Rush: I Think Obama's the Second Kenyan to Win the Prize
Classy. Rush Limbaugh isn't easily rendered speechless, but the conservative radio host took a few tries to get going this afternoon on his radio show. "Folks, there aren't words for this," said Limbaugh before pausing for a long moment. "Can you imagine, folks, how big Obama's head is today?" he tried again. "I think it's getting so big that his ears actually fit." Ba-dum-bum.
Once Limbaugh got going, he was off on two tracks in criticizing the Nobel Committee's decision. The first was that Obama didn't deserve the Peace Prize, the second that no red-blooded American should want the award in the first place because it's a "straitjacket" that locks the winner into pursuing only pacifist strategies forevermore. Sprinkled throughout, of course, was a big dash of scorn for the liberal European elites (redundant?) on the Nobel Committee.
A sampling:
- "Folks, I think the people who used to run the election board for Saddam Hussein's government were hired by the Nobel people here to tally the votes."
- "Obama's not only the first post-racial president, he's also the first post-accomplishment president. He's now judged on wishful thinking."
- "Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and he gets a prize for it."
- "I think Obama's the second Kenyan to win."
- "The elites of the world are urging him not to do the surge in Afghanistan, not to take on Iran. How can he now send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan after that cotton candy speech he just gave this morning?"
- "You are destroying your country as a superpower--keep it up, bud. These are the accomplishments they're looking for. He's basically emasculating this country and they love it."
- "He goes out there and admits he's not qualified!" [followed by clip of Obama saying: "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize."]
- "The Nobel Peace Prize is almost a straitjacket for Obama. That means he's gotta be a man of peace. The way the left defines a man of peace is, everybody else can go to war but we won't. Even if we're attacked, first we're going to try to find out why they don't like us."
- "It really is insidious. The intent of the committee is to neuter the United States of America. They've done it by rewarding a pacifist."
I think Rush is thinking about this all the wrong way. After all, what better way to free a president to pursue a hawkish foreign policy than to award him the Nobel Peace Prize before his first year is even over? Obama doesn't have to spend the next three or seven years chasing that Holy Grail of global statesmen and diplomats--he's been there, done that. Heck, he could invade Canada if he wanted to. What's the committee going to do--take back the prize? So, cheer up, Rush.
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They didn't take it away from Arafat.
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Speaking of classless (and something Amy won't condemn since she's obviously a committed Dem), the DNC's reaction that people criticizing Obama were siding with terrorists was pretty over the top. But I cannot imagine a Swampland post dealing with that.
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Actually, that was Limbaugh's observation today, too.
I'm sorry, you were saying?
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Here's the exact quote:
"Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award. Now that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban."
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spob,
Have you lost your sense of humor? How many times have terrorists said kind word about Obama before the Right-Wing jumped and said that sinse terrorists "liked" Obama, he must agree with their policies and objectives?
The Dems statement comparing the Republicans to Hamas and the Taliban was just a bit of tongue-in-cheek payback and mild stuff compared to the stuff from our friend, Rush Limbaugh.
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Unlike Joe Klein, however, Amy Sullivan (and, apparently, Rush Limbaugh) "did think that rejecting the prize could have been an option for Obama.".
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Get off you F*@king ignorant horse, spob. I think its already been said elsewhere that arafat shared the '94 peace prize.
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So what? He got it, didn;t he? The point is that awarding a Peace Prize to Arafat is like awarding a humanitarian award to Idi Amin. And they didn't take back the award after Arafat launched terrorist attacks against civilians.
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Speaking of "siding with terrorists", did anyone check out who was financing Keith Ellison's pilgrimage to Mecca? The Muslim American Society. Besides being a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, MAS agitated for the "rights" of Muslim cabdrivers to refuse to transport people with seeing-eye dogs.
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But we'd never find that out in the Swamp. But let Rush Limbaugh have his usual diarrhea of the mouth, and Amy's all over it.-
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Numbers don't lie spob. And, despite the old saw that liars can number, you just can't cut it.
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Maybe because the cumulative death toll is larger than the number of fingers you have wrapped around your penile member when you listen to Beck.
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Al Queda 0, GOP Crackpots 11
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There. Did it for ya...
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shared it with Rabin and Peres...
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Did Sullivan actually listen to Rush for the first time in her life or did she just read about Rush at George and Hillary Clinton Soros' website Media Matters against America?
