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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:02 PM
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Rachel Maddow says: "Don't call My President the Devil!"
Still harping, defensively, on Hugo Chavez...

"And don't call Anyone evil -- I'm over that."

(She's also "over" Mel Gibson -- "y'know, I hear
good things about Apocalypto, but y'know what --
it's Mel Gibson!!")

Sugh... Shallow people who are unsure of what they
stand for and what they believe, that they have to
contionually harp on a week-old issue in order to
prove their bonafides...

It is all political correctness. Bush et al.
just figured out how to manipulate it to their advantage.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:03 PM
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1. Well, don't call that devil my President!
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:05 PM
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2. Amen to that Jackpine...
Hugo Chavez didn't call my president el diablo...he called BUSH el diablo...and if the pitchfork fits in the hand.....

Oh Rachel!!!
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:57 PM
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13. If the pitchfork fits, you can't acquit! ^_^ n/t
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:05 PM
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3. Perfect response
:thumbsup:
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guinivere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:06 PM
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4. lol
She's just begging for a bunch of e-mails and phone messages stating just that.
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:07 PM
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5. An insult to devils, my good Sir/Madam!
Minor demon at worst. Imp at best.
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blue cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:07 PM
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6. But it is OK for Dobson
to say that they fear Hillary worse than the devil but later Dobson said that it was tongue in cheek. Just heard it today.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:15 PM
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8. Or when Limpballs called Daschle "el Diablo"
Partial transcript, The Rush Limbaugh Show, July 20, 2001

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How many different versions of Satan, the devil, have you seen in your life? I mean, the comic book devil with the red face and the horns, seen that one. We've seen the Satanic devil of the horror films. We've seen the devil portrayed as just an average man, a human being, in the movie "Rosemary's Baby". We've seen the comic devil of TV shows. We've even seen the smooth, tempting devil in Hollywood moves. Is Tom Daschle simply another way to portray a devil?

I know: 'Rush, how could you? You don't say this about anybody! Oh, Rush, please back off, don't go too far, you're going to come off as so, oh, no, Rush, please don't. He's so laid back, he's so soft-spoken, he's so friendly, he's so, how could you say that, please."

Folks, look: Is he so laid back? Is he so soft-spoken? Is Daschle so friendly? You tell me. Remember what Daschle said when he became the Senate Majority Leader? He blathered on about bipartisanship and working with the President and how he came to the job with humility and how he realized now that as Majority Leader his responsibilities were different - that he had to work to bring competing sides together for the good of the American people. And from that day forward he's been on TV just about every day doing everything he can to keep the people of this country divided.

There is no desire on Daschle's part to bring people together. There certainly is no bipartisanship flowing through his veins, nor is he leading any bipartisan effort. There is no working with the President of any of this. He's criticizing Bush, he's attempting to further the notion that Bush is illegitimate, incompetent, unintelligent. He tries to block the President every day, he downgrades the President every day and he devalues the - he tries to - every day, folks. It's his job - every day. His job is not about doing good things for the country. His job is in his mind is simply about destroying George W. Bush for pure political purpose. It's totally personal. It is the politics of personal destruction with Tom Daschle, hidden behind this laid-back, soft-spoken, so friendly demeanor.

Let me ask you this: He says he wants to work with the President - what would he be doing if he didn't want to work with the President? Can you imagine if his objective - stated objective - was to oppose the President? How would it be any different from his current behavior? Just yesterday, as Bush winged his way to Europe on a crucial mission to lead our allies into the 21st century, with Europe's flagging economy, talking about mutual defense in the 21st century, realistic environmental solutions, solutions for world poverty, not ths stupid Kyoto stuff and not allowing the United States to be robbed blind by the UN and the poor nations of the world, up pops "El Diablo", Tom Daschle, and his devilish deviltry, claiming that George Bush is incompetent, criticizing Bush at the very moment he is engaging in these efforts to improve our relationship with these world leaders.

http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/limbaugh7-21-01.html


btw, the theme music for this Limpball segment was "Devil in a Blue Dress"
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:12 PM
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7. In the Words of Rush Limpballs " who is this Rachel Maddow ?"`
"I've never heard of her",,,well I quit listening to her anyway,,where is Stephanie Miller ? wheres momma ? Rachel is smart but not a talk show host.
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:15 PM
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9. So now RACHEL MADDOW has fallen out of favor among some people here???
Good grief. :eyes: :crazy:
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:34 PM
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11. It is possible to distinguish between the messenger and the message.
And the message is "the emperor has no clothes".

Would some character such as Ahmadinejad be qualified to give such a message? No, because he (& his antisemitism) is part of the double-sided push to confrontation & war that Chavez was speechifying on.
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:20 PM
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10. The Devil disagrees too....
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:56 PM
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12. Now that's funny!
:rofl:
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