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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:51 PM Apr 2013

Rush Limbaugh: Boston bombing suspects influenced by “liberal elite intellectual thought”

Limbaugh says the Tsarnaev brothers were hanging around the "wrong people" in Boston: Other Bostonians

BY KATIE MCDONOUGH


After arguing the same point earlier that day, Rush Limbaugh once again accused American educational institutions and “liberal elite intellectual thought” of radicalizing young people in the United States — including Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

In response to a caller who called Boston a “liberal hotbed” and suggested that the residents of Boston themselves were somehow to blame for the attack allegedly committed by the Tsarnaevs, Limbaugh ditto-headed him:

LIMBAUGH: They do. They hang around people that don’t like America, they get inspired or influenced by it somehow, and it’s no wonder. Look, folks, Boston’s a hubbub of liberal elite intellectual thought, all the universities there. And if you end up around the wrong people long enough and you’re young enough and impressionable enough, then that kind of thing can happen. It is an interesting point about the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals will tell you what’s wrong with the country from the founding. Conservatives will say what’s wrong with the country because of liberals, while telling you what’s great about the country — if the liberals would move out of the way.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/rush_limbaugh_boston_bombing_suspects_influenced_by_liberal_elite_intellectual_thought/

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auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)
3. It's a better bet that Timothy McVeigh was influenced by radical extremists like Limbaugh
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:00 PM
Apr 2013

I'd put money on that before I bet on the Boston bombers being influenced by the left.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
4. Getting more irrelevant as the days pass
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:02 PM
Apr 2013

Not much longer will we have to put up with the likes of him and it won't be soon enough

indepat

(20,899 posts)
5. One would suspect that such nonsensical hyperbole were coming from someone with giant
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:02 PM
Apr 2013

boils and pimples on their ass.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. A hubbub? What is he P.T. Barnum?
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:03 PM
Apr 2013

Rush you sound like you are on the crack rock. What fucking country are you from again? Conservatives sat back and enjoyed the ride as GWB destroyed the infrastructure of our nation. Conservatives CHEERED ON Reagan as he fucked over public welfare programs in favor of corporate special interest groups that DESTROYED the...yep once again infrastructure of our nation.

You just don't get it you stupid Repuke...your party destroys they country, and our party puts the pieces back together.

What these kids did is listen to hate radio, people like YOU Rush Limbaugh!

This IS YOUR FAULT! Stop peddling the hate.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
7. The bomber said that his thinking and actions...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:06 PM
Apr 2013

stem from Americas attack on Iraq and Afghanistan. Hmm .So weren't these conflicts approved by Democrats and Republicans when they started.Under a Republican President. Also wasn't Romney Gov Massachusetts? Anyway how they hell does he know who he associated with.So if a terrorist attack happens in a blue state its Liberals fault,and a red state?STFU .

Loup Garou

(99 posts)
8. This is from a guy who flunked out of a third-rate Missouri state college
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:07 PM
Apr 2013
Limbaugh graduated from high school in 1969 and enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University. He dropped out after two semesters and one summer after “he flunked everything,” his mother said.


notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
10. Really? Seems to me they were influenced by people like him
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:11 PM
Apr 2013

and Beck. Distrustful of Govt, 911 truthers, government out to take away your guns- kinda guys.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
11. Nice call, PIggy.
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:18 PM
Apr 2013

That's why he went back to Russia -- to get a dose of good old American liberal elitism.

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