Rush today: "If I'm 18, 19, 17, . . .I'm joining the Marines. I want to go to Iraq."

[Faygo Kid]

He's still the worst of them all - Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al - they all try to be scummier than Rush Limbaugh, but there's only one of him, thank God. The link is only for those with strong stomachs. I was born the same year as the Walking Pilodinal Cyst, and cannot fathom the depths to which he sinks in mischaracterizing the history we have both lived through. He is a profoundly ignorant man. Don't tell me to ignore him, because that is to ignore the evil he has done and has yet to do. Not much else I can come up with right now. Maybe just this: What an asshole.

RUSH: I totally understand this. How old is your son?

CALLER: He's 19.

RUSH: Your son is 19. If I'm 18, 19, 17, I volunteered for this. I'm joining the Marines. I want to be on the front lines. I want to be the first group in. I want to go to Iraq. Despite everything that's been said about this mission in the media, despite four years of the drumbeat of defeat and, "It's not possible," we still have young men like your son signing up for this all over the country. I have to believe that when they see what the Democrats in the House are doing and how they're smiling and gloating over securing what they think is defeat, I have to totally understand how they would be angered about this and fit to be tied. But the bottom line is: even after that, they still go, and I'll betcha they go even more fired up than otherwise.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032707/content/01125118.guest.html

[ORDagnabbit]

1. just like he did when he was young right?

[Faygo Kid]

6. Oh yeah. Mr. "front lines," just like the rest of the chickenhawks.

He got out because of a cyst, and most likely family pull. Me? I got my draft number the same year as Rush, and it was a blessed 247. Of course, I was marching against the war and didn't want anybody to go; Rush like W. was perfectly happy and in fact all for other non-rich kids to go, so long as he didn't have to. And of course he didn't. So now, the gutless coward spews that he would want to be on "the front lines?" Maybe he will show us his bravery by riding around Baghdad or Fallujah in a humvee that lacks adequate armor instead of engaging in cheap talk encouraging others to die. Right.

[CTyankee]

54. My ex husband had his cyst problem but was NOT exempt from the draft in 1956

which was the cold war. So if Rushbo got a deferment from 'Nam why didn't my ex hub. get one for the Cold War?

buncha shit is what it is. This guy is a disgrace to the human race...

[hvn_nbr_2]

Rush Limbaugh is Walter Mitty with anal boils. nt

[rockymountaindem]

2. Strange... the only place it seems Limbaugh didn't have fantasies about going was Vietnam

He must really hate the jungle or something

[Postman]

3. I'd really like to go except I have this huge boil on my ass.....

n/t

[Ghost in the Machine]

18. i really think that Rushbo grew out of the boil myself... some kind of anomaly

it's possible, ya know..

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Yeah, I believe him. He tried so hard to join up and go to Vietnam

but they wouldn't take him 'cause of the anal cyst. :eyes:

How idiotic does he think his listeners are anyway? Oh yeah...

[kiteinthewind]

5. Can we get an age waiver and send his ass over there? Pretty please. nt

:mad:

[Jacobin]

11. sorry. his ass had a pimple and he got a deferment

true story by the way

[kiteinthewind]

40. EEEWWWW! I can't get that picture out of my mind now. Thanks a lot, Jacobin

Jez kiddin'

:puke:

[Initech]

7. Yeah, and I'm SURE he has had prior combat experience, right?

What an asswipe.

[Monkeyman]

8. Maybe we can get a waiver for him

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Actions speak louder than words.

Rush, you were a coward and a draft dodger when you were young. Also, not one single major republican politician or pundit has a child serving in Iraq. I wonder why you and none of your callers ever mention that fact?

[Supersedeas]

81. Big mouthed Chickenhawks.

[AnneD]

10. Yeh...

and monkeys would fly outta my butt too.:eyes:

[Zenlitened]

12. Rush Limbaugh should be beaten senseless with a whiffle-ball bat.

[Cabcere]

15. That's assuming he has any sense in the first place

which, IMO, gives that wanker entirely too much credit.

