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Rush Limbaugh First Job Shining Shoes

March 26, 2012 by · Comments Off on Rush Limbaugh First Job Shining Shoes 

Rush Limbaugh First Job Shining Shoes, Limbaugh also displayed his incredible ignorance of how elections work (“if Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler can sign a recall petition, there’s no doubt in my mind they can also vote”). Of course, anybody can sign a recall petition with any name, and organizers are obligated to turn in all of the names. But fake names aren’t counted, nor can they vote.

Still, the strangest and most disturbing comment by Limbaugh today had nothing to do smearing unions, but instead was about smearing shoe polish. Fondly recalled his days shining shoes in a barbershop, Limbaugh declared: “I loved making shoes shine….it was a f***sh.”
Rush Limbaugh’s racism is becoming more and more obvious as he lets his hatred of Obama shine through in openly bigoted ways. And to push that racism, he’s even turned to fabricating quotes that have never been uttered. On Friday, Rush declared on his show,

Obama has not built ’em the new kitchen that he promised or led them to believe that were gonna get in Tampa. And there are no new cars for everybody. And white people are not shining the shoes of black people. Well, I remember that Tampa fundraiser, that Tampa town hall, we had audiotape of some black people who said, “From now on you all are gonna be waiting on us.” Remember that? That’s what the election meant to some people.

Obviously, the idea of “white people” shining the shoes of black people was what the 2008 election meant to Rush Limbaugh, and he hates it. But for most Americans, the 2008 election was not seen through the prism of racial paranoia that Rush Limbaugh uses.

Limbaugh’s racist fear of “white people” subservient to black people drew surprisingly little criticism, except from Media Matters and a few bloggers on the left.

On his April 25, 2011 show, Limbaugh said nothing about his lies about Henrietta Hughes or Obama and his supporters, nor did he over any evidence to support his fictional claims. But Rush did express outrage that Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, pastor of a church Obama has attended, in a sermon earlier last year “saw fit to compare me to the modern-day KKK.” It is indeed an outrageous comparison. The KKK is widely denounced for its racism by nearly everyone today; Rush Limbaugh’s racism, on the other hand, is rarely criticized in any mainstream media outlet.

In fact, I can’t find anyone in the mainstream media who bothered to report on the astonishing fact that the leading conservative talk show host in the country declared that Obama was elected to make white people serve blacks.

But Limbaugh’s shining example of racism was only the beginning of his bigotry. I investigated his claim that black people said, “From now on you all are gonna be waiting on us.” It appears to be completely fabricated.

Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke

March 2, 2012 by · Comments Off on Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke 

Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student Rush Limbaugh labeled as a sl*t and a prostitute for her beliefs about access to birth control, responded on MSNBC’s The Ed Show Thursday night.

“Initially, you’re stunned, but then very quickly, you’re outraged, because this is historically the kind of language that is used to silence women, especially when women stand up and say that these are their reproductive health care needs and this is what they need,” Fluke said to Ed Schultz.

Fluke entered the spotlight earlier this month when she attempted to speak before the House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on religious liberty and the birth control rule, and Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) refused to let her, saying she was unqualified to speak on the issue.

Fluke was invited to speak for the Democrats and was going to be the only woman on the panel. Three Democrats, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), walked out of the hearing as a result.

Limbaugh made the argument on his radio show Wednesday that Fluke’s desire for birth control was a promotion of casual sex.

Rush Limbaugh Sl*t

March 2, 2012 by · Comments Off on Rush Limbaugh Sl*t 

Rush Limbaugh Sl*t, The Republican party has a ‘Suitable Boy’ kind of problem: In love with one guy but being forced to settle for the other. “I feel like the bride in an arranged marriage I can’t get out of,” wails one loyal voter in despair at the prospect of a Mitt Romney nomination. Too-dull-to-lose Mitt just doesn’t get that conservative blood thumping quite like, say, a Rick Santorum with his steamy speeches about Satan.

Sure, the liberal media thinks he’s a little craaazy, but Santorum is indeed – as that rightwing Yoda Rush Limbaugh would tell you – “the last real conservative still standing.” But sadly, the man who has won the Republican heart – or rather base – is having a tough time wooing the rest of America. As naysayers point out, all that ‘barefoot and pregnant’ talk opposing contraception and working women is not going to win him the ring come November. Nor will frothing at the mouth about satanic liberal universities, Hitler-like Democrats, or the secret plan to execute Christians:

They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.

Beelzebub and guillotines. How did it come to this sad pass?

Sure, the liberal media thinks he’s a little craaazy, but Santorum is, indeed, “the last real conservative still standing.” Reuters
Since the rise of Ronald Reagan, and America’s famous right turn, loving the unelectable has been a Democratic pastime. The base falls in love with some wild-eyed liberal, but the party settles for a more “moderate” guy who will be more palatable to the parents, i.e. the rest of America. Republicans, on the other hand, were glad to hitch their fortunes to any guy who checked all the right boxes: anti-abortion, anti-gay; tax cuts; law and order; foreign policy hawk. Bob Dole was fine as was George Bush Sr. and his son. As long they were meat-and-potatoes Republicans no one expected their guy to wear his ideology on his sleeve. Hence, the triumph of the “kinder and gentler” conservatism, best served with an affable ‘gee shucks!’ smile. The ideologue-in-sheep’s clothing GOP strategy was first perfected by Reagan and imitated by countless others – most successfully Dubya. And it’s worked pretty well for the most part.

So what went wrong this time around? Answer: The Tea Party. The combination of Obama’s election and the never-ending recession has unleashed a fire and brimstone breathing genie. Gentle conservatism no longer appeases a base baying for blood. They want a “conservative with conviction” who wears his hard-core ideology on his sleeve. Hence, the rising fortunes of a Santorum who in previous elections would have been the typical hard right candidate who would gain attention but never sufficient traction.

In 2012, however, he is the bona fide rival who will never win – a spoiler who will weaken Romney by a) making him look like RINO (Republican In Name Only); and b) pushing him to take ever more extremist positions.

The ‘Suitable Boy’ conundrum is, therefore, a symptom of a party whose base is increasingly out of step with the mainstream. Democrats faced this problem in the past because they had to win power in a society that had moved to the right after the Reagan realignment. “The ruling ideas of our time are conservative, just as in the ’60s, when politics was marching in the liberal direction… So the context, the zeitgeist, if you want to put it so pretentiously, is conservative, just as the zeitgeist in the 1960?s was liberal,” says Adrian Wooldridge, co-author of The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. Therefore, any candidate who made the true-blue liberals happy was bound to be unelectable in a national election.

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