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- SheilaNoya, on 10/12/2007, -40/+152Rush's other big lie is that he was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and will be competing with Al Gore. The right wing propaganda machine conveniently forgets to mention that Rush's nomination was an "UNSOLICITED" nomination from a right wing legal group and it's not even valid. The Nobel committee does NOT accept unsolicited nominations.
This is the exact same lie that FOX News used in the Terri Shiavo fiasco. They latched onto a doctor who claimed Terri Shiavo could be rehabilitated if she were allowed to live and they claimed the doctor had great credentials because he had been nominated for the Nobel prize in medicine. It turned out that his nomination was also "unsolicited" and was submitted by a right wing religious group. In other words, it was not a real nomination.
Another day, another pack of lies from Rush Limbaugh and his supporters. - NonLeftistDiggr, on 10/12/2007, -32/+79A 12 year old talking about politics on either side is full of it.
Until the 12 year old works for a pay check and only receives 75% of it, then loses another 10% on what they buy with the remainder, and has spent any time in a public sector workplace, they don't know *****. - Roger, on 10/10/2007, -9/+55I thought this was about the band Rush. Is it that hard to add "Limbaugh"?
- ronaldinho, on 10/10/2007, -4/+32Inaccurate. Rush is lambasting the left wing for "brainwashing" the kid. Either way, if what the article said was right (kid got scholarship to go to school, lived in a neighborhood before it became nice), then Rush is just trying to push HIS right-wing agenda. I'm for an universal health system, and yes, there will be people taking advantage of the system, but I rather have that than many poorer children not being healthy. Screw it, I rather pay for the health care system than for the Iraq war
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -20/+44How does telling the truth make him an idiot?
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -33/+56Limbaugh is not attacking the kid. He is attacking the people how are handling the kid. Basically, he is saying "The Left has brainwashed this kid."
ThinkProgress is lying about what is actually going on. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22This is unbelievable, next thing you know you'll be telling me the hot girl in the Valtrex commercial really doesn't have genital herpes...
- martinjd, on 10/10/2007, -12/+31Come on already... who cares if Graeme is legit or not. It's just not right to push a political agenda through a 12 year old. The bill covers 'kids' twice the age of Graeme and in double the income bracket. I think it's dumb that anyone has thought it necessary to discredit this kid and his family - but in reality he could've been an actor for all I care. If you want to convince me on a bill, show me numbers, not sob stories.
- evilearsgonemad, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23Why does the united states constantly blame the victim, you treat the sick like its their fault - and not your problem. You have the chance to help families work through childhood illnesses (illness has a higher rate of occurrence for children and elderly - duh) without going bankrupt, without foreclosing on mortgages or digging themselves into deep credit debt.
And here you are saying "don't show me the victim". If you notice, no 12 year old boys have to campaign for health care in Canada. - shawnfassett, on 10/10/2007, -6/+24If the Dems were serious about dealing with Rush they would stop being such cowards and appear DAILY on Air America. They aren't going to convince his listeners that he's bat-ass-crazy. But you can help to actually mobilize some competition for his radio show.
- Frei, on 10/10/2007, -24/+42Yeah even worse than taking away the medical care that could help him and millions of others. Your priorities are just a little out of wack. Besides the GOP uses children and unborn babies to justify most of the ridiculous things they do, until of course these kids grow up and have to pay the debt for unneeded wars. Then they just don't give a ***** about them.
- StarlessKnight, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19And the use of children at George W Bush vetoing the Stem Cell bill? Don't forget gems like that. Politicians love the "Think of the Children" wild card.
- ooutland, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19WHO BETTER than the people who are going to be affected by the S-CHIP legislation to address it? I.E. in this case, the kids who are going to be denied health care, because Vast Right Wing Conspiracy LLC believes that once poor people get seriously ill, and can't be exploited for their labor, and might require a trillionaire to part with a nickel to ensure their survival, they need to be killed ASAP to maintain those fat returns.
- mickman17, on 10/10/2007, -7/+23So its ok for GW to pimp out some kids for his abstinence only campaign but not ok for the dems to use a kid to point out the benefits of SCHIPS?
