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Limbaugh says Cho "had to be a liberal"
blogs.abcnews.com — "This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich and all this other -- this guy's a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act," Rush Limbaugh said. "I'm just pointing out a fact."
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- RubMe4Luck, on 10/12/2007, -27/+218He tends to say stuff like this when he hasn't had his fix.
- Abennobashi, on 10/12/2007, -17/+128I don't think you guys realize this, but he's saying these things to get everyone pissed off. He's been doing it for 20 years.
- SqueakyWheel, on 10/12/2007, -50/+7 If you were a student at Virginia Tech last fall and had a propensity for the gruesome and violent you could have satisfied your thirst for the bloody and course requirements by enrolling in Professor Brent Stevens’s English 3984 class, “Special Studies: Contemporary Horror.” And, as a plus, you wouldn’t have to read many books because some of the “texts”--as they increasingly are in English classes today--would be movies. And guess who did?
- Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -6/+127Seriously, who cares what kind of political alignment this guy had.
You know what he shot people? Because he was a ***** lunatic. Crazy. ***** insane.
It wasn't videogames, it wasn't the media, it wasn't space aliens, it was his own messed up little brain that made him do it.
The only person we have to blame for this is him. - wtfersk8s, on 10/12/2007, -19/+47Limbaugh is in constant need of attention. He'll say anything just so people will listen to him. Just give him his drugs so he'll keep to him self.
- kidd3ckz, on 10/12/2007, -35/+118Limbaugh is a pedophile.
I'm just pointing out a fact. - libertao, on 10/12/2007, -19/+57Limbaugh "had to be a drug addict" to say something this stupid.
- JimV, on 10/12/2007, -14/+41He put the bait out there and you all bit.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -19/+25This guy commits character assassination for a living and is a drug addict, and stays on the air, yet Don Imus makes a ill-conceived racial remark and we crucify him. Where has the sense gone in this nation?
- ne0shell, on 10/12/2007, -12/+40It's not "funny" or "Satirical" - it's just pathetic. These guys are working so damn hard to try to keep people locked into the false left .vs right paradigm that they have to go out and begin labeling non-political behaviour as political. How can so many of you not see this for what it is? They aren't even good at it folks, I knew kids in 3rd grade who could manipulate with much more sophistication.
The Neocon "Right" - that liberal, hippy terrorist lover over there is a fag...
The Liberal "Left: Yeah well, neocons are assholes with more money than sense..
Sorry, but both of these guys are ***** losers - venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -18/+48Well Hitler was conservative and he killed more than Cho. Just sayin'
- diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35Hitler also had a mustache.
- RealHyperX, on 10/12/2007, -29/+12rush is right. truth hurts.
- NikoKun, on 10/12/2007, -29/+8wtf... ***** conservatives... blaming people to make them look better... -_-
Conservatives should not even be allowed into government of a free country, not be allowed to make any choices for this free country. I'm sorry but Conservative ideals are just the wrong way of thinking, and do not match the very idea of freedom for all and freedom for the individual. -_- - inkyblue2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+8rush limbaugh should try this speech in a few bars around blacksburg and see how long it takes for a bunch of conservative good ol' boys to kick his rotten ass.
- ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11NikoKun
I wasn't aware every conservative on earth said this. Holy ***** something's gone wrong! - v4r4n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@konrad9
"The only person we have to blame for this is him."
Actually that kid was probably bullied and tormented throughout his childhood in addition to his overwhelming loneliness, all for reasons out of his control. His parents brought him to a foreign country and he already had enough problems just speaking his normal native tongue.
He needed a lot of help. More help than the government or anyone else was willing to give.
Life sucks, but there is a reason it is better to help people than to just try and ignore them... eventually they get fed up and start acting out... think about the hopelessness of a suicide bomber. - Kratisto, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8"Hmm... 32 innocent scholars just died... How can I spin this in my favor?"
