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Lib Talker: 'Maybe Limbaugh Should Be Executed For Treason'
NewsBusters ^ | March 5, 2009 | Nowl Shepherd

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackonwhitecrime; brownshirts; liberalfascism; limbaugh; mediabias; msm; obama; rush; traitor; waronrush
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To: Zakeet

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.


21 posted on 03/05/2009 9:51:49 AM PST by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar!)
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To: Zakeet
KING: If he fails, LRS, that will be good?

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.?

22 posted on 03/05/2009 9:51:53 AM PST by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: Zakeet

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


23 posted on 03/05/2009 9:53:23 AM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: Tzimisce

Seriously, I hope Rush is keeping his head down, eyes open and watching his six. God help the USA


24 posted on 03/05/2009 9:53:34 AM PST by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: Zakeet
The mass attitude the left has built up over this really might be a good thing:
Ms. Pfotenhauer's comments read very well (no way I'd watch larry king) and every time they are repeated there is some chance that congress and some of the budding brown shirts will get the message.
At the least it is an opportunity to repeat and underline the argument against Obi's steamroller.
25 posted on 03/05/2009 9:53:54 AM PST by norton
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To: sofaman

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.


26 posted on 03/05/2009 9:54:04 AM PST by techno
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To: Zakeet

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.


27 posted on 03/05/2009 9:56:45 AM PST by Cyman
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To: Zakeet

You got it ass backwards honey!....You should be executed for treason for voting for O’Bozo!


28 posted on 03/05/2009 9:57:38 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Zakeet

Typical liberal bimbo trying to get listeners...


29 posted on 03/05/2009 9:57:58 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: Zakeet
Miz. Miller is in good company with her suggestion that Rush be executed.

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

30 posted on 03/05/2009 9:58:03 AM PST by AreaMan
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To: Zakeet
These people want to support the terrorists and get rid of the non terrorists. John (the traitor) Kerry actually committed treason by talking to North Viet Nam and has gone scott free.
31 posted on 03/05/2009 9:58:39 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Zakeet
"Progressives" everywhere are scraping off their bumper stickers:



Removing their pins:



Doffing their T-shirts:



And taking the posters off the wall of their mom's basement.




32 posted on 03/05/2009 10:02:31 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Zakeet

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.


33 posted on 03/05/2009 10:03:44 AM PST by Terry Mross (I Hate All Politicians, Republicans Included.)
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To: Zakeet
All this moron wants is to get her name in the news..She is a has been but as far as I know she is a nothing..I never heard of her until now..I guess that shows you I do not run around with a crowd that would go to see a skank like this.I think she belongs to the Rosie crowd..
34 posted on 03/05/2009 10:06:02 AM PST by PLD
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To: Zakeet

That's her on the right, we all know who the other piece of crap is.

35 posted on 03/05/2009 10:06:09 AM PST by Pistolshot (The Soap-box, The Ballot-box, The Jury-box, And The Cartridge-Box ...we are past 2 of them.)
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To: techno
ask her the question and she'll say that she was joking. Typical lefty. Remember Alec Baldwin's tirade on Conan O'Braindead?

""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.

36 posted on 03/05/2009 10:06:22 AM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: Zakeet

Liberals are really creepy.


37 posted on 03/05/2009 10:07:34 AM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new WH phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

They can sell them to the Neo-Cons. Everybody’s switching sides on the issue. Too predictable.


38 posted on 03/05/2009 10:09:36 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Argus

“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.


39 posted on 03/05/2009 10:12:52 AM PST by y6162
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To: Zakeet

Ah yes...the first shots in the war are fired by the useful idiots.


40 posted on 03/05/2009 10:13:39 AM PST by wbill
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