I have no problem with Rush Limbaugh (in mug shot) reaching a dealwith Florida prosecutors to drop a fraud charge after 18 months if Limbaugh continues to undergo treatment for drug addiction and pays $30,000 to offset the cost of the investigation. He didn’t intend to get hooked on painkillers, and sending him to prison serves little purpose. But what irritates many people is that, over the years, Limbaugh hasn’t shown similar compassion to others with drug problems. He’s been a cheerleader for the lock-’em-up mind-set that has filled our nation’s prisons with nonviolent drug offenders who, like Limbaugh, needed treatment, not incarceration.
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I never listen to Rush, but they were giving him the business on Friday at Air America.
For those who listen to him: Has he moderated his sanctimoniousness since the revelation of his imperfections? Or were those imperfections like his talent: “temporarily on loan from Satan”?
DD,
He is the same sanctimonious windbag that he has always been, maybe worse.
V.L.R.B!!!
Details here. Read the comments if you can stand it.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/29/not-exactly-a-rush/
In the comments DD, it says, no, he hasnt changed his approach a bit.
And Porter Goss at the CIA caught up in hooker gate?
Sure a lot of bad news for the cons gets mentioned late on Friday…
If he has already kicked his habit of painkillers, then that’s good. Wish him the best and any person struggling to beat a drug habit or have successfully done so.
Wish Rush all the luck. He is a good guy.
Porter Goss caught up in hooker gate?!?
LOL. Well, that *is* convenient, no?
Is this bylined out of Langley, VA? Maybe the NSA is joining the CIA’s ‘mutiny,’ eh? (NSA has reputedly always had bigger weapons than the CIA, fyi, but President Bush’s one-stop intelligence push has “encouraged” inter-departmental sharing of wiretap data!)
No Joe, Rush is decidedly NOT a “good guy”.
Rush Limbaugh is one of the most pompous, exploitive, lying, hypocritical no good sonofabitches that has ever vomitted himself upon America.
If that last didn’t tell you that I hate that man more than any other person on Earth then I just did by saying it again.
When he lost his hearing, I thought it might soften his views on the medically uninsured. It didn’t.
When he admitted his drug addiction, I felt sorry for him the withdrawl I figured he would suffer. I thought this might soften his judgement of others. It didn’t.
Through this investigation, I have been confident that this mans money and power would get him special dispensation under the law. It did. And he walks for crimes that many other Americans are already in jail for.
Can somebody tell me about the detox for Oxycontin? PLEASE tell me that this man was reduced for at least awhile into a wheedling, pleading, slobbering pitiful wretch. Damn what I would give for video or even audio of that.
If this “dreg of humanity” is let off easy then all those LIBERAL PANTYWAISTS in the DA’s office should be fired and jailed. To do anything less would be to di a dis-service to Dopehead Rush.
Why do you hate Rush that much? Wow! I guess he is satan in the flesh to some people.
careful KFG and Flike. I mentioned “Hookergate” yesterday and Walker came unglued.
Yer liable to get a lecture!
Hey JR,Try this link. If that does not work for you, let me know and I will cut and paste the contents in an email to you. Regards.
http://www.oxycontin-detox.com/
Thanks that DD I can see it. I will read more of that link later. What little I already read gives me some pleasure.
I also gotta check out this hookergate thing
I am watching the best of Robert Smigel on SNL TOO FUNNY!!
Well I spect ole Rush done feelin perty smug rat bout now. He done beat dat rap. But he be lot like ole Brer Racoon after he got cought raidin de chicken house. He got egg all over his face.Ole Rush aint like nobody down’t da briar patch. I recon I don know nobody wif two faces.An he sho do smell funny. Mebbe dats on account all dem sores he got on his backside. Mebbe if he wash regular.
Do tell Brer Rabbit do tell. I’m dying here!
I don’t know much about the briar patch. Do you all have a “brer Pig” Rush seems like a pig.
Heh, heh, heh. Yessir Mr JR, we does indeed hav a Brer Pig. But I don think he’d like sharin his waller wif ole Rush. See, I don spect ole Rush’d have much good ta say bout folks down’t briar patch, sep mebbe ole Brer Fox. Ole Brer Fox ain’t none too well quainted wif da truf neither.
I’m thinking Rush considers himself bigger than brer Fox. I’m thinkig Rush thinks he is bigger than the whole briar patch. I bet some in the briar patch think so too. Brer chickenhawk and brer skunk come to mind.
