Posted on 11/11/2008 10:42:09 AM PST by La Enchiladita
You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair. Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun," the LA Times reports.
Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed." Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"? "I fear [this] is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago," Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief, reports Times "On The Media" columnist James Rainey.
Indeed, many on the losing end of last week's election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media — led by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity — only too ready to feed that animus, along with their own ratings.
"The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen," Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million last Thursday. "Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression."
"They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."
A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing, the Times reports. The proposal, in fact, emanated from a single economist, one of many experts testifying to a congressional committee.
Hannity and Limbaugh filleted Obama's selection as chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, in a way that exposed their partisan gamesmanship. On the other hand, Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of John McCain's closest allies in his bid for the presidency, praised Obama's selection of Emanuel as "a wise choice." He added that the new chief of staff could be a tough partisan, but was also "honest, direct and candid" and willing to "work to find common ground where it exists."
Dude, the word is "clinging".
Why do you love it?
I don’t trust the MSM.
Is there, or is there not, a proposal by a Democrat elected congressperson,
to seize 401k and IRAs into the SS “trust fund”?
And, there was never a bitter tone or bone from the left throughout the past 8 years. [chuckle]
They can’t understand why we aren’t licking their jackboots.
Obama is a “mystery”? -Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw?
Wasn’t that ‘Newsweek’ that also mentioned 0bama was ‘creepy’?
Not to MSM, we’ve seen this movie before and we all know how it ends!
How dare we, huh? This is a veiled suppression of the voices for OUR point of view.
Notice how they applaud Lindsey Graham for his Uncle Tom-ness.
No. But there are proposals to effectively nationalize those accounts, the effect of which would be disastrous:
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dems-target-private-retirement-accounts.html . Or go Here.
As the article indicates they are discussing the idea in a congressional committee.
Rush also in his comments on this was very clear that this was not an Obama proposal nor yet a Democrat one, though the committee was chaired by a Democrat and it does illustrate the trend of their thinking.
The article therefore also is lying about what Rush actually said, either because they did not actually take the time to find out and are incompetent or they are deliberately lying. In either case it illustrates they are not trustworthy in their reporting.
****Wasn’t that ‘Newsweek’ that also mentioned 0bama was ‘creepy’?****
Correct, it was a writer named Evan Thomas. Here is the transcript: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/11/06/newsweek-s-thomas-slightly-creepy-cult-personality-around-obama
Why, I'm sure that nice young Keith Olbermann wouldn't ever say "Sh!t" even if he had a mouthful. Which he frequently does.
I don’t really LOVE it. That’s a figure of speech to mean I am highly amused.
boo hoo the liberal paper called me unilateral....
boo hoo the liberal paper called me unilateral....
Chiefly Jim McDermott (D)....
Conservatives should put their principles aside and give their full support to the new president and congress. Just like liberals did in 2000 and 2004.
Wrong. As usual, they criticize the right for getting it wrong but get it wrong themselves. Rep George Miller put the idea forward to kill the 401(k) tax breaks. It's out there as a serious Democrat revenue tax hike proposal. If he says it wont happen, lets see a real denial in the record.
More importantly - they WILL put these trial balloons up and they WILL pass them if we dont shoot them down. Another example is the indentured community servitude, where the forced service proposal was watered down mysteriously on 'change.gov' once the right-blogosphere got a whiff of the totalitarian nature of the proposal.
We need to STOP OBAMA'S SOCIALISM, one agenda item at a time.
They (the MSM) can call Limbaugh wherever they like, but someone should remind them of the damage done to the Philistines by Samson using the jawbone of an ass.
Yep, partisan, just like the Dims, and they better get used to it, cause we’re going to get A LOT worse.
This is what the MSM considers news these days.
THAT'S A FACT, JACK! The MSM has been pissed at poor old Bush for 8 years. Trashing him with the most scurrilous, treasonous, malignant attacks possible and now we are to make "nice, nice" with their affirmative action president elect?
Kiss my grits. Not a chance. I'll wallow in my anger. It's nice and hot.
I dislike Rush immensely but, he’s so very good at parsing his words that I never believe articles like this. It’s always a bitter leftist taking his words out of context.
Is there, or is there not, a proposal by a Democrat elected congressperson,
to seize 401k and IRAs into the SS “trust fund”?”
There are a number of such proposals.
The Sub-committee meetings were being held 3+ weeks before the voters went to the polls.
Go to
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112409/posts
for the story
Yeah, it is amusing...well, sort of...i guess...
That is it, in a nutshell. I know Feinstein is rabid to get it going.
