Really, Rush? Phony soldiers? - Page 2

So, the new strategy for conservatives is to say the craziest shit they can think of? Because it seems like there's a fucking contest going on these days. With prizes! Liberal rage must draw in the ratings (or clicks.)

Between Michael Medved, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, uh, the Republican candidates, the crazy pill supply has been all bought up.

I'm saying there is room for me. On the left or right.

I am torn by the left and right, Shwartz. Really torn and I know every other poster thinks I am full of shit. I am torn. I said I supported the troops....so screw me. Color me torn asshloles

Gen. Wes Clark is petitioning for Limbaugh to be removed from Armed Forces Radio.

Click here to sign.

If you support the troops, then why would you support someone who tries to tear down service men and women for speaking their mind?

Careful now, you don't want to be put on "Ignore".


On the subject though, how anyone with half a brain can give Limbaugh the benefit of the doubt with all the crazy shit he's spouted in the past, is beyond me.

No...wha...what?! What are you talking about?

Huh?!

Seriously, I said, "...but like anyone even remotely associated with politics, Rush will hammer that particular case until it's bloodied on the floor."

That includes the liberals, FYI.

Count me in with Schwartz. At this point, I'm hoping that you still list your English understanding as "conversational" on dating sites.

As loathe as I am to reply to this incoherant schoolyard babbling, I'll clarify for those people in the thread with obvious mental disorders that I was referring to the Rush quotes that are posted on this fucking page. I realize that's probably not going to penetrate the tinfoil-hat-protected noggin of the quoted Chewer, but just felt like I should point that out.

I await with baited breath the Oscar-Wilde-like skewering sure to follow from witchesbrew. I wonder if he/she/it will call into question my sexual orientation? One can only wonder...

The obsession with Seabass all but confirms this is Copperlocke again.

Yep. The incoherent rambling and insults are a staple as well.

I just assume he's hepped up on pills and teenage Salvadoran hookers.

Hey, leave my hobbies outta this, Frank.

And here I was, thinking that witchesbrew was a whole new kind of incoherent crazy.

Talent on loan from God...nope, nothing upsetting or sacreligious about that statement.

Huh? What? I'm being obsessed over?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Seabass.

Yes, by crazy chicks, mind.
In a recent poll, crazy chicks rated "Seabass obsession" just above "Dating death-row inmates", but under "The urge to adopt other people's fetuses".

The most aggravating part about all this is that the Republicans are constantly setting themselves up to be torn to pieces with these idiotic mishaps, and when the Democrats slip up, 9 out of 10 times not nearly as bad as the Neocons do, they tear the Dems to pieces and often put their careers out of commission. The Democrats need to seriously amp up their fighting words and start getting just as vicious, just use things like this to put Rush and Colter's careers into the dumps.

I'm going to have to disagree, perhaps out of ignorance. When I think of 'idiotic mishaps' and people losing their careers, I think of Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Don Imus, etc. The only Democrat I can think of off of the top of my head that was railroaded in such a way by the Republicans is, of course, Bill Clinton.

While I'm not a Rush fan, and from what I have heard from him he is just a fact-ignoring, truth-skewering talking head, I kind of think this is a non-issue. If you look at all that was said in context, he wasn't saying that anyone that disagrees with him, or the war, is a phony soldier.

Things are really getting out of hand, especially now with this guy going around saying that Rush called him a suicide bomber, and the general trying to get Rush taken off of the air.

That's why I have a problem with watchdog groups like Media Matters - people that sit around trying to catch people doing something that they can make a big deal out of and string them up on just seem...I don't know, almost dishonest to me. There have to be stronger cases that can be made against Rush. I don't think half of the people calling for his dismissal truly believe that he doesn't support the Armed Forces.

For the record, I don't think the Senate should be involved at all. I also don't think they should have been involved with the "General Betrayus" stuff.

double post.

He was saying that no soldiers oppose the war, and that when liberals mention soldiers who want to come home, they're making up phony soldiers. He's slagging people who disagree with him.

Off Armed Forces Radio. Via a petition. Which I don't even agree with, by the way, but this isn't a raging wildfire of censorship or anything.

There have been. He's an anti-drug crusader who pops pills, he's a former welfare queen who wants to abolish welfare now that he's rich and famous, he's a multiple divorcee who spouts off about the sanctity of the family. He has no principles whatsoever, and he's a major force in demonizing the left and transforming politics into the shrill shouting match it is today. Yet people still listen to him. It's like teflon. He's now said something that may resonate with even his hardcore conservative listeners, which is why this is a big deal.

But even if it wasn't, of course we have to call people on their bullshit. I'm hardly surprised Rush said shit like this, but the left, and the reasonable right, spent a decade waving off idiocy like this from Rush, and they kept pushing and pushing until they got into power and turned the country into a circus. People are waking up to just how awful and stupid these folks are, but, I fear, not fast enough.

