And this is considered as witty and clever amongst todays GOP.

Rush Limbaugh being a race baiting asshole? You don't say. I'm sure his defenders will be saying this is his attempt at satire and humor. Seriously Rush do us all a favor and look at the facts for once instead of being a lying shithead.

re: #2 HappyWarrior

And lose most of his material in the process? Hah.

There's no money in having the facts.

Let's build a Mosque at Rush's old condo in Manhattan?

But, but Rush is just making a joke.
He's NEVER serious.
It is just that he is so much smarter then you and has such a dry sarcastic wit and only we hallowed few, we band of brothers can really see how brilliant his sarcasm is.

And out of context, out of context!!!
Plus y'all are just jealous of his money and hot wife!!!111!!!
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There, got that out of the way...

It sounds like Rush believes truth is in the ear of the beholder rather than an objective attribute.

That sounds like money in the pocket to me.

re: #6 webevintage

Plus y'all are just jealous of his money and hot wife!!!111!!!
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There, got that out of the way...

Are we talking about the new wife or one of the older ones?

re: #6 webevintage

... only we hollow few, ...

Fixed that for you.

re: #5 DaddyG

Let's build a Mosque at Rush's old condo in Manhattan?

You obviously haven't seen what it looks like! Even tastless muslims wouldn't pray there!

Welcome to Fucktard level status, Rush.

Masks indeed, Charles.

re: #7 b_sharp

It sounds like Rush believes truth is in the ear of the beholder rather than an objective attribute.

That sounds like money in the pocket to me.

Doesn't he have a hearing problem? Perhaps he cannot hear how asinine he sounds.

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

Um...isn't satire supposed to actually be funny?

re: #10 Surabaya Stew

You obviously haven't seen what it looks like! Even tastless muslims wouldn't pray there!

I'm not sure I would ever be comfortable living in a house that looks like a museum showplace of a fancy palace from a different era.

re: #8 JasonA

Are we talking about the new wife or one of the older ones?

These guys think Michelle Bachman is hot so I'm just assuming...

Heehee, I think Stewart pushed a button last night.

Beck shows "boring, lazy, tired" Jon Stewart how it's done

After playing Stewart's recent skewering of Beck's hypocrisy for attacking Rauf over comments strikingly similar to comments Beck himself made in April, Beck asked, "Does Jon Stewart not understand the difference between that last statement and the statement from the imam that happened two days after 9-11?" Beck gave no indication what actually distinguished Rauf's comments from Beck's, aside from their temporal proximity to September 11, 2001.

And it truly is difficult to find any difference beyond the semantic.

Beck: "When people said they hate us, well, did we deserve 9-11? No. But were we minding our business? No. Were we in bed with dictators and abandoned our values and principles? Yes. That causes problems."
Rauf: "I wouldn't say the United States deserved what happened on 9-11, but the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened."

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

It's always "satire." Yet he's always named one of the most influential conservatives. If opponents of Park51 don't want to be called bigots then maybe clowns like Limbaugh shouldn't refer to the president as "Imam".

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

That's his shtick. Say the most offensive shit imaginable, then, rather than walking it back, double down and say "what, you can't take a joke?".

I remember this tactic from elementary school. It is every bit as sophisticated now as it was then.

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

Of course it did.
This has become the new MO for the bigots and scoundrels (I love that words) out there.
"I was just joking...see how I turned that around because it was just satire folks"

Rush is a businessman. He sells advertising time on his programs. He knows that this sort of blathering will attract a larger share of his target audience. If you are an advertiser and want to sell your products or services to undereducated bigots, then his showis the ideal time slot to put your advertising message across

re: #14 PT Barnum

Um...isn't satire supposed to actually be funny?

Apparently not, remember the disaster called the 1/2 Hour News Hour

re: #22 ralphieboy

Rush is a businessman. He sells advertising time on his programs. He knows that this sort of blathering will attract a larger share of his target audience. If you are an advertiser and want to sell your products or services to undereducated bigots, then his showis the ideal time slot to put your advertising message across

You're just jealous of my gold.

Speaking of the "bitter clinger" quip, this the a section of the speech Obama gave that contained that gaffe:

So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today – kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.

Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter).

But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you’ll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you’re doing what you’re doing.

You know what? He was dead-on. This is a perfect description of the Tea Party. He might have pissed off some people by saying it, but it was a pretty accurate depiction of the morons shitting all over Rauf.

re: #2 HappyWarrior

Rush Limbaugh being a race baiting asshole? You don't say. I'm sure his defenders will be saying this is his attempt at satire and humor. Seriously Rush do us all a favor and look at the facts for once instead of being a lying shithead.

Facts won't increase his base audience. Not profitable.

re: #26 eclectic infidel

Facts won't increase his base audience. Not profitable.

