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THIS WHOLE RUSH LIMBAUGH THING

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Neal Boortz
@ March 5, 2009 8:18 AM
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Can we give this "Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama to fail" nonsense a rest? This is one of the most absurd little arguments I've ever seen in the media. Look .. I'm not here to promote other talk show hosts, but Limbaugh is a special case. If it were not for him I would still be practicing law ... or, in the alternative, I would have made a few big hits in personal injury or medical malpractice trials and I would be retired by now. So, in reality I don't know whether to thank him or not. But this guy saved the AM band and made this living possible for me, Sean, and quite a few others. So I'm going to speak up on this one.

What did Limbaugh say? Basically this: "If Barack Obama's goal is to transform our economy into a socialist economy, I want him to fail." Now what in the world is wrong with that statement? I'm with Limbaugh on that one. I want him to fail as well. Furthermore, if Obama's goal is to create an egalitarian society where everybody has an equal amount of stuff .. .I want him to fail. If his goal is to create a nationalized health care system under which health care will have to be rationed, I want him to fail. If his goal is to completely remove 70% of Americans from any responsibility for paying any federal taxes at all, I want him to fail.

Here ... try this. "If Adolf Hitler's goal is to kill 6 million Jews, I want him to fail." Would the Democrats have damned someone who made that statement when Hitler came into power? Know what? They probably would have.

The "I want him to fail" comment was only part of Limbaugh's statement. You absolutely cannot criticize him for that statement until the "at what" part is addressed.

Democrats need to grow up.



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What others are saying

  • Rush
    I do understand what Rush meant when he said "...I want him to fail." However, doesn't he, and every other American have the right to say that we want the president to fail? All this crap about what Rush said about Obama (who is doing a wonderful job of f*&%ing it all up) and NOTHING about what anyone ever said about Bush. Obama really is coming off a whiney baby. He fits right in with the bed-wetting libs.
  • Kudos
    Neal, heard on Rush show today that he gave you kudos for the support.
    Nice to hear.
  • Hey.. Lulz @ 10:58:48 AM
    You SAID:
    "To having a pill-popping blowhard as their great face, and Neal himself has degenerated to Godwin's Law in terms of his rhetoric."
    --------------------------------
    Rush was addicted to a perfectly legal PRESCRIPTION drug, which he sought treatment for. Now I'll admit that still doesn't excuse his behavior, but if you are gonna throw stones then you may wanna take a closer look at your president OBAMA, who admittedly SNORTED COCAINE on a regular basis. And from how skinny he looks I'm not sure if he's kicked the habit yet. Although that could be a result of the filthy cigarettes that he smokes daily. BTW I wonder just how many toxins and pollutants he exhales with his nasty ol second hand smoke?

    I reckon that one needs only to look at his first 30 days in office to see what drugs will do to you.
  • It's his policies, stupid!
    Demmies, Rush, Neal, Sean, and all like minded conservatives are speaking of Barry's polices when we say we want him to fail. It is far more likely that the sun will not rise tomorrow than it is that The One will see the light. So by saying we want Obama to fail, we are saying we want his policies to fail, plain and simple.

    Last night, I caught some of PMSNBC. I had to think long and hard about my position here because I actually agreed with Pat Buchannon (sp?) when Pat kept questioning if maybe the Administration would be better off focusing on fixing the economy that Rush? On second thought, I guess not. The less they think about the real problems we face, the less damage they can accomplish.
  • With Apologies to Rush
    Why do Republicans (ie. Michael Steele) apologize when Democrats get their feelings hurt about something Rush Limbaugh? I heard his statement at the time and applauded the fact that someone put in words what most of us are thinking. Who wants this country to sink any further into Socialism and, excuse me, but why should Michael Steele be called on the carpet for something he wasn't responsible for? Better to rise above Democrat name-calling and not give it any attention....kinda like the kid on the playground that always "tattled" on everyone....pick your battles and ignore the rest. Rush is entitled to his opinion and he's allowed to express it. Silly, silly Dems.
  • More to this than just Rush
    Careful folks, liberals/progressives are intolerant of disent and vindictive when they don't get their way.

    My opinion of this is that this more than just a statement made by Rush. It seems to me that they are testing a strategy of silencing any and all opposition.

    The Republican party is on the ropes (their own fault really) and the Dems want to keep it that way. If they can browbeat Rush into eventual silence, they will use that as a template to go after other talk radio hosts who tweak the liberal's nose on a daily basis and have for the past 20+ years.
  • Question
    To Hugo, Stan, Copyleft & Rush (the poster, not Limbaugh),

    I rale agaist most of us and bad mouth Rush & Neal. Just one question.

