Limbaugh likes Hillary's chances in his home state

Rush weighs in on the Florida Democratic primary mess, DNC penalties, and the candidates' pledge to boycott the state: "What the Democrats are putting on display is that all this supposed stuff that they are: free speech, open-minded, tolerant -- is all BS. These people are socialists, and they want to control as much as everybody's lives as they can. Now, this Florida business is interesting on two fronts. Bill Nelson, I hate to say this, one of our senators...has actually filed suit against the DNC."

"...Mrs. Clinton doesn't need to campaign here.  She's got a 33 point lead.  The people that need to campaign here are Barack Obama, and the Breck Girl, and whoever else in that bunch thinks they have a chance, but they can't.  This is also a factor.  Mrs. Clinton doesn't have to come in and spend any money in Florida.  If her opponents can't come in here and campaign, what has she got to worry about?  This is a name recognition situation for her down here in Florida, and so she's got the state wrapped up.  So while on the surface it appears that Florida Democrats are in a battle with the DNC, in reality it's Mrs. Clinton putting Florida in her back pocket without a campaign here."

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bring on billery-Florida is Rudy country in the general.(old story Miami was considered the sixth bourough of NYC) Believe it!!

New York transplant

Gotta love New Yorkers, arrogant bunch. Think the country is a microcosm of Manhattan. Won't be two yankees fans running against each other, bet on it.

[Sound Off]

If the Dems are Socialists, then the Repubs are Fascists. Here's a quote from my blog about the "New America" under Republican, "leadership": "What a sucker I’ve been. And listen: I KNEW THE POWER POSSESSED by the MIC ; and I still didn’t GET IT. I was obviously too close to the forest to see the trees and living under the assumption that the House would have the gumption to cut funding for this idiotic and useless war. NOPE! Not gonna happen. The MIC lobbyists are most probably working overtime in D.C. to garner support for their employers, the over 500 U.S. Corporations, (and growing daily), who have total annual contracts from the war in Iraq of over 230 Trillion dollars in the 2006 alone. America has become a nation of War because of the sheer economics. Hey, it sorta makes convoluted sense. After all, the last three Presidents have outsourced American jobs oversees, leaving service jobs as the primary cottage industry in the United States. In Florida, for example, the service industry is number one source of workers; it employs over two and a half million workers; they are service jobs like: Food Wait Staff, Bartenders, Insurance Agents, Realtors, Attorneys, Accountants, Mortgage Brokers, Car Sales people, fruit pickers, construction workers, consultants, photographers, Models, advertising reps and more; all of those work mostly on a commission or a fee as their primary source of income; and most get a 1099 instead of a W-2. I find it interesting that these workers are the ones that are suffering the most in this wartime economy. Look at new housing starts! Record low; the lowest new house starts in thirty years. Resale of homes is horrible, down nearly 30% in the last three years; and this is a national problem. My brother, a top realtor for twenty years, has sold two homes in the last 24 months. I know three mortgage brokers who are out of the business. I know a successful accountant who sold his dwindling practice to a larger firm and is looking for work." Who's prospering under this President: the wealthy who got tax breaks and MIC companies and their employees. Peeps, you'll never hear the truth if you listen to this druggie blow hard. (MIC=Military Industrial Complex)

Hey 9:11 If you can make it there you can make it anywhere- and don't even try to ditz Francis Albert, see you in Jan 09'

I am a Republican and am so, so tired of listening to Limbaugh.

He is a polarizing figure and a major contributor to the sabotage of reasoned discourse in American politics today.

Remember, this guy was hooked on hillbilly heroin. What ever happened to that case? Does anyone know? Did he get off scott-free?

Hey, Rush..I thought you were off the oxycontin (sp?).

Don't worry, my GOP friends....help is on the way in the form of a Democratic President of the USA!

9:11

That's what Rudy should do in the general...Paint Hillary a Mets fan, watch her lead her party for most of the season, then collapse at the very end.

[Crusader]

Rush especially likes Hilary's prescription drug plan.

Rush Limbaugh:

Has been.

Rancid.

Putrid.

Dead.

Rush is disgusting and vile
he called our brave troops, phony and terrorist. SP times should have nerver gave him one inch of ink, much less put a disgusting picture of this traitor to our brave troops pic on this blog

when is this viagra taking pedophile going to be removed from society?

[csbrudy]

If we had just libel and slander laws, Limbaugh would have been put in his proper place long ago. If he had received the punishment he advocated for other illegal drug abusers, he would be in prison.
When we hand count our ballots, we will have politicians with the integrity and minimal courage necessary to allow for the ridding of our airways of this filth. Until then, we will have bowls of pudding like Pelosi, who will always roll over for her right wing colleagues.

It is pretty amazing that you dems prove Rush right again and again.

If someone disagrees with you, their free speech rights aren't near as important as yours because you're more enlightened.

What a bunch of losers.