I would honestly be happy if there was some way of getting the country to read, watch, or listen to a variety of sources instead of hanging on Rush's every word. Hell, I'd be content if everyone just watched The Daily Show along with whatever other crap they wanted to suckle. A truly objective and responsible reportage of the facts would show up Limbaugh and company for the clowns they are and reduce them to the margins; it's a measure of how skewed the debate has become that folks like Rush still have clout. But people on both sides are determined to rabidly defend their guys and make the other team look like Satan, which means objectivity is going by the wayside. And the Republicans win, because they're better at that kind of dirty fighting. The Democrats still have the feeble flickers of a conscience holding them back, but it's not strong enough to get them to fight for their convictions, either.

Sounds about right.

Two of my best friends are risking their lives over in Iraq. This is the second time they've been there. Both of them think the war was an awful idea but they have a job to do. I should drop them a line and let them know they're phony soldiers.

Can't help but agree with this. Two of my friends are already back, one on disability thanks to a few gunshot wounds, and another with extreme PTSD.

Thanks for bringin' 'em home, U.S. Government!

See, from reading the transcript I just don't think this is the case. I see how it could be spun that way, but it doesn't look like that is what he was saying. At any rate, he has explained on-the-air many times since then what he meant by what he said. He might be full of shit and back-pedaling, but there is no way to prove that so all of this is for naught, really.


I agree with all of this. People should be held responsible for their hypocrisy and lies, no matter which side of the aisle they are on. Just today on the radio Rush was saying how he has never lied or only told one side of the story. That is the kind of bullshit he should be called on, not twisting quotes around to try and make him look anti-military and not getting the Senate involved.

He doesn't, if I could pull a lie out of my ass it would be yours. Most of the troops love Rush, everything else you say is horseshit. The rest have their say, but not in my fuckin book.

Yeah, hell, that means he has nothing to say. Kiddin FC.

Fucking Jesse Macbeth was phony, boys and girls. That was what he spoke of. That was your idol.......stand up and lick my butt.
He was a liar. garrumph. Damn, freedom of speech, assholes. What a sad bunch.

This dichotomy is so oversimplified as to be meaningless. The truth is far more complex than that. At the rhetorical level, the reason why both sides are taking this stance is because of partisan politics. Bush is a terrible president, probably the worst. A lot of conservatives see the inherent danger of the Bush presidency for our country. Does that mean that they think everything America does is bad?

Also, as distrustful liberals are towards authority, I don't hear too many of them denigrating fine public institutions (institutions that helped raise many conservatives to adulthood.) All you hear from conservatives is how evil and wasteful our government can be. If that isn't a form of antt-Americanism, I don't know what is.

If they are "truthful (served) soldiers" and hate going to Iraq, I have no problem with that, according to your post, it smells of strictly heresay.

They have a blog? Guess not or you would have posted it. Perhaps they can post why the war is such an awful idea. Probably wont post their names or pussy ideas cos their comrades may no longer watch their back. Its so easy to be saying he said what he said. Anecdote.
I do however have a BIG problem with liars who say they went to Iraq, and talk with negative feedback (Jesse Macbeth) and are full of shit, you Libs had a big time with that" horseshit boy". Aint he still your poster boy? Hardy fucking har.

To set the record straight, I know FC is mariried and all, but my puddin' is hot and steamy for him and only him (FC). I think he rules. He gives awesome discourse.

10-04-2007 12:14 AM Master Shake Get fucked by a tyrannosaurus rex, you neocon cuntsack.

09-27-2007 04:34 PM Martin Savage Have some more red you piece of shit

Thats just about enough of you sexist pigs. Give neg rep all you want...Its every ten days aint it? Got it on your calendars?

Hell, Master Shake you never posted to this thread, whose butt are you licking?
I have a total problem with folks who give neg rep on a thread they never posted to.

Hey now, let's leave foodstuffs out of this.

If you're having trouble following witchesbrew's posts just do what I do


witchesbrew: fuckin libs lick my butt horseshit funnle monkeys

Me: What's that girl, Timmy's in trouble?

Witchesbrew: Patriot troops not in my book Rush God locust exanguination.

Me: He's trapped in a well?


Or you know, if you want a non liberal perspective on an issue ignore the crazy person and just listen to Frank instead. The man truly is a human microwave when it comes to reheating puddins.

Frank, you have my deepest condolences.

Considering no woman in her rightful mind on this board finds you attractive whatsoever?

Frank's mojo really works well with the crazy.

Dang, Sprankton aint it a fact I love him as much as you hate him (Rush). I'll call him wrong when I get the chance but I never had one. Too many Conservo hatin fuckers here. Above^^^^^^

Thanks for all your reasonable contributions to the discussion on these boards.

Yeah, the whole time he was railing against drug users - about how we should lock them up and throw away the key - he was addicted to hillbilly heroin in mass quantities. And then when he gets caught, what does he do? Goes to rehab, not jail.

Its gaping holes in your logic that make no one take you seriously, not some predisposition against conservatives. That's just changing the subject, and you're just pissed off that no one is falling for it.