Apple has contacted Rush Limbaugh about the Mac issues that he’s been talking about this week on the most listened to radio talk show in America; heard on over 600 stations in the U.S.
Partial transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday:
I have an announcement to make: Apple corporate called. Somebody from high up the corporate ladder at Apple Computer in California, out in Cupertino, called the office. When did you get the message? When did they call, late yesterday afternoon? All right, they called at nine o’clock this morning, very, very, very nice guy, put my IT guy in touch with them, working — No, it was not Algore. Ha! No, Mr. Snerdley, it was not Algore. I’m not going to mention the gentleman’s name because the Mac user community that hates me will start bombarding this guy. He’s a west coast guy. He called about six a.m. out there and said, “I’m here now,” so our IT guy is working with him. That’s cool. Yes, it’s official. It’s not a hacker. It was official. Don’t start gumming up the works. It was really true.
More from Rush Limbaugh’s “Stack of Stuff” page here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: The more Rush Limbaugh talks about Macs (even if it’s about issues he’s having), the better it is for Apple. Rush is planting Apple seeds. Making Apple Macs a real consideration for millions of people who might not have even thought about freeing themselves from the frustration and disappointment of Microsoft Windows is a very good thing.
OK, can we please stop with the Rush stories now?
Yeah, all the people who spew vitriol towards Rush should be ashamed of themselves. I’m a liberal, but at least I have enough class to see him and everyone else as human beings. I guess it’s called “tolerance”.
I’ve never heard this guy because I live in the UK, despite him being a Mac user just looking at his picture makes me thing he’s no good. I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but still.
Even a bloated and bloviating, egomaniacal and hypocritical gas-bag can play the victim card and get away with it.
Only in America™.
Jimbo, right on! Enough with the Rush tripe.
@Jimbo
Nope. MDN loves Rush, just as they love all things conservative. You can tell by how they used a good picture of Rush, but they use the worst possible picture of people like Gates and Ballmer, even though I’m sure there are plenty of us who hate all three.
I think you’ve been around here long enough to notice that whenever MDN gets the chance they will show their political bias, whether it be towards conservatives or towards Obama over Hillary. I guess it’s not that unreasonable that a site which blatantly displays its pro-mac bias s[how some political bias as well.
Yeah, please stop with this story line. . . .I’m trying to keep my breakfast down. This is as bad as when we found out Dubya uses a Mac to look at the “Internets.”
Hopefully this will help dispel some of the completely unfounded rumors about Apple having bad technical support. Apple’s tech support is second-to-none in the industry.
G Spank,
I’m glad you mentioned the tolerance thing. All to often it seems the liberals are telling the conservatives to be more tolerant, yet they seem to have no tolerance themselves. They expect everyone but themselves to be tolerant. Thanks for showing some tolerance.
I agree with the MDN view, Rush has a lot of listeners who may think about Apple now. Hate him or love him, it’s about the Apple right now and nothing else.
i agree G Spank, lets tolerate the people who say things like http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
tell me how that works out.
How else would I go to the Google?
“OK, can we please stop with the Rush stories now?”
No because MDN also like their page hits. Should we start a “think Before You Click” for MDN?
I’m not ashamed of myself, Spank. I’m equally intolerant of left-wing fruits, though there are many fewer on the far left in this country. Not that Limburger’s audience would see it that way … cause Rush says so.
No … no tolerance from me for those who preach no tolerance of others. And that’s a major portion of his riff. Interesting that he has no tolerance for drug users, eh?
Dave
I’m a republican (from the libertarian wing) and I don’t mind the Rush stories at all. I have some friends who dislike macs who try to harp on the “only liberals use macs” thing and I always point them to Limbaugh. But he’s not the only conservative type who uses macs.
Who is this guy ?
Dave you’re sounding a little intolerant yourself. It don’t seem that you ever listen to his show. I’ve never heard that intolerance you say is a major portion of his show. Oh well.
Macs are an equal opportunity computer…the way it should be.
” . . . on the most listened to radio talk show in America . . . “
We certainly are the kings of garbage posing as entertainment.
He was one of the first radio personality to promote the iPhone on his show when it came out. He is a big Apple supporter and is helping promote the Mac platform.
