Posted on 03/05/2009 9:39:12 AM PST by Zakeet
On Tuesday, liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller called Rush Limbaugh's now well-publicized statement about wanting Barack Obama to fail "treasonous," and wondered if he should be executed for saying such a thing.
Miller made this rather provocative comment on CNN's "Larry King Live," and oddly nobody batted an eye or seemed at all put off by it.
Not surprisingly, the topic of discussion between King and his guests -- which other than Miller included the Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, conservative talk radio host Lars Larson, and GOP strategist Nancy Pfotenhauer -- was all the brouhaha surrounding Limbaugh
LARRY KING, HOST: Nancy, what do you make of hoping for failure. Supposing it worked, and there were maybe some socialistic inclines, but more people went to work and more people had health care? Why would that be bad?NANCY PFOTENHAUER, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think the point is that Rush -- and I agree with him wholeheartedly on this -- believes these policies are antithetical to the American dream, and absolutely the wrong direction for the economy. I would be delighted to challenge the other two panelists on this one. What he has put together in the so-called stimulus package is an embarrassment. You had Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid writing the bill. You've put in 46 billion for 15 programs that OMB already declared ineffective. You have 300 million dollars going for golf carts, for heavens sake. Then turns around and, in a downturn economy, and advocates a tax increase. At the same time, he is making protectionist noises. This is a nasty economic cocktail, and it is going to hurt the American people. And I think that's what Rush Limbaugh has been trying to underscore. And he is exactly right.
KING: If he fails, Stephanie, that will be good?
STEPHANIE MILLER, LIBERAL TALK RADIO HOST: I guess that is what Nancy and her friends want. As long as you have a place to listen Rush on the radio -- if he fails we all fail.
KING: If his policies fail, he fails, right?
MILLER: Exactly. To me that seems treasonous. [...]
KING: Nancy, the problem with all this is does it bring discord? Does it take away from real issues when we get into basically personality stories?
PFOTENHAUER: You know, I think it is a distraction. And I think that's why the Democrats love it and they want to keep it going. I think the Republicans will turn the page, move on, and start really spending their time doing what they should be doing, which is articulating solutions to the problems that we're facing. And, frankly -- and pointing out how what Obama is advocating, the Obama administration is advocating, these aren't new ideas. They have been tried and they have been tried several times and failed. You can point to places like Germany and France that have done almost exactly what the Obama administration is advocating. What you see there is a third lower quality of life. You see lower economic growth. You see higher taxes and you see higher unemployment. So, it's not a recipe for success. It is a recipe for mediocrity at best. That's why Republicans have to step forward and articulate their solutions.
MILLER: You are right, we should stick to the same policies that got us where we are now. I agree with you.
PFOTENHAUER: I think there need to be real changes.
KING: You criticized the Bush policy?
PFOTENHAUER: I did on the record at the time.
MILLER: Nancy, you are right about one thing. We love this episode of Republican. It's delightful and it's not solving any of the serious problems that the country is facing. You know who is it good for? Rush Limbaugh. He loves this attention.
If I could say something tonight that gets me that kind of attention, like maybe Rush Limbaugh should be executed for treason. How about that?
Well, if Miller was saying this to get attention, let's hope her wish comes true.
Regardless, isn't it interesting that nobody seemed shocked by this comment? King completely ignored it and moved on: "Lars, it is true that any kind of -- Rush is a personality -- is enjoying this, isn't he?"
Imagine that.
...but none of the left that supported terrorists for the past eight years should have anything done to them? :(
Ann Coulter has done the same thing from the Conservative side and gotten raked over the coals for it.
Let them keep saying stuff like this, it only makes us look good in comparison. Reasonable people - even ones who don’t necessarily like or agree with Limbaugh - will be driven away by outbursts like this.
Stuff like this was, I believe, why Bush won an outright majority in 2004, despite presiding over an unpopular war which was at its nadir. All the “Bush = Hitler” and Chimpy pictures painted such a totally inaccurate picture that even his more level-headed critics had to admit it was all baloney.
With the liberal fascists in full cry, how long before they demand that the military take the oath not to the Constitution, but to the Obamafuhrer himself?
Why of course comrade! Sheesh...why hadn’t freedom/life loving people thought of this? /sarcasm
enough of this crap...where are the pictures of the crybabies...THAT is what I want to know
I want to see the look on her face when someone suggests that she should be executed for exercising her 1st Amendment rights.
The left has moved a long way from “dissent is patriotic” in a very short time.