[Sound Off]

Rush has the right to say what he wants. And every time he opens his big mouth, he displays his hypocrisy,
such as him being busted for drugs. I'm an Independent; but IF I was a Republican, I'd separate myself from this guy fast. He will hurt the Repubs in the 2008 National election. Like one of the previous posts, he's turning Republicans off and they wish he'd just go away.

If all of you are so sick of Rush, don't listen. I know this is difficult for you libs to grasp, but there is a button on your radio which will allow you to listen to other talk, music, sports or nothing at all. But, obviously, you are all glued to your radio sets, overcome by the "talent on loan from God" emanating from your dashboard! It's just not fair that he is that good, is it?! Imagine if he didn't have "half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair!"

4:15 = ignorant. Maybe you should check the facts before going to a blog, putting your lack of information on full display.

However, it's nice to see a few of you libs actually pretending to care about our troops. Too bad you only even pretend when you want to gain political points.

I guess I can see why the times would quote a drug-addicted bigot on the presidential race in Florida.

did fatso fone in the comments from another viagra-fueled romp in the DR?

what a disgusting quasi-human being!!

12:37 AM
Mabe you should read the real transcript and stop listening to Rush's Lies
Rush has been honest about nothing, he is using you all and laughing all the way to the bank, or was that Bangcock
so he can abuse some more children

Mother's Please, Yell "ARE THERE ANY REPUBLICANS IN HERE" before you let you sons go into a public restroom or anywhere close to that pedophhile Rush

This is so funny to see the libs scared to death of Rush Limbaugh. He's got your hypocrisy number and it has every one of you in a pickle as to how you can shut him up.

They can't shut him up and that is what frustrates them no end and prompts this outpouring of irrational hatred and vituperation. Rush has an audience, something the bankrupt Air America never accomplished. The left thrives on its hatreds and won't forgive the fact that listeners prefer Rush to listening to progressive pap.

on january 21, 2007, fatliar will be arrested, taken to a public place, given a shovel and instructd to dig his own grave
after, his bloateddruginfested body will be shoved into that grave and the dirt pushed in to refill it!

yeah but,
he is right about Mrs. Clinton.

This is turning out to be a DNC gift.

She can spend very little money and not have to worry about the other canidates and their ad campaigns.

[Ashley]

it's simple if people did not listen to Rush he would not be on the air!!!

[Zhombre]

6:21 tell me which are you -- a Stalinist or a member of the Taliban? Your sick little violent fantasies are really repulsive.

Hey Rush - let's talk about those phony soldiers - I've got a father (WW2 vet), brother (VietNam vet), uncles (Koreans & WW2 vets), and 2 nephews (in Iraq now) and lets chat about them all being phony as they all are against this war, know that it is a mistake, and we all say our prayers each and every night that those two boys come home safe and sound.

Zhombre

"BrokeBack Mountain Boy"

Why do you guys like to follow leaders who are child abusers, pedophiles, public restroom trolls and drug adlded gasbags

There are no shortage of ill-intended and manipulative people, most associated with today's extremist Republican Party, that like to remind us all that 'freedom ain't free'. An odd perspective considering the fact that 'inalienable rights' are about as free as free can be.... As usual today's radicalized Republican Party and the Conservative movement have reality exactly backwards. Freedom is as free as the air we breathe.... If something is 'inalienable' it is unchallengeable, absolute, immutable, not able to be forfeited, unassailable, incontrovertible, indisputable, and undeniable. It is free!

But that is the problem with today's fanatical Republican Party and militant Conservative movement: It is completely unmoored from reality and operates in a universe of lies and deceit of their own making, which they insist to be the truth.

The Republican Party's confusion couldn't be greater. They honestly don't understand that freedom is indeed, free. However, with freedom, as with great power, comes great responsibility. And that is what today's fringe Conservative movement and extremist Republican Party fail to understand.

One cannot walk into a crowded theater and, under the guise of free speech, scream fire when there is no fire. Such an act could lead to people being trampled and killed as they try to escape. The point is that along with 'inalienable' rights comes an inherent responsibility to practice it in a way that is not harmful to others or to the form of governance that enables and allows such human freedoms to flourish.

How wise is it to allow corporations, political parties, and individuals the legal means through which to broadcast dangerous ideological opinions that are dressed up as factual news? Do corporations, political parties, and individuals have the right to willfully and intentionally mislead and con supposedly free people into behaving, acting, agreeing, or voting in such a way that the doing undermines their freedom and destroys their democracy? Isn't that very much like yelling fire in a crowded theater? Isn't the person yelling fire exercising their right to free speech in a manner that is potentially harmful to others? Isn't manipulating mass media information in such a way that it harms the people and weakens democracy also, an abusive implementation of rights and freedoms?

When FOX News intentionally misleads the public through terrorism-related fear mongering; refuses to report actual news that reflects poorly upon their Republican Party masters; when the network lies and claims everything in Iraq is going just great when it has come completely undone; when their morning show lies and claims a Democrat attended a 'terrorist' training school; and when their captions intentionally misleads the people in one of a hundred different circumstances, isn't that using freedom of the press and free speech in a manner that harms the American people and undermines the democratic process?

