Limbaugh: "40 people dead, It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Limbaugh downplayed London bombings, claimed "40 people dead" is "not a successful terrorist attack"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507080004

Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh downplayed the death toll from the July 7 London bombings. On that afternoon's broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh told listeners, "It's like I said -- 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded out of over 1 million people in that transit tube. It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks."

While Limbaugh apparently does not find the July 7 bombings particularly significant, the The New York Times reported: "The attacks were the worst in British memory since World War II."

From the July 7 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: That's, ah, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Very powerful, excellent. And it was such a great contrast to what we're seeing in our own media this morning with the hand-wringing I was speaking about and the "Oh, woe is us" and "Oh, what did we do to cause this?" and "Oh, does this mean we're going to get hit?" and "Oh ..." It's like I said -- 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded, out of over 1 million people in that transit tube. It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks. They didn't succeed in doing anything, and that's just what you just heard the mayor say: "You don't scare us. You didn't accomplish diddly-squat. We've been through this before, much worse than this. And look at us -- we're in the 20th century, you're still back in the 14th century. Blah, blah, blah."

Posted to the web on Friday July 8, 2005 at 2:13 PM EST

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. funny a fellow progresive has been repeating this too

[Stand and Fight]

5. Who?

If that's the case this "progressive" needs to have their ass hung out to dry with Rush. What a jackass this guy is!

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. On the email list I subscrive to

he is making the classic mistake of underestimating them, because they have not used WMDs yet... and as I keep telling him, they have been very effective, they have changed our way of life... and WMDs, if they have them, (I assume they do, due to the Cesium cores missing in Iraq due to our incompetence), they have not used them due to a minor logistics problem... it is very hard to work with that shit.

that said, unlike Rush, he is havng one of the two typical responses since our gov'ment has not given peopel the tools to deal with this, either deny its a problem or get paralyzsd by fear... for rush... they know this is a failure and bush could not find his way out of a wet paper bag, so it is telling

[FreedomAngel82]

93. Speaking of weapons

I also remember hearing on Bernie Ward's show when the guy who wrote the book "Losing Iraq" was on last month he talked about how there was a 1,000 page document of all that could happen with Iraq written by Colin Powell and Bush ignored it ALL. In that report they told about how there would be theft from stores and how people there have stole tons of materials that could be made into weapons. We've made the world less safe and all for oil and money. Oh and according to the guy EVERYTHING that is happening now (well at that point) in Iraq was planned and pre-warned and Bush did nothing about it. And remember they've been planning this since at least 1996/1997.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

56. A "successful" terrorist attack would be one that killed ONLY Limbaugh

and maybe Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly.

[The White Tree]

75. Funny, I was thinking the same thing

I wonder how succesful he'd consider it then.

Some might consider it a public service.

Not that I'm one mind you.

[mom cat]

99. bingo!

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

103. And...

Dubya, brother Jeb, KKKarl Rove, Devil Cheney, "Mushroom" Condi, Donald DUMBSfeld, did I leave anybody out???

[NYCGirl]

2. Yeechh. What a ghoul. NT

[AllegroRondo]

3. tell that to the families of the people who died.

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. "And look at us -- we're in the 20th century"

He must not be all that fond of the 21st.

[Stand and Fight]

6. Pretty idiotic, isn't it?

The temerity of these ass-clowns never ceases to amaze me.

[acmejack]

22. Out of the mouths of reichwing assholes...

I'm sure that makes the people who lost loved ones feel much better. Buck up, Rush says...

[Supersedeas]

35. welcome to the 20th Century?

[Toots]

71. Republicans are in the 20th Century..either 1930s or 1950s for sure

They don't know how to live in the present. They burnt that bridge to the 21st century.

[Aviation Pro]

73. Actually....

...they're in the old antebellum South or the Puritan era. I think they want to rename all their mistresses and peroxide-blonde wives Goody Goodwyfe and own a slave or two.

These sockcuckers never cease to amaze me.