***** all of you conservatives - your backassward ways are coming to an end.. Just keep on lying and "believing" your lies...
absolutely disgusting that anyone would believe word one from that fat ass son of a bitch - DavidYeah, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17I pay as much taxes as the next guy, and I'm glad that I'm a part of a social network that believes in investing in important services, and I'm glad to put my part in towards the ones I don't even use. I like knowing that if myself or someone I know or love ends up on the wrong side of the poverty line, that these services would be there to help me out and the rest of my family won't be financially dragged down as it would be if those services weren't availalble.
If you hate that kind of stuff, then vote for change. - aliengoods, on 10/10/2007, -17/+31That's an exact description of what GW did to General Patreaus.
They put a 12 year old out there to campaign for them and then attack anybody for criticizing him as being mean and picking on a little kid.
They put a General out there to campaign for them and then attack anybody for criticizing him as being unpatriotic and a terrorist sympathizer.
So yes, the Dems are using a dirty trick, but no one seems to care when the Right does it. - Frei, on 10/10/2007, -14/+27No taking away his medical care is.
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15It *sounds* like sarcasm, but these days you never really know...
- yanked, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16Rush and the right: stalked the kid and his family, falsely claimed his family paid thousands for a private school (he's on scholarship), falsely claimed they paid lots for a fancy house (they bought it 15 years ago for 55,000), called the kid brainwashed, etc. Democrats: pushing a bill to give health care to children, and put a 12-year old in the spotlight for a couple weeks (a spotlight less than what hundreds of child actors see every day) to illustrate who would receive benefits. How are these equivalent?
In any case, the key issue is that the Democrats are trying to pass a bill to give health care to children, and the Republicans are trying to stop it. And because the right finds itself unable to attack health-care for children, they attack the media campaign. Hell, if someone asked my 12-year-old if she wanted to be on TV for a few days to help bring health care to millions of kids like herself, and she wanted to do it, I'd let her. Why not? - pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15damn phony childrens.
- gjscds, on 10/10/2007, -18/+29Like Rush or not--using a 12 year old kid to spew a political agenda just doesn't seem to be an ethical move in my eyes...
- swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -16/+26Where does that come from? Or are you just making ***** up to smear Bush?
*For the record I dislike what Bush has done to this country as much as the next guy, but unsolicited bashing doesn't fly with me. - Terr01, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The foundation that ""nominated"" him (He's on their board of advisers) certainly doesn't seem to be joking:
http://www.landmarklegal.org/uploads/Limbaugh%20No ... - catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -10/+20I hardly ever listen to Rush, but I heard him talk about his nomination and and he clearly stated several times who it was from and that he wouldn't actually be in the running. There are plenty of things to criticize, no need to build strawmen.
- Timetheos, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Was it ethical for Bush to pull out "snowflake" kids? Just curious.
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/10/2007, -7/+16I pay 25% plus in taxes, and I say you are full of *****.
- yanked, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11So... this is a plan for health-care for children, and the Democrats are featuring a child to illustrate who would receive the benefits. So what's wrong with this? How is this any worse than the thousands of child actors out there every day? Plus, the bill helps children get health care. What's the problem?
As usual, this thread has been inundated by right-wingers in the short term, and in the longer term the reasonable people on Digg will slowly digg down these idiots and replace their idiocy with reason. This is a non-debate. SCHIP is so obviously the right thing to do that the right has no argument about the substance whatsoever. So they attack Democrats for ... pointing to a kid who would receive benefits. And then Michelle Malkin stalks him and his family, and the whole bunch makes up some crap about him paying for a fancy private school (he's on scholarship) and the value of their house (they bought it 15 years ago for 55,000), and then they attack for putting the kid in the spotlight for a couple weeks. Man, they got nothing. - DavidYeah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Bush himself trotted out the "snowflake children" when he was vetoing the vastly popular initiative to fund stem cell research. C'mon, folks, grow up.
- Loie, on 10/10/2007, -14/+23first phony soldiers, now phony kids?
