I’m good with that. Wrap your meat-hooks around me, big-guy.
I knew we could find some common ground.
Every now and then someone will throw you a bone. Unfortunately, from Limbaugh listeners the bones tend to be mucus-coated.
Harry Reid.
Is what Harry Reid said wrong? Did he in fact say anything offensive? Or is this just a stupid deflection?
What did Harry Reid say that offended you?
I’ll bet he doesn’t even know what Harry Reid said. I bet he just heard on FOX that he said something racist and it’s not fair because Trent Lott got kicked out for the same thing.
I agree with Shodan. (Wow, I can type that. Who knew?)
It’s no more the responsibility of SDMB conservatives to spontaneously condemn rush than it is the responsibility of liberals to be vocally and publically outraged and repentant whenever a liberal public figure says something stupid, which certainly happens with some regularity. As far as I know, there is no SDMB conservative who is a vocal supporter of Rush Limbaugh. If there were, it might be interesting to get that person’s perspective, but even so, it’s entirely reasonable for that person to continue to support Rush without considering him infallible. (Well, obviously it’s not reasonable to support Rush in the first place, but if it WERE… 
)
I do have one comment to offer, though, which is that you can learn something by looking at the KIND of stupid things people say, and the context. People don’t just say totally random stuff out of nowhere… they usually say things that run along the lines of what they’re thinking, but phrase them poorly so that the implications aren’t what they intended. For instance, back when the Henry Louis Gates thing happened and Obama’s initial response was that the cop had acted stupidly, I’m pretty sure that Obama, deep down, was pretty sure that the cop had acted stupidly, but would normally not have come right out and said so.
This is really quite slimey. Bad Bill Clinton!
It could help the rebuilding effort because the Republicans are likely to reflexively oppose anything and everything Obama wants to do there just because he’s Obama. The urgency of the matter means nothing. Rush Limbaugh calls the shots in that party, and if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t want to help the Haitians, then the Republicans will vigorously filibuster any attempt to help the Haitians, and any Republican who falters or shows compassion will eventually be forced to lie prostrate before the Fat Lord and beg his forgiveness.
You really think the Republicans will fillibuster relief for Haiti? Really?
If Rush Limbaugh wants them to do it, they will do it.
Republicans will filibuster a bill that will lower the deficit and address 45,000 needless American deaths every year.
They would try to spin it as something about targeting aid, but make no mistake, destroying Obama is job one. Job 2 is helping America.
I could see them do that, if they thought it would somehow make Obama look bad.
Bullshit. Job 2 is helping people & corporations who will donate big bucks for election campaigns.
I’d be up for that
Faces filled with joy and cheer
What a magical time of year
Howdy ho, it’s Weasel Stomping Day
Put your viking helmet on
Spread that mayonnaise on the lawn
Don’t you know it’s Weasel Stomping Day
(Weasel Stomping Day)
All the little girls and boys
Love that wonderful crunching noise
You’ll know what this day’s about
When you stomp a weasel’s guts right out
So come along and have a laugh
Snap their weaselly spines in half
Grab your boots and stomp your cares away
Hip hip hooray, it’s Weasel Stomping Day
The article says:
Limbaugh is exactly on target with this. Obama is playing it for political points.
Sounds like drivel to me. Perhaps you’re mistaken.
Uh what would you have had him do differently? :dubious:
Apparently the window as per Republicans for appropriate reactions to anything is two days. One day, he’s currying (there’s that foreign influence again, tsk tsk) favour; three days, he doesn’t care about the American people.
Or maybe, and mind you this is just a thought, Limbaugh will whine and cry about Obama no matter what he does because Obama’s a Democrat and Limbaugh’s job is to poison the public discourse by catapulting propaganda for Republicans.
Weird, I know.
Whereas a Republican leader would never do that? Or would you simply say that all politicians must by necessity keep politics in mind at all times?