Chantilly Say posted:

At the gym today I caught the CNN feed showing Wolf bringing in a panel of experts to talk about satellite systems to track all planes, all the time, so look forward to CNN becoming an air traffic control screen with 24/7 running commentary as soon as they schedule surgery to remove his need to sleep.

Radish posted:

What was that two full weeks for reality to prove the SCoTUS's ruling was full of poo poo?

Radish posted:

What was that two full weeks for reality to prove the SCoTUS's ruling was full of poo poo?

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RUSH: We also have Karl Rove speculating that Mrs. Clinton might have suffered some sort of brain injury back in December of 2012, which is progress. Generally Karl thinks it's the Tea Party that's crazy. Now he's thinking maybe Mrs. Clinton is crazy. What happened here, reportedly Karl Rove told a conference near Los Angeles on Thursday -- and here it is in quotes -- "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that."

Now, Hillary's flacks have responded to this and they said she wasn't in the hospital for 30 days. She was only in the hospital for three days. She was hiding the other 27 days from the congressional investigations into Benghazi. But I remember her absence, we all do. She was off the grid like Obama was that night, the night of Benghazi, she was off the grid for 30 days afterwards. And Rove is serious. He thinks the New York Times is gonna have to ask her about it because she's a presidential candidate. And he's now saying (paraphrasing), "Well, I never said she had brain damage. I just said she suffered some sort of an injury, and we need to get answers to it."

My reaction is this. If Hillary has brain damage, what difference does it make now? What possible different does it make now how it happened, or even if she has brain damage. If you're gonna start going down this road with Mrs. Clinton, you've gotta go back a little farther than December of 2012. I mean, you remember how Hillary couldn't remember where she put the Rose Law Firm billing records. She couldn't remember how she got hold of those 900 FBI files that she and Bill had somewhere. Her answer to most questions back then was that she couldn't remember, and so forth.

So, anyway, the left is fit to be tied over what Rove said about Mrs. Clinton. He's walking back "brain damage," but he thinks that she's suffered some kind of catastrophic or very serious injury when she fell, and we know that she fell. She hit her head on something, and he says she's wearing those glasses that you only see when people have suffered major brain damage.

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RUSH: Brenda from Yakima, Washington, you're next, it's great to have you. Hi.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm honored to speak with you.

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate that.

CALLER: Well, what I wanted to talk about today was Donald Sterling. I have not heard anybody say this, but what I heard him saying was that she could sleep with anybody that she wanted to, but he didn't want them brought to his game. So obviously to me, she sleeps with a lot of black guys and she was making this more about race than he was, and he just didn't want to be humiliated. He's an 80-year-old man that comes from an era where they didn't mix races. And so while I don't quite feel sorry for him, I do think that the media's just jumped on a private conversation that he is not --

RUSH: You think that we need to step back a little and try to understand why there might be -- ahem -- explainable reasons for what Sterling has done and said?

CALLER: Well, I'd kind of like to know if he got the Ferrari back from her, but she --

largeRUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: It's two sleaze balls running into each other and I don't feel sorry for him, but I don't think that --

RUSH: He never saw that Ferrari, and he is not gonna see it. And the same thing with the house he bought her. He never saw that and he's not ever gonna see that.

CALLER: Well, I don't think it's right that he's getting jumped on for being racist when black people are the most racist people of anybody. They're very intolerant of -- I'm part Indian, and it's the same with any minority group. They're more racist against white people than --

RUSH: Yes but --

CALLER: Than any other -- anybody.

RUSH: But, you see, Brenda, at this juncture in American history that's not only permitted, it's almost called for. It's called reciprocity, getting even. It's the whole point of affirmative action, never-ending affirmative action. But, okay, her point is she thinks that they're piling on Sterling. He comes from a different generation. He's lost. He doesn't understand why he's in trouble here. He thinks of himself as a good person.
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RUSH: "The Department of Justice announced Monday that it will 'monitor' polling places in two Nebraska counties during Tuesday Republican primaries for possible civil rights violations. Attorney General Eric Holder's DOJ will assign monitors to patrol polling places," watching for "possible civil rights violations."