If one of us was to even *hint* that we’d like to see a prominent member of the oposition ‘executed’, the police would be at our door before we could click on “POST”.....
No double-standard here, is there??
The charge of treason is thrown around wildly on both sides of the political spectrum without any concern for what it really means. Which really surprises me since the definition of treason is right there in Article III of the Constituton.
Where do these sick nitwits come from. Is this the real left? Sounds like it, doesn’t it. America, wake up!
And the last 8 years of them crying for Bush’s blood, should they all be rounded up and tried for treason?
Goodness, what hypocrites. The ocular logs are mighty big.
If they execute Rush for wanting Obama to fail, to we get to execute all of the liberals who wanted Bush to fail?
The difference is Rush speaks the truth (under his 1st Amendment right). Libs leak military secrets. Which is treasonous?
SOMEBODY should be executed for treason — but it won’t be Rush.
And I call her a speech commie nazi, and SHE is traitorous!
Executed for treason is probably a subject that
Bill Clinton would rather you didn’t bring up...
She's a just another boring, unfunny lefty that resorts to "shocking" rhetoric to compensate for her drastic lack of talent. She has the intellectual capacity of a kumquat. No wonder the Left supports the Fairness Doctrine. She's an example of the no-talent hosts on Airhead America.
She was on KFI in LA years ago and was beyond pathetic. Evidently, nothing has changed.
You know, the thing that bothers me about this is the overt assault on Capitalism. The left has somehow attached Capitalism to GWBush and keeps riding the ‘Look where that got us” train at every turn.
The grain of hope is that there does seem to be some ground being gained by pointing out all the times that Obama’s plans have been tried all over the world with a 100% failure rate.
LRS: Well, Larry, knowing what people know now, if you could go back into time, would you not wish for the failures of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, etc. etc.?
We wonder how people, smart professional people, were absorbed into the evil of 1938 and during other periods of insane despotism and cruelty, and became supporters of it
Civility is only skin deep in some
Seriously, I hope Rush is keeping his head down, eyes open and watching his six. God help the USA
Would Stephanie Miller willingly pull the trigger as Rush is lined up blindfolded against a wall before a firing squad? If she is, then she is just as dangerous as Obama.
Um let’s see. Take one unpopular struggling personality eg. Stephanie Miller. How can she cheaply and easily get media attention that she doesn’t deserve? I think she goes on Kadaver King’s show and forces an outrageous comment about the most popular, highest rated, radio superstar. So as we perceived before, Stephanie Miller is an attention whore.
You got it ass backwards honey!....You should be executed for treason for voting for O’Bozo!
Typical liberal bimbo trying to get listeners...
You must understand that you are free to say whatever you like. You must also understand that I am free to shoot you for saying it.
Vladimir Lenin
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin
Sadly, probably just a matter of time before it actually happens. I wonder how many people would actually “stand up and be counted” if Rush was arrested.
That's her on the right, we all know who the other piece of crap is.
""If we were living in another country, what we, all of us together, would go down to Washington and stone Henry Hyde to death, stone him to death, stone him to death! Then we would go to their house and we'd kill the family, kill the children."
Imagine if that was a Conservative or a Republican (since they apparently are not synonymous) who said that about, say ObaHamas (before he was elected POTUS) or Hillary Clinton. The outrage would have have been deafening.
But he's a Lib and psychotic, but I repeat myself.
Liberals are really creepy.
They can sell them to the Neo-Cons. Everybody’s switching sides on the issue. Too predictable.
“With the liberal fascists in full cry, how long before they demand that the military take the oath not to the Constitution, but to the Obamafuhrer himself?”
Gee, maybe we were just being scaredy cats by buying guns and stocking up on ammo.
Ah yes...the first shots in the war are fired by the useful idiots.
Maybe Limbaugh Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Murtha Should Be Executed Tried For Treason
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Obama and his rats are anti-American!
My how times change!
“Lib Talker: ‘Maybe Limbaugh Should Be Executed For Treason’”
Either this Socialist is pathetically ignorant or programmed with commiethink.
thanks, i wasn’t sure which woman she was
Two turds in the punch bowl!
Just as the MSM is asking each GOP Congressman and Senator whether he or she wants Obama to fail, what the MSM shouid also be asking each Democratic counterpart is do you favor executing Rush Limbaugh for treason?
What makes Stephanie Miller any different from Rush Limbaugh?
the difference? Rush has never asked for someone to be executed.
So. Now, for disagreeing with the Obamafuerher, we should be executed for treason? Who is he that we must extend a straight arm and parrot “Sig Heil”!?
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