm Beach Post today and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Here's why.

This past Sunday there was a column, or columnist, Frank Cerabino is his name, and he had a column in the Palm Beach Post, and in this column he starts out by saying I (Rush Limbaugh) am "a slow learner," and he ends, his point was, as I was able to make sense of this piece, his point was that because of my Skull and Bones comment on the first day of the release of Iraqi prison pictures, because of my Skull and Bones comment, this entitled the Palm Beach state attorney to go after me and do whatever it takes to show me, teach me a lesson -- and I was astounded that anything that I would say about any issue would have become or could become a factor in a legal case that is about evidence, and that a columnist in the Palm Beach Post would assume that the prosecutor is now given additional ammo, reason and purpose to pursue me simply because of comments that were taken out of context, totally so, by everybody who's used them in the mainstream media, about my Skull and Bones comment, was just stupefying to me, and so we decided.


We just can't get our story out in the editorial pages of the Palm Beach Post. They just refuse to look at my side of this story. So we decided the only way that we're going to be able to get my side in print for the readers of the Palm Beach Post was to actually buy an ad, and we did, and that ad is available and viewable at RushLimbaugh.com. It's one of the first things you'll see when you go to the home page. It's a pdf file. It downloads fast, and you will see it's a full-page ad. The Palm Beach Post actually placed it on the first page prior to the editorial page. It's actually great placement, and let me just read to you the lead-in paragraph to the ad, which will sum this up:

“While editorial writers and columnists at the Palm Beach Post search for new ways to bash Rush Limbaugh and discredit him – most recently by taking his comments about the Iraqi prisoner issue out of context and then using those distorted quotes as a means to justify the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh by Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer -- a number of prominent national and local journalists, commentators and editorial writers have questioned or charged that the investigation of Rush Limbaugh by Mr. Krischer is politically motivated. We believe that readers of the Palm Beach Post deserve to see this, more widely-held, point-of-view. Following is the latest such opinion from the May 9, 2004 Washington Times.”

And so I'm not going to read the whole Washington Times editorial to you, but it's just a terrific summary of the events of this whole case that involves me, which is now pending, one factor of it pending, at the Fourth District Court of Appeal here in -- well, over there in -- West Palm Beach, Florida. So I wanted to mention this to you, because the... Reuters did do a little wire blurb on the existence the ad last night, and the ad is up and running, and for those of you that are not in the circulation areas of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel or the Palm Beach Post, you can see the ad and the reasons for it at RushLimbaugh.com.


So... I really didn't quite know how to react. I mean, here's a column on Sunday that, in the first place, takes these out-of-context quotes about the Skull and Bones Society initiation and the first series of pictures on the first day out of Iraq, and then says because of those comments, the state attorney down here is even more entitled to go after me and teach me a lesson. It's a columnist. He can say whatever he wants, but the fact of the matter is that's not the kind of thing that ought to spur on the legal system. It shouldn't even be a factor and normally isn't a factor. Just, we have to do what we have to do to get my side out here in the local media. [program observer interruption] What, Mr. Snerdley? What are you frowning at in there? Well, no, no. Well, the [program observer interruption].

Anyway, so that's that, and I thank you for your time for this personal matter here at the top of the program, but as I say, it does now. I guess it's not so much personal when something I've said about the Iraqi prison story ends up in a column justifying the state attorney going after me, I guess it goes beyond the personal and becomes relevant to the news of the day. I guess... It's just amazing how this one question, the Skull and Bones quote, is showing up in newspapers all over the country used exactly like Mr. Cerabino did in the Palm Beach Post. These are a bunch of lemmings. They're not original thinkers. They don't... Not one of them has called me. Not one journalist who's used this quote has called me to ask for my context on it before they used it. Not one journalist has called, "What are you talking about here? Do you really...?" Not one journalist has dared call, and don't say it's because, "Well, you don't talk to 'em anyway." That shouldn't stop them from making the effort so they can say that they did. But, no, they just assume that the source from which they got it is accurate and (clap) bammo! They ran with it. So we responded.

END TRANSCRIPT”

“Thank God for minimumum sentencing guidelines.”

“I hear Rush can get you some good shiznit!”

“I don't know how anyone can defend Limbaugh. His credibility is poop.

I can't stand a two faced do gooder. If he had not gotten busted he would still be using and attacking others for doing what he is guilty of."
bacpac
11:04:31 AM
10/13/03


Why are liberals campaigning against radio personalities?"
Miss Anne Thrope
08:29:49 PM
05/13/04”

“I just took an oxycontin pill for my back. Let's see what happens.”

“Be sure and let me know if you find that your forehead gets more bulbous and you start losing your hair.

Remember this is for posterity.”

“Goerge W. Bush was the Achilles of our soldiers during Vietnam. How dare the cowards like John Kerry try to distort his heroic military service!”

“Ah, those drugs kick in fast!”

“Ah, those drugs kick in fast!"
Phaedrus
06:17:20 PM
05/14/04

That, my friends, is just another unfounded attack from the liberals on my private business. What do you expect from people who actually think this country is the land of the free!”

“It just donned on me... I couldn't even be a liberal if I WANTED to! I'm just WAY too happy and simply not pissed off enough at everything! YAAAAAAA!!! I feeEEEEeeel good!”

“Wait 'til after the election! LOL!”

“What's that quote from "Time Bandits"... ?

Mom! Dad! Don't touch it! It's Concentrated Evil!"”

“Time Bandits... now THAT'S a great movie! Absolutely awesome flick.”

“I feel like kicking a homeless guy! Jeez, that explains alot when it comes to Rush.”

“Here's a little tip for you guys who don't like Rush. DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! It's rather simple. Tune in to that Error America radio show instead, they need your support anyway.”

“Stop,children look around........”

“The light is strong and the man is weak
And the world walks in between
So rise above on the wings of love
See and let yourself be seen
See and let yourself be seen

So fill your cup and drink it on up
For tomorrow never comes
If you weild the rod, answer to your God
But me I'll be up and gone
I'll be up and gone, gone
I'll be up and a gone

If the sea was glass and the land all gone
Would you still be a friend to me
When my time has passed, is it to much to ask
For a little bit of sympathy
Just a little bit of sympathy lord
A little bit of sympathy
A little bit of sympathy lord yeah
Little bit of sympathy
Little bit of sympathy
A little bit of sympathy
A little bit of sympathy
A little bit of sympathy”