Rush Limbaugh says white supremacists and the KKK are not the problem, warns of second civil war

[turbinetree]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Think Progress

Donald Trump sent shock waves through the political world with his broad defense of participants in a white supremacist rally last weekend, praising them for obtaining a permit and describing some as “very fine people.” He previously put Nazis, the KKK and white nationalists on the same moral plane as those who showed up to protest them, casting blame on “many sides.”

Some have been repelled by Trump’s conduct. Two White House business councils disbanded as some of the nation’s top CEO found any association with Trump too toxic to maintain. Scores of charities have canceled scheduled events at Trump’s private club, Mar-a-lago. A small but growing group of Republican members of Congress have criticized Trump directly.

At the same time, powerful forces on the right are now lining up behind Trump, validating and extending Trump’s views.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/rush-limbaugh-says-white-supremacists-and-the-kkk-are-not-the-problem-warns-of-second-civil-war-dc4de3a1a3fe/

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Maybe it's time to take this "excellence in broadcasting" into a full blown boycott of "all" his sponsors and "all" of these hypocrites that go on his show

[MFM008]

1. He run out of oxy again??

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[kimbutgar]

23. He really needs to triple his dose of oxy in my opinion

Then become so addicted he gets put away permanently.

[Squinch]

2. LOL! Hey Rush! You know that war you are trying to foment??? After THIRTY of your

asshole followers showed up in Boston against 30,000 people of conscience, good luck with that!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Is Limbaugh still alive?

Last time I heard him he sounded like a chain smoker with COPD.

[True Dough]

5. He's obviously still trying desperately

to get attention by spewing outrageous B.S.

[greymattermom]

4. Good

the Nazi's are cowards. Just play the tuba and they'll be gone. Losers again.

[Hoyt]

6. LMAO. Limbaugh is one of the biggest racists in this country.

[Lint Head]

7. I think the pedophilia indication, where he attempted to smuggled Viagra into

the US from a country who turns their back on having sex with children, should be investigated more. The Viagra was not in his name to hide the fact that he was using it. Why would you hide Viagra? I know this piece of human garbage is not intimidated by anything.
Vice news should do a story on this.

[FakeNoose]

8. I hope somebody throws a bucket of icewater on him

He is so-o-o-o full of shit.

Here's what the people of Boston think about all of this:


There are a lot of smart people n Boston!

[JDC]

13. Wicked Smart as New Englanders say...

To be fair, we pronounce a's as r's and r's as a's but whatcha gonna do.

[shenmue]

9. What a piece of shit

[Botany]

10. please fight me you child fucking, junkie, piece of crap

n/t

[rurallib]

11. Time for Limbaugh and Trumpy to get out their old Army uniforms and .........

What's that you say? When their country called they didn't answer even though they supported the war?

Probably won't be much good to their side now then either.

[ffr]

12. Violence. If you can't get your way peacefully, resort to killing people, right Rush?

COWARD!

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. Limbaugh won't lift a finger but to pick his nose. He only cares about the millions he collects.

He's so saturated the AM radio market, he's got a captive audience in 80% of the country. What does he care what he says or how he says it. Last I heard, he rakes in 60 million a year. He has nothing to do with the unwashed masses.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Reminds me of the old riddle,...

Q: What's the difference between the Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh?

A: One is a flaming, Nazi gas-bag, and the other is an airship.

[Eyeball_Kid]

15. Limbaugh doesn't get his fingernails dirty. He's a bloated rich white man who

sits in his studio, bloviates for a few hours, then retires to his mansion. Meanwhile, his audience, like himself, is getting old and tired. He's becoming America's AM radio wallflower.

[Pope George Ringo II]

17. Go easy on old Rush

It's not easy when your side has to actually deal with problems instead of just criticizing people. If the Russians hadn't pulled the rug out from under his feet last November, he'd be on easy street right now screaming about Hillary and something or other. Instead, much like his buddy Trump, he's really lost right now and has no idea what to do. He always does better with Democrats in charge and this is the worst Republican administration in history so he's got less to work with than ever.

What am I saying? Never mind. Pile on.

[mdbl]

18. The Rush Limbaugh show is pigs listening to pigs snort

nothing else need I say about that.

[marlakay]

19. I think even the non voters

would fight against Trump if it came down to it. Not going to happen but if it did I think we would have more on the side of good.

[lunasun]

20. Go after the colleges who broadcast sports on his stations. I have locally emailed my disgust to

u of I
https://sites.google.com/site/universitiesforrushlimbaugh/

[JHB]

21. Once again proving the old joke: What's the difference between Limbaugh and...

...the Hindenburg?

One's a Nazi gasbag. And the other's a dirigible.

[Rollo]

34. Actually the Hindenburg was a zeppelin (rigid frame and all)...

But we get the point.

Twice.



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[JHB]

40. Actually, "dirigible" is accurate, as it's the more general term...

From http://www.airships.net/dirigible/ :

What is a Dirigible?

“Airship” and “dirigible” are synonyms; a dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is powered and steerable, as opposed to free floating like a balloon.