[Knight of Ni]

84. He and his bosses want to take us all back to the 19th!!!

[KnightoftheRepublic]

87. Nope

the 18th and 19th centuries were racked with victories for those damn liberals. Let us go back to the good ol Dark Ages!

[stepnw1f]

7. These People Are So Warped

Damn... Are these people victims of severe child abuse or just weak character. What a freak!

[havocmom]

8. Yeah, Rush, the junta wants 'terrorists' to look bad

and perhaps poodles have limits on what they will put up with.

[tritsofme]

9. I tend to agree

Not to belittle the lives that were lost, but presumably the intention of these terrorists was to kill as many people as possible, and with the spectacular and widespread nature of the attacks, killing only 50 people sounds rather unsuccessful.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. I have a hard time understanding "killing only 50 people"

I respect your right to your opinion. I just don't understand it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. It's a matter of degree.

50 killed is very successful, but the explosions in the tubes could be expected to have been much, much worse, as the enclosed spaces and crowds would magnify the effects.

Bad as it was, it could have been far worse, on the line of the Madrid bombings.

ON EDIT

Don't take this to mean I agree with limpballs. It was a very successful attack. IMO though, hundreds literally ducked the bullet on this one.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

20. I heard some of the "should have been worse given circumstances" stuff...

...but I don't think that's where Limbaugh is coming from.

I think he's shaking a chickenhawk fist in the air, which the freepers live for.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Where Rush is coming from is

this show how innefective the we fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here rethoric really is.. so the minimizing is to be expected

As to the confined space and all that truly depends on the ammount they used... and I will leave it at that

[Hippo_Tron]

52. I think that you're dead wrong

The terrorists aren't all that interested in numbers. Their intention is to get themselves recognized and make the British people live in fear of more attacks. It doesn't matter if it's 50 or 5000 people, the TV images of the attacks still scare the living shit out of everybody and that's exactly what they want.

[hughee99]

54. Actually, I think there intention is to

influence policy. They try to do this by making people live in fear in hopes that they influence elections and policy. This seemed to have worked in Spain, but in remains to be seen if it will be effective in Britain.

[sonicx]

57. That's clearly not the case since the British election was 2 months ago

And clearly not the case with 9/11 either. Hippo is right. They want to scare people.

[hughee99]

61. They may not be trying to influence elections

but they could be trying to influence policy. Get the terrorized masses to pressure their government to pull out of Iraq (maybe). I'm not sure who is responsible, so I don't know what their objective might be.

[Frederik]

90. It didn't "work" in Spain

The vast majority of Spaniards were against the war from the start and their prime minister Aznar tried to downplay the incident by blaming Basques, which had the effect of turning the people against him even more than they already were. The socialists had withdrawal as a policy long before the attacks, and when they got elected they kept their promise. Spain did the only right thing and withdrew from the war.

[hughee99]

98. According to preliminary polling...

and I'm not saying that it is reliable or not, but they were projecting a tight race and close Aznar win. The result did not turn out that way. Are you saying that the bombing (which I doubt anyone really believed was due to Basques ) had no effect on the election results? I'm not saying the feeling wasn't already there to pull out of Iraq, but this, IMHO, helped to solidify the vote against Aznar.

edited for spelling

[jedr]

11. too bad Rush couldn't have been one of them...

the man is truly evil

[tnlefty]

16. When is he supposed to be going to Iraq by the way?

Just merely curious.

[jedr]

31. when Hell freezes over, and then an other two weeks

[dbonds]

12. Maybe it won't be successful.

What would the attack be for and try to do. Well, if it was successful from (lets say) the US administration point of view, it would be to galvanize support for the war on terror (which is confused with the war on iraq), it would be to keep Blair from thinking about removing the troups from Iraq, it would be to change the G8 agenda from things like global warming and world hunger to the US led war on terror, and it would be to distract attention from all of bushco's problems at home. Lets really hope in this context it is not successful.

[Gronk Groks]

92. This is a scary thought...

...your analysis is correct. It only makes sense if you wanted to redirect the debate. No definitive proof for Al Queda...

