Limbaugh: Obama Can’t Fill “Black Panther Stadium” - “Doesn’t Have Slave Blood”

What right wing racism?
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The DNC has moved its Thursday night events (including Barack Obama’s speech) from the outdoor Bank of America Stadium to the indoor Time Warner Cable Arena, due to forecasts of thunder showers. This, of course, has driven the wingnut crowd berserk with conspiracy theories about the real reason for the move.

Bank of America Stadium is often referred to as “Panther Stadium” for its home team, and in this clip, ever-repulsive right wing caveman Rush Limbaugh calls it “Black Panther Stadium.”

Limbaugh’s race-baiting was especially venomous today; he also said Obama isn’t “down with the struggle” because he “doesn’t have slave blood.” Yeesh.

(Recordings via Media Matters.)

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138 comments
1 Kragar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:05:56pm

Drug addict says what?

2 darthstar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:06:34pm

Oh, Rush...just fuck the fuck off.

3 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:06:43pm

And Boehner meets with this guy why? Seriously as much as I would like to just deride Rush as a pathetic joke and he is one, he's one that has real influence.

4 erik_t  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:08:30pm

"Slave blood"?

Good goddamn.

5 jaunte  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:09:51pm

"slave blood"

What an asshole.

6 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:11:05pm

Rush just opens his mouth and BAM! Shit comes out. I tried watching him when he was on TV, and he was too long on look-at-me and too short on facts. Glad I figured that out early on, sick that he's gotten worse over the years.

7 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:11:23pm

What right wing racism?

8 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:11:34pm

re: #5 jaunte

"slave blood"

What an asshole.

That's no way to talk about the intellectual and moral leader of a major party.

9 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:12:00pm

Michael Steele had to apologize to that.

10 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:12:32pm

re: #6 Dark_Falcon

Rush just opens his mouth and BAM! Shit that the GOP leadership listens to comes out.

FTFY

He's got real power and influence in the Republican party. That's a problem.

11 leftynyc  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:14:38pm

Rush is starting to understand that he lives in a tiny little bubble and that while he's huffing paint and shrieking for 3 hours a day, he's not able to move the needle Romney's way. It must be driving him insane and I'm loving it.

12 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:15:37pm

How dare these media matters people quote directly what Rushbo says. /

13 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:16:40pm

Rush wants Obama to win. Obama wins and four more years of bitching. Romney wins and he has to defend him. Which is more fun?

14 calochortus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:16:57pm

I listened to Rush a few times a couple decade ago around the time his first book came out. I was living in a pretty conservative area and he was a big deal. My conclusion? He was boring. Now, I know it's hard to fill a 3 hour time slot day after day with interesting chit chat and phone calls, but he just isn't up to the task. So he goes with more and more outrageous.
What amazes me is that people actually waste their time with him.

15 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:18:15pm

"Black Panther Stadium"

Hah, that's very clever, Rushy. And to think there are some people who would try to get Rushy taken off Armed Forces Radio or, heaven forbid, resurrect something called the Fairness Doctrine or whatever it is, making it less likely all true Amercians would hear the wit and wisdom of someone like Rushy. //

16 Coracle  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:18:52pm

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Rush wants Obama to win. Obama wins and four more years of bitching. Romney wins and he has to defend him. Which is more fun?

This is logical. If Romney wins, Rush is going to have to retarget to whatever high-ranking Democrats remain until the next election slag-cycle starts. That's inherently less headline worthy.

Unless he decides to, say, shift to targeting women or one minority full time.

17 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:19:39pm

Honestly even if I were a conservative, I'd find Rush sad and pathetic. Really if there's anyone in American conservatism who makes conservatives look like reactionary racist bigots, look no further than El Rush, a man who goes out of his way to be a bigoted asshole. Well it's his job. He's a professional asshole.

18 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:19:39pm

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Rush wants Obama to win. Obama wins and four more years of bitching. Romney wins and he has to defend him. Which is more fun?

