The Breitbartocalypse Continues - Communists Are Hiding the Video!

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Aieee! The awesome, unstoppable BREITBARTOCALYPSE has uncovered another sekrit communist plot to conceal Barack Hussein Obama’s communist desires to be a communist!

They’re hiding the tape! The commies are hiding the Alinsky tape!

Well, actually, it’s a tape of … well … a play about Saul Alinsky. And the Obama-commie attended it! Sure, it was 14 years ago, but isn’t that proof of … well … something?

You bet it is! Those commies have to wake up pretty early in the morning to sneak one past all the brand new, shiny-faced mini-Breitbarts eagerly following their deity’s example: Obama Ally Won’t Release Alinsky Tape.

Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play. 

And she won’t release it.

“There is only one archive tape of the play and I have it,” Dickler informed our source. “It is not in Chicago.”

Dickler told our source that she doesn’t believe she’s ever watched the tape, and she doesn’t know if it “can be viewed.” But she added: “No one is going to see the tape.” 

She said she felt “very protective over it … due to all of the interest from conservatives recently.” She also told our source that the poster for the play was never supposed to be distributed.

Dickler added that there were no transcripts of the panel discussion.

This BOMBSHELL is going to destroy sekrit radical communism forever! If they can only … well … find it.

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283 comments
1 ElCapitanAmerica  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:13:30am

She's probably worried these guys are going to hack and slash the video as they've shown they're capable of doing before

2 Someone Please Beam Me Up!  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:14:14am

Don't Actors Equity rules have something to say about whether it can be released? (Although heaven forbid there should be some rational explanation!)

3 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:14:20am

Wait, wasn't the whole point of the "Breitbart Assassination" fantasies that he had the tape and was killed to keep it from seeing the light of day? So, if he never had the tape, why was he killed?

4 calochortus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:14:48am

I thought Breitbart said he had the tape?

5 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:14:50am

I feel like we've entered a Twilight Zone where the Red Scare never ended.

6 calochortus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:16:01am

re: #3 Targetpractice

Don't bring your ugly "logic" into this!

7 ElCapitanAmerica  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:18:02am

re: #4 calochortus

I thought Breitbart said he had the tape?

If I remember correctly, I though he had a tape of the president with Ayers, but maybe he wasn't that specific.

8 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:18:05am

re: #4 calochortus

I thought Breitbart said he had the tape?

Right. That's why Obama had him killed and took the tape.
/

9 erik_t  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:18:32am

I heard that Obama once read Mao's wikipedia page!

10 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:18:48am

It's 2008 all over again.

Wingnut fail #999.

11 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:20:14am

re: #9 erik_t

I heard that Obama once read Mao's wikipedia page!

I read about Rosa Luxemburg in the family Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia back in 1982.

12 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:21:45am

Alinsky is having a bigger impact while dead than he did when he was alive. I wish he was here to enjoy it.

13 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:24:09am

OK, see the real problem with the tape is that the event was filmed using one of those old video recorders with those proprietary tapes. You remember those, right? We just can't seem to find a working unit to play the damn thing back. Who the heck ever thought those things were a good idea?
/

14 calochortus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:24:14am

re: #8 Simply Sarah

That explains everything

15 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:24:14am

In 2008 those were the Khalidi tapes.

Wingnuts are no fun.

16 Obdicut  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:24:26am

re: #12 wrenchwench

Except the main effect is to make right-wingers wet their pants in fear, which appears to be a daily occurrence.

17 Lidane  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:25:26am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

I feel like we've entered a Twilight Zone where the Red Scare never ended.

Which is pretty much the alternate reality that the wingnuts live in.

18 jamesfirecat  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:26:01am

re: #13 Simply Sarah

OK, see the real problem with the tape is that the event was filmed using one of those old video recorders with those proprietary tapes. You remember those, right? We just can't seem to find a working unit to play the damn thing back. Who the heck ever thought those things were a good idea?
/

Worse, it's on Beta!

19 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:26:58am

re: #18 jamesfirecat

Worse, it's on Beta!

I considered that, but 1998 seemed a bit too recent to be referencing the Betamax, much to my dismay.

20 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:27:34am

This is so stupid I'm almost beyond words. Mitt Romney's father met with Saul Alinsky. Obama was at some "stupid" roundtable discussion regarding this play. I also remember that William Ayers was also part of some education roundtables and think-tanks that included many Chicago area Republicans.

Dumb doesn't even begin to describe what these idiots at Breitbart.com are attempting to do. They have nothing.

21 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:27:49am
Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play.

And she won’t release it.

I expect Faux news to be on the case promptly. Outrage!! /

22 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:28:43am

re: #20 Gus

This is so stupid I'm almost beyond words. Mitt Romney's father met with Saul Alinsky. Obama was at some "stupid" roundtable discussion regarding this play. I also remember that William Ayers was also part of some education roundtables and think-tanks that included many Chicago area Republicans.

Dumb doesn't even begin to describe what these idiots at Breitbart.com are attempting to do. They have nothing.

I saw Tom Hanks in person once. That makes me a movie star, right?

23 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:28:56am

re: #17 Lidane

Which is pretty much the alternate reality that the wingnuts live in.

Pretty much where everyone to their left is a super commie.

24 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:28:59am

re: #20 Gus

This is so stupid I'm almost beyond words. Mitt Romney's father met with Saul Alinsky. Obama was at some "stupid" roundtable discussion regarding this play. I also remember that William Ayers was also part of some education roundtables and think-tanks that included many Chicago area Republicans.

Dumb doesn't even begin to describe what these idiots at Breitbart.com are attempting to do. They have nothing.

Sure they have something, they have jars of leftist cooties in storage to prove communists exist.

25 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:29:01am

re: #20 Gus

The future of our nation is at stake!!!!11!!!

26 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:29:30am

Their whole assumption is that Alinsky was a bad guy.

Anyway, what about the tapes that Andy did claim to have? What's on them?

27 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:29:39am

The Love Song of Saul Alinsky
Terrapin Theatre
By Adam Langer
September 10, 1998 Performing Arts | Performing Arts Review

It's tough to say what famed Chicago political activist Saul Alinsky might have had in common with the discontented, dyspeptic narrator of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The radical organizer's righteous anger doesn't exactly jibe with Prufrock's almost ethereal detachment. Yet Tony-nominated playwright Herb Schapiro, who collaborated on the musical The Me Nobody Knows, draws on the text and style of Eliot's work to tell the story of self-described radical realist Alinsky--a tenuous parallel symptomatic of a play with ambitions beyond its capacity.

To be sure, The Love Song of Saul Alinsky looks forward and back upon a life and tries to justify it, peppers its narrative with literary references, and adopts an ever-shifting tone and point of view. And Schapiro's play is informed by the same "overwhelming question" as Eliot's poem: Was it worth it after all? But where every line of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" resonates with rare intellect, the closest Schapiro gets to poetry are strings of familiar aphorisms and Seussian rhymes.

Indeed, the overall ineffectiveness of this disjointed, seemingly unfinished drama is rather stunning--the subject would seem to make it a slam dunk. This is the story of a man who roused rabble from the Chicago stockyards to the New York ghettos to the California barrios, who took on Hizzoner, Mayor Richard J. Daley, and authored the classic manifesto Reveille for Radicals. The Blue Rider Theatre, where the play is receiving its premiere, is only a few miles northeast of the Back of the Yards neighborhood where Alinsky agitated. Terrapin Theatre's production has won the cooperation of all the usual suspects, from Studs Terkel to David Orr to Leon Despres to Dr. Quentin Young to Alderman Helen Shiller to others who weigh in on Sunday-afternoon postshow discussions about Alinsky's legacy.

Continue reading.

28 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:30:08am

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Pretty much where everyone to their left is a super commie.

They're so far right, most of the world is to their left.

29 iossarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:30:14am

There is video of me laughing my ass off at these clowns, but I won't release that either.

30 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:30:24am

re: #24 b_sharp

Sure they have something, they have jars of leftist cooties in storage to prove communists exist.

Yeah. And Alinsky was not a communist.

31 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:30:36am

And it's not 1956.

32 Obdicut  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:31:03am

re: #30 Gus

Yeah. And Alinsky was not a communist.

He was, in fact, an anti-communist.

33 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:31:32am

re: #31 Gus

And it's not 1956.

Skinny ties were cool.

34 JeffM70  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:31:39am

Sources inform! It all sounds so Watergatey.

35 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:32:03am

re: #31 Gus

And it's not 1956.

See, I know that, you know that, but I don't think they do.

36 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:32:08am

re: #30 Gus

And even if he were - there are communists who are anti-Mao and anti-Stalin, basically anti-totalitarians. They are goofy, but hardly bad people.

37 iossarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:32:26am

I heard there's video of Obama speaking to a white girl without her father's permission.

