"Big Fat Idiot" Limbaugh and his brain-dead myrmidons at CPAC

[jefferson_dem]

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[TayTay]

1. What's a myrmidon? n/t

[MrModerate]

4. "Brave and skilled warriors, commanded by Achilles . . ."

Not an especially apt headline.

"Minions," perhaps. Trogs, toads, pigdogs, jerkfaces, etc., etc.

That's what I would have said.

[MrModerate]

5. Self-delete

[dorkulon]

31. Actually, it's perfect.

1. Classical Mythology. one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
2. (lowercase) a person who executes without question or scruple a master's commands.

[MrModerate]

32. Hadn't seen that one. Need to upgrade my online dictionary. n/t

[humbled_opinion]

9. A robot n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I'm recommending this, but don't have the stomach to watch it.

Started watching it on CNN, but had to change the channel... :puke:

[GTurck]

41. Try standing....

between this and Joe Scarborough on "Meet The Press". What a sad bunch of post-Robber Barons! I too could puke and this week it is easier.
By the way another Republican has died - my Dad, a WWII vet passed away on Tuesday. I put the question mark because he was one of those people who never voted but thought he was in that group of small businessment because he was a traveling salesman living strictly on commissions. That means we never had any money for bills but always for his car.
He listened to Rush because he thought the idiot was actually intelligent enough to form opinions on anything other then what gets ratings.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Jesus. I missed MTP, planned on watching it later...

It's not the same without Russert. For all his shortcomings, he did ask the tough questions most of the time... :-(

I still can't understand why Scarborough has a national forum. He left Congress under a cloud and now there's this business with Mika. He was almost watchable when his show followed KO, or when he appeared with Ron Reagan, but I now find him unwatchable. My friend does his "workout" during Scarborough, says the angry adrenalin rush makes him do better... x(

My mother listens to Rush. Even before I knew anything about politics, I knew he was evil and felt like jumping out of her car when she had him on. She also watches O'Reilly and Hannity, gives me crap because I don't watch "the news..." :eyes:

And I am so sorry to hear about your Dad. I lost mine, too, and it's still hard for me. I know that we are losing out WWII vets and it's a shame. My Dad wasn't old enough for the war, but did serve in the '50s, was drafted. You must be proud of your Dad's service, hope that you know more than I do. I'm into genealogy too and missed asking too many questions. :-(

My Dad was a Republican, too, very active in local politics. But he was friendly with folks of both parties, our Democratic mayor, Nelson Rockefeller and he once spent the day with Shirley Chisholm and became a huge admirer. My mother keeps telling me that my Dad would be "ashamed" of me and my beliefs, but my Dad was not stupid and I can't imagine that he could possibly have supported Bush*... Wish I could talk to him. ;(

My condolences to you and your family. I know how hard it is. I logged in just now to watch this clip from "This Week..." My friend said it's a "must see," Katrina Vanden Heuvel eviscerating Karl Rove. Hope it makes you feel better... :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=278374&mesg_id=278374

Rhiannon :hug:

[GTurck]

45. I got that too.

My mother told me I was not a real American because I refused to vote for Reagan in 1984. Of course I did not vote for him in 1980 either. The Repubs have screwed my family in so many ways that I have a real difficulty believing that there are any worth a prostitutes purse.
That thing with Rove was sweet wasn't it? Did you notice the panic in his eyes when he realized that he was being challenged - BEAUTIFUL.

[CLANG]

3. That's just sick and makes me very sad

[MrModerate]

6. This is frakkin' gold in the progressive bank.

The circle grows ever tighter, bunching the truly insane on their little island of madness, while the sane outer world looks on them in disgust and sadness.

Keep it up, Rush!

[humbled_opinion]

10. and they would say ....

Your attempts to marginalize them by calling them insane and mad is akin to the destruction of political opposition and free speech in America....

I would say hey guys look we tried it your way since Raygun. How about letting us try a different approach now and lets just see if its all that terrible. Which is exactly what Obama is doing.

[MrModerate]

15. Lil ole me destroying political opposition and free speech?

Dang, I didn't know my own strength.

Of course, rational people realize that 'Licans doing it to themselves because THEY'RE BAD PEOPLE and the electorate has figured it out.

[Grinchie]

28. They can call it that, I call it /ignore N/T

[pattmarty]

40. These people are self-marginalizing. These fucking creeps...........

..........took over the Republican party in 76 + 80 and were looked at as crazies before that (remember the John Birch society?). It's about time the American people start looking at them again in that way. After listening to their rants for 10 or 15 yrs, how in the fucking world can ANYONE say they're not crazy?

