Zed?!

It’s people like Rush who give anal sex-obsessed junkies a bad name.

What can you say… …what the hell else to they have? Rush Limbaugh is a pathetic standard bearer for a pathetic, soiled with rectal-cyst drainage, political philosophy.

Rush Limbaugh is a bad joke. The Republican Party is the punchline.

Thersday!!

Rush is the very epitome of everything the modern Republican Party stands for: batshit crazy, pig ignorant, bigoted know nothings.

I don’t suppose it’s occurred to any Republicans yet that the reason Obama wondered aloud to them if they were really going to listen to Rush Limbaugh about, well, anything, is not out of any sort of fear of Limbaugh, but rather along the lines of, “you can’t possibly be serious about this clown.”

*polite golf applause*

I forgot hypocritical, sleazy, and corrupt.

Hard to be certain if they really believe the crap they say or they’re simply pandering to the dumbest common denominator.

La, la, la, they can’t hear… well, I guess what they can’t hear is reality. Clashes with the preconceptions, it’ll have to go.

Yes.

What else is there to say?

Doesn’t have to be an either or question. 8-)

Rush to GOP:

Line up!
Drop your pants!
Bend over!
Now!

I’m certain Rush loved that. No such thing as bad publicity. Criticism by Obama just rouses Rush’s rabble.

It is the party of magic pony voodoo politics.

It should come as no surprise that they are deaf to opposing points of view… too much shit in their ears.

Unless Obama has something interesting up his sleeve with which to blast the crap out of him, I don’t see the utility of giving him enough oxygen to get out in front.

I remain hopeful…

Of course having Limpballs giving the GOP their marching orders would certainly hasten their decline to total irrelevance and marginality.

“We will have ORDER!…And a touch of backdoor delight.”

;>)

It’s Thersday! Can you Digg it?

But it won’t make them shut up…

Unfortunately, it appears that even when totally irrelevant and marginalized, they can outmaneuver Reid and Pelosi.

Why, is that Field Marshmallow Limbaugh?

Nothing can do that.

A not very bright 3 year old could do that.

Even though Rush was born six years after Hermann Goering’s demise, I am convinced that he is his son. I attribute the apparent time lapse to the longer gestation cycle of elephants.

I’m going to have to develop some new material on this fellow…He doesn’t appear to have the good sense to take his money and run.

;>)

Ha!

I’m sure we all look forward *shudder* to that, db!

Indeed – even a noble beast can have a bad egg, however.

;>)

Well, he is certainly ripe for abuse.

nice man-boobs

puts mine to shame…

In desperation we often grip what is destroying us like Booze, Drugs, Rush Limbaugh even tighter. We feel secure with the Devil we know when confronted with a Devil we don’t know.
The GOP cannot process why Obama won. They Blame Bush but for their loss they do not see that the causes that Obama champions like National Healthcare the Environment, Ending the War are popular by themselves not because Bush opposed them.
The GOP sees the election as a rejection of Bush personally not a rejection of the ideas he championed.
The GOP would blow a fuse trying to even process such thoughts.
Lacking this information they just think that the election waslost because people hated Bush personally.
The GOP thinks the cure is suck up to the popular kids Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
The Problem only 22% find them popular.

You may have seen this already.

He’s the finest hairball they could cough up?

He is ramrod straight, er, when he has is pill… .

The GOP cannot process why Obama won. They Blame Bush but for their loss they do not see that the causes that Obama champions like National Healthcare the Environment, Ending the War are popular by themselves not because Bush opposed them.

Should read

The GOP cannot process why Obama won. They Blame Bush for their loss they do not see that the causes that Obama champions like National Healthcare the Environment, Ending the War are popular by themselves not because Bush opposed them.

I’ve been having a bit of fun with Glenn Beck lately…But he has a lot less to lose than Rush, Glenn could at least secure part time night work in a Salt Lake City drive thru with a little bob and kneel.

But Rush…He’s the last outlaw, nowhere to go but down.

;>)

I think they were aiming for the most rancid (these are the Republicans after all), in which case they succeeded marvelously.

The GOP sees the election as a rejection of Bush personally not a rejection of the ideas he championed.