What, they think Nebraska's a Third World country? So they don't have time to investigate Benghazi. They don't have time to investigate any IRS abuses against the Tea Party. They don't have time to investigate Fast and Furious. They dismiss cases against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia.

But they've got time for this? "Civil rights violations."

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it was around dinnertime last night and I was in the early stages of show prep for today, and I decided to take a break. I went to my hobby, my tech blogs, and it was stunning. You know, the tech blogs are popularized and populated by young Millennial types, hipsters, wannabe hipsters, think they're hipsters, and it's really kind of sad. It's great exercise in groupthink and propagandizing. I don't think they've ever been taught critical thought. They've been propagandized, and there's a story that the Antarctic ice is melting and there's real fear among young people, real fear that they are going to die in the next hundred years.

The story says that the Antarctic ice on the western side is breaking off, and this is gonna cause a four-foot rise in the sea level in 100 years. And I'm not kidding, there is abject -- my computer monitor almost got wet with tears as I'm reading about this, and yet there's another story from another news agency that talks about how Antarctic ice is in greater and greater volume than it's ever been. It's a dichotomy or a dilemma.

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RUSH: I'm zoned in, folks, on the future of the country. The future of the country is young people, and it's stunning how propagandized they've become. It's also stunning (very troubling, too) how so many of them, it seems -- at least the ones that we come in contact with here via what they write, people who express themselves publicly -- lack of any ability to critically think.

They just accept whatever propaganda has been force-fed them in high school and if they went to college and so forth.

But the genuine fear of what's happening in the Antarctic is real.

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RUSH: I'll probably get in trouble for this, since I have become villainized in the Drive-By Media. But just based on what I'm seeing, hearing, reading, I actually think that the Millennial generation possibly is the most indoctrinated generation in our country's history, the most propagandized by the left from the time they were born into pre-K all the way through elementary school, high school, and college.

You're just gonna have to trust me. The abject fear and panic over a glacier split-up in Antarctica is real.
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The apocalyptic version is automatically believed because of the propagandizing that that's taken place. I don't know. I don't know if I can convey this. Some of you might be asking, "Rush, what's the big deal? Young people are young people." I know, but this is serious because it's just more pessimism. It's more, "There's no future."

It's more, "The best days of this country are behind us." It's more losing faith in the world and humanity and so forth. That's not good. It's not good for them; it's not good for anybody. We need people with upbeat, positive attitudes about the future -- and, you know, honest recognition of what you can and can't control and then adapt to it, rather than just freak out.

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RUSH: Let me take one more stab at this. Even I, ladies and gentlemen, communicator par excellence, even I sometimes think that I fail to actually convey what I really think about something. Let me take another stab at this whole global warming and how the Millennial generation, not just them, but it seems like every one of them just bought it hook, line, and sinker. It's a hoax.

Critical thinking, just the application of critical thinking would expose it as a hoax. The application of critical thinking would lead people to question the science of this and to realize that all these claims are just balderdash. But yet embracing it makes them feel good. Embracing the whole notion of climate change makes them feel good, and I can't help but wonder if one of the reasons for the popularity of this whole climate change hoax is that in the end it justifies a smaller and more Spartan existence, 'cause, after all, since we caused it, we have to pay the price fixing it, and what caused it? Excessive progress. Excessive consumerism, lifestyles increasing, capitalism, pursuing profit, all of these horrible, rotten things are to blame for destroying the planet.

Of course, people can be absolved of this sin by agreeing to support bigger governments and higher taxes and inept concepts like income equality and so forth. In the process, you end up justifying a smaller, more Spartan existence. And thanks to Obama's economy, that's what Millennials are gonna be stuck with anyway, is a Spartan existence. I mean, we've got economic growth in the negative numbers now. We got 92.5 million Americans not in the labor force, not working. We got more people working part time than ever. We've got more people on unemployment for longer than ever. We have more people on food stamps than ever.

We've got more people living a Spartan existence in the world's greatest and most powerful economy than outside the Great Depression and this is said to be, by some in the Regime, the new normal. This is what you'd better get used to. This French Marxist economist, Thomas Piketty, says that the 20 years of economic boom following Reagan was an aberration. That was the exception to the rule. That's not real. We need to go back to the tax rates and the lifestyles before Reagan got to the White House and started messing everything up. He also said he's not a Marxist. So he's a liar, number one, or else he just doesn't know himself.
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This Antarctic melting ice story is everywhere, and in every story it's past the point of return. "'Past The Point Of No Return:' An Antarctic Ice Sheet's Slow Collapse." It's nothing we can do anything about! "Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Underway, and Unstoppable, But Will Take Centuries." That is the Washington Post.

Here's the story that isn't everywhere in The Daily Caller: "Global Cooling: Antarctic Sea Ice Coverage Continues To Break Records." So you have one group that's come out and said Antarctic ice is breaking up and it's melting and it's gonna be four degrees hotter in a hundred years and there's nothing we can do to stop it, and that is automatically believed and received with panic.

We forget the group just last winter. Remember the fun we had with this? There was a group of people on a boat, a ship, and they went down there. They were on their way down to Antarctica to "prove" that it was melting, and they got trapped in the ice that they didn't know was there. There was so much more ice than they thought was there, that they got trapped.

So did two icebreakers, including a ChiCom icebreaker!

They got trapped down there trying to rescue these people. That was just last year. It took three icebreakers to get down there and rescue these global warming people who went down there to prove that the place was melting, just last year. So it doesn't take much to cause this panic and move the needle on this.

The pessimistic story automatically -- and I know that's not new. Don't misunderstand. That isn't new. Pessimism's automatically believed. But there are two stories today, and there's only one of them that's everywhere, and the reason is because this is a political issue and it fits right in with the Democrat Party's political agenda, and that's why it is everywhere.

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RUSH: Here is Lee, in south New Jersey as we head to the phones. I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program. Hi.

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I've been with you since 1990.

RUSH: Well, I have to take that up with Snerdley. I didn't know we had anybody on hold for that long.

CALLER: Well, yes, I have been... I...

RUSH: (chuckling)

CALLER: You know, my subject is we were talking a minute ago -- what, an hour ago -- about these people were raising all this heck about global warming and the pollution that we are creating to create it. It seems like no one wants to bridge (sic) the subject on their cities that they look up to or their systems they look up to, the socialist cities of Mexico City and all the cities in China that have pollution clouds hanging over them and you can't see two city blocks.

RUSH: Okay, so your question is why aren't these people who are scared to death of what's happening in Antarctica going to the ChiComs and demanding they stop polluting, or why aren’t they going down to Mexico and demanding they stop polluting? That's your point, your question?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: All right, what do you think the answer is?

CALLER: Well, when the [Berlin] Wall went down they found lakes of chemical waste that would eat your hand off if you stuck into it. Nobody's saying anything about that, either.

RUSH: Well, why?

CALLER: That's the reason I'm calling. I got yelling at the radio, "Why isn't something be done here or said here?" Of course, I can think of all kinds of socialist/leftist excuses.

RUSH: Because --

CALLER: I was just wondering if they got anything to say about it.

RUSH: You've gotta look at the way they've been taught, the way they've been educated, and they have been taught that capitalism is the great polluter. They've been taught that capitalism is the great destroyer. They've been taught that capitalism is the great fraud. Capitalism is the source of the greatest inequality and inequity. Socialism and communism.

Why, those are laudable efforts to get it right. Why, those are really cool efforts and ideas to try to make everybody equal and everybody experience fairness with no discrimination and so forth. It's what they've been taught. They've been taught that the only reason socialism has failed is 'cause the wrong people have been trying it, since the beginning of time.

They've also been told that it's failed 'cause there hasn't been enough money thrown at it. So China is not the problem. The ChiComs, actually, on occasion get some credit. The United States is considered to be the focus of evil in the modern world. It's frustrating. This is the fruits of our education system. Not just the United States, but capitalism.

Capitalism's comprised of what?

"These evil corporations, evil CEOs!"

What are they doing?

"Why, they're polluting! They're drilling for oil. They're fracking! They're making killer drugs. Why, these CEOs are killing their customers! CEOs in the pursuit of profit are killing people and maiming people and injuring people and mistreating people!"

