Rush Limbaugh supports the Lord's Resistance Army.

[The Romulan Republic]

The title says it all, really. I know Limbaugh saying disgusting things is nothing new, but this is just horrible.

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Rush Limbaugh Supports the Terrorist Organization, the Lord's Resistance Army
Posted: 10/17/11 02:17 PM ET
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In a recent rant, Rush Limbaugh threw his support behind Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) despite the fact that Kony has been indicted by the ICC, International Criminal Court, for "crimes against humanity." These crimes include, murder, torture, child enslavement, rape, mutilation, and abduction. It is estimated that over the past 23 years, he has conscripted over 30,000 children to build his child soldier army. Included in this number are thousands of girls, some as young as ten, who have been turned into sex slaves. The record of horrors of the LRA are well-documented, but that didn't stop Rush from jumping to their defense.

Moreover Rush is factually inaccurate when he stated, "...they (the LRA) are fighting Muslims in the Sudan." Wrong. The LRA is fighting for the Muslims in Sudan. Indeed, they were partially underwritten by Khartoum to kill the Christian Dinkas in Southern Sudan.

To compound this intellectual felony, Rush actually read the "stated objectives" of the LRA, "to end dictatorship..." The state objectives of the LRA are mere words on paper. In reality, this child army and its messianic, maniacal leader have waged a reign of terror responsible for the displacement of two million Ugandans, and the murders of thousands of innocent civilians. Put in the key words "LRA" "mutilations" to see their work.

Further, Rush questions what our "national security interests" are in Uganda. One has to wonder if this man even bothers to read a newspaper. The Ugandan government is on the front line battling Al-Qaida in Africa. And they've paid a price for it, as the 2010 bombing in Kampala by Al-Qaida attested. The government of Uganda is fighting Al-Qaida in Africa so we don't have to. And this monster, Joseph Kony, has been trying for decades to destabilize this valuable ally that fights daily against terror.

But again, none of this matters because according to Rush "The LRA are Christians" and President Obama has no business trying to eradicate them. Limbaugh owes an apology to everyone who has fought and continues to fight against the evil of terror for his hideous apologia for the LRA.

What is so stunning about Limbaugh's rant is that a child could Wiki "LRA" and in mere seconds have a working understanding about its reign of terror. But Rush and his ilk don't care about facts. They are propagandists and the people who worship at the Limbaugh altar are fools. This bloviating, one-semester of college, intellectual charlatan is an embarrassment to legitimate conservatism. He should be renounced his fulsome support of this terrorist organization. Sex slavery, murder, mutilation, abduction, and torture have the full support of Rush Limbaugh because LRA has "Lord" in the name of the organization and because the President is against them. This simplistic analysis of complex world problems is a regular feature of Rush Limbaugh's program; most of his blather is as innocuous as it is vacuous. But in this case, speaking up for this mass murderer, Joseph Kony, is a bridge too far, even for media con artist like Rush Limbaugh. He has jumped in bed with a murdering mutilator of women and children. How can Limbaugh have any more credibility after this insane endorsement?

[Flagg]

He obviously has no idea who the fuck these guys are and is just an ignorant blowhard.

[CrateriaA]

What shocks me was not that an action like this was unexpected. No, I fully expected this, as did likely everyone here. But the LRA? The sheer ignorance and or malice that would have to entail to support some group like this is just insane. Fuck Limbaugh even more than before for this stunt. Fuck him long and hard to so callously endorse such a vile, brutish, mass-murdering, life ending group of thugs like the LRA.

Flagg, regardless of whether or not he knows who these guys are doesn't excuse him from the fact that he's defending a particularly nasty gang of killers. Really, he should have bothered to check even a tiny bit of information. But of course he doesn't care. He isn't remotely interested in the truth. Or the lives lost. After all, just a bunch of black people who are dying.