That would be true no matter who the GOP ran, and I've been saying that for over a year. It's much more fun to be a "voice of opposition" if you're a show host. If your side has to actually do something you end up spending a fair bit of time carrying water for politicians.

19 Someone Please Beam Me Up!  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:19:59pm

Not down with the struggle? But that's a good thing, isn't it?

"Doesn't have slave blood?" Rush, honey, we all have slave blood. Some of us recently enough to know about it.

21 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:20:21pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Honestly even if I were a conservative, I'd find Rush sad and pathetic. Really if there's anyone in American conservatism who makes conservatives look like reactionary racist bigots, look no further than El Rush, a man who goes out of his way to be a bigoted asshole. Well it's his job. He's a professional asshole.

Favorited, and cannot be improved on.

22 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:20:45pm

STFU Rush.

23 Kragar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:21:08pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Michelle Obama's DNC Speech Written at 7 Grade Levels Above Ann Romney's.

And that is why we need to disband the Dept of Education.
/

24 Big Steve  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:21:33pm

"Black Panther Stadium"......statements like this were the nadir cause of his mercifully brief NFL commentator stint.

25 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:22:27pm

re: #24 Big Steve

"Black Panther Stadium"......statements like this were the nadir cause of his mercifully brief NFL commentator stint.

Yeah and then he wondered why the NFL owners didn't want him as part of the league. Does the guy even think when he's saying stupid shit like this?

26 Kragar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:23:15pm

So does that mean Rush would be able to fill "Mile High" stadium?

27 Kragar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:23:35pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

Yeah and then he wondered why the NFL owners didn't want him as part of the league. Does the guy even think when he's saying stupid shit like this?

SATIRE!
///

28 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:23:56pm

re: #26 Kragar

So does that mean Rush would be able to fill "Mile High" stadium?

Only when he's on his "pain meds".

29 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:24:05pm

I here I thought it was just last week when Obama interfered or manipulated the weather reports so that the Republican convention was delayed or something. /

30 S'latch  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:24:45pm

It's weird. Whatever Rush Limbaugh was saying here does not make very much sense to me. I hear the racial innuendos, but other than that, I doesn't seem like he has a significant point to make. Maybe it is all for the sake of the racial innuendos.

31 Destro  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:24:55pm

Is this real or the Onion? I can't tell which is which with the stuff conservatives say these days.

32 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:25:43pm
Maybe it is all for the sake of the racial innuendos.

Yup

33 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:25:52pm

The only thing worse than Rush are people who actually listen to him.

There's a chance Limbaugh could be playing out a lucrative role; his fan base have no financial motive for hearing repeating his ugly bigoted statements.

34 Tigger2  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:26:36pm

I guess he was trying to say Obama couldn't fill the stadium because of low enthusiasm of the base, using Limballs reasoning the Republicans must have canceled the first day of their convention because of low enthusiasm of their base.

35 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:26:43pm

re: #31 Destro

Is this real or the Onion? I can't tell which is which with the stuff conservatives say these days.

With Rush its real. The Onion doesn't try to satirize him, because they know he might actually do what they'd joke about him doing. Instead, Rush himself is a satire of a human being.

36 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:26:56pm

re: #30 S'latch

It's weird. Whatever Rush Limbaugh was saying here does not make very much sense to me. I hear the racial innuendos, but other than that, I doesn't seem like he has a significant point to make. Maybe it is all for the sake of the racial innuendos.

He's saying the president is near.

37 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:27:12pm

re: #30 S'latch

It's weird. Whatever Rush Limbaugh was saying here does not make very much sense to me. I hear the racial innuendos, but other than that, I doesn't seem like he has a significant point to make. Maybe it is all for the sake of the racial innuendos.

Most of what Limbaugh says is to avoid dead air. The content doesn't matter, just the sound. His listeners fill in the meaning like trained seals.

