Jay Bookman

By ByteMe

November 12, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

You forgot to include Dobson in your list. Another radio-head leading them off a cliff.

By RealityKing

November 12, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

The middle is now gone and the far fringes control the parties. RNC and DNC alike… Unless of course, you believe Obama to be a blue dog democrat.

By ChrisR

November 12, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

How does that song go? “True colors come shining through”? Except in this case, the colors are badly tarnished by the right wing bloggers and commentators. The Republicans don’t really understand as yet that the Dems have captured the middle, and perhaps some right of the middle (like former McCain supporters) who can’t stomach the true colors they are seeing in current Republican voices. Let Limbaugh and friends bloviate…it is, as you say, mostly entertainment, although of the basest sort.

By TN Gelding

November 12, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

O’Reilly is a different breed than Limbaugh and Hannity.

Conservatives are already trying to undermine OBAMA AND STRADDLE HIM WITH Bush’s mistakes as well.

I have just watched in amazement over the last 7 years, 9 months and 23 days as articulate, competent Republicans have carried water for the Bush administration.

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

~George W. Bush

(He intended to stay. At least util the oil was depleted.)

By Half-mast

November 12, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

In memory of the Republican party of old. We should thank Gingrich, Boortz, Limbaugh, Broun, et al, for its demise. Job well done, gentlemen. We salute you. All together now.

By Soixante huitard

November 12, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

The case against Joe Lieberman (Mature audiences only.)

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Ah, but you still fear our return

Let economic conditions collapse, let terrorists strike with a vengeance, let rioting criminals roam the cities, let the oil get cut off ……

We’ll be baaaaack !

By Morningstar

November 12, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Hey Corporal at 12:20PM (prev. thread).

Nope, If I’d lived in the 1850’s I’d have been a Union supporter, and definitely NOT a slave owner.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

P.S.

I wonder if Obama’s daughters will be attending D.C. Public Schools?

By Soixante huitard

November 12, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

The two most important decisions Bill Buckley ever made were 1) driving out the ‘kooks’ (anti-Semites) from the Conservative movement back in the 50s and 60s, which was arguably what kept the young movement from suffering a fatal and self-inflicted wound over the failure to get segregation and the Civil Rights movement right and 2) the decision to embrace - or at least, not distance itself from- the rising AM radio contingent, led by Limbaugh and Savage, when it starting gaining strength back in the early and mid-90s.

Looked at this way, the acrimonious departure of Chris Buckley this year really is a turning point in the history of the movement, the moment where it has to face up to the pact its made with its devilish evil twins, the rabble-rousers who frankly, owe nothing to the party and therefore operate almost like kings in it. They can veto anything they want — well almost, they couln’t stop McCain’s nomination — but their movement can’t veto them. But maybe that’s about to change.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

To Morningstar

Then why do you value unborn babies so cheaply ?

By ByteMe

November 12, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Corporal: Secret Service has made it clear that the answer is “no”. They did the same thing with Chelsea Clinton. The public school is not set up to handle security details involved with protecting the first kid.

By tcoach

November 12, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Corporal Not according to the latest reports. But they are not done or confirmed stories. So until the Obama camp responds to the reports judgment should be withheld.

I am for choice and actually for vouchers but it has been a long practice I disagreed with. If you are a publicly elected official I believe it should be mandated that your child attends public schools. It is a terrible blow of non-confidence for the president to not put their children in public schools. That says to teachers and administrators, that I think we can get it done the right way but you all are still not good enough for my children.

By Morningstar

November 12, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Too bad the noisy, showoffy kid is usually the one that receives the most attention.

The majority of conservatives and Republicans are not unreasonable, intolerant or hateful. In fact, moderate Republicans and Democrats, IMHO, have much more in common than most realize.

As they say, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease,” or with Limbaugh et. al., the money. It’s always about money.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

To ByteMe

Sorry, you are just plain wrong on that one. It’s always their decision.

The Corporal U.S. Secret Service (retired)

By ByteMe

November 12, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Corporal: let me know when you worked on the President’s detail if you’re going to use your former title to buttress your argument.

By DB, Gwinnettian

November 12, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Just had kind of an odd thought.

You all know how the right wing radio folks are making a lot of noise about the threat of a newly reimposed “fairness doctrine?” Even though the left barely ever mentions bringing it back, and even though Obama (as far as I know) ever bothered taking a position on the issue?

Is it possible that righties like Dan Riehl, in the story linked by Mr. Bookman, keep bringing it up because they’d actually like to have the Fairness Doctrine back? Because that might rein in the AM talkers a bit, or at least provide some balance to their shows?

Kind of a “stop me before I kill again” kind of deal?

Ok, it’s not an odd thought, it’s kind of a crazy thought, but I’ve heard crazier.

By getalife

November 12, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

rush could tell his dittoheads to drink the Jim Jones kool aid and they would.

Lets face it, they are very gullible and cult like kooks.

Too bad the dittoheads are incapable of thinking for themselves and take the drug addicted hate monger seriously.

By Morningstar

November 12, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

By “The Corporal” November 12, 2008 12:37 PM To Morningstar Then why do you value unborn babies so cheaply ?

Huh? I believe I stated Roe vs. Wade could have been overturned when the R’s controlled everything.

Actually, I’ve posted this several times. I’ve also noted a lot of rather stupid remarks in response, such as “Oh but-but-but, we believe the states should control etc. Humbug. To those who respond in such a manner, my question is “Why do you value unborn babies so cheaply?”

My views of abortion are very conservative. As a matter of fact, I know no Democrats or Republicans who believe abortion should be utilized as a method of birth control.

I do; however, believe there are many ways to kill babies in addition to abortion. If a vote was enacted to reverse Roe vs. Wade, I’ve no problems with it. Perhaps then those CONCERNED people could support a health care program, support programs to enhance the economy, shore up social security, and a million other things to help the working poor, children and the elderly of this great nation.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

To ByteMe

Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush (1975-2002).

Now, if you have some personal expertise in this matter please state it.

I repeat …….. it’s their decision.

By Soixante huitard

November 12, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Fairness Doctrine as (counter revolutionary) Conservative plot.

I like your thinking DB Gwinnett!

By ByteMe

November 12, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Corporal: are you really expecting us to believe that you served as part of the President’s personal (or family) detail for what appears to be nearly 30 years?

Let’s just say: we’re on a blog and you can make up what you want.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

To Morningstar

At least you are headed in the right direction and I commend you for that.

Roe vs. Wade cannot be overturned until we have enough Supreme Court justices who believe in interpreting the Constitution instead of legislating from it.

By AmVet

November 12, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Are we talking about the Rush Limbaugh that claimed “volcanoes do more harm to the ozone layer than human-produced chemicals?”

Or the one who asserted “It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive.”

Or this lie - “Most Canadian physicians who are themselves in need of surgery, for example, scurry across the border to get it done right: the American way.”

How about “There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”

Or maybe “Now I got something for you that’s true—1972, Tufts University, Boston. This is 24 years ago—or 22 years ago. Three year study of 5000 co-eds, and they used a benchmark of a bra size of 34C. They found that the—now wait. It’s true. The larger the bra-size, the smaller the IQ.”

And lest we forget Rush the “compassionate conservative” - “Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old.”

There are, of course, dozens and dozens of other examples of such “Excellence in Broadcasting”.

