What Rush Limbaugh said 10 years ago right after the OKC bombing...

[sugapablo]

I don't have an exact quote, but I do remember Rush Limbaugh, on his syndicated television program, saying basically this...

"Whomever did this, we should immediately drop a nuclear bomb over their country."

Turns out of course that it was an American fellow who did this, Tim McVeigh.

But doesn't this typify the conservative mindset?

First you generalize, then you respond in a rash and often violent manner, all in accordance with personally held dogma.

Is anyone as sick of it as I am?

[Sparkle]

1. Mr. "Rush" to judgement!

What a Dopehead.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. I bet he felt like a fool

Finding out where he was from. See, you can't go by just skin alone and just think nothing like that can happen here. :eyes: It seems the only way they like to solve things is through violence.

[Lindacooks]

17. Naw, Limpballs doesn't have the self-awareness or

capability for reason to feel like a fool. He just conveniently 'forgot' he said it.

[slackmaster]

2. It wasn't just Rush saying things like that

Just about everybody (including myself) initially assumed it was done by Muslim extremists.

[sugapablo]

4. Really?

Being that it was on the anniversary of Waco, I really knew it was an American. I don't say that to say "Hey, I was so smart" etc., but it just seemed obvious.

I remember I was in college and everyone around basically had the same conclusion.

[slackmaster]

10. I was already over 10 years past college

I freely admit my knee-jerk reaction was wrong.

[frictionlessO]

15. Same here.. was in college as well and only one friend was convinced

of Muslim extremists.

The rest were openminded about possibilities.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Some of us knew better..after all we knew who hated the fed gov't most

[rocktivity]

6. I wondered why international terrorists would target Oklahoma City

when they could get more "mileage" out of targeting an internationally known U.S. city like, um, New York. And I was right. Hooray for me...

:(
rocknation

[liberalhistorian]

8. I think that's the thing that

makes it almost more horrible than even 9/11, it was done by one of our own citizens against his fellow citizens, maliciously and without remorse to the bitter end. He called the 19 children killed at the day care center "collateral damage."

I'm just as frightened of these domestic terrorists as I am of Al-Queda, maybe even more so. They slunk off back into the woodwork after Oklahoma City, but now they're starting to come out again, largely thanks to hateful republican rhetoric, which was what emboldened them back in 1995 to begin with.

[sugapablo]

11. Exactly

Especially when Republicans are now calling for violence yet again, against "Activist Judges". No kidding!

http://www.2ra.org/index.php?c=article&i=16

[signmike]

13. 9/11 was very likely done by "Our Own", too. Our own leaders

:shrug:

[ET Awful]

12. A lot of Freepers STILL think that. n/t

[mpendragon]

21. Gore Vidal and OKC bombing

He thought Syrians might have been involved. He met with Tim McVeigh a few times and wrote about it in some articles and the book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be so Hated.

I'm not saying I agree but it is interesting. I think it was a pissed off redneck with a fertilizer bomb.

[walldude]

14. I remember reading about people saying

they saw some "Arab looking people" running from the building after it happened. A little rush to judgement..

[Straight Shooter]

20. Just about everybody assumed it was Muslim extremists?

The thought did not cross my mind. My first reaction was an American who hates the FBI, considering it was the Waco Conflagration Anniversary.

[bushisanidiot]

Boil Ass talks out his ass.. I can't believe all 12 freeptards listen

to him.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Careful what you wish for Rush

What a dope that is on dope trying to get a rush!

[MrBenchley]

7. Nobody did more than the flabby junkie to stir up a loony like McVeigh

And how he wailed when Clinton CORRECTLY called him on it.

[illflem]

16. Around the same time there was a rash of bombings

at IRS offices across the country.
I just figured it was an extension of the same.

[dryan]

18. Maybe....

I'm unusual, but I thought it had something to do with Waco and also Hitler's birthday -- which is 4/20.

[fryguy]

19. it was a common sentiment expressed by the right at the time

there were calls to detain all muslims in the country and prevent them from leaving, as well as other utterly racist actions. but once it was found that a good'ole white amer'kin boy did it there was nothing but silence.