* hair catches fire, runs around screaming etc. *

38 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:32:39am

re: #33 Amory Blaine

Hats are cool. Fez are cool. /The Doctor
No, they're not /Amy Pond

39 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:33:17am

re: #36 Saint Putin on a Toast

And even if he were - there are communists who are anti-Mao and anti-Stalin, basically anti-totalitarians. They are goofy, but hardly bad people.

I think there's a large subset in this country's population that believes all communists are alike and doesn't want to take the time to understand the nuances that exist within ideologies.

40 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:33:25am

OMG! Here's the actor that played Alinsky, Gary Houston!

Big Derp.

41 What, me worry?  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:33:55am

re: #20 Gus

This is so stupid I'm almost beyond words. Mitt Romney's father met with Saul Alinsky. Obama was at some "stupid" roundtable discussion regarding this play. I also remember that William Ayers was also part of some education roundtables and think-tanks that included many Chicago area Republicans.

Dumb doesn't even begin to describe what these idiots at Breitbart.com are attempting to do. They have nothing.

And the rest of the world says,

"Saul who?"

42 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:34:11am

re: #37 iossarian

Wingnut is on fire from all the outrageous outrage? I'm a kind guy, I'll drop trou for them. // too tasteless?

43 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:34:44am

re: #40 Gus

OMG! Here's the actor that played Alinsky, Gary Houston!

Big Derp.

OMG he played Alinsky and a Nazi in Blues Brothers, Alinsky is Nazi!

44 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:34:54am

re: #41 Everybody Look at Your Hands

And the rest of the world says,

"Saul who?"

Republican and Tea Party leader Dick Armey hands out copies of "Rules for Radicals" to Tea Party leaders.

45 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:35:19am

You also gotta see some of that outrage in light of recent comments about "secular leftist Jews".

46 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:35:30am

re: #41 Everybody Look at Your Hands

And the rest of the world says,

"Saul who?"

That was literally my reaction when I heard about Alinsky in 2008. Saul Whothefuckcares?

47 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:35:39am

re: #43 HappyWarrior

OMG he played Alinsky and a Nazi in Blues Brothers, Alinsky is Nazi!

Oh crap! No I've done it! Someone get Jonah Goldberg on the phone!

48 iossarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:35:58am

re: #42 Saint Putin on a Toast

Wingnut is on fire from all the outrageous outrage? I'm a kind guy, I'll drop trou for them. // too tasteless?

Nice reference.

49 aagcobb  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:36:25am

re: #44 Gus

Republican and Tea Party leader Dick Armey hands out copies of "Rules for Radicals" to Tea Party leaders.

I think wingnuts are the only people who have actually read "rules for radicals" and try to apply them.

50 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:36:41am

re: #47 Gus

#2 on my speed dial.

51 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:37:01am

I'm still waiting for the video showing the big white house Obama lives in. At taxpayer expense! /

52 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:37:12am

re: #43 HappyWarrior

OMG he played Alinsky and a Nazi in Blues Brothers, Alinsky is Nazi!

Here he is!

Image: 59146-2138.jpg

53 What, me worry?  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:37:53am

re: #46 HappyWarrior

That was literally my reaction when I heard about Alinsky in 2008. Saul Whothefuckcares?

I pretty much pride myself on liberal politics. I grew up in a politically-aware family. My dad, uncles, cousins talked politics at every meal. I have vivid memories of going to the voting booth when I was a little girl with my mom (open curtain, pull lever).

But I never heard of Saul Alinsky before the Obama election either.

54 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:38:46am

Two things come to mind here.

First, since when does the subject matter of a play have any influence at all on what that person might like or believe? If any of these folks went to see "Cats", would that make them a secret "furry"?

Second of all, I'm guessing that these nutcases are secretly (some, not so secretly) desiring that the play that Obama had attended was "Our American Cousin".

55 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:38:58am

re: #53 Everybody Look at Your Hands

I pretty much pride myself on liberal politics. I grew up in a politically-aware family. My dad, uncles, cousins talked politics at every meal. I have vivid memories of going to the voting booth when I was a little girl with my mom (open curtain, pull lever).

But I never heard of Saul Alinsky before the Obama election either.

Ah, I remember that! Sadly, they had done away with those machines by the time I was old enough to vote.

56 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:39:35am

re: #53 Everybody Look at Your Hands

I pretty much pride myself on liberal politics. I grew up in a politically-aware family. My dad, uncles, cousins talked politics at every meal. I have vivid memories of going to the voting booth when I was a little girl with my mom (open curtain, pull lever).

But I never heard of Saul Alinsky before the Obama election either.

You know he was a community organizer, right?
I think that's enough said!

57 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:40:47am

re: #53 Everybody Look at Your Hands

I pretty much pride myself on liberal politics. I grew up in a politically-aware family. My dad, uncles, cousins talked politics at every meal. I have vivid memories of going to the voting booth when I was a little girl with my mom (open curtain, pull lever).

But I never heard of Saul Alinsky before the Obama election either.

Yeah, I know what you mean. What I don't get is why the guy is made out to be a bad dude.

58 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:40:49am

Plays are for liberals.

59 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:41:10am

re: #58 Amory Blaine

Plays are for liberals.

and teh gay.

60 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:41:22am

Track back.

Gary Houston (I) - Other works - IMDB

Played Saul Alinsky in Herb Schapiro's play "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky," with Nadirah Bost and directed by Pam Dickler, for Terrapin Theater in 1998.

61 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:42:23am

re: #53 Everybody Look at Your Hands

I pretty much pride myself on liberal politics. I grew up in a politically-aware family. My dad, uncles, cousins talked politics at every meal. I have vivid memories of going to the voting booth when I was a little girl with my mom (open curtain, pull lever).

But I never heard of Saul Alinsky before the Obama election either.

Obviously you didn't go to community organizer school like I did. (It was a one-weekend thing.)

62 A Mom Anon  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:42:35am

I'm still waiting on that notorious "Whitey Tape". Tee to the Hee. Idiots.

These dipshits never learned that you never make good decisions when you're angry or scared. It's even worse when you're both.

Normal,happy well adjusted people don't act like this. We don't need to.

63 aagcobb  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:42:47am

Since the commie refuses to release the video (yet another Obama seekrit), any wingnut speculation about what's on it is likely to be true (as far as wingnuts are concerned). Therefore I think its likely that on the tape Obama talks about how, as a young mulism citizen of Indonesia, he was inspired by his radical heros Alinsky and Ayers to sneak back into the US with the dream of someday becoming President so that he could destroy America and establish the one-world marxist muslim Caliphate under sharia law./

64 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:43:27am

re: #60 Gus

Track back.

Gary Houston (I) - Other works - IMDB

Also played:

Nominated Best Supporting Actor in southeast Michigan's 2007 Wilde Awards for his portrayal of national Democratic Party chairman Robert S. Strauss at Lansing's BoarsHead Theater in Kristine Thatcher's play, directed by Thatcher, about U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-TX), "Voice of Good Hope."

See! He also played a Demoncrat! This proves that the Democrat Party is/are maybe, kind of, not but really iz COMMUNISTS!

[Spittle]

[Mouth breathing sounds]

[Dobro slide]

65 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:44:43am

Know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.”

Sounds pretty dangerous.

[Alinsky had] "...an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition."

That sounds too subversive for me.

66 What, me worry?  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:44:49am

re: #55 Simply Sarah

Ah, I remember that! Sadly, they had done away with those machines by the time I was old enough to vote.

hehe It was all very magical to me.

The first time I was eligible to vote would have been the Reagan election, but I didn't vote. I had convinced myself that it was all a farce and corrupted. But the more I thought about it, how long it took for women to get the vote, even longer for Blacks to get the vote, and how many people are still sacrificing themselves (quite literally, dying for democracy), I realized that I HAD to do it. Even if I didn't believe in it. I had to do it for all the people who couldn't.

67 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:45:18am

re: #55 Simply Sarah

Ah, I remember that! Sadly, they had done away with those machines by the time I was old enough to vote.

They just retired the old curtain machines here in NY last fall.

I miss them. I loved pulling those little levers.

68 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:45:29am

re: #58 Amory Blaine

Plays are for liberals.

Artsy fartsy liberals.

69 AK-47%  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:45:37am

re: #57 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I know what you mean. What I don't get is why the guy is made out to be a bad dude.

I remember Newt referrring to Saul Alinsky in his SC victory speech as if he were the devil incarnate.

70 aagcobb  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:46:18am

re: #69 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

I remember Newt referrring to Saul Alinsky in his SC victory speech as if he were the devil incarnate.

Newt knows his audience.

71 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:46:20am

re: #66 Everybody Look at Your Hands

hehe It was all very magical to me.