[Cabcere]

13. Fuck you, Rush.

:grr: Apologies for the language, but this really makes me sick. :grr: I had a friend who was 19 years old, who joined the Marines after graduation and went to Iraq. He didn't do it for the glory or the excitement of being on the front lines - he did it because he wanted to help people. He wanted to go to Iraq so somebody's husband or father wouldn't have to. And he was killed over there on Valentine's Day of this year. Dead at age 19; buried seven months to the day before what would have been his twentieth birthday. My friend understood what war was and what sacrifice meant, and he went all the way and made the ultimate sacrifice. And I will not have a parasitic coward like Rush Limbaugh throwing blanket statements around about how all 19-year-olds want in on the "excitement" on the front lines of Iraq, because even if that's true in some cases, it's not true in all and for him to say shit like that trivializes the true motives and real honor of people like my friend. People who, in a mere 19 years of life, had more manliness, more integrity, and more honor than a cowardly blowhard asshat like Rush Limbaugh will EVER have. :grr: So shut the fuck up, Rush. Now.

[Faygo Kid]

22. I'm so sorry about your friend. Your comment is deeply appreciated, and your sentiment shared.

I hope you will post this independently. I cannot equal your eloquence. If not, I hope you will let me post it. You nailed it. Thank you, and again, I am so very sorry.

[Cabcere]

24. Thank you

I'm just so upset right now - I have tears in my eyes, making it hard to post, but that comment he made just incensed me. :grr: Feel free to post or re-post it as you like - I have a study session to go to in a few minutes so I need to take some time to calm down, but you have my blessing if you feel it should be re-posted. :hi: Once again, thanks for your kind words and understanding! :hug:

[Faygo Kid]

47. I did post your response. Thanks for the OK to do so, and it seems move DUers.

My hope is that your comments make the front page of DU. They are what this site is all about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=518387&mesg_id=518387

[Cabcere]

63. Thanks, faygokid

:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

46. I'm sorry about your friend

I have a friend in a similar situation who has been over there twice and will be going for a third tour shortly. Peace be with you :hug:

[Cabcere]

64. Thank you, rockymountaindem

and I hope and pray your friend comes home safe and well. :hug: Peace.

[Junkdrawer]

14. One of these days, actual diarrhea will pour from his mouth...

Karma...

[Cabcere]

68. That might be an improvement

over the vile sh*t he spews now...? :shrug:

[neuvocat]

16. He could join now if he wants to.

The military can waiver all sorts of requirements for the sake of manpower. Is it possible to start a petition demanding he enlist?

[Cabcere]

20. On one hand...

I'd love to see him go over to Iraq (it'd probably be the most action he's seen in years, LOL!). On the other hand...do we really want to stain our military's reputation by inflicting him on them?

(Yes, I realize these are nasty and rude comments, and I normally wouldn't make them. But Rush's comments about 19-year-old Marines serving in Iraq really hit home for me...see my post upthread.) :(

[MikeNearMcChord]

31. No need to appologize. I would have this reccomended

to KO for worst person of the day, I wonder though if their is a a limit of how many times one can get that, honor in a week? I wonder if Mike Malloy heard about this?

[bahrbearian]

17. This Rush ?

[Jim Warren]

19. Aw, now that's the chicken-hawk spirit Rusty!

Cheer other people's kids head on into an illegal war.

You can bet that if Rusty's testicals had dropped in normal adolescent fashion and, logos forbid, had sired offspring in
in one of his arrangements, er...marriages, he would be conciling them on the term pilonidal.

[MikeNearMcChord]

21. Time to replay this classic from

ToStupidToBePresident.com!:hi:
http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/chickenhawks.htm

[Faygo Kid]

26. Thanks! There was another one, with cartoon Rush singing "I'm a(n). . .

I draw a blank. Can you remember?

[Cha]

23. How dumb do you have to

be to sign up for a war that was based on proven bush lies and thousands of US Soldiers are getting blown up and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have already died?

"Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their word. This week, the BBC reported that the government's own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable. This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American- and British-led invasion in March 2003.

Immediately after publication, the prime minister's official spokesman said that The Lancet's study "was not one we believe to be anywhere near accurate". The foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, said that the Lancet figures were "extrapolated" and a "leap". President Bush said: "I don't consider it a credible report".

Scientists at the UK's Department for International Development thought differently. They concluded that the study's methods were "tried and tested". Indeed, the Hopkins approach would likely lead to an "underestimation of mortality".~snip~

When these recommendations went to the prime minister's advisers, they were horrified. One person briefing Tony Blair wrote: "are we really sure that the report is likely to be right? That is certainly what the brief implies?" A Foreign Office official was forced to conclude that the government "should not be rubbishing The Lancet".


http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_horton/2007/03/counting_the_cost.html

[Cabcere]

30. Sometimes it's not stupidity.

I realize that yes, sometimes people don't necessarily think clearly when signing up to fight a war...but some people have other motives besides just wanting to kill, kill, kill. (I'm sorry if I'm overreacting - see my post up-thread, it may clear things up a bit about why I feel the way I do.) :hi: Peace.

[Cha]

37. Yes, I see your view.

I'm really sorry. The people I was talking about are the ones who listen to limpballs' lies.

The lying machine in the US is getting our kids killed..and not enough people give a shit enough, YET, "to storm the bastille".

[Cabcere]

62. No need to apologize

I didn't mean for my post to come across as an attack on your viewpoint - it certainly is a valid one. I'm just hypersensitive to this kind of stuff now, I guess. :hi: Peace.

[Cha]

82. I meant I was sorry for what

happened to your friend..I should have made it more clear. I'm really sorry!

[Cabcere]

84. Ohhh...gotcha.

Blonde moment on my part. And thank you for that - I really appreciate how caring and supportive you and many others here on DU have been. :hug: :grouphug: :hug: :hi:

[Missy Vixen]

25. You're kidding me, right?

>Your son is 19. If I'm 18, 19, 17, I volunteered for this. I'm joining the Marines. I want to be on the front lines. I want to be the first group in.<

Mr. Pilonidal Cyst is telling others to join up?

I hope he's handing out hipwaders, because the bullshit's getting thick in here.

Julie

[Ghost in the Machine]

27. Not to defend Rush, but when I turned 18 was during the Iranian Hostage

Crisis. I went to the army recruiter and told them "I want to join up and go kill kill some diaperheads".. The recruiter looked at me and said "you want to go next door and see the Marines". Anyways, I was a lot different person back then. Young, dumb and full of machismo. I'm sure there are many guys signing up today who are just like I was. I won't bash Rushturd over saying this, as it is true in some sense, I can relate to it....

PEACE!

Ghost

[racaulk]

28. Sorry ass chickenhawk!

Still beating that drum of war so that more young people, like perhaps his caller's son, can be killed for absolutely no good reason. What an asshole. :puke:

[11 Bravo]

29. That's curious. When he was 17, 18, and 19 he didn't volunteer for shit!

[Dr Fate]

33. Except maybe to be Norm Woodruff's cabana boy.

Google "Norm Woodruff" "Rush" and "Jeff Christie" together if you need more info.

[ends_dont_justify]

32. Sorry rush, I don't think they were talking about volunteering to go to iraqi rehab centers...N/T

[Old and In the Way]

34. When you're paid $24MM/year....it's not to tell the truth.

The truth doesn't pay well. Lying well, on the other hand, is highly valued by Republican opinion makers.

[bling bling]

70. Exactly. The dittoheads are a bunch of sukka's.

For that many tens of millions of dollars a year, I think just about anyone would happily sit on a cushy chair and spin all the day's news articles so that the liberals look bad. Especially because it's so easy to do being that he's not held to any standards of telling the truth or even being in the same ballpark with reality. He just spins a little, or flat out makes up shit and CHA-CHINGGGGGG. And the dittoheads happily lick up whatever he says like a bunch of lap dogs.