38 Big Steve  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:27:46pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Michelle Obama's DNC Speech Written at 7 Grade Levels Above Ann Romney's.

The Flesch-Kincaid is just a measure of work counts for sentences and syllables for words. E. Hemingway novels routinely come in at like the 4th grade level and so does Twain.

39 Charles Johnson  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:28:02pm
40 erik_t  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:29:16pm

re: #38 Big Steve

The Flesch-Kincaid is just a measure of work counts for sentences and syllables for words. E. Hemingway novels routinely come in at like the 4th grade level and so does Twain.

Well, yeah. I seem to recall reading a fair amount of Twain in grade school.

41 wrenchwench  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:29:22pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

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Paul Ryan's response: "Get it off me! Get it off me!"

42 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:29:31pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

Paul Ryan has already denounced that barnacle on the GOP's hull. Nothing to do now but ignore him.

43 blueraven  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:29:50pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

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'Tis true. Also true that Akin is even with McCaskill now in many polls.

44 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:29:55pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

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That's like a really good french kiss from a syphilitic.

45 Interesting Times  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:30:15pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

Paul Ryan has already denounced that barnacle on the GOP's hull. Nothing to do now but ignore him.

My, what a lovely voting base you have:

46 Coracle  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:30:28pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

Paul Ryan has already denounced that barnacle on the GOP's hull. Nothing to do now but ignore him.

Except for the part where they agree on things. Except for that.

47 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:30:38pm

I remember about 20 years ago--yeah that's how long Rushbo has been leading his crusade--some very good conservative Christians I knew listening to this guy, talking about his books, etc. I didn't get out of the movement until a decade later but it still amazes me, the dissonance.

48 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:31:31pm

Time for me to duck out and get something to eat.

BBIAB

49 EiMitch  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:31:43pm

Nevermind Ozzy Osbourne. How the hell is Limbaugh still alive? He's gotta have rabies or Alzheimer's or something.

50 Charles Johnson  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:32:28pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

Paul Ryan has already denounced that barnacle on the GOP's hull. Nothing to do now but ignore him.

No, he really didn't denounce him at all. Ryan said it would be good for the GOP if Akin stepped aside, but he didn't say a single word denouncing Akin or his ideas. And the reason is because he and Akin are absolutely on the same page ideologically. Akin's just a little stupider.

51 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:32:33pm

Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Id personified.

52 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:32:46pm

re: #18 Dark_Falcon

That would be true no matter who the GOP ran, and I've been saying that for over a year. It's much more fun to be a "voice of opposition" if you're a show host. If your side has to actually do something you end up spending a fair bit of time carrying water for politicians.

Oh I know, I wasn't singling out Romney there. The only candidate I've ever really seen Rush like was Fred Thompson in 2008. I had to listen to him a bit on the radio because the bus driver when I was commuting to community college. He hated McCain like he did Romney this time.

53 Obdicut  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:32:48pm

re: #38 Big Steve

The Flesch-Kincaid is just a measure of work counts for sentences and syllables for words. E. Hemingway novels routinely come in at like the 4th grade level and so does Twain.

Be specific. Which Twain novels come at 4th grade? The only one I can think of is Tom Sawyer, which was, you know, written for that level.

Huck Finn and A Yankee in King Arthur's Court are both 10th grade level.

54 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:32:57pm

Scary Michelle Obama shadow!

55 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:33:15pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

No, he really didn't denounce him at all. He said it would be good for the GOP if he stepped aside, but he didn't say a single word denouncing Akin or his ideas. And the reason is because he and Akin are absolutely on the same page ideologically. Akin's just a little stupider.

The two sponsored that bill together to redefine rape.

57 lawhawk  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:34:06pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

No, he really didn't denounce him at all. Ryan said it would be good for the GOP if Akin stepped aside, but he didn't say a single word denouncing Akin or his ideas. And the reason is because he and Akin are absolutely on the same page ideologically. Akin's just a little stupidermore honest about GOP views.