Some of you people are not very nice. You act as if a person of a different political leaning is just that, only that, and your enemy. If you found out that the lady in line behind you at the store was in the other party, would you chew her out right there? Would you tell your bank teller what an ass they are having a different opinion from you?
Feel free to support and share your own views and, please, vote your conscience, but try not to be so hateful and jingoistic towards other people having their own views. Even if it’s Rush.
“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales…The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.” -Rush
aaplsaur:
if the person behind me was a member of the other political party? no….
if he “We’re not sexists, we’re chauvinists — we’re male chauvinist pigs, and we’re happy to be because we think that’s what men were destined to be. We think that’s what women want.” -Rush
then hell yes i would chew him out!
Good, I’m glad someone at Apple finally did step up to the plate. The idiotic left wing wackos can’t ever see the forest for the trees anyway, but as MDN said, his promotion of Macs is indeed a VERY good thing whether you personally agree with Rush’s politics or not.
Microsoft: Apple’s best advertisement…
Rush has been an Mac fan (not just a user) since before “the dark ages” (late 90’s) and has talked about Apple on his show many times.
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And he’ll probably continue to do so until New York is under water.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
“I’ve never heard that intolerance you say is a major portion of his show. Oh well.”
Then, you weren’t listening.
Or, you agree with his racist remarks.
I don’t hate Rush personally — he’s no doubt a very nice guy — I just detest all the horribly abusive things he’s done to our country. But he did it purely for ratings, for profit, and with supreme success. He’s a smart guy with a sharp team. That’s why they all use Macs!
Marshall McLuhan famously said “We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” Will the Mac rub-off on Rush and inspire a shift in his message? First screen-sharing, then reuniting the red & blue states?
p.s. Anyone notice that both the Docs in HBO’s “In Treatment” use Macs? An amazing show BTW.
Hey, if someone of limited intelligence as I can use a Macs, anyone can!
While Apple and Jobs lean to the left, a *lot* of Mac users are conservative. Hate to upset anyone, but its just the case.
And even though Jobs seems like a lefty, there are a couple of things that clearly mark him as something other than a card-carrying Dem.
First of all, he hates teachers unions and has blamed them for the problems in public schools on several occasions. Secondly, he sells (relatively) high end products that a lot of liberals would be angry about simply by virtue of the amount of profit they generate. Steve Jobs, despite the rhetoric, does not now nor has he ever, given a damn about providing a low-cost computer “for the masses.”
Last but not least, Jobs has no shame about taking as much stock for himself in any venture he begins or gets involved with and leaving little or none for anyone else. Famously, Steve Wozniak had to give some of his stock to Apple employees who had been there from the beginning because Jobs had allocated all of it for just a very few people. Care to guess who got the most?
In short, sure, Apple and Jobs play at being a liberal company but in many ways, they are very conservative in their business practices. Which suits me fine but I suspect that is not the case with some of you.
Hope I didn’t shatter any illusions.
Rush Limbaugh is my enemy, and I believe, the enemy of the American constitution. It is not in the best interest of Apple to have this person associated with their products.
“Sexual harrasment at this work station will not be reported. However, it will be graded!” -Rush
Ampar lighten up. Quit trying to be another Olbermann clone. Lord knows there’s enough of them already.
Jacob,
Please explain all of the Obama ads on MDN.
Thanks in advance.
“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales…The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.” -Rush
There is a huge difference in those who deal/use illegal drugs and those who develop and addiction to legal painkillers (very common problem).
I just detest all the horribly abusive things he’s done to our country.
What do you mean by “all the horribly abusive things”? I’m curious…
Algore?
Okay, so does this mean you need a popular radio show to get real Apple tech support for free?
@G Spank – Huh?
@Jacob – So…(And yes, please do explain why only one liberal candidate gets space/time on MDN, and no conservative, if what you say is accurate…?)
How the hell did all conservatives suddenly become racist religious wing-nuts?
What is wrong with taxing productive people less and forcing lay-abouts to get off the dole and get a job?
Why should the government tax the hell out of me so it can wipe your ass from the cradle to the grave?
“OK, can we please stop with the Rush stories now?”
Rush = controversy = hits = $$ from advertisers.