You should have seen Eric Cantor talking about Chimpy yesterday. Referred to him as if he was a work of fiction, he could not have separated himself more from those ideas if he had been in orbit.

They are managing their image problem piecemeal.

Goodness, a narcotics abuser. Eye bleach!

;>)

Very, shall we say, graphic.

I’ve been having a bit of fun with Glenn Beck lately

Like a cat toying with a mouse?

Doesn’t sear the retinas like a Rush Goatse. Sorry, no link (I’m afraid to look for one).

They are the magic pony voodoo party. Conservatism cannot fail and is always right. Therefor the public could not possibly have rejected conservatism, it had to be the Bush fellow, whoever he was anyway. Delusional does not even begin to describe the mindset.

Hey there folks. Dr. Dick, DrBong…

More like a dog rolling on a dead fish I think.

Won’t be long before they start referring to Bush as a member of the Democrat Party.

It would appear that the doctors are in.

Per Colbert on tonight’s Word:

“If you can’t have a perfect economic recovery bill, you’d rather have no economy at all.”

Amen.

I’m not a fan of studied ignorance, and Beck has that schtick down cold.
…
R: OOh, a Rush goatse! Would you like one?

;>)

I think they have already accused him of being the second coming of Roosevelt and a closet socialist.

Guilty as charged.

Have you heard what’s going down at Arizona State?

If it was oblivion to reality, it would be easier to manage. But it seems to me more like jujitsu – truth by force, repetition, etc.

As long as they have the mic, they aren’t going to let up. And why shouldn’t they, no matter the dissonance? The Dems have yet to seize the podium.

Willful stupidity and ignorance are strong selling points on the right (see Pantload, Doughy).

Provided it is in good taste.:-)

No. What?

Evenin’ BC – Long time no see.

If that’s true, they really need to reduce their dosing of psychoactives drugs.

I won’t presume to speak for the most eloquent ratfood… but I’m game!

;~P

I think it is a bit of both actually. Most of them, I think, really believe most of that horseshit. They also think that by simply repeating it loudly and often enough they make it true. They are not rational.

They’re imposing a furlough system: 15 days for adminstrators, 10 days for classified staff, 12 days for faculty. Faculty get their furlough days on days they are not teaching.

Think they’ll cut back on their research output expectations?

Oy vey!

We’re in pretty good shape here, however, if something like this were to happen, I’d prefer the administration to say they’re furloughing hourly employees and imposing an across-the-board temporary pay cut of X% for admin, Y% for faculty and Z% for salaried professionals. And X > Y, and X > Z. I’m not sure of the right relationship between Y and Z.

Hey, Dr. B. I’ve got early classes three days a week this term, and I’m not seeing as many late nights.

It’s never, ever been about being rational, and their audience gets yanked from pillar to post and swallows it whole. Like I said, they are the piecemeal party. Say anything to advance your argument. Anything. It doesn’t matter if you violently contradict yourself 15 minutes later. Just keep pounding.

Think they’ll cut back on their research output expectations?

Ha! When hell freezes over and Limbaugh gets a soul. Wouldn’t be too bad for me since I teach five days a week. Helps that they don’t pay me very much for it either. My colleagues who managed to get two days a week would be totally fucked. Kind of makes me nervous about our upcoming biennial meeting of the legislature (or war of the stupid as we like to call it).

Still always a pleasure

California Supreme Court just gave Ahnold the greenlight to furlough state workers for 2 days per month. That’s a 10% gross paycut imposed by fiat.

By appealing to the 22% the GOP solidifies its base at the expense of the moderate voters they need to win a National election.
The GOP needs the Stimulus plan to fail. They need an economic collapse to bring in a another Shock Doctrine and a personable Reagan Clone Sarah is their best bet for that role.
But again the GOP’s blindness screws up their plans.
We pushed through Civil Rights in the 60’s then the economy died Reagen blamed us.
Reagen blamed Chicago Cadillac Driving welfare Queens who did not exists (and the MSM NEVER CHECKED THE STORY UNTIL LATER).
For why the Government was not using its cash to create jobs.
Which Reagen did with military spending.

Just keep pounding.

Cue the porn music

;~P!

