Rush Limbaugh Attacks Obama over Pirate Shooting

Rush is a fat, angry, bigoted, windbag and by his need for attention and to justify his miserable existance he'll say any ignorant and stupid thing to get people riled. He and his species of racist dinosaur will slowly die off as time goes by. Best use him as a low water mark for teaching our children about ignorance on the airways and in the media.

Rush is interested in making money.  This makes him money.  Having this very public fight between Rush Limbaugh and President Obama only diverts attention from the real issues.

Limbaugh is idiotic, as are the vast majority of wacko Right Wingnut commentators. They appeal to a dimwitted demographic, and are just rendering themselves irrelevant. I'd bet some of the crackpot Righties are even getting tired of Glenn Beck's 24/7 scare tactic temper tantrum.

Point well made, Amy, but calling Rush fans "idiots" is a way to label any Rush fans here as idiots. I listen to him. I can find him annoying, but, as Camille Paglia said, the right has the better political commentators. And Paglia is definitely on the left.

We call this insulting by proxy. Suppose Queenshart had said that people opposed to Rush were idiots? Not OK. Then not OK to label Rush fans "idiots", either.

As a centrist, I am going to say that the left has a bit more narcissism than the right. Not an easy thing to do, by the way. But I have my "metrics".

The only pain as I see it is submitting onseself to that base level of a Rush Limbaugh. These types were branding Obama a 'Socialist' and tossing out the juvinile scare tactics before the man even entered office. I think it's absurd that anyone takes them seriously, especially after 8 years of a Neocon nightmare.

Yes of course it was, it always is. It's always the exact same nonsical argument, Bush can rip up the constitution, cripple stem cell funding.. but Obama will always be 'worse.' Bush's deficit doubled all previous deficits, and his budget didn't even include to cost of IRAQ. Obama's first task is to pump trillions into the Neocon Depression Economy to stop the bleeding. If people don't like it, they should at least blame the administration which created it. TARP began under Bush, was that due to Obama's polcies? If  GW were still in office, would he doling out trillions to prevent a collapse? Of course he would, he'd have little choice. At least Obama's vision, which is FAR sighted. lays down massive investments in infrastructure. All Bush did was lay down infrastructure in Iraq. We got ZERO for it.

I don't know where you intend to buy the magic wand, but 8 years of Neocons has done serious damage and the 'let them fail' bit doesn't convince me personally.

I just really can't buy into the idea that people who were content with Neocons running the USA as a for profit private war machine corporation are suddenly outraged at 'both parties.' It's too Glenn Beck, it's almost corny. The fact is we have a two party system, if someone wants to change that I'd be open to a third party, but there are Party lines and  it's one or the other. I'm not voting for any Republicans, knowing there is a 95% chance that they'll tamper with things like abortion rights, federal stem cell funding, and will come down on the side of Big Oil and pretend Global Warming is a myth. And they still seem to think Supply Side Economics works, but it never has.

That's such a touching story. All those xenophobic, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, anti- stem cell funding bible thumpers magically disappeared when you passed by! I hear violins, do you hear violins? Anyway, back on Planet Earth, Republican ideology is bankrupt and a large number of your midwestern brothers in arms were solidly behind McCain/ Palin continuing the Neocon preemptive war loving, Big Oil loving, anti- abortion anti-gay way of doing things. No thanks.

I think most people who like to denigrate him and others have actually never listened to all in context.  I never listened to him until I retired.  Some days he is silly, entertaining and others he is fantastic and very insightful.  It is actually a realistic point he makes.  Bush would have been criticized about this pirate situation too.

Going out on a limb publicly and speaking honestly takes real balls.  It is easy for us to say stuff here but would you discuss as you have here    in person ?  Forums allow people to vent!  It is a good thing to vent!  It is kinda like journaling only anonymous (mostly) people will hear you.  Everyone needs to be heard.  We do not need to be afraid of intense expressions do we? I respect the rules here but I still say let us duke it out!  I apologize for assuming Tuber is in pain and my last sentence . I am guilty there. I do not apologize for calling him a name for calling "all republicans/conservatives wingnuts.  That was on point but the rest I did go too far.

It is difficult to get past prior conditioning about anger.  Our society does not give people permission  to express anger.  The main reason they hate Mr. Limbaugh.  We have more permission to cry than to express "righteous" anger.  Generally when one does express anger they are labeled as "out of control"....a "bitch"..."hot head".  I remember the first time I expressed anger in a healthy way to my son's fourth grade teacher.  I was intense.  When I finished and started to apologize he said, "you owned your statements. You did not attack me"  ..  Those teachers are savy on issues of anger management and language.

It's fear .Yes, people who are vulgar, nasty , dishonest must be bammed for sure.

If we can stay on point and slap back once in awhile I say( as a psychologist) it is a good thing.  People are so afraid of anger.  This is one of the reasons  Rush is ostracized by the "heart on  your sleeves lefties".  They want to talk softly and never fight.  Freedom of speech includes expression of all . Philosophy is what rules  countries.  We come here and must agree to disagree.