This site knows what its doing. Don’t click and comment if you don’t want to support it. You know from the home page what the story was about.
MW = money
G Spank – Yeah, all the people who spew vitriol towards Rush should be ashamed of themselves. I’m a liberal, but at least I have enough class to see him and everyone else as human beings. I guess it’s called “tolerance”.
Tolerance and class require maturity, which are qualities that are sorely lacking in society as reflected by many of the comments in this thread.
“How the hell did all conservatives suddenly become racist religious wing-nuts?”
It wasn’t sudden. The libertarians should be against social conservatism, but the Repubs saw opportunity in allying with bigoted white southern baptists, starting with Nixon in ’68 but played like a virtuoso by Reagan in the 80s. Prior to that, the yokels supported the Dems. Go figure.
“Why should the government tax the hell out of me so it can wipe your ass from the cradle to the grave?”
Only one reason–you live in a democracy, and its the will of the people to have a government. One that’s smaller, proportionately, than what almost all other advanced countries have.
Question for you, Al. If you truly support the war, why are you so unwilling to pay for it? “Waah waah waah, my taxes…!” –give us a break.
Actually, the U.S. is a representative republic, not a democracy.
He’s gay right ? Again, he’s dressed like a gay
RS: “Ampar lighten up. Quit trying to be another Olbermann clone.”
No. And don’t tell me what to do. I’m entitled to my opinion whether you like it or not.
Please please please use this important national attention to INSIST that Cupertino pay attention to these FACTS:
1. The Mac Pro is about to lose its reputation as the superior machine.
2. OSX is about to lose its reputation as the superior operating system.
Microsoft and all its box makers are loving the fact that word is now circulating far and wide and in every print and electronic Macintosh publicatiion that the Mac has fallen prey to complacency and Leopard is FULL of problems ranging from not working at all on anything pre-Intel and experiencing real troubles on even the flagship Mac Pro.
The reason is Steve’s obsession with his phone, tunes players, and, now, TV gadgets.
If he doesn’t get the company back on track with focus on the serious products with long term value in the market, we could very well look back on the day when he stood in all his arrogant splender on the MacWorld stage holding up his ‘I’m changing the world with this phone’ ridiculous announcement as the peak of Apple’s existence.
It’s been downhill ever since and unless people with national voices – like you – quit the fawning and insist on refocusing the company, the Mac is forever going to be little more than it is today.
“Apple calls Rush Limbaugh; working on his Mac issues”
Rush has issues? Gotta be a first. I love this guy’s show and there was never any indication he’s ever had “issues” with anything. Ever. Limbaugh is a straight talker who rightfully makes liberals squirm. They can’t take hearing the TRUTH just as MAC sheep can’t take hearing the TRUTH about their crappy computers. Let’s be thankful it’s only his little toy MAC.
Hey Rush, I know how to fix your issues. Get a Dell with Vista. Problems solved.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Everytime I see his picture or read his name I keep remembering the Michael J. Fox thing from the last congressional elections
LOL… that phrase “Rush is planting Apple seeds.”
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Good to know that when powerful people whine enough, they get special treatment. “The computer for the rest of us,” indeed.
Hey Fatty Arbuckle! Did you miss-place that beer bottle again?
What the hell makes you think that every reader is an American? I’m in a 60% tax bracket in a socialist country where being conservative means anything right of Karl Marx. Over a third of the citizens of my country live by sucking on the government teat, one way or another.
@M.X.N.T.4.1, so if you didn’t like the picture of God you’d think he was a bad person? What a maroon. Rush Limbaugh is the most popular talk show host in the USA, talking mainly to conservatives. Of course, you Limeys are so far gone to the left that your right wing is left of the communist party. I’m an ex Limey, (happily). I left England because of the unions and all that rot. You can hear Rush on the net. After you listen for a few weeks – then decide if he’s full of – whatever. Englishmen had better get used to praying 5 times a day while facing Mecca.
I’VE GOT A BIG FAT MOUTH. TREAT ME SPESHUL!!!!!!!
If the douchebag would get off the drugs he might find his Macs are working just fine.
just as i was getting sick of the maccain vs. rush story.
now i find this story line about rush vs. jobs.
left or right.
he needs to go away before his ego explodes the world.
