Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

"If you happen to be a young kid in junior high or high school, and you're being force-fed evolution, and part of evolution is teaching that the transition from dark skin to light skin equals more evolved, what are you gonna think of dark-skin people?...I'm hearing from people that this is part of the curriculum. Well, if that's true, for crying out loud, then it makes it a little more understandable why people like this Dylann Roof guy exist."
– Rush Limbaugh

So I guess Eskimos and Laplanders and people in Greenland or Tierra Del Fuego are the most evolved? I guess the Great White Bloviator hasn't heard of melanin.

In other Rush news, he's in trouble and it's possible that his radio days are drawing to an end. He has had so many advertisers flee after his bashing the female student who testified in front of congress, saying things like 'she should put videos of herself having sex on the internet since we're paying for her birth control', that stations are no longer lining up to air his program. In fact, in several markets, he's being booted off the big stations. Even worse, in Indianapolis, the former Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) BOUGHT A RADIO STATION TO CONTINUE AIRING RUSH! It was a lilliputian AM station with a smaller market share than a commercial-free FM classical station, but Rush is still on the air in Indianapolis. And isn't that what counts? Apparently Rush's $50,000,000 contract is up next year, it'll be quite interesting to see what happens to him.

The funniest thing in this article is that a radio host interviewing Marco Rubio made a pretty bad gaff and it wasn't noticed by the mainstream media for nine days. Except Rush covered it immediately and no one noticed.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/09/rush_limbaugh_is_cooked_the_stunning_fall_of_the_rights_angriest_bloviator_partner/



"There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am."
– Donald Trump

I think part of the basis of The Donald's statement is that he was forced by his parents to attend the New York Military Academy, and according to Wikipedia, he did fairly well. But he never had active service. Well, I read a lot of Tom Clancey, I guess that makes me qualified to be really good at planning covert ops.

Oh, and some of Trump's properties suffered a credit card breech, not that this has anything to do with his fitness to be POTUS. These are properties managed by his son, not ones that he lost through bankruptcy.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/banks-card-breach-at-trump-hotel-properties/

"I look at how easily people are made to follow and made to believe things, and lied to, and act like sheep. There's a professor...a liberal professor named Noel Ignatiev, and he is actually teaching -- and I am not making this up -- he is actually teaching and telling white male students to commit suicide to benefit society. 'The key to solving the social problems of our age it to abolish the white race.'"
—Rush Limbaugh, falling for a satirical online post

You know, I should tell him about this amazing bit of news that I received from a Nigerian oil company, it seems that one of their founders is a friend of my dad's and I'm owed many millions of dollars.

A little more info on Ignatiev: he's a retired PoliSci prof who has some controversial theories about sociology and race which I think make for good discussion. Specifically, (from Wikipedia): "Ignatiev is part of a group of social scientists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries who view race distinctions and race itself as a social construct, not a scientific reality" and "Ignatiev's web site and publication Race Traitor display the motto "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity". In response to a letter to the site which understood the motto as meaning that the authors "hated" white people because of their "white skin", Ignatiev and the other editors responded: “We do not hate you or anyone else for the color of her skin. What we hate is a system that confers privileges (and burdens) on people because of their color. It is not fair skin that makes people white; it is fair skin in a certain kind of society, one that attaches social importance to skin color. When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin. We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category. Consider this parallel: To be against royalty does not mean wanting to kill the king. It means wanting to do away with crowns, thrones, titles, and the privileges attached to them. In our view, whiteness has a lot in common with royalty: they are both social formations that carry unearned advantages."

...so it would be easy to propagate a hoax saying that he advocated white male students to suicide.

"Conservatives want people not to even have to think about government. It's kind of like an operating system in a computer. You just want it to work...Liberals want to run the operating system, and they want to use the operating system against you, or their political enemies."
—Rush Limbaugh

In other words, Conservatives want an ignorant populace that would be easily duped and manipulated. No thanks.