    If liberals are so smart and have all the answers, please remind me, exactlly how many listeners does Air America have?
  • Let's Help Obama Fail
    Stop participating in the economy. I am stopping any spending other than for food, medicine, utilities and gasoline. Everything else ...not going to buy...no stocks, no bonds, no cars, no appliances, no entertainment, no furniture...not going to spend a dime...perhaps a gun or two and ammo..but nothing else. If every conservative would step out of the economy for the next 6 months...this creep would be forced to give up his drive to socialism because socialism relies on our money to operate. Read more at http://philliphubbell.blogspot.com/
    ...if the Democrats are determined to bring the economy to its knees lets don't wait until they have also destroyed healthcare, the military and what's left of the small business base...sooner they fail the sooner we can get about the business of rebuilding the United States. Atlas needs to Shrug now.
  • Thanks Joe!
    And yes Anon, you are a riot! Damifino easy big fella you gonna bust a vessel trying to reason with these liberals.

    Surprised Copyleft hasn't put in his -.0005 cents worth. Guess he didn't get his assignment today.
  • Stan
    I don't like the idea of out-right insulting someone based upon their ideology; so let me suggest you watch the movie 'Animal House.' There's a line from Dean Wormer directed at Flounder that I believe would suit you well, based on what I have seen you post here. I think most here know the one to which I am referring.
  • Failure
    I seem to remember during the Bush years a plethora of democrats/media pundants that wished for and stated they wanted Bush to fail. In many ways. I'm waiting for Sean to start using Al Gore's breakdown screaming cry about the current situation with Obama..."He lied to us. He preyed on our fears!"
  • To Stan
    "Cant conservatives get someone in charge who isnt corrupt?"
    Yeah stan, as soon as the dems get rid of barney frank, chris dodd, time gietner, hillary, and all the other corrupt leaders in your party.
  • Oops ... one more comment
    In my last post I failed to make one comment:

    First to Anonymous (who so bravely posted Anonymously): Try to exercise a BIT of logical reasoning. I understand that that is extremely difficult for a liberal, but give it a try. It is true that BO hasn't mentioned healthcare rationing ... why would he? That is a negative thing that might give people pause just enough to realize the idiocy of pursuing socialized medicine or this boondoggle socialism bill before the senate. Now attempt to put that reasoning cap on for a moment and repeat after me. "Socialism (including socialized medicine) is Unsustainable over time. Rationing will be the end result JUST AS IT IS in other countries with socialized medicine .. Canada, England, France, etc. as more and more people start suckling on the government teet ... the government will have to ration medical services.

    Do you honestly think that people in Canada drive to the US to get an MRI because they want a nice drive in the country?
  • Where do you get this sh ... er ... stuff.
    Ya know, I'm the type of person that believes in free speech even when the speech being spoken is completely idiotic. I guess in a word ... I'll support your right to be an uninformed, moron ... but seriously ... where do some of these radical, dems get this stuff???

    First rant ... all the PC renaming crap. You may be able to fool the ignorant masses with terms like "universal healthcare" instead of calling it what it is ... Socialized Medicine. Or welfare and institutionalized theft renamed as "Tax Cuts". But ... anyone with half a brain knows that that is all BS.

    To Rush (not Limbaugh, but the moron speaks below) -- Sheesh, in Boortz' article on this subject he CLEARLY points out what Limbaugh said (to paraphrase ... if BO wants to turn this into a socialist society, I hope he fails) and that makes perfect sense. Again .. anyone with half a brain knows that socialist policies are UNSUSTAINABLE over time ... open a book and read and then point out even ONE socialist society that has survived more than 150 or 200 years. Like Neal, like Rush L., I too hope Obama fails in his mission to turn one of the greatest experiments in Freedom into a socialist Slave state where everyone is dependent on the government. That isn't to say you hope that Obama "fails" in his mission to turn the economy around .. we don't want him to fail in that regard .. it's just that anyone beyond the ignorant dumb-masses are smart enough to realize that his policies to date are unlikely to succeed in turning around the economy. Just keep digging the hole deeper Barry ... maybe we'll get to China.

