Mac, iPhone, and iPad user Rush Limbaugh today covered Steve Jobs resignation on what, since its inception on August 1, 1988, is the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. The 3-hour Rush Limbaugh Show airs daily on a network of approximately 590 AM and FM affiliate stations:
Limbaugh said, in part:
I am reminded that I haven’t had a chance to comment on the Steve Jobs resignation since I was away when it happened. I was away. He resigned as CEO. He’s staying on as chairman of the board. TMZ, the gossip site, published a picture of Jobs a couple of days ago after he resigned (ostensibly a couple days after his resignation), which portrayed Jobs as very ill and not looking good at all. I have told people… In fact, I was in Hawaii last week when all this happened, and when it happened, I said to my golf buddies, “Steve Jobs is one of the five people that I haven’t met that I would like to meet.” They said, “Who are the other four?” and I said, “I don’t know. I can’t name ’em off the top of my head.”
But I want to reserve my comments on Jobs. Everybody is talking about Jobs writing obituaries, practically, and I don’t want what I would have to say sound like that at this stage, but what he’s done is amazing, and his stated philosophies. If you haven’t seen it, one thing you should try to find… In fact, you know what we’ll do? We’ll find it, we’ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. He did the commencement speech at Stanford, I believe, in 2005, and it is in the annals as one of the all-time great commencement speeches.
The full transcript, along with Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech, is here.
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3,2,1, Political commentary will now commence.
Rush and Steve Rock!
Liberals = Anti-Christ
Dittos, Kelly. You rock too.
You know Steve is a liberal, right?
Debbie, You do know that liberals hate success full corporations?
It’s Successful, not success full. Liberals hate dummies as well.
Oh, Snap!
I just burped and threw up in my mouth.
There’s Obamacare for that!
I’ll bet you swallow.
Well, I never thought I’d applaud anything Rush ever did or said, but it was touching to see him posting the commencement address, and to say the things he did about Steve Jobs.
perhaps it’s the truth.
Which is nothing new.
He always praises apple and steve jobs.
His comment about the five people he wants to meet… Says a lot.
“I can’t name the other 4 of the top of my head”
Now I return you to the regularly scheduled Rush bashing in this thread.
Why would anyone bash a hyprocritical, druggie, chickenhawk, lying sociopath like Rush Limbaugh? I reserve my true scorn for the defective people who listen to him.
infinity!
What’s most frightening is that the Big fat Idiot actually has listeners. Liking Macs and Steve Jobs is about the only thing I’ve ever agreed with him on. Still, I can’t respect him, or like him, or not throw up in my mouth and spit it at him. No one is all bad or all good. This site and some of its fans have people who not only tolerate but admire this guy. meanwhile, the Big Fat POS likes Steve Jobs. That doesn’t make him Not guilty by association.
Sounds like your talking about Obama!
Wow. You sure are full of hatred and biggotry. I’m a libertarian and agree with very little of what Rush does but to quote Penn Jillette when he spoke about Bush Jr. “He’s wrong, not evil”
Do you think all of this frothing about and insults actually accomplishes anything? Does it convince anyone to examine their positions?
No. It is just hateful, public masturbation that reveals the venom in your heart.
Oh My! Don’t point out to the “Liberals” the hypocrisy of their “tolerance” plank that they throw away at the very mention of ANY popular conservative. Yeah, it is ugly.. It’s also just what those in power love, every one bickering with each other rather than fixing the real issue: a two party system where all the politicians are bought and paid for by corporations. Keep bickering folks, things will only get worse..
I reserve my scorn for all of the liberal-scum that are destroying the US as fast as they can. Druggie? How about Maobama the COCAINE user among other things???? You liberals are sick, sick, sick. We capitalist, conservatives will crush you at the ballot box in 2012. This will be great. Liberals will incite race riots and lawyers and lie, cheat, and steal as usual. But we’ll still landslide this one!
Anger Management dude, seriously.
Seriously, what an asshole.
Obama…the man who never ran a business…now running the greatest country in the world? One & done…bastard child…
You guys can’t even get your
party to vote with you?
Tea baggers are gonna ruin it for the GOP.
Idiots will not know which idiot to vote for. Mass confusion Hey, maybe Rush will run!
Dems win again.
The fascinating thing is that the genesis of Rush’s view on Steve Jobs and Apple, his love and praise of both, is predicated upon the same principles of excellence that are the foundation of his conservative leanings. Like it or not, Apple is one of the all time great monuments to capitalism. They compete in a free market and show what happens when you do a better job. Almost everyone, if not everyone that reads this board and comments here believes that Apple success is due to their competitive practices, not government regulation or oversight. Apple is capitalism incarnate. Are they evil? Do they hate people? Are they racists? Are they (insert typical liberal insults here)? No. Of course not. They are simply a business that makes great products. Products that are so great they have crushed their competition. Pure, unadulterated capitalism. (The operative word there is “pure.”) This is not to say that there are not some companies that achieve success through uncompetitive practices. (See AT&T Rant below).
So I wonder, just what is it, that we (those on the right and those on the left) truly disagree about. Why will so many, especially those who do not listen to him, spew venom at the mere mention of Rush’s name, when he admires companies like Apple and people like Steve Jobs. All he is saying is that left to their own devices (no pun intended) organizations such as Apple do better with less government. That geniuses such as Steve, no better what to do with their money than the government, and that he has faith in the market to produce more Apple’s.
Is that truly evil thinking?
please excuse all my typos… I’m on the phone and fixing a server as well.
grrr… why isn’t Rackspace.com taking my password… grrrr.
Well said. Thank you.
Amen, brother.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thelonious Mac
You help make the issue incredibly clear.
If only most other companies practiced such disciplined and ethical business practices, I agree, we would need hardly any government regulation (utilities would be one major exception to keep regulated). But the fact is, most giant bloodsucking corporations ONLY care about one thing (money) and do not give a rat’s ass who they have to step on or exploit to get there (and please their shareholders). Yes, if Apple couldn’t make a profit they wouldn’t be doing it, but the passion of innovation and discipline to pull it off ethically are what separate Apple from the rest. What Apple practices is as close to ‘pure’ science (and yes, capitalism) as you can get – innovating for innovation’s sake (and to blindside competitors before they even see it coming).
As long as there are greedy CEOs and stock market investors, pure capitalism cannot be. Steve Jobs’ official salary was $1/year, so if he wanted to make any money it HAD to be based on his performance and the performance of his company – you didn’t see him taking multi-million dollar bonuses (sometimes in the 10s or 100s of millions) while his company is losing billions, did you? I hear too many stories like this to have faith in modern capitalism.
Hah. Brainwashed much?
You don’t understand capitalism at all.
You are so well-named, i.e. primordial ooze.
Right on. Compare Apple, which has never accepted government handouts, with Solyndra, a posture child for Obama’s “green jobs” push. Last year they received over $500 million in government loan guarantees and just this week sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The US taxpayer is on the hook for most of that loss.
Or consider the Boeing and Gibson Guitar cases. In the first case, the NLRB set out to block them from opening a plant in (non-union) South Carolina. In the second, another agency seized pallets of hardwoods and guitars based over a question of how much labor value-add had been done in India!
And people wonder why jobs aren’t being created…
That is not true. Apple has accepted all the government handouts in Ireland. At one stage Apple was ready to close the factory in Ireland, but the Irish government said that Apple has to pay all the money back, so the factory is still there. Apple also really quickly remembered that with place in Ireland they can skip paying taxes in Europe. They just suffle the money via Ireland and Luxemburg. All the American companies including Google uses this loophole though.
Then again…
Stupid is not who takes. The stupid is who gives and the real idiots are the ones that don’t take.
USA’s capitalism is really great because it means that you give government handouts to the companies worth hundreds of billions annually. We do it here in Europe too and as does the USA we give farming subsidies worth of something like 300 billion euros annually. That messes up the world market for food.
Only thing that is better here is that we aren’t so stupid to spend that 670 billion dollars annually to army. Instead we focus on the health and education of the people. (Exclude Greece that just wastes all the money it can get and is not willing to change.)
No money for the Army?
Better hope the 4th Reich never takes hold.
Oh wait…
You’ll just call America for military support.
Don’t worry we got your back.
Victory favors the prepared.
You are missing 90% of it. If you have to ask, you’ll never know. Unbelievable! Take Apple and Jobs out of the equation. This guy makes sense to you? You condone his ignorance, hatred, and bigotry? Would you have your children thinking and speaking like him? Is he a soulmate of yours, a peer? If so, you have my deepest sympathy, and there is nothing ever more to say.
Can you provide one single example of Rush Limbaugh’s alleged hatred and/or bigotry? I mean an actual example, not a paragraph of platitudes or ad hominem attacks.
This is a perfect example of the left’s bankruptcy of ideas and substance. When your arguments are defeated, just resort to name calling and non-specific complaints.
Just one example?
Rush, on the other hand, fully well knowing Steve Jobs’ politics, has no problem putting that aside when commenting on Steve’s business success.
He got fired after one day on the air at ESPN for making racist remarks about Donovan McNabb.
He lasted 1 entire day. Not the brightest bulb? Or his racisim seeps through in everything?
ESPN and Disney reached back like a pimp and bitched slapped Rush!
His comments were NOT racist at ALL. If we cannot have open conversation and debate on race, racism will never die. I think he was right BTW. Donovon McNabb is NOT an ELITE QB. He has been propped up and used as an advertising tool by the league because he is black. He was simply marginally better than the other terrible black QB’s. It’s not racist to say that any more than it is racist to comment on the lack of American born White NBA players.
here is his comment:
“I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL,” Limbaugh said. “The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well … McNabb got a lot of the credit for the performance of the team that he really didn’t deserve.”
Nothing racist at all, merely an opinion based on observation. Nothing he said is untrue here.
@ truth
They asked for 1 example. I gave it.
He lasted 1 day.
1 DAY PEOPLE!
Hiis mouth got his ass canned!
Maybe it wasn’t what was said, but the tone it was delivered.
Why didn’t ESPN or Disney give him a 2nd chance after his 1st day on the job?
Because they saw the writing on the wall.
An the writing was RACIST.
Rush being the blowhard he is could have taken your position and defended hdimself and sued, but didnt? He knew he was caught live and didn’t want anymore public embarrassment.
No, you did NOT provide an example.
You merely regurgitated something you don’t understand to get some points when no one is even keeping score.
Also, I believe he worked for ESPN for more than one day AND he resigned
Besides, he was hired for color commentary….
(oh, my God, I am SO racist…)
Damned well put!
Well said! Perfect!!
I’ll go with that and add that if Rush Limbaugh can set aside his asinine politics in favor of the human element, then it’s time he showed a national example of this, daily, on his show, of how we can and should still respect each other on a one to one basis that unites, rather than divides.
“…I’ll go with that and add that if Rush Limbaugh can set aside his asinine politics in favor of the human element…”
Please (no insults intended in anyway) tell me what you mean by this, for my own education.
I think praise of the industrious, the “crazy ones” if you will, is appreciation of the finest of what humanity has to offer. I.e. look what free women and men can do without the fear of government oppression or the tyranny of the majority. Yes there is some need for a “referee” if you will. A body that helps to maintain the level playing field necessary for capitalism to work, but am I being asinine here? I don’t know you, but I respect the “breeze” personae you present here. I am sure Rush would also. Where do we begin to disagree?
I was just thinking that Apple has $80 billion dollars in the bank, give or take a few billion. I wonder if anyone here believes that our Federal Government would do a better job of spending that money than Apple will do?
I think exremities tend to go overboard especially these days and that being asinine is kind of like throwing darts that inflame and detract fro the points of view people have. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and I might add is entitled to one. But when it gets venom and begets lies and character assassination and righteous and indignant and….you see the point?
There’ s a lot more to be said for solving problems by doing and innovating and giving something to benefit others that dig it.
It used to be people were friends and shared opinions respectfully and regardless of left or right. Today nobody gets a chance at real interaction and discussion without the political poison.
This might sound stupid, but there more to life than political idealism and dogma. Together we stand divided we fall one and all.
Jobs gave and Rush limbaugh appreciates it and it’s contribution, without mixing in politics of hate or any other distraction.
“I wonder if anyone here believes that our Federal Government would do a better job of spending that money than Apple will do?”
Isn’t that like comparing Apples to lemons?
It’s more like comparing fruits, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Yes it is and unless you compare that same fruits then they’re different aren’t they?
“A body that helps to maintain the level playing field necessary for capitalism to work”
Contradiction, contradiction, contradiction.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” –Howard Thurman
While I’ve never been a fan of Rush, his views on Apple and Steve Jos are 100% inline with mine.
Thanks Rush your the best in your business!
I hope you get to meet with Steve the best in his business!
im not a fan but if hes pumping apple i can live with that
Sometimes the obvious cuts across all political lines, and intelligence levels. (referring to dvorak’s comments on the iPad )
You people with the Rush insults, listen before you display your ignorance. He has been proven right 99.6% of the time
99.6% of statistics are BS and made up on the spot in replacement of an actual argument that displays intelligence
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Like your post! Replacement of actual intelligence to display your 99.6% pure BS argument.
I love it. This is a self-defeating argument if you think about it. But it’s worth a laugh anyway.
Very true … all you have to do is listen to the guy and you’ll realize he doesn’t lie, he knows what he’s talking about, and all the BS put out by the liberal-hacks is false (and I’m being politically with the term hacks!)
I guess your definition of “proof” differs from that in Websters dictionary.
Ahhh rush limbaugh.. It’s a pity everyone thinks ur a joke
Not everyone….
Is Rush aware that Jobs is a liberal? If so, how does he reconcile the cognitive dissonance?
Yes he does, He’s obviously aware of a good product too!
I got to listen to what was about 7 to 10 minutes of praise and respectful admiration of both Steve Jobs and Apple during today’s broadcast. Rush has long been an Apple product user and has given Apple many hours over the years of FREE on air advertising and praise. Rush, as always, has taken the high road with Steve Jobs and Apple.
If someone gets to ask Steve about it, he might like to meet Rush also.
I think Steve has suffered enough.
couldn´t have put it better!
liberal |ˈlib(ə)rəl|
adjective
1 open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values: they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people.
• favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms: liberal citizenship laws.
• (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform: a liberal democratic state.
I’m a liberal. I’m also a fiscal conservative. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Liberal doesn’t mean what most seem to think it means. Rush is a Liberal and may or may not know it.
Thank you, BillH, I do get tired of people who have all these idiotic notions of what a liberal is.
And ‘gay’ means happy and carefree.
Look, we all know liberalism is not the same as a liberal democracy.
So, yes, if you want to make a play on words, and keep some of the meaning, go ahead.
If you want to discus the differences between Liberals and Conservatives, throw that definition out.
O my , I’m very conservative, but according to your definition I’m a liberal!
This will take a while to figure out
Liberals are only respectful of other’s opinions if they are the same as their own. I work at a liberal University, and the Open Mindedness they brag about only goes as far as their OWN viewpoints. Any variance from a liberal view is ridiculed, you’re looked at in a different way, and the first in line to go when the lay-offs come.
And… I have learned to keep anything political to myself. Meanwhile I’ve endured photos of George Bush compared to a monkey posted on office fridges here. Anti-Bush political cartoons and degrading republican signs on doors. If that was done to Obama, the person putting the pictures and signs up would be in big trouble for disrespect. Open minds and opinions—ha what a joke.
Fat junkie
Best post
Brainless junkie…
Great speech. Simple but powerful.
It must be snowing in Hell; I actually agree with that hate-monger about something.
I happen to listen to Rush and I agree with much of what he says. I have never heard him spew hate toward anyone. I’ve heard him disagree with certain kinds of ideas, but never hate toward an individual.
Why is it when I hear him labeled as a “hate monger”, the hate actually feels like it’s coming from those who diagree with him?
I myself, believe along many of the principles that Rush exalts. I can tell you that I have no hate toward anyone, to those who disagree with my views, even those who would want to label me as a “hate monger”
“Steve Jobs is one of the five people that I haven’t met that I would like to meet.” They said, “Who are the other four?” and I said, “I don’t know. I can’t name ‘em off the top of my head.”
Great Anecdote. LOL.
Can’t people set aside petty politics for just one moment?
Most of the people who say they HATE Rush Limbaugh have hardly ever listened to him.
Did you know that one of Rush Limbaugh’s close, personal friends is Elton John? Rush asked Elton John to perform live at Rush’s wedding, and Elton John agreed without hesitation.
Rush also invited Elton John’s long-time partner, who also attended.
Rush has been one of the most staunch Apple and Mac allies on Earth. Over DECADES, if you were to splice together all the time he spent on his radio show — long the #1 radio show in America — praising Macs, Apple and Apple products, it would add up to HOURS.
He’s taken time during his show to gush over the just-released Mac Pro he’s bought (he always buys each newly released top-of-the-line Mac Pro — the instant they’re released).
He also owns iMacs and countless other Apple products he touts on his VERY EXPENSIVE airtime.
Besides the millions in free Apple advertising with the show’s enormous reach, Rush Limbaugh — a towering figure in conservative politics — stand as an example for conservatives who perceive Apple as a liberal, “hippie” company, and who don’t buy Apple products.
Most recently, he had effusive praise for OS X Lion.
In the past, he has — brimming with excitement — bragged about previous milestone releases of OS X.
I still remember from years ago, when he was talking about Tiger or Leopard, he said (paraphrasing) ‘Microsoft, you’re dead! You’re going to have to copy this now!’
With the #1 coast-to-coast radio program, Rush has promoted all-things-Apple for decades now — and for free! Further, he didn’t seem to care about the risk of alienating Windows users.
Political persuasion is only a fractional portion of who a person is, and through his words and deeds, Rush Limbaugh can separate the two.
Rush Limbaugh’s politics and Steve Jobs’ probably couldn’t be further apart. But those were not the reasons Limbaugh was saluting Steve Jobs.
If polemicist Rush Limbaugh can do it, so can we — even if it’s just this one time.
Take a time out. PLEASE! For the good of Steve.
Rush Limbaugh should be fired from his job and tried for treason.
And there you go.
First, he would have to fire himself.
Second, you need to look up ‘treason’.
Apparently Rick Perry needs to look it up, too.
Well said! I have been a Rush listener since ’89 and I know that a majority of people who have said they “Hate” Rush have no idea of what they’re saying or why they hate him.
Most people who disagree with Rush don’t ‘hate’ Rush. If you believe he is a serious and knowledgeable political pundit please explain to us how discourse like Rush’s recent Oreo comment (…The triple double Oreo. You wait, it isn’t going to be long before it’s called the Orbameo or something like that…) helps foster a positive political atmosphere?
If on the other hand you don’t take it seriously and listen to Rush as he is meant to be heard, outrageous off-the-wall, crazy rants (ala Howard Stern) that play fast and loose with the facts, more power to you. Rush is a money-making operation, the more far out he sounds, the more entertaining he is, and the more money he gets.
Since when does being a serious or knowledgeable pundit have anything to do with fostering a positive political atmosphere?! Pundits are not reporters, tasked with providing raw facts. By nature they put their own spin on it, often to be entertaining.
So to answer your question, I think it’s an invalid question. Rush is a serious and knowledgeable pundit (can you name one more so?), and his comment on the Oreo was that someone would eventually call it the Orbameo. It’s a poke at Obama’s rockstar status in conjunction with his bi-racial background. There is nothing negative about it, any more than if you said “Obama is bi-racial.” He is bi-racial. So what?
It’s not Rush’s job to foster a positive political atmosphere, any more than it’s Chris Matthews’ job or Bill Maher’s.
Rush is neither serious or knowledgeable, and I would name Paul Krugman as someone who is. If you have never visited the Politifact web site you should. It tracks and fact checks people and groups; Politifact cite their sources and reasoning. For people, Politifact rates statements in five categories: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, and Pants on Fire. Here is how Paul Krugman stacks up to Rush:
PK (16 statements):
37.5% True
62.5% True + mostly True
0% Pants on fire
RL (13 statements):
0% True
7.7% True + mostly True
23% Pants on fire
Enjoy Rush as entertainment, but don’t expect much in the way of either knowledge or factual statement.
I thought with Rush Limbaugh’s very kind, heartfelt tribute to Steve Jobs (whose politics couldn’t be more polar opposite of Limbaugh’s), it would be glaringly obvious to reasonably intelligent people that they — just for a brief moment — might set aside politics, as Rush did in his sincere tribute to Steve Jobs.
His tribute was devoid of politics. More so than some of the posters here, Rush Limbaugh seems to grasp the concept that politics is only a fractional part of a human being’s makeup.
But this discussion has turned completely away from Steve Jobs and degenerated into ad hominem attacks against Rush Limbaugh.
With the #1 radio talk show, Rush’s airtime is worth millions, and yet, over DECADES, Rush has spent this expensive airtime championing Apple products (perhaps to the consternation of his Windows PC listeners, though he didn’t seem to care).
Put down the political prism or lens for just a second, and take Rush’s tribute to Steve Jobs at face value — as they were intended.
There are people who didn’t WANT Rush Limbaugh to pay tribute to Steve Jobs or Apple products over decades, because they disagree with his politics. They take an “electron microscope” for deeper, ulterior motives in Rush’s tribute.
There is no other word for this: petty. A close second would be immature.
News Flash: There is NOTHING to be found beneath the face value of the comments — no ulterior motives! But people think that “Truth” is a multiple-choice matter: you get to decide what’s true. Wishful thinking is a birthright.