-The Media
-Thompson
-Libaugh
-etc. - msoule, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15@venicerocco
You must be a high school history teacher. The truth is Hitler was a Socialist. You might be familiar with the National Socialist German Workers' Party by it's more common name...
@NikoKun
"Conservatives should not even be allowed into government of a free country"
Irony anyone? - swordedge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Limbaugh is an entertainer first and foremost. Take everything he says very lightly.
- bobabot1, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7@msoule
Nationalist (as used by the nazis) = nation of a single race
Plus, the Nazis were not socialists. Someone could name a group "The Happy Fun-time Party" and go on to kill millions. Would you say they are actually happy and fun? - heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Liberals want to ban guns, not shoot people with them. Clearly a conservative.
- foohookups311, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7@bobabot1
Check your references before calling someone out that was actually right. Nazi does equal National Socialism. Nazis are part of the far left, anyone who tells you different is brainwashed by some blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism - Aggaman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27"Check your references before calling someone out that was actually right. Nazi does equal National Socialism. Nazis are part of the far left, anyone who tells you different is brainwashed by some blog."
Unhappily, I have to inform you that you are an utter ***** with the IQ of a worm. If you think that "National Socialist" means that they were lefty socialists, then I guess you must believe that the "Democratic Republic of Korea" is in fact a democracy (if it wasn't, why would they call it "Democratic"... duh).
But if you believed that, you'd be the biggest utter ***** moron on digg.
Oh wait...
Nazism is by no means an ideology of the left. If you want a bad leftist ideology, you have Stalinism. - msoule, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@bobabot1
There are several branches of the socialist ideology. All share the fundamental premise that government must direct the economic activity of a nation for the good of the people. Hitler was in every way a socialist. There is often confusion on this point due to the fact that Hitler was adamantly opposed to Marxists whom we more familiarly associate with the term socialist. - foohookups311, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6@Aggaman
marxism, communism, socialism, etc.
It's all the stuff that Karl Marx wrote about and I suppose from your view point Karl is a pro-capitalist conservative, right?
Now go write another comment using a bunch of four letter words to describe me because it makes you sound real intelligent. - archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12msoule: "You must be a high school history teacher. The truth is Hitler was a Socialist. You might be familiar with the National Socialist German Workers' Party by it's more common name..."
Uh, no he wasn't. There are more differences between Hitler's philosophy and socialism than, say capitalism. For starters, private enterprises were allowed and indeed flourished under Nazi Germany (not socialist). These weren't state-owned corporations, either, but bona fide private enterprises. Also, he was heavily in favor of traditional roles for women (conservative point of view). He was opposed to homosexuality (conservative) and held racist point of views (one of the central tenets of socialism is that every human is equal to others and all belong to a single race, the human race). Though Hitler himself might have been agnostic (that remains unclear), nazism in itself made many references to religion, and the church was deemed an essential part of socity (as it was in facist Italy and Spain), while Socialism considers religion as the opium of the people. Socialism is internationalist in nature, while fascism and nazism are intensely patriotic, putting the fatherland before everything else. Nevermind that Hitler strongly opposed socialists and communists, and was an ally of Franco who also fought communists and socialists (and anarchists) in Spain!
Claiming that Hitler was part of the far left is a laughable attempt by right-wingers to get rid of one of the most embarassing skeleton in their closet. The truth is that Hitler (and Mussolini, and Franco) indeed represent the far right. Deal with it.
(And as for the name, well, as others pointed out, the nazis were as much socialists as the DPRK is democratic.) - archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"Check your references before calling someone out that was actually right. Nazi does equal National Socialism. Nazis are part of the far left, anyone who tells you different is brainwashed by some blog."
Nazis are part of the far right. Virtually all historians and political scientists agree on that point. In fact, they have agreed on that point since the rise of nazism in the 1930s, a long time before either you or I were born, and even longer before blogs have existed. Just because neocons suddenly don't like being on the same ideological side as Hitler doesn't change this historical fact. See my post above for some (not all) of the ways nazism is incompatible with socialism. The feminist angle alone is enough to discredit your theory. - archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4foohookups311, funny you should give a link to Wikipedia to support your facts, when in reality the article invalidates your claim many times over...