True, kinda ironic that while people like him scream from the mountain that Obama is destroying American values that they make more money and ever. Limbaugh is getting more money in an Obama presidency than he ever would in a McCain one.

re: #24 JasonA

You're just jealous of my gold.

Actually, just admiring his business skills.

re: #13 Charles

And 40 minutes later, he claimed it was "satire."

This is how the Fat Man gets away with every vile thing he says. It's all just "satire", and if you're offended, then you just don't "get his style of comedy."

As if he was Lenny Bruce or George Carlin.

re: #25 Fozzie Bear

Speaking of the "bitter clinger" quip, this the a section of the speech Obama gave that contained that gaffe:

You know what? He was dead-on. This is a perfect description of the Tea Party. He might have pissed off some people by saying it, but it was a pretty accurate depiction of the morons shitting all over Rauf.

I'm not sure I agree. He's giving the excuse of economic circumstances for people being bigots. That's too nice, letting them off the hook. Not everybody who lives in a rust-belt type place is a bigot.

re: #30 wrenchwench

I'm not sure I agree. He's giving the excuse of economic circumstances for people being bigots. That's too nice, letting them off the hook. Not everybody who lives in a rust-belt type place is a bigot.

Of course not everyone in western PA (or similarly economically devastated areas) is a bigot. But, if you want to understand what is feeding this, that speech is a good place to gain some insight.

The irony of that speech is that Obama was explaining without condemning where some of the opposition to his campaign comes from. He was explaining where the surge in racism, xenophobia, etc, is coming from... and it gets used as "evidence" that he somehow is anti-religion, anti-gun, whatever.

Prolonged and widespread poverty leads to anger, and anger of that kind seeks a target. Whether the target it finds is really to blame is a separate issue.

re: #10 Surabaya Stew

You obviously haven't seen what it looks like! Even tastless muslims wouldn't pray there!

Good heavens it looks like Jimmy Buffett ate a Victorian painting and threw it up on the wall.

re: #31 Fozzie Bear

I still disagree. Bigotry is learned from other bigots. It may have ties to poverty (such as: bigots stay poor longer, for example), but it is not caused by poverty.

wrenchwench: I don't think anyone is claiming poverty alone causes bigotry. But I certainly believe that when people are stressed, afraid, and emotional over things like losing job and house, or not being able to take care of their family, they do find comfort in things they can still depend on (guns, religion) or are more receptive to ugly messages (welfare queens, immigrants leeching off system). I'm just an amateur sociologist, though.

They seem to think the political atmosphere is ready for them to drop their masks.

I think it's more like they forgot that they were supposed to keep wearing them.

re: #34 reidr

wrenchwench: I don't think anyone is claiming poverty alone causes bigotry. But I certainly believe that when people are stressed, afraid, and emotional over things like losing job and house, or not being able to take care of their family, they do find comfort in things they can still depend on (guns, religion) or are more receptive to ugly messages (welfare queens, immigrants leeching off system). I'm just an amateur sociologist, though.

I have a Bachelor's degree in sociology! _{And I work as a bike mechanic, so we know what that's worth.}

In my opinion, the guns, religion, antipathy to people who aren’t like them, etc. have to be present before the stress and fear are applied, unless someone is the victim of an active recruitment with ideas that are new to them. Otherwise, if they weren't a bigot before the stress, they won't be one during and after the stress.

Back to wrenching.

re: #36 wrenchwench

*bows down, backs away* Hey, nice bike...

Maybe there's a little guns and bigotry in all of us just waiting to be watered and nourished by a Beckimbaugh... Got me.

"People like Rush Limbaugh have almost completely stopped pretending now,"
Almost?

re: #39 mojo9

Believe me, it can still get worse.

Sorry, Rush -that "satire" boat sailed a long time ago. You're a race-baiter of the worst kind, one who actually has an audience who agrees with you.

re: #30 wrenchwench

I'm not sure I agree. He's giving the excuse of economic circumstances for people being bigots. That's too nice, letting them off the hook. Not everybody who lives in a rust-belt type place is a bigot.

Where did BHO call anyone a bigot?

The mask has been off that fat fuck since before Obama was elected. He is the epitome of the old, fat, white, male Republican, and everything inherently loathsome about them. He's the stereotype by which other assholes are measured. He wins by virtue of talking the loudest and the most.

It will get much worse ending with shouts of the N-word on a daily basis on Fox News and billboards proclaiming "Vote White!". The worse is yet to come. There will be violence and bloodshed before Obama leaves office. Fox News is full steam ahead on it's misinformation money making machine and it is driving the people who listen to it insane.

re: #42 garhighway

Where did BHO call anyone a bigot?

I missed your post yesterday, sorry. This part:

antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment

I take to mean bigotry.