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  • Rush Limbaugh Dead...

    His philosophy in a nut shell....

    "We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims. We don't see people we want to exploit. What we see -- what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don't think that person doesn't have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government. We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence," he continued. "We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, Freedom and the pursuit of happiness."

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-l...servative-icon
    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

  • #2
    Driving back from getting my taxes done yesterday I turned to the local AM station to get the weather report (it had started snowing) and he had a guest host on who said he'd be back soon so this was a bit of a surprise even though it certainly was not going to be much longer.

    As I noted in the Memorial Garden, his are mighty big shoes to fill

    Prepare for the vitriol and celebrations from those on the left. Those folks never had a shred of decency.

    I'm always still in trouble again

    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post

      Prepare for the vitriol and celebrations from those on the left. Those folks never had a shred of decency.
      Yep...

      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        His philosophy in a nut shell....
        Don't get carried away:

        On the dangers of secondhand smoking, and smoking in general: "That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed. There is no fatality whatsoever. There's no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you...Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does. Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it's true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots ... I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I'm saying."
        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-li...ageous-quotes/

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        • #5
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post

          Prepare for the vitriol and celebrations from those on the left. Those folks never had a shred of decency.

          Originally posted by whag View Post
          Took all of 11 minutes for that to be proven correct

          I'm always still in trouble again

          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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          • #6
            Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
            Driving back from getting my taxes done yesterday I turned to the local AM station to get the weather report (it had started snowing) and he had a guest host on who said he'd be back soon so this was a bit of a surprise even though it certainly was not going to be much longer.

            As I noted in the Memorial Garden, his are mighty big shoes to fill

            Prepare for the vitriol and celebrations from those on the left. Those folks never had a shred of decency.
            Of course, these people do:

            Right-Wing Extremists Compare RBG to Hitler, Celebrate Death of 'Mass Murdering Hag'

            And let's not forget he was merely an entertainment figure

            Krystal Ball rips Limbaugh over false claim about nude photo: It's not your job to shame me or any other young woman

            “Remember the name Krystal Ball with a K? Some thought she was attractive. She was running for Congress," the radio host said.

            "She posed nude when she 14 or 15. She was outraged. 'How dare you!' I said, 'What do you expect to happen? You put a picture of yourself nude on Facebook or MySpace or, you know, My Butt, whatever it is. Somebody’s gonna find that stuff.'"

            Limbaugh later issued a correction to the transcript that was posted online to his website, acknowledging that Ball had never posed nude.
            Because he might be sued for libel.




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            • #7
              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              Took all of 11 minutes for that to be proven correct
              I didn't celebrate his death, not did I ever pay homage to extreme leftists who've died. Seer was inviting retort, and both he and you know it.

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              • #8
                WaPo:
                Rush Limbaugh, who deployed comic bombast and relentless bashing of liberals, feminists and environmentalists to become the nation’s most popular radio talk-show host and lead the Republican Party into a politics of anger and obstruction, died Feb. 17 at 70.
                Last edited by firstfloor; 02-17-2021, 11:52 AM.
                “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
                “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
                “not all there” - you know who you are

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                • #9
                  It will be interesting to see what happens to his empire. He was unique.
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.” from 35 Undeniable Truths of Life

                    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                    • #11
                      I'm not particularly interested in sanctimonious demands of decency when he made his name by doing things like calling people "sluts".

                      Edit: A friend of mine says he remembers growing up, having his grandfather pick him up from school, and with Limbaugh having a segment where he would read off the names of people who died of AIDS and play bells and air horns. I can't verify if this memory is actually accurate but if so...
                      Last edited by KingsGambit; 02-17-2021, 01:41 PM.
                      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by seer View Post
                        “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.” from 35 Undeniable Truths of Life

                        Why is that funny?

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                        • #13
                          It should be lost on nobody that Limbaugh was an entertainer - not a journalist. He said things to get ratings.
                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                          • #14
                            Given this is posted in Civics not Memorial Garden I assume OP wants discussion, not encomiums.

                            So I will say that I regard Rush Limbaugh as having done the greatest amount of damage to America of any person in my lifetime. He deliberately lied to, and brainwashed, a generation of gullible people. Told them day after day that black was white, that up was down, knowingly and deliberately, and had them fall for it. In our lifetimes there have been no more destructive forces in the US and to the US than him. His near-monopoly on the airwaves took an entire generation and half the states into darkness, and the costs has been incalculable in terms of lives lost and lives damaged. If hell exists he'll be next to Satan and Hitler in it.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              Given this is posted in Civics not Memorial Garden I assume OP wants discussion, not encomiums.

                              So I will say that I regard Rush Limbaugh as having done the greatest amount of damage to America of any person in my lifetime. He deliberately lied to, and brainwashed, a generation of gullible people. Told them day after day that black was white, that up was down, knowingly and deliberately, and had them fall for it. In our lifetimes there have been no more destructive forces in the US and to the US than him. His near-monopoly on the airwaves took an entire generation and half the states into darkness, and the costs has been incalculable in terms of lives lost and lives damaged. If hell exists he'll be next to Satan and Hitler in it.
                              Wow, you're letting Trump have second place?
                              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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