C.(must not succumb) I. (to conspiracy theories) A.

Successful????? Could be.....:evilgrin:

I'm joking. (I think)

[cdb]

13. What does it take to be successful?? 100? 150?

I think if one person dies, that is one too many. Limbaugh is a piece of shit.

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. Just what I was thinking

Is there a specific limit they'd have to go over to be considered "successful"? What's the magic number, Rush, you f&*#in' idiot?:argh:

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Do you want to tell that to the loved ones of the victims, Rush?

Do you want to tell that to the hundreds injured and their families?

If they had waited until today to launch the attacks, my stepdaughter would have been in London.

Anybody who'd say something so stupid and insensitive must be on drugs or something.

[Mutley]

38. Well, Rushie has had his problems with oxycontin...

[CBGLuthier]

15. From the mouth of a fool

Of course it was a successful terorist attack. One death. One maiming is enough to put fear into people.

My sister-in-law was in London Wednesday. She was going to stay and do some shopping yesterday but decided to go back home to France.

Now the odds against her having been hurt or worse yesterday were very slim. But she is now frightened of London, a wonderful city that she has to visit regularly for her job.

So they succeeded in scaring her. Hopefully she will be able to put it behind her.

I live in Oklahoma City. It's been ten years since our attack. But it still depresses me and I have not been within 200 feet of the site nor visited the memorial because it overwhelms me to think of it.

Maybe someday I will go ahead and park my car and walk to it. But not yet.

It's not so much the enormity of these attacks. It's the fear that it puts into everyone.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Interesting point

Since Rush has been known to read DU, he can read this.

At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, I was in a discussion with someone who thought Rush Limbaugh was responsible for that attack. I told that fellow that he was full of baloney.

I still thinks it's loony to blame Limbaugh for that. Obviously, it's not because I think Rush is one of the great thinkers of our time or a positive influence on American society and culture. But let's get a sense of perspective.

A terrorist attack does not have to kill 3000 people to be "successful". Suicide bombings in Israel usually killed far fewer than 40, yet no one argued their "success". Any such attack that instills fear, as they did, is successful.

So did this one. You or I or Rush Limbaugh could be a victim of the next one. We're all the same to Osama.

Mr. Limbaugh's insensitivity is monumental. He owes his listeners and the people of London an apology.

[SweetLeftFoot]

108. The most succesful

IRA attacks in London killed very, very few people (one or two each) - but had the effect of convincing the Brits to talk.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. The funniest part is that Ken Livingstone would probably pummel Limbaugh

senseless if he had the misfortune to be in the same bar as him - and I'm talking before this outrageous statement. Livingstone's a Red Commie as far as Rush is concerned, but here he is being praised for propaganda purposes. That said, it's telling that Rush feels the need to downplay this attack by calling it unsuccessful. Probably indicates that the attack "polls" very poorly for the right wing, despite their obvious attempt to either deploy it as a political point or brush it off. They're worried, if Limbaugh's downplaying terrorist attacks.

[SoCalifer]

24. Protecting Bush

I think the reason he would say that is an attempt to downplay Bush and Blair's failure to make our countries safer. He knows that our countries, because of Bush's actions, are far less safe now than they were before, and that this attack illustrates that.

To me, he's clearly trying to do damage control.

Just goes to show where their priorities are.

[sonicx]

25. The fact that there was even a terrorist attack in a major city means it..

was successful. In a city that hasn't had that kind of casuality count in decades.

[LiberalFighter]

101. Also successful because it happened despite attempts to prevent it

[City Lights]

26. Hey, pigboy, sign up or shut up!

His ass must have healed by now. Ship it out.

[BeyondGeography]

27. The Very Ugly American speaks

From the man who called Abu Ghraib a frat party.

[Imagevision]

29. I recommend this page so others can know of the scum Fox employs

to spread op-ed pieces.

