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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 06:59 AM
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Limbaugh represents his own self -interest and that's it
Edited on Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 AM by Phoebe Loosinhouse
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/21/rush-limbaugh-attacks-oba_n_159868.html

That clip and story are fill with so much irony that it's leaving a ring in my coffee cup.

Note the concern with maintaining the Bush tax cuts. Well, we all know who that benefits from that - the 1% of which Rush is a member. Rush is an old has-been blow hard whose time of being influential is thankfully drawing to a close - due mainly to the fact that the entire SANE part of the country has turned away from Bush, the Republicans and their stupid self-serving political theories based on self-enrichment at public expense.

Their callers are fewer and stupider than you can even imagine. I think that's why in desperation, now they have to interview each other.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:05 AM
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1. Self absorbed ass
I wish he would implode already
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janedum Donating Member (374 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:07 AM
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2. "I HOPE OBAMA FAILS"
Quote from Limbaugh's show yesterday.
WHY is he still on the air?
Why doesn't somebody STOP HATE RADIO!
This has NOTHING to do with freedom of speech!
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:18 AM
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5. And why is our tax money allowed to pay for his show on Armed Service Radio?
That pisses me off the most about the sack of shit
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Cid_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:45 AM
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7. Like him or not ..yes it does...
Sheesh...

WHY is he still on the air? Because someone still has in interest in listening and he can find sponsors
Why doesn't somebody STOP HATE RADIO! Just your definition of hate radio? Last week it would have been Rhodes and Olbermann and a slew of others
This has NOTHING to do with freedom of speech! It has everything to do with it. Do we change the rules for what is acceptable to say every time an administration change takes place
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:11 AM
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3. The purpose of Rush and his show is to be divisive.
If he and Sean started to recognize republicans working well with demoocrats toward a benefit, their shows wouldn't exist as they are now. In other words, bad for business. So for the next 4-8 years, they will be marginalized and making commentary from the sidelines and will mostly be inconsequential. Their time has come and gone.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:16 AM
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4. big ed is moving to washington dc
he`s going to have access to the new crew in town and limpballs will have the has beens on his show. big ed`s advertising book is all filled up and that is all that matters.
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Xicano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:40 AM
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6. I've come to understand Repulican values as:
The key to understanding the neocon/talk radio version of reality is to begin with the premise that the party of personal responsibility is not actually responsible for ANYTHING. It's ALWAYS someone elses fault.

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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 07:52 AM
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8. Desperation In Hate Radio Land...
While most of us were celebrating President Obama's innauguration, Cheap Channel, the owners of the largest radio group in the country (many that air the Rushbo Circus) fired 10% of their employees (nice move by the Bushbot Mays family...and by Bain Capital...a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group)...with more cuts on the way. Rushbo's radio world has been imploding...hate radio's influence and hey days have long passed. This is a desperate move for attention by Rushbo...get his name in the news in a vain hope this props up his poor ratings and crumbling advertising. It's a cry for help from the desperate...both politically and from a radio industry in total implosion.

I'd be more shocked if Rushbo had said something positive...also extremely suspect. His act is to whip up the hate and venom...draw listeners like a lunatic ranting on a soap box...get reactions and attention. Methinks this has less to do with anything "ideological"...but a desperate move by Rushbo and his corporate radio buddies to try to get some attention.
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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 08:00 AM
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9. saw the blowhard on insannity........he's gained all his fat back....
:puke:
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