Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Rush Limbaugh is LOSING IT over Media Matters

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU
 
Vyan Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:12 AM
Original message
Rush Limbaugh is LOSING IT over Media Matters
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 12:23 AM by Vyan
(Crossposted on Myblog and Recommended on DailyKos)

We've all known the great melt-down was coming - and I think it's finally arrived. Rush Limbaugh has decided that since all those dirty faggot hippie Libruls are out to get him, he'll just attempt a devastating first strike.

Unfortunately his mouth, just like his poor little viagra powered pecker is firing blanks.

On the April 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called Media Matters for America "Stalinist" and part of the "Clinton machine agenda." He further falsely asserted that Media Matters receives funding from philanthropist George Soros and that he is "not demeaning people on this program in any way."

Doesn't demean anyone - what about his little Michael J. Fox Dance? What about when he said that seperating Survivor contestants into tribes based on race was unfair because "blacks can't swim"? Or when he said some women would "love to be hired as eye candy"?

No, that's not demeaning or anything..

This the following comment is where he really jumped the shark, when he suggested that Imus' firing was all Hillary Clinton's fault.

Limbaugh asserted that syndicated radio host Don Imus was fired because he was "critical of {Sen.} Hillary {Clinton (D-NY)}," and added, "This is an election year. Clinton Inc., you get on their case, they're going to take you out."

And he wasn't done...

This is an election year. Clinton Inc., you get on their case, they're going to take you out. They're going to do what they can to marginalize you or do whatever. I've seen a couple stories I was reading over the weekend, that the Clinton team saw their opportunity. And when I say the Clinton team, I include Media Matters for America, this supposed tax-exempt media watchdog group. It's just an arm of the Democrat Party. They have an agenda. They are tax-exempt, and they're doing nothing but advancing a political agenda. And they are George Soros-funded. This is clearly part of the Democrat Party machine.

I find all of this just so highly ironic because Media Matters first of all doesn't receive any funding what so ever from Soros. Second, it is founded and run by David Brock - who used to be part of a right-wing Conservative attack operation funded by Richard Mellon-Scaife to Attack the Clinton's all during the 90's.

In his book, "Blinded By the Right", Brock describes faxing talking points TO LIMBAUGH for him to repeat about Anita Hill.

Brock also used to be close friends with Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter and on page 196 says...

Through my lawyer friend Ann Coulter, I saw a deeper level of partisan scheming and political manipulation in the Jones case, which Coulter herself later described as "a small, intricately knit right-wing consipiracy."

Brock gradually had a change of heart about being involved in that "intricately knit" group and their tactics. So much so that he eventually conveyed Coulters' words to Hillary Clinton as he was writing a biography on her. Brock who was actually part of the conspiracy is where Hillary got her "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" line.

Brock is intimately familiar with the smear tactics employed by the right and via Media Matters has dedicated himself to fighting against them. He isn't particular liberal, rather he's an anti-Conservative - who meticulously documents and points out all their lies and distortions one at a time.

He has nothing, what-so-ever, to do with the Clinton campaign.

. On the March 1, 2005, edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Limbaugh claimed that "omen still live longer than men because their lives are easier."

. On June 14, 2004, Limbaugh shared with listeners his "pet name" for the National Organization for Women (NOW): "National Association of Gals" (his acronym: "NAG"). Limbaugh claimed that the "militant feminists" who make up the "NAGs" "aren't determining who wins elections. White men are."

. Responding to an Associated Press report that women had recently been appointed as chiefs of police in four major U.S. cities, Limbaugh on May 27, 2004, referenced the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib: "If we've got four new female police chiefs out there, then I guess we can watch out for some naked pyramids among prisoners in these new jailhouses that these women ran, because we had a woman running the prison in Abu Grab ."

. According to a June 7, 2000, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2549">article, "As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: 'Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.' "

Doesn't demean anyone. Yeah, right.

Still, his recent rants against Media Matters are truly an amazing thing to behold.

They got a trial run with this Imus thing, and they're feeling their oats. I'm certain and make no mistake, other people are in the crosshairs, and they're targets, and it's a Democrat Party machine operation that is getting this done. I look at this, and I say this is my country too. And I say I'm not going to let the Democrat Party or the left or some lackey watchdog group or a couple of race hustlers dictate my speech. Its just not -- I'm not going to let it happen. They don't get to use the power of government to silence conservatives, which is their real purpose.

Yeah, not like the way Michael Powell ran the FCC or anything...

These are totalitarian tactics that they are employing here. It's the liberal constituency that repeatedly and daily demeans people -- black, white, in between, I don't care. We don't play rap music on this show. (Ugh, Stop with Phoney the Rap Attack already! V.) We're not demeaning people on this program in any way. We don't air South Park, we don't air MTV or Comedy Central on this show, and the rest of talk radio doesn't either. Now look at Sharpton and Jackson. You've got two liberal Democrats who ran for president who are bowed to by the likes of Hillary and other Democrats despite their long history of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a problem festering in the Democrat ranks, not in the Republican Party.

Ummmm... NO!. It's the Republican Party that's doing everything it can to disenfranchise black voters while pandering to them through their churches - not to mention lying to all of us about a war.

Understand that this is a Democrat Party, drive-by media, Clinton image machine -- or Clinton machine agenda. And it is to suppress and kill conservative information, which it labels "misinformation." The conservative information by definition, according to the template of the drive-by media and the Media Matters of the world, is "misinformation."