"It's classic. Somebody proposes this thing, under the guise that women are being beat to a pulp in this country because of the Republican War on Women. Women are being beat up, they're being mistreated all over the place. So we need a federal law saying you can't do it anymore. So now the Democrats get all of this credit for being compassionate, tolerant, understanding, protective of women."
—Rush Limbaugh, on the recent re-authorization of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act

The Republican War on Women has nothing at all to do with it. Women have been beat up since the dawn of time, and this bill was originally signed by President Clinton, some time before the RNC went bat-shit crazy with the advent of the Tea Baggers. One provision of the renewal that's driving House Repubs nuts is the extension of protection to cover gay couples and American Indians, apparently some men know that the chance of getting caught and prosecuted by Tribal Police for beating on one is almost nil and they've made a game of it.

I think it's a sad commentary on humanity that ANYONE gets beat on. But I guess that for Rush, angry white men and Republicans are oppressed minorities and he's their voice.

"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed."
— Sarah Palin

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who understand Palin and those who pretend they don't."
— Rush Limbaugh

I read the Palin line when she first said it, and for some reason it went *woosh!* right over my head. But I'm sorry to break it to you, Rush, I genuinely don't understand Palin, so there's a third category.

And here's a link to a rewrite of Paul Revere's ride to retcon it to match Palin's history.

And here's a link refuting Palin's attempt at redefining what she said to be accurate, that we were all British at that time, and the refutation is from Paul Revere's writing.

"What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country."
— Rush Limbaugh on Dems

Uh, what? Wait. You're saying that there is a major political party that condones assassination and murder for people who don't agree with their specific beliefs? Aside from some nut job alleged right to lifers?

Or is he illustrating the total logical disconnect of someone who murdered a 9 year old girl and a Federal judge while trying to kill a congresswoman and Loughner's alleged perception of reality through clever sarcasm? Somehow I don't think so.

I'd love to say "Reality check, table 4!", but it would bounce so high it could damage the International Space Station.

This is just too good not to reprint in full.

Judge Roger Vinson is expected to allow a Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care legislation to proceed. Rush Limbaugh got that part correct.

However, the New York Times reports that the conservative talk-radio host (and health care reform critic) wasn't right on a few personal details about Vinson, who is a senior judge on the Federal District Court in Pensacola. Contrary to what Limbaugh said on air, the paper notes that Vinson isn't an "avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to 'instill the fear of God into the accused.' "

Those were a few of the details added to — and since removed from — Vinson's Wikipedia page. The Wikipedia user "Pensacolian" included the bear-killing anecdote earlier this week and attributed the bogus information to the Pensacola News Journal.

"I've never killed a bear, and I'm not Davy Crockett," Vinson said Wednesday.

It's true that Vinson's interested in nature. But as president of the American Camellia Society, he's more likely to be looking closely at flowers than shooting wild animals and using their heads as a means of courtroom intimidation.

Ellen Vinson, the judge's wife, said she was "offended" by the broadcast, adding that she doesn't "think you should be able to broadcast something nationally if you can't verify it." (emphasis mine)

A Limbaugh spokesman claims that a staff researcher found the Vinson information on the Pensacola paper's website. And yet the Pensacola paper's managing editor says they never printed any such details.

Still, this isn't Limbaugh's worst run-in with the collaborative, online encyclopedia. Limbaugh was pronounced dead on Wikipedia last year after being hospitalized.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100916/cm_yblog_upshot/rush-limbaugh-falls-for-wikipedia-hoax

I guess my question is, does Rush even have fact checkers? The second to last paragraph would argue against it.

"When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? Everybody's focused on BP and Halliburton and Transocean...The greeniacs have been driving our oil producers off the land."
-- Rush Limbaugh

Someone once described the internet as an ocean infinitely wide but only a millimeter deep, you may draw your own conclusion as to what I think of Rush based on that description.

"Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible. They're depressed, they're down -- Obama's not doing anything for 'em. How is that hoax and change workin' for ya? They're all livid...And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either."
-- Rush Limbaugh

Open foot, insert mouth. Unemployment is terrible ALL OVER, fool!

"I'm not retiring until every American agrees with me."
-- Rush Limbaugh

From Doonesbury's Say What?