But I wonder Brer Rabbit what Rush would do if he was cast into the briar patch. I mean if he was really there instead of talking about it. I wonder how Rush would fare in the briar patch.
Rush is what Rush is. Rush is a lying, drug addicted, welfare collecting, hypocrite. He is nothing more than an entertainer (he supposedly said that himself during an interview on 60 Minutes). He is not as much an astute political analyst as he is a deceitful, twofaced blow hard used as a rallying point for conservatives too lazy to think for themselves. Look at the poisonous vomit he spews on a daily basis and then look for the facts to support any claims he makes. They aren’t there for over 70% of the issues. If he relied on facts he would only have a 10 minute show every day instead of the 2 or 3 hours he spends dumbing down the nations brainless neocons even further.
“Why do you hate Rush that much?”
A fair question, Joe, though I have to wonder where you’ve been.
How’s this? (I actually heard some of these gems myself):
http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/rush.html
Rush is also infamous for dispensing utter nonsense, such as declaring that melting ice caps is no big deal. Why? When an ice cube melts, the water level doesn’t rise.
One problem: most of the Antarctic ice is on land. . .
What do you guys expect? Yeah! It’s no secret that Rush is an entertainer. He doesn’t keep that secret. He plain to all and will say that he is strictly a business. He does it to make money.
I think he is a hilarious person. That is why I think he’s cool. He is an honest person in his intention. People that take his show as religion, such as the brainless neocons and neolibs, I just don’t get.
I know the neolibs on here such as k and JR hate him, and I guess everything that’s on Air America is so accurate and true and loving sweet talk with no hate, so that is why you must hate Rush. That’s your poragative.
The reason why Rush has an audience and Air America and hate liberal radio doesn’t (dangerously doesn’t, because I can see the Fairness Doctrine - propagana coming back), is because you guys take it seriously.
Rush is only entertainment. Yes! I understand that people take him seriously and worship him, but just as k said, they are as brainless as any neolibs are. They just need somebody to follow.
He is a conservative just as Glenn Beck is, but they do it for entertainment. If you go to the website, you will even know it’s all directed towards comedy.
Come on people, even Al Franklin is an entertainer. If you libs take him seriously then you are as mindless as neocons. Bill Maher is a comedian as well. They are making money entertaining an audience. They are not doing this out of the goodness of their heart or because they really believe and lobby about the issues they talk about.
If Rush is on the radio, sure I will listen to it. I think he is hilarous. He makes me laugh. Just as watching Bill Maher’s Real Time, he is hilarous. Al Franklin is a bore though. Do I hate Al Franklin becaue he is a limousine liberal? No! I just think he’s boring.
All this drug charges, 3 time divorce, cigar chugging, conservative fatty that is Rush Limbaugh I could care less about.
In typical fashion for these conservatives.
Do what I say, not what I do.
You’re right Joe, When Rush calls a woman a “ho” I find that incredibly comical. Although I never believe that was how he intended the statement.
Funny is as funny does. And yes, I think rush’s mug shot is hilarious. I think it is really hysterically funny that he copped this plea to make the fraud charge go away.
Too bad none of his three ex wives is around to console him. After all, those mean ol’ queers did destroy marriage, unlike guys like rush. It isnt HIS fault the gays made marriage unworkable for upstanding guys like rush and newt.
As I always say here, I am not a scientist but isnt there something about for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction?
I dont suppose the obvious glee some of us feel is an equal and opposite REACTION to all the hate and venom drug boy has been spewing all over the air waves?
Had he been a more reasonable rush, maybe we wouldnt be so happy seeing his misfortune. I mean, in the ownership society of personal responsibility….
….why doesnt rush just own his problem, take responsibility, and admit he is no better than the welfare check cashin’, drug abusin’, marriage dissin’, morons he loves to hate?
Or would that diappoint all the ditto heads who have been lapping up the hot plates of hate he serves up every day? Yum…YUM!!!!
Air America has no audience?
I guess that is why it now is broadcast in ARKANSAS for cryin’ out loud!
No, no market for air america. If clear channel didnt control the airwaves, we might actually find out WHAT a free market might support.
Joe W.–
Are you a liar or do you really believe the crap you write?
Rush Limbaugh has 20 million listeners. He was made an honorary member of Congress after he helped hand them a win in 1994.
