Clinton: Rush Limbaugh Comment “Doesn’t Make Any Sense”

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/clinton-rush-limbaugh-comment-doesnt-make-any-sense.html
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In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, Former President Bill Clinton told me Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that Clinton had “set the stage for violence in this country” and that “any acts of future violence” would be on Clinton’s shoulders, “doesn’t make any sense”.

Clinton marked the upcoming 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing on Friday with a major speech to the Center for American Progress, in which he warned that “the words we use really do matter, because there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike.”

Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh took to the air, Friday, after the speech and said that Clinton’s remarks, which drew parallels between the anti-government sentiment in the mid-90s and present-day anti-government expressions, “just gave the kooks out there an excuse to be violent.”

Responding directly to Limbaugh, Clinton told me, “The only point I tried to make was that we ought to have a lot of political dissent -- a lot of political argument. Nobody is right all the time. But we also have to take responsibility for the possible consequences of what we say. “



Will air tomorrow on This week

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Hey Bill, what else is new?

When did Mush Limpdick's comments EVER make sense? :rofl:

[hypocrisyandlies]

2. So let me get this straight...

Clinton is to blame if anyone becomes unhinged because he acknowledged that there are crazy people in this country but Glen, Rush, Sara, etc are blameless even though they actually say things about wanting harm to come to others?

[malaise]

5. Absolutely

ReTHUGS are always blameless. It's those fugging 'libruls' those fascist loving socialist Commie Muslims. :sarcasm:

[old mark]

7. See? NOW you understand!!!!

Scarey, huh?


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[Jade Fox]

11. Yes. That's right.

:crazy:

[onager]

3. I remember when the Pentagon slapped Rush hard...

:rofl:

Back in the 90's, when Clinton sent U.S. forces to the former Yugoslavia, under U.N. command.

Rush started bleating and whining: "...for the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, American troops will be under FOREIGN command! Clinton is selling out to the One World Govt.! W-A-A-A-A..."

Somebody went and asked a (uniformed) military historian at the Pentagon. Who said: "Well, how far do you want to go back? Mr. Limbaugh is just completely wrong about this..."

Then the historian went all the way back to the Revolutionary War, with Lafayette and Rochambeau, and rattled off all the times Americans had served under foreign commanders.

Priceless!

[Viking12]

4. ..and the sun set in the west

Fact Free talk show radio. Now with more outrage ®

[zbdent]

13. John Wayne walked toward the sunset on the beach?

[Bitwit1234]

6. Since he needs viagra to take a trip he is against anybody with a normal

life. You are correct his dick is as limp as mush

[Initech]

8. Limpballs gets $400 million to demonize the left any way he can. Sickening.

[bigmonkey]

9. It fits the narrative that Conservative behavior is natural.

When Conservatives/Right Wingers act out, it's because they were driven to it. When the left does exactly the same thing, it shows how inwardly evil they are. The same thing applies to the shout-over behavior on talk shows - the right shouts because they are so passionate that they exceed their natural restraint, the left shouts because "they can't restrain themselves".

The underlying assumption is that conservative/right-wing behavior is natural, but left-wing behavior is twisted, perverted, unnatural. You can hear that even in the "there they go again" tone that conservatives adopt when demonizing their opponents behavior.

[tavalon]

10. You don't understand Bill,

he's not talking about you, he's talking about your all powerful penis. It's known in right wing circles as The Clenis and it is all powerful.

[Zoroastor]

12. heh heh heh...

...the Clenis... good one.

[political_Dem]

14. The Oxycotin King never ceases to disappoint.

But he must have been asleep at the wheel to have miss this news flash: the pill-head's squealings are so last century.

Lord Haw Haw has already been done.