Limbaugh thinks Americans are confused by homophones

[LucyDuke]

I'm confused by Rush Limbaugh.

 

[Cutlass]

There's nothing really to be confused about. The guy is a jackass that found out that people will pay him a lot of money to take his jackassery and rabid anti-Americanism to ever higher levels. And then he started believing his own hype.

 

[Formaldehyde]

A new publicity still from the movie has apparently been released:

Spoiler :

 

[Leonel]

This proves Obama's time traveling theory! On his way to bribe the Hawaiian government for a birth certificate, he stopped in 1993 to convince DC comics to name an evil villain a homophone of Bain all in the evil effort to give American's lower cost healthcare! BRILLIANT!

Is Limbaugh an idiot?

 

[LucyDuke]

Much, much worse than an idiot.

 

[say1988]

Much, much worse than an idiot.

Yep. A person of, probably, average intelligence who saw a chance to get rich and famous by spewing hateful garbage and took advantage of the opportunity.

I really doubt he believes the vast majority of what he says, unless it is because he has repeated it so often and vehemently that he has convinced himself.

 

[peter grimes]

[ANTI-AMERICANISM]
I agree with Rush Limbaugh.
Never overestimate the people who reelected George W. Bush.
[/ANTI-AMERICANISM]

I really get tired of reminding people of this, but BUSH WAS NOT ELECTED IN 2000. He only won an election in 2004. The earlier election was decided by the Supreme Court, not the electorate.

This is important to remember. This is why stuff matters. The Supreme Court decided that election and that candidate started an unprovoked war that resulted in Hundred Of Thousands of unnecessary deaths.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Yep. A person of, probably, average intelligence who saw a chance to get rich and famous by spewing hateful garbage and took advantage of the opportunity.

I really doubt he believes the vast majority of what he says, unless it is because he has repeated it so often and vehemently that he has convinced himself.

Don't assume Rush is stupid. That's the worst mistake liberals can make. He's a sly piggy alright.

 

[cegman]

Rush Limbaugh is not a stupid person. He's manipulative. He's knowledgeable. He's good at what he does. He was talking about Fast and Furious long before other people. He also says a lot of things I think are very wrong.

Of course what peter grimes said in post #47 is not much different than the out there things that Rush Limbaugh says.

I find it hilarious that there is a incredibly conservative message in the movie yet Limbaugh would complain about it.

 

[peter grimes]

what peter grimes said in post #47 is not much different than the out there things that Rush Limbaugh says.

BUSH WAS NOT ELECTED IN 2000. He only won an election in 2004. The earlier election was decided by the Supreme Court, not the electorate.

This is important to remember. This is why stuff matters. The Supreme Court decided that election and that candidate started an unprovoked war that resulted in Hundred Of Thousands of unnecessary deaths.

How is this comparable to the 'out there things' that Limbaugh says? Are you disputing what I said, or are you claiming that many of his 'out there things' are just as true as what I said?

 

[BvBPL]

Rush Limbaugh is not a stupid person.

The whole "one half of my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair" schtick of Limbaugh's isn't just a comedy bit. He affects an level of intelligence comparably to the hoi polloi as a means to develop a rapport with his audience.

 

[LucyDuke]

How is this comparable to the 'out there things' that Limbaugh says? Are you disputing what I said, or are you claiming that many of his 'out there things' are just as true as what I said?

Your use of the word "elected" could be quibbled with. But you haven't lied, so I suspect his comparison isn't supposed to include Rush's outright lies. One may as well compare your shared opinion that ice cream is yummy.

 

[classical_hero]

I'm still trying to figure out WTH a homophone is.

Homo = same and phonos = sound, so you conjugate them to form a word meaning words that sound similar or are spelt similar, but mean something different.

 

[cegman]

Your use of the word "elected" could be quibbled with. But you haven't lied, so I suspect his comparison isn't supposed to include Rush's outright lies. One may as well compare your shared opinion that ice cream is yummy.

Nah if I remember correctly if Obama said Ice cream is yummy Rush would declare that all ice cream is disgusting.

Then again if Bush made an announcement about ice cream being yummy Jesse Jackson would claim it was racist because vanilla ice cream is more popular than chocolate.


I was thinking more about the things where Rush takes things that are true but twists them to a crazy position. Just like what peter said could be argued as true but is a twisted way of looking at it.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I really get tired of reminding people of this, but BUSH WAS NOT ELECTED IN 2000. He only won an election in 2004. The earlier election was decided by the Supreme Court, not the electorate.

This is important to remember. This is why stuff matters. The Supreme Court decided that election and that candidate started an unprovoked war that resulted in Hundred Of Thousands of unnecessary deaths.

OK. he was only elected in 2004. Does this make it any better ? It doesn't change the fact that he got a second term after his first one.
It also doesn't change my point: My internet persona that agrees the most with Rush and other right-wingers is also rabidly anti-american.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Rush Limbaugh is not a stupid person. He's manipulative. He's knowledgeable. He's good at what he does. He was talking about Fast and Furious long before other people. He also says a lot of things I think are very wrong.

What a great contradiction. The man is a bigoted idiot. It is amazing that anybody pays attention to him for any reason.