The same guy called me after he called Rush and offered to help me fix my power adapter and battery problem on my Macbook. He treated my issues just as VIP as Rush, almost as if I had my own radio show.
YEAH___RIGHT!!!!!!
Wow, I’m relieved.
I’ll be able to sleep tonight safe in the knowledge that a bloated, drug-abusing bigot will, at some point in the future, be able to use Time Machine.
All you Rush haters, do you drive VW’s too? Come on guys, this is a chance for us to show the world that Mac is better. Besides, Bill Gates is a lib and you hate him. Rush may not be correct on everything, but he is spreading the Mac love!
Parker – MacSoftwareList.com
I think it is great he uses Macs, and lets his listeners know that. I agree with MDN’s take 100%.
I wonder if he uses an iPhone?
Wait, is that the same Rush Limbaugh who ridiculed Michael J. Fox and whom Bill Hicks once called a “scatmuncher”? I don’t know much about the guy (I don’t live in the US), but if Bill Hicks called somebody a “scatmuncher”, he must have had good reasons to do so.
I guess even the devil has the right to use a MAC.
Hooray for democracy!
Ampar says “No. And don’t tell me what to do. I’m entitled to my opinion whether you like it or not.”
Ampar are you somebodies ex-wife? You sure sound like an ex-wife.
Ok so you hate Rush, I’m guessing all things Republican and you have BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).
Like I said, lighten up. Whatever you are, you can have your opinions but you don’t have to be such a nag.
I’ve listened for years and nobody has the liberals gibbering like Rush.
I love it!
They think that non-liberals are sheep, but the arts, the media, the education system, the courts and corporate America are all *owned* by liberal dogmatism. They have not the slightest clue why American culture is self destructing when they own the lot!
Do you they think it is Rush and James Dobson and Sean Hannity spoiling it all for you? Hilarious!
Maroons.
MDN needs to throw some red meat to the righties here – publish something about Al Gore and global warming.
Let me get this right here.
Conservative people use Macs KNOWING that Jobs is a raging liberal.
Hmmm, that must mean they can look beyond idealogy and see the bigger picture.
Hmmm, how could this be if they’re all mindless bigots?
Hmmmmmmm…
It’s always amazed me that the modern Democratic party, the party of tolerance and inclusion, can’t include conservatives. In days past the democratic party was a home for social conservatives, but not anymore. It was a party about debate and dialogue.
Forget that, can’t even include moderates like Liberman.
It’s always amazed me that the modern Republican party, the party of the constitution and freedom, can’t include liberals. In days past the republican party was a home for social liberals, but not anymore. It was a party about debate and dialogue.
Forget that, can’t even include moderates like Mayor Bloomberg.
I don’t care if RL uses a mac, he’s still a fat worthless drug induced scum bag.
If I was the tech guy at Apple, I’ll tell him to solve all his problems all he has to do is upgrade to a mac pro with two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core), 32GB of RAM, a mac pro raid card, 1.2TB of storage, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics card with 2 30 inch displays.
I love Rush!
You are joking, right? Your post certainly made me laugh.
-Timbo
P.S. Mega Dittos, Rush!
algore is written as one word, is that some inside ditto head joke?
So tolerant are the lefties here. Not! As usual, the haters, the intolerants are from the left. Don’t agree with them so here come the attacks.
Apple marketing and advertising people are making a political decision not to advertise on Rush’s show. They’d rather Apple go under than advertise on his show. Look at the dark days at Apple in the mid-1990s. Apple damn near went under but still no ads on Rush’s show. Clearly a political decision not to advertise at a place that gets results.
You bet I’m a conservative but not a Republican. That party is far too liberal as is GWB. We need less government, lower taxes, less spending, more freedom, fewer rules and laws. All things conservatives stand for and as a wildly successful capitalist,Steve Jobs and Apple needs all of those to continue to be successful.
I can’t stand Clinton (both) or Gore but I don’t wish them dead or ill. They’re just wrong. But I love Apple despite Gore being a big shot there.
re matty’s and other’s comments:
Greed and Hypocrasy are just two traits common in all of us regardless of whether we are Dems. Republican’s, liberals, or conservatives.