EDIT: To give everyone an idea of the situation in Uganda, this is the same country that recently with the endorsement of Murrican Fundie Evangelists tried (or succeeded, I'm not sure) to go out and kill gays if what I read is correct. Also, 50% of the population is estimated at 0-14 years old. Don't forget Idi Amin's reign of terror not too long ago. Also, I belive the wealth equality of the USA is equivalent to Uganda.

[Flagg]

Oh no, the ignorance makes it worse IMO.

[Eulogy]

Did Rush draw enough rope to hang himself, or am I calling it too soon? Things like this are what happens when you Do Not Do The Research.

[weemadando]

Let's not forget that Kony is such a fucking dickbag that THE UNITED FUCKING NATIONS ran a snatch op against him a few years back using Guatemalan SF.

How many times do you see the UN partaking in such direct action, especially against an individual. HOW BAD DO YOU THINK SOMEONE HAS TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION TO HAPPEN?

BTW, the UN team all died.

[Shroom Man 777]

So, Limbaugh has supported a violent organization that the USA has deployed troops against.

Will the President be conferring with his advisors from the intelligence services now to make classified executive decisions?

[Flagg]

Rush Limbaugh says incredibly offensive ignorant bullshit all the time. If that other shit doesn't sink him I hardly see why this will. His listeners either listen to him to get pissed at this sort of shit, agree with the offensive shit he says, or just enjoy his bloviating. It's just more of the same.

[Stark]

i dunno these guys are pretty bad people

just agreeing with them because they're christian is pretty retarded

[FSTargetDrone]

The only thing that will get Limbaugh off the air is when the advertisers stop supporting him. All else is moot.

In any case, don't be concerned. He is going to look into later and do some "research":

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

(Limbaugh):Is that right? The Lord's Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff? Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well, we just found out about this today. We're gonna do, of course, our due diligence research on it. But nevertheless we got a hundred troops being sent over there to fight these guys -- and they claim to be Christians.

END TRANSCRIPT

[Flagg]

i dunno these guys are pretty bad people

just agreeing with them because they're christian is pretty retarded

It's Rush Limbaugh. He's pretty retarded. I mean this was a guy hired by ESPN as a football analyst who promptly got fired for saying Donovan McNabb was only a famous QB because he was black.

[Simon_Jester]

I get the feeling that most Limbaugh listeners aren't really paying attention to the individual bits and pieces; they just sit back and pick up this warped gestalt image of it all. The fact that no individual part of it is true is irrelevant to them, because the whole of it, the ideas expressed have that ring of truthiness to them.

Re: Shroom:

Obviously I hope not for legal reasons. It's a terrible precedent, all the more terrible when applied to domestic political figures, and Limbaugh is a political figure, and blah blah blah you all know how this one goes.

But still, karma can be a real bear sometimes, can't it?

[Flagg]

The only thing that will get Limbaugh off the air is when the advertisers stop supporting him. All else is moot.

Yeah, you pretty much would have to pull a Glenn Beck on him (Beck essentially lost all his TV advertisers on his Fox News show and then "retired") and get an advertiser boycott going, which won't happen because there are too many companies willing to do right wing radio ads no matter what the dumbass on the mike says.

[FSTargetDrone]

The only thing that will get Limbaugh off the air is when the advertisers stop supporting him. All else is moot.

Yeah, you pretty much would have to pull a Glenn Beck on him (Beck essentially lost all his TV advertisers on his Fox News show and then "retired") and get an advertiser boycott going, which won't happen because there are too many companies willing to do right wing radio ads no matter what the dumbass on the mike says.

And now Glenn beck has his little GBTV website where his followers can listen to him free online or have the pleasure of paying $9.95 a month or $99.95 a year for full access of all things Beckish. They can view his occasional ads selling gold and look at a blog. He hasn't gone anywhere. He still can run his mouth freely for his audience. As long as the subscribers keep him going, of course. I wonder how long GBTV will last...

[Flagg]

The only thing that will get Limbaugh off the air is when the advertisers stop supporting him. All else is moot.

