Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

Rush Limbaugh's fact checker

the easiest job on earth

"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 18:54:07 PM CST

LOL

"I can tolerate chaos, I'm just not sure chaos can tolerate me" Dylan

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by: Sir Robin @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 20:06:40 PM CST

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In "R.L. is a big fat idiot"

Franken's crew just absolutely had the RL "Fact" checkers in a knot.  I don't recall the specifics, but the latter were snookered hook, line, and sinker by Franken's rather young and unsophisticated workers.

Because they have no idea what a fact is....

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 23:32:58 PM CST

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"All I know is..."

All I know is that I could probably put my finger on a number of women's lives who have been saved as a result of listening to this show.

Because their husbands will beat them to death if they try to change the station?

Bring back S[redacted]e H[redacted]y!

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by: sxp151 @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 18:56:20 PM CST

Ouch

So deeply wrong, and yet so right.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

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by: ThillyWabbit @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 19:02:50 PM CST

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LMFAO

+100

"the Constitution has also become outdated in many respects and needs to be revised--and possibly rewritten from scratch!" --JO

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by: Aggie @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 21:46:53 PM CST

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That's...

Well- that shouldn't be funny.

But there' funny and really funny. This is definitely one of those.

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by: MADCO @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 22:22:36 PM CST

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"I have no clue..."

Rush should have just stopped there. At least he would have gotten one thing right.

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by: ColoSquare @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 19:07:41 PM CST

Mark Udall is from UTAH????

   That's news to me.  Here we were told (repeatedly in '08) that he was a Boulder liberal.

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by: One Queer Dude @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 20:30:20 PM CST

nah. he's from New Mexico

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by: Jambalaya @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 20:32:16 PM CST

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Utah, Colorado, New Mexico

What's the difference?

It's all 'flyover country' to the amazing RushBo.


"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 20:38:27 PM CST

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Joe Lieberman?

Maybe he was thinking of Joe Lieberman from Conn.

This movie has been rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and destruction
@pambennettauror

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by: Pam Bennett @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 20:41:56 PM CST

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"Flyover country for RL..."

poor plane.

Do they have to hang him below with straps?

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:07:13 AM CST

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Military transport

"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:16:09 AM CST

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Nah....

he hears "military transport" with his name attached and he quickly points out that he has a boil on his butt and can't go....

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 10:17:38 AM CST

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I told you folks this breast cancer thing was a time bomb

I even gave you the HHS PR office number last week.  

Maybe I should have used safe words .... something like hit the abortion button on these breast cancer advisories...stop it now before it develops into a cancer on your Administration.

Now we have Udall going to the Senate floor to spin shit.  What a freaking waste of taxpayers money.

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by: Libertad @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 21:40:29 PM CST

Rush Limbaugh.

What a freaking waste of the airwaves.

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by: OneEyedOwl @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 21:52:59 PM CST

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What I don't get is

it seems like the Democrats have a 24x7 watch on Rush.  I don't even know what time or station he's on ... I'm thinking around noon-3p on KHOW or KOA.

Thanks for keeping me up to date on Rush.

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by: Libertad @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 22:17:46 PM CST

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Here's the transcript, in context.

From your link.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: A couple of health care audio sound bites.  Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was on State of the Union on CNN Sunday. John King says, "If in the end you can't get Lieberman, Lincoln, Landrieu, and you can't pass a bill without at least going to a trigger, would you make that compromise?"

BROWN:  In the end, I don't want four Democratic Senators dictating to the other 56 of us and to the country -- when the public option has this much support -- that it's not going to be in it.  People want every option.  If we're telling people you have to buy insurance, we shouldn't tell them they've gotta buy insurance from a private insurance company.  But in the end I think that all four of our colleagues survey the -- this -- look at this bill in the end and say... I don't think they want to be on the wrong side of history.

RUSH:  Oh, "the wrong side of history" is where you're going to be, Senator Brown.  There is no majority for the public option in an honest poll.  "I'm not going to let four senators dictate to the rest of us..." Well, it's going to be a lot more than four because a lot more than four are going to hold out for something like what Landrieu got: $300 million. Here's Mark Udall [D-Colo.] on the Senate floor... Here's a portion of what he said.

UDALL:  My advice to women in listening to this debate is that