(Mother Jones) - Believing he was speaking privately to the dozens of students present, Luntz proceeded to gripe about conservative talk radio and its impact on political polarization:
And they get great ratings, and they drive the message, and it’s really problematic. And this is not on the Democratic side. It’s only on the Republican side…[inaudible]. [Democrats have] got everyothersource of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what’s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio’s getting his ass kicked. Who’s my Rubio fan here? We talked about it. He’s getting destroyed! By Mark Levin, by Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He’s trying to find a legitimate, long-term effective solution to immigration that isn’t the traditional Republican approach, and talk radio iskillinghim. That’s what’s causing this thing underneath. And too many politicians in Washington are playing coy.
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A comment I saw elsewhere captures pretty much how I feel about this:
It’s not like Rush Limbaugh magically appeared in the last few years. The GOP wasn’t complaining about his influence throughout the ’90s or ’00s, when he brought huge amounts of power to the Republican Party. But now that it’s inconvenient, they want him to go away. Sorry Frank, but when you sell your soul to the devil, there’s no take-backs.
"We’ve exhausted every bit of persuasive talent that we have. We own talk radio, and Fox News for the most part. We’ve done everything we can, and yet no impact."
— Rush Limbaugh. Seriously. (Warning, that link goes to Limbaugh’s website)
"Senator, you ever heard of Chicago? You know what happens in Chicago every night? What has happened in Chicago cumulatively makes what happened in Newtown look like chump change. I’m not kidding, folks."
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Rush Limbaugh, calling the Newtown massacre of 20 CHILDREN “chump change.” And he says so himself—he’s not kidding. (via thisgingersnapsback)
See this right here was the shit I was talkin about when I mentioned that I was slightly suspicious of folks all of a sudden caring about Black and Brown babies in light of the Sandy Hook shooting. Everybody knows that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t give two fucks about the Black and Brown kids that are killed every damn day in the South Side of Chicago (and let’s be fucking real for a moment, that’s where most of the murders are taking place, in the neighborhood that’s 93% African American).
He has made it abundantly clear that he gives no fucks about black people. Look at the racist shit he’s done over the entirety of his career. Do you really believe that he cares that our children are dying in the streets? But now that 20 innocent white babies have been killed, he feels that he has something to make the Black president from Chicago look bad and he wants to exploit that. If he has to make light of the 20 babies that were slaughtered and pretend to care for Black and Brown children, well that’s just a sacrifice he has to make.
Fuck you Rush Limbaugh. You ain’t bout shit. If there is a/are god(s) out there, I hope they send your ass to the deepest, hottest pit of Hell with gasoline soaked drawers on.
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"Senator, you ever heard of Chicago? You know what happens in Chicago every night? What has happened in Chicago cumulatively makes what happened in Newtown look like chump change. I’m not kidding, folks."
— Rush Limbaugh, calling the Newtown massacre of 20 CHILDREN “chump change.” And he says so himself—he’s not kidding. (via thisgingersnapsback)
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thisgingersnapsback:
So according to Limbaugh, if you’re a man supporting Romney, you’re just a man supporting Romney—but a man supporting Obama is apparently gay.
Stay classy, Limbaugh.
You’ve got to love how Limbaugh (and by extension, his listeners) will smear the living fuck out of anything that doesn’t fit squarely into the GOP message.
For example, a republican governor having praise for a democrat president because they pulled together in the face of a disaster. The GOP has turned into a bunch of fucking children.
Oh - and here is what Brittany was talking about.
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The aftermath of superstorm Sandy has produced one of the strangest political pairings of the year, bringing together Barack Obama and one ofMitt Romney’s most prominent supporters, Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie.
The 50-year-old governor has emerged as the public face of the storm: energetic, emotional and efficient, a seemingly permanent presence on television screens over the last few days. Already well-known in the political world, he is now a national figure.
With Sandy still too raw for anyone to start make political points, there has been no backlash from Republicans about his alliance with Obama only six days from election day. Christie has said politics do not matter to him at the moment. But on Monday, even before Christie lavishly praised the president’s handling of the storm as “outstanding”, the right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh called the governor “fat” and “a fool”.
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What I find interesting about this is I haven’t heard too much about liberals frothing at the mouth about the president “palling around” with Governor Christie, but Rush seems to be frothing at the mouth about it, as well as several commenters on right-wing websites.
Audio available at Media Matters.
Rush makes this assertion while mentioning that terrorism is still the “greatest threat” because you still have to resort to violence with them, but “we” can handle Democrats without violence, “So far”.
Just what are you suggesting?
DISCLAIMER: I’m really not comfortable with the use of racial slurs by the OP (which I have edited out), but his assessment of this is spot on.
What bothers me the most is a number of things, that at their base - has to do with nothing more than racism. The GOP, in this “politically correct” era, are too fucking chickenshit to come out and say [the n-word], so they do shit like this.
I know the people who talk like this. They’re people like my father, where behind closed doors, [the n-word] is common - it gets slung around every time Obama comes up, or Fresh Prince is passed while flipping channels.
It’s from fathers who raise kids who bring home a black friend one day to have him yell “get those [n-words] off my property” - making all the kids cry because they don’t understand what is wrong.
It’s from people like my father who is proud of the KKK flier from the rallies he used to attend in his youth. It’s from these assholes that rushed to sign up to Vietnam, not out of some sense of duty to the country, but because they were rushing to go kill some [slurs].
It’s nothing but racism. Not a single, non-racist person, has every said a damned thing against regulations on subsidized lunches.
Even when Palin was baking her protest cookies or Rush’s twinkie rants, all I see is bigotry. They might disagree with the idea of subsidized lunches all together but that has nothing to do with the changes Michelle Obama is making.
They’ll talk it up behind closed doors and to those they feel “are in the know” - but in the media, the politicians, and out in public and even on the internet, it’s all code, it’s all baiting bullshit.
Add influential conservatives Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter to the crowd of conservatives dismayed about Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul’s off-message comments on Fox News this [yesterday] morning.
Limbaugh said on his radio show that Saul flubbed the proper response to a controversial pro-Obama super PAC ad. Meanwhile, Coulter went on Hannity tonight and suggested that Saul should be fired.
Earlier today [yesterday] on Fox News, Saul said that if the steelworker, Joe Soptic, had lived in Massachusetts, he and his wife would have been able to get health insurance under Romney’s health-care reform legislation.
Limbaugh suggested it would not play well with the base — some of whom have already said it could cost Romney the election — even comparing it to the campaign’s lack of vocal support for “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” last week.
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What’s this all about?
Personally, I think it’s either Romney’s first attempt at moving more towards the center in order to try and catch more of a swing vote.
Or it’s the GOP trying to distance it’s self from it’s louder and more … how can I put it, ugh … ridiculous parts of itself to again, try and appeal to a broader crowd.
The evangelical/conspiracy theory/party hard liners might get left out in the cold leading up to the election.
Not that I see this as some sort of fundamental change for the GOP, it’s just election year posturing. The more hard line ‘conservatives’ and the religious right are going to huff and puff for a while, but I’m sure they’ll go right back to pandering to them as soon as the election is over.
"We shouldn’t remind people on welfare when the election is"
— Rush Limbaugh, 07/30/12 (via mediamattersforamerica)
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