Rush Limbaugh weighs in on Iraqi Detainee Scandal.....commence teeth-gritting!

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Rush Limbaugh from yesterday ...

"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Posted on one of the other threads a few days back. Yup, pretty dumb.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd hate to see Rush's "rec room."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello. I need to blow off steam. Excuse me while I tie your hands, strip you naked, put a hood over your head and attach wires to your genitalia. All in the spirit of fun, of course."

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish Rush LImbaugh would lose his hearing again. That fucker doesn't deserve all five senses.

― uh (eetface), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to mention the ire I got at his whole "painkiller" situation. After all, people with addictions were, according to him, petty criminals who needed to be sent up the river, years earlier. But when he had an addiction, he's "made a mistake", and needs "help".

― uh (eetface), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

fat fuck's back on the hillbilly heroin, i see.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and if THIS is his idea of "blowing off steam," then if he ever ends up in divorce court the papers are gonna be REALLY INTERESTING.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I seriously wonder if he says half the things he says to improve ratings. even negative publicity is publicity. This is the guy who offered a restaurant who had a prized blue lobster as a mascot, a large sum of money for the chance to eat it.

― uh (eetface), Sunday, 9 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit he just compared iraqi prisoners getting sodomized with chemical light sticks to monica getting a cigar in the cooch. I'm not making this up.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to judge what the intent of the comparison was, and failing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

liberals dismissed the latter but are angry about the former, THEY'RE NOT BEING CONSISTENT.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

*scratches head* I'd say he needs to go back on the pills.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"um see Rush there's this thing called 'consent.'"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That's OK about Rush, he is just a mouthpiece, check this quote out, people had to actually elect this dumb jerk. This guy is more worried about his party looking bad than the actual problem.

'But some Republican committee members charged that the prisoner abuse scandal was being exploited for partisan gain.

"I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said during the hearing.'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4855930/

That's pretty f'ed up.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment,"

OUTRAGEOUS!

― Lionel (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking the same thing.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking when I first read that! "Wow, Lionel must be pissed."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He threw the bust of his head across the room and shattered it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

more limbaugh fun

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

amazing! he's still clearly on drugs:

LIMBAUGH: Even this latest picture of a dog and a nude Iraqi -- you seen that one? A couple of Americans are holding -- it looks like German Shepherd, some kind of vicious big dogs, the dogs are barking, bow wow arf arf arf, this big dog -- you know and the Iraqi prisoner is cowering there in fear, he's all nude. And the picture caption "Dog attacks Iraqi." No, the dog isn't attacking anyone, the dog's on a leash. The dog is scaring an Iraqi prisoner. [gasp] "No! We're scaring them, too? Is that allowed in the Geneva Convention?! We're scaring then with dogs?" Yes, my friends we are. The dog didn't attack anybody. The dog's not attacking anybody. The dog's on a leash. Both of them are. I've seen the pictures. ...

[... about 35 minutes later ...]

LIMBAUGH: Apparently, ladies and gentleman, I need to offer a modification. Apparently, the pictures that are, the picture going around of the uh, the nude Iraqi prisoner cowering in fear of a couple of dogs. The caption to that picture that I've seen going around, uh, intimates that the dog was on the verge of attacking this guy, and he was very scared and so forth. In the picture that I saw the dogs were leashed and the correct caption would be "Nude Iraqi prisoner scared of dog but not attack [sic]." Apparently -- there's not a picture of it -- but apparently uh, well, there's another picture later where the nude Iraqi prisoner no longer cowering, um, in the corner against his cell, he's writhing on the floor with a pool of blood. Apparently, the dog did bite his leg, but there's no picture of that. I have just been, uh, informed of this. So I wanted to, uh, pass that on to make sure that the facts are out there. There's no picture of it, but that's apparently what uh, what happened. We were told there are going to be a lot of pictures coming in, and that they will be worse than what we've seen and this sort of thing. So, uh, sorry for the error. ...

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Heavens! I scare you with dogs ;-)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Rumsfeld himself said other photos show things that are "inhuman," etc. What does Rush make of that?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Donovan McNabb is over rated because he is black.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Search as I may, I can't find anything about Mr. Inhofe's distinguished military service 1955-'56. Hmmm.

― rejoinder, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you look at these pictures, you cannot deny that there are elements of homoeroticism …I've seen things like this on American websites. You can find these if you have the passwords to these various porn sites, you can see things like this. And [columnist Donna Hughes'] point was maybe these kids—the soldiers, the guards, whoever, who are of a certain age group, who've grown up with access to this are simply acting out what they've seen on these websites or something, just for the fun of it, or maybe other reasons."

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

RUSH HATIN ON GAYS SHOCKAH

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen things like this on American websites. You can find these if you have the passwords to these various porn sites, you can see things like this.

He and Pete Townshend must swap tips.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

A caller tears into Rush yesterday on torture.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

Hahah yeah I just read about that. "Clearly I need to piss off old Republican-voting veterans to help secure the future!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)

holy shit, that guy is awesome

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

In 2010 Democrats need to replay the "Barack Obama is president of the United States today because of stupid, ignorant people who think like you do" over and over.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooooooooooooooooooool

― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

Hilarious.

― Décidément, on ne sait plus faire les miroirs (Michael White), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:28 (sixteen years ago)

wow that was awesome!

― mark cl, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

best part of it was that you tell that he actually got under that fucking asshole's skin

― mark cl, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

like he really, really got to him

― mark cl, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

Every time a Limbaugh thread gets bumped I quietly hope I'll scroll down to read that he worked himself into such a tizzy on-air that his brain exploded and we're rid of that asshat.

― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

awesome clip.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno Rush seems his typical smug, self-assured self in that clip

― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

I don't want to revive yet another thread, but here's Ebert on Bill O'Reilly.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

Part of Limbaugh's formula is to never, ever allow anyone on the phone who both disagrees with him and is intelligent. This guy must have done some pretty convincing faking on the phone bank before he got put through.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

it definitely sounds like they just cut the guy off so Rush could get his parting sentences in

― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

heh. nice one

― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

yeah afaik they screen callers for precisely that reason, sometimes if a person who's obv an operative of some sort pretending to be a regular citizen calls up, they'll put them on just to make them look extra bad.

this guy is really good

― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

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