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Good Lord, the conservatives sure have a bug up their behinds about George Soros. It's a good thing no comparable conservative billionaires have ever sponsored conservative media or conservative political outfits.
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You know, aside from Richard Mellon Scaife, Joseph Coors, Rupert Murdoch, the Olins, the Richardsons, the Bradley Foundation, etc. etc.
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As we all know, it's OK if you're a Republican, right?
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Thanks, Amy (and please send us a “1000 words”, we like you and KT and want to prove it thru risible photo captions for your solemn amusement). As for Rush, I literally haven't listened to him for a long time. The quotes here prove why. My one hope is that Rush buys the St. Louis Rams and will have to spend a LOT of time fixing that crappy team …thus cutting back on his running the R party, I mean, air time. But thanks, Amy, for bringing up the Holy Grail, thus opening the door to more Monty Python thoughts. Such as, will the corporate media treatment of Obama's win be like the Bridge of Death guarded by the old man from scene 24? Meaning, must Obama continue to parse words carefully? (as for me, I'd prefer to be locked in the Castle Anthrax, but I digress.) Or is this media criticism like a wild goosse chase sim. to the Castle Aaaargh? Thoughts, Amy?
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Rush buying the Rams. One piece of sh!t in hot pursuit of another.
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Jaguars got 'em in two weeks - I'll be the judge of that.
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Look at the reaction around the world. Who is praising the selection and who is criticizing it? The republicans are joining a select company of like-minded people.
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Good grief--think a Peace Prize is silly to give to Obama, and you're siding with terrorists.
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You guys clown yourselves. Go back to defending the "wise Latina", you didn't look quite as stupid. -
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Stick some toilet paper in your underwear. You're bound to sh!t your pants before the day is over.
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Has it occurred to anyone yet that what really is grabbing spobs knards is the fact that the Swedes are just about the blondest, blue-eyed...
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Nah. And that simply can't be why we haven't heard rusty howl today, either.
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Couldn't be. Nah. No way! Nada. Nope... -
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Oh, and spob:
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The connection between terrorists and the GOP?
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Let's see here, last week we had maybe the 10th of 11th low level terrorist attack by RW extremists that resulted in loss of life on American soil this year.
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And Al-Queda?
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Zilch. None. Nope. Nada. Matter of fact, Obama's now snuffed at least three efforts this year.
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Napolitano was right...
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So many outraged right-wingers insisting they're not outraged as the veins pulse on their foreheads. I hope I don't run out of popcorn.
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#2 - take a look at the comments from republicans and the rnc and then take a look at the comments from hamas and the taliban. They're errily similar.
Boy it must suck to be a republican today - they're ideology is being repudiated by the world community. And they're reacting with the metal maturity of six year olds.
I personally love the finger being jabbed in their eyes - they definitely earned it.
Congrats to our President and our country. We - as adults - should all be proud of the recognition - of course the republicans can just continue to wallow in their delusion and bitterness.
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Are you gonna start singing "Kumbaya"?
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Re-read your post--a few grammatical/spelling errors. When you yap about others being six year-olds, try to avoid those things. -
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Do you agree with Rush spob that trying to find peaceful solutions to problems around the world is a bad thing?
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At least *he* doesn't think and act like a six year old, spob.
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And the Big Chief Howler Monkey of the Right-Whinge chimes in. So? Why is this important?
...what better way to free a president to pursue a hawkish foreign policy
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You really need to learn to write sarcasm better, Amy; it sounds like you are pushing for policy that will ultimately get more people killed and engender more hate, which is positively un-Christian... -
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Now that the America hating leftists from the Nobel committee evidently don't hate America quite as much, maybe the clueless, utopian socialist can start working on his base of America haters in the United States. According to Rasmussen, 66% of Obama's base consider the United States "unfair and discriminatory". http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/america_s_best_days
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Can anyone translate the above into English?
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I'd really like to stick around and play but I have to stop and pick up my "Obama; Prince of Peace" cake from the bakery before I head to work. Have fun folks and say some really nasty stuff. Remember, the game isn't over until thet're lying on floor clutching their chests (pearls).
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...good luck with the cake. I wonder how well cookies shaped and frosted like Nobel medals would go over with everyone.
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The cake went over like a lead balloon. I took it home last night when I left. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have survived the night.