The buffoonish drug-popping hypocrite and yellow neo-con should change his name to Information. Miss Information.

By Bruce becker

November 12, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

When Saxby Chambliss runs an ad touting Obama as a socialist, as he did recently, it puts the lie that the crazy mean spirited conservatives are just on the radio and tv. There’s at least one in the Senate, and he is appealing to the base to vote against the possibility of having a DEM majority in the Senate, on the basis of Chambliss getting to be the dis-loyal opposition, reading the news into the record, as his filibuster, wasting time while our economy is destroyed. We already saw the confession of Greenspan, that he made a grave error in judgement on the mortgage crisis because he ‘believed in’ an ideology of letting the market work out its problems with no controls. Chambliss is an ideologue, using hate speech to rile up the base. VOTE for Martin and put all Americans back to work. No one wants a handout. The 12% unemployed and underemployed Americans want real jobs. VOTE MARTIN and start the projects we need, bridges, rail, and high tech industry. Be a part of history. Get in line and vote.

By GreenJeans

November 12, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Right on Jay.

It is THEATER, with both sides trotting out their modern-day Vaudeville schtick in order to feed the 24-hour newsbeast.

The fact that many Americans are oblivious to the art of rhetoric (having willingly surrendering their critical thinking skills along the way) has helped raised these partisan hacks to loftier-than-deserved heights.

Corporal! Hello again. If I may be so bold as to wax esoteric with you…

If, to the One Who Knows You Before You Were Born, even the unconceived has been been identified, wouldn’t any form of birth control be merely pre-emptive abortion?

Have you ever used, or been party to the use of, birth control?

If so, how and where do you draw that line in the sand? If not, how should others?

And if a life is life, sanctified all, how then do we justify ending it at any age, even as collateral war damage?

TIA for your thoughts, respectfully. If you’ve already discussed this topic, feel free to send me downstairs to read up.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

To ByteMe

Last time. You obviously don’t know how this works. I’m not trying to be argumentative but you are out of your league on this.

I assisted with the physical protection and conducted numerous protective advances for all of those presidents, their families, vice presidents and their families, numerous heads of foreign states and U.S. presidential candidates. I traveled to 46 states and to 26 countries on 5 continents doing so. In addition, I was assigned to our Headquarters overseeing those operations. It was an incredible career.

The point is ……. it’s their decision.

By getalife

November 12, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

ByteMe,

That kook is too mentally unstable to be a “retired corporal in the Secret Service”.

He is the kind of kook that needs to be monitored by the Secret Service.

He actually wanted riots to break out if Obama lost.

By getalife

November 12, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

ByteMe,

He also argued that he wanted to shoot Americans protesting at UGA.

Like rush, he is a fraud.

By Joey

November 12, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

I think Jay is jealous.

It is likely that Limbaugh, Hannity and maybe even Boortz each earn more money in a week that Jay is paid in a month.

Plus they have millions of people in their audiences. All Jay has is us.

Truth is often painful.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

To Green Jeans

Thanks for the well thought out points.

1) Personally I am a purist and believe that life begins at conception and should be protected from that point period*. You know what that means. Prevent the pregnancy but don’t end it.

2) Realistically and politically I will take what ever I can get to save lives (similar to the underground railroad during slavery and those who were able to save a few lives during the holocaust). If the Surpeme Court wants to rule from the time a heart beat can be detected I’m for that. If it’s from the time a brain wave can be detected, I’m for that. Anything is better than what we have now …… abortion on demand as a method of birth control.

3) The arguement that a baby several months developed in the womb is not a human being just because its oxygen comes from the mother instead of its lungs is absurd on its face.

4) The truly sad thing is I have debated many pro-choice people who agree with me on the physiological concepts but still say - so what?

By Citizen of the World

November 12, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Reihl says that the right-wing yakkers make it “rather easy for the opposition to paint conservatives as unreasonable, intolerant and, on a few occasions, even hateful.” He goes on to say that “that is not the case for the overwhelming majority of conservatives and Republicans.”

But, if you look back at a lot of the rhetoric during McCain’s campaign, you will see that he, Palin and many others jumped on the fear and prejudice bandwagon. Calling Obama a socialist. Saying he “palled around with terrorists.” Saying, as Michelle Bachmann did, that there needs to be an investigation of legislators for “anti-American” activities. Saying, as did Robin Hayes, that liberals don’t believe in God, don’t love America, and don’t work hard or achieve anything. Implying, as did Elizabeth Dole, that her Democratic opponent was Godless and wanted to do away with Christmas. And how many speechifiers at the RNC let the occasion pass without joining Limbaugh and company in railing at the “liberal media”? Not many.

So it’s not just the radio talk show hosts. Until the leaders of the Republican party reject these views instead of pull them out of their bag of tricks, who can blame us for thinking they characterize the party as a whole.

By Greg Mendel

November 12, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Hannity, Limbaugh & Co. are vital to what remains of the Republican Party. As soon as the weight of Republican dogma, greed and incompetence finally crushed our economic and political system, the wingnut nation was brainwashed into believing the Democrats were responsible for an 8-year Republican frat party that is still going strong.

(For the record, Barack Obama is not currently President. Democrats have a majority in congress, but not control of congress. Republicans are still in charge. Henry Paulsen is the current Republican Secretary of the Treasury, and responsible for fiscal policy.)

And what are Republicans doing? Looting the treasury, as usual. Secretary Paulsen used the same kind of sky-is-falling tactic to steal a $700,000,000,000 (and rising by $billions) handout from taxpayers as Condi Rice used to push the invasion of Iraq.

Americans who don’t regularly wash their brains with winger talk radio are noticing that the Republicans are distributing the massive handout like drunken sailors in bars and bordellos. It’s no surprise every incompetent, mismanaged corporation in America is lining up for a share of the loot.

The High Priests of the Elephant Cult continue to lead the tribe’s faithful in screeching about imaginary socialism. Meanwhile, wingnuts are content to be robbed blind by real capitalists. Hannity and Limbaugh are laughing all the way to the welfare-enriched bank.

By Morningstar

November 12, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Corporal @ 1:12PM. Prior to the 2006 election, the R’s had control of the Housse since 94, the Senate since 2002, and of course after Bush was elected, they also gained the Supreme court. Conservative Republican presidents, such as Mr. Bush, do not appoint liberal judges.

In addition, the R’s had the majority of State Houses, State Senates as well as the majority of governors.

The bottom line is that the Bush administration could have overturned whatever they wished, during that time.

This issue is not a subject that can be used for finger pointing at the Democrats. The little doggie will no longer hunt.

Don’t worry about it Corporal. Just think what a good political tool you’ll have for the 2012 election!!! (Smile).

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

To Getalife

Thou dost misquote me:

1) I did not say I wanted riots if Obama were not elected, I said there probably would be and that many police departments agreed and were getting ready. News reports confirmed that.

2) Concerning the UGA incident in 1972 (May Day demonstrations) I said we veterans were disappointed the hyppie-dippies didn’t try to take the flag down at the ROTC building and burn it (as they said they were going to) since we were prepared to defend it. And, alas we had no weapons.

Let’s get it right please.

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

If someone would actually sue some of these nuts for libel or slander, you’d see some of this hate spew garbage die down.

Didn’t the woman who whipped Elizabeth Dole’s butt in N.C. file a lawsuit against her for the “Godless” commercial?