The first time I was illegible to vote would have been the Reagan election, but I didn't vote. I had convinced myself that it was all a farce and corrupted. But the more I thought about it, how long it took for women to get the vote, even longer for Blacks to get the vote, and how many people are still sacrificing themselves (quite literally, dying for democracy), I realized that I HAD to do it. Even if I didn't believe in it. I had to do it for all the people who couldn't.

I was old enough to vote just in time to...vote for Mitt Romney for governor. Uh, can I have a do over?

72 What, me worry?  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:46:23am

re: #56 b_sharp

You know he was a community organizer, right?
I think that's enough said!

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

73 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:47:48am

re: #67 makeitstop

They just retired the old curtain machines here in NY last fall.

I miss them. I loved pulling those little levers.

Contrary to popular belief, you're never too old to pull your little levers.

74 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:48:43am

OT, but we all knew it was coming:

Why Sandra Fluke should thank Rush Limbaugh

And before it's pointed out, yes, I know it's some random hack whose drivel is likely not supported by the Washington Times as a whole. What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

75 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:48:47am

re: #72 Everybody Look at Your Hands

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

Yeah that was ridiculous. People wanting to make communities better and a better life for the people in those communities, shame on them. The attacks on Obama for being a community organizer were ridiculous as hell.

76 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:48:55am

re: #72 Everybody Look at Your Hands

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

Communist Jeopardy!!

77 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:49:00am

re: #72 Everybody Look at Your Hands

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

Busybody women that didn't know their place was what they were! All the problems of this country are from giving women the vote!
/

78 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:49:02am

re: #69 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

I remember Newt referrring to Saul Alinsky in his SC victory speech as if he were the devil incarnate.

Too bad for Noot the Saul Alinsky strategery hasn't worked out too well.

79 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:49:53am

re: #72 Everybody Look at Your Hands

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

The Suffragettes were a '50s pop group.\///

Too straw?

80 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:50:13am

re: #69 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

I remember Newt referrring to Saul Alinsky in his SC victory speech as if he were the devil incarnate.

Sounds like know your audience. I believe Alinsky got his start organizing blacks in the deep South during the Depression. I mean shit I am sure I wouldn't have agreed with Mr. Alinsky on everything but damn the way he's been made out to be this terrible guy is something stupid.

81 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:50:15am

re: #74 Targetpractice

OT, but we all knew it was coming:

Why Sandra Fluke should thank Rush Limbaugh

And before it's pointed out, yes, I know it's some random hack whose drivel is likely not supported by the Washington Times as a whole. What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

WT=wingnut central

82 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:51:05am

The Love Song of Saul Alinsky - Herb Schapiro - Google Books

Dramatic Comedy / 3m, 2f / Simple SetsThe play is based on the life of Saul Alinsky, who, starting out from Chicago's mean streets, became a master organizer in American cities from the '30's through the '60's. With his imaginative techniques, colorful language, and wild humor, Alinsky taught communities how to win over an indifferent "establishment" and resurrect themselves. His ideas are still a force today.We see Alinsky on the road in 1972, at the end of his career and exhausted after an off-day, weighing the worth of all his efforts. Alone in his motel room, he conjures up the trials and triumphs of past campaigns-in urban ghettos, middle-class neighborhoods, and colleges.

He relives encounters with Al Capone, Mayor Daley, Marshall Field, Senator Joe McCarthy, Albert Einstein, Catholic bishops, and Vietnam vets. He revives his passion for democracy that enabled him time and again to succeed against the odds.The next day, rejuvenated, Alinsky sets out on what will be his final campaign for a "newer world." Advocating the simplest of means to effect change, he prevails on his audience to find within their everyday lives the tools to rebuild their communities and secure "something of what we are all looking for-laughter, beauty, love, and the chance to create."

83 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:51:08am

re: #77 Simply Sarah

Busybody women that didn't know their place was what they were! All the problems of this country are from giving women the vote!
/

I've actually read that. I believe it was at FR.

84 iossarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:51:26am

re: #80 HappyWarrior

Sounds like know your audience. I believe Alinsky got his start organizing blacks in the deep South during the Depression.

I certainly hope he wasn't persuading them to exert financial pressure on white businesses.

85 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:51:37am

re: #74 Targetpractice

OT, but we all knew it was coming:

Why Sandra Fluke should thank Rush Limbaugh

And before it's pointed out, yes, I know it's some random hack whose drivel is likely not supported by the Washington Times as a whole. What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

I stopped reading where he said "She is a liberal like all liberals who wants free stuff." More conservative distorting of what she and other liberals believe. So typical of them too.

86 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:51:56am

re: #12 wrenchwench

Alinsky is having a bigger impact while dead than he did when he was alive. I wish he was here to enjoy it.

Maybe he was a Jedi.

87 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:52:02am

re: #83 b_sharp

I've actually read that. I believe it was at FR.

I've seen it in more than one place. Each time is a bit more soul killing than the last.

88 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:52:45am

From here:

longhornmama

Alinsky wrote a book Rules for Radicals. Therefore, like any author, his
words have the potential to live forever. Hilary wrote her thesis on
it. Carter's administration passed copies out. The Right is finally on
to them about it and its existence has been an open secret on the Left.
It is not paranoid conspiracy when it is true.

89 AK-47%  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:54:31am

re: #85 HappyWarrior

I stopped reading where he said "She is a liberal like all liberals who wants free stuff." More conservative distorting of what she and other liberals believe. So typical of them too.

They assume that she is as much of a publicity whore as she is a sex fiend, which is simply posited in the statement "she is a liberal".

90 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:54:36am

re: #87 Simply Sarah

I've seen it in more than one place. Each time is a bit more soul killing than the last.

Some men are terrified of losing their privileged position.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."

91 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:54:36am

OMG! Yale has a copy of "The love song of Saul Alinsky" in one of their libraries! Didn't Bush go to Yale?

Derp.

92 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:54:51am

re: #74 Targetpractice

OT, but we all knew it was coming:

Why Sandra Fluke should thank Rush Limbaugh

And before it's pointed out, yes, I know it's some random hack whose drivel is likely not supported by the Washington Times as a whole. What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

One of the DJs in San Diego was playing the "She should be grateful" card yesterday afternoon. When I wrote the programming director saying I was done listening to their station because of both Rush and the other DJs attitude, I got "He said sorry, what more do you want?"

These people have a serious disconnect with reality.

93 bubba zanetti  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:55:03am

re: #18 jamesfirecat

Worse, it's on Beta!

OBAMAO KILLED THE SUPERIOR BETAMAX FORMAT TO PAY OFF SONY AND THE LieBERAL MEDIA!!onesies!

94 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:55:17am

re: #88 wrenchwench

From here:

So using that poster's logic, Dick Armey and FreedomWorks are leftists. And oh my god, Hillary wrote her thesis on it, so that means she must believe everything in there. Using that twisted logic, I must condone the pogroms because I wrote my thesis on them.

95 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:55:24am

re: #74 Targetpractice

Not quite random either. Communities frontpage:
[Link: communities.washingtontimes.com...]

Bibi Netanyahu lights up AIPAC
Leader of the Free World Bibi Netanyahu told a packed AIPAC conference that Israel will take down Iran if need be. Leftists may fret, but it's Islamists in Iran who should be nervous. Published 4:49 a.m. March 6, 2012 - 1 Comments
The Tygrrrr Express »

96 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:55:52am

re: #82 Gus

The Love Song of Saul Alinsky - Herb Schapiro - Google Books

Why didn't you just say it was communist agitprop?
/

97 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:56:45am

Pamela Geller's on auto-hate against Sandra Fluke. Today she's ranting that Fluke is "clearly a plant!"

Ficus? Or maybe aloe vera?

98 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:57:23am

re: #97 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller's on auto-hate against Sandra Fluke. Today she's ranting that Fluke is "clearly a plant!"

Ficus? Or maybe aloe vera?

Venus fly trap.

99 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:57:41am

Oh noz!

SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE
(SGITC)
STUDENT REFERENCE FOR
CHAPTER 4:
INTERVENTIONS

From:

Small Group Instructor Training Course (SGITC)
Student Reference
June 1998

United States Air Force (USAF) - Air University

Saul Alinsky's "iron rule" - "Don't ever do anything for people that they can do for themselves" - comes to mind. If one or more group members have the skills and knowledge to act in a functional and objective manner, the instructor should let them do it. If they do not possess such resources, they may require assistance in acquiring them. However, excessive assistance on the part of the instructor - whether process, theory, structured skill-practice exercises, or simulations - leads to stultification, dependency, and indifference or apathy. In order to be as effective as possible, the group leader must learn the line between not enough help and too much help.

100 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:57:55am

re: #97 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller's on auto-hate against Sandra Fluke. Today she's ranting that Fluke is "clearly a plant!"

Ficus? Or maybe aloe vera?

An evil muslim secular atheist plant?

101 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:58:02am

You can't just paper over Limbaughs callousness this time. It was a three day rant.

