I see you posted it as an excerpt, but posted the full text. But that's ok,
since the source is not on the MUST EXCERPT list. :^)
Posted on 05/25/2004 11:28:19 AM PDT by Willie Green
"This is no different than what happens at a (college fraternity) initiation. And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort ... because (the soldiers) had a good time. You ever heard of emotional release? You heard of the need to blow off steam?"
-- Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh on the Iraqi prisoner torture scandal.
Those comments probably shocked few of Limbaugh's 20 million listeners. Today, with the release of these pages -- reputed to be culled from Limbaugh's personal college schedule -- it's far easier to understand why. We can only speculate as to the authenticity of the following excerpts:
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Please don't flame me. I'm just the messenger.
Guess he doesn't know that Rush never went to college......
Rush didn't go to college did he?
LOL!
This 'reporter' didn't do a fact check before spewing.
Typical....
When did the Pitts Tribune start hiring college sophmores to write for them?
Rush did go to college. He dropped out.
I see you posted it as an excerpt, but posted the full text. But that's ok,
since the source is not on the MUST EXCERPT list. :^)
Black fraternity members BRAND each other with hot irons; that is, IMHO, far worse than anything that's gone on in Iraq.
Sadly, this token liberal isn't the only one.
The Trib is contaminated with a few chowderhead libertarians as well.
Seate isn't the only one lacking research skills. You might want to polish yours a little.
You're hallucinating, dude.
The Trib IS on the must excerpt list,
and I DID post only an excerpt.
Those comments probably shocked few of Limbaugh's 20 million listeners
I doubt very many were shocked by Rush's stating the truth. Only the liberals tried to shout it down because of their blind partisanship.
I think Rush went to college, and dropped out. He never had a lot of respect for it.
He always says that it is not education that gets people places, it is passion for what they do.
He doesn't denigrate education, but thinks it is enshrined by too many people as the only way to success.
But then, I probably didn't catch the little winky-face at the end of your statement!
As to Rush's comment that some of the abuses were no worse than what occurred at a "Skull And Bones initiation": What an awful lot of commentators jumping on this remark DON'T seem to understand is just what DOES reportedly occur at "Bonesmen's" initiations -- or at least DID occur in decades past. Very, um, racy stuff.
Do a search for Parris Island in the headline.
I posted earlier, we went through about as much abuse in Boot Camp as these inmates did. except for a sodomy part...
And about those girls in the Chicago suburb who attacked each other with sheep dung, feces, paint, and proceeded to beat the living daylights out of each other.........
And now we have Madonna about to embark on an uplifting musical tour........
The hypocracy is not going unnoticed by real americans.
You're hallucinating, dude.LOL! I don't do drugs. :^)
The Trib IS on the must excerpt list, and I DID post only an excerpt.
I did misspeak, in that you DID post an excerpt. My mistake. And you posted the most pertinent part, imho.
However, on the LAST 'Must Excerpt' list that I saw:
The pittsburghlive.com is not on there. Has there been yet another update that I didn't see ???
I'm not trying to give you hard time, ok? If there's an updated list, I want to put it on my FR Links page (bookmark).
Here's some perspective ..
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/Pure%20Torture.html
Listen, I got hazed in High School worse than the Abu Ghraib pics. Had to fight nude in the locker room. Not fun, but certainly survivbeable.
Let's Go To The Olympics. (Such the Barf Alert!!)
The long-dreaded 2004 Olympics in Greece will be the ultimate crossroads for sports and politics in this new and vicious century. The recent photos of cruelty at the Abu Grahaib all-american prison in Baghdad have taken care of that.
[snip]
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.
I think the Admin Moderator's profile page links in the "excerpt only/no excerpts" lists.
Thanks. :^)
"RUSH: Okay, what now, what am I missing? Rape, murder, and pillage?We've done that? Where did we do that? I haven't seen that. Tell me, what am I missing?
All I've seen is, you know, the Britney Spears, Madonna torture photos. All I've seen is the woman with the cigarette out of her mouth, you know, pretending to aim a gun at some guy who's nude, and laughing; and I've seen, you know, the pyramid of the nude guys with hoods on like Robert Byrd birthday party.
What is this rape and pillage and murder stuff now?"
(Daily) MIRROR BOSS QUITS POST (Admits photos are fake - "victim of a calculated malicious hoax")
The story was oversold. This useful idiot is still denying the obvious. Leftist loons all.
To those who may not have understood Rush's "Robert Byrd birthday party" comment, Robert Byrd was a kleegle (sp?) in the KKK (the racists who wear hoods).
It appears we have another annoying liberal, Mike Seate, with his head up his seat.
What is it with guys always doing stuff in the nude?
I was in a sorority and I was hazed, but we were never nude.
Some guys are just plain infantile, stupid, and not strong enough to say 'no' to some of the stupidity.
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