I dont know why Republicans/conservatives get the bad rap, perhaps because the Dems and liberals are even more guilty. Remember, each time you point at the Republicans there are four pointing back at yourself.
Perhaps “you guys, liberals, Dems, whatever” out to look in the mirror once in a while and realize no one is perfect. I cant believe the hatred express by “you guys”.
Calls for more class and civility in public discourse are merely terms used by moderate wimps or right-wing partisans, to get liberals to back down. No, actually, with Limbaugh the time for civility is well past. And I consider him an enemy in the full sense of that word.
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
US…. THEM
WTF?
RS: Screw yourself. Obviously, you’re mildly retarded so go get your mommy to explain my comments to you. You don’t know shit about me and now YOU are being the asshole.
Actually, I’ll amend my comments from the other day.
It IS a good thing for ANY high-profile individual to be associated w/ Apple.
Yes, even Rush.
full disclosure: I’m a shareholder.
Rush, there is a difference between ‘hating’ you and thinking your a buffoon. Let’s not get overly dramatic.
Oh wait, that’s what you do… Okay, carry on.
{sigh}
“you’re”
(the irony!)
@ Jim – TIV
A four-year-old makes up a name like Algore and continues to use it for 16 years. And he does it because he isn’t any smarter than that. How does it benefit anyone to ‘include’ such people? Rush is a comedian, not a political thinker, and I’d no sooner move to ‘include’ Stephen Colbert in a serious political discussion, much less Rush. Yet bagging on him makes Democrats ‘exclusive’?
I love the Obama ads. They add a little je ne sais quoi to this dust-up. Good on Rush for being a Mac user. At the risk of sounding intolerant, it is his only redeeming quality.
I’d like to set the record straight – that using Windows is not a punishment that I would wish on ANYONE.
Not even Rush Limbaugh.
@ ron me old china,
You having a belt buckle mate? Unions indeed. Your mecca remark says it all, makes me think it’s really the bacon sarnies mate.
Take a butchers man. The septics letting it happen too, you better Adam and Eve it.
Personally I think you’re a bit of the back and front for leaving the beans. Blokes like you leave us all daffy ducked mate.
Funny…MW/ball…as in you’re a real ball and bat…
Regardless of what you liberals think of Rush’s political opinions, he is a long time Mac user. He, like many of us were using Macs when everyone else wanted us dead and gone. He raved about them on his program and played as much a part as he could in being a part of the Mac Faithful in those dark days.
At least show the man some respect for this as one of us.
Try to separate your political views from your other views. Isn’t seeing people as not ALL BAD a big Liberal platform? Working in rabidly Liberal city here, I have listened to Lliberals with more open minded acceptance and sympathy of murderers in prison than just someone who’s political beliefs aren’t in line with theirs. How hypocritical.
@ Jerry T
I’m afraid I don’t understand your banter, sir.
@ Chrissy,
Ron will though…
I don’t think I’d want any of Rush’s listeners to become Apple users. There really is such a thing as bad publicity.
@ Jerry T
Don’t over estimate ron’s understanding skills.
You can’t tolerate intolerance. That would be like trying to be a good person by ‘tolerating’ those jerks who beat you up every once in a while.
Rush is merely acknowledging the end of the disastrous republican reign he so assiduously supported for so many years. Mr. Bipartisan now? – HA!
I don’t know about him personally, but the people I’ve known who listen to him avidly (dittoheads) have been very prejudiced and bigoted, as much as Freepers.
Now, if he will start supporting an end to The War On Non-Prescription Drugs and a return to sanity, he just might redeem himself. Well, Rush?
That’s nice…
Now… if Rush Limbaugh still has any real brain cells left and if he can still remember how to think… then maybe, just maybe… he’ll be able over time… learn how to use a real live Mac with OS X (10.5)!
If Apple can teach the asshole… it would make a great add… something alone these lines…
WOW…
ANYONE CAN LEARN TO USE A MAC…
EVENY RUSH LIMBAUGH!
@Jerry T. I can afford a whistle here in Ca. I was kept down in the Land of soap & gory, because I didn’t speak ‘Oh my gosh’ enough.