[Dr Fate]

35. Sure Rush- if you could have pulled yourself away from bopping Norm Woodruff.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Norm+Woodruff%22+%22Rush%22+%22Jeff+Christie%22+&btnG=Google+Search

[WorldResident]

36. He has a point for the new volunteers, but I think he misses the larger point

The point is not whether or not the Marines are willing to die for their country. I'll assume they are out of their patriotism. The larger point is whether it is right for us to a) put soldiers in harm's way for a cause that may not be worth fighting and b) spend money for a cause that may not be worth fighting.

This decision is made by the American public, not a set of 18 year old Marines.

[jimshoes]

38. Rush Limbaugh, what a disgusting water boy

You pilionoidal dick. You had your chance to kick some ass back in the day and you were a fucking chicken then and you're a fucking chicken today. You water boy.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

39. I know you come here, Pig-Boy.

Just wanted to say fuck you, for the thousanth time!

We're all tired of you wasting good oxygen, so feel free to croak, you miserable fuckwit!:hi:

[imax2268]

41. Hey butt pimple...

you have some nerve to talk about joining up...you should be the last one to talk about joining the military and going to Iraq...

Why don't you get call your lady-friend to get you some Oxy, go steal some viagra, go back to the dominican republic and bang underage boys, you coward peice of shit...

[CrazyOrangeCat]

52. nice one.

I send him a little note every week, via the internet tubes.

Gotta keep that fucker's blood pressure up.

:toast:

[MrMickeysMom]

65. And THOSE are his GOOD points!

:7... eh?

[Hosnon]

42. Ok DU scientists: Get crackin' on either a time machine or a reverse-age machine.

I'd love to force this jerk to actually put up.

[driver8]

43. Why do people listen to that tub of shit??

I just don't get it!

Not only that, but they call themselves "ditto heads" -- does that mean that they cannot think for themselves? Does Rush tell them all what to think and what to say??

[jedr]

44. i'd pay money to see Rush's fat ass at Paris island!!!!!!

He didn't have what it took then, and is just a pathetic propagandist now. Sorry loser!

[Mr. Ected]

45. Why Get Worked Up Over A Worthless Has-Been?

Slowly but surely, America is marginalizing the Rush Limbaugh types.

[TheCowsCameHome]

48. Fat balless COWARD giving advice to a parent? Yeah, sure.

Here's some advice for you, Rush - Go fuck yourself.

[Joanne98]

49. HA! Unless the ole butt cysts stop ya!

[Canuckistanian]

60. These days they don't even inspect assholes

They just count'em.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. Yeah, Rush, too bad those nasty anal-cysts kept you out of Vietnam.

What a pathetic bag of blowhard hypocrisy he is. Not to mention his heroic pals, Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, who also dodged the draft while promoting the war in Vietnam. And, we can't forget that other hero, who bravely defended the borders of Alabama from bombing attacks from Kansas while running the Officer's Club in the Air National Guard.

It would be laughable if it weren't so nauseating.

[d_b]

51. Don't forget your ass-itch creme

fat man.

[SpiralHawk]

53. Shame on him. Maybe Rush even lies to himself

Everyone else knows he is lying to them when he spouts that kind of false bravado chickenhawk shit.

Pathetic anal-obsessed demagogue, that's what he is.

[Diane R]

55. So how many boils on his butt did it take to stop this fearless warrior? He makes me puke. Coward.

[Nikki Stone1]

56. And did Limbaugh volunteer when he was 19?

Cowards always run their mouths.

[Fuzz]

57. Just when you thought he couldn't be any bigger of an asshole

he manages to squeeze out one bigger choad.

[B Calm]

58. Rush had the choice during the Vietnam war, but like most republicans

he avoided it.

[lonestarnot]

59. If I could only turn back the clock for this bigass turd.

[mile18blister]

61. Too bad you didn't enlist when you had your chance, Rush.

This country would be a lot better off if your name was on that wall in DC and a human being was alive today.