Here's just an example of how you shot yourself in the foot:
"Support of anti-Communists for Fascism and Nazism
Various far right-wing politicians and political parties in Europe welcomed the rise of fascism and the Nazis out of an intense aversion towards Communism. According to them, Hitler was the savior of Western civilization and of capitalism against Bolshevism. During the later 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis were supported by the Falange movement in Spain, and by political and military figures who would form the government of Vichy France. A Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism (LVF) and other anti-Soviet fighting formations were formed." - JMnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I support free speech. So even Limbaugh, the bigoted retard, has a right to share his hate on his own radio show. If you don't agree with him. Don't listen to him.
- davidave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3he liked guns and has a twisted view of religion...yeah definitely sounds like a liberal....
- corporate70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Talk about making up fake news, try reading the transcript from the Limbaugh Show:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042407/content/01125109.guest.html
Look, last week, as a means of illustrating on this show how the words of conservative talk show hosts are twisted and taken out of context, I blamed the liberals for the Virginia Tech shooting. I said the guy had to be a liberal, and I went through and I said, "You watch. There's going to be a website that picks this up, and a bunch of people are going to read it and they're going to be outraged that I would possibly say this," and they said, "Yeah, you got a guy that hates the rich. You got a guy that thinks the American culture is debauched. Who is it telling us all this and who is it doing all this? It's the liberals," and sure enough Media Matters fell for it hook, line and sinker. They had it up all over the place.
- SeaMowse, on 10/12/2007, -27/+42What an assclown. He has to blame the Liberals everytime something goes wrong with this country. Hey... wait - ain't it the Conservatives who are F-ing up this country?
- jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -22/+12Yes, they are. Apparently his only hope is to play the "LOOK! LOOK!" game.
- MaynardJK, on 10/12/2007, -27/+52I don't know how conservatives can be F-ing up the country when there isn't a single real conservative in power.
Neocon != conservative - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -12/+65@ MaynardJK
Conservatives in this country helped put the Neocons in power. Whether they knew what they were doing or not, they still played a big part in doing so. - mntbikeracer1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24@MaynardJK
Exactly I am a conservative to the core but I cannot think of one person in office that really represents the true ideals of being a conservative. Just one example is that a true conservative stands for smaller government, seems to me both the Liberals and Conservatives will not be happy until they control what time of the day you are allowed to take a crap at.
That said I hope this guy turns out to be a neither because so many retarded arguments are already being used to further polarize this country that this shouldn't be another one. - Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -29/+8Not really, Democrats are in power in both houses of the Senate. So would that be Democrats that are F-ing up the country?
- lacronicus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10both houses of the senate? and you vote? saddening.
in any case...
i happen to recall that it was a republican controlled congress that passed the patriot act, detained prisoners without a number of civil liberties, and got us into iraq, under the premise of protecting us against terrorism. certainly i dont agree with everything that the democratic congress has done, but theyve certainly done less to f this country up than their predecessors. - davedufour, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0You have no idea whether he was plaming anyone or not. Limbaugh was just stating a fact -- Cho was definitely on the left. How is there any doubt about that? Since when is stating a fact bigoted? Nice name-calling, by the way. Proves where your thought processes are.
- JrGhoull, on 10/12/2007, -7/+73being pissed about not being rich doesnt make you a liberal.
- bidness, on 10/12/2007, -28/+16Being an English major does
- theodicey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Most of Rush's listeners are pissed off about not being rich. Or there's something wrong with their life, which a little money would help fix. Why else would they listen to two hours of angry ranting a day?
But they don't think that makes them "liberal" -- because Rush says liberals are the bad guys.
The actual rich don't listen to Rush -- they think he's a clown. - bigcatt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3no, but it helps.