By leni

November 12, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Amazing! I hear more self-identified liberals quote Rush than any conservatives. Also what are usually called main stream media seem to have a bout of Rush hysteria every few days. He probably contributes a great deal to the economy as evidenced by the money paid by advertisers for mention on his show. And the salary, I hear, is terrific. A popular guy. On the other hand, AJC people, isn’t the way Cynthia Tucker has tarnished the legacy of the wonderful Ralph McGill almost sacriligious?

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

P.S. to GetaLife

My The Corporal handle applies to my time in the U.S. Marine Corps not the USSS. Sorry you are so easily confused.

To Morningstar

The battle will always continue. Deo Vindice.

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

By the way Jay, I just ate lunch when I saw this thread - and now I’m going to have to take some anti-nausea medicine just looking at that guy ^^^^^

By Goldie

November 12, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe that Oxycontin Limbaugh, that illegal drug dealer, is not doing prison time today! After all, that’s always been his recommendation for those who are even “doing drugs”:

“If people are violating the law by doing drugs,” he told his radio audience in 1995, “they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”

By Morningstar

November 12, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

By Bosch November 12, 2008 1:43 PM Didn’t the woman who whipped Elizabeth Dole’s butt in N.C. file a lawsuit against her for the “Godless” commercial?

I read ‘somewhere’ she had filed a lawsuit. I hope so, and I hope she wins. Lies are lies, and this type of lie can forever damage someone’s life.

If a celebrity gets sloppy and makes a “stupid” statement, leaving themselves wide open for criticism, that’s another story. But making up garbage should not be permitted!

Corporal @ 1:52PM - You betcha. The battle will continue for health care and protection for children, the elder, and the working poor. The battle will continue for protection of labor laws, which protected both me and thee, as well as prevents child labor. The battle will continue for a strong economy and strong defense system.

We live in a great country! Off for fresh air and exercise.

By RealityKing

November 12, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Obviously Jay wants us to forget about the far left’s current control of the DNC. Obama change has come to the DNC too and the far left ideology will now to be pushed as “mainstream”. All the columnists/MSM news anchors in the MSM already agree that the, 52/46 split, election signaled a mandate for progressive socialism. Healthcare will become a constitutional right. “Living wage” jobs will be manadated. And the government will become more kinder and gentler. Right up to the point that we are all out of work and moralistically demoralized like Europe. After all, this is the point at which the more kinder and gentler government has the most control.

By Greg Mendel

November 12, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

“The majority of conservatives and Republicans are not unreasonable, intolerant or hateful. In fact, moderate Republicans and Democrats, IMHO, have much more in common than most realize.” — Morningstar

Worth repeating.

That’s why I’ve tried to be more careful with my labels (not always succeeding). Republicans in government are officially Republicans. We do have a Republican administration.

I take issue with the extremes of both sides, although they usually use the party labels. For me, extreme right-wingers are “wingnuts” or dead-ender members of the Elephant Cult. Extreme left-wingers are “organic fascists,” and just as ignorant, annoying and fanatic as their right-wing brethren.

Conservatives are actually conservatives, and rare. These days, I’d call them “moderate.” Or maybe “rational.”

The current incarnation of the Republican Party — the Bush/Neocons — are, in my opinion, radical, not conservative at all. As of Nov. 4, they gather in Wal-Mart parking lots to listen to the Gospel of Rush & Sean.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

leni 1:46

Thank you and go for it. Liberals have gone absolutely crazy since Obama was elected. They have denied facts that Obama wrote in his book. They deny his past unsavory associates from Ayers to Wright. If anyone mentions them they are immediately called “liars.”. Also, NO ONE is allowed to question anything about Obama without being labeled with numerous derogatory remarks. They treat Obama as a benevolet provider for them and he should be held in kingly reverence.

Now that Bush is leaving and McCain has left, Bookman jumps to a new hate outlet, conservative radio commentators such as Limbaugh. Other liberals have jumped in mass on the Martin bandwagon in order to defeat Saxby Chambliss(R). They are like automatoms on an assembly line. One after another they say the same thing in various versions. Theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is but to post and cry. Liberal propaganda goons gone beserk.(Check the IDs. Same liberal “staff” EVERY DAY.)

By Mr Snarky

November 12, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Jay, It’s too bad the Republicans have these nasty self dealing personalities who benefit from such extremism. Its quite a quandary.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

By RealityKing

November 12, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Hear tale of small businesses laying off employees this year in order to get Obama’s hiring tax cuts later next year. Obummer…

By GOP is gone

November 12, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

My isn’t sister Dusty calling the kettle black.

Limbaugh,Hannerty et al, Just like Professional Wresting, and just as real.

They are “Captain America” and any Democrat is the equivilent of “Gorgeous George”.

What an utter waste of time.

By E

November 12, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

I want Limbaugh out there in all his glory. I want him attacking Obama everyday, because the best way to end Rush’s influence is to have him attacking while the American people start feeling the benefits of the Obama administration wash across the nation.

Ultimately, Rush will rob himself of all credibility and look like some Endtimer wandering the streets with a sandwich board reading “The End Is Nigh!”

By getalife

November 12, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Bailout cost at $3.5 trillion

All Americans should contact their reps to get the FBI involved in this looting.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

The knuckledragging hate radio and Fox blowhards are almost single-handedly responsible for Obama’s victory last week.

Whine, moan, lie, slander. Repeat.

They are like angry children.

By mm

November 12, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

If it weren’t for Rush, Sean, Ann, and Michelle, there would probably never be a wingnut post on this blog.

God forbid these people thinking for themselves. Just read the garbage posted here and compare it to the garbage spewed by the Four Mouths of the Apocalypse.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Rush got busted coming back from Haiti with a stash of Viagra - and no prescription.

Three ex-wives, no known children. (That’s a good thing, actually.)

And let’s not forget his food stamp days back in the 1970s…

By Shawny

November 12, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

So what is the point? There are conservative blowhards, and liberal ones, like Randi Rhodes, Maddow, Olbermann, et al. All full of crap, no one giving the entire picture. so, what is the point?

and no, they don’t set the agenda. They just make noise.

Bring back Newt!

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Use sweeping generalizations much?

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

November 12, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

While I might not agree with “the corporal” on all of his statements, it truly grieves me to see people question his service under arms.

Unless you were there and can prove he was not…STFU.

By Joey

November 12, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Staying with the jelouly theme from 1:29.

The Left had is own version of “Hate Radio”. What was it called ….. Radio Free America?

It just burns the Left up that these people could not get enough advertising support just to keep it on the air.

Meanwhile Limbaugh and others are signing multi-million dollar long term contracts and advertisers are bidding for time.

And then the left says: We are not interested in the Fairness Doctrine. Right.

By G

November 12, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Let the right-wing blowturds keep talking.

They appeal to a certain part of the electorate and that part is becoming smaller and smaller.

I have heard the Republicans talking about rebuilding their party and one way would be to appeal to a broader swath of the electorate.

With Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham and the rest of them serving up a steady diet of hate, the conversative movement will continue to falter and they will continue to wander in the wilderness.

By Shawny

November 12, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

We need FoxNews and these blowhards to bring in some balance. They expose liberal bias, such as [these incidents exposed by O’Reilly]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450845,00.html). Granted, a lot of what the Hannity/Limbaugh crowd belches is hot air, there is also some bite to it that is necessary. There is plenty of bite from NBC, NYT, Washington (Com)Post, et al.