102 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:58:12am

re: #97 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller's on auto-hate against Sandra Fluke. Today she's ranting that Fluke is "clearly a plant!"

Ficus? Or maybe aloe vera?

Deadly Nightshade.

103 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:58:36am

The hatred for Fluke is just pathetic.

104 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:58:36am

re: #74 Targetpractice

OT, but we all knew it was coming:

Why Sandra Fluke should thank Rush Limbaugh

And before it's pointed out, yes, I know it's some random hack whose drivel is likely not supported by the Washington Times as a whole. What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

Actually, this random hack's idiocy definitely IS representative of the Washington Times as a whole.

105 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:58:42am

They're teaching Alinksy in the Air Force!!11ty

106 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:59:18am

re: #72 Everybody Look at Your Hands

Ugh, that's the one thing that pissed me off to no end. Everything we have in this country is because of community organizers. What was the Boston Tea Party? Who were the suffragettes?

How about that well-organized militia that many huff and puff about?

107 calochortus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:59:47am

re: #97 Charles Johnson

Pitcher plant. Man-eating, of course.

108 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:00:55pm

re: #101 Amory Blaine

You can't just paper over Limbaughs callousness this time. It was a three day rant.

All the examples the Right is trying to use as a MBF are single incidents, nothing close to Rush's sustained attack against Fluke.

109 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:01:24pm

re: #98 wrenchwench

Venus fly trap.

Looks like a vagina with teeth, so it's bad.

110 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:01:24pm

re: #92 Kragar

One of the DJs in San Diego was playing the "She should be grateful" card yesterday afternoon. When I wrote the programming director saying I was done listening to their station because of both Rush and the other DJs attitude, I got "He said sorry, what more do you want?"

These people have a serious disconnect with reality.

Yeah, I've been informed that, as a "liberal," I'll never be happy with an apology given by Rush, so why should he bother? To which I've pointed out that I'm not the person that Rush should apologize to, and that saying "I'm sorry I called you a slut out loud" is not an apology.

111 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:01:37pm

Let me get this straight. Alinsky is apparently hated by the modern right wing for writing books during the 40s and 50s on how to effect fundamental political change from within the system (keep in mind that he was doing this in support of radical ideas like civil rights and women's equality).

At the same time, these same folks are praising the anti-Semitic rantings of Patrick Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly's revisionist accounting of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and Ayn Rand's insane vision of an American Utopia.

Am I missing something here?

112 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:02:01pm

re: #66 Everybody Look at Your Hands

hehe It was all very magical to me.

The first time I was eligible to vote would have been the Reagan election, but I didn't vote. I had convinced myself that it was all a farce and corrupted. But the more I thought about it, how long it took for women to get the vote, even longer for Blacks to get the vote, and how many people are still sacrificing themselves (quite literally, dying for democracy), I realized that I HAD to do it. Even if I didn't believe in it. I had to do it for all the people who couldn't.

Just to clear something up - black men got the vote with the 15th amendment (ratified 1870) - black women got the vote at the same time white women did (19th amendment, ratified 1920). That said, I'll never understand people who do not vote.

113 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:03:06pm

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

AshleyMadison.com, the dating site that helps people cheat on their significant others, has offered to buy up all of Limbaugh's existing ad inventory. The company's founder and C.E.O. Noel Biderman, who's already shown himself to be a deft grabber of publicity, said in a press release, "Rush has always been a controversial figure and we have always been a controversial service so we can relate."

Another dating site, SeekingArrangements.com is also looking to buy some ads on Limbaugh's show. Described in a separate press release as "the world's largest sugar daddy and sugar baby dating website," SeekingArrangements is taking a different approach: "When a woman seeks out a Sugar Daddy to help pay for college, many in mainstream media have no problem likening her to being a prostitute," the company's founder and C.E.O. Brandon Wade said. "Such is the hypocrisy of the society we live in."

114 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:03:09pm

re: #108 Kragar

All the examples the Right is trying to use as a MBF are single incidents, nothing close to Rush's sustained attack against Fluke.

Yeah, apparently Bill Maher ragging on Sarah Palin and calling her a c**t is just the same as Rush spending five days dragging her and her reputation through the mud, and my refusal to call for him to thrown off the airwaves is "hypocrisy" on my part.

115 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:03:09pm

re: #74 Targetpractice


Let's be clear, Sandra Fluke was an innocent victim. Yet the minute she rejected Limbaugh's apology, she went from victim to exploiter.

What a load of utter and complete horseshit.

116 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:03:16pm

re: #112 leftynyc

Just to clear something up - black men got the vote with the 15th amendment (ratified 1870) - black women got the vote at the same time white women did (19th amendment, ratified 1920). That said, I'll never understand people who do not vote.

What's next, animals getting the vote?

117 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:03:52pm

re: #67 makeitstop

They just retired the old curtain machines here in NY last fall.

I miss them. I loved pulling those little levers.

This New Yorker misses them also. There was something very satisfying about pulling that curtain closed to cast and opening it to register the vote. That optical scan thing just isn't the same.

118 Amory Blaine  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:04:14pm

re: #116 b_sharp

The Santorum Amendment.

119 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:04:34pm

re: #114 Targetpractice

Yeah, apparently Bill Maher ragging on Sarah Palin and calling her a c**t is just the same as Rush spending five days dragging her and her reputation through the mud, and my refusal to call for him to thrown off the airwaves is "hypocrisy" on my part.

When was the last time the Speaker of the House called up Maher to discuss policy?

120 AK-47%  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:04:41pm

re: #111 RadicalModerate

Let me get this straight. Alinsky is apparently hated by the modern right wing for writing books during the 40s and 50s on how to effect fundamental political change from within the system (keep in mind that he was doing this in support of radical ideas like civil rights and women's equality).

At the same time, these same folks are praising the anti-Semitic rantings of Patrick Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly's revisionist accounting of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and Ayn Rand's insane vision of an American Utopia.

Am I missing something here?

He stands for the sinister secular/liberal/elitist forces who are plotting to overthrow the Traditional Vision of Small-Town America, White Picket Fences and Nickel Cokes and replace it with Sharia, I guess.

121 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:04:48pm

re: #113 Killgore Trout

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

Boycott the adultery and prostitution sites!

122 jaunte  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:05:37pm

Expose the video!

"The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and then declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. It may come back into play at the climax of the story, but sometimes the MacGuffin is actually forgotten by the end of the story." [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

123 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:05:59pm

re: #121 Killgore Trout

Actually we are quite happy to let Rush use these advertisers.

124 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:05pm

Maher is an ass, who should be ignored.

There, one part of the loonie left has spoken.

125 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:08pm

re: #113 Killgore Trout

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

Gee whiz. Ashley Madison trying to take advantage of a controversy. How unusual. Yawn.

126 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:19pm

re: #115 Kragar

Let's be clear, Sandra Fluke was an innocent victim. Yet the minute she rejected Limbaugh's apology, she went from victim to exploiter.

What a load of utter and complete horseshit.

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

Carolyn McCarthy saw her husband tragically murdered. She parlayed that sympathy into a congressional seat. Dianne Feinstein saw her boss get murdered. She rode that sympathy train to a Senate Seat.

The Kennedy's are still milking the JFK legacy almost five decades later

127 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:35pm

re: #113 Killgore Trout

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

A cheating site and a sugar daddy hookup site.

Perfectly in line with Limbaugh's view of women. And AshleyMadison.com should go over swimmingly with those pro-marriage folks.

Good luck with that.

128 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:47pm

re: #121 Killgore Trout

Boycott the adultery and prostitution sites!

I don't use them now, so what's the difference?

129 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:06:59pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

That is really fucked up but not surprising.

130 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:07:41pm

Next time you visit Rush's site it might look like the porntube. ;)

131 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:08:26pm

re: #123 Saint Putin on a Toast

Actually we are quite happy to let Rush use these advertisers.

Me too. I think it's hilarious. I wonder if he'll do live reads for them. Even the shockjocks were repulsed doing live reads for Ashley Madison. They were so bad the company switched back to recorded commercials.

132 Interesting Times  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:08:48pm
133 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:09:09pm

re: #129 HappyWarrior

That is really fucked up but not surprising.

The idea that if you become a political activist attempting to gain the power to make positive changes, you're an opportunist is:

Bull Shit!

134 aagcobb  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:09:20pm

re: #125 Gus

Gee whiz. Ashley Madison trying to take advantage of a controversy. How unusual. Yawn.

Next thing you know, PETA and the Phelps clan will announce they are buying Ads on Rush.

135 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:09:28pm

I think the Tom Lerner line on political satire applies well to the Limbaugh-Ashley Madison situation.

136 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:09:47pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

What war on women?

137 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:09:48pm

re: #130 Saint Putin on a Toast

Next time you visit Rush's site it might look like the porntube. ;)

Next advertiser? Fleshlight! (probably NSFW to google that one)

138 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:10:49pm

re: #134 Weareallslutsnow

Next thing you know, PETA and the Phelps clan will announce they are buying Ads on Rush.