FTFY

58 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:34:24pm

re: #57 lawhawk

FTFY

Yes........

59 jaunte  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:34:37pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

It's hard to accuse Akin of "tainting the Conservative brand" when he personifies the contents statement.

60 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:35:45pm
61 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:35:55pm

re: #54 Gus

Scary Michelle Obama shadow!

That photo is either dumb luck or incredibly sophisticated planning.

62 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:37:38pm

re: #60 Gus

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The younger daughter is growing so fast.

63 erik_t  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:38:13pm

Remember when Paul Ryan wasn't actually aware that he was requesting stimulus funds?

On December 10, 2010, Ryan penned a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services to recommend a grant application for the Kenosha Community Health Center, Inc to develop a new facility in Racine, Wisconsin, an area within Ryan’s district. “The proposed new facility, the Belle City Neighborhood Health Center, will serve both the preventative and comprehensive primary healthcare needs of thousands of new patients of all ages who are currently without healthcare,” Ryan wrote.

The grant Ryan requested was funded directly by the Affordable Care Act, better known simply as healthcare reform or Obamacare.

Man, this is a fun election.

64 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:39:08pm

re: #54 Gus

Scary Michelle Obama shadow!

Awesomely sinister!

65 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:39:19pm

re: #63 erik_t

Remember when Paul Ryan wasn't actually aware that he was requesting stimulus funds?

Man, this is a fun election.

I swear he comes across being like Mitt more every day. Typical say one thing but do another type guy.

66 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:39:37pm

re: #63 erik_t

Remember when Paul Ryan wasn't actually aware that he was requesting stimulus funds?

Man, this is a fun election.

That's different!

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67 blueraven  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:40:29pm

re: #54 Gus

Scary Michelle Obama shadow!

Rawwrr!

68 blueraven  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:41:15pm

re: #66 Gus

That's different!

//

Its standard really

69 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:43:05pm

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

70 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:44:24pm

re: #69 Gus

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

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Censorship.// But really when you liken a bunch of female speakers to the Vagina Monologues while you're representing a major news network, what does one realistically expect to happen?

71 erik_t  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:44:28pm

re: #69 Gus

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

Shit!

/

72 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:45:25pm

re: #70 HappyWarrior

Censorship. But really when you liken a bunch of female speakers to the Vagina Monologues while you're representing a major news network, what does one realistically expect to happen?

Yeah. I'd categorize that as being highly unprofessional.

73 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:45:29pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

Awesomely sinister!

Doesn't seem sinister, just lots of layers of dynamic in an unconventional composition. That one is worth some classroom discussion time, even getting away from the politics of the moment.

74 jaunte  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:45:54pm

re: #69 Gus

The Limbaugh business model is difficult to sustain.

75 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:46:34pm

re: #72 Gus

Yeah. I'd categorize that as being highly unprofessional.

Yep, won't stop the cries of censorship if he is in fact left go.

76 Charles Johnson  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:46:37pm

re: #69 Gus

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

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And here again is his piggish tweet:

77 Sheila Broflovski  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:47:00pm

re: #54 Gus

Scary Michelle Obama shadow!

I love it!

78 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:47:16pm

re: #77 Learned Mother of Zion

I love it!

Knew you would. ;)

79 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:48:56pm

re: #69 Gus

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

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"Wow!! We had 32,000 viewers?"

80 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:49:17pm

re: #73 Decatur Deb

Doesn't seem sinister, just lots of layers of dynamic in an unconventional composition. That one is worth some classroom discussion time, even getting away from the politics of the moment.

You do not understand us evil people.
:(

81 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:51:53pm

re: #80 Varek Raith

You do not understand us evil people.
:(

Makes me think of A Face In the Crowd, and I haven't seen that since the '60s.

82 palomino  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:52:20pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

Paul Ryan has already denounced that barnacle on the GOP's hull. Nothing to do now but ignore him.

But why did Ryan denounce Akin?

