Conservative mega-host Rush Limbaugh disavows descriptions that he is running the GOP — and Republicans generally laugh off the idea that a radio jockey is telling them what to do — but efforts by Democrats to cast the talkmeister as the man in charge may be starting to stick. “It seems like Rush Limbaugh is the kind of he-who-must be-obeyed these days in the Republican Party,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine told FOX News on Tuesday. Kaine and the DNC have seized on the apology made by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to Limbaugh on Monday, hammering the theme that Limbaugh can’t be crossed. Steele apologized after drawing Limbaugh’s wrath over the weekend by calling the host’s shtick “incendiary” and “ugly.” His criticism was aimed at Limbaugh’s statements about wanting President Obama to fail. “As (Steele) then apologized … it left a lot of us wondering who’s really in charge,” Kaine said, initially calling Steele “courageous” for standing up to Limbaugh.
I try to stay away from political party stuff, but I must admit how wonderful it feels to watch the GOP flounder a bit, trying to remain relevant after W’s “reign of incompetence”.
drchris
I think selling the Invasion of Iraq was one heaping helping of direct involvement in violence.
Oh, right… and he certainly didn’t try to, now did he?
JCC
Yeh, at the time that Dave made that post I called him out with the following:
Oh what a tangled web he weaves.
JCC
No he didn’t.
I can’t believe I actually have to point this out (actually, I can, because I’m responding to a brick wall) :
http://tinyurl.com/63n47m
JCC
Funny. The quote which you attribute to Ayers does not mention killing anybody.
To: Boise Jim,
Wow! I mean, really, Wow!
At least ten of the delegates attending the Republican National Convention that had bleach sprayed in their faces by winsome liberal “activists” would like a word with you. Also, there were physical assaults, tire slashing, window breaking, bottle and rock throwing, and wrist-rocket style slingshots fired at Republicans. I can can make a really, really long list out of this. But you can use Google, right?
I said:
What responds with:
I respond with Ayer’s quote unequivocally showing that he hoped to kill someone:
What responds with this non sequitur:
Conclusion: affirmation of my suspicion that I’m attempting to reason with a brick wall…
JCC
Your quote didn’t mention killing anybody but you would like to “believe” that it does. Sorry but your belief doesn’t make anything true – not about Ayers or about your sky fairy. The conclusion you should be making is that you are thick as a brick.
Dave
What does this thread have to do with religion?
Dvan said this:
“It’s bizarre to me that Michael Steele would apologize to an extremist, conservative talk radio host for calling him out on his extremism.”
Indeed, it is bizarre from an intelligent perspective, but, it is totally predictable from the GOP political perspective. Limbaugh is the guru for the blinded far right, and it’s one of the key constituencies of the GOP. He may be a madman, but he’s a pied piper playing the magic tune on his pipe for millions of mindless rats. They need him, and idiot guru that he is, they need every idiot vote that places any worth on his hypocritical, junky, psychopathic opinion. And really, you have to know, that he doesn’t believe most of the shit he says himself, he’s a performer, a talkshow host. Every day he has a producer showing him demographics of how listeners react to the bullshit he pukes. Capitalism, ratings, bullshit, they all function toward generating a bargaining position for a nice contract renewal. I know, DVan, that you know exactly what I’m talking about. The Limbaugh listeners are the only idiots that are still staunchly loyal to the GOP. They can’t afford to piss them off as well.
NeoWolfe
neowolfe:
Guess again, Jack. Demonstrably false assertions like that prove that it’s you who has somehow convinced yourself that’s true, and in all probability
I’m sorry Tarma, but after you have called me out on several occassion, it’s your turn:
“Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Michele Bachmann – comedy gold all, but too stupid (and arrogant) to realize it.
If they are the best the Republicans can come up with, their party appears destined to fade away.”
Answer me this, if the best they had was GW Bush, what then? Well, we all know that wouldn’t work, but, it did for the average voter the last two times around. If the Democrats can’t paint a black line between republican failure, and the track record of the next four years, the god party will be back in spades. I don’t know if “trailer trash” is an appropriate label for you, but, what I can say is you don’t study, nor do you think, before you speak. That would make you an excellent Republican.
NeoWolfe
Jcc said this:
“Guess again, Jack. Demonstrably false assertions like that prove that it’s you who has somehow convinced yourself that’s true, and in all probability
[don't] believe most of [what you] say [your]self”
Settle down JCC, I was simply drawing to your attention, for your benefit, that you are a narrow minded idiot, friends tell friends the truth. You can’t, and won’t defend your ridiculous story book of gods, holy men and heroes, yet you want to engage sane individuals in a debate about science. Even you can imagine how ridiculous that scenario is. I don’t hate you, as a matter of fact, for a number of days I tried to explain to you that you can keep your intuition about the origin of the universe, without making a fool of yourself defending your book of ridiculous myths. That’s where I am, and I think atheists assume too much, but, I think you are making an absolute ass of yourself, and the only one who hasn’t realized that fact is you.
You are a smart guy, and the only investigation you haven’t made yet in earnest is into you own ridiculous beliefs. Maybe that is why you are here, so I can say that to you. The mirror is on the wall, now all you have to do is be honest with yourself.
NeoWolfe
Aye caramba!
This is to the 2 self-involved mental munchkins, What & Neo: neither of you like the way Silverman runs the blog, start your own fucking blogs, then. Otherwise, either 1 of you can start actually acting like you are only guests here.
& JCC, we all know you have this weird obsession w/Ayers, but I can pretty much say w/certainty, you and WorldNutDaily are the only people who give a flying fuck.
KA
I have no desire to create my own blog. What I would like is for the operator of this blog to examine and eliminate his bias toward Persiaans and Arabs so that I could once again in good conscience make donatations to AA.
What:
So, even though the Muslims & xtians dominate the bad press, he’ll take more shots @ the Jews?
I dunno – I think you’re the 1 obsessed, mein freund.
Rush Limbaugh less popular than Bush:
http://tinyurl.com/c5qe9x
Muhahahaha
Came across another poll that had him tracking even lower than both Rev Wright and Bill Ayers, which certainly is hilarious. But since it was conducted by Democracy Corps, I would take it with a grain of salt:
http://tinyurl.com/d4hhsj
Here’s a really nice WND article that accuses Bush of being butt-buddies w/a terrorist:
http://tinyurl.com/bo884b
It’s Debbie Schlussel (crazy-ass wing nut), who doesn’t even make a decent case of it.
From the same folks who claim that eating soy products will make you gay.
http://tinyurl.com/w7gcl
That’s only TWO articles, but should be enough to convince anybody w/ 1/2 a brain that WND isn’t even close to being a source of news, only a source of ridicule.
KA
For weeks the press was dominated by the Israeli slaughter of 130+ Palestinians (700+) of which were civilians. What did Dave have to say about this incident? He does want to vacation there – a glib flippant response to genocide.
You make posts to this blog regarding a lot of things that are insignificant compared to the treatment that the Palestinians endure and of little consequence to anybody but a few atheists (myself included) and yet you dare label me as “obsessed” and “self-involved”.
130+ -> 1300+
Hey, what gives? Suddenly I’m the reluctantatheist (deja vue!) again. & I posted about 4 more times here, those are gone. What up?