They're using our own words against us. Waahhh!! Boo Hooo. Project much do you, Lardball? Is that creeping paranoia in the wake of the Imus flambe finally pushing you over the edge?

Maybe Limbaugh's real problem is that his favorite sugar daddy, Richard Mellon-Scaife, has decided to sit this latest Presidential dance out.

In a February 16 article, The New York Times, noting that Scaife "spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder," reported: "But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife's checkbook is staying in his pocket."

Although Scaife did not comment for the article, the Times reported that Scaife business partner Christopher Ruddy said of himself and Scaife, " 'Both of us have had a rethinking.' Ruddy added, 'Clinton wasn't such a bad president. ... In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick {Richard Mellon Scaife} feels that way today.'"

Ooh, Snap! That's gotta hurt.

Vyan

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:26 AM
Response to Original message
1. Guess El Rushbo is still carrying the Republican's water, after all.
Didn't he say he was through with doing that? He even lied about that. Imagine.

You'd think the dittoheads would ask themselves one simple question. Who pays someone $24MM/year to tell the truth? The truth don't pay.....but telling lies very well, that pays handsomely.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:43 AM
Response to Original message
2. I'm thinking ol' Rush will get more extreme every day until he

gets himself back in the center stage spotlight. Imus-envy, whodathunkit?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:52 AM
Response to Original message
3. he needs to stop flapping his lips
& go dark. He should acknowledge he has had a good run and get out. The time for hate is passing - he, and all their ilk, will only be looking at where they once were from now on.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:25 AM
Response to Original message
4. Rush is a few pills short of a pharmacy. Any functioning grey matter he may once
have possessed has been obliterated by the Reich-wing koolade and the drugs he obtained illegally.

"...not demeaning..."???
Holy shit, I'd hate to hear him when he WAS being demeaning.

What a lying sack of shit.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:58 AM
Response to Original message
5. Good - it means two things
1. The issue has struck a major nerve with Rush - so much so that he feels the need to attack in order to protect/defend himself

2. It keeps the issue in the spotlight for awhile longer and extends debate and discussion
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:20 AM
Response to Original message
6. "Clinton wasn't such a bad president..."
I'd say "burn in hell, Scaife," but I really just want him taxed. He can deduct for boils, kidney stones, rashes, itch, running pus, post nasal drip, piles, erectile disfunction, eczema, shingles, psoriasis, Hansen's disease, diabetes, and diarrhea.

I don't think he should have to wait to suffer.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:19 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. Scaife can't say enough Mea Culpas to reverse the damage.
His money was one of the key sources that kept the CNP and other reich-wing think tanks afloat. Scaife is only trying to cover his ass for when the s*it hits the fan, he can have a tiny fig leaf to cover his World of sins.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:23 PM
Response to Reply #6
17. ooooh...Hansen's disease! That's downright NASTY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy
Unclean! Unclean! :scared:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:15 AM
Response to Original message
7. his listeners are lapdogs who merely listen and absorb the crapola. NO-
brains to think.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
4bucksagallon Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:35 AM
Response to Original message
9. I think what they (RW radio) is most scared of is the "fairness doctrine" being implemented.
They talk about it all the time. It puts the fear in them knowing that if that was back they would have to tell the truth or at least could not get away with the innuendo they spout now without a backlash.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
primative1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:37 AM
Response to Reply #9
10. What went wrong ?
I keep seeing reference to this "fairness doctrine" but have to admit I dont see how it changed media. I have always focused on the concentration of media aspect (few outlets owning everything) as the culprit for why media is so .... umm, what it is now.
How does the "fairness doctrine" put media back on course?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
4bucksagallon Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:02 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. I'm not sure why but they (Rush and the rest) keep talking about this is just an attempt to.........
bring back the fairness doctrine and to shut down the conservative talk on radio. So they are deathly scared of the ramifications of it. Who knows, maybe it would even take "faux news" off the air, after all the truth is the truth and you shouldn't be able to spin it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JawJaw Donating Member (574 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:24 AM
Response to Reply #11
12. Fox changing Spots?
It gives a a warm glow imagining a world where FoxNews was FORCED to adopt a new fairness doctrine through gritted teeth.

It wouldn't last long, of course - their backers aren't interested in news, only propaganda. If they had to be fair, what would be the point?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:26 AM
Response to Original message
13. I dunno...
I've often thought that Rush was in his final days, but he's got some hardcore devotees. Regardless of how empty and meaningless his rants are, ditto heads will keep drinking his kool-aid.

It would be great if he got the Imus axe for his mouth as well, but I expect he'll eventually just fade away.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:49 AM
Response to Original message
14. Reminds me of the joke When do you know Limpballs is not lying?
When his lips aren't moving!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 11:56 AM
Response to Original message
15. Please support mediamatters.org Media Matters pisses off pigman Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity,
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 11:58 AM by GreenTea
Savage, Coulter and so many other republicans, constantly exposing the lies they used to get away with...Media Matters is very worthy of your support & donations.

http://mediamatters.org/
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:02 PM
Response to Original message
16. Zealots react irrationally when presented with a truth...
That undermines their cherished mythology...

You see it with right wing religious fundies in regard to science...

And you see it with political extremists like Limbaugh etc...

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Wed May 01st 2024, 04:49 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC