Week in Review: May 8, 2009

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Media
• Media Matters
• Obama
• Rush Limbaugh
• Talk Radio
• Michael Savage
• GOP
• Supreme Court
• Sotomayor

[ChekhovsGun]

Limbaugh for one forgets that the majority voted for Obama. Makes me laugh when he talks about "average people".

[cjk002]

The conservatives were pissed that Bill Clinton humiliated Bush senior, that he won with just 43% of the vote made it worse. They spent the next 8 years trying to destroy the Clinton's, culminating in impeachment.

When the 2000 election came around, Bush won the presidency after losing the popular vote because of a supreme court decision, which pissed off the Democrats.

It's a longer story than that, but basically those events are what led to the partisanship and divisiveness we see today.

[Nictusempra]

Talk about liberals being tolerance-crazy hippies, then whine about intolerance.

[xaviqaz]

Why is this centered on FoxNews, Savage and Limbaugh, and not all the shit in liberal media?

[xaviqaz]

Britain government is fascist. Fortunately labour-fascists are gonna leave soon

[CommonSenseJoe]

Rush has done more to support this country than President Obama has ever done. He has inspired more people to become the best they can be. He has generously donated to worth causes. He supports our troops, when Democrats call them rapists and murderers. You can take your version of patriotic and keep it. I'll take Rush's version of yours any day of the week.

[Nictusempra]

He's an entertainer - and a self-proclaimed one, at that -- and he knows his craft; that's hard to argue.

He's a for-profit celebrity presence who does nothing to support this country, and supporting him is doing nothing more than upholding a brand name. You're about as effective showing him your political support as you would be dialing in the winners on American Idol.

You want to use the word patriotic? Find someone it applies to, it's disgusting the way his supporters have cheapened it.

[thebrainsquid]

Well, you just literally proved a few of my points in that last post. I'm done talking to a brick wall. Go ahead say what you want, I won't respond anymore. All it will do is inspire more laughs at your expense. But if I were you, I'd save myself the embarrassment but I guess someone who has their head up Rush Limbaughs ass has little to be embarrassed about.

[CommonSenseJoe]

Don't get me links to other people biased remarks. I listen to him everyday and have never heard a bigot remark. I have heard him say things that when taken out of context can be construed by some as bigoted and racist. That's because anyone who questions the way race is dealt with is called a racist.

Rush often illustrates the absurd with absurdity. Like "Barrack the Magic Negro" parody, he was illustrating that even black people can be racist.

[thebrainsquid]

I even linked you to articles describing countless times he's made bigoted remarks. Either you ignored those or youtube didn't save it due to maintenance but even without those I've been the only one contributing rationality to this argument. You can kindly go fuck yourself with an iron stick, good sir. You're too stubborn to reason with.

[BeondaPale]

Sean Hannity is beyond any rational hope

[CommonSenseJoe]

What facts? The fact that most Democrats are liberals. The fact that most Republicans were conservative. You obviously do not listen to Rush because you have not made a single "valid argument". Simply claiming Rush is a bigot is not an argument.