    And the liberals claim they are the "smart-ones"??? Ridiculous. Rick Santelli got it right ... we need more people that can CARRY THE WATER and fewer people looking to drink the water.
  • re: melissa in dayton
    Ok Mellissa I'll make this as clear as I can.I VOTED AND I WANT THIS PRESIDENT TO FAIL MISERABLY IN HIS EFFORTS TO DESTROY AMERICA. HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT, I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM AND I DO NOT SUPPORT HIM ANY MORE THAN I WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED JOESPH STALIN. (The republic demands that I do no less.) I MUST ACKNOWLEDGE HE IS THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE TO DO OTHERWISE WOULD BE TO DENY THE FACTS(which are something liberals and socalist must deny!)I HAVE AND WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS STOMPING ON BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. I WILL ACCEPT THE CONSEQUINCES OF MY ACTIONS(which is more than any of Obamas worshipers do)The founders of this country put it all on the line(lives,family,fortune)to make this country a beacon of freedom and most of them paid dearly. Some lost everything but at least died free men. I will not be a sheep and baaa to Obama while he remakes america in his image if that image is WRONG for americans.
  • anon lightening the mood
    anonymous, your sarcasm is refreshing. Thanks for the lift.
  • Re: Low Class
    Joyce, YOU ROCK!
  • So the conservative movement is reduced
    To having a pill-popping blowhard as their great face, and Neal himself has degenerated to Godwin's Law in terms of his rhetoric.

    Man, this conservative butthurt is getting *great*. Popcorn all around.
  • SURPRISE!!!!!!!
    Are these obamabozos actually shocked that there are americans that want obama to fail?? Not really, its just another thing they can point to and blame when their socializing of amerika doesn't work out.About 50% didn't vote for him because they knew what he is and thanks to people like Rush,Neil and Sean the rest will learn to. At least one good thing has come out of Obamanation is that Rush has gotten back to what is important,being a watch dog against liberal abuse of power. I slacked off on following his show thru the Bush years cause all he talked about was his golf game and cigars. Rush is not the leader of the RNC any more than Neil or Sean is .He is a member of the Conservative Movement like me but just carries a lot bigger stick.He's a big man and a big target but us conservative listeners ARE the big stick.
  • THIS WHOLE RUSH LIMBAUGH THING
    Does this mean the Dems are admitting to be Socialists?
  • Rush's legacy
    Rush is brilliant.....can't listen to his self-congratulatory bs anymore, but he is directly responsible for the emergence of modern day conservative media, including Fox News (thank God for that).

    I remember the first time I heard Rush....couldn't believe it, and I couldn't get enough. Good or bad, he is definitely one of the foremost leaders in the Republican party, and he deserves the title.

    Boortz is the best now, but he wouldn't be here if not for Rush carving the path.
  • Low Class
    The White House is really looking trivial, tacky, low class and stupid for attacking not only Rush but Jim Cramer is now on the block! And yes it's probably just to distract us but really, it makes the White House look so silly.

    Popping pills, is that the best Stan and the other morons can come up with? Are you guys pure as the driven snow? Doubt it. I thought it was against liberal tenants to pick on people who are recovering from addictions, very un-PC of you.

    In the back of my mind I would love to see BO and Rushbo debate. Rush would clean his clock. And the world would see the masked marauder unmasked for the socialist he is.
  • Hitler
    Neal, isn't it you that gets your panties in a wad whenever some liberal compares anyone to Hitler?

    And now universal healthcare is like the Holocaust. Nice.
  • Dems on Failure
    I seem to recall the Dems were saying they wanted the previous President to "Fail" in Iraq. Didn't one notable individual stand up and actually tell us the "war is lost." So what is wrong with us lowly citizens hoping that the President's policies, which we oppose, do fail?
  • Re: Hugo's ghost (The Social-fascist Dhimicrap)
    No, that's only if some mentions “Hitler” in a comment moron.

    You can use the entirely proper descriptive phrase “Fascist” in reference to the Democrats all day long if you like.

    Such as: Social-fascist Dhimicraps – since both are almost the ideology. And since they love their hyphenations, that really is the best phrase for them.

    An alternative could be Demi-fascists but that doesn't entirely cover the Demorats idiotic collectivist mindset.
  • rush
    This is another one of those sidetrack
    "issues" the Dems use to keep peoples minds off the damage they're doing to the country.
  • melissa in dayton
    i don't care if you agree with him or not. to say you want the president of the united states to fail is unamerican.

    if you disagree with him it is your right, if feel your duty (if you voted), to say so. but ANYONE who says they want the president "TO FAIL" has no business saying they know want is best for the country.

    rush has set himself up as the leader of the republican party, and if wanting the president to fail is leadership, then the republican party sure as the heck is not the party it once was.
  • Well, it is a good thing that Obama does not want to do any of the things you have suggested. Obama does not want this to be a socialistic or communistic nation. He does not want to "ration" health care. Seriously, where do you guys get this stuff?
  • Limbaugh
    It is not Rush's comment, its a smoke screen from an editied sound-bite to make the daily bobbleheads obfucate the drunken orgy of spending going on in Washington by BOTH parties. The more they talk about Rush the less they have to talk about spending and the real effects it will have on our future as a country. All smoke & mirrors.
  • Failure
    Actually, the one who has already failed is Michael Steele, the RNC chairman. His remarks about Rush were correct, in saying he was an "entertainer", and the remarks were "incendiary" (which can be a good thing). But when Mr. Steele was confronted, he folded and apologized...When someone makes a statement, it's usually what they really think. Backing down from an "entertainer", after a correct analysis, shows he doesn't have the guts to lead anything.
  • Hitler
    "Would the Democrats have damned someone who made that statement when Hitler came into power?"