You won’t get one lib media site calling out the other.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

bosch,2:40

Nope. Just specifics.

mm & GOP is gone.@2:36

I seldom turn on the radio, say once every two or three weeks. Never listen to radio hosts. Sometimes a little jazz.

Poor libs. Always thinking that someone else is doing the thinking. Probably true in the liberal case. What’s on your list for tomorrow? Sarah Palin AGAIN! Saxby Chambliss? More ugly remarks about Bush? What Bookman read in the Inquirer?

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Joey,

It’s not jealousy, we can think for ourselves is all. We don’t need a blowhard idiot telling us how to think.

By Shawny

November 12, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

trying that post again

By Abomi Nation

November 12, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Angry children is right GHT.

Its like they’ve just discovered Santa Claus is a big fat fake. Yes as Virgina proved, there is no Santa Claus, and there is no permanent Republican majority.

Speaking of Santa, I can understand liberals liking him, but can’t understand why the myth is kept alive by conservatives.

This man gives away free toys! What are you teaching your children? That its ok to be a communist? That its ok to freeload? Santa is a wealth distributor.

By Tom

November 12, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

These “talkers” are indeed a stench - to which multitudes of uneducated “American” succumb and delight.

Yes, it seems the weak-minded Repug masses have not had enough victimization of Bushdrunk & McCrash YET. Perhaps it is because they never HAD anything to begin with, thus do not see themselves affected by the obscene economic state of the Nation or the equally obscene American status throughout the entire world.

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

The moderate GOPers are going to have to be the one to row these idiots in. They’ve killed their party, and they are going to have to take some responsibility for that.

The Limbaughs of the world are not Republican, they are dangerous freaks who incite hate - kind of like what we saw at the McCain rallies. McCain had enough sense to put his foot down and stop it - Palin didn’t - shows what kind of person she is - she was energized by the hate.

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Does anyone know what happened to Obama’s auntie ?

By GreenJeans

November 12, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Can anyone else smell Limbaugh’s Aramis all the way through their computer, too???

By "The Corporal"

November 12, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

To PinkoNeoConLibertarian

Thank you sir.

I really do wish some of the regulars on this blog (most of whom are liberals of some degree) would post a short bio. (age, education, career, etc.) I would keep a list.

It would add to how we approach each other. I certainly hope they don’t want us conservatives to go away. Who would they argue with ?

By Mike

November 12, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

“Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly et. al don’t really care whether there’s a Republican in the White House; in fact, their ratings go UP when they have a Democratic administration to rail about. They are quite content to fixate on silly little things that don’t resonate at all among the general voting public but that get their own audience all fired up and angry. And again, if that makes their audience seem foolish to the rest of us, they don’t care. They still cash those seven-figure paychecks.”

Such hypocrisy. Bookman is correct of course. However, he utter lack of self-awareness prevents him from seeing that this description could be made of him just by substituting “Democrat” for “Republican” and “six-figure” instead of “seven-figure”.

I mean does Bookman think that his griping about Limbaugh “resonates” with anyone besides his own “fired up and angry” audience.

Jay: You need to evaluate yourself and ask what is the difference between you and these people that you detest. There isn’t one.

By Joey

November 12, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Bosch:

Blow-hards, I agree. But you think these multi-million-dollar guys who talk for 3 or more hours every day are idiots?

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

OH, I just came across a most delightful video on “the Onion”. IT is just what this crowd of libs needs. Maybe Bookman will use if for his next episode. The Title:

OBAMA WIN CAUSES OBSESSIVE SUPPORTERS TO REALIZE HOW EMPTY THEIR LIVES ARE!

Realization is the first step towards recovery.

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Joey,

Yes. Rich, yes, but still idiots.

By Bosch

November 12, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You do realize The Onion is satire and not real, right?

By getalife

November 12, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

rush is blaming Obama for the economy.

Total bs for the dittoheads.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

bosch

Just like SNL. This one hits the real thing so closely it is very entertaining.

Taken down your Obama signs and bumper stickers yet?

By Abomi Nation

November 12, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Abomi Nation- bio

I served two terms as your President. That’s right, I was the President of The United States for 8 years. I know this is the internet and all, but its true.

Before that I was a chauffeur with a double black belt in karate and a Kung-fu expert. I used to drive for the President. Yep, I drove the limo for years.

I spent 22 years in the CIA, of course I’m not allowed to discuss that, sorry.

By AmVet

November 12, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

It seems obvious that after the administration of George “Herbert Hoover” Bush, the future of the vainglorious Republican Party can be summed up in two words - Ronald Reagan.

Chuckle…

By Mrs. Godzilla

November 12, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Rush Limbaugh

Ah, The Pillsbury Dough Boy of neoconservative politics.

Don’t ya’ just want to poke him in the belly and watch it jiggle?

By GreenJeans

November 12, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

“You do realize The Onion is satire and not real, right?”

Good Lord, Bosch. I was just thinking the same thing about Rush Limbaugh.

And throw in Ann Coulter while you’re at it.

Now admit it…if you were to read their spewings in the pages of The Onion, wouldn’t it all make much more sense?

I say get them off the airways and into The Onion where they really belong.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Uh oh,3:35

Mrs. Godzie has been looking in the mirror again. Poke it and watch it jiggle!

By getalife

November 12, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

GA-Sen: The Fight Isn’t Over Yet by Jim Martin

Finish off the gop.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Green Jeans 3:40

Were you not on a children’s program just a few years ago with Captain Kangeroo?

Get back with the kiddies, fellow. This is SUPPPOSED to be for adults.

By Mrs. Godzilla

November 12, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty

At least when I look in the mirror there IS a reflection.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

getalife 3:43

Finish off the GOP?

Remember what Mark Twain said at one time: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

So it is with the GOP.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzie 3:48

YOU BETCHA! There certainly is a reflection. Talk about a BIG ONE!!!

By Just Logic

November 12, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

What do these things have in common?

Arianna Huffington Naomi Wolf Keith Olberman Bill Maher Michael Moore Ward Churchill Bill Ayers Jeremiah Wright Malik Shabazz Jeneane Garafolo Tim Robbins Sean Penn

Couldn’t be that they are moderates espousing unity, could it?

As Paul Harvey said, “Now for the rest of the story” They are all left wing bomb throwers. So, Jay, what’s your point?

By mm

November 12, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

And they always deny they listen to Rush, etc. Every last one of them.

Amusing.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

JUst Logic 3:53

Jay Bookman has a POINT?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 12, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

I haven’t read through the comments yet so this may be a repeat:

But at the end of the day, they are indeed just entertainers, and their primary self-interest is to focus on the issues and controversies that will bind their audience more closely to them for their own financial reward. You see the consequences of that everywhere. U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, for example, was just repeating the garbage he hears on talk radio when he called Barack Obama a Marxist with tendencies toward dictatorship, a statement for which he has now apologized. Talk radio is providing the party’s talking points, rather than vice versa.

Is this not the pot whining about the kettle?

Hey pot, how come the kettle has about 25,000,000 more people listening to him than you do?

Could this be a major case of P envy?

By mm

November 12, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t Rush claim 30 million listeners?