Chick-a-bow…

Ha! When hell freezes over and Limbaugh gets a soul.

If we’re playing Believe three impossible things before breakfast you left one out…

It’s a powerful strength to them, providing the relative morality needed to make the tough decisions involving their theories and the lives of others.

Should the subjects become incapable of rising to the ideal, it is their failure and not that of the theory, of course.
The great unwashed are so uncooperative.
…
A tasteful Rush goatse…hmmmm.

;>)

I don’t like furloughs by Fiat.

If I’ve gotta drive a furlough, I want one by Alfa Romeo. Or BMW.

Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’m really glad my Dad and brother are both being paid by CalPERS now.

A tasteful Rush goatse…hmmmm.

The perfect icon for the modern conservative “movement”.

Cue Tweety-esque leg-shiver…

If they convince themselves that they can sell the “Our plan would have created 33% more jobs than Obama’s plan…” then they will sell it. Whether anyone is buying that for ‘10 is for Obama’s PR department to decide.
Jujitsu them right back.

The Reagan Military build up created jobs yes. But it did not end the Cold War the Russians were so scared of Reagen that they took troops away from other duties and invaded Afghanistan and stayed their for years.
The expense from that stupid war is what broke up the USSR.

I’m holding out for a Porsche. 8-)

Hey, DB:

Have you seen the picture of RushBo that Olberman uses? Could you do something tastelessly pornographic with that? Maybe Larry Flynt would buy it and run it?

And what does it say about us when Larry Flynt is an important protector of civil liberty?

Bada-BOOM!

True But I still want Obama on the tv 24/7 selling his plan:)

Porsche Carrera, maybe?

Yep. With 8 days under his belt, we have a long way to go. But I think he has them where he wants them. From here out, it’s execution, execution, execution.
I mean like in football, not the other thing.

Brad Delong has a nice deconstruction of their claims that Republican policies would create more jobs. Let’s just say the numbers don’t add up they way they claim they do.

Late to the party, if you are still here DB,
BRING IT ON!

Shocked! The Republicans fudged the numbers!

There are a whole bunch of studies that show that the multiplier effect for military spending is really small. You might as well hire a bunch of guys to dig a hole, throw the money in, burn it, and bury it. You would get just as much (possibly more) economic effect from it.

Republican numbers never add up. It’s a damned shame so much wasted effort has to go into deconstructing their bulshytt.

2 weeks ago every GOP dildo was saying that they wanted the US auto industry and their millions of jobs to go belly up. Now they claim they know how to save millions of jobs.

Fucking liars.

-G

Rush Limbaugh has bored the crap out of me for decades now . .

What a way to begin a piece on anal sex! My pun meter is pegged! So to speak.

Don’t those studies show that the most economically effective military spending is for troops?

If I could get my hands on one.

The GOP needs the American people to Blame Poor, Minorities, and Immigrants not Banks and big business like the American people are currently doing.
They think time will fade the American People’s memories but that will not happen if the Economic Crisis does not fade in 2 years.
There is risk but chances are we can get a filibuster proof majority in 2010 if Obama sticks to his guns!
We need Obama to sell his plan.

Flynt’s been that way since the 80’s with the Falwell Campari parody – which reaffirmed the right of free speech in America. Before that, even.

I’ll have to look for that pic. I’ve had an idea, a snapshot if you will of one night in the Dominican republic.

;>)

I have to wait until the kids go to bed.

;>)

And they did get some, if not all, of the union concessions they craved.

As I recall, that is the only really economically stimulative element. Even that is less than spending on civilian public works. Spending on weapons systems has minimal economic impact.

perched upon a famously leaky foundation,

Thers is a bloody genius!

The image Olberman uses is shot from below. Limpballs is sucking on a huge stogie. I’m not sure how much of the size is forced perspective and how much of it is really the size of the cigar.

No child porn now.

Corporate tax cuts are handled as follows by CEOs (in the bong theory) and in the following order:

1. Down payment on villa in the south of France
2. Bonuses for EVPs
3. Deposit in tax-free account in Grand Cayman bank account
4. Jobs (overseas)
5. Jobs (stateside), maybe

discuss as I sleep?

Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, the coal industry employs about 81,000 workers

http://greenwombat.blogs.fortu…..-industry/

I was getting to that Green power produces Jobs changing over from Coal to wind and sun will take decades and produce jobs for decades and with electric cars the money for gas instead stays in our economy.

Off to bed for me. I have to entertain the youngsters in the morning while I warp their innocent minds.

California Supreme Court just gave Ahnold the greenlight to furlough state workers for 2 days per month. That’s a 10% gross paycut imposed by fiat.

It’s a total political failure. Maybe now the public will wish Clinton and Gray Davis were still in charge.

Worse yet, if they can do it for 2 days, then why not 28 days? Where does it end except Ahnold and his few dictatorial friends running the show?

They need some really really good political leadership out there and they need to kick some people in the ass.

You could boost the economic stimulus from it if you put most of the troops in places like the SeaBees and the Corps of Engineers. Then you have them train by having them build public works projects.

We actually do some of this now. Lt. CounterTenor’s platoon has built/remodeled facilities for the National Park Service.

But the brass would rather have guys who destroy stuff than the troops that build stuff.

If one looks closely at a certain work of mine, one of the inspirations tacked to the canvas of the work being painted might be similar.

;>)

Bend them well, Dr. Dick.

I’m off to Albuquerque to see Ed Tufte’s dog and pony show tomorrow.

Leading the hour on (worthless) NPR news:

Blago has lost his security detail.

Seeing that Rush is a Florida Republican, can we safely assume that’s not a Cuban?

-G

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar.

Me.

Beautiful image. Is a higher res version available?

Watching a recorded DVR program on the Statue of Liberty by Ken Burns from 1985. Superb.

.
Golly, I just LOVE the guy! Having a big fat rich loudmouth represent the obstructionists in Congress is just going to hit cold, hungry, scared American’s right where they live! Unless they’re already homeless, of course.

Here’s some links & lists of Reichsmarshall Rush’ advertisers. Let ‘em know how much YOU love ‘im too!
.

Unlike Military Spending Spending on infrastructure produces a return on our investment.
To be fair if Bush had won the war and gas prices had gone down there would have been a return on the investment.
Obviously we need to rethink how we fight wars.
Infrastructure spending spending pays for itself better roads faster commerce and well gas wasted.
Bridges that don’t fall down less lawsuit. Dikes like the Dutch have built for 10,000 year storms would have saved New Orleans.
Water Treatment plants clean water.
Not spending now on these things drives up the price to fix them later.
Voting against the Stimulus plan means voting for more taxes at a later date.

Lets see the Blue Dogs defend pay as you go then!

There should be a larger version around somewhere.

…cigar?

;>)

A very good friend of mine who worked in a cigar store told me that in addition to being a big fat idiot, LimpBalls is also a big fan of Cuban cigars. Like his sycophant Gruppenfuhrer Governator.

Splendid piece of work!

wow

Welcome to FDL!
Here to answer questions if you have them.

The Turkish PM Erdogan got into a shouting match with Israel’s Shimon Peres and then stormed off the stage at Davos.

Methinks Turkey is reassessing their relationship with Israel.

-G

I just showed it to Mrs Dr CounterTenor. Her academic specialty is rhetoric and professional communication. Her comment: “A splendid piece of visual rhetoric.”

She went on to say, “Pity I can’t use it in class.”

They did that here oh, maybe 15 years ago. But all the days off were in summer – they called them Filmon Fridays in honour of the premier. People were furious.

The funny thing was that there were also a lot of complaints when the financial situation improved and everyone went back on full hours and full pay. They really liked their three-day summer weekends.

That’s most kind of Mrs. Dr. BCT, and tell her not to worry – apparently, I’m a popular item in many colleges and universities.

;>)

Ah. In the French manner, then. Big demonstrations and labor action there today. Shades of the Revolution, etc.

(Wow, strange synchronicity between this thread and the Rahm Destroyer thread!)

Can we have the comments refresh w/o having to hard refresh? Please?

;~P

And either fix (show text) or else get rid of it? Huh? Can we?

I second the motion.

By the way, did you all see that Bush finally got a statue in Iraq? It’s not the grand square envisioned by Dick Perle.

