Limbaugh: "Imagine if a Republican president ordered shooting of black teenagers on the high seas"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Limbaugh defends the teenage pirates of Somalia while a US Cargo ship evaded another pirate attack
By John Amato Wednesday Apr 15, 2009 5:20pm

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/limbaugh-defends-teenage-pirates-somali

Without comment:

RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas. Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.

They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama.

[aquart]

1. So he's in favor of piracy on the high seas?

Against military action if it kills anybody?

Lordy, what a fine humanitarian!

[ForrestGump]

4. Obama is obviously a racist

He hates black people.

He'd hate Muslims, too, except that he IS one. No, wait...he hates all Muslims but himself. Yeah, that's it...

[polmaven]

18. No - Only if stopping it

is done by a "Democrat" president who's black. Then it is WRONG,WRONG, WRONG!!!! It is also wrong if this black "Democrat" president does nothing, 'cause he obviously then doesn't want to kill one of his own kind - y'know - black Muslims.

Clear now?

[MrSlayer]

2. I would have been just as pleased with the outcome under McCain, had he won the election.

Provided that it turned out the same. Which it most likely wouldn't.


Rush is full of shit but he knows how to play his audience.

[democracy1st]

3. so now they are admitting that it was Pres Obama's call and playing the race card..wtf not surprised

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. I had no idea you can get OxyContin on tap.

[malaise]

6. So how many Iraqis - men, women and children did Bush kill again?

Rush is a fugging lunatic. The Iraq invasion and occupation was illegal.

[sarge43]

8. And how many American teenagers? n/t

[geckosfeet]

7. A fine piece of obfuscation from the drug addled boy humper.

And I thought he was losing his edge. The conservative movement should be proud.

[zbdent]

9. Rush was great at debate in school ...

you take an issue, you're not given which side you will take ... and only when you are at the start of the debate, you're given which side you're on.

Rush and the ReRushliclones are experts at having both sides defended so that when they're caught doing exactly what (or worse than) they were accusing the Dems of, they have a quick and easy "defense sound byte" ready to explain why it's so different from what they were outraged over ...

Ted Kennedy opposed the giant windmills for energy ... but so did Ted Stevens ... you don't hear that ...

Mrs. Al Gore was pushing for "censorship" (so to speak) of music ... and yet, Mrs. Dick Cheney was sitting right there, next to her, just as loud ... but 10 times as "unnoticed" by the "liberal media" ...

[verdalaven]

10. Unreal.

? If we had a repub president and this situation played out the same way, he'd call the pirates terrorists and not teenagers.

I don't really understand how anyone listen to him and take him seriously?

[verdalaven]

11. ...........

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Rush's shtik is to be contrary.

No matter what Obama does, it will be wrong and ripe for criticism and condemnation.

[14thColony]

15. Exactly

there is no 'right answer' as long as the president is from the 'wrong party.'

[Jawja]

19. And since all Republicans are following Rush's

lead in being contrary, he is indeed the BOSS of the GOP.

[Turbineguy]

13. The guy

who called Limbaugh ".. a Big, Fat, Idiot" is now a United States Senator.

[boobooday]

14. Killing teenagers on dry land was Bush's speciality

[jmowreader]

16. Christ, he's changed from oxycontin to crack

I thought Republicans were supposed to be AGAINST crime. Now he's calling pirates "Merchant Marine organizers"?

And Rush...I know the unlanced boil on your ass kept you out of Vietnam, but if you would have gone you would know a lot of Vietcong sappers were teenagers too, and the sappers committed some of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam War. And isn't it YOUR party that keeps pushing the meme that violent criminals are getting younger and younger every year?

[14thColony]

17. "Merchant marine organizers"?!

So they weren't armed criminal ship-jackers and kidnappers, they were GRASS ROOT ACTIVISTS! Deep down even Rush must be incredulous at how brain-dead his audience of drones actually is. I wonder if he sometimes muses "can I get them to believe the Earth has no moon, just by telling them it doesn't?"

[groundloop]

20. but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam

Gee Rush, pointing a gun at the captain's back kind of seems like an appropriate time for bam bam bam.

By the way, Rush, my son's got some oxycontin left that he didn't use after his surgery last month. Maybe you'd like to make me an offer for it.

[Smith_3]

21. Not new. Obama has demonstrated before that he is willing to kill for Americas business interest.

And he is much more efficient at it then your crowd, Rush (producing less collateral damage per kill). Guess that makes you kind of obsolete.

[johnfunk]

22. Imagine if a Florida cop ordered the shooting of an obese, Oxy-popping sex tourist.

Even better than visualizing world peace.

[Barack_America]

23. What a loathsome human being. nt

[dysfunctional press]

24. what about killing japanese teenagers with a submarine full of fat cat donors?

or bombing innocent children and wedding parties on land...?