The guy sits there and bloviates against “drug addicts and parasites of society” preaching the gospel of hate and intolerance, preaching the gospel that anyone who has problems like homelessness and poverty and drug abuse they are entirely their own damn fault and they should practice “personal responsibility.”
This has the dual effect of making his listeners bear no responsibility for helping the poor or homeless or drug-addicted while at the same time feeling superior to them thanks to their higher level of “morality.”
That Rush Limbaugh himself has shown that he too needs the help of others proves that there is a God . . .
A lot times I would be channel surfing and accidentally hear Rush and think, “man, that guy must be ON DRUGS.”
Turns out . . . he was.
Also, isn’t it interesting that when Jeb Bush’s daughter is arrested for drugs or Limbaugh is arrested, they get “treatment.”
Everybody else gets the cold slam of a cell door.
Great posts KCL.
Sometimes I think people listen to rush for the same reason they go to car races. To see the wrecks.
And we laugh at that program “jackass” too. Some people love to poke fun at each other’s misery and then cant understand why someone would do it to US when it is OUR misery.
I link we all also love a good game of “what goes around comes around”.
Personally, I’m waiting to enjoy a little more “come around”.
I never heard him poke fun at people’s misery.
I guess he does just as many people do. I saw on the news about Rush (I guess this story is big news), and they played an audio clip about him talking about drug pushers and abusers back in 1995.
Since Rush became an abuser himself, I bet he has nothing to say about the matter.
He is a pompous mofo, just like any entertainer in Hollywood or on the Political Talk Radio curcuit. But other than that, I think Rush is an alright guy. Not because of his political views, because he is funny and honest about it. He does charity work and is one of the largest fundraisers and doner to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
I’m not trying to justify why you guys shouldn’t hate the man. You have every reason to. You probably don’t even listen to him. It’s just like all the people who hate Horward Stern but never have listen to him. Perception and reputation of the person alone could cause you to dislike anybody.
Rush is not my favorite radio personality, but when I’m driving all over the state in a company vechile that only has a radio in it, I rather laugh listening to Rush than listen to country music.
I guess it’s time for me to get XP radio.
About Air America http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2006/04/26/20060426_154209_flash1aa.htm
Read Joe’s link to the Drudge Report. I think I have heard that same story ever since Air America started - they are doing terrible in the ratings, etc., etc. How are they staying in business if they are flopping as bad as those folks like Drudge, on the right, say they are?
I recall some poster here had a whole set of different figures which indicated that Air America was doing okay. Made me wonder which set of figures were true - they both couldn’t have been right.
I have been listening to Air America recently. My complaint about it is that it sounds like a mirror image of Limbaugh, et al. - just with the opposite side portrayed. I wonder if they couldn’t do something better, that was still entertaining, and informative? Probably will end up sticking with NPR, even though they have been invaded by neo-cons.
Joe,Didn’t you hear the story where Rush was making fun of the Wichita woman who runs the Lord’s Diner because she did not seem to get it that many of the diners were gaming the system. It was a definite low for your buddy, Rush.
KCL, I second KFG’s comments. Great post! You nailed it! (Should I say ‘meggadittos’?)
Joe, Al Franken always had a political edge but, until he wrote a book about Guess-Who, people saw him, quite properly, as nothing more than a comedian. That’s never been the case with Limbaugh.
I remember listening to him right after he was picked up in Wichita, and wondering if that obnoxious creep for was real. Unfortunately, a lot of people thought so, and liked it!
He’s had every opportunity to moderate or qualify his statements, or tell the dittoheads that he is, indeed, just an entertainer, but not Rush: his ego thrives on it.
And, you’re right: While I share much of his outrage, his political activism isn’t as entertaining as his comedy–usually not at all. I also happen to find Air America fairly tedious, but that’s generally true of most talk radio!
In case anyone is hopelessly confused, I mixed comments about Limbaugh and Franken.
Preview? What’s that?
joe, most of us neolibs (that’s funny, think of it yourself?) don’t hate rush because he makes fun of liberals, we are secure enough to laugh at ourselves. We hate him (and the ditto heads) because of the moronic and uninformed opinions they vomit. Because of the complete lack of compassion and tolerance for others, and the whiny ‘I’m being persecuted’ crap when they are held to account for their actions. They spout off about responsibility, accountability, and morals until they are in the spot light and then feel entitled to special treatment. They feel the rights guaranteed every citizen by the Constitution are for them and those who hold similar beliefs only, and they have no problem discriminating against everyone else.
