Rush Limbaugh Has Become a Propaganda Arm of the Gaddafi Regime

[Cowpunk]

I just heard Rush Limbaugh claiming that the rebel forces in Libya are "linked" to Al Qaeda, based solely on the fact that a senior Al Qaeda leader had given words of encouragement to the rebels in a public statement. Rush acknowledged at the same time that Muammar Gaddafi has also been claiming the rebels are in bed with Al Qaeda.

So if both Limbaugh and Gaddafi are both spouting the same baseless propaganda, aren't these two "linked", using Rush's own loose definition of the term?

[emulatorloo]

1. Yes, and it doesn't surprise me. n/t

[Turbineguy]

2. He has his fat little piggy eyes on

Gaddafi's gold.

On Edit: And with apologies to pigs everywhere

[Angry Dragon]

11. Pus filled ass would be a better description

less apologies needed

[Canuckistanian]

3. Oh well, if he's looking for Al Qaeda connections.....

He should look no further than the Saudi royal family. When does Rush think the bombing should start?

[Fuzz]

4. Last night Hannity said they were radical terrorists because they shouted

allahu al akbar.

[Blue Meany]

5. There probably are Islamists amongs them, especially

since Qaddafi is very secular. That doesn't mean that intervention to protect civillians shouldn't occur or that democracy shouldn't be encourage, just that the outcome may not be to our own liking.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Spokesman: Libyan rebels foresee 'secular and democratic' regime

Source: Sky News

Libyan rebels foresee democratic regime
Updated: 03:45, Thursday March 24, 2011


Representatives of the Libyan opposition's Interim National Council said in Paris late on Tuesday that a post-Gaddafi regime would be 'secular and democratic'.

They also predicted that the embattled Libyan leader, who has continued to press against rebel-held towns despite a UN-backed military campaign, would fall quickly, opening the way for a rebuilding of Libyan society.

'The future Libya will be democratic and secular,' said Mansour Saif Al-Nasr, an emissary, though not a member, of the interim council, based in the rebel-held stronghold of Benghazi.

'The Libyan people are a moderate people, and the state will not be led by clerics,' he told a large gathering writers, ex-ministers and reporters assembled by Bernard Henry-Levy, a French intellectual who helped ease the way for France's recognition of the rebel authority.


http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=592610&vId=

[asjr]

7. Aha! So Rush is aiding and abetting a terrorist

by his words. Maybe that will get him off the air.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. I got into an argument with a rightie the other day

He said Obama was twiddling his thumbs doing nothing about Libya, and I told him as soon as the US forces move, he'd complain we were supporting a pro-Islamic overthrow. His response was "That's ridiculous!".

Bet he's already changed his tune.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Not even "loosely".

Ghadaffy probably owes him a check.
That's good for Limbaugh, because I doubt Cheney is paying him anymore.

[Distant Observer]

10. We all hate OxyRush, But lets stick to FACTS: WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING FOR SURE

ALL WE ARE DOING IS LISTENING TO STANDARD MANIPULATIVE, SELF-INTERESTED PROPAGANDA ON ALL SIDES.

[Angry Dragon]

12. ..........

:popcorn:

[Kingofalldems]

14. So our side is just the same as Pigboy's?

:popcorn:

[Cowpunk]

18. I have not asserted anything with regard to the actual situation in Libya

GSLevel9, on the other hand, has stated mere suppositions as incontravertible fact. Even Limbaugh wasn't bold and/or foolish enough to do that.

[GSLevel9]

13. Ahhh... NO. This fact is verified.

This info is based on a CIA report on captured AQ documents. It has been on Huffington and in many papers. In addition there is a great deal of info on WIKILEAKS.

from a thread yesterday here:



Catherina posted:

US diplomatic staff reported extensively about this, eyewitness accounts, not hearsay. They noted that the mosques in the East preached Jihad extensively and that "un-Islamic" social and cultural organisations such as sports leagues, theatres and youth clubs had been shut down. Young men were being encouraged to undergo suicide missions against Western injustice and secular leaders like Gaddafi who were traitors to Islam. That's a real concern.



...

The cable states: "By contrast with mosques in Tripoli and elsewhere in the country, where references to jihad are extremely rare, in Benghazi and Derna they are fairly frequent subjects."

...

Another confidential cable to Washington from the US embassy in Tripoli in June 2008 described Derna as a "wellspring" of insurgent fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq.

The cable quoted a resident as saying that while "not everyone likes the bearded ones" (a reference to conservative imams), "it's jihad - it's our duty, and you're talking about people who don't have much else to be proud of".

The cable continues: "Referring to actor Bruce Willis' character in the action picture "Die Hard", who stubbornly refused to die quietly, he said many young men in Derna viewed resistance against Qadhafi's regime and against coalition forces in Iraq as an important last act of defiance."

http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/news-watch/africa/114...


Here's the direct link for the cables

http://cablesearch.org / Just do a search on Benghazi. These are the two I've read so far, there are at least 60 of them

DIE HARD IN DERNA http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=08TRIPOLI430&h...

EXTREMISM IN EASTERN LIBYA http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=08TRIPOLI120&h...


and wait... there's MORE!

"Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor: Benghazi link to Islamic militancy:U.S. Military Document Reveals"

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/03/17/libyan-rebe...

Well known to the United States policymakers in Obama White House and Clinton State Department along with the National Security Council but not widely known to American mainstream media, the U.S. West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center document reveals that Libya sent more fighters to Iraq’s Islamic militancy on a per-capita basis than any other Muslim country, including Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps more alarmingly for Western policymakers, most of the fighters came from eastern Libya, the center of the current uprising against Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The analysis of the Combating Terrorism Center of West Point was based on the records captured by coalition forces in October 2007 in a raid near Sinjar, along Iraq’s Syrian border.

The eastern Libyan city of Darnah sent more fighters to Iraq than any other single city or town, according to the West Point report. It noted that 52 militants came to Iraq from Darnah, a city of just 80,000 people (the second-largest source of fighters was Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has a population of more than 4 million).

Benghazi, the capital of Libya’s provisional government declared by the anti-Qaddafi rebels, sent in 21 fighters, again a disproportionate number of the whole.

[Cowpunk]

16. Do you have any info less than 3 years old?

All of your sources seem to be from 2007 and 2008, and refer primarily to the war in Iraq.

Your argument seems to be that because several years ago terrorists came to Iraq from certain areas of Libya, the anti-Gaddafi forces in those areas must be the same people.

The "Asian Tribune" is quite a sketchy enterprise, but that hasn't stopped a gaggle of right wing bloggers, and you, from quoting it.

(spelling edited)

[gratuitous]

15. That's nice

Isn't it terrific that he's included in the programming of the Armed Forces Radio Network? Our star-spangled all-American fightin' troops can go into battle with Rush's inspired words (talent on loan from God) echoing in their brain pans.

[zbdent]

17. Gaddafi's check must have cleared ...

of course, since Repugs don't want the Feds looking into numbered, overseas accounts ...

[Maru Kitteh]

19. K&R