Rush Limbaugh defends Somali Pirates

[Thanas]

...and blames Obama for having the pirates killed.

Link to Countdown video.

I vote we drop fattie in the mess hall of a freighter running those straits and let the crew members have their way with him.

[Chris OFarrell]

That....that....

This guy seriously, does ANYONE take him seriously, anymore, expect for a shrinking hardcore base who refuse to believe their world has changed?

[The Spartan]

I'm speechless. "Merchant marine organizers" who just "wanted to go home?"

I know the dishonest, racist, hypocritical lardass is a total fucking jackass, but really!?

[Uraniun235]

That....that....

This guy seriously, does ANYONE take him seriously, anymore, expect for a shrinking hardcore base who refuse to believe their world has changed?

A lot of people do, because their perspective of the outside world is highly filtered by their news sources. Most people who listen to Rush Limbaugh every day, and watch Fox News (or, shit, even just CNN or their own local news outlets, it's not likely they'll be out trying to discredit Rush Limbaugh) are totally going to buy into his arguments most of the time, especially because Rush is so god-damned good at being a manipulative, dishonest radio show host. Anyone who disagrees with Rush will be completely misrepresented by Rush, and anyone who tries to call in to disagree with Rush will be bullied, shouted down, and even outright muted until the appearance of Rush's victory is created: it's impossible to 'win' against him on his own show, and no other conservative show is going to attack Pope Limbaugh.

[Pelranius]

I guess he really does want America to fail.

I thought Rush hated Muslims though?

[JLTucker]

Anyone who disagrees with Rush will be completely misrepresented by Rush, and anyone who tries to call in to disagree with Rush will be bullied, shouted down, and even outright muted until the appearance of Rush's victory is created: it's impossible to 'win' against him on his own show, and no other conservative show is going to attack Pope Limbaugh.

A republican called into his show and said he was "brainwashed". What was Limbaugh's response? "Charles, Barack Obama is president of the United States today because of stupid, ignorant people who think like you do... You know, you're just plain embarrassing and ludicrous. But it doesn't surprise me that you're the kind of Republican that our last candidate attracted. Because you're no Republican at all based on what the hell you've said here."

[Patrick Degan]

I really think he's completely lost it now. Better bring out the other half of his brain, because what he's running on now has obviously gone soft.

Why does Rush hate America?

The poor, poor druggie...

[Nephtys]

He basically says "Oh, these poor kids. They were tired, hungry and intimidated by the big, mean US Navy Warships surrounding them. And all they did was point an AK47 AT THE CAPTAIN, when Barrack Obama ordered these poor kids shot."

Seriously? They pointed guns at hostages, and this madman is trying to imply MURDER? It's like if he suggested Hitler was a 'confused art student', because he disliked President Roosevelt.

[Ilya Muromets]

Um... whuh? I thought the Repulitards that constitute this guy's fanbase usually like displays of American military prowess?

Oh, that's right, the current US president's a damn dirty Democrat, so anything even remotely related to what he does has to be demonized. How much you wanna bet he'd be going "America, FUCK YEAH!" if there were a Republican president in the White House?

[Patrick Degan]

I think what really undid the poor dumb druggie was the fact that Obama didn't act according to the script: Obama was "supposed" to let the hostage standoff fester so that Herr Limbaugh could blast him as a soft, weak-kneed liberal surrender monkey, which was how he painted him to start off with to poison the well and provide grist for his mill through an ever lengthening crisis. Unfortunately, Obama tore that page up when he gave the shoot-to-kill order and the SEALs did exactly that. His whole week of shows ripped apart by American bullets in a few seconds and a win for Obama. So now, he's got to desperately flail about for something, anydamnthing, to show what a bad bad bad bad man Obama is to his declining audience. And Sir Porkalot doesn't do very well on improv.

[Gil Hamilton]

I think the bottom line is that if tomorrow Obama personally came up with a hyper effective treatment of lymphoma, Rush would blast the President for his assassination of all those poor cancerous lymph cells. He's defined himself as completely and totally against Obama, so he can't EVER admit a fair play, for fear of his audience.