I have had several discussions with ditto heads and the only thing these brain surgeons are able to do is quote rush. Hell, most of them can’t even switch a few of the words around to make it look like it is their idea. I’ve had the misery of listening to his show far too many times (worked with a ditto head) and I think he has said maybe one thing that was funny. Maybe if I got a lobotomy I would find him much more amusing but I would then need to register as a republikan and I refuse!
As for Air America they are doing very well. This was the latest I was able to find on them. One thing I have learned about Drudge is that if the link is to something he wrote, take it with a (big) grain of salt. Drudge does a much better just linking to real news sources than he does with trying to ‘report’ it himself.www.airamericaradio.com/node/1488
While I agree that Franken isn’t George Carlin, he is a lot funnier than rush. And he is also beating rush in several areas, America is waking up (albeit slowly).www.airamericaradio.com/node/1249
And for your listening pleasure you can listen to Air America here: http://www.airamericaradio.com/listenIf you get the urge to shame the ignorant liberals with your massive intellect, when you call up tell them you disagree and you will generally get put on the radio first.
I don’t have the time to call in or listen to anybody on a daily basis, even Rush.
In all honesty, I find NPR news much more informative than any talk radio show, leftist or rightist can ever do.
An K, I hope Air America does well. I surely hope so.
DD, depends on who you listen to on AA. Since they changed the morning line up (I miss Morning Sedition) I have been listening to Rachel Maddow and she is really good. She has a really good mix of humor and facts.
Also k, Liberals are first in line in rightist talk radio also. The opposition coming first is not a new concept invented by Air America. They all do it.
I would listen to Air America, if it were on broadcast in this area. That is the only way it will be convient for me. I’m not going to download podcast, stream it online or anything else like that. I wouldn’t do that for anybody, with the except of NPR news.
Right joe, call up rush with an opinion that differs and call monitors don’t let you through. Call up o’reily and mention Keith Oberman and he cries and says he is going to get Faux security after you. They can’t deal with differing opinions.
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer who gives left hell. That’s what he does. And as a result, there are quotes(some actually said and a lot made up) out on the internet that are provided to give the faithful on the left fodder to hate Limbaugh. I am not here to defend everything that Limbaugh has said, but to put it into perspective.
Listening to Limbaugh is like anything else you might listen of watch. Most of it you like and agree with. Some of it you don’t. You take what you like and you leave the rest. I am writing this as if most of the posters here have actually listened to the program. (I promise not criticize that idiot Al Franken until I have had a chance to listen to him!)The bottom line reason that liberals dislike/hate Limbaugh is, of course, that he is extremely effective. He has had a big part in changing the American political and media landscape.
Well, I’ll be! I saw KCC pop up elsewhere, but looks like we missed the (I would guess) satirical nick here. Case of mistaken identity.
KCC is very likely NOT KCL, nor the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Outlander, I listened to Limbaugh extensively in the early days. The man is a propagandist and only “entertaining” in a very petty and mean-spirited way; facts don’t matter to him. To the extent Air America is like that, bad on them too.
I figure if KCL can be a classic “liberal,” I can be a classic “conservative”–somebody who wants everybody to just leave me the hell alone, heh heh.
As for Joe W’s, “I never heard him (Limbaugh) poke fun at people’s misery.”
On the Abu Ghraib torture scandle, drugkingpin Rush said, LIMBAUGH: [Reading from AP report] “One detainee wrapped in an Israeli flag, some were shackled hand and foot in fetal positions for 18 to 24 hours, forcing them to soil themselves.” Ugh! I thought they did that anyway over there. But this is news to me that this is news.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200501120011
Making fun of other people’s misery is the man’s stock-in-trade. That’s why all the cons listen to the guy, so they can feel all smugly superior.
Hehehe–check out these Limbaugh quotes on the “drug scourge”
Limbaugh on DrugsPeople like Limbaugh should go to jail, says Limbaugh
There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.
What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. 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.
…We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country…. This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you’re sorry, people go, “Oh, OK. A little contrition.”… People say, “I feel better. He said he’s sorry for it.” We’re becoming too tolerant, folks.
–Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)
These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don’t you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what’s wrong?