Isn’t that about equal to the number of people in the 24% club?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 12, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Wow, everybody is just so “excited” to see the Oblahmi in charge, yes sir-

Stocks plunge for third straight session The Dow Jones industrials fell 400 points, and all the major indexes dropped more than 4 percent.

Got cardboard box?

By reebok

November 12, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Does anybody have reliable figures on the average numbers of listeners to the right-wing radio shows over the last, say, 8 or 10 years? My instinct is that Rush, Hannity, Savage and the others are preaching to a increasingly small and increasingly unhinged circle of True Believers…but I don’t know if that’s true. Anyone?

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

I started reading before my fourth birthday, and I’ve been reading ever since. I have always gotten the bulk of my news from books and newspapers. I remember reading the newspaper when I was in the second grade during the Cuba missile crisis, looking at the grainy U-2 photos of the Russian launchers, reading the captions and columns and columns of stories and analysis.

My Dad bought three newspapers on Sunday, the Syracuse Post-Standard, the New York Daily News (before Murdoch and the propaganda) and the New York Times. I read from all three of them, all through grade school and high school, spending at least an hour and a half on Sunday with the papers.
When I moved to Atlanta, I was probably one of the last people to subscribe to both the Urinal (Managing Editor Jim Woo-tan Klan) and the Constitution.

So I am a reader. Many of us are.

Many Americans aren’t. Many Americans can’t or find it difficult.

Those folks are prime candidates for hate radio lies and propaganda, and Faux News fantasizing. Lacking an ability for critical analysis and thinking, like baby birds they swallow whatever BS Mama Rush or Hannity-poo spit down their throats.

Since they can’t - or won’t read - their already poorly-functioning minds are warped and stunted even more.

By Soixant huitard

November 12, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

I must say I got my little feathers ruffled when I tuned in last week during what should have been a festive time for our nation and the world only to hear Mr. Limbawe insult my Anointed One in the most shameful manner, calling him a “Chicago thug”, which really hurt. It was like a brick to the gut I assure you — and I haven’t gotten over it yet!

Each day I find myself breaking down even during routine tasks and having to gradually re-gather my composure. But I’ll get through, oh I’ll make that’s for sure.

I was injured that day. My heart and my spirits were dealt a cruel blow, and I blame the Republican party and its take-no-prisoners rhetoric! I mean, rhetoric should take prisoners - I mean it’s the only decent thing to do. What are prisoners for?

Oh anguish! Oh cursed world of grey November skies!

Man, that elephant STILL makes an awful wailing sounds.

Just kidding boiz, reckoning’s coming for Mr. blowhard himself!

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

mm 3:58

You will have to count the number of people in the 24% club as I have never watched it. Obviously,you do.

What show were you watching/listening when Rush claimed 30 million listeners? I don’t see or hear him so you will have to tell me. Seems you really like his shows. You and Bookman.

By GreenJeans

November 12, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty at 3:44:

Supposed to be, yes, but somehow you and me got in here anyway.

I guess your admonishment might be worth a fiddler’s fart if it weren’t for your own Romper Room behavior strewn throughout these pages for the world to read.

Lay off.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

The collapse of stock prices means that when the government buys stock in these companies to nationalize them, they are getting in low.

By Abomi Nation

November 12, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Wow, everybody is just so excited to see Bush leave, yes sir- WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

Stocks plunge for third straight session The Dow Jones industrials fell 400 points, and all the major indexes dropped more than 4 percent.

The Bush stock market has now lost 2365 points. Unfortunately there is still almost two months left in his term.

Courage.

By AmVet

November 12, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

AmVet’s bio:

Born a poor black child to sharecroppers.

Taught Audie Murphy how to fight and later, act.

Was the second gunman on the grassy knoll. PSYCHE! (I was actually the mysterious man with the dark umbrella.)

Graduated summa cum laude from the Sorbonne with a PH. D. in Intelligent Design.

Created the graphical user interface but gave it away to Steve Jobs. (As I later did the Internet to Al Gore.)

Was the inspiration for Yes We Can…

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Oh Soixie @ 4:05

You are almost as cute as RedNeck.

But Onion did the satire better on the “Obama win causing Obsessive Supporters to Realize how empty their lives are”.

Hope you get to see it. You can appreciate the somber reality!!

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Regarding the “reader vs. listener” argument in my 4:02, if Sarah Palin had been a reader, maybe, at 44 years-old, she would have known that Africa was a continent, not a country.

Along with the newspapers and history books, I also had globes and atlases in my house that were dog-eared from frequent use. I knew that Africa was a continent by the time I was seven.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Oh Mr. GreenJeans,

Did I hurt your widdle feelings? My My..Too bad. My response is simple fatigue at liberal insults thrown at anything related to Republicans.

When you start acting like adults instead of sneering children I will do the same.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

GHT,4:18

You wrote:I knew that Africa was a continent by the time I was seven.

Yes, indeed. And by the time you were twelve you knew what a continentwas. SUPER!!

By Midori

November 12, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

Whenever I see a question about Obama, or see some idiot observation being charged, all I do is check Rush’s site, et. al and BINGO, I see where the filth originated.

Just read this in regards to that elusive birth certificate which proves Obama isn’t native born:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

INTERNET POWERHOUSE ANDY MARTIN ASKS PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT DISCIPLINARY BOARD TO EXAMINE ATTORNEY PHILIP BERG’S PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

(NEW YORK)(November 12, 2008) Andy Martin has asked the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board to investigate the conduct of anti-Obama attorney Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, PA. “There have been a lot of questions, and criticism, swirling around Mr. Berg’s behavior,” Martin stated. “I thought his behavior merited a look by the Disciplinary Board. That way there can be a fair and impartial examination of his claims and actions.”

A copy of Martin’s Statement, which is part of Martin’s form complaint, (faxed to the DB today, November 12th) follows:

November 12, 2008

Philip J. Berg contacted me in mid-August about a complaint he proposed to file in federal court. He sent me the complaint to review, and I advised him the complaint was nonsense. He was suing the wrong parties in the wrong court for the wrong relief. Berg said he wanted to “enjoin the Democratic National Convention,” which caused me to question his sanity. He pleaded that Barack Obama was “born in Kenya” when there is not a shred of credible evidence to support this claim.

He filed his complaint and then began issuing a series of asinine news releases about the progress of his lawsuit.

Berg is playing on the vulnerability of people who intensely dislike President-elect Barack Obama, and using his inflated accusations to solicit money from the public. He constantly exaggerates or misrepresents the facts. In early September persons acting on his behalf claimed there was a “court order” for Obama to produce a birth certificate. No such order existed.

Then he claimed Obama was in “default” and had “admitted” he was born in Kenya. This was compete nonsense. As someone who is a genuine critic of Mr. Obama, I know firsthand what confusion Berg creates with his false and misleading claims. Most recently he or persons acting in concert with him have suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court “ordered” a response to his nonsense. The Court has done nothing of the sort. The court’s rules simply provide a thirty-day period for responses.

I don’t know whether Berg suffers from an emotional disturbance, or is merely a money-grubbing huckster, or what, but Berg’s behavior is undermining public faith in the integrity of the Pennsylvania legal profession.

Berg has been disciplined in the past for misconduct:

who ever made the observation that these morons should be hauled into court to answer these bogus allegations is correct

By Mrs. Godzilla

November 12, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla’s Bio:

Irradiated in utero.

17 years of convent education.

Stomped the snot of of Tokyo.