    Yes, if Hitler were black.
  • Now whatch the left hand
    Neal, I disapointed. You should see this whole fracus to be exactly what it is. It's Marty McFly saying 'What is that?', it's the magician's gloved left hand. It's all just something to distract the attention of everyone while the Obama administration and the rest enact their agenda.
  • Rush Limbaugh
    I hope Obama fails, too. In fact, I hope the whole congress fails! They are completely out of touch with the country. Their policies lead to hyper dependence on the the govt. and less dependence on oneself.

    I wonder why the DNC is allowing bully boy ballet dancer rahm and clinton retreads carville and begala to be the face of the democratic party? Last I heard, the (part time) governor of Virginia Tim Kaine (D) was elected to head this motley crew. In fact, let the republicans go, they are not representative of the conservatives in this country anyway. Listening to Rush led me to listen to Neal and both have increased my affinity to conservativism and libertarianism. The two aren't incompatible. Besides, Rush and Neal are too big to fail. :)
  • "How is this clown still respected? I mean he pops pills and makes fun of people with Parkinsons. Cant conservatives get someone in charge who isnt corrupt?" - Stan

    Well, there's a great example of lack of intelligence...or maybe initiative...and not taking a moment of time to learn the truth about the subject matter. Rush is off the pain-killers (BTW, a common addiction among those who experience back surgery that doesn't totally relieve the pain) and he is respected because he doesn't compromise his principles. You don't have to agree with him but he doesn't hide what he believes.

    As to corruption, show me one example that Rush is involved in corruption. Yeah, good luck with that.
  • Admit it
    You're jealous of the attention he's getting.

    You gotta' increase the insensitivity!
  • Completely agree
    I completely agree with Rush on this. Government intervention is what got us in this mess and Obama/Pelosi/Reed wanting more is making things much worse. Just look at the stock market since it became apparent that Obama had the best chance of winning the election.

    The one thing I have a question about is the numbers for the statement about Obama proposing more spending in 6 weeks than has been spent from the founding of the country to his inauguration. Not saying I don't believe it's true, just haven't seen any hard numbers.
  • Kill the messenger
    The Democrats HAVE grown up. They just hope and try to make sure all their constituents haven't and won't. Rush, Sarah Palin, and Joe the Plumber are enablers for conservatives. Therefore, the democrat plan is to kill the messenger, destroy the enablers. Smear the messenger and hope the message gets lost.
  • Rush
    The man should at least wear a tie.
  • Check the facts
    He stated that he wanted Socialism to fail.



    You Dhimicraps should be able to use the Internet that Algore invented to check the facts on that.
  • Limbaugh
    Now that Bush is gone, the left needs a Boogyman. So the media paints the picture (with the help of the Obimanation) of the reviled Limbaugh being the new voice of the GOP. Presto!
  • Rush won't stand by his statement
    What Rush actually said was:

    "I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.' Somebody’s gotta say it."

    He also referenced liberalism failing. That's as close as he got to giving any explanation at the time of the quote. Since then he's been backpedalling and clarifying. I do think that if it took a depression for Obama to fail, Rush would have no problem with that. It wouldn't touch him anyway.
  • What about all those Democrats...
    ...who wanted us to fail in Afghanistan and Iraq? Is it actually worse to want to see Socialism and Fascism fail than to wish that our country lose a war, and waste the lives and sacrifice of our soldiers?

    I guess so.
  • I hope he fails!!!
    I do hope that Barack Hussein Obama does fail. For if he succeeds and his policies are put into law, the effects will be detrimental to the US economy. However, many of the Obama voters were government educated and did not study enough on economics and US History (The Politically Incorrect US History). Because of this, I am currently shorting the US stock markets, have divested myself of US dollar holdings, and am highly invested in Chinese stocks, Yuan, and commodities.
  • Wow
    You just Godwined yourself, Neal. What a pinhead.
  • What a fatty
    How is this clown still respected? I mean he pops pills and makes fun of people with Parkinsons. Cant conservatives get someone in charge who isnt corrupt?
  • Limbaugh
    Rush is being used as a diversion to hide the dirty little details of the socialist takeover from the American people.

    Simple as that.

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