I'm sure the price of advertising on the Limbaugh show has plummeted.

139 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:11:31pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

What the hell? Yes, the assassinations of Moscone and Milk made Feinstein mayor and that probably helped push her political career forward some, but what does that really have to do with anything?

140 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:12:12pm

re: #124 b_sharp

Maher is an ass, who should be ignored.

There, one part of the loonie left has spoken.

I concur, so there's another moonbat liberal's opinion.

141 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:12:34pm

re: #139 Simply Sarah

What the hell? Yes, assassinations of Moscone and Milk made Feinstein mayor and that probably helped push her political career forward some, but what does that really have to do with anything?

That she only got to the Senate by exploiting tragedy, as we all know women are simply too stupid and frail to ever be electable!

142 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:13:42pm

re: #138 Gus

I'm sure the price of advertising on the Limbaugh show has plummeted.

I was listening earlier. The only national ads I heard were for Capital One and Service Magic (who I think are in the midst of getting their ads pulled).

The rest? Term life insurance, Winning The future (Newt's super PAC), local businesses and station promos.

He's getting his ass kicked here.

143 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:14:30pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

And we've been building a massive grievance industry based on the success of liberals for 50 years!

144 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:14:43pm

It's been said already but it's sad that it's taken this long for companies to realize that Limbaugh is a toxic douchebag.

145 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:14:50pm

re: #130 Saint Putin on a Toast

Next time you visit Rush's site it might look like the porntube. ;)

Now that I think of it... Rush did want women to make online sex videos for him to watch.

146 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:14:50pm

re: #124 b_sharp

Maher is an ass, who should be ignored.

There, one part of the loonie left has spoken.

Image: 65ir_1_.jpg

147 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:15:40pm

re: #141 Targetpractice

I guess women don't have the intellectual capability to become motivated by personal tragedy, being all emotional and stuff.


I hope everyone knows I'm being ironic/sarcastic/facetious/satirical today.

148 philosophus invidius  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:15:44pm

Here's what Breitbart and his follows don't get or don't want to get: those Alinsky-play panelists might seem "radical" to them, but they are some of the most important local political figures from that time and place--so why would Obama, the young and ambitious state senator, want to dissociate himself from them? And what did those "radicals" do that was so bad, aside from being (black and Jewish) "leftists"? Nothing.

149 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:16:07pm

re: #141 Targetpractice

And if we could just overturn the 17th Amendment we could do away with popularly elected Senators like Feinstein!

150 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:16:27pm

Netflix becomes 30th advertiser to drop Limbaugh

BOOM!

151 Renaissance_Man  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:16:38pm

re: #148 philosophus invidius

Here's what Breitbart and his follows don't get or don't want to get: those Alinsky-play panelists might seem "radical" to them, but they are some of the most important local political figures from that time and place--so why would Obama, the young and ambitious state senator, want to dissociate himself from them? And what did those "radicals" do that was so bad, aside from being (black and Jewish) "leftists"? Nothing.

I'm sure there was some raping and stabbing involved. Or at the very least some boycotting.

152 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:16:54pm

re: #120 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

He stands for the sinister secular/liberal/elitist forces who are plotting to overthrow the Traditional Vision of Small-Town America, White Picket Fences and Nickel Cokes and replace it with Sharia, I guess.

William F. Buckley, although a ideological foe, considered "Alinsky is twice formidable, and very close to being an organizational genius.", and had great respect for what he was attempting to accomplish, as well as the methods he employed.

Compare this to how the wingnuts characterize him today. Then again, Buckley is now considered a RINO in retrospect because of his opposition to groups like the John Birch Society, which is now being embraced by the modern right.

153 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:17:30pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Nah, the truly disgusting part is towards the bottom:

I'm just glad no conservatives are milking Ronald Reagan's "legacy" three decades after his presidency... //

154 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:17:47pm

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

Fox News’ alarmist coverage of rising gas prices extended all the way to the White House briefing room on Tuesday. During President Obama’s first solo news conference since November, Fox News White House Reporter Ed Henry asked the president if he actually wants gas prices to go even higher. Obama mocked Henry’s question.

“Ed, just from a political perspective, do you think the President of the United States, going into reelection, wants gas prices to go up even higher? … Is there anybody here who thinks that makes a lot of sense?”

155 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:17:47pm

Don't be mistaken. The criticism of Alinsky by the right has everything to do with race, poverty, and social classes. It has everything to do with Alinsky helping to empower the weak, the poor and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc.

156 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:18:05pm

re: #150 makeitstop

Netflix becomes 30th advertiser to drop Limbaugh

BOOM!

Seriously! Wow. Woot!

157 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:18:14pm

re: #150 makeitstop

Netflix becomes 30th advertiser to drop Limbaugh

BOOM!

The rush to abandon Limbaugh is no longer a mere fluke.

158 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:18:27pm

re: #153 Bulworth

I'm just glad no conservatives are milking Ronald Reagan's "legacy" three decades after his presidency... //

I'm doubly glad they aren't making up a mythology of him.

159 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:19:15pm

re: #158 b_sharp

I'm doubly glad they aren't making up a mythology of him.

or attempting to name every government building in DC after him without realizing the irony there.

160 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:19:20pm

re: #150 makeitstop

Netflix becomes 30th advertiser to drop Limbaugh

BOOM!

Thing is, a lot of these advertisers have been saying "We never specifically asked to advertise on Rush" or even seeming to imply they specifically didn't want to and the ads were totally run against their wishes. Makes me somewhat question the real number of companies actually dropping him.

161 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:19:41pm

re: #155 Gus

Don't be mistaken. The criticism of Alinsky by the right has everything to do with race, poverty, and social classes. It has everything to do with Alinsky helping to empower the weak, the poor and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc.

He didn't respect authority and was vocal about it. That annoys them.

162 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:20:03pm

re: #157 Saint Putin on a Toast

The rush to abandon Limbaugh is no longer a mere fluke.

Badda-boom.

163 Lidane  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:20:15pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

What it is is the signal that the next act in the Right's "Victimhood Samba for Rush" is fast approaching.

Conservative Media Watchdog Launches ‘I Stand With Rush’

164 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:20:34pm

re: #154 Kragar

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

He made Henry look every bit the dim bulb he is. Good for Obama.

165 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:20:43pm

re: #160 Simply Sarah

Thing is, a lot of these advertisers have been saying "We never specifically asked to advertise on Rush" or even seeming to imply they specifically didn't want to and the ads were totally run against their wishes. Makes me somewhat question the real number of companies actually dropping him.

They'll probably come back after the controversy dies down. He still has a huge audience and all the companies care about is the bottom line.

166 AK-47%  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:20:46pm

re: #161 b_sharp

He didn't respect authority and was vocal about it. That annoys them.

They don't mind that if the authority in question is Democratic or liberal in nature. What else is the Tea party about?

They are annoyed because he was Jewish...

167 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:21:11pm

re: #165 Killgore Trout

They'll probably come back after the controversy dies down. He still has a huge audience and all the companies care about is the bottom line.

That's what I'm wondering, among other things, yes.

168 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:21:17pm

re: #154 Kragar

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

Can I just say that I love this president and the amused expressions on his face when he responds to ridiculous questions?

169 Interesting Times  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:21:46pm

re: #167 Simply Sarah

That's what I'm wondering, among other things, yes.

170 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:22:24pm

re: #155 Gus

Don't be mistaken. The criticism of Alinsky by the right has everything to do with race, poverty, and social classes. It has everything to do with Alinsky helping to empower the weak, the poor and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc.

What cracks me up is that the "right" is following Alinsky's playbook, right down the line.

171 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:22:36pm

re: #166 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

They don't mind that if the authority in question is Democratic or liberal in nature. What else is the Tea party about?

They are annoyed because he was Jewish...

Big time. Back before it became a trend for the right wingers to start talking about "Judeo-Christian traditions" the American right-wing was very antisemitic. Now the wingers just use Israel and Jews to go after Muslims.

172 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:22:43pm

re: #155 Gus

Don't be mistaken. The criticism of Alinsky by the right has everything to do with race, poverty, and social classes. It has everything to do with Alinsky helping to empower the weak, the poor and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc.

Seriously, as rapidly as these folks are going down what I consider a dangerous path, how long is it going to be before these people start quoting individuals like David Lane?

173 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:22:47pm

re: #168 Sionainn

Can I just say that I love this president and the amused expressions on his face when he responds to ridiculous questions?

Damn, that photo of that Fox hack is the epitome of concern.

174 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:23:03pm

Again with the Alinsky stuff? It went over so well back in 2008, the right wing is trying for a comeback with the same lame line of "reasoning".