Today's Republican Party and extremist Conservative movement's foundation is the notion that simply because they believe something, it is true and deserving of equal media representation. Never mind Republicans rarely, if ever, possess evidence or facts to support their version of what they consider the "truth." Republicans believe whatever it is that they believe and have bullied the media into accepting their "impassioned belief" as being of equal value to evidence and facts. This, of course, is insanity. And the danger that this illogical reasoning poses to the nation's wellbeing, has been made more than obvious by the Iraq War.

The Bush administration and quasi-think tank supporters insisted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaeda. They couldn't prove either case and had no evidence to support their ridiculous claims. The international community and MOST of the legitimate (non-administration created and sponsored) U.S. intelligence community had facts-based evidence directly refuting the administration and its supporter's claims. However, the administration insisted that their claims -- absent fact or evidence -- merited greater weight because it was THEIR strongly held opinion and they were able to better package their perspective for mass media consumption. Insanely, most of America's media agreed and ignored the evidence-based facts that directly contradicted the administration's Iraq-related opinions.

The point is that everyone has a right to their own opinion, but they don't have a right to present their delusions as being either fact or reality. What's more, institutions and media outlets have a responsibility not to present dangerous and misleading ideology-based opinions as fact or reality. And, contrary to what some might believe, including people on the Left who've bought into the Republican con that public figures and so-called news agencies have every right to present their opinion as fact, refusing to allow or participate in the perpetuation of opinions-as-fact insanity is not infringing upon anybody's free speech.

Nobody is saying that James Dobson cannot say, though it is completely dissociated from reality, that the Founding Fathers formed the foundation of America's government on biblical teachings. Dobson and his followers have every right to say and believe whatever delusions they wish to, however; the media has an obligation to America's freedoms and democracy to both correct the falsehoods and too, not to allow peoples' delusions to be presented in a forum or manner that could be perceived as legitimizing the illegitimate.

If it hurts James Dobson's feelings that his delusions aren't being presented in a manner that would make them appear legitimate, that is too bad. The media's job isn't to placate either the Right or Left's feelings or agenda - it is to be an honest mediator and disseminator of factual information.

Even the President of the United States has the right to his opinions, but the media has an obligation to freedom and democracy to ensure that not even the President of the United States' opinions are presented as fact. And when there is a gray area and, perhaps, the truth appears somewhat murky - responsibility to freedom and democracy demands that conclusions be based upon the preponderance of available evidence...regardless of how strongly one might believe their own self delusions.

Finally, when someone's opinion is stated as fact and is done so without evidence supporting the claims, responsible people have a duty to freedom and democracy to make certain the opinion is not repeated without being properly challenged. Again, a lesson that Iraq should have made clear.

Today's extremist Republican Party and fringe Conservative movement members need to understand that they have a right to their opinions, but responsible media has a duty to freedom and democracy to challenge such misguided delusions and to ensure such opinions are not disseminated as fact. Indeed, in a public forum, along with free speech comes a great responsibility on the speaker's behalf to ensure that what is said is honest and truthful...otherwise nobody is obligated to provide them a platform from which to lie.

[Zhombre]

10:50 - I'm not even to going to respond to the seepage from your rodent brain. Keep posting your rubbish and be damned.

Rush Rocks!!!!

Thank you for telling it like it is

11:13 - thank you for your thoughtful and thought-provoking post. Probably the best post I've read in a long, long time. You hit the nail on the head of every topic you covered.

What a fat pompass a_s blow hard schill for the R party. He is truly an ego maniac. Makes me sick to look at his drug addicted face.

Then don't look at it. I'm sure nobody wants to see your face either, jerkweed.

Btw, the spelling is POMPOUS and SHILL. I'm sure you got good grades in college for parroting your prof's leftist beliefs but they didn't teach you to spell, did they?

[Zhombre]

Don't worry! Your elected (DEM) representatives are going to keep tabs on people like Rush:

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/10/this-should-con.html

Your little quasi-Stalinist minds should take satisfaction in this. After all, the First Amendment only applies to people who spout the correct liberal pieties.

Zhombre
you are amazingly
a BrokeBack Mountain boy
what a idiot

11:13
nice post.
well said.
well thought out.

I do not agree with one paragraph.

1st Admendment Rocks!

Rush has to take a viagra to get it on with a 4 year old, Yuck !

09:08 PM
1. you are a idiot
2. you did not even read the article, can you even read?
3. Ist amendment does not give you the right to yell fire, when there is none, and endanger others
4. your hero Rush, is a lying, drug addict, Viagra taking, pedophile

You forgot draft dodge, like GWB and Dick Cheney. Maybe that's the appeal, draft dodgers DO care most about the military.

[HS]

Who cares what Limbaugh has to say? He has no credibilty at all. He's a hypocrit who hasn't been in the news since he was caught popping handfuls of OxyContin (while preaching against all the drug attics in America of course).

Rush should be removed from society

Legaly of course