Rush Limbaugh’s politics may be insufferable, but he’s living proof that even morons sometimes make the right choice. The scariest thing about people like R.L. is not their opinions, but that someone with such extreme opinions is so popular.
Rush’s only redeeming quality, and I mean ONLY, is that he’s a hardcore Mac/iPhone user and lover with a massive audience of “ditto heads”.
What that tells me is there are still a few of his brain cells left that are working properly, even after all the abuse (food, prescription drugs, ex-wives, God knows what else). I look at Rush and it’s almost like finding out Ozzy Osbourne or Keith Richards is a Mac fan/user.
Maybe because of the little bit of mind he’s working with, Macs are a good choice for him because they’re that easy to use!
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
@ Ampar: From your last rant I’m convinced. You are someone’s ex-wife. No wonder your husband put you on the road.
I hope you at least use a Mac and aren’t just here because you saw a link on DailyKOS or the H.Post.
I’d love to see Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh make a pro-Apple computer commercial. They could do it in the tone of the “I’m a Mac vs I’m a PC” commercials replaced with I’m a Liberal vs I’m a Conservative.
RS: Get stuffed, asshole.
Rush’s the man!
LOL…Ampar your last comment says it all about you. Nothing but hate…
Besides, Bill Gates is a lib and you hate him.
Uh, Gates is not a “lib.” He contributed the maximum to the Bush campaign in 2004. How do you think Microsoft has gotten such soft treatment from the DoJ for their monopolistic practices?
RS: Take a hint.
I’m tired of all the political bollocks on this site….
This is a mac news site people!!
Ron… why you hating on the british?
RS… Ampar… calm down guys!
I’m surprised you guys can be bothered to argue over the internet…
@ ron,
trade the soap n gory for a whistle is it? Bit of dosh in the ol sky rocket? You must support the Arsenal.
Get a scooby, we have to stand! Can’t give it em all.
@ RS
Whereas you’re just plain nothing.
For you lefties that seem to be offended that we righties are using Macs too….in short, get over it. Our money is just as green as yours.
Children! Children!!!
At least we should all be able to agree that track 8 on Disc 2 of “Live In Dublin” not only is “blindingly” cool, it blows just about any other polka renditions of once covered hits out of the water.
Yes, we are a healed nation once again……
@Chrissy1 Thanks for your input. Coming from you I’ll take that as a compliment.
One of the things I truly enjoy about MDN is all the love and good will it generates.
Yeah it’s amazing how mentioning Rush Limbaugh brings left & right together for a virtual lovevest.
Ahhh, fuck off asshole.
@C1…
I’m not defending Rush sis, never would. No more than I would defend Bill Maher. I’m just making commentary on some of the more fervent of the left leaning on this thread.
It’s been my observation, here at MDN and elsewhere on the net. That the left insults the right far faster, more frequently, and with much more vitriol than the reverse. The right does it also, but less frequently. (Maybe because there’s less of them?) Don’t believe me? Just go back and count the left and right insults on this thread. I haven’t done it on this thread, but on most political threads at MDN the left usually insults the right at a 2 – 1 pace.
“How does it benefit anyone to ‘include’ such people?” – Good point. It doesn’t actually, if you honestly believe that he “is a comedian (and) not a political thinker.” But if he was a comedian he would be funny, and he’s not.
He represents millions of people who value this country, but share different values than you and I, just as passionately we do. Not considering his views seriously is unwise in my estimation, because many Americans share those views. Whether or not we agree with someone doesn’t mean we can’t reason with them. Isn’t that exactly what Obama is arguing for in our foreign policy concerning the Middle East? If we can’t reason with each other, how in the world will we ever expect to reason with our more serious enemies outside our borders?
Doesn’t it wear you out that both sides of the political spectrum in our country tend to demonize the other sides far edge thinkers. Personally, I think that we NEED far edge thinkers. They are the bell weather of the edges of political thought and discourse.
It also bothers me that the lack of listening to each other, and shouting at each other first, is moving towards the center of politics and culture more and more with each passing year. Rush represents a constituency that I debate with, argue with, but still call American. (not implying that you don’t)
lol…to Register or Login (?) sorry I didn’t know you were so sensitive. I guess I’ll be a little more careful next time.