[leftynyc]

66. I don't believe rush is employed by fox

His radio show is syndicated by Clear Channel. Fox employs plenty of people like him though. Hannity, oreilly, brit hume (his remarks about making money yesterday were truly revolting).

[metlhed]

95. connected

they are connected by both being a mouth piece for the bush admin....

[ihaveaquestion]

30. Didn't * call him a "Great American"?

or some such thing?

Someone should ask him his opinion again.

(Recommended, so others can see what a true "evildoer" is.)

[Gold Metal Flake]

32. I hope British press picks up on his hateful comments.

The British people need to know what sort evil dogs their government is bedded down with. That is, MORE British people need to know. If we had a free press, limpballs would be fired this afternoon.

That quote could be the impetus of a renewed call for his removal from Armed Forces Radio. Anyone agree?

[getmeouttahere]

33. Well, let's spread it around then...

the British people SHOULD know what a piece of shit like Rush is saying about their victims.

[jaxx]

36. I did my part and posted it elsewhere

Gawd what an asshole.

[Gold Metal Flake]

46. Write the various British publications?

That's one way. Does anyone have an email list handy?

[XemaSab]

34. What an asshole.

n/t

[bigwillq]

39. Ditto

What a fucking jerk.

[XemaSab]

37. You know, this really illustrates how clueless the

bastard is.

The point of small terrorist attacks IS NOT to kill people.

The point is to leave the survivors freaked out. Indeed, to leave the survivors so freaked out they start saying "let's get the hell out of Iraq."

[bunny planet]

40. What a vile, disgraceful man Rush Limbaugh is. I suspect his reign will be

over soon, there is a limit to how much hate filled garbage masquerading as patriotism that people will put up with (I hope anyway). Here's hoping the judge and jury put him behind bars for his 'doctor shopping'. He is an appalling,hypocritical individual, it just boggles the mind that he even has one radio station willing to broadcast his swill.

[Bluebear]

41. "Is that all you got? BRING IT ON!"

Very helpful comments, Rush.

[Beaverhausen]

42. Don't that many Iraqis die every day?

[second edition]

43. What a wonderful Christian attitude he has.

Forty isn't enough to care about.

[kenny blankenship]

44. and tomorrow: "50 people dead is not a succ..."

[berni_mccoy]

45. This guy needs to take WAY MORE OXYCONTIN

And I mean a wheelbarrel full...

Wait wait, that wouldn't do it,..

No, I think a truckload, all within the span of an hour... that may be enough.

[Uncle Joe]

47. It's Rush Limbaugh's way of saying "Bring it on" n/t

[Totally Committed]

48. He is S I C K . . . .

end of story.

TC

[laugle]

49. That sick SOB, Malloy was right,

that fat pig has gone totally insane!!! The drug abuse has finally adulded what was left of his brain. The man is sooooooo full of hate, he can't empathize with anyone!!

[FlyByNight]

50. I wonder how many would have to die...

to deem a terrorist attack "successful"? How many, Rush? One for every pound of your porcine form, for example?

Fucking drug-addled psycho. Please Rush, just relapse and OD already. Please.

:grr:

[atre]

51. We're in the twentieth century?

I guess drug induced hazes cause time lapsing.

[leesa]

53. He's disappointed the Neocons didn't do as good a job this time.

[Vickers]

55. Drug-addled ass boil

Amazing that so many young "patriots" :sarcasm: idolize that cowardly puke.

[Cha]

58. I'm sure oxycotinrush doesn' think..

more than 1700 Dead Soldiers in Iraq are very many, either.

But I say ONE is too many for the chimp's LIES!!!!

[ismnotwasm]

59. So what is this, a video game?

Score not high enough rush? And who in hell is us? You weren't there, you didn't scream and suffer and watch people die. Not scared? I believe people are terrified. You're not scared because you are rich off the backs of the mass misinformed and ignorant, a political benny hinn. You probably have a bunker build in one of your houses. You have drugs so you can't feel a fucking thing. You know nothing about what people feel. You are not 'us'. And never will be, you useless, little man.