[Liberal In Texas]

66. Hey Rush. Move the EIB to Iraq!

What a great idea!

With today's technology any radio show can be done as easily from the secure confines of the Green Zone next to those new schools and hospitals they're building, as it would be from sunny Florida or busy New York!

Go on, prove to all us stupid 'liburals' that the Iraqi democracy experiment is working quite well; that it's safer in Iraq than in Detroit. Prove to us that unbridled neo-con capitalism has been a success. Move your show and your pimply ass to Baghdad.

I dare you, you Chickenhawk.

[mitchum]

67. If Limbaugh were 18 again, he'd be blowing 12 year olds...

just like the first time around.
I will celebrate his final overdose

[arewenotdemo]

69. Sorry, folks. Rush wants to go now, but he knows he wouldn't make it

through boot camp.

RUSH: But one thing about boot camp. I appreciate that when you say, "Go get your Rush Limbaugh and get through it," but I have to tell you, I hate exercise. There is not a time in my life -- well, maybe when I was 18. But I couldn't get through boot camp now. Nobody my age could, or very few. People don't know. People that have no experience have no clue. They've seen movies about it, but that's about all they know.

This, after the idiot father revealed that he advised his son that he was going to have to find his "inner Rush":

CALLER: What I've told him, Rush, is, "When you go to boot camp it's going to be a really, really tough stint for those 13 weeks," and then going back, I said, "You're going to have to find your Rush Limbaugh to get through that."

[WernhamHogg]

71. He's got to say that

Finding kids to sign up helps him in the long term. If they keep having trouble recruiting kids to go to the hellhole named Iraq and loosening the restrictions to enlist, soon enough the aging, out-of-shape Rush will be eligible to fight in this war he loves oh-so-much.
;-)

[Faux pas]

72. Seems to me he's still hauling that boil around...it's his brain. n/t

[radfringe]

73. such a brave man

considering he's ineligible to enlist

However, I bet if he contacted some of his "loyal bushie" buddies, they could make an exception

[piesRsquare]

75. Ah, he may be ineligible to ENLIST...

...but he could still join the Army as a CIVILIAN:

http://www.cpol.army.mil/

"Become a member of the Army Civilian Team. Visit our Employment page and discover countless opportunities to join the Army as a Civilian. The Army has a wealth of challenging jobs with progressive employment practices, a family friendly atmosphere, exceptional benefits, and a diverse workforce."

Heh heh!

[radfringe]

76. and there's always Halliburton

he could apply for a job as a truck driver, or a security position on the convoys

[Skittles]

74. Rush Limbaugh (R - Boil on his Ass)

chickenhawk warmongering piece of shit bush whore

[MrSlayer]

77. The worst coward is the one that advocates "glory" while never having to experience combat reality.

There is no "glory" in what's going on here. Combat isn't fun or adventurous, it's just doing whatever you can to survive while trying not to shit your pants. These scumbags blow the horn and talk shit and act like having people try to blow you up is a good time, a lark while collecting their sickeningly large paychecks and having every luxury at their fingertips.

[Ganja Ninja]

78. I can't believe anybody still listens to that tub of lard.

I really don't understand why anyone would find him entertaining or informative.

[IWantAChange]

79. Limpballs continues to do his job - providing a distraction from GOP incompetence...

Other than those who refuse to face facts or acknowledge reality (Chimpy's precious 30%) who in their right mind would waste a nanoscond listening to anything this "MORAN" would have to say??

[BurtWorm]

80. He might as well have dangled a sign in front of his balls saying KICK ME!

What a target! :eyes:

[genie_weenie]

83. Sigh, I'm could

pile on and call Rush a whole buncha names, all of which he has earned with his hatred and arrogance and ignorance but what's the point.

These vampires and their use of the pronouns I and We to describe the carnage of Iraq is abhorrently brilliant. So many are duped into believing members of the Plutocratic government and media have a stake in this cult of human sacrifice.

[lectrobyte]

85. Darn those Anal Cysts from keeping Rush out of 'nam!