This is what they've been taught.

Therefore, Mexico City, ChiComs, Havana, all these other polluting agents?

Nah.

They don't hold a candle to the evil of the United States.

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RUSH: I have become the villain in the kidnapped girls story. Your host, harmless, lovable, little fuzzball, El Rushbo. I'm the villain because I'm not joining the groupthink on this silly hashtag business. I'm a holdout for actually doing something. You know, did Reagan put a hashtag up saying "Gorbachev, tear down this wall," #walldown? No. Did McCarthy use a hashtag, #Japanese, #surrendernoworelse? No. It took action.
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So I have here a couple of stories, one of them from Daniel Greenfield at David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine. I just want to read you a pull quote from this piece. The other piece, by the way, is in the Wall Street Journal, and the headline is: "A Selfie-Taking, Hashtaging, Teenage Administration."

So, you see, I am not the only one who thinks that hashtags are meaningless when it comes to genuinely dealing with a problem or solving it. George Will even said this, but he's not villain looking or acting, so they ignore his opinion. But this Daniel Greenfield piece: "Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton haven’t championed #BringBackOurGirls because it’s a hashtag in support of the kidnapped girls..."
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The Muslim Brotherhood is in power in Egypt (or was) because of Obama. Now the theory is that Boko Haram, they're not the bad guys. The Nigerian government is, and the purpose of the hashtag is aimed at destabilizing the Nigerian government because they're not properly appeasement oriented toward Boko Haram or all of militant Islam.
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The Regime, Hillary, Michelle Obama sympathize with Boko Haram. They're blaming the Christian Nigerian government for creating Boko Haram, and they want to get rid of the Nigerian government, because if you do that, if you appease the terror group by getting rid of the group you think is responsible for their existence, then you've made peace with them. You've made friends with them and they'll leave us alone, or whatever convoluted thinking. I'm sorry, my ability to comprehend liberalism only goes so far.
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The people on Twitter that are all behind the hashtag have no clue what's going on here. They think they're really getting behind the kidnapped girls and that they're really helping and that they're really showing the world that they care and they're really causing worldwide action to take place, and they're being encouraged to think that.

They're being encouraged to think that simply caring can cause positive action. That's another misdirection that I think people's minds are being polluted with, that simply sitting there with a hashtag can cause a problem like this to be solved, and that's gonna be the end of the day. You wait. When this eventually is dealt with, and it's gonna be, because we do have some drones, we do have some aircraft trying to find the girls. They're gonna get found at some point; you know this is gonna end at some point, and that hashtag is gonna be given credit. And the end result is gonna be that all these people that got behind the hashtag who did nothing but retweet it are gonna think that that solved the problem. And who does that serve?
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This Regime is not gonna side with the Christian government in Nigeria with Boko Haram on the other side when this Regime blames the Christian government for the existence of Boko Haram. So with that as the context it's easier to understand that Obama and Hillary have resisted doing anything about Boko Haram because they believed that its root cause was the oppression of Muslims by the Nigerian government. Don't forget, go back to 9/11. Why are there terrorists? Because of the United States, because of our policies in the Middle East, because of our support for Israel and also because of poverty and because of economic circumstances of no hope. Where else are young men in the Middle East gonna go? All this bohunk.

The ignoring of reality once again, that militant Islam is an ideology disguised as a religion. Militant Islam is an ideology. This Regime is not gonna look at it that way, shape or form. Remember, they never let go of their political agenda. The United States, the State Department after 9/11, within two months, that little forum, "What did we do to make them mad? Why do they hate us?" This is the blame America first crowd, and nothing has changed here. So this hashtag campaign, which actually started in Nigeria, just came along at a perfect time. I mean, it just fills the bill for the way the Regime wants to handle and hide behind it.
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Again, the reason they don't think Boko Haram is a terrorist group because the Nigerian government is responsible for making them one. The trouble in Nigeria is not Boko Haram; it's the Christian government. That's Mrs. Clinton's view. That's Obama's view. But eventually she got on board with the hashtag and all this inertia here behind it.