[Canuckistanian]

60. Nick Berg was only ONE man, Rush

Guess that wasn't a terror attack either.

[onecent]

62. Well someone needs to tell this fat fuck that 1700 deaths IS A SUCCESSFUL

terrorist attack....By our President. The fuck turd. I hate him

[tocqueville]

63. Military explosives in London bombings...

the damage done by very small charges (10 pounds) according a military expert, shows it was high tech military explosives according to an expert talking to AFP...

If true, it reminds me that exactly that kind of explosives were stolen from teh Al Quaqqa facility in Iraq, due to a major SNAFU from the US forces. The fact that the terrorists gave no indication of activity previous to the bombings, make some experts think that they are of the latest generation, completely unknown from the UK inelligence...

All that might be a sign that there were "last generation" IEDs used in LOndon. So the CIA was right when saying that Iraq would be exporting terror to Europe soon (CIA memo in June) ????

Thank you, George...



http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36-670991@51-670628,0.html

EXPLOSIFS D'ORIGINE MILITAIRE

L'explosif utilisé dans les 4 attentats de Londres jeudi était probablement un plastic d'origine militaire, estiment plusieurs experts en comparant la petite taille des engins à l'ampleur des dégâts.

"Vu la petite taille des bombes", moins de 5kg, "seul un explosif à très haut rendement a pu faire des dégâts de cette importance. Il s'agit probablement d'un plastic de haute qualité comme ceux qui sont fabriqués par les militaires", a précisé à l'AFP un expert militaire spécialiste du démantèlement de l'arsenal de groupes clandestins.

[SweetLeftFoot]

109. IED

London just had 30 years of IEDs and semtex.

[deadparrot]

64. What a fucker.

And that's my thought on that matter.

Mass transit, you stupid fuck. FAMILIES with children use the Underground. They ride double-decker buses. They're not only terrorizing adults; they've moved on to target children.

[644BS]

65. So one death calls for surrender?

[LaPera]

67. It's now over 60 people dead & if he was one of them, would it then be

"successful"?

And it needs to mention the thousands wounded.

[Pinko]

68. Words cannot express how angry I am at Limbaugh right now

[malmapus]

69. I dunno bout you Rush, but I saw the results of terror

My fiancee has a friend who is spending 5 weeks traveling around Europe. She almost lost it when she couldn't get in contact with her.

When she finally did, her friend had left London the day before to goto France. But yeah her friend was scared shitless to.

I'd say it was successful, let alone the people who WERE there that DIED or were severly injured, and their families.

What a piece of shit Rush is.

[tavalon]

70. Jesus, this isn't a numbers game

but luckily the Brits are made of stronger stuff than most of Americans so they will not allow this to undermine their liberty as we did. They are adults for the most part. We are children for the most part.

[Hepburn]

72. Geeeeeeez...

...maybe Pig Boy needs to find some different meds to abuse. Maybe some that allow for some blood flow to the brain.

What a total freaking asshole.

[EnfantTerrible]

74. Until more die in a single attack

than the death toll of 9/11, the pigs on the right will consider all attacks to be unsuccessful.

The US wants to keep the grief market cornered... helps fuel the oil grab in Iraq.




edited for clarity

[hobbit709]

76. If rush was one of the 40

maybe he'd feel differently about it.

[Roland99]

77. ol' Diarrhea of the Mouth just joined the Insensitive Pricks Club

along with the FAUX Spews assholes.

[TechBear_Seattle]

78. A crying shame that Flush Limburger wasn't one of the dead

If only Flush, O`Lielly, Inannity and the rest of that crowd had been on that bus. Maybe then, just maybe, they would be taking the matter a wee bit more seriously.

[Massacure]

79. 40 pills taken, Im not a drug addict folks!

:eyes: :mad: :puke:

[Logansquare]

80. Ha, does Rush know he just complimented a socialist?

He's largely an ignorant fuck, so I doubt it.