Just take his kind, heartfelt comments for what they were. You have the rest of your life to hate Rush Limbaugh for plenty of other thngs.
this is the kinda thing that makes me hope that Apple makes gadgets in the future that will eat their owners on remote command.
Steve Jobs. The great unifier.
even a broken clock is right twice a day…
…and Rush is right 3 hours a day.
BOOYA!
You got served Marko!
…or, even a blind (or perhaps OxyCotin impaired) squirrel finds an acorn once and awhile.
To which Tommo will reply ‘Rush finds acorns three hours a day’?
maccam he does it with half of his brain tied behind his back…don’t you wish you had a brain?
Snap!
Whatever, as long as 1% of the top control 50% of everything, there is something fundamentally wrong. And this situation is NOT exclusive to the U.S. Money buys more than goods and services. It also is influential. If you don’t believe me, then explain to big to fail to me?
It’s called….”success”
and TB2F is called “bribery”.
It isn’t called “success”, it’s called a plutocracy. Look it up.
It’s a shame that whole Democratic Republic thing didn’t pan out, but no matter what noble intentions they start out with, all governments end up like this. Can’t say I’m surprised.
As for TB2F, it wasn’t bribery, it was corporate wellfare. Which should have endeared Obama to Republicans considering how much they love them some sweet corporate wellfare, but he’s The Enemy(TM) which apparently means he has to be pounded into oblivion even though he gives Bush-levels of love to the top 1%.
They should be ecstatic to have a neocon president in liberal clothing, but it’s all MAOBAMA this and 2012 that. Morons don’t even realize it when they’ve got a good thing going for them. Oh well, at least they still win whether or not he loses the next election. Even if they’re too dumb to see it.
Ooh, looks like someone had a pity-party and got no presents.
Sorry about your Obama wet dream drying up, too.
Of course it’s bribery when part of it is used to maintain power.
Also, a plutocracy only applies when you have a static upper class, not when it is dynamic and changes.
Look it up….in a real book.
A plutocracy doesn’t require the upper class to be static, it only requires that the upper class has governmental power deriving from their wealth. Try looking it up in a factual book.
As for Obama, a politician’s career is divided between lying and fattening his or her own pockets, so nothing he’s done has shocked me. What did shock me though, like I said, is how Republicans are lambasting him like he’s the anti-christ’s evil twin. I knew they’d try to tear him down just because he’s supposed to be a Democrat, but I didn’t think they’d try to tear him down this ridiculously hard. I thought him being essentially George W. Bush II would cause them to cut him a tiny bit of slack. But no. Even Clinton had it easier and he was actually vaguely something of a legit Democrat, if only barely.
Then Barry the liberal-duping, neocon POTUS comes along and they scream for his balls on a platter harder than they ever did with Slick Willy. I just gotta laugh at that.
Really? That’s a factual book? Do you understand that the poor don’t rule ANY country? Do you think that ALL wealthy have the same wants from the government? Do the wealthy control who the poor vote for?
My God, if America is a plutocracy, it is the most dysfunctional model possible. “OK, gentlemen, we have decided to appoint a man who will shrink our wealth and value for the next four years. Cheers, ole boy”
But the fact that you think Obama is a neo-con is the most laughable of your misunderstandings. Maybe if you are to the left of Marx he seems stuffy, but his view of economics, race, government, the environment, and life are so far to the left of Conservatives that even the for right Democrat neo-cons (RINO moderates) don’t know how to distance themselves from him far enough.
You think because he kept some of W’s foreign policies that he is moderate? He had no choice! There is a hard reality in foreign policy, and Bush had most of them right. All Barry could do was study them and say “Shit, I was immature with those stupid election promises!”
Good Lord, paranoia is like a brain-eating worm to some of you people.
Rush saying nice things about a liberal. Imagine that…
Rush says good things about people who work hard, produce something useful and logical, and succeeded by using their own brain cells without handouts. Rush has been an Apple fan since I can remember, even through the dark days.
Always funny to see the shock… “doesn’t he know Jobs is a liberal?”. Rush has been a vocal Apple zealot since the dark days.
And remember the campaign wasn’t “Think like Steve does.”
Really MDN?
You removed the Bill Hicks post about Rush?
The only thing worse than a Rush piece is to be censured by fear.
I told you freedom scares people.
It scared MDN.
Hicks must have been the scariest MFer on the face of the planet.
If you can read this post before MDN erase it, remember:
Bill Hicks
American.
Outlaw.
Genius.
Free your mind!
Rush Limbaugh is a hate-filled turd.