People have already made up their mind about Obama - he's got a real record on which to base reelection - four years as President of the United States does that. Some pretty huge accomplishments too: overseeing the final troop withdrawal from Iraq; killing OBL and Awlaki; securing passage of health care reform. Pretty big issues.

And yet, they're sticking with the Alinksy bit? Even though most of Obama's domestic and foreign policy pronoucements are in line, or gradual changes from his predecessor GW Bush - a GOPer at that.

If Obama's a radical, he's damned good at hiding it - because what he's accomplished hasn't exactly been radical, revolutionary, or earth shaking in their content.

HCR has been an issue on both sides of the aisle, and mandates were floated by GOPers before Obama and Democrats adopted them in the final bill - only to get the GOPs to shriek and holler.

Ugh...

175 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:23:03pm

re: #163 Lidane

Conservative Media Watchdog Launches ‘I Stand With Rush’

Good, it will help identify the morons who should be excluded from serious discussion.

176 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:23:15pm

re: #163 Lidane

Conservative Media Watchdog Launches ‘I Stand With Rush’

I love how Bozell a man who flips out over anything on television is defending a guy who called a private citizen a slut. As for Maher's comments on Palin, probably stupid but it's very different calling a public figure like Palin a twat and Limbaugh calling Fluke a slut and suggesting we watch her sex videos but Bozell knows this.

177 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:23:48pm

re: #165 Killgore Trout

They'll probably come back after the controversy dies down. He still has a huge audience and all the companies care about is the bottom line.

I thought they would start returning right after the non-apology. I was pleasantly surprised.

178 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:23:52pm

re: #154 Kragar

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

Cue the Waaambulance....

179 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:24:09pm

re: #160 Simply Sarah

Thing is, a lot of these advertisers have been saying "We never specifically asked to advertise on Rush" or even seeming to imply they specifically didn't want to and the ads were totally run against their wishes. Makes me somewhat question the real number of companies actually dropping him.

The 'inadvertent' ads being run on Limbaugh's show are part of what are called 'pool buys' - where a sponsor pays for ad buys and an agency places those buys across an available pool of ad slots on various programs.

Netflix demanding their ads aren't placed with Limbaugh may not be the biggest in terms of ad dollars, but they're an extremely high-profile company that is well-known to most Americans. I'll count it as a win.

180 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:24:09pm

re: #110 Targetpractice


I handled my right wing pal a little differently - she also said we'd never be satisified with an apology. I simply asked her if she felt a 3 day rant calling this woman a slut and prostitute followed by an apology posted on a website on a weekend was sufficient cuz I thought it was the sign of a gutless coward.

181 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:24:56pm

re: #166 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

They don't mind that if the authority in question is Democratic or liberal in nature. What else is the Tea party about?

They are annoyed because he was Jewish...

Watch how proud they are their TP gatherings were orderly, peaceful and didn't stress the Police.

They have a hierarchy of authority, with the constitution and God at the top.

His Jewishness is icing on their cake.

182 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:25:29pm

re: #116 b_sharp

What's next, animals getting the vote?

My two giant tuxedo kitties are definitely Democrats.

183 Lidane  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:26:03pm

re: #154 Kragar

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

Heh. Good. These twerps deserve to have their idiocy thrown back in their faces.

184 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:26:08pm

re: #181 b_sharp

Watch how proud they are their TP gatherings were orderly, peaceful and didn't stress the Police.

They have a hierarchy of authority, with their perception of the constitution and God at the top.

His Jewishness is icing on their cake.

Had to emphasize that.

185 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:26:23pm

re: #180 leftynyc

I handled my right wing pal a little differently - she also said we'd never be satisified with an apology. I simply asked her if she felt a 3 day rant calling this woman a slut and prostitute followed by an apology posted on a website on a weekend was sufficient cuz I thought it was the sign of a gutless coward.

He never apologized for asking for sex tapes from her.

He never apologized for saying she wanted taxpayers to pay for her birth control.

He never apologized for being so stupid as to think more sex=more bc pills.

186 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:26:38pm

re: #95 Saint Putin on a Toast

Not quite random either. Communities frontpage:
[Link: communities.washingtontimes.com...]

Bibi Netanyahu lights up AIPAC
Leader of the Free World Bibi Netanyahu told a packed AIPAC conference that Israel will take down Iran if need be. Leftists may fret, but it's Islamists in Iran who should be nervous. Published 4:49 a.m. March 6, 2012 - 1 Comments
The Tygrrr Express »

Then what happens when China and/or Russia rains liquid hell down on Israel for fucking with their oil supplier (you know, just like the US would do if our major supplier, Canada, was attacked)?

187 philosophus invidius  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:26:42pm

re: #151 Renaissance_Man

Obama of course should dissociate himself bad people even if they are good connections to have, politically.

But Obama's challenge to Bobby Rush in the 2000 primary shows that Obama was willing to mix things up and challenge an establishment that was more interested in posturing racial politics than in solving problems. Rush is the kind of figure that Breitbart would be justified in denouncing. (Among other things, Rush was happy to pal around with Louis Farrakhan.) Breitbart should be impressed that Obama didn't kowtow to this divisive but politically powerful figure. Instead, he twists reality to let his readers believe that Rush, the former Black Panther, wasn't radical enough for Obama, that Obama "challenged him from the left."

188 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:27:16pm

re: #154 Kragar

President Mocks Fox News Reporter’s Question About Gas Prices

The Fox "News" guy even looks the part.

189 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:27:31pm

re: #185 wrenchwench

He never apologized for asking for sex tapes from her.

He never apologized for saying she wanted taxpayers to pay for her birth control.

He never apologized for being so stupid as to think more sex=more bc pills.

He never apologized for what he said, just how he said it, and even then, he blamed someone else for it.

190 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:27:39pm

re: #167 Simply Sarah

That's what I'm wondering, among other things, yes.

It seems to me to be more likely that advertisers who drop the program after the apology would be more inclined to stay away.

191 Sheila Broflovski  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:27:40pm

re: #15 Saint Putin on a Toast

The first time I saw your new screen name I thought it said "Sarah Palin on a toast"

192 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:28:35pm

re: #189 Kragar

He never apologized for what he said, just how he said it, and even then, he blamed someone else for it.

Yeah. He was just sorry he wasn't more subtle in calling her a slut and prostitute.

193 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:28:53pm

re: #163 Lidane

Conservative Media Watchdog Launches ‘I Stand With Rush’

Bill Maher, a comedian, tells an audience while on stage that Palin is a "dumb twat," with the only people witnessing this being audience members.

Rush Limbaugh, a radio host, spends 3 days calling a woman a "slut" and a "prostitute" to an audience in the millions.

Limbaugh was consulted by the Republican House Speaker on a debt proposal, while Maher's never been consulted on anything by a prominent Democrat.

But we're hypocrites if we want Rush Limbaugh taken off public airwaves but not Bill Maher taken off a private cable network.

194 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:29:08pm

He's sorry because he got called out on it. He's probably already back to his usual shitick.

195 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:29:51pm

re: #191 Learned Mother of Zion

The first time I saw your new screen name I thought it said "Sarah Palin on a toast"

How is Zedushka today? How are you?

196 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:30:04pm

[Link: www.rightwingwatch.org...]
Rush's brother Dave is a crybaby.

197 Sheila Broflovski  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:30:33pm

re: #113 Killgore Trout

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

Yeah, I'm sure all the [Local broadcast area] Mom's Wrinkle Trick That Dermatologists Hate will all be broadcasting their scam spam.

198 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:30:54pm

re: #186 RayFerd

Then what happens when China and/or Russia rains liquid hell down on Israel for fucking with their oil supplier (you know, just like the US would do if our major supplier, Canada, was attacked)?

With all bad what could be justifiably said about Pu, you haven't presented a realistic picture. Will never happen.

199 Sheila Broflovski  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:31:10pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

How is Zedushka today? How are you?

He's better but his blood count is still low so they are keeping him in the hospital for another night.

200 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:31:11pm

re: #186 RayFerd

Then what happens when China and/or Russia rains liquid hell down on Israel for fucking with their oil supplier (you know, just like the US would do if our major supplier, Canada, was attacked)?

I'm hoping it's all just this.

201 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:31:15pm

re: #179 makeitstop

The 'inadvertent' ads being run on Limbaugh's show are part of what are called 'pool buys' - where a sponsor pays for ad buys and an agency places those buys across an available pool of ad slots on various programs.

Netflix demanding their ads aren't placed with Limbaugh may not be the biggest in terms of ad dollars, but they're an extremely high-profile company that is well-known to most Americans. I'll count it as a win.

I'm glad to know that Netflix did this because I was going to tell my husband to cancel Netflix when he got home tonight.

202 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:31:45pm
203 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:31:50pm

re: #191 Learned Mother of Zion

The first time I saw your new screen name I thought it said "Sarah Palin on a toast"

Nah, that's Simply Sarah, not me.