Yeah, you pretty much would have to pull a Glenn Beck on him (Beck essentially lost all his TV advertisers on his Fox News show and then "retired") and get an advertiser boycott going, which won't happen because there are too many companies willing to do right wing radio ads no matter what the dumbass on the mike says.

And now Glenn beck has his little GBTV website where his followers can listen to him free online or have the pleasure of paying $9.95 a month or $99.95 a year for full access of all things Beckish. They can view his occasional ads selling gold and look at a blog. He hasn't gone anywhere. He still can run his mouth freely for his audience. As long as the subscribers keep him going, of course. I wonder how long GBTV will last...

The one that get's a 10th of his TV audience?

[TheHammer]

So, Limbaugh has supported a violent organization that the USA has deployed troops against.

Will the President be conferring with his advisors from the intelligence services now to make classified executive decisions?

If he flees to Uganda and starts recruiting/training for the LRA then we might be in business!

[darthdavid]

So, Limbaugh has supported a violent organization that the USA has deployed troops against.

Will the President be conferring with his advisors from the intelligence services now to make classified executive decisions?

If he flees to Uganda and starts recruiting/training for the LRA then we might be in business!

One can dream...

[ComradeClaus]

So, Limbaugh has supported a violent organization that the USA has deployed troops against.

Will the President be conferring with his advisors from the intelligence services now to make classified executive decisions?

If he flees to Uganda and starts recruiting/training for the LRA then we might be in business!

One can dream...

he's dumb, but not THAT dumb.

so the un sf team sent to black bag the lra guy died? what odds would you give to seal 6 to pull it off? or a few blu-109 jdams

(guatemallan sf? more like special ed. never send a 3rd worlder to do the job of an umperial ubermensch of course the UN is permafail)

[weemadando]

Guatemalan SF were ideal for the job (well, really African SF would have been, but politically speaking sending in a team of South Africans would have been suicide). Trained by the US, spent their entire careers doing high intensity COIN and already versed in jungle warfare theory and practice.

Plus they apparently had additional training with the US and were equipped by them.

Even SEALs would have issues simply due to the fact that you're operating in a really unstable environment a long way from support (both physically and politically). It would likely be a long term ground operation and the chances of failure there are fucking high no matter who you are.

[Thanas]

so the un sf team sent to black bag the lra guy died? what odds would you give to seal 6 to pull it off? or a few blu-109 jdams

(guatemallan sf? more like special ed. never send a 3rd worlder to do the job of an umperial ubermensch of course the UN is permafail)

Shut the heck up, asshole.

It would increase the IQ of the board exponentially if you would stop posting.

[Falkenhayn]

Hey ando, where are you getting the details of this operation?

[weemadando]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2 ... arget.html
http://reliefweb.int/node/198492

[PeZook]

(guatemallan sf? more like special ed. never send a 3rd worlder to do the job of an umperial ubermensch of course the UN is permafail)

You do know special forces across the world are pretty much equivalent in their training, right? It's very easy and pretty cheap to select a bunch of guys for fitness and intelligence and get someone to train them really well.

Now MAYBE that particular unit was a bunch of failures, I wouldn't know, but it doesn't seem you have any actual evidence for your opinion about special forces of the entire third world, either.

And yeah, hurr hurr America can just JDAM them because all problems are solved with bombs (that's why the US deployed troops on the ground for sure!)

[Crateria]

(guatemallan sf? more like special ed. never send a 3rd worlder to do the job of an umperial ubermensch of course the UN is permafail)

You do know special forces across the world are pretty much equivalent in their training, right? It's very easy and pretty cheap to select a bunch of guys for fitness and intelligence and get someone to train them really well.

Now MAYBE that particular unit was a bunch of failures, I wouldn't know, but it doesn't seem you have any actual evidence for your opinion about special forces of the entire third world, either.

Aren't the Guatemalans going to likely be some brutal nasty guys? All that civil war can't be good for people.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant IF they choose from the most vicious civil war units.