- sysoprock, on 10/12/2007, -19/+51Lets weigh the facts....
Conservative: The dude liked to kill people.
Liberal: He was going to college.
It's a tough call.- SqueakyWheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Liberal: wanted to kill "Rich" people
Conservative: Bought a Gun - W00DR0W, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Conservative: He was was Asian.
- W00DR0W, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Oh, and besides the fact that so far these mass murderers have been racist rednecks; like Columbine and Oklahoma.
A Liberal would've turned to drugs and O.D.ed.
- SqueakyWheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Liberal: wanted to kill "Rich" people
- dogstar0125, on 10/12/2007, -13/+20It's funny how similar Rush Limbaugh is to Rosie O'Donnell. They're both loudmouth morons who make plainly illogical and unsupported statements to promote their ideologies. They shoot their mouths off without thinking, then have to provide ludicrous rationalizations to avoid retracting their statements. Their viewpoints are so twisted that it's hard to see what ideology they represent. In the end, they represent obnoxious stupidity, thoughtlessness and lack of courtesy. Perhaps that's becoming a new political ideology all in itself.
- theodicey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Only difference is, Rush has millions of listeners, has sold tens of millions of books, and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
And Rosie is about a tenth as influential in every respect. She doesn't even get her own show.
So you're drawing a false equivalence. - ReyX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@dogstar0125
You forgot fat.
- theodicey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Only difference is, Rush has millions of listeners, has sold tens of millions of books, and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- oceanmoon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Why did Cho have to "be" anything?
Reading articles in the last week, this tragedy has been blamed on everything from video games to autism to being a loner to anti-depressants. How about he was sick, troubled, and deeply disturbed...and that perhaps we don't know why some people do terrible things?- ssamyrabka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3AxTually the Church of Scientology, Tom Cruise, and the Hollywooden headed crowds ALL know it was the medications he was given. Blame the Psychologists! Blame them ALL. Rush is way wrong, it was the Liberal "drug peddling" Psychologists! Thanks Tom.
- tintedblue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Cho had to "be something" because if he claimed to be Christian on one of his videos, it would've also been plastered here on Digg for the world to find another false reason to mock Christianity and somehow blame it on Bush.
- adc86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's my firm belief that despite the business in people's everyday lives, there remains a decent chuck of those who are simply bored. These people will do whatever it takes to "stir the pot," if you will, and blame, discuss, rework, retell, and otherwise continue to experience what is put forth for their consumption. Often this takes place to a point of exacerbation, and they all lose the point anyways.
If Cho was X, they have a story. If he was Y, there's another story. If one says X and simultaneously, the other says Y, now we have a tangent, and another story inherent therein. - noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hope they don't blame it on autism. The last thing autists need is *more* social problems.
- katrinca, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4We all know he's not the most intelligent man so screw him!
- h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -11/+10He's sure in a rush to be known as the world's biggest dumbass.
- slappynutz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3You're probably going to get dugg down for the bad "rush" pun.
- TheIguana, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Or perhaps he was simply mentally ill... Oh wait thats not controversial or bashing enough for Limbaugh!
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16See, that would hit Limbaugh too close to home.
- timjenlang, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4oh those liberals again....you just can't stand the truth can you!
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9***** Rush, ALL liberals are pro-gun control peace&loveniks and you know it, you over-generalizing fat drug-addicted *****. This guy was clearly an anti-education anti-ivory tower university type conservative.
Am I being sarcastic? Hard to tell, isn't it. - vikramkr, on 10/12/2007, -13/+43Rush Limbaugh is a piece of *****.
- DrinkPaint, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4You are correct
- pinkSocks, on 10/12/2007, -12/+19Hitler was a conservative.
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7Hitler was a socialist. Hardly a conservative viewpoint.
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@geekee: national socialism is not socialism with a nationalistic skew...read up on your history.