YES- THIS- http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=66092&ord=757498#757498 9Rep George) Miller said the 401(k) approach is a policy “not well devised” for changes in the market. He[b] said the plans were meant to be savings vehicles, not primary retirement plans. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/07/amid-deep-losses-congress-examines-401ks/?mod=googlenews_wsj “Everyone wiped their hands of any obligation for retirement, and the burden shifted from the employer to the employee, and the risk is shifted from the employer to the employee,” said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, who last week convened a hearing to examine 401(k)s. “In the beginning, no one ever said, ‘Would this be sufficient? Would it work?’ and what you see is a plan that is highly responsive to external events unlike Social Security, unlike defined-benefit plans, unlike a public pension plan.” ...”Lawmakers, too, have to do some reassessing of the entire retirement system, Miller said. “I think when you have this kind of calamity, you get a chance to go back to the fundamentals and ask basic questions,” he said. “This is an opportunity to really look at what value taxpayers are getting for the $80 billion [in tax breaks]. What value is the saver and retiree getting from this plan? And are they really equipped to handle the risk?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101100177.html?sid=ST2008101102372&s_pos=
She has been in contact with Miller and McDermott about her plan, and they are interested in pursuing it, she said.
http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/25/83/58.php
“This [plan] certainly is intriguing,” said Mike DeCesare, press secretary for McDermott.
“That is part of the discussion,” he said.
While (Rep George) Miller stopped short of calling for Ghilarducci’s plan at the hearing last week, he was clearly against continuing tax breaks as they currently exist.
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I certainly hope so, the election was no excuse for us to roll over and play dead.
“someone should remind them of the damage done to the PHilistines by Samson using the jawbone of an ass.”
I say we throw the whole d*** donkey out the window.
Um, because the Democrats, when Gore and Kerry lost, quietly congratulated us and remained supportive of Bush throughout the administration...
That might be hard. But we could pin its tail on and demonstrate over the next couple of years just how much of our current woes are due to Dem politics.
It is amazing to me that they think that now that they have won a battle, everyone will get behind the Great Unifier and sing kumbaya. But the Great Unifier has made it quite clear that right from the get go he intends to lay down the law to impose leftist cultural and ideological dominance - immediately rescinding Presidential orders on not funding abortions, stem cell research and offshore drilling. It is quite evident that he will begin his reign with a scorched earth policy on any cultural or ideological gains that the right has made in the past eight years. He has shown that he won’t go to a neutral middle to allow freedom of belief and lifestyle, he has shown every indication that he will impose a leftist agenda.
What does he expect? It is so obvious that the right will muster forces to protect themselves, their values and beliefs from loss or attack. To many on the right, leftist regulations and impositions of cultural dogma are offensive, oppressive and threaten their closely held beliefs and livelihood. The more the left pushes, the more the right will feel threatened and resist. The more the left disrespects and ridicules middle America, the more alienated the right will be from the Obama administration.
Geez is it that hard to understand?
That’s what ideals are for.
Yes, and that is why we were able to leave up our Bush/Cheney yard signs and bumper stickers undisturbed way after the election way over, just like they are now with their Odumbo and Dumber signs and stickers. You bet.
was over...
Remember how the liberals trashed the White House before leaving? How Bush just overlooked it? Remember how long it took the creeps to get out?
This kind of press absolultely CANNOT go broke and disappear too swiftly from the American scene.
[Indeed, many on the losing end of last week’s election want to hold on to their anger.]
I’m expectin that ain’t gonna be very hard to accomplish.
Think about it, the entire left frothed at the mouth at ever move Bush made, now we are supposed to man up and put away our anger at being ruled by a communist. Not gonna happen.
Then Samson went back and collected their foreskins in a bushel-basket, to show the Israelites that "he done good". There was this question, you see....
Their principal propagandistic function is to attempt to bracket conservatives and constitutionalists with bombers like Timothy McVeigh and assorted Klan remnants and neo-Nazi splinter groups.
Case in point: the two prize cases who supposedly wanted to go after Obama in white tuxedos. If either of them had a saved link to Hannity's or Rush's website, or a radio link to Medved's show, you'll read about it real soon on BulldogReporter.com and various press releases of the Southern Poverty Law Center, with which BR is allied.
Thanks for the inside info.
This is from some leftist totalitarian blog called the “Bulldog Reporter.”
The “Bullsh*t Depositor” is more like it.
You have to give Rush Limbaugh ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/PBS/NYT/LAT/WP a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is they are demonizing Barack Obama George Bush, fabricating Obama Bush policies, blaming Obama Bush for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash the 9/11 attacks, hurricane Katrina, and various and multiple war crimes, he doesn't they do pretend to be fair. From the opening of his their first post-election 2000 rant against the president-elect eight long years ago, Limbaugh they (see driveby media list above) launched in with a certain relish--and have never stopped. "The game," he they told his radio their listeners/readers, "has begun, and we're pissed that Algore was defeated so closely, and we're going to bitch and moan against Bush and the Republicans until our side, the deomcrats, are back in total control of the country. So what if it hurts anybody, power is the end unto itself!" (and the LA Times was one of many playing that game for the past eight years).
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