Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

[rjung]

Well, the 9/11 commission came out the other day and unequivically stated that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden:

…the U.S. government-established commission said in a staff report, “We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”

“There is no convincing evidence that any government financially supported al Qaeda before 9/11 – other than limited support provided by the Taliban after bin Laden first arrived in Afghanistan (news - web sites),” it added.

Naturally, this is a(nother) major embarassment to all the Bush apologists. Also naturally, Rush Limbaugh is at the front of the pack with his latest load of bullstuff:

I don’t care what the 9/11 commission report says, and I’ll tell you why, because they’ve shown themselves to be political. They’ve shown themselves to be politicized. The moment they made a circus out of their public hearings, and the moment their commission members went on TV to start making political comments, and the moment they started playing cover their rear ends with Jamie Gorelick,who has no business being on that commission because she erected the wall that prevented the intelligence data that was gathered from being shared with law enforcement – she ought to be answering questions instead of asking them – but they wouldn’t give her up on this commission. They’re protecting her. As far as I’m concerned whatever comes out of this commission is not worth salt. Whatever comes out of this commission is not worth beans.

Yes, Rush – a bipartisan commission, hand-picked by Bush himself (after dragging his heels for ages to begin with), looks at all the evidence out there and draws a conclusion you disagree with. Obviously it’s something wrong with them, since there’s no way on earth you could be wrong. :rolleyes:

And now we’ve got idiotic Republican Congresscritters singing the same song:

House GOP Disputes The 9/11 Finding
Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told The Hill: “I don’t put much credence in the 9-11 panel,” adding that he had not yet read the new report.

Spin, spin, spin, it’s still bullshit…

[Knorf]

An excellent pit.

How do these people sleep at night?

It never ceases to amaze me, regardless of how common it is, that such otherwise apparently intelligent people can be so delusional.

[Wartime_Consigliori]

Ya know, I feel your pain, Rjung. But honestly, how could you expect any different reaction from Rush, Hannity, et. al.

The whole bunch are defacto “Little Press Secretaries” for the GOP and President Bush. They’ve made their careers by appealing largely to a disaffected bunch of people and going after the “pointy headed liberals”, feminazis", etc. Now, they’ve gotten to the point where they can’t really express any kind of major complaint with the agenda, as doing so would show that they’ve been rooked.

You and I both know that if a Democrat president were running this operation, they’d all be so against the war, be calling for the president’s resignation, and so on. If you were actually expecting any kind of objective, thoughtful discussion of the issues of the day from Rush, I think you need to check the oil.

Try as one might, most of the folks who listen to Rush’s show, barring a major personal epiphany, aren’t gonna change their minds about anything. So I wouldn’t bother getting to worked up about it.

[PatriotX]

Rush’s show gets better and better each day.

It really started getting great when Rush associated the Abu Ghraib abuses withe frat houses. He just gets funnier and funnier everytime I tune him in.

[Slacker]

I go to a small-group Bible study type thing, and one of the people there is a huge Rush fan - so much so that he told me he plans his day around Rush’s show so he doesn’t miss a minute. We were supposed to have a meeting tomorrow but it got cancelled.

Is it bad that I’m disappointed not so much that the meeting is cancelled, but that I won’t get to force-feed this guy a few of Rush’s more craven nuggets of wisdom from this week?

Damn, I was ready for a throw-down!

[Revtim]

Even if the commision is political, it’s such wonderful irony, Rush saying that a source that’s political should be discounted. Did he also say not to trust OxyContin addicts?

[Jackmannii]

What really ticks me off is the stupid commercial for toilet paper that has all those cartoon bears flouncing around. Nothing like a coy insinuation about bears that shit in the woods to get me to rush out and buy a case of toilet paper.

Bears shit in woods…rush…Rush Limbaugh acts like a jerk…I knew you’d get it.
There are those who probably already felt that Jonah Goldberg falls into the same category, but I’ve never seen such a stupid column as the one in my paper today. He’s attempting to defend the brain-dead element in the Administration that thought the Geneva Convention could be tossed aside as irrelevant. First he spews a bunch of lame jokes and one-liners, while protesting that of course he takes the matter seriously (the Hogan’s Heroes references are especially good). Then he goes on to explain that the Terrorists don’t subscribe to the Convention so they aren’t covered by it. Never mind that no one has shown that the prisoners abused in Iraq are Genuine Terrorists, or that by employing the tactics used at Abu Ghraib we might as well have been funneling millions of dollars into the Al-Qaida Recruitment Fund.
Ass.