How about some humor to help everybody out…
C O W S – Republican version
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 20 million illegal aliens wandering around ourcountry. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
C O W S – Democratic version
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate Osama Bin Laden wandering around the mountains of Pakistan. Maybe we should give him a cow?
THE CONSTITUTION – Republican Version
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq . Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and our courts aren’t using it anymore.
THE CONSTITUTION – Democratic Version
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq . Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and the white house, justice department, and Gitmo isn’t using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS – Repubs and Dems
The real reason that we can’t have the The Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians…It creates a hostile work environment.
@ Jim – TIV
LOL – thanks…
For the rest of us:
From the lead-in to the song National Brotherhood Week
“I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another. I know there are people in world who do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that!” — Tom Lehrer
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You area genius! I think that’s the first time I’ve ever laughed out loud whilst on MDN. Good work!
If there is one thing that I can’t stand, it is intolerance.
Whenever you say or think, “I disagree,” you are, by definition, INTOLERANT.
Remember, the day you stop hearing disagreement, the day you stop hearing opposing views, that’s the day you step back in time to Nazi Germany, the ultimate ‘PC’ country, where speech INTOLERANT of the Nazi administration wasn’t allowed at all…
I certainly don’t agree with Rush or most political pundits most of the time, but I want him FRONT AND CENTER talking about what ever he doesn’t like about the U.S.A. – it’s the best proof I know that this is still America, not “AmeriKa”.
Political Correctness is an impressive social weapon – the Nazis achieved so much using it, didn’t they?
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To paraphrase a famous commercial…”I can’t believe I read the whole thing”.
Thanks, also to Jim-TIV. That was worth a smile.
“While Apple and Jobs lean to the left, a *lot* of Mac users are conservative. Hate to upset anyone, but its just the case.”
I dont think anyone with half a brain would argue that if you broke it down, its probably pretty evenly split. It’s just that with Jobs’ dedication to the Democrats, and the apparent idea that Macs are only for liberal creative types, one might think that. But saying both of those things are just about as dumb a saying that most people who use Macs are conservatives, which is also untrue.
I’d be willing to bet not only is it an even split, but when you get people of varying political views together in a room, vs across the internet and through the media. that people really aren’t as different as people on the far left and far right would like to make everyone else think.
“when you get people of varying political views together in a room, vs across the internet and through the media. that people really aren’t as different as people on the far left and far right would like to make everyone else think.”
– best post on this thread so far
Never mind the first post.
I just like to have the last word.
Word.
Rush has been a Mac devotee for many years. He realizes that the liberal side of Apple isn’t proud of his political stance, but he has still been a bold supporter of all things Apple. While you may have little tolerance for Rush, I have little tolerance for Al Gore. Yet they both use Apples. And for this one item, this one moment, we agree. Let’s celebrate it not disdain it.
You can’t compare Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh, intellectually.
Once again, the last word.
gotta love how some call for the end of Rush stories, but then posts go on for pages
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Shen, Don’t just copy and paste and use Rush’s quotes as some sort of indictment of his “silliness.”
If you had listened even to brief shows of his, you would know that he uses the absurd to demonstrate the absurd. Rush use lots of tongue-in-cheek comments that people like yourself love to use to flame him.
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
Am I the only one who thinks his writing style is absolute shit? It’s filled with boring and redundant statements. I can barely wade through it.
stix: It’s refreshing to know there are still people who think no one should ever be held accountable for their words.
That’s pretty funny that Rush dittoheads actually think he upsets liberals! He upsets liberals about exactly as much as Howard Stern upsets conservatives…..which is absolutely zero. At most, we listed to a couple seconds just to marvel at how someone can be so full of themselves…..then we suddenly believe it.
Watch DOUBLE or more the amount of “liberals” going out to the primary polls, and watch 20,000 liberals attending an Obama rally – while 250 rich old men and generals go to the McCain function…and you’ll start to see why the real radicals (the neo-cons) are starting to sweat. So sweat – and sweat. Rush is about to make more $$ than ever before when we enter 20+ years of a swing to the middle and left.
As far as Painkiller addiction, fine – but buying tens of thousands of the pills on the black market without prescription is way over and above doctor shopping, etc.