///

204 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:32:11pm

re: #196 HappyWarrior

[Link: www.rightwingwatch.org...]
Rush's brother Dave is a crybaby.

Allliiinsky!!!1!

205 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:32:21pm

re: #203 Saint Putin on a Toast

Nah, that's Simply Sarah, not me.

///

NOW HOLD ON JUST ONE MOMENT!
/

206 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:33:46pm

re: #204 wrenchwench

Yeah I saw that. And I love on RW watch that Fischer is calling the criticism of Limbaugh "secular Shariah." The fuck are those two talking about. Personally, I love this story because it shows how hollow right wingers really are when it comes to personal responsibility. They think everyone but themselves should have it.

207 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:34:02pm

re: #193 Targetpractice

Bill Maher, a comedian, tells an audience while on stage that Palin is a "dumb twat," with the only people witnessing this being audience members.

Rush Limbaugh, a radio host, spends 3 days calling a woman a "slut" and a "prostitute" to an audience in the millions.

Limbaugh was consulted by the Republican House Speaker on a debt proposal, while Maher's never been consulted on anything by a prominent Democrat.

But we're hypocrites if we want Rush Limbaugh taken off public airwaves but not Bill Maher taken off a private cable network.

I just want Limbaugh to suffer the logical consequences of his actions. Oh, and take responsibility for those actions.

208 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:34:05pm

re: #15 Saint Putin on a Toast

In 2008 those were the Khalidi tapes.

Wingnuts are no fun.

I was one of the ones yelling about the Khalidi tape. If I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have been involved in this, but you live and you learn.

However, in that case the controversy was a bit more rational than this Alinsky tape idiocy - there was concern (misplaced) that Obama was more radical than he turned out to be, that event was organized and attended by some very well-known anti-Israel activists, and it was not decades ago.

Not making excuses - like I say, I now view my involvement in this fake issue as a mistake. But it's not really the same as the Breitbartocalypse.

210 MittDoesNotCompute  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:35:02pm

re: #43 HappyWarrior

OMG he played Alinsky and a Nazi in Blues Brothers, Alinsky is Nazi!

re: #52 Gus

Here he is!

Image: 59146-2138.jpg

(to Henry Gibson's Nazi Character as they drop to earth after flying off the end of a unfinished highway skyway)

I've always loved you...

;-P

211 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:35:05pm

re: #209 RadicalModerate

And Rush just keeps on digging on his misogyny...

Rush On Female Author: "What Is It With All Of These Young, Single White Women? Overeducated Doesn't Mean Intelligent"

It's like a trainwreck now: Horrific to see, but too interesting to look away from.

212 leftynyc  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:35:20pm

re: #171 Gus

Big time. Back before it became a trend for the right wingers to start talking about "Judeo-Christian traditions" the American right-wing was very antisemitic. Now the wingers just use Israel and Jews to go after Muslims.

They also use Israel as she figures prominently in their end times nonsense.

213 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:35:30pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

I was one of the ones yelling about the Khalidi tape. If I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have been involved in this, but you live and you learn.

However, in that case the controversy was a bit more rational than this Alinsky tape idiocy - there was concern (misplaced) that Obama was more radical than he turned out to be, that event was organized and attended by some very well-known anti-Israel activists, and it was not decades ago.

Not making excuses - like I say, I now view my involvement in this fake issue as a mistake. But it's not really the same as the Breitbartocalypse.

Same here I am embarrassed to say. It was all a learning experience for me however.

214 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:37:52pm

re: #209 RadicalModerate

And Rush just keeps on digging on his misogyny...

Rush On Female Author: "What Is It With All Of These Young, Single White Women? Overeducated Doesn't Mean Intelligent"

First comment I saw:

by Liberal in the South (2 hours and 25 minutes ago)
26
...and now a message from our sponsors. What's that snerdly? Oh, nevermind, back to show...

215 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:38:53pm

re: #214 Sionainn

First comment I saw:

At the rate he's losing advertisers, he's gonna have to dig out those old "Spatula City" placeholder ads that he had in his early days.

216 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:39:09pm

re: #213 Gus

Same here I am embarrassed to say. It was all a learning experience for me however.

I, for one, am glad that at no time have I ever engaged in unseemly, over the top, offensive rhetoric at any time, ever.

///

217 Simply Sarah  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:39:21pm

re: #211 Targetpractice

It's like a trainwreck now: Horrific to see, but too interesting to look away from.

Well, it's not new. It's just a question of if people will be paying more attention to it now or not.

218 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:40:13pm

re: #216 Kragar

I, for one, am glad that at no time have I ever engaged in unseemly, over the top, offensive rhetoric at any time, ever.

///

Please do not search for my comments prior to the middle of 2009.

//

219 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:41:25pm

re: #218 Gus

Please do not search for my comments prior to the middle of 2009.

//

All comments prior to this comment were placed there by Satan to trick you.

220 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:42:18pm

Murkowski 'Stunned' By Rush's 'Incendiary Comments'

"The comments made by Limbaugh, I was just stunned," she added. "In the end, I'm a little bit disappointed that there hasn't been greater condemnation of his words by people in leadership positions."

Including Republicans? "Everybody," she responded. "What he said was just wrong. Just wrong."

221 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:43:04pm

GEICO Statement

In 2004, GEICO instructed our affiliates not to run our ads during Rush Limbaugh’s program. This week an ad was placed incorrectly on the show.

We do not place ads on Rush’s program. We do not sponsor the show. We have repeatedly alerted our partners that our ads are never to run during his program. If this does not change rest assured that we will remove all advertising from this radio network.

222 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:43:24pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I found an lgf thread about that after I wrote this. While it may have been more rational in relation to this story, I disagree that it was rational in absolute terms, even without the benefit of hindsight. Friendship with Khalidi is just not a big deal, and mere presence of some more radically minded folks in the audience would just be guilt by association, IMHO.

223 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:45:04pm

re: #219 Kragar

All comments prior to this comment were placed there by Satan to trick you.

We need a biting moose in here somewhere.

224 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:45:31pm

re: #220 Kragar

Murkowski 'Stunned' By Rush's 'Incendiary Comments'

Has her intrastate rival Palin condemned his comments? I know she showed the blatant double standards she has when she lashed out at Emanuel for saying retard in private but defended Limbaugh when he did the same in public because "Rush is just a satirist." Anyhow good for Murkowski, I'm glad she beat Joe Miller. It would be better perhaps to have a Democrat in that seat but she's more sane than Miller.

225 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:47:21pm

re: #221 Gus

GEICO Statement

Go, Geico!

or...

WEEEEEEEEEEEE! WEEE-WEEE! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! :)

226 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:48:31pm

Palin: Obama super PAC should return Maher's money

President Obama explained that he was thinking of his daughters when he called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh insulted her, but Sarah Palin countered that he should show respect for "everyone's daughters" by returning Bill Maher's political contributions.

Twit

227 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:49:02pm

re: #224 HappyWarrior

Has her intrastate rival Palin condemned his comments? I know she showed the blatant double standards she has when she lashed out at Emanuel for saying retard in private but defended Limbaugh when he did the same in public because "Rush is just a satirist." Anyhow good for Murkowski, I'm glad she beat Joe Miller. It would be better perhaps to have a Democrat in that seat but she's more sane than Miller.

Didn't Murkowski express regret over the GOP's concentration on banning contraceptives this week?

I may be hearing the scales falling from someone's eyes.

228 Obdicut  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:49:36pm

re: #226 Kragar

If Obama openly organized with the SuperPAC, that'd be a violation of the law.

229 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:50:02pm

re: #225 makeitstop

Go, Geico!

or...

WEEE! WEEE-WEEE! WEEE!! :)

We fast forward through every commercial on our Tivo...except for that one. My husband insists that we watch it every.single.time as he laughs hysterically.

230 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:51:35pm

I met Tom Kratman today.

231 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:51:48pm

re: #229 Sionainn

We fast forward through every commercial on our Tivo...except for that one. My husband insists that we watch it every.single.time as he laughs hysterically.

The radio ads are pretty funny, in which they insist that the pig does not say 'weee!"

232 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:52:02pm

re: #227 makeitstop

Didn't Murkowski express regret over the GOP's concentration on banning contraceptives this week?

I may be hearing the scales falling from someone's eyes.

I believe Murkowski is politically pro choice so I assume she wasn't happy with this to start with.

233 MittDoesNotCompute  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:52:23pm

re: #155 Gus

Don't be mistaken. The criticism of Alinsky by the right has everything to do with race, poverty, and social classes. It has everything to do with Alinsky helping to empower the weak, the poor and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc.

re: #170 Sionainn

What cracks me up is that the "right" is following Alinsky's playbook, right down the line.

Except the fact that the GOP is not using Alinsky's principles to empower the weak, poor, and those marginalized by race, gender, sex, etc., but rather to further disenfranchise and marginalize them.