[pam4water]

7. I stopped at a Pilot Truck Stop to get gas tonight. This was on the big screen in the McDonald's.

It always has the Fox Channel on in there. I wonder if it true across the country.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

20. Fox is on at our local McDonalds as well. n/t

[The Wizard]

35. Where business establishments have right wing propaganda

broadcasting you make an order and when it's brought out to you explain that you've changed your mind as their TV or radio is making you sick. In a food establishment you take a bite or a sip and spit it out, loudly asking, "you call this stuff food." and demand a refund. If the place is crowded start retching and holding your stomach.

[MrScorpio]

8. So by listening to Rush, that's how they'll be successful?

Well, considering their present status, I hope that they keep up the good work

[humbled_opinion]

11. The argument that they would use...

is that McCain was not a Conservative in fact to them McCain was a moderate liberal.

The Scandalous Republicans that lost the 2006 elections in Congress were not Conservatives either and that the only true Conservative was Raygun.

Their position is that 70 percent of America is truly Conservative when you talk about specific Conservative principles and the family.

[MrScorpio]

13. I say let them paint themselves into a tighter corner

C'mon conservatives out there, pull the gloves off and tell us what you REALLY THINK!

[quidam56]

12. Me thinks they've listened to Limpdick too long...

these freakin' people are scary. Hannity has/had a poll on his site on what method you prefer to overthrow the US Government. Isn't that inciting treason ? These people's America sure ain't my AMERICA ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[RBInMaine]

34. The R party is a crazy band of right wing racist fascist neocon goofballs. I LOVE IT !

[gblady]

14. wow....

are they nuts?
Scary!

[DUlover2909]

16. I remember saying in Nov 2000, "I hope the country turns to shit."

Just so everyone would see what a disaster Bush and the Republicans would be. Looking back, I got my wish, but it wasn't worth it. I didn't really think it would get as bad as it did. I had no idea what the country was really in for.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. I have a little sympathy for Rush here

That doesn't mean I don't think his way of looking at things is warped. It most certainly is.

However, I, too, have been hoping for eight years for the president -- or, more correctly, the usurper who had been posing as president -- to fail. His plan was to destroy the constitutional system of checks and balances and separation of powers, to gut constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties and legal due process and to establish a dictatorial presidency, all the better to manage an American corporate/political empire stretching over North America, most of Latin America and the Middle East (most importantly the Middle Eastern oil producing states).

And Mr. Bush failed big. He failed to turn Iraq into an American colony. He failed stop people from rising up against his legacy. He failed, after some initial success, to get the American people to believe the lies he told about Iraq. He failed to allow Wall Street bankers to get their thieving hands on social security. Even where we hoped he would succeed, he failed; he failed to catch Osama bin Laden.

He did have some successes. He succeed at making sure that few of those aforementioned thieves on Wall Street would never suffer for their crimes, because he succeeded in repealing most laws against theft that applied to them. He succeeded in turning America into a torture state. He succeeded at silencing government scientists who would have sounded the alarm about climate change. Worst of all, he succeeded at making middle class money upwardly mobile, while leaving the middle class behind.

We could have done without those successes, but we should be thankful he failed to the extent that he did. Of course, my hoping he would fail had nothing to do with it; the fact is that Mr. Bush is a born failure.

I hope that President Obama succeeds. President Obama was elected to clean up the mess Mr. Bush left us, and a big, stinking mess it is. And Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama to fail in this noble task we voters have given him. What is it that Rush finds so enlightening about the dark night of the Bush Regime?

And Rush Limbaugh has the unmitigated gall to say that President Obama opposes freedom as a foundation of American government. Does he mean freedom like NSA spying or the declaration that any American citizen may be locked up with the key thrown away on the word of the president (or a usurper posing as president) alone? Or does he mean the right of a president to discard laws and issue signing statements and make treaties without the advice and consent of the Senate, as with the SOFA with Iraq?

Yes, I am glad Bush failed. I'm not sorry that I hoped for it.

[Grinchie]

29. Why hope for W to fail, it's was apparent he failed on Election day 2000

Hate to say it, but Dubya was a lame duck from day one, and 9/11 was just the trick to get him settled in like a Liver Fluke.

[Jack Rabbit]

30. I guess I should have added among the Frat Boy's successes . . .

Stealing two elections.