Because he disagrees with Akin on the substantive matter of allowing rape victims access to abortion? No, not at all.

The only denunciation from Ryan was over Akin's clumsy words.

If you're going to be "detail oriented", at least do it consistently.

83 jaunte  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:52:57pm

Obama Camp Fights Ohio’s Move To Ignore Early Voting Ruling

In its filing Wednesday, the Obama campaign pointed out that Ohio had not sought an actual stay of Economus’ decision, and instead “appears to believe it can issue [a stay] on its own authority.” The Obama campaign said Husted’s memo does not “identify the legal basis for this extraordinary action,” and argued that the memo conflicts with a well-established principle that orders based on a court decision are to be respected until an appeals court rules on the matter.

84 calochortus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:55:03pm

re: #69 Gus

Uh oh. Erick's in trouble.

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Funny, I don't see that mentioned on Red State.

85 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:56:37pm
86 palomino  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:58:10pm

re: #24 Big Steve

"Black Panther Stadium"......statements like this were the nadir cause of his mercifully brief NFL commentator stint.

It's also one of the reasons he's so popular within his demographic. His entire shtick is built upon telling white people that their racism isn't really racist, that blacks are the "real racists" today and we white folks are suffering under their oppression. All totally absurd, but quite appealing to a certain dead end segment of the listening public.

87 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:58:53pm

Freepers Excited About Prospects Of New Civil War, Yet Again

...they are ever vigilant for the first glimmer of a chance to actually refresh the Tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants, or at least to talk about what they’ll do for sure when SHTF, which they are totally ready for. Heck, their bloodthirsty desire for serious concern about a second Civil War is so deep that FR even uses a “CW2″ tag so readers can keep track of the many posts on the topic. The latest addition to the ouvre is “When The Music Stops — How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence,” by one Matt Bracken, which originally ran on the Western Rifle Shooters Assn. blog. Mr. Bracken is also the author of the “Enemies Foreign And Domestic” trilogy of novels, which is, surprisingly, self-published, and which absolutely does not simply scream “Turner Diaries fanfic.”

Mr. Bracken believes that the coming Troubles will be ignited when “a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but zeroes” and/or the supermarkets stop accepting the worthless funds that are not backed up by gold or something. (The details of how the economy would collapse to this degree are not important, because he wants to move along to the rioting).

Then, once the minorities find that they can’t get food with their food stamps, they will go on a looting rampage, like they do. Again, never mind that not quite half of food stamp recipients are white, or that 41% of families using the program also have some employment income — those are minor distractions that get in the way of the fun tactical narrative about urban warfare that Mr. Bracken would like to focus on, thank you. Once The Blacks (Bracken prefers the military-thriller-sounding acronym “MUY” — “Minority Urban Youths”) have looted all the grocery and convenience stores and there’s no more food, then “A single truck loaded with food or gasoline would be perceived to be a Fort Knox on wheels and subject to immediate attack” — yes, you should now be thinking of Reginald Denny during the LA Riots! Also, Mr. Bracken would like you to know that he is Not Being Racist, Just Being A Realist Who Recognizes The Harsh Realities:

If you keep going on the article, you get excerpts, which amount to a fantasy about gunning down rioting minorities who will, of course, be disorganized and primitive and thus incapable of withstanding assault by prepared white armed individuals standing their ground. Including the charming acronyms Suburban Armed Vigilantes and Minority Urban Youth.

Racist gun porn. That's exactly what it is.

88 Kragar  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:59:23pm

re: #80 Varek Raith

You do not understand us evil people.
:(

Youtube Video
89 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:59:45pm

re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

Freepers Excited About Prospects Of New Civil War, Yet Again

If you keep going on the article, you get excerpts, which amount to a fantasy about gunning down rioting minorities who will, of course, be disorganized and primitive and thus incapable of withstanding assault by prepared white armed individuals standing their ground. Including the charming acronyms Suburban Armed Vigilantes and Minority Urban Youth.