[Stevious]

81. moran

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8507035/

50 isn't a large number, unless one of those 50 includes a close family member. Or you're blind high on Oxycontin.

:puke:

[craychek]

82. funny...

Try asking the families of those who died... I bet they think it was pretty successful... what a dick.

[Roland99]

83. Retrieving bodies is nightmare for London rescuers

Here ya go, Lush Asshole:

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005070911010002129547&dt=20050709110100&w=RTR&coview=

LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Retrieval teams working deep underground to recover bodies after the London bomb attacks are battling ghastly conditions that one expert compared to a "foetid drain."

The work was so mentally challenging that each member was receiving special training and support, a leading psychologist said on Saturday.

"What they are in now is essentially a foetid drain with danger, with body parts, with ghastly circumstances. That is a very, very hard duty," James Thompson, senior lecturer in psychology at University College London, told Reuters.

"These are conditions that would defeat ordinary civilians but these are people carefully recruited for their personal stability, given intense training and working in a mutually supportive team," he said.

It was nothing...it was diddly-squat...it was just blah blah blah.


Fucker deserves a fate much worse than these innocents had.

[KelleyKramer]

85. "And look at us -- we're in the 20th century"

Ummm, Mr Rushbo, have you been on heroin so long.. not only do you not know what year it is, but you dont even know what century it is??

Wow!

[Joey Liberal]

86. Rush will soon be on trial n.t

[NightOwwl]

88. Well, if it was his fat ass on the line,

I'm sure he would think it was one too many.

[Greylyn58]

89. Limp is a pig--

and when his ass is finally put on trial, I'm gonna say:

See folks, he's not that important. We can find a dozen other talkshow host--each one better then this one.

Scumbag!!!!

[Miss Chybil]

91. I'd like to see him say that in a room with 40 victims' families and 1000s

of wounded.

Oh, Rush, you are such an idiot. Take a pill and shut the fuck up.

[Thav]

94. Apply his logic to Iraq, you'll see...

Most "terrorist" attacks in iraq rarely kill more then 50 people, so most are not effective.

<Rush> It's like I said -- 5 people dead and 15 wounded out of several million people who live in Iraq. It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks.

So, with all the attacks in Iraq killing less than 50 people a shot, it clearly shows that the insurgency is in it's last throes. If these were real terrorist attacks, they'd be killing hundreds, thousands. We are succeeding in Iraq because the attacks are not killing more than 50 people a shot. Get it?

That would make sense if I microwaved my head for a while and drank 15 gallons of LSD.

[JHBowden]

96. The Culture of Life speaks again....

Forty people, no big deal.... so if the terrorists killed forty Americans, it is not a terrorist attack?

Fuck Limbaugh. :spank:

[metlhed]

97. fat blowhard

The fat junky blowhard doesn't get it once again. Just because they didn't kill 3000 like they did on 9/11, 1 is too many and shows that we cant stop terrorism.

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[LiberalFighter]

102. How does he come up with 1 million?

How does that idiot figure that up to 1 million could had been killed by the bombs?

In addition what is the cost to those that lost a loved one or suffer because of a loved one that was wounded? It is not just the dead and wounded that suffer the consequences.

As for the 20th century and 14th century bit... as long as they remain with their 14th century mindset they will be a danger. Just as the idiot being a danger not knowing that we are not in the 20th century and falling into the same trap.

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[LiberalFighter]

106. What I meant was how does he come up with 1M in the transit?

Are there 1 Million that could had been killed in a concentrated area? Or is it that 1 million passengers pass thru or use the transit tube?

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[AnnieBW]

105. Actually...

there are a lot more dead. He's just quoting the number of DECLARED dead. There's a lot more bodies on the trains in the Tube that haven't been reached yet, let alone identified.

What an a**hole!

[ikri]

110. Hang on!

Did I just read that right?

Did Limbaugh just say of RED Ken, "Very powerful, excellent"?

I think that Limbaugh needs to check himself before he starts eulogizing about left-wing politicians, next he'll be getting George Galloway on as a regular guest.