–RushLimbaugh.com (8/18/03)
In the audio link below, I go into detail about these non-thinking talking points that “you can’t tell people what to do with their bodies” and “you can’t legislate morality.” First of all, we tell people what they can do to their bodies all the time–no cocaine, no prostitution, no throwing yourself off a building. Second, laws are nothing but defining morality!
–RushLimbaugh.com (6/27/03)
All right. Joe Fernandez came to New York from Miami, ladies and gentlemen, to be schools chancellor…. Now he is embattled–he’s got a book that just came out, an autobiography that’s soon to come out, I think, in which he admits that he was a mainliner as a teen-ager. This guy [pretends to stick needle in arm]–pfsst–shot up heroin. And people are praising him. He overcame the scourge. He triumphed over that profound obstacle in his life and has gone on to become this great schools chancellor…. [Plays a clip of Fernandez saying that the message of his teenage drug use is "to not give up on our kids."]
Reach out and try to help them, not give up on the kids, give them condoms and teach them about a bunch of stuff that is worthless in terms of preparing them for their future as adults in the greatest country on Earth, teaching them all this social gobbledygook. “Let’s not forget about the kids.”…
Whoa. The guy wants to be education secretary, folks. Watch out. Now why does he want to go to Washington? Probably because he’s studied the case of Marion Barry. Here’s a guy who got involved in drugs. You want to see my Marion Barry impersonation? Do you want to see that? All right. I’ll do the Marion Barry impersonation.
You put some stuff out here on the table and you go [pretends to snort cocaine]. “You tell Jesse to stay out of my town. This is my town, and Jesse–you tell him to stay out. [More snorting.] And I said no, no, no, no, I don’t smoke it no more. Tired of ending up on the floor.” [More snorting.]
So what is he? He gets involved in drugs and ends up, ladies and gentlemen, as a newly elected official in Washington, D.C…. So I’m sure Joe Fernandez is looking down there saying, “Hey, there’s a future for, you know, drug users in Washington, D.C.”
–Rush Limbaugh TV show (12/8/92)
When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he’s being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.
–Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)
I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you’ll find that he’s very much right…”I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don’t buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that.”…
What he’s saying is that if there’s a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we’re blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they’re weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we’re going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn’t. It’s not our responsibility. It’s up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right.
–Rush Limbaugh TV show (9/23/93)
I have a solution for Mrs. [Jocelyn] Elders. I mean, if she wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich and let’s be rid of them. Now…The problem with legalizing drugs is, it’s just another abhorrent example of human behavior that we’ve suddenly decided, “Hey, we can’t handle it. We’ve given up and we’re going to sanction the destruction of lives. We’re going to let you destroy your life. We’re going to make it easy, and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don’t destroy our lives on drugs–we’ll pay for whatever messes you get into.”…
I’m appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say, “Hey, you know, we can’t control it anymore. People are going to do drugs anyway. Let’s legalize it.” It’s a dumb idea. It’s a rotten idea, and those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish.
–Rush Limbaugh TV show (12/9/93)
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1159
“When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he’s being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.”
For the record, Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack like millions of other overweight smokers his age. It was a tragic loss to us Dead Heads–I think he was the best rock guitarist whoever lived IMHO–but his death had nothing to do with drug use.
Except for the drug use of tobacco, I mean . . .
“I figure if KCL can be a classic “liberal,” I can be a classic “conservative”–somebody who wants everybody to just leave me the hell alone, heh heh.”
Got it! {wink}, though it took considerably longer than 15 seconds. . .
It will be interesting to watch this thread play out.I know of at least 5 “dittoheads” on this blog. Two have weighed in.And they are FAR from the most obvious. I’ll not name the others. They will out themselves in time. There is one in particular who I think probably has Rush underwear, pajamas and probably pictures of Rush in his wallet.
By the way? The reason I can recognize those folk and call them out as I always do is that I DO listen to this bloviating pig on an almost daily basis.It is my little sacrifice to be better informed about the “enemy”.Think of me as the guy that finds the peanuts in the shit so that the peanuts can be analyzed.DD??? Where oh where can I hear Air America in Wichita?? There used to be the Al Franken show on Bravo cable channel. But I know of nowhere I can hear Air America.
I got more Rush gems to share. But I’m waiting for the REAL dittoheads to weigh in.
“Where oh where can I hear Air America in Wichita??”