Racist gun porn. That's exactly what it is.

Anyone who thinks about Civil Wars fondly is an idiot.

90 A Mom Anon  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:01:02pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

A bloodthirsty idiot in need of mental health care.

91 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:02:07pm
92 MittDoesNotCompute  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:02:09pm

re: #24 Big Steve

"Black Panther Stadium"......statements like this were the nadir cause of his mercifully brief NFL commentator stint.

I have no doubts that comment was carefully chosen by Rush; it allowed him to take a swipe at both the President and the NFL (who spurned him when Rush attempted to buy his way into the rarefied air of the NFL owners' club, because of shit he said).

93 ReamWorks SKG  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:02:42pm

One thing for sure: Rush is hoping Obama wins so he has material for the next four years.

94 erik_t  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:02:59pm

re: #91 Lidane

Worse. My coffee cup is empty now.

95 Charles Johnson  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:03:15pm

A gnarly set of regular expressions for detecting mobile devices:

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96 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:04:37pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

A gnarly set of regular expressions for detecting mobile devices:

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What if my laptop and I sit vewwy, vewwy still?

97 Daniel Ballard  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:05:32pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

In many ways I am a conservative. I used to listen to Rush a lot when my job had me on the road a lot. When he was just in Sacramento. I could listen to his whole show without a major flinch. now I just find him embarrassing.

The wife and I tried to listen to pass the time of a 467 mile drive just this past Friday. No can do. He's awful. I was better off with road noise. I have got to get a radio in the truck that docks an Ipod! Or something.

98 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:05:34pm

Poor Mitt. $100 million spent on the RNC and this was the result:

Too bad for Chris Christie, too. All that yelling and posturing for 2016 and Invisible Obama beat him as well.

99 Killgore Trout  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:05:59pm

re: #93 ReamWorks SKG

One thing for sure: Rush is hoping Obama wins so he has material for the next four years.

Same with Fox. Despite the constant shilling I suspect MSNBC would be more than happy for the ratings boost if Mitt wins.

100 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:07:48pm

re: #97 Daniel Ballard

The wife and I tried to listen to pass the time of a 467 mile drive just this past Friday. No can do. He's awful. I was better off with road noise. I have got to get a radio in the truck that docks an Ipod! Or something.

Satellite radio and put it on one of the commercial-free music channels. Failing that, an iPod dock and an audiobook that both you and the wife want to listen to will work wonders.

My drives to see my mom are 350+ miles each way. Satellite radio and audiobooks are a blessing for those long road trips.

101 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:09:46pm

re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

Freepers Excited About Prospects Of New Civil War, Yet Again

If you keep going on the article, you get excerpts, which amount to a fantasy about gunning down rioting minorities who will, of course, be disorganized and primitive and thus incapable of withstanding assault by prepared white armed individuals standing their ground. Including the charming acronyms Suburban Armed Vigilantes and Minority Urban Youth.

Racist gun porn. That's exactly what it is.

I wish I had a time machine so I could send these men back to fight in the real civil war.

102 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:11:22pm

Hmmm. Jerusalem is apparently going back into the DNC platform.

103 MittDoesNotCompute  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:11:54pm

re: #101 Mostly sane, most of the time.

I wish I had a time machine so I could send these men back to fight in the real civil war.

Most of them would likely shit their pants, turn tail, and run.

105 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:12:31pm

re: #102 Gus

Hmmm. Jerusalem is apparently going back into the DNC platform.

106 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:13:39pm

re: #101 Mostly sane, most of the time.

I wish I had a time machine so I could send these men back to fight in the real civil war.

I'd also like to send them back to a time before labor unions existed. Let them see how much they take for granted now every time they go to work.

107 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:13:53pm

re: #104 Gus

Just in: Democrats to update platform with Jerusalem reference

Derp.