I hate saying it only because Ken Blackwell made such an unholy mess of Ohio in 2004 that we can't really say with any certainty who carried the state. At least Katherine Harris left no doubt in the end that Gore carried Florida in 2000.

[The Wizard]

36. Bush succeeded in

Treasury looting, bankrupting the economy, compromising the military and our national security, wrecking relations with traditional allies, and leaving a legacy that would make Caligula blush.
As to Limbaugh's assertion that our president opposes freedom: That's one of the right wing's standard ploys. There are two essential freedoms, freedom from and freedom to. One is not gotten without giving up some of the other. The right wing never differentiates between the two, and no one ever calls them on it. The question to them is simple: To which freedom do you refer, to or from?

[RJ Connors]

18. Rush Limbaught really is

The Most Dangerous Man in America

[spiritual_gunfighter]

19. That guy just said that Obama is the "kings successor"?

Does that mean that GWB was the king? What?

[Joe Bacon]

21. Hey Rush, Orson Welles wants his clothes back

You got to admit that Pigboy did a cheesy homage to Johnny Cash, too!

[MrMickeysMom]

22. And you should have them taken in a few inches

... and the country music played on with this cheese.

[Bread and Circus]

23. Um, did they really try to compare Limbaugh to Ben Franklin? Are they that stupid?

[MrMickeysMom]

24. Don't you just love those Fox news titles below that blowhard?

"Why does anyone want rampant govt to succeed?"

That's the question they should have asked when dumb ass introduced Homeland Security 7 years ago and grew it as big and ineffective as it gets.

These people should quit procreating and turn off the Toby Keith.

[windoe]

25. The myth that social programs are meant to control people

is an interesting twist of reality meant to induce fear. Fear that government support for health, education and housing is actually in disguise a method of control meant to take away liberties and private money. I had to get this line of logic straight in my head so I can understand how to dismantle it.

The only people going to pay more taxes now are above $200,000 so these people are being fed this myth that this money is rightly theirs, that to redistribute it to the disadvantaged is unfair, thus a loss in liberty. Maybe I am missing another point in logic but this is all I can glean.

Basically I do not sense that these people have any empathy whatsoever, and I hope their control of the GOP ends and more stable people take over.

Bush's agenda was to start illegal wars, loot the treasury, redistribute the wealth to benefit the rich and sell off our national resources, and he was successful in doing these things, despite (informed) public opinion. Being against illegal criminal activities is not akin to wishing someone would fail. This guy is one f*cked up individual and listening to him is making me crazy, I really cannot listen to him.

[proud patriot]

26. LOL good grief

they really are pathetic to idolize him what a bozo.

[Grinchie]

27. Incredible. It sound like he thinks the last 8 years were the greatest ever!

This guy is nuts.

And I pray to the Universe that the Republicans take their marching orders from this big fat fraud, because it makes our jobs easier.

No Strategy, no expertise, just hammer on head simplicity, with no independent thought or critical thinking behind it. Just twisted orwellian logic, and they cheer! Yey!


Drink deep my brain dead little freepers, drink deep..

[RBInMaine]

33. Rush is a WONDERFUL GIFT to the Democratic Party ! Think about it.

The more they put crazy, racist, narrow, facsist, assholes like this center stage and prop them up as the spokespersons of their party, the more they dwindle and IMPLODE. These idiots could not be further out of touch nor further out of tune. They are self-flagellating themselves into permanent minority status. I LOVE IT !!! Keep RIGHT on coming with this crap R's. Every crazy right wing word is a gift to the Democrats and, hence, the country at the ballot box.

[Pharaoh]

37. Bush = Fail

Nobody wished it on him, he did it with the help of asshats like these knuckledraggers.

[spamlet2002]

38. oh man

the years have not been kind, lol

[janedum]

39. SEDITION is punishable by law. Put his big fat @SS in JAIL! nt

Please!!

[jefferson_dem]

42. Public shame and ridicule works for me.

Leave the speech codes and free speech suppression to the other side.

[gbate]

43. We wanted the war in Iraq to fail.

(yeah!!!)

I suppose the lives of all of those dead and injured soldiers and civilians means we didn't fail.

Yanno, I really don't think this video should be on DU. I know my blood pressure just rose a good 30 points just watching (or at least trying to watch) that bullshit.

[daggahead]

46. Dig the frenzy of USA! chants. They wouldn't know patriotism if it shit on them. n/t

[EnviroBat]

47. This guy is such an unbelievable shit-bag...

I can't listen to his shit for more than a few seconds...