[Patrick Degan]

Oh, here are the first entries in Sir Porkalot's Public Purgatory Tour:





I don't think the poor dumb druggie will be hearing the end of this anytime soon.

[ray245]

Hell, Rush is giving people the typical opposition response. If George Bush was the one who authorised it, I bet he will be praising Bush for doing the right thing.

[Patrick Degan]

Hell, Rush is giving people the typical opposition response. If George Bush was the one who authorised it, I bet he will be praising Bush for doing the right thing.

No... Actually, even for Sir Porkalot, this is nuts.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I don't think the poor dumb druggie will be hearing the end of this anytime soon.

But he wont, THATS the sad thing, he will never hear about this except through his own fans, and then mock it... he receives no true negative information, nothing to make him ever question himself or his view that HE is at the certain of the Republican world.

[Ilya Muromets]

Is "Limbaughable" or the like a neologism for this kind of drug-addled bathshitery yet?

[The Spartan]

Um... whuh? I thought the Repulitards that constitute this guy's fanbase usually like displays of American military prowess?

Oh, that's right, the current US president's a damn dirty Democrat, so anything even remotely related to what he does has to be demonized. How much you wanna bet he'd be going "America, FUCK YEAH!" if there were a Republican president in the White House?

Go back to the 90's. When we went into Yugoslavia it was a waste of time, it's not our fight, etc. When Clinton bombed Afghanistan it was wagging the dog.

Fast forward and suddenly Clinton didn't do anything to stop Bin Laden. The Democrats are soft on terror. The Democrats are so mean to the poor "merchant marine organizers."

They (by which I mean the rightwing fuckheads) have been doing this sort of thing for a long time now. This just happens to be a particularly egregious example. My mind still boggles...

[Kon_El]

This is a common segment on the Limbaugh show referred to as "Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd".

https://members.premiereinteractive.com ... 41839.html

Taken out of context and presented as straight it can be quite confusing.

[Patrick Degan]

This is a common segment on the Limbaugh show referred to as "Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd".

Oh, so that's what he calls his after-the-fact excuse for saying things which are patently stupid.

[Kon_El]

This is a common segment on the Limbaugh show referred to as "Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd".

Oh, so that's what he calls his after-the-fact excuse for saying things which are patently stupid.

Except that its obvious from the start if you hear the segments in there entirety. I actually heard the segment in question. People who called in during the segment got the joke.

Taking small clips out of context and reporting on them as if they were said in a serious segment is misleading to say the least.

[Patrick Degan]

This is a common segment on the Limbaugh show referred to as "Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd".

Oh, so that's what he calls his after-the-fact excuse for saying things which are patently stupid.

Except that its obvious from the start if you hear the segments in there entirety. I actually heard the segment in question. People who called in during the segment got the joke.

Taking small clips out of context and reporting on them as if they were said in a serious segment is misleading to say the least.

Please. That his Dittoborg Collective have been conditioned to simply assume/excuse anything Sir Porkalot says along these lines as a planned joke in advance says nothing whatsoever as to the fact that he simply fished around for some reason, anydamnreason at all to keep up an attack barrage. Even when it's obvious that it's pointless.

[RedImperator]

I can already see where this is going. Kon_El, do you have a link to an audio clip or a transcript? You're claiming this quote is out of context; it would be helpful if we knew what the context was.

[Thanas]

If you make such a stupid joke, you better make sure everyone gets it or you provide a clarification at the end of it.

Limbaugh did neither and this "joke" was delivered with his usual style of broadcasting, so he faces full blame for that.

And in the end, what about this situation is absurd? Answer me that, what is so absurd and inherently funny about pirates holding AK47 to the head of a merchant mariner and then getting shot?

[Yogi]

Except that its obvious from the start if you hear the segments in there entirety. I actually heard the segment in question. People who called in during the segment got the joke.

Taking small clips out of context and reporting on them as if they were said in a serious segment is misleading to say the least.

Ah, the old "It's out of context." argument. Used to excuse anything and everything.

[Thanas]

Kon_El, you are a big fat liar.

Here is the transcript, directly from Rush's site.

Will you please point out where he was taken out of context? From the words of it, there is not a single indication that this was a joke segment. In fact, this seems to be an ordinary conversation with a guest.