It is something a little more pedestrian.

-G

I’d like to know where you got the notion…

Excellent, DB!

Personally, I think it a perfectly civilized arrangement.

I won’t rock the boat, though…

I’ve rocked the boat for ages, DrB.

Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. People listen to him for entertainment. Like going to the zoo to watch monkey toss poo at each other.

Thank you very much.

;>)

Rock of ages?

What sentient human would not reassess attitude toward Israel after Lebanon 06 and Gaza 08?

Have I actually caught up with the comments? I thought I was probably a thread behind.

Or watching pols throw pooh at each other on cspan.

versus the ages of rocks?

scarily, I know two Catholic priests who listen religiously to limpbark. Unfortunately I’m not Catholic or I would write them a letter explaining that it limpbark is about as unChristian as one can get. He embodies apostasy.

db,
you are my photoshop hero.
love,
mary

Finally at the Ottoman Empire in mid-east history reading. Lesson learned: don’t screw with the Turks.

Well, pups, I’m gonna say good night.

The American body politic.

-G

Surprisingly the last survey I saw (memory is dim so no link), more than half the U.S. population disagreed with what Israel did in Gaza. Given the U.S. media, I found that result astonishing.

Evenin’ all !

I see db is up to his usual genius …

Petro!!!

Did someone say petrol?

Hey Petro,
Love your new FB photo!

Suzanne has tunes, upstairs!
Late Late Nite FDL: Dance With Me

Christine !

It made me laugh, after our Libruls lost their collective spines …

How are ya, Mary ?

Me good, P.

LOL … unlike the price of gas, I am nevvuh goin’ down ! *g*

I just finished reading the book Charlatan by Pope Brock. It’s about a big time huckster, J.R. Brinkley, from 1930’s who also used radio to get his message across. In the process he got very very rich. He sold goat gland surgery and pills and potions to help men with their potency. He and Rush had a lot in common.

The other thing that they have in common is all the people who truly believed in him and will leap to his defense, including the Vice President of the United States.

Brinkley had someone actively working to stop his quackery, Morris Fishbein the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nobody in serious journalism wants to take Rush on. Media Matters is doing an excellent job at holding up a mirror to Rush’s lies, but it is a tough battle. Rush is the most powerful person in the GOP right now.

I and a bunch of bloggers took on the hosts from the top conservative radio station in San Francisco, KSFO, and cost them 28 advertisers and about $500,000 in revenue. It forced me underground as they attacked me legally, financially and verbally. It’s great to stand up to bullies, but if you want to hurt rich people you take away their money. And when you threaten their money, they “take the gloves off”. I “won” but I paid a price.

The people I tangled with weren’t anywhere near Rush’s class, but when you impact their revenue they go wild. Rush (and Hannity) are holding up a couple of major media companies. They can not let him destroy their business, and will defend him and support him for as long as he is seen as an asset.

The key is to start positioning him as a liability. A money losing, “he might go off at any minute!” liability. Rush will destroy himself, we just need to give the people who are supporting him a reason to stop supporting him.

I advised the people of Hate Hurts America on my techniques and about 18 advertisers left then and they got sued by Michael Savage. They won the case and eventually cost Savage about two million.

We can make an impact on these people and we can do it via “The marketplace” (which really dives them nuts). But we have to understand the forces that are in place both on their side AND ON OURS that want to see people like Rush kept in place.

What a nice thing to say…Thank you, Mary.

;>)

She isn’t wrong. We do indeed take you for granted, though.
Nice work.

Al Franken was right, a long time ago,
“Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot!”
Simple, concise, and all you need to know.

‘Though it’s not nice to make fun of his size.
As Countdown’s Worst Person in the world
Comedian Rush Limbaugh wins the prize

Keith Olbermann is right about his ilk,
Ol’ El Rushbo spews putrid, right wing lies
That “Dittoheads” lap up like Mother’s milk!

Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Coulter, Hannity,
Paid well to turn oxygen into hate-
Concrete proof incest breeds insanity!

“Master of three technologies ago?”
Perfect! And the whole thing, Thers.
They really should just change their
party’s name to the Regressives.
JC