LIMBAUGH: "What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country. He's sitting there in jail. He knows what's going on, he knows that. . . . The Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. . . . That smiling mug shot -- this guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser."
DAVID CORN:
"Limbaugh was suggesting --no, make that stating as a fact -- that the Democrats want to help Jared Lee Loughner escape full justice for allegedly murdering six people (including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl) and attempting to kill Giffords, a Democrat quite popular within her party. What could Limbaugh be thinking?
Then again, it's not truly a rational thought process that derives such a conclusion. Would he have his audience of ditto-heads believe that the leading Democrats who have visited Giffords in her hospital room -- Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kristen Gillibrand -- want to help the man who nearly killed their friend to get off easy? Limbaugh has no evidence to cite, because there is nothing to back up his ranting. This is craziness. Hateful craziness.
Does Limbaugh even believe this swill? He could be saying it merely to satisfy the red-meat yearnings of his followers. That would render him perhaps the biggest cynic on the American landscape. (For such care and feeding, Limbaugh earns at least $50 million a year.) Yet if he truly thinks that Pelosi is plotting to assist the assassin who put a bullet into the head of a friend, he is delusional.
There is no other explanation: panderer-for-profit or nutcase. I realize this is not a civil way of describing someone. But there are moments when civility prevents us from serving and protecting the truth. Mendacity, ignorance, provocation -- sometimes these must be called out by name. Otherwise, those who would use or exploit such means to pervert the national discourse gain an advantage.
Obama is correct: To advance the national interest, Americans must mount rigorous debates in the best terms possible. But you cannot have an honest debate with a mud-thrower. (My father used to tell me, there's no fair fight with a skunk.) Those who purposefully undermine reasonable and necessary discourse do not deserve a pass in the name of civility. Limbaugh, as he so often has done, resorted to extreme rhetoric and a big lie in an attempt to undercut or destroy a political adversary. He made a dark week even darker."
Who are the people who regularly listen to this guy--a cynical cad who appears to be a money-slut, interested only in filling his bank account off of dead and wounded Americans.
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The absence of a criminal prosecution of Sarah Palin and the fact that Limbaugh still has his job have emboldened the fascist to turn things up a notch.
It seems the avatar for Adolph avoided naming names, just skirting a HUGE defamation and slander lawsuit. Nevertheless, this is incendiary incitement in the extreme ... pitched directly at the crazy crowd.
Are there any reasonable and moderate voices left in the GOP with the courage to stand up and condemn this crap?
BTW, I was visiting this blog, From the Left, where I was listening to Howard Stern's rant against Sarah Palin until he used the "C" word, an extremely offensive and sexist reference. From that point forward, Stern lost all credibility as far as I was concerned.
Listen, folks, there is no excuse in substituting one distasteful polemic for another, and we really need to be more careful in our use of language. Either we keep our act clean, or we are just as bad.
when i read limbaugh's rants in print i find them quite entertaining. but when i hear, or worse see and hear him, it's totally disgusting.
he's a fat fucking pig who has probably never done an honest days work in his life.
Amazing. I never thought Limbaugh could jump at all, never mind gain enough altitude to clear a shark. Maybe it's because he knows Palin is already on the other side.
Last I heard, he was trashing Fox News because they had some good words for Obama's memorial speech. Claiming that the Democratic party would conspire to exonerate the would-be assassin of a Democratic Congresswoman is over the top (of the shark) even by his standards.
I think that, like Palin, he's misjudged the situation and is going to alienate a good chunk, at least, of those who had supported him up to now.
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