Closest Associates: Mothra and Joe.

Mother of 3.

Grandmother of .035

Winner of the Nobel Gravy Prize.

Usually unarmed.

Order of Obama, First Degree.

By Ben

November 12, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Thank god we have Bookman to tell us what “our best interests” are.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Ah, the brains of the rightwingnut bunch weighs in with his/her rapier half-wit…

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Oh, my goodness,

Midori found the only bad lawyer in the USA and he told a big LIE about Obama, of course!!!

What a shock!! I know that LIES are never told for political purposes especially by Democrats so they are astounded!! Call 911!! There’s a lawyer who told a LIE!!

(Shhh… don’t mention the false records produced on George W. Bush. Democrats are still in a state of shock. A LIE!!! OHHH)

By GreenJeans

November 12, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

If you have fatigue, dear one, perhaps it is naptime.

Just don’t forget to leave your teethe in the glass.

By Soixant huitard

November 12, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Aw man, the Onion beat me to it? Man! Oh merde! (I’m thinking of my best Peter Sellers in a Cloooooseauuuu yoooniform, stomping a little foot down in engher!) It’s hard to top the Onion though, right Dusty?

By Winner

November 12, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Someone break the news to Dusty but do it gently, McCain LOST. Palin LOST. Bush is OUT OF HERE. January starts EIGHT YEARS of President Obama/Commander-In-Chief Obama. Republicans are going down.

By Dusty

November 12, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

GHT 4:28

Half-wits for nit-wits, right?

Well, while Midori goes to the Supreme Court and others churn out their bios, I leave you with these sentiments:

‘Tis better to have lived and blogged than never to have blogged at all.

So long…

By Midori

November 12, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

You guys notice how Dusty makes this “quick” retreats after being proved just how wrong and immature she really is?

I suppose there is a method to her madness….

By Leni

November 12, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

That “Onion” lampoon has been out for over a week. The Hawk did a great lampoon of Chris Buckley a fortnignt ago. Mr. Limbaugh quoted Mr. Clinton’s ” Chicago Thug” charge during the primary. Mau Mau chic will have been in vogue for months before you guys notice.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 12, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

This is a pretty easy to understand scenario for the dim among us:

Gun enthusiasts nationwide are stocking up on firearms out of fears that the combination of an Obama administration and a Democrat-dominated Congress will result in tough new gun laws.

Last month, as an Obama win looked increasingly inevitable, there were more than 108,000 more background checks for gun purchases than in October 2007, a 15 percent increase. And they were up about 8 percent for the year as of Oct. 26, according to the FBI.

So if people are buying guns because they know that Princess Oblahmi is going to outlaw them, why would they not sell off assets in the stock market when they know Oblahma will be raising capital gains taxes?

Duh.

By @@

November 12, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly et. al don’t really care whether there’s a Republican in the White House; in fact, their ratings go UP when they have a Democratic administration to rail about.

Well duy, jay! Did you think we needed to be told that?

With the exception of O’Reilly (who’s made that blatantly obvious of late), I listen to Hannity on occasion and Limbaugh, never.

O’Reilly does reveal things that the MSM choose to ignore. During this campaign season, I’ve had friends tell me they’ve started listening to conservative talk radio and watching Hannity. They’ve never done that before but I’m guessing they plan to continue until next election.

They’ll be better informed and prepared to vote in the next election.

By Swami Dave

November 12, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Abomi:

Referencing your contention about the current direction of the stock market….

“The Bush stock market has now lost 2365 points. Unfortunately there is still almost two months left in his term.”

It is equally a fact that over 50% of that drop (almost 1350 points) has occurred since Election Day.

While I would contend that some of the losses would have occurred regardless (in response to the current economic situation), it is equally plausible that some of the losses are occurring in response to investors retracting holdings in preparation for the tax increases threatened by Obama during his campaign. To expect that those with capital holdings would just sit idly by as redistributionists promise to confiscate more of their at-risk investments and earnings is foolish and asinine.

If you threatened to come to my house to rob it starting on January 20th, then I, as a rational individual, would take steps to secure and protect it. Since Obama’s platform was basically as such using the power of governance (instead of a gun or club), those with means are likely reacting as one would expect.

For education purposes, this is why tax increases usually lead to -decreases- in revenue to the Treasury as they stifle economic activity. They make for good political rhetoric playing to class envy and jealousy for the acquisition of power, but are a consistent failure as a governing philosophy spreading misery and dependence to those whom it claims to help.

And as an aside, I do find it funny that the consistent accusation on this thread is that listeners of Limbaugh, Hannity, and some of the other conservative voices are allegedly “mind-numbed robots regurgitating the talking points that they hear daily”. Last I looked, it was not their listeners who were attending mass rallies droning chants of “YES WE CAN” and parroting meaningless slogans like “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN” with minimal ability (for many of them) to actually vocalize why they supported the candidate. If the ability to give a coherent, logical reason for support of a candidate was required, I contend that the results would have been very different.

-Swami Dave

By Midori

November 12, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Chris Matthews just reported that Rush is claiming that this recession is an OBAMA recession — even tho Obama hasn’t taken office yet.

Now, where have I heard this before?

Buehler?

Buehler?

Andy?

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

This is not directed to any one particular fool, but I often enjoy the rightwingnuts on Bookman’s blog, even if I don’t speak retard.

I like the gorilla exhibit at the zoo, too.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

And hello, Lady Midori.

Peace be upon you.

Salaam aleichem.

Lord Trash

By Midori

November 12, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Howdy Sir Trash :)

always good to see you, Sir :)

I like the gorilla exhibit at the zoo as well :)

By Soixant huitard

November 12, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Mau Mau chic will have been in vogue for months before you guys notice.

Did somebody say chic?

By Abomi Nation

November 12, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

It says something about the economy when the following have been better investments than the stock market during the Bush years.

1 year cd…..4.0%

Internet Savings Account…..3.0%

Regular Savings Account….0.5%

Juniors piggy-bank….0.0%

That’s right folks. You would have more money today had you put your money in a zero percent interest piggy bank.

How can you blame that on Obama?

By vuduchld

November 12, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Last week, more than 64 million citizens told Limbaugh, Malkin, Dr. Laura and Hannity to go to hell! Hoax news could only muster 4 million viewers while rival CNN garnered almost 8 times that. The results could not have been clearer, people have put these clowns in their rear view mirror.

This is a new time, a new day and the last time I looked, Reagan was lying in a crypt. It is in the GOP’s best interest to get with the program and one of the first things they need to do is nuke the racists, kooks and idiots in their party. That is what the public is demanding and if they don’t, then they will go the way of the Dodo Bird. All of us are on board with Obama and me as well as others are going to do all we can to help him succeed in getting America back on track. Frankly, I can’t understand why Limbaugh isn’t in a prison cell because a friend of mine did what he did and she’s now doing 10 years! Republicans, get these fools out of your party because if you think that giving us Palin or Jindal in 2012 is going to bring you back to power then you’re pill poppin like Limbaugh!!

By SOUTHERN ATL

November 12, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

HE IS ONE OF THE “MAIN” REASONS THAT RACISM STILL LIVES IN DIXIE…

By Obubba

November 12, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this

Jay, at least their ratings are going up. By the way, how are your ratings? In other words, how are subscriptions doing. LMAO!