234 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:56:14pm

re: #230 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh. I thought some heads would explode.

235 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:56:31pm

BREAKING: Capital One Drops Ads From Rush Limbaugh

236 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:57:15pm

re: #222 Saint Putin on a Toast

Well, like I said, I'm not trying to defend it - it was a mistake, one I won't make again.

But I'm just pointing out that it was not completely loony, like the subject of this post.

If a candidate for president associates with extremists of any kind, I don't think it's inappropriate to make note of it. Guilt by association is usually wrong, but not always - for example, when Rick Santorum had dinner with an avowed white nationalist, that's not a completely innocent association, and it's correct to point it out.

237 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:57:30pm

re: #235 Gus

32!

238 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:58:08pm

re: #237 Saint Putin on a Toast

32!

It's like a rolling barrage!

239 HappyWarrior  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:58:37pm

re: #235 Gus

BREAKING: Capital One Drops Ads From Rush Limbaugh

That's a big one.

240 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:58:43pm

32 it is!

241 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:59:17pm

re: #238 Gus

Now to think of something involving "avalanche" that doesn't sound too cheesy ;)

242 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:59:35pm

re: #231 makeitstop

The radio ads are pretty funny, in which they insist that the pig does not say 'weee!"

I haven't heard those.

243 MittDoesNotCompute  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:01:27pm

re: #201 Sionainn

I'm glad to know that Netflix did this because I was going to tell my husband to cancel Netflix when he got home tonight.

Given Netflix's miscues over the past year or so, I'll chalk up their delay in dropping Rush to piss-poor leadership from Reed Hastings.

Netflix may be his baby, but Hastings seems to be doing his damnedest to run the company into the ground.

244 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:01:58pm

It's like a chain reaction - all the cool dudes get out, and that signifies that those who stay are losers.

245 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:02:52pm

re: #244 Saint Putin on a Toast

It's like a chain reaction - all the cool dudes get out, and that signifies that those who stay are losers.

Rush will be stuck with gold, survival seeds, and pron.

246 Daniel Ballard  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:03:01pm

re: #113 Killgore Trout

Lol!

Some Advertisers Suddenly Want to Support Rush Limbaugh

Ashley Madison, pimping for cheaters and liars. How about some recreational Oxy Contin ads while we are at it...

Conservative radio LOLOLOL

247 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:03:15pm

re: #244 Saint Putin on a Toast

It's like a chain reaction - all the cool dudes get out, and that signifies that those who stay are losers.

Whatever works. I'm getting a huge kick out of how many advertisers are dropping his show.

248 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:03:20pm

re: #245 Gus

And prostitutes.

249 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:04:09pm

re: #248 Saint Putin on a Toast

And prostitutes.

Gimp masks, scuba suits, adult diapers, whips, chains...

250 MittDoesNotCompute  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:04:34pm

re: #215 RadicalModerate

At the rate he's losing advertisers, he's gonna have to dig out those old "Spatula City" placeholder ads that he had in his early days.

Mark my words: if these advertisers don't slither back once the heat's off, I think we'll see what happened to Beck.

Spots hawking guns, gold, and seeds (or something in that vein).

251 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:06:02pm

re: #249 Gus

Gimp masks, scuba suits, adult diapers, whips, chains...

And passion. 55 gallon of it.

252 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:06:34pm

re: #251 Saint Putin on a Toast

And passion. 55 gallon of it.

For personal use only.

//

253 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:06:35pm

re: #251 Saint Putin on a Toast

And passion. 55 gallon of it.

I'm too afraid to click on your link.

254 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:07:13pm

re: #253 Sionainn

I'm too afraid to click on your link.

Click, it's amazon. Read the rave reviews.

255 aagcobb  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:07:33pm

re: #174 lawhawk

He is just waiting to be reelected before he bans guns/institutes sharia law/legalizes infanticide/jails christians in FEMA camps and just destroys America in general.

256 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:07:58pm

re: #253 Sionainn

I'm too afraid to click on your link.

Don't click here then!

257 makeitstop  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:08:40pm

re: #250 talon_262

Mark my words: if these advertisers don't slither back once the heat's off, I think we'll see what happened to Beck.

Spots hawking guns, gold, and seeds (or something in that vein).

He's almost there already. The highest number of ads from one company I heard in an hour this afternoon came from a term life insurance company.

Newt's PAC came in second, and promos for WABC were third. I heard one Service Magic ad and one Capital One ad - and both of them are pulling out.

Let's see how much of their own money the Mays family is willing to dump into the breach.

258 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:09:19pm

Right now there are NO ads on Limbaugh's site. Even the top left square that had Goldline yesterday has nothing but the word 'Advertisement' in tiny fort.

259 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:10:03pm

re: #257 makeitstop

He's almost there already. The highest number of ads from one company I heard in an hour this afternoon came from a term life insurance company.

Newt's PAC came in second, and promos for WABC were third. I heard one Service Magic ad and one Capital One ad - and both of them are pulling out.

Let's see how much of their own money the Mays family is willing to dump into the breach.

I heard a Staples ad earlier.

260 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:11:21pm

Meanwhile the wingnuts have run into a conundrum in their action against the Mike Malloy Radio Show. Which to boycott first? Gold-A-Rama or Goat-Meter?

261 Kragar  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:13:38pm

re: #260 Gus

Meanwhile the wingnuts have run into a conundrum in their action against the Mike Malloy Radio Show. Which to boycott first? Gold-A-Rama or Goat-Meter?

Who?

262 Obdicut  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:13:43pm

re: #260 Gus

Does the goat-meter measure goats?

263 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:14:34pm

re: #262 Obdicut

Does the goat-meter measure goats?

Nah. It's some kind of charity actually:

[Link: www.goatsfortheoldgoat.com...]

264 Obdicut  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:15:40pm

re: #263 Gus

Oh, that place. They're cool. They an do better than Malloy.

265 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:17:54pm

re: #254 Saint Putin on a Toast

Click, it's amazon. Read the rave reviews.

LOL. I did. I got burned with tub girl once (although I was warned).

266 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:18:26pm

re: #256 Gus

Don't click here then!

Damn you, Gus. What is it? I am NOT going to click on it unless you tell me.

267 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:19:29pm

re: #266 Sionainn

Damn you, Gus. What is it? I am NOT going to click on it unless you tell me.

It's just a big old blue plastic 55 gallon container. :) Seriously.

268 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:19:32pm

I see the recent bannee went to dead lice. Thought better of him.

269 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:19:42pm

re: #258 wrenchwench

Right now there are NO ads on Limbaugh's site. Even the top left square that had Goldline yesterday has nothing but the word 'Advertisement' in tiny fort.

Bwahahahaha.

270 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:21:10pm

re: #267 Gus

It's just a big old blue plastic 55 gallon container. :) Seriously.

Same one that Sergey posted?

271 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:21:13pm

re: #268 Saint Putin on a Toast

I see the recent bannee went to dead lice. Thought better of him.

Who would that be?

272 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:21:28pm

re: #270 Sionainn

Same one that Sergey posted?

Yep. Just an image.

273 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:22:18pm

re: #272 Gus

Yep. Just an image.

Okay, then. Sorry for going off on you. *sheepish grin*

274 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:23:46pm

WTF?

275 Sionainn  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:23:58pm

I am feeling so gleeful about everything that is happening to Rush that I feel almost buzzed. Weird.

276 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:24:29pm

re: #271 Gus

as

277 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:25:17pm

re: #265 Sionainn

LOL. I did. I got burned with tub girl once (although I was warned).

Do tell.

278 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:26:05pm

re: #268 Saint Putin on a Toast

I'm glad to see he's well and found a place among friends.

279 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:26:21pm

re: #268 Saint Putin on a Toast

I see the recent bannee went to dead lice. Thought better of him.

Recent bannee? I missed something again didn't I?

Who was it?

280 Gus  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:27:49pm

re: #276 Saint Putin on a Toast

as

Oh. Really? I figured he would have been there for a while. Now he can complain about what they post over there all the time.

//

281 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:53:44pm

re: #239 HappyWarrior

That's a big one.

What's in Rush's wallet we now wonder...

282 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 1:57:10pm

re: #274 Gus

WTF?

It's remarkably easy to double down on stupid, isn't it?

283 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 6, 2012 2:27:05pm

re: #176 HappyWarrior

I love how Bozell a man who flips out over anything on television is defending a guy who called a private citizen a slut. As for Maher's comments on Palin, probably stupid but it's very different calling a public figure like Palin a twat and Limbaugh calling Fluke a slut and suggesting we watch her sex videos but Bozell knows this.

Maher was entirely over the line.

That said, Rush is even further over the line. It was a sustained attack, he lied extensively, and he went from slinging insults to personal charges of promiscuity. Not nice at all.


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