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Who cares what fatboy thinks?
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Buying the Rams would be interesting. Would he require Steven Jackson to cut his dreads so we can see his name on the back of his jersey?
One thing that almost blew BO's chances of getting the prize was when, after the Somali pirates were taken out, the next mission was a small radio studo in Juno Beach, Fla.
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"I think Obama's the second Kenyan to win."
Seriously, who was the first to whom he was referring?
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Wangari Maathai (2004) –
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-bio.html
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Hmm. Rush... We're still pretending he's relevant? OK, have fun with that.
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I guess it's inevitable that TIME will subject us to the dour rantings of the wingnuts.
OK, Amy, you can check Limbaugh off your list. That just leaves O'Reilly, Beck, Coulter, Malkin, Steele, Kristol, Goldberg, Krauthammer ... I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. Get writing, swamp bloggers!
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Also I would be *fascinated* to know what John McCain thinks about this. (I believe ** is now the accepted internets markup for an *ironic* remark?)
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Not to worry Art, you will soon find out because of course President McCain will be on one of the Sunday shows. MTP, I think.
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(I think I saw a tweet this morning that he said the appropriate response was Congratulations.) -
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Don't forget Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage, and Mark Levin. Funny. A whole cadre of movement leaders. And still irrelevant.
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Just when Rushbo was starting to the think that "the world has rejected Barack Hussein Obama" he has to face this horror. Someone please send him an extra supply of Oxycontin.
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"I congratulate President Obama on receiving this prestigious award. I join my fellow Americans in expressing pride in our President on this occasion."
McCain's statement.
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Something nice happens to Obama and the right's response is to act like a bunch of classless jerks. Who could have seen that coming?
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He probably listened to Huckabee:
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/09/huckabee-warns-republicans-on-nobel-reaction/
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Nancy Gibbs TIME -Obama's Nobel: The Last Thing He Needs
Simon Robinson TIME-Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama
Add those two to Amy, Joe, and Michael and it is impressive in its single take, if differing by tone and degree.
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Rush was casting aspersions on Obama and the Nobel Committee!! No way
Seriously, of course this was reasonably expected.
However, I am sad we did not hear his wailing and gnashing of teeth when he first heard the news. I think he threw himself on the ground and wept after he heard of the award to the President-- Following which he popped some pills for calmness (whatever he takes these days) and then took some time thinking of the drivel to serve up on his show about this prestigious award. He probably called Beck for inspiration but Beck aka "Communist Hunter" was consulting with his own hysteria creating committee so was unavailable.
So the best poor Rush could come up with is hat Obama is the second Kenyan to win the award. How utterly infantile-- and since I have had teenagers around me for a few days now, I want to add the word “barf worthy” to my otherwise adult descriptions of Rush's emm thoughtful ranting.
So far it seems Rush needs more help for his diatribe. I think he needs Palin on speed dial, somehow I think she will give him the salt he needs to feed his bottom feeding fanatical following of Anti-Obama/other hate spreading members of his "Rush is our leader" Cult.
LM
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Amy Sullivan:
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Did you, yourself, actually listen to Rush Limbaugh's show today (the one in question), and did you, yourself, compile a list of his quotes from your own transcript of that show?
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Why do I get the distinct feeling that you did neither, and that this post is a direct copied-n-paste from emailed opposition research, Amy Sullivan?
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Can you please set the record straight, and answer for the originality of your work?-
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Considering that Limbaugh's fans call themselves dittoheads, your post is proof that irony is not dead.
Maybe we could also ask the dittoheads when they plan on coming up with their own opinions for once? If ever?
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Hey folks, the prize is given, as the Committee chair explained:
“We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he has done in the previous year,”
Which is why people with debatable lifetime records on peace, Kissinger, Teddy Roosevelt, Le Duc Tho, and even the revolting Arafat have been awarded it. As the Committee Chair also said:
“The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world,”
IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR
The Chair then asked: "And who has done more than Barack Obama?”
It is a fair question. Rather than argue about the prize or Obama's worthiness as a person, why not reflect on the fact that this distinguished committee thought his recasting of American Foreign Policy the greatest contribution to world peace in the last year. Right or wrong call, it is a fascinating perspective and a useful debate.
Or we could just be arrogant and pronounce the Nobel committee naive, starstruck, leftwing, or something else so we can avoid thinking.
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