By ron

November 12, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

I confess that in the past I have listened to Limbaugh.Not a long tme but enough to have skewed my thinking for a few minutes.The man talks rubbish.I was listening during his druggie days,just before ,during,and after he got caught.It was intereting.Has he gone back to bashing druggies yet?Or is he remaining silent?I never could decide if the people who reputedly were callers were actually real or Phil Hendry.

Limbaugh has gotten 16 wonderful money making years out of Bill Clinton and is set for life with Obama.Such a deal.

By algonquin J. Calhoun

November 12, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

1) Personally I am a purist and believe that life begins at conception and should be protected from that point period*. You know what that means. Prevent the pregnancy but don’t end it.

Who cares what you believe? I damn sure don’t! Women are the ones who can decide whether to take a pregnancy to term or end it sooner. You go on believing whatever it is you want. No one cares! You’re not in charge! right wing maggots like you stop caring as soon as a baby is born. You don’t want a life to end before a birth takes place but you don’t give a damn what happens after that birth. Shut up, sit down! You have no authority here!

By Doug

November 12, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

The Corporal is as full of sh*t as Rush Limbaugh. Keep it up Corp. You’re hilarious. But it must be loads of fun living vicariously through a Clint Eastwood movie.

By dave

November 12, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Darn Jay, you’ve found us out, we’re all stupid fools standing around waiting for the talk show folks to tell us what to think….

Seems like you actually tried to take on Boortz one time and he cleaned you clock…

By CommunistAJC

November 12, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this

JAY BOOKMAN, What is your deal with talk show hosts? Is it because they have a much wider audience than say, the liberal media? IE ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC and CNN? I mean, Rush came in to radio after Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine. He’s an entertainer. That’s what he gets paid for. So what? At least he can actually influence people. What do you do? Rewrite what others have said and try to pass them off as your thoughts. Also, I highly doubt you’d have an audience because you never have an original ideas.

By Frederick Douglass

November 12, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this

Did someone check to see if that’s a Blunt that Rush’s smoking? Once a druggie, always a druggie.

By jon

November 12, 2008 9:14 PM | Link to this

The greatness of people like Rush is that they so get under the skin of the liberals. If you don’t like him or you don’t agree with him, you don’t have to listen to him. It’s not like he’s making policy or anything. I don’t listen to him and it doesn’t seem to affect my life one bit.

By leni

November 12, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this

Derrida,Derrida,Foucault,O,My!

Derrida, Foucault, Foucault,O,My!

By Gloria Steinham

November 12, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this

JAY, What you don’t seem to realize is that Rush Limbaugh does not sit around thinking about what you say. AJC is losing subscribers like Hitler lost followers after WW2. He doesn’t care what you or Cynthia Tucker think or say about him. You have no audience other than all 20 or 30 of the same half-wit bloggers who agree with you. Limbaugh has over 30 million listeners. Jay I’m sorry but you are nothing more than a Chiuaua nipping at the heels of a giant. Sorry Jay but you lose on this issue. Please try and find something you may be able to win on. Topics like sanitation in Atlanta, Penn State football or maybe public schools vs. private schools. I’m not trying to give you topics but beating up on talk radio is a no win for you. As I remember it, Boortz tore you a new one a few months ago. Care to cry us all a river?

By TN Gelding

November 12, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

Deportation enforcement actions halted?

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

~Ronald Reagan

By Public school

November 12, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this

A post above asks if Obama will send his children to public school?

Curious - anyone know how many of our democrat congressional parents send their children to public school in DC????

By TN Gelding

November 12, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this

Mike

November 12, 2008 3:17 PM

I’m sure Jay is delighted to learn he is earning six figures.

Would you be willing to make up the difference?

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

~Ronald Reagan

By Confucious Jones

November 12, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this

Sour grapes makes your mouth pucker.

~Confucious Jones

By Seriously?

November 13, 2008 1:11 AM | Link to this

Jay,

For quite some time I’ve noticed that, in your postings, the ratio of your own words to those that you’ve copied and pasted from other journalists has gone way up…in favor of copied work. Seriously, is this all it takes to be an op/ed writer? If so, I’m going to start setting aside 20 minutes every day to start my career in journalism. Please, bring something fresh to the table. There’s only so much gloating over the election, quoting of dubious polls, and fawning over Obama that readers can take. As a centrist, I rarely agree with you, but I used to look forward to reading your columns to get some adrenaline pumping. Recently, though, I’ve been very disappointed. Rock the boat, man! Have a unique thought and present it to the world! Scrutinize everything. Question everything. That is the power of journalism. Otherwise, you’re just a Kool-Aid drinker. In this case, it’s Obama flavored. I know you have a brain in your head. You wouldn’t have gotten where you are if you didn’t. Please, just be a little more objective than subjective. We all know your favorite won, but he isn’t perfect, and if it wasn’t for the mistakes of Bush, he wouldn’t be anywhere near where he is right now.

By mike anthony

November 13, 2008 2:37 AM | Link to this

Obama flavored Kool-Aid because people believe and want a change. Repub 8 years= 2 war fronts, almost 5000 soldiers dead, countless others with mental and physical injuries, Wall street fails and tax payers moneys being used for bailout, citizens gouged on gas prices, citizens being gouged on air line prices, TSA and Homeland Security hardly downsized government, Q Bay Cube biggest crock of the war. And you call these mistakes by Bush.

By ron

November 13, 2008 5:58 AM | Link to this

Gloria Steinham——Welcome!!! You are now among the half wit bloggers that don’t agree.Congratulations!!!!!

By bobfromCanton

November 13, 2008 6:44 AM | Link to this

Found this very morning in the AJC:

“One expert sees a darker motive driving some post-election gun purchasers.”

“Why are white people buying assault weapons?” said Ben Agger, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Arlington who wrote a book about the Virginia Tech slayings. “I almost hate to say it, but there is a deep-seated fear of the armed black man, because Obama now commands the military and other instruments of the justice system. They are afraid Obama will exact retribution for the very deep-seated legacy of slavery.”

— Chicago Tribune reporter James Kimberly contributed to this report from Chicago.

Apparently our congressman is not the only one that sees an issue with Obama as president…. But will anyone sound bite this writer from Chi-town (O’s home place) and say anything bad about what he said? No of course not!

By misterearl

November 13, 2008 6:57 AM | Link to this

Why didn’t Paul Broun speak up when Bush started the prpogram?

The “Civilian Response Corps,” as it is called, was launched two years ago by the Bush administration, after a bipartisan vote by Congress and the urging of Republicans including former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

“History shows that ‘civilian national security forces’ bode ill for citizens,” Broun said in the statement.

Broun gives stupid people a bad name

By ron

November 13, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this

Found this morning in the preliminary questionnaire that applicants are required to submit when applying for a job in the Obama administration:Do you or any of your family members own a gun?—-Make of this what you will.

By KSG

November 13, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE RACHEL MADOW AND RANDI RHOADES ON YOUR LIST OF RABID PARTISAN ENTERTAINERS

By Call it Like it is

November 13, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Aw,

What a bunch of BULL S**!

This is your opinion and your objective to silence talk radio!

Sounds like left wing propaganda talk to me without any facts!

No leaders? What leaders are in the Dem Party, and name one thing that they or the sorry Congress (Dem controlled for the last TWO Years) has done for America!

Nothing!

That is what I thought!