- pinkSocks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm
- msoule, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@rauz
You might want to brush up on your own reading starting here: http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005/08/hitler-was-socialist.html
The author's credentials in history and political science are impeccable. But maybe you know something he doesn't... - rauz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@msoule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel#Criticisms
Not exactly irreputable nor unbiased, I'd say.
Reading Mein Kampf, a book that was written many years before Hitler's actual rise to power, doesn't give much insight into how the idea of national socialism was actually implemented in the Third Reich. See previously posted links.
Of course the matter isn't black and white but saying he was a straight up socialist with nationalist views is just plain wrong. - rauz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sorry, was meant to say "impeccable", not "irreputable" but Digg wouldn't let me edit.
- msoule, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@rauz
Nationalism and Socialism are two totally different things. Socialism is an economic philosophy which Hitler embraced and implemented. The fact that Hitler railed against Communism in Mein Kampf leads some to believe that he was not a socialist. It's apples and oranges. I agree, the issue is far from black and white and any characterization of Hitler as either conservative or liberal by our current definitions is, to put it lightly, missing the point. - archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"The author's credentials in history and political science are impeccable. But maybe you know something he doesn't..."
Virtually all historians and political scientists agree that Hitler was a conservative and that nazism belongs to the far right of the political spectrum. Just because *one* professor agrees with your own personal bias doesn't make it true... - Lewie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hitler was fascist and you both know it.
- archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"Nationalism and Socialism are two totally different things. Socialism is an economic philosophy which Hitler embraced and implemented."
No, he didn't. Private enterprises were allowed to flourish inside Nazi Germany. You're confusing "interventionism" and "socialism"...while Socialism is interventionist, that doesn't mean that the two are synonymous - hey, the US is actually quite interventionist (subsidizing the military and aerospace industries through the Pentagon, among others), and yet you wouldn't say that the US is socialist, would you?
The fact is that Socialism isn't *only* an economic philosophy, it also entails many social aspects as well (equality of men and women, internationalism, marginalization of religion, etc.). When one looks at the complete picture, it's *clear* that the two philosophies are completely incompatible, and that in fact nazism played along pretty well with capitalism - one of the reasons why conservative and far right elites supported him early on throughout Europe. In fact, it was only when it became clear that he was a military threat that European countries reacted against him. Of course, by that time it was already too late...
Next you'll try to argue that Neville Chamberlain (who tried to appease Hitler) wasn't a conservative...
Rewriting history is bad. You should abstain from it. - Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@xen0blue: No Stalin was far from it, Stalin was a Communist. Liberals in all the places of the world -except US of course- are sitting to the right to center part of the parliament, they are right wingers. Conservatives are sitting in the far right, -fascism for example is a form of extreme conservatism, about the same with extreme nationalism-, Socialists (the Pinkos as you call them) in the center to left and Communists in the far left. Living in a country were all four of this kind of parties are on the parliament and having attended a session (as my country's constitution enables me to), I can confirm you 100% that that's how right-left works in politics. Modern day America has two right-wing parties (Democrats -> Liberals -> Center-Right / Republicans ->Conservatives -> Right-Extreme Right) in accordance with the standards of the rest of the world.
So to complete my argument in a present day parliamentary session Stalin and his party would sit to the far left, so Stalin -> Extreme Left winger, Liberals -> Moderate Right wingers (they're half a parliamentary building away).
Thanks for your attention....
- trilks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I'm waiting to see how he'll blame this on Clinton...
- coprolite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14This guy's a male. So it's a male that committed this act. I'm just pointing out a fact.
This guy's South Korean. So it's a foreigner that committed this act. I'm just pointing out a fact.
This guy wrote bad plays and poetry. So it's an English major that committed this act. I'm just pointing out a fact.
etc, etc.- dogstar0125, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This guy's a liberal. Now I'm pointing out a self-serving inference.
- yakuzablitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While Cho was technically a South Korean citizen, doesn't it count for anything that he lived most of his life here in the USA?
- WeeklyGeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5instead of getting angry about him saying this stuff, just ignore him.