I hear what you say Amy  but why did you allow Tuber to say what he said too?  I suppose you can't monitor this every minute etc.  It is a rhetorical question of course.

I encourage anyone reading this to go to this site discussing Anger is Healthy.

Limbaugh will criticize/attack President Obama about everything and anything regardless of logic, facts, and common sense.  He wants to spike his ratings.

Um, Rush Limbaugh is a hateful professional shill. I don't need a condescending irrelevant lecture on 'anger.' Perhaps you are the one in need of therapy.

"One makes sense, the other doesn't. Stop wasting my time."

This is another example of an unncessarily personal comment by you and a clear violation of the code of conduct here, NYCTUBER.

What is good for the goose, is good for the gander. Get with the program. You have insulted us twice in this thread.

Believe it or not, there are actually people who don't want Bush or McCain or Obama. You and many others seem to think that these are only choices.

What limits you to such narrow dysfuntional thinking? Obama is Bush's spending programs writ even larger and Obama kept Gates and is going into Afghanistan without any real European help.

What change does that represent?

I want all troops home out of all foreign countries yesterday and on the border to stop the drug smuggling and the violence.

I want the drug program that Bush passed rescinded. I want the rich to pay for their own medicine. No more Social Security for them, either, and no medicare.

I want the Medicare to negotiate prices for the drugs with the drug companies, and not let it be determined by them. Has Obama said anything about this? That whole thing was pure insanity, but Obama, by not mentioning it ever, has given it tacit approval.

I want the jobs back from China. I want energy independence. I want a new third party and I want the Fairness Doctrine declared unconstitutional. 

I want all the TARP money back and the financial institutions permitted to fail and I want all the executives' pensions seized under SEC rules that have to do with fraud.

Who cares what Rush or anyone else says about the messiah. He is the MAN..The light and the path toward only god knows where?

Hi NYCTuber,

Having grown up in the Bronx and spent most of my early life in NYC, including university I received a rude awakening one day hitch-hiking across America.  There are people in the heartland that actually love their country and love their life styles. Not afraid to serve in the Armed forces and volunteer in their religious institutions to help the needy. What a concept. If these are the stupid, naive, foolish, idiotic, less-then-normal, Americans that watch Fox then I am with them. They may not be flashy or intellectual snobs but a heart felt concern for freedom, as they see it, is sincere. 

Maybe not my cup of tea but nevertheless they are a real, genuine, concerned and honest folk that keep America churning so that we big-city types can rip on them with our myopic way of seeing the world from "our" parochial view out of the 20th floor on Madison.

I.m ready to offer my referee services. 

Rush is a fool, he will find anyway he can to disagree and insult the president. I think he is just bitter about the loss for the republican party. Oh and by the way, Josh Sucks.

A lot of them are miserable weirdos. Did you check the 'tea parties' they're comparing Obama to Hitler,and worse. The racism and hatred is boiling to the surface. When the President (Bush) starts doing the bidding of religious nuts by banning stem cell funding or trying to legalize discrimination against gays, it's a problem.

Mr. Limbaugh's comments were an interesting and bizarre observational assessment. 

Thanks for commenting.  Notice how he gets  the words black, muslim, and community organizer in there?  Silly and bizarre as it is, it's also scary how he has so many viewers!

The pirate problem for Obama has only begun. There will be no negotiated solution. Shooting these men has only inflamed the problem, yet that was the only thing to do in the situation.

Now Obama has to deal with a situation that created the "Blackhawk Down" scenario.

Of course, Amy. It was pure Rush, whose commentary looks as good and bad to the right and the left as Olbermann's does to the left and right.

Tuber, calling fans of Rush "idiots" is just like calling Olbermann and Maddow fans "idiots". Now, what good did that do?

One makes sense, the other doesn't. Stop wasting my time.

You know what Tuber?  You just reveal what a whack job you really are to call all

conservatives Wingnuts.  There are nuts on both sides.  Go out of your little circle of

people and meet more Americans.  You might be surprised.  You have a lot of pain to

hate so much.  I am sorry you feel the way you do.  It is not fun.

Please don't be so personal in your comments, it's against our code of conduct.

I agree with Roy C and NOT with nyctuber. I don't believe people who listen to Rush or Glenn Beck are "nutjobs" or are a member of the "dimwitted demographic". (nyctuber did however solidify my perceptions of those who are left of center.) Rush and Beck do a great job of providing material for listeners to research themselves.

You addressed your comment toward me, I wasn't talking to you. I voiced my opinion toward the story, which I'm free to do. Enough already.

Here is the word from Camille Paglia on the right-wing nuts. She is probably one of the last real libs around, as opposed to modern libs who are the harbingers of left-wing authoritarian culture, a la Chavez and the Castro bros.

Interesting take, Blue Crush. The Somali pirates are definitely not seizing ships for fun, but out of dire need to survive. However, in this situation, I doubt there was any other way out.