The word “dirigible” is often associated with rigid airships but the term does not come from the word “rigid” but from the French verb diriger (“to steer”).

Dirigibles include rigid airships (like the Hindenburg), semi-rigid airships (like the Zeppelin NT), and blimps (like the Goodyear blimp).

What is a Zeppelin?

A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by a particular company, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany (the “Zeppelin Airship Construction Company”), founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

Ferdinand von Zeppelin is considered the father of the rigid airship, but not all rigid airships are “zeppelins,” just as not all photocopiers are “Xerox” machines.

The term zeppelin is often associated with the German airships that conducted bombing raids during World War I, but while most of these ships were built by the Zeppelin Company, not all German WWI airships were zeppelins; the German military also used rigid airships of very different design built by the Schutte-Lanz and Parseval companies.

One of history’s most famous zeppelins was LZ-129 Hindenburg. (“LZ” stands for “Luftschiff Zeppelin” and “129” indicates that Hindenburg was the 129th airship designed by the Zeppelin Company.) Because the American naval ships USS Akron and USS Macon were built by a Goodyear-Zeppelin joint venture, they are sometimes referred to as zeppelins as well.

Zeppelins still fly today; in fact the new Goodyear airship is a not a blimp but a zeppelin, built by a descendant of the same company that built Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg.

[dchill]

41. One uses aluminum spars to keep it rigid...

The other uses Viagra.

[sharedvalues]

22. You mean "Limbaugh incites second civil war"

Maybe it's time to take this "excellence in broadcasting" into a full blown boycott of "all" his sponsors and "all" of these hypocrites that go on his show

More than that. We need a new Fairness Doctrine to stop right wing lies on broadcast media, and we need to distinguish between infotainment and real news to prevent CNN from getting another Trump elected by massive coverage and exposure.

[Honeycombe8]

24. This gets me so angry I could spit.

I can't imagine this group of disgraceful people (Limpballs and his followers - Trump's base) actually spouting with a straight face that white supremacists & the KKK & Nazis, with their histories in the world of murdering innocent people, are not the problem...it's those who resist them. And unrelated rich people who are sympathetic to liberal ideology.

Grrrrr...... You can't have a discussion with such people. They know the truth. They have evil in their hearts and want to take us back to the pre-Civil Rights era and the "Gentleman's Agreement" era, when we discriminated against minorities and Jews.

[adigal]

25. I'm inclined to let Trump and his 34% followers have North Dakota.

Let them all move there. I'll help my Nazi brother pack. THEN, we can build a wall.

[lunasun]

26. Native Americans don't want them . They are the largest minority in ND and have enough crap

to deal with
http://indianaffairs.nd.gov/?id=18

[turbinetree]

31. Wado-------------Thank you

[underpants]

27. He's been on this line for a few days. Always always has to include BLM.

He has actually called the Nazis and white supremacists morons and other names. They aren't his audience.

His counter to the POTUS actually supporting Nazis is that Hollywood and BLM and, of course, the liberal,media has ALL th power. The fact that his party controls all,levels of government is not a point his listeners can be reminded of.

[xor]

28. Given the current backslash against these sorts statements. This might (hopefully) be something that

truly does hurt him in the long rung, and either gets him off the air or at least makes him reconsider some of he thinks/says. I would actually prefer it be the latter, because he does have sway over a lot of people. If he becomes less of a piece of shit, then maybe it would help bring back some sanity.

That's probably a bit too optimistic and putting too much faith in his humanity, though. :/

[YOHABLO]

29. Because right wing talk radio has been stoking the fires for the last 20 years

[TNNurse]

30. Can you imagine if there was physical conflict of any kind,

how far away Limbaugh would be from it????? What a coward, what a blowhard, what a horrible person he is.

[paleotn]

32. Shutup lard butt

You're still irrelevant and cavorting with Nazis is NOT going to improve that fact They're Nazis for god's sake!!! Geeezzz! What the hell is WRONG with these people?! He and I are children of parents who fought the bastards! Thus, we both grew up in a time where apologizing for Nazis was about as bad as eating children live on prime time TV. I just can't wrap my head around this crap. What the f'ing hell is wrong with these people???!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Moron!

If these "insurrectionists" start something, this moron doesn't get the military becomes their adversary. They wouldn't last 48 hours

[calimary]

35. With all due respect, you spelled one thing wrong.

It's "excrement in broadcasting." I'm guessing you were just trying to be diplomatic...

[Rollo]

36. Al Franken powned Limbaugh about 20 years ago...

With his brilliant treatise, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh_Is_a_Big_Fat_Idiot_and_Other_Observations



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[benld74]

37. Here in STL They still run his tripe daily

On same radio station that broadcasts the Cardinals.
I constantly email, call complaining
But,,,,

[lunasun]

39. I do it here with u of i games keep it up pass it on

[Maeve]

38. You'll lose again, asshole. We did it before and we can do it again, and we can do it again...eom

[muriel_volestrangler]

42. Locking - Limbaugh's opinions are not important news

We've locked threads in LBN that are just his bloviations before. Please repost in GD. Thanks.