The Dumbest Things Rush Limbaugh Has Ever Said

"We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage." –Rush Limbaugh, on President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage. Limbaugh's first, second, third, and fourth wives could not be reached for comment. (May 9, 2012)


"Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant." -Rush Limbaugh, March 14, 2012

"What does it say about the college co-ed [Sandra] Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex." -Rush Limbaugh, referring to a Georgetown Law School student who was denied the right to speak at a congressional hearing on contraception, in which she planned to discuss a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts, February 29, 2012

"A Georgetown coed told Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex they're going broke, so you and I should have to pay for their birth control. So what would you call that? I called it what it is. So, I'm offering a compromise today: I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want. ... So Miss Fluke and the rest of you ********s, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch." -Rush Limbaugh, March 1, 2012

"It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you." –Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 21, 2011

"These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has?" –Rush Limbaugh, after being criticized for making derogatory comments about First Lady Michelle Obama's weight, Feb. 22, 2011

"What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country . . . he knows that . . . the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. . . . This guy clearly understands he’s getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder –- but something lesser." --Rush Limbaugh on Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, Jan. 11, 2011

"As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too." --Rush Limbaugh, claiming the media is allowing Michelle Obama to take a vacation as a form of reparations for "our slave past," Aug. 6, 2010

"That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires." --Rush Limbaugh, on the death of longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, July 13, 2010

"[Obama] wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There’s a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago." --Rush Limbaugh, July 6, 2010

"When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?" --Rush Limbaugh, blaming the oil spill in the Gulf on the Sierra Club, arguing that the environmental group had driven oil producers off the land to more high-risk situations offshore, Rush Limbaugh, May 17, 2010

"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is." --Rush Limbaugh, on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, May 3, 2010

"Guess what? Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat. I wonder if his SUV had an Obama sticker on it." --Rush Limbaugh, lying about the failed Times Square car bomber, who is not registered to vote, May 4, 2010

"What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here." --Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that "environmentalist whackos" deliberately blew up the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that created one of the biggest environmental disasters in U.S. history to stop offshore oil drilling, April 29, 2010

"Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a summit at the White House." --Rush Limbaugh, on his Feb. 3, 2010 radio show, referring to Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel's remark calling the idea of liberal groups running health care-related ads against Democratic lawmakers "****** ********". Sarah Palin called on Emanuel to resign over the comment.

"I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it." --Rush Limbaugh, responding to criticism that he is sexist and defending his selection as one of the judges at the 2010 Miss America Pageant, "Fox News' Fox & Friends," February 3, 2010

"We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax." --Rush Limbaugh, discouraging donations to relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake, Jan. 13, 2010

"This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made-to-order for them. That's why he couldn't wait to get out there, could not wait to get out there." --Rush Limbaugh, on Haiti earthquake relief, Jan. 13, 2010

"Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate." --Rush Limbaugh, Aug. 6, 2009

"Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system." --Rush Limbaugh, June 12, 2009

"The phony soldiers." --Rush Limbaugh, on U.S. service members who support withdrawal from Iraq (Source)

"He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, 'Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service.' You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into." --Rush Limbaugh, denouncing an ad by VoteVets.org featuring Iraq war veteran Brian McGough by likening him to a suicide bomber

"Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it." --Rush Limbaugh, Jan. 19, 2007

"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting." --Rush Limbaugh, on an ad by Michael J. Fox endorsing Claire McCaskill for Senate for supporting embryonic stem cell research (Watch video)

"And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that." --Rush Limbaugh, on the 2006 Ohio Senate primary race involving then-Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is white

"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation...I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of the need to blow some steam off?" --Rush Limbaugh, on the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal

"Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too." --Rush Limbaugh, in 1995

"I am addicted to prescription pain medication." --Rush Limbaugh, in 2003

"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." --Rush Limbaugh

"We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want." --Rush Limbaugh

"She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life." --Rush Limbaugh, on his cat

"She sounds like a screeching ex-wife." --Rush Limbaugh, on Sen. Hillary Clinton

"I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding." --Rush Limbaugh, after he was detained by custom officials for possessing Viagra with a prescription made out in someone else's name

"They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it." --Rush Limbaugh

And as far as "Fast and Furious" is concerned:

Republicans Go From Fast and Furious to Slow and Stupid

While Darrell Issa was on Fox stating there was no White House cover up, Rick Perry was on CBS calling Obama, ‘Nixon.’ The GOP has truly gone from Fast and Furious to Slow and Stupid.

Here is Rep. Darrell Issa on Fox News Sunday saying there was no White House cover up:

Link to video.

It is just more wacky partisan nonsense.

 

[peter grimes]

Nah if I remember correctly if Obama said Ice cream is yummy Rush would declare that all ice cream is disgusting.

Then again if Bush made an announcement about ice cream being yummy Jesse Jackson would claim it was racist because vanilla ice cream is more popular than chocolate.


I was thinking more about the things where Rush takes things that are true but twists them to a crazy position. Just like what peter said could be argued as true but is a twisted way of looking at it.

What a great contradiction. The man is a bigoted idiot. It is amazing that anybody pays attention to him for any reason.

[snip]
all the stuff Rush said which is patently false
[/snip]

It is just more wacky partisan nonsense.

Riiiggghhhht...

Rush's extreme lies are equal to the extreme non-lie that Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court in the 2000 election. Whatever

 

[kramerfan86]

Bush won because of our backwards electoral college, not the supreme court.

And Rush is still an idiot.

 

[Dachs]

Rush's extreme lies are equal to the extreme non-lie that Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court in the 2000 election. Whatever

I don't see how you can say Bush was "appointed by the [US?] Supreme Court" when, by the terms of the case, if the recount had gone ahead Bush would've won Florida anyway. The victory was a matter of Electoral College dickery and messed-up Florida election procedures (because a different kind of recount, not demanded by the Gore campaign, probably would've found Gore to be the winner), not Supreme Court politics.

 

[peter grimes]

Is my memory wrong, then? I thought the Supreme Court decision essentially stopped the recounts, thus awarding Florida to Bush, thus the election.