Comments on: Lèse Majesté

By: felicity

felicity — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:09:52 +0000

OK, maha, I ‘checked’ it out. The poster’s main problem is bad timing – in his/her case should have paid attention to the old saying, “The proof is in the pudding” (or something like that.) At least 8 years of conservative/republican policies and the economy, to cite one, is in the tank? – hardly supports the superiority of conservative free-market economics.

By: muldoon

muldoon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:13:28 +0000

I keep waiting for it to dawn on Rush’s advertisers that they have thrown in their lot with a man who wants the U.S.. under Obama’s leadership, “to fail”–which, by extension, means they want the American people to fail, seeing’s all our eggs are in that recovery basket. (Aside from more tax cuts and increased military spending, what solutions–and I use the term loosely–have the Republicans offered?) It’s Rush’s sponsors who have handed him the microphone; they are the ones ulitmately responsible for what comes out of his mouth. That they continue to support him can only be interpreted to mean they agree with him.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:24:52 +0000

I wish Jack Nicholson would rush out with a movie on Limbaugh. He can play a character flipping his lid better than anyone!

By: uncledad

uncledad — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:02:32 +0000

Wow if you intend on keeping friendships with your slightly conservative and “god” fearing friends I suggest you refrain from the following:

1. Keeping track of exactly when the American capitalist system started to crash.
2. Keeping track of which party started pissing away all our money first.
2. Listening to Rush, pointing out that really fat hypocrisy will only cause divisions.
3. Do not. I repeat do not ask for Religulous on netflicks
4. If you happen to end up with religulous don’t watch it.
5. And if you happen to watch religulous don’t talk about it.

By: s

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:57:36 +0000

felicity, I couldn’t help but think when rush was pounding his fist to his chest and in the air that any minute he would be doing the hitler sign. It also made me wonder if he was on drugs again.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:57:22 +0000

The DCCC is showing a sense of humor. I love their new page. Let's all apologize to Rush right away!

By: c u n d gulag

c u n d gulag — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:22:30 +0000

maha,
You, and we, should feel honored. The “freeper’s” found us in our sanctuary.
doesntmatter = doesntthink. Too bad it’s not doesntbother…

By: NuthnFiner

NuthnFiner — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:53:45 +0000

Felicity makes a very good point. There is a cautionary tale here. Anyone with even a smidgen of intelligence dismisses Rush. The scary thing is, millions of people don’t dismiss the gas-bag. I too saw the polls mentioned above about all the demographics who don’t like Rush…but again…a lot of people surely do.

But Rush does control the ugly parts of the Republican base…for better or for worse.

I think portraying rush as the leader of the Republican Party will most likely help the Progressives, but I think it is a message that bares monitoring. There is a slight potential of blow-back.

By: maha

maha — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:50:30 +0000

Gang — we’ve got a live one on another thread — check this out.

Have fun!

By: felicity

felicity — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:58:39 +0000

Yeah, but I worry about the fact that millions of Americans continue to suck up and believe Rush’s every word. (Historians and psychologists have been grappling for years why ‘good’ Germans bought Hitler’s demagoguery hook line and sinker.)

The leading lights of the R party are Joe the plumber, Sara the governer, Rush the bombast and some thirteen-year-old kid with a gift for blabbing conservative babble. It’s inpossible to shut these people up – and they shouldn’t be – the problem remains how to combat them.