She eventually got on board -- and when she did, as is the case with all leftists whenever they arrive, they are praised for getting on board, and she did. "She tweeted a condemnation of Boko Haram’s kidnappings."

kik2dagroin posted:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/05/13/sterling_steps_in_two_buckets_on_cnn
This lady sounded like total white bread, btw

StandardVC10 posted:

The government of Nigeria really does sound like it sucks, though.

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They dismiss cases against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Not that I should be surprised but holy goddamn gently caress that was 6 years ago and it was just two black guys standing in front of a polling place. WHY IS THIS STILL A THING????

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Not that I should be surprised but holy goddamn gently caress that was 6 years ago and it was just two black guys standing in front of a polling place. WHY IS THIS STILL A THING????

Star Man posted:

We won't say a god drat word about Reagan showing the early stages of Alzheimer's while he was president, but you bet your rear end that Hilary wearing a certain kind of sunglasses is sign that she's not mentally fit for office.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Not that I should be surprised but holy goddamn gently caress that was 6 years ago and it was just two black guys standing in front of a polling place. WHY IS THIS STILL A THING????

Hazo posted:

"modern-day Goebbels" .

Hazo posted:

Even if doesn't match up exactly, a lot of it is just pretty standard populist propaganda. A good example is the repetition of codewords. "Chi-Coms." "Regime." "Democrat" as an adjective. Every one of these is misleading or misapplied, but it gives his low-information listeners a way to feel smart and part of the club.

On the other hand, it lets normal people identify anyone who uses these codewords as a complete idiot who has no knowledge of American political issues.

Dr. Faustus posted:

I just love the references to The Regime.

Yeah, the Obama Regime. I know we're already a second or third-world country, but for our own broadcasters calling our "Democratic Republic" a Regime is just silly, even though it's also true (just not for the reasons they say.)

Kenzie posted:

Limbaugh would make Goebbels proud. I don't listen to right wing media that much, but I will switch on Rush or Levin or whatever if I happen to be driving somewhere. I heard Michael Savage for the first time the other day, which was hilarious.

I do love how they call liberals fascists and nazis, because I think that what the right really needs right now is a Hitler figure. By Hitler I mean a good looking, rage-filled authoritarian demagogue who also happens to be completely unknown. Hitler's background played such a big role in his rise. He was a homeless guy and had little education, did badly in school, had no political training, no military leadership experience, no wealth, and no family connections. When he was a soldier, the other men in the trenches thought it very strange that no one would send him packages or letters from home. When he got into politics, this played a big role in making people think he was the real thing and not a cookie-cutter phony politician. And he wasn't.

If the right had someone like that, I think they could sweep back into power pretty easily. The usual criticisms of right wing politicians as coddled, rich old white men would not apply. Limbaugh would go full Goebbels and prop up an image of the new Hitler figure as a pure, perfect, ascetic individual who cares only for his country and his people. Who do they have nowadays? loving Mitt Romney? Rand Paul? From what I remember of 2012, even conservatives widely believed Romney was a poo poo, phony politician, and only voted for him because he was better than the evil communist in the white house.

PostNouveau posted:

Cliven Bundy/Alex Jones 2016?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Right Wing rear end in a top hat, Matt Walsh

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Right Wing rear end in a top hat, Matt Walsh

agarjogger posted:

AJ is such an odd looking motherfucker.

agarjogger posted:

AJ is such an odd looking motherfucker.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

CheesyDog posted:

Every person I've ever met who self-describes as "mutt" has been as white as a glass of milk.

Post 9-11 User posted:

Are you aware that there are a dozen or so (I'm not an anthropologist, suck it) distinct ethnicities that have light skin?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Right Wing rear end in a top hat, Matt Walsh

mr. mephistopheles posted:

a fat, shapeless man

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Right Wing rear end in a top hat, Matt Walsh

kik2dagroin posted:

I'm curious as to why Snerdley isn't a co-host and my intuition is that Limbaugh doesn't want someone more likable than him co-hosting. Not to mention how Limbaugh constantly projects his negative attributes onto others, like Obama being a narcissist