108 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:14:13pm
If you keep going on the article, you get excerpts, which amount to a fantasy about gunning down rioting minorities who will, of course, be disorganized and primitive and thus incapable of withstanding assault by prepared white armed individuals standing their ground. Including the charming acronyms Suburban Armed Vigilantes and Minority Urban Youth.

Which is somewhat at odds with the idea of their being very scary. But I'm sure both are true in Bracken's world.

109 Decatur Deb  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:14:46pm

re: #105 Lidane

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How about we just whistle the theme from Chariots of Fire?

110 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:15:04pm

I'm fine with it being put back in too. Either way.

111 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:15:13pm

re: #97 Daniel Ballard

In many ways I am a conservative. I used to listen to Rush a lot when my job had me on the road a lot. When he was just in Sacramento. I could listen to his whole show without a major flinch. now I just find him embarrassing.

The wife and I tried to listen to pass the time of a 467 mile drive just this past Friday. No can do. He's awful. I was better off with road noise. I have got to get a radio in the truck that docks an Ipod! Or something.

I've hated Rush since I first heard him at age 11. He sounds like the men my mother used to have to do business with, except Standards and Practices didn't keep them from calling my mom (and any competent woman in business) bitches.

Actually, she still does periodically, and at 70 the local good ol' boys are still calling her a bitch and wondering if she's a slut (mostly because she's like ten times more competent than they). They're also still listening to Rush.

112 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:15:27pm

re: #101 Mostly sane, most of the time.

I wish I had a time machine so I could send these men back to fight in the real civil war.

Fight? They'd be too busy running away to ever see the elephant.

113 Lidane  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:15:36pm
114 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:15:46pm

OMG there were black people wearing berets and in uniforms on the stage, quick! Someone alert the wingers!

//

115 blueraven  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:17:42pm

re: #110 Gus

I'm fine with it being put back in too. Either way.

They put GOD back in too.

So much for Deval Patrick's cry for dems to grow a backbone.

116 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:19:43pm

re: #115 blueraven

They put GOD back in too.

So much for Deval Patrick's cry for dems to grow a backbone.

And tonight the benediction will be read by someone who essentially anti-atheist.

117 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:20:25pm

re: #116 Gus

And tonight the benediction will be read by someone who essentially anti-atheist.

THAT'S IT!
I'M VOTING FOR ROMNEY!
XD

118 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:21:48pm

re: #108 Bulworth

Which is somewhat at odds with the idea of their being very scary. But I'm sure both are true in Bracken's world.

Nah. It's just a subtrope of the standard "blacks are irrational and animal-like" concept. You'll find the same idea reading British authors about tribes they were warring with in Africa. It was very important to establish that the black folks with Iron-Age tech weren't ever outthinking the white folks. It was also a great excuse for shooting indiscriminately into crowds.

119 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:22:03pm

Trouble.

Chaos During Dems Platform Vote

Youtube Video

Sounded like 50/50 to me.

120 engineer cat  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:22:29pm

re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

Freepers Excited About Prospects Of New Civil War, Yet Again

If you keep going on the article, you get excerpts, which amount to a fantasy about gunning down rioting minorities who will, of course, be disorganized and primitive and thus incapable of withstanding assault by prepared white armed individuals standing their ground. Including the charming acronyms Suburban Armed Vigilantes and Minority Urban Youth.

Racist gun porn. That's exactly what it is.

yeah, actually i saw this myself on the fr the other day

just a way for them to daydream about what is apparently one of their favorite fantasies - having an excuse to shoot black people

121 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:22:30pm

re: #119 Gus

LOCK STEP!

122 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:23:23pm

The just reinserted this:

We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.

123 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:24:01pm

Meh.

124 Varek Raith  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:25:08pm

re: #122 Gus

The just reinserted this:

We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.

Wow, disappointingly mundane.
Snooze.

125 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:25:21pm

re: #120 engineer cat

yeah, actually i saw this myself on the fr the other day

just a way for them to daydream about what is apparently one of their favorite fantasies - having an excuse to shoot black people

Not just shooting black people.