Nowhere–closest broadcast in Texas. Best I can do:
http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen
I listened to Rush back in the early 90’s, only because that was what the hubby listened to…constantly. My blood pressure went up, and my kids would ask me who I was yelling at. I even got to the point where I almost didn’t like George Brett because he was good friend of Rush’s and married in his “backyard.”
If I want to be told that women should be barefoot and pregnant and have no worth except to serve men, I’ll go back to my Rush-loving ex. Yeah, when hell freezes over. Entertainment or not, he does a huge disservice to both thinking and non-thinking people. I’d rather watch ice melt than listen to even 30 seconds of his crap.
“I promise not criticize that idiot Al Franken…”
And outlander once again gives us a glimps into his open mind.
Dont you think calling Franken an idiot IS criticizing him before you listen?
If you start out your listening pleasure thinking he is an idiot, dont you think that is also what you will hear when he speaks?
Very telling comment.
The man who spews hate is the darling of the christian right. What’s wrong with this picture?
Al Franken is just another smarmy jew with nothing to offer, much like that other annoying jew, Randi Rhodes. Listening to “air america” is just as excrutiating as listening to pudgy or hannity.
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
kfg:
“I promise not criticize that idiot Al Franken…”
That was a joke,.. Ms. Negative!
Sorry outlander, but I dont think it is funny. It is too typical of all those open minded conservatives who ignore the facts about rush and Air America.
Maybe you could put
before or after your jokes?
I agree that all talk radio is boring. But it sure is good to be bored by the truth instead of the gospel according to rush.
“Al Franken is just another smarmy jew with nothing to offer, much like that other annoying jew, Randi Rhodes.”
But you’d buy a computer from a Jew, wouldn’t ya, Ian? Am I wrong?
Rage,
I put my money where my mouth is. as such, I seek out White owned small businesses to patronize. Mind you, I have met, on occasion some very decent jews but my overall experience with the tribe has been decidedly negative.
PS: What exactly are you angry about, “Rage”?
V.L.R.B!!!
“PS: What exactly are you angry about, ‘Rage’?”
Oh, I’m not angry at you, Ian, not at all: I’m playing with you!
I imagine your listed e-mail is just a throwaway freebie account, but it just so happens to be administered out of Jerusalem, with the server located in Tel Aviv. If you have a premium account, though, your money has been going to Jews!
I confess that I found it rather amusing.
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JR -”There used to be the Al Franken show on Bravo cable channel. But I know of nowhere I can hear Air America.”
I got busy yesterday and did not see this until today. I stream the show through my computer. Someone sent me a Randi Rhodes email. I click on the links in it and have book marked the page where I can tune in.
It looks like the above is more interesting than this comment. Will have to go back and read - wasn’t there a play about Eichmann where he was portrayed as a self-hating masochist - for the life of me, I can’t remember the title and the famous actor who starred in it. It was a recreation of his trial in Israel. Wonder why that is (almost) coming to mind, today?
Any way, JR I will forward that email to you.
DD,
It was “the Man in the Glass Booth” and it(the movie) starred Maiximillian Schell and it was utter nonsense!
Rage,
You are a “gas”!
PS: There are Cuban jews, like Castro, but I ain’t one of them.
V.L.R.B!!!V.L.R.B!!
Ian’s right, I am pretty sure that was the movie. For some reason, I was thinking that I saw it on PBS. Robert Shaw was the author of the play and was so unhappy with the movie adaptation that he asked that his name not appear it.
Here is a review (not a real positive one):http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=12231
I listen to Air America in the afternoon. The Ed Shultz show, http://www.bigeddieradio.com . The best internet stream is from Minnesota. The way he runs his show is far more courteous than Sean “talk overum until commercial” Hannity.
The key ‘bad’ thing about Air America is the juvenile humor. It may appeal to a 14-year-old, but those of us who could spend money with advertisers don’t care to hear ‘A darn good licking’ or The Queen’s Drum Solo.
As for Air America doing well or prospering, I used to listen to a stream out of San Antonio until suddenly they played country music. Then I listened to the stream from Phoenix until suddenly they played gospel music. Unfortunately I think my experience fairly well sums up the road for Air America.
Joe -what makes you think I hate Rush so much? I paid him a high compliment when I used his own terminology to describe him as he would. I would think that you consider that to be a kind thing for me to do for Rush. After all, you wouldn’t want me to apply a different standard to Rush than he would apply would you?