Also, our friends should know this man had NO life, cannot maintain a wife or family or ANY of the trappings of “so called” family values. A sad man, but the folks who listen for anything other then entertainment are sadder.
Rush, like RS, is a hypocrite. They work on the principles of hatred, fear and paranoia. Rush and Coulter only want attention and money. The real danger is that people actually believe their crap.
McCain is ready to assemble the first Incontinental Congress.
@ron
“Of course, you Limeys are so far gone to the left that your right wing is left of the communist party. I’m an ex Limey, (happily). I left England because of the unions and all that rot. “
Sorry that I’m late to the party, been out in the bush wrestling crocs’. After reading your above post, I could not help but think that you no longer know where the centre is politically and that you are certainly and totally out of touch with UK politics by more than two decades.
Stop living in the past – The UK is a different place from your childhood days, as it is from mine, I have returned there every 3 to 4 years over the last 30 yrs, even returning to live in 1996 thru to 2000 and it’s not like “I’m all right Jack” at all.
The English Labour party on the whole are “conservatively” considered central since Blair’s “Blatcherism”, having stolen the Liberal Democrats patch and having espoused many nuances of the Conservative Party. I think your confusion of where the centre is may be caused by the somewhat acute right wing ideals of G H W Bush and G W Bush.
So keep your Whiggish ideals in check, at least until you get with the political program back in your mother country.
I will not offer a response to you comments regarding “Englishmen had better get used to praying 5 times a day while facing Mecca.” as it is so repugnant.
@Ampar-you’re funny. Am I saying that “on the principles of hatred, fear and paranoia” like you say? No I’m saying you’re hilariously funny because you sound like every left-wing stereotype that’s ever been done.
I got a good laugh out of reading your comments and I guess I’ll always get a good laugh when I see your comments.
Flail away Ampar.
RS: You started a flame war with the nagging wife comments then didn’t have the balls to own up. You then accused someone else of being hateful when he responded to your idiocy. That’s hypocrisy. Have your mommy explain it to you. You are a not a stereotype. You are a cowardly asshole. And obviously, many others here know this as well.
Ok Ampar if you want to do the girly thing here goes. You accuse a radio talk show host of being racist and then say I must be a racist too because I “agree with his racist remarks”.
I disagree with that premise because of some out of context comments that you picked up at Media Matters or some other sort of website. So you got them at one of the Wiki websites. People put what they want to read on those. Sorry I don’t hear the racism that you think is spread on the radio.
Because we’re on polar opposites politically we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I learned a long time ago that talking to some left wing fringe types as yourself is pointless because after two minutes the “racist, fascist, Nazi” etc. names come out, as it did with your response to me. Your response to me came out of my comment about another poster’s comment. You jumped on me first and continue to keep after it.
As for the nagging wife comment, yeah you still sound like a nagging ex-wife. Just to make you feel better this will be my last response to you so I’ll let you get the last word in. Go ahead, use some choice words and get it off of your skinny little chest.
There now don’t you feel better?
When my two oldest kids were in elementary school, they decided that it would be cool to dip. I warned them not to try it. Finally, while at one of their Mother’s uncles, they got the chance, and of course, they puked their little guts up because they swallowed the Copenhagen. They never, ever considered dipping again.
Go Obama in ’08.
We deserve a national puking.
Oh I get it…only liberals are allowed to use Apple products? You liberals are so hypocritical! You say on the one hand that you want the world to be fair except when it serves your causes. As was mentioned in the article, the more Rush talks about Mac’s, the better it is for Apple.
Chrissy One makes the best point on this thread: “Rush is a comedian, not a political thinker, and I’d no sooner move to ‘include’ Stephen Colbert in a serious political discussion, much less Rush. Yet bagging on him makes Democrats ‘exclusive’?”
Why people get so riled up over an entertainer is beyond me. Rush himself admits that he calculates his show to enflame tensions between both ‘sides’ so that he can grow his listener base. He profits off of being controversial. What makes him more successful than other entertainers is he has somehow convinced the sheep on both sides to take him seriously.
And yes, I DO think it’s valid to judge the political astuteness of an individual based on whether they are a devout Limbaugh listener. Like Chrissy said, it would be no different than if somebody told me they received all of their political news from Jimmy Kimmel or Jon Stewart.