Shooting black people in a scenario where they get to prove their superiority in intelligence and martial skill.

126 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:30:46pm

bbl

127 Sionainn  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:35:59pm

re: #122 Gus

The just reinserted this:

We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.

My "potential" wasn't given to me by "god." What a stupid thing to put in there just to appease people who, for some reason, have to have "god" in every single thing that has to do with government. For fuck's sake. I'm disgusted.

128 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 3:35:24pm

re: #1 Kragar

Exactly. Who cares what that idiotic redneck has to say about anything?

As someone with "slave blood", I'm very down with President Obama as is Mrs. Obama, who also has "slave blood".

Really enjoying the Democratic convention. Was surprised how much I loved Reid's speech yesterday. Dying to hear Sandra Fluke and Bill Clinton tonight.

129 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 3:39:11pm

re: #83 jaunte

Obama Camp Fights Ohio’s Move To Ignore Early Voting Ruling

Yay! What makes Ohio Republicans think they're above the law?

130 mr.fusion  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 3:47:34pm

re: #128 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. Who cares what that idiotic redneck has to say about anything?

Wish I could agree, but the guy gives one of two major political parties in this country their marching orders. He has 20 million listeners.

What he says is very important....and it's important that his incendiary bull shit isn't kept in a GOP bubble for the same reason that I wish Charles would have posted about the hateful comments on right-wing sites regarding MO's speech

131 CriticalDragon1177  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 5:20:15pm

Charles Johnson,

Rush is an idiot. I'm sorry I ever looked up to him. If I had any respect for him left, I would have lost it now.

132 wheat-dogg  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 5:43:59pm

re: #38 Big Steve

The Flesch-Kincaid is just a measure of work counts for sentences and syllables for words. E. Hemingway novels routinely come in at like the 4th grade level and so does Twain.

Um, no. Citations, please?

To test this hypothesis, I took the first three paragraphs of Life on the Mississippi and ran them through an online readibility checker. The Flesch Kincaid level was 13, roughly equivalent to freshman year in college.

Doing the same for the first three paragraphs of The Old Man and the Sea, the result was 10.48, almost 11th grade reading level.

You get an F. Try again.

133 nines09  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 5:50:44pm

Rush Limbaugh met Danny Dope, and lost his best friend, Barney Braincell. What a fine upstanding example of a Bloated Toad. Sewer gas has more class, and dog shit looks better.

134 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 6:13:07pm

re: #19 Someone Please Beam Me Up!

Not down with the struggle? But that's a good thing, isn't it?

"Doesn't have slave blood?" Rush, honey, we all have slave blood. Some of us recently enough to know about it.

Not sure Rush is the guy I would turn to to find out who is and isn't 'down with the struggle'.

135 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 6:14:09pm

re: #30 S'latch

It's weird. Whatever Rush Limbaugh was saying here does not make very much sense to me. I hear the racial innuendos, but other than that, I doesn't seem like he has a significant point to make. Maybe it is all for the sake of the racial innuendos.

He just sort of foams. Most days he doesn't have a point per se, just "Look at all the people who are out to get you in some way. Let me say offensive things about them."

136 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 6:18:04pm

re: #116 Gus

And tonight the benediction will be read by someone who essentially anti-atheist.

Who?

137 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 6:20:21pm

re: #128 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. Who cares what that idiotic redneck has to say about anything?

As someone with "slave blood", I'm very down with President Obama as is Mrs. Obama, who also has "slave blood".

Rush is, well, Rush.

But I have to admit, I smile a little bit when I imagine the ghosts of those who built the White House seeing Michelle, in couture, serving as hostess at state dinners, and the girls doing their homework.

138 Gus  Wed, Sep 5, 2012 6:20:27pm

re: #136 SanFranciscoZionist

Who?

David Wolpe. As far as veracity I'm not quite sure.


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