Fineman: Newt Impressed Crowd of South Carolina Hicks Who "Like Cockfighting"

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | January 20, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: This is Howard Fineman last night on PMSNBC's The Last Word. Fineman now left Newsweek, as you know, and he's over at the Huffing and Puffington Post and they're having a discussion about Newt's debate performance last night. This was Howard Fineman's review.

FINEMAN: Newt Gingrich, with this crowd and with these people here who want a fighter -- who like cockfighting, who like the hardscrabble, who like the confrontational approach -- that's what Newt Gingrich gives them. It may be shortsighted of them going down the road, but these people here in this state want to feel like they've got a feisty person to go up against Barack Obama. Their hatred of Barack Obama is almost blinding in its intensity, and Newt feeds that.

RUSH: So, see? They're in a foreign country. I guarantee you Howard Fineman probably thought he had to apply for a visa and an immigration card -- and you notice the first thing he said? What is the first thing he used to describe South Carolina? They "like cockfighting" here. So you think of South Carolina as Cuba? What is this? And, by the way, David "Rodham" Gergen does not seem to think that this kind of talk is gonna scare off the independents.

"Intense hated of Obama," that's what they think. Well, it only matches their intense hatred of conservatives. They have an intense hatred for us. They hate us more than they hate the Taliban. They hate us more than they hate Al-Qaeda. They want Al-Qaeda to have more civil rights than people on the Internet have.

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RUSH: Okay, so what does the Drive-By Media think of South Carolina? Cockfights? NASCAR? With NASCAR you've got stills. You know, how NASCAR got started was outrunning the revenuers. So you got cockfights, that's South Carolina. Then you got NASCAR, which is hicks in the backyard brewing their own moonshine outrunning the federal agents. You got football, and that's barbarism and brutal. Then you got the military, and that's the focus of evil in the modern world. Then you got grits. Look at the southern food, my God, type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, clogged arteries and you die. And jobs. And that's the one thing Obama doesn't like. So there's not one thing on this list in South Carolina that liberals can stomach: cockfights, NASCAR, football, military, grits, and jobs. And all of that is America, and the lib media hates it, resents it.

And that's why, I'm gonna tell you, the social conservatives watching this thing last night probably hate the news media more than they're concerned about Newt's private life. South Carolina's also a right-to-work state. That would be another thing that the left would hate about it. Plus, there's a female governor there, and she's a looker, and that always bugs the Democrats. Their last looker was Jennifer Granholm in their mind and look at the hay they tried to make of that. So all these things, South Carolina, you add it all up, majority American, and that's why Obama and the Democrats despise it. It's a right-to-work state, it's why they have jobs. The unemployment rate there is high, but they're working and it would be lower in the National Labor Relations Board and Obama hadn't stepped in to try to stop job creation.

Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, last night on MSNBC, this is what he thought of the debate, Gingrich and his moment with the media, John King.

KLEIN: What it says about Gingrich, throughout these debates his most effective moments of attack have been against us, have been against -- and attacking us with that audience is kind of like saying Osama Bin Laden was a bad person.

RUSH: So he's comparing the media to Osama Bin Laden. Hey, Joe, works for us, fair comparison, good analogy. By the way, Joe Klein had a story in TIME Magazine earlier this week about what an utter failure Head Start's been. No, I'm not kidding. All of the multiple billions that have been spent on Head Start and there's nothing to show for it, not one thing to show for it. It's a total disaster, but don't judge the results, judge our big hearts, judge our intentions.

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[pieceofthepuzzle]

People like Fineman are no different from a group of Deadheads in the predictability of what they like, think, do, and believe. They are all members of the “Look at me I'm so sophisticated” club. Ironically, truly self-determining creative people don't generally follow a predictable blueprint in life the way that the Finemans of the world do.

That they think they are thoughtful and progressive’ just adds to the reality of how pathetically shallow and uninformed they truly are. These are the kind of people who buy Stilton and brie, know the differences between a Brunello and a Cabernet, have seen La Boheme at the Met, have traveled in Europe, think Carl Marx was a smart man with a nice vision, and generally think that one can only be smart and educated if one goes to the right schools and comes away thinking the same way they do.

The truth is that people like Fineman are the ones who hate and judge unfairly. It is they who need to be educated and who need to get out of their artificial self-supporting small worlds and expand their minds.

[okie01]

These are the kind of people who buy Stilton and brie, know the differences between a Brunello and a Cabernet, have seen La Boheme at the Met, have traveled in Europe, think Carl Marx was a smart man with a nice vision, and generally think that one can only be smart and educated if one goes to the right schools and comes away thinking the same way they do.

As one who appreciates both Stilton and Brie, and knows the difference between a Brunello and a Cabernet...but graduated from Okie State and also prefers a red beer more than Karl Marx...I wish to lodge a complaint with the NRFRC (National Respect for Rednecks Commission).

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“but graduated from Okie State and also prefers a red beer more than Karl Marx...”

I love it! I actually think that part of the problem with American politics is that we have too many people who went to the same east coast universities. Academic inbreeding with the same consequences as other types of inbreeding..

[sergeantdave]

That’s a good opinion, pieceofthepuzzle, and I respect it.

Semper Fi, buddy.

[wardaddy]

I rather have enjoyed cock fighting in Jamaica, West Africa, Puerto Rico, Dom Rep, Haiti, Colombia and Brasil

doesn’t bother anymore than ringing a chickens neck...which I have done

I also like bull fighting...if done well

I do not like dog fighting though I own those type dogs ...larger version and as a boy before leash laws I do admit we were entertained watching big male dogs just go at it till someone separated them with water or a fire extinguisher or bb guns etc

but now...people are more pure and noble...and I’m a relic

only a few states have cock fighting..Arizona and Kentucky..not sure who else?

[okie01]

I actually think that part of the problem with American politics is that we have too many people who went to the same east coast universities. Academic inbreeding with the same consequences as other types of inbreeding..

Shall we say that graduates of land grant universities are in no way responsible for the fix we're in.

But graduates of Ivy League schools seem to be intimately involved...

[Dstorm]

Looks like the headline is DU troll outs himself and is zotted.

[Impy]

I bet Fineman likes a different kind of cockfighting.

[ripley]

Brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart Progressive geniuses at it again with their superior thinking abilities and god-like presence. (Absolute geniuses)

/sarc/

(Obnoxious punks.)

IMHO