Limbaugh supports dining room table
Aug. 21st, 2009 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogRight-wingers whom I know keep saying the trouble with the healthcare furore is that the rest of us should grow up and stop with the name-calling and discourteously unsettling identification of dangerous fruitbats, and instead make efforts -- as, although they mysteriously fail to mention this, the President has been doing since January -- to establish a dialogue.
Hm.
Further to my post here, Rush Limbaugh responded to Barney Frank on his radio show:
I think it's fabulous and fantastic, and hilarious that a woman shows up at a Barney Frank town hall meeting with an Obama-as-Hitler poster and this Nazi stuff, in his district. I mean, this is unreal.
But the killer for me was, here's Barney Frank saying, "What planet do you live on?" to this woman. Isn't it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends of his time living around Uranus?
Wow. Two varieties of hate speech -- anti-Semitism and homophobia -- for the price of one! Quickly, establish a dialogue with that, someone.
(Incidentally, the other day Limbaugh described Nancy Pelosi as "deranged" because she said fruitbats were turning up at these town hall meetings with swastikas and other Nazi paraphernalia. It seems the fat man's memory is short.)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 02:28 pm (UTC)ETA: Apparently some of my icons are not working these days.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 02:38 pm (UTC)"he was blaming Pelosi on the behavior of people who show up at her meetings to protest?"
No. He was claiming she was deranged for saying that people were turning up with swastikas and other Nazi stuff. A total fiction, he said -- despite copious photo and video evidence showing lots of fruitbats with . . . swastikas and other Nazi stuff.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 02:44 pm (UTC)I'm honestly surprised some of his own haven't called him on the anti-Jewish remark there
I'm honestly surprised more Republicans don't cry "foul" about so much of the stuff their stormtroopers and shock jocks come out with; instead, they insist the rest of us should be apologizing for Barney Frank's "put-down" of this obnoxious, brainwashed, venomous little turd (as any objective analysis would describe her).
It occurred to me last night as I was falling asleep that a significant difference between the left and the right in this country is that the left call their own extremists on excesses while the right remain acquiescent about theirs. This capacity of the left for honesty and fair play is regarded by the right as "weakness", and they capitalize upon it.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:14 pm (UTC)I mean, why can't we talk about things like "How does this affect the deficit?" and "Let's make sure the private insurers that are doing their jobs aren't the ones that lose customers?" and "What is the purpose of insurance in the first place?"
I don't even know if it's that the Right has no argument or if theyjust want people to run around screaming and carrying Hitler signs because it's good politicial theater. If that's the case, they are evil evil evil people.
And they wear pants. Just like Hitler!
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:25 pm (UTC)I mean, why can't we talk about things like "How does this affect the deficit?" and "Let's make sure the private insurers that are doing their jobs aren't the ones that lose customers?" and "What is the purpose of insurance in the first place?"
Or, under which system will fewest people suffer and die unnecessarily?
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:34 pm (UTC)Now, that's just Communist. :-)
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:54 pm (UTC)I have seen fruitbats in the wild. I have yet to see any carrying swastikas.
Siding with Limbaugh, eh? I might have guessed . . .
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 03:56 pm (UTC)any system favoured by Herr Rauch Limbach
That'd be the ones guaranteeing free oxycontin on demand to rich fat white men smoking cigars?
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 04:21 pm (UTC)I think all this business of politicians bickering and arguing among each other is nothing more than mere staging, for the"edification" of the hoi poloi.
Same old . . .
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 04:22 pm (UTC)I happen to like fruit bats, think they're cute.
Yes, but would you wish to have them deciding healthcare policy?
male fruit bats were portrayed as rapists
Without exception they voted for Il Buce both times. 'S a fact. Sir David (whom I once met) said so.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 04:24 pm (UTC)Same old . . .
Which is what the Republicans want you to think.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 05:53 pm (UTC)"Oxycontin and syphilis are terrible when mixed."
I imagine the taste is disgusting, too.
Stop The Godless Liberal Persecution
Date: 2009-08-21 06:07 pm (UTC)Tomorrow they will be throwing White Christian DinningRoomTablePerKin under the bus for their godless blood sucking Unamericanisms!!!
Don't YOU care about the Children! The Innocent DinningRoomTablePerKin Children who will be left homeless to wander the streets starving because the Space Aliens of Obamanite DeathPanels have slaughtered ALL of their parents!
Think OF the Children!
And NOTICE that they have already pushed Glenn Beck off the network!!!
They are coming for everyone everywhere!!!
BE FORE WARNED!!! before YOU wake up as the next white christian virgin teenage cheerleader DinningRoomTablePerKin they drag off into their dark lair!
{ dude, now that fox news has been unmasked as a Liberal Front, learn to cope. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908200012 }
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 06:46 pm (UTC)Yes, the Republicans do seem to represent the Evil Empire.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 08:18 pm (UTC)I think that Dick Cheney would look marvelous as Goebbels... lets all make a poster of that!
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 11:23 pm (UTC)Like the New Testament.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 11:24 pm (UTC)Many years ago, he had a new book out at the same time I had a new book out. We bumped into each other at some radio station where he was the next interview after me.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 11:25 pm (UTC)"They do have a tendency to hang out in churches"
I.e., in belfries. I rest my case.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 11:28 pm (UTC)"I wonder if there is any real thought behind the madness to begin with."
Yes, it's a deliberate strategy.
There was an excellent article on the subject a few days ago by Johann Hari in the UK newspaper The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-republicans-religion-and-the-triumph-of-unreason-1773994.html.
Re: Stop The Godless Liberal Persecution
Date: 2009-08-21 11:29 pm (UTC)Many thanks for the Jon Stewart link! I've circulated it widely . . .
no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 11:31 pm (UTC)We'd get bitter complaints from the ashen corpse of Goebbels . . .
no subject
Date: 2009-08-22 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-22 04:34 am (UTC)Re: Stop The Godless Liberal Persecution
Date: 2009-08-22 05:11 pm (UTC)It is a good book.
no subject
Date: 2009-08-27 01:53 pm (UTC)"if the Dems control the White House and Congress, we ought to be asking what the problem is"
Precisely. A few weeks ago, Obama observed pointedly to some media hack who'd been questioning his temerity in rocking the boat a teensy bit that the Dems had, let us not forget, won the election. I wish Obama would repeat this often, and a lot more loudly, so that not just the media but his own party would get it into their heads.