- mstoneburner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How can wanting to hold onto what is rightfully earned instead of having it forcefully redistributed possibly be called greed?
- blubberlump, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14"They send the kid out to lie. They filled this kid’s head with lies just as they have some of these soldiers about me."
That sounds a lot like, well exactly like, what religion does. - DiggsOnlyJew, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14So a unanimously Senate confirmed United States General with 37 years of military training and experience and 4 years combat experience has the same credibility as a 12 year old?
- juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I thought it was, too.
- rcook18, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Rush's mom? Is that you?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -12/+20He is just talking *****.
- appleann1, on 10/10/2007, -8/+16Great idea, nobody listens to Air America.
- didiman, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15National defense is one of the only things the federal government should actually be involved in. They are incompetent when it comes to anything else and that is why almost all social programs are a mess and will never work as intended.
- Leviathan777, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Amazing how many losers out there attacking a kid instead of attacking the program - oh, wait, they can't do that because any sane person approves of the program.
See, if Rush had a leg to stand on, he'd attack the program. But he can't. This kid already gets S-CHIP under the program that Bush says he supports. So Rush can't attack the program, because that would contradict Bush.
So instead he tries to smear this hard-working, entrepreneurial, middle class family as soaking the government... so they can get health care for their two kids injured in an accident.
What a disgusting group of pigs who would attack a family that way. What a disgusting "philosophy" of politics that demands we leave children to suffer without medical care so they can pretend they have some kind of intellectual principle. - JohnDBandit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Hillbilly Heroin has rotted his brain. He is becoming as irrelevant as Ann Coulter.
- Frei, on 10/10/2007, -7/+14I don't think Limbaugh has a good opinion on health-care, a fat Oxycontin addict probably doesn't realize that most people can't just BS their way into prescriptions.
- Timetheos, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Limbaugh is crying wolf a few too many times. He said this about Sheehan... He said this about some military men... Now he's saying it about a 12 year old...
-snark- After all, we know parents never talk politics with children, and children never have opinions. -snark- - GoatMonkey2112, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9That song about Tom Sawyer was LIES! ALL LIES!!
- KKat, on 10/10/2007, -16/+23Be funny if you read your own quote before attacking Rush. (Again).
He's saying the kid was lied to, not that the kid was a liar.
Even as a hardcore conservative, I've caught Rush in some eye-rolling crap before, but damn these leftist sites are packs of idiots. Wait until you actually HAVE something before crying wolf. I'm confident these Hillary-founded groups will loose all crediblity with this before they actually have something. OK, nevermind. Keep it up. We'll be glad you did. :) - evilearsgonemad, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9hahahaha... do you think waiting to see a specialist is a bigger problem than having uninsured citizens? THEY CAN'T EVEN ACCESS SPECIALISTS.. Buried for stupidity.
Our former prime minister went into a hospital and received a quadruple bi-pass... if I wanted, i could go to the same hospital and get the same treatment. The best medical my tax dollars can pay for... - rdoger6424, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Sickness is a choice. If these kids knew that the USA wouldn't just hand out healthcare for any old reason, sickness would go away. Simple as that. Liberals.
[/sarcasm] - Timetheos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Rush Limbaugh is an oxy-moron
- D1STORT, on 10/10/2007, -13/+19Who is worse, the individual who ***** all over health care for poor 12 year olds, or the individual who uses poor 12 year olds to promote the cause of affordable health care?
And for all the fools claiming the ladder. Lets not forget about conservative pundants using the families of 911 victims to promote their own war-mongering agenda. - lordmike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The family makes $45,000 a year... the sister has a pre-existing condition... that makes the family uninsruable... typical insurance costs for a healthy family is $12,000 a year... it is probably triple that for these kids... so, NO, they CAN'T AFFORD IT, regardless of the kid's scholarship to the school where they pay $500 a year!
- TheSwashbuckler, on 10/16/2007, -7/+13If anyone knows about filling peoples' heads with lies, it's Rush...
- RansomHoldiay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yeah truly, conservatives like rush know how to roll. ***** the troops! ***** the kids! ***** the constitution! ***** liberty and freedom!
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