- mrbungle1975, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite and needs to be taken off the air.
- southwestnut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2and Rosie does not?
- partytimeloser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I read that and thought it was about Margaret Cho. Which would have been incredibly obvious.
- DarkReign16, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Everyone they don't like is a liberal, and every act, pedophilia, mass murder, drug smuggling, all liberals. The liberals did it all!
Basically non-stop propaganda on some conservative radio. - vsaint, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's unfortunate that all these political pundits find it necessary to make outrageous claims to make headlines. Maybe if they just spoke the truth their ratings would improve.
- InfidelAl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Is there anyone with higher ratings than Rush?
- slappynutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I say Limbaugh "has to be a douchebag"
- devzer0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Rish Limbaugh: just another dead doper.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1For reference, that's what Rush said about Jerry Garcia.
- bherring, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4This guy has to be a dildo. A big fake dick, he's a dildo. He had to became a dildo somewhere along the line. So a dildo said something like this. Rush is a dildo, just pointing out a fact.
- brandoj, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1If you had to choose between whether Cho was a liberal or conservative, raise your hand if you think he was a conservative.
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Great. So a liberal killed 32 people. How many has Bush killed?
- laserblazer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Untold hundreds of thousands and the global reputation of America.
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@laserblazer
...and Bush is still alive making the decisions that kill more.
Rush has good points, some times. But he is a shrill and this comment just goes to show you that he is a partisan dumbass. - catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4At least 100 billion.
- southwestnut, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3actually if he had killed people he would be in the pen, out on parole, or on the green mile.
Bad Example
Bury me, I don't care. Show how "tolerant" of others you are
- toxicshok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Limbaugh retarded. Anyone who thinks that they can slap a simple solution (ie Jack Thompson, Limbaugh, any other of the Sunday Morning talking heads) on a complex problem of school shooting, the next day seriously needs to take a step back. "It was liberalism, satanism, video games, rock, the devils influence" Its terrible that people try and hijack a terrible tragedy like this for there own political motives.
- ssamyrabka, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6Digg me down... Rush is Right. Cho's ranting about the Rich, they had no idea of the suffering, pain, death, the down trodden in society, no pain from the Cognac Drinking, Lexus Driving Rich, ie... Liberal IDEOLOGY. Of course you must include the bleeding hearted liberal JUDGES that failed to prosecute the bastard.
- DavidBGie, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4Rush is right.
- moocow1452, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6What's next, Bush is a liberal? Or worse, Rush himself is a closet liberal.
- noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Rush is actually neither a liberal nor a conservative. His political leanings are best described by the word *****.
- BeefyCow2001, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Maybe he has something going when he makes the connection of Cho's violence and being a Liberal.
I'm as liberal as they get and I would REALY like to ***** up Rush Limbaugh.- southwestnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, just to ruffle your feathers lets look at the two "wings"
Republicans are right
Democrats are whats left
dumb, isn't it? I get so sick of every day reading about Bush this, Hillary that, Rush this,
I HATE POLITICS
A bird needs two wings to fly, just as this country needs two points of view to give balance. On that note, I ask this to all Rep. and Dem. alike, why do you think that your way is the only way that can work? Both sides have just as much good as bad, sometimes it gets a little skewed though. I am for balance, and I am glad that there is balance in the Congress to give contrast the Executive branch. That is what the country was founded on.
To the lefties, sorry for the snipe at the top, I was kinda ticked after reading some of the post on here - msoule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@southwestnut
"A bird needs two wings to fly"
How very Zen of you. I mean, why can't we all just get along?
- southwestnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, just to ruffle your feathers lets look at the two "wings"
- derekknight, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7What an *****. The boy was mentally ill. Period.
That was a pretty cheap shot, even for Rush. - AsylumAleikum, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Cho was a revolutionary out to get hedonistic kapitalist pigs.
- Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2"Cho was a revolutionary out to get hedonistic kapitalist pigs"
...who didn't believe in Jesus Christ as a personal savior. - englishganxta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4And how the ***** does believing in Jesus Christ make a difference?
- Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"And how the ***** does believing in Jesus Christ make a difference?"
Because the perceived lack of Christian morals in his victims was a major reason cited by Cho in his video for why he did what he did. I'm not bad-mouthing Christians, just pointing out that there was a lot more going on his head than just hatred of the rich and materialism. Limbaugh is cherry-picking elements of Cho's motivation that can he can twist into an attack on the left, and ignoring the elements that ring of the Religious Right.
Cho was just unbalanced, and what he did had nothing to do with his political views. We don't even know what his political views were or if he was even political. Using this incident as a political tool is reprehensible.
- Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2"Cho was a revolutionary out to get hedonistic kapitalist pigs"
- TDR25, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I guess being a Liberal or Conservative automatically makes you crazy. Though I think many...***** it, all conservatives are deluded fools, I don't think all of them are maniacal killers.
- bovox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Hmm...the guy legally owned 2 hand guns, went to the shooting range to shoot, and believed in the right to conceal and carry these guns. I don't know one Liberal who fits that profile, yet I can't even count all the Conservatives who do on all my fingers and toes.
- razortongue9000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Isn't there a word like "radical" or "extremist" one would use to describe someone who expresses their political views through mass-murder? How can you be a "radical liberal" or a "liberal extremist"? That ***** just doesn't make any sense to me.
I guess liberals sent multitudes of troops to murder and be murdered by folks in Iraq, also? ::shrugs::
Maybe Rush is just full of it... - saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What's worse than Limbaugh saying that tripe are the comments that were posted to that article...those people are absolutely bonko.
In response to Rush's BS though: the heart of liberalism is compassion towards other human beings and the goal of working together to build a better world. This Cho guy wasn't a liberal, he was asshat insane.- brandoj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Governmental compassion you mean.
- Niteryder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Funny coming from a drug addict, wanna be conservative, who is pretty liberal about getting scripts to get high.
On the other hand socially retarded people always say dumb stuff anyway - BeefyCow2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@AsylumAleikum
you mean "capitalistic". Spellcheck is there for a reason (no offense meant).- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Probably a reference to Das Kapital by Marx, mind you.
- bcerge, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3and of course this is coming from a LIBERAL reporter, from a LIBERAL media outlet. Im sure they are trying to do everything they can to get Rush off of the air because his show is only the most listened show in the country, and that is over television as well. So gfg Libs! Keep trying!
- bcerge, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2and of course every friggen Lib that reads my comment will bury it because they know I'm right!
- PhillipL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That'd be a horrible idea. Rush is one of the greatest assets that the democratic party has. He's spewing hate and he speaks for conservatives everywhere. As long as their mouthpiece includes a hate filled drug addict then the Dems win every time he opens his face to say something crazy or pop another oxy. People are waking up to the fact that guys like this are out to make a buck by hurting America and driving people apart. Let him speak because his free speech will help a dem win the presidency.
- pig13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bcerge
"and of course this is coming from a LIBERAL reporter, from a LIBERAL media outlet. Im sure they are trying to do everything they can to get Rush off of the air because his show is only the most listened show in the country, and that is over television as well. So gfg Libs! Keep trying!"
Considering that there is NOTHING worthwhile to listen to on the radio, it's not saying too much that his ratings are high. A station of 24 fart noises played through noise filters would be an improvement over what's on the radio now.
"and of course every friggen Lib that reads my comment will bury it because they know I'm right!"
I dug you down because I get sick of the partisan sissy slap-fighting that goes on around here.
- felixelf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2did i hear correctly that limpballs is a conservative pedophile like hitler?
hmmmm - dbt10, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Limbaugh is so close minded. How can you even jump to that conclusion with no evidence whatsoever. First of all, he claims that he is pointing out a fact, but a fact is a testable proposition. This is neither testable nor a proposition, its a dogma at best (if people believe it). Secondly, his sole reason was that Cho hated rich people, which is not something liberals are exactly known for. Limbaugh clearly forgot high school political science where it was the left-wing who advocated for wealth distribution and so forth, true liberals are in the middle. Based on that I don't think he can even be allowed to be known as a political pundit. Secondly, Cho was citing heavy religious stuff, and liberals are not exactly known for their adherence to Christianity; that would be Conservatism. Thirdly, Cho was not even political in his messages. It was a lot of prejudice and a belief that he was supposed to do the work of god. Using that rationality, then the Phelphs family, Bush, and the bible belt is full of Liberals.
What a clown. Ignore these idiots. Brick Tamlan tactics (Anchorman: "LOUD NOISES") - Mu99ins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Not another Limbaugh post...
- lolgamoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5He's such a *****.
- Reno582, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Limbaugh is a coked up douche bag, what? im just pointing out a fact
- nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3
I gotta admit he sound JUST LIKE many liberals....well and many islamists too... they all hate the USA, liberals, islamists, hollywood, european lefists. He just happened to ACT on what many liberals TALK about. - CaspianXth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Rush is a political commentator. Pundits like him attack the other side every day. That's what they do. From both sides. They connect current events to politics and political ideologies. If you look at Cho's ideology, it tends to favor the left. The "down with the rich" mentality is politically liberal as opposed to politically conservative.
Rush's point was that liberal ideology animosity towards the rich affected this kid and got him angry at the rich. It may not be a particularly relevant point because, as many people here have stated, Cho was ***** insane. And he may be way off base. But if people would stop the knee-jerk reactions and the ad hominem responses, you might find that it actually makes logical sense.
Again: relevant and useful? Not really. A valid point? Logically speaking, yes.- oceanmoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Valid, maybe. But sound, no.
- paulreetz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"You start railing against the rich and all this other -- this guy's a liberal... I am making no extrapolation"
huh? - dbt10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Since when does the term liberal denote the left? Only in the minds of all these conservatives who try to antagonize their opposition and polarize the masses. The true left is socialism. If you argued that Cho was a socialist, then sure, it would be valid. You have the right idea, but you aren't being critical enough.
- KameshaJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good point. I'll stop using Timothy McVeigh and right-wing Christian terrorist in the same sentence.
Oh, and I guess combining abortion clinic bombings with fundamentalist Christians is probably off the table too.
Can I still link Bush with Theocracy? - Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It makes logical sense only if you ignore half of what Cho said in his video. The other half was ranting about how morally degenerate and un-Christian (in Cho's apparent and very narrow definition of "Christian") his victims were. Morallity is a hallmark of the modern, American right, the Religious Right in particular.
Cho was neither left nor right, just deranged.
- englishganxta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4OK enough with blaming liberals, Bill Gates etc. It was Cho that commited the crime not ***** liberals. Stop ***** generalizing and creating a false stereotype...Cho did it and ONLY Cho.
- geoffg, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Cho was not a liberal because he actually had the courage to act on his convictions.
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7just like the Decider!
- venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9GeofG, you are an ass.
Cho's wasn't a couragous act, you dispicable moron. It was a suicidal act of extreme depravity and desperation by a poor man quite profoundly overcome by his depression, lonleyness and insanity. - amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Decider only sends others to their deaths.
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7just like the Decider!
- dalex1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I admit I don't stay current on all the news on this Limbaugh, but what did I miss that people are calling him a pedophile?
- laserblazer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He came back from the Dominican Republic with Viagra (again, unprescribed).
The DR is like Thailand - you go there for child-prostitutes, not scenery.
Granted, it's just speculation, but I doubt it would surprise many if it turned out to be the truth.
- laserblazer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He came back from the Dominican Republic with Viagra (again, unprescribed).
- seethingmuslim, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Rush is a Zionist Loving hate monger. Also blamed Cho murderous rampage on Muslims, IsmailAx.
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