And to you: Citizen of the World

That was not rhetoric about Obama’s associations, (Ayers, Wright, & Farrakhan)it is the truth!

Answer this: How does one stay in a church for TWENTY YEARS and claim to state that he did not know that the Pastor is a Racist, Hate America, and a Blame America numbnut?

Second, the Socialist ideas of Robin Hood (Obama), I’m going to increase the taxes on people making >$200k, and redistribute it to the government dependent welfare people that will continue to vote for me! This No Experience Chicago Thug states that he is going to fix the country, now that is rhetoric!

Finally, it was the Rep Party that was needed to pass the Civil Rights Act back in 1964, not your Dem Party alone. As far as Racist, it was your party that has made comments like “the only Black people in the White House are the wait staff”! Former President Clinton, that just stated this year, that the Obama Campagin “played the race card” on him. Plus, you have Former Klansman, Robert KK Bird in the Dem Party? What about that? Oh yea, the liberal media gave all of these a pass as well! It was the Dem and the liberal media that contiunes to BASH Palin! Talk about being Bias!

My question is: Where is the outrage about that? I agree that there is corruption in both parties, but to point fingers to the Right, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, these guys as I see it, report the facts and the truth, unlike the AJC, New York Times, and the like.

Therefore, Clean up your own house first!

Enough Said!

By CommunistAJC

November 13, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.” Teddy Roosevelt

By John

November 13, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Thank you. I am glad someone finally poinited out the facts about the “entertainers”. They exist on both sides of the isle and have the same agenda - making money. It’s too bad so many accept what they say as gospel.

BTW: Corporal, it is none of your business where the Obama girls attend school. That is a decision to be made by the parents.

By CommunistAJC

November 13, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

John, It most certainly is OUR business where the Obamas put their daughters in school. We the people pay his salary with our tax dollars. Obama and many politicians are AGAINST school choice. Change we can believe in? Not hardly.

By John

November 13, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC;

We the people pay salaries to thousands of people. I have never heard a requirement for them to send their children to any specific school. I personally know that school choice has existed for at least fifty years. My parents chose to send their eleven children to Catholic schools. I walked by my local public school every day. They got no tax breaks, subsidies, etc for doing so. They still had to pay federal, state, and local taxes. What you so-called school choice people want is a handout from the government to pay for your choice. You can believe that!

By dave

November 13, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

John - Obama can choose where he sends his girls, because he’s got the money. Those of us who don’t, don’t have a choice, even though we pay for government schools with our tax dollars. How about Mr. Obama letting us choose on which schools we spend those dollars? John, only a “progressive” could find the logic in your thinking.

By John

November 13, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Dave: My Father was a maintenance worker at the Post Office, my Mother was at home. He still paid taxes to support government schools and chose to spend his money on sending us to private school. To me that sounds like a true conservative.

BTW, the federal government only contributes a small portion of the tax dollars spent on schools. The majority comes from local and state sources. The best thing Obama could do for education is to give them some relief from so many regulations. Other than that, your problem is with your Governor and locally elected officials.

By kman

November 13, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Jay, you could quite easily be talking about yourself instead of the other guys when you said:

They are quite content to fixate on silly little things that don’t resonate at all among the general voting public but that get their own audience all fired up and angry. And again, if that makes their audience seem foolish to the rest of us, they don’t care. They still cash those seven-figure paychecks

By wooooo

November 13, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Thanks Bookman, I am so pleased to see yours and all the other liberal posters’ concern for the GOP. Now if you guys will listen to Ann Coulter on how your party should be run, we can call it even.

By skydog

November 13, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

The Repubs don`t like the BACK of the bus very well. Too bad. Sit down and STFU.

Maybe 100, 120 years yall can sit anywhere you want, maybe not, well let you know.

Albany,Georgia 57 year old white boy Obama voter. Screw homeboy Saxby Chambliss.

By Randy

November 13, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

In some cases they are 8 figure paychecks.

By Paul W

November 13, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

If Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow can’t destroy the left, I’ll take my chances on Limbaugh, Hannity, et. al.

By AGTFan

November 13, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Let economic conditions collapse, let terrorists strike with a vengeance, let rioting criminals roam the cities, let the oil get cut off …… It’s really sad to see what real Republicans like “the Corporal” wish for our future.

By The "real" RushHannity

November 13, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

I fall out laughing when I hear people call into Rush and Hannity’s shows and say things like…”thank God for you… I get all of my news from you..thank you for teaching us about this political system…” and such. I cannot help but the shake my head in disbelief and disgust.

I always though these two guys were political heavy hitters and had some scholarship on the subjects they so “effectively” discuss - LOL….

Here are excerpts from these guys’ Wikipedia entries!!:

“Hannity graduated in 1980 from St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school, located in Uniondale, New York. Described as “an indifferent student”,[4] Hannity dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University for financial reasons. He later decided to pursue a radio career.[3]”….

“Limbaugh graduated from Cape Central High School, in 1969. His father and mother wanted him to attend college, so he enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University. He dropped out after two semesters and one summer; according to his mother, “he flunked everything”, even a modern ballroom dancing class.[4] As she told a reporter in 1992, “He just didn’t seem interested in anything except radio.”[7]”

Limbaugh’s birthdate was ranked as 175 in the Vietnam War draft lottery. No one was drafted above 125. However, he was classified as “1-Y” (later reclassified “4-F”) due to either a football knee injury or a diagnosis of Pilonidal disease.[8][4]”*

Basically, they found a way for him to dodge the draft. These two stooges found a niche and got rich. Well actually Hannity modeled himself after Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch used his relative youth to take this madness “mainstream”. But that’s why they are so extreme. They are such LOSERS it’s the only way they can eat because they have nothing else to offer the world. Now I understand not all paths are the same and not all people can afford college (I myself took a non-traditional path). But I think the narrative on these guys speaks volumes about them. They never studied abroad, or attended prestigious institutions…or were a part of any political/community organizations or movements, YET……If people in our country would open their eyes, investigate, compare and contrast….peel back the layers on things we’d be in such better shape.

By Lynnie Gal

November 13, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

I’d like to see an expose on the education of the rightwing pundits, including Hannity, Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It’s my understanding that these three completed high school, but nothing further in their education. That makes sense, really, since their appeal is to uneducated, working poor whites. As P.J. O’Rourke just called them in his article in the National Review, they are “cracker trash.” Funny he says that about his own readers.

By Debbie

November 15, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Wasn’t it SNL that “entertained” us with smear attacks on Sarah Palin? Wasn’t it the main media that would never write about Obama’s background? We heard about Mc Cain’s houses but never about Obama’s relatives in poverty? The media was the most unfair and unbalanced ever and it was so easy for Fox and Rush to bring in even more listeners. The truth sells.

By debbie

November 15, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

According to PEW, Rush Limbaugh’s audience is the 2nd most educated of any media in this country. His family has a history of ambassadors, judges and lawyers. One becomes very smart listening to Rush and there is no turning back as you begin to realize how little the liberal media wants you to know about Democrats.

By Asian Lefty

November 17, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Rush is no conservative. Actually, Rush is becoming more and more a liberal. Why? Because he drank the Conhspiracy Theory Kool aid:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html

Also, ask him about the Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones and how his co-worker George Noory has had Alex Jones on who has openly criticized the RNC. Limbaugh is a puppet.

By John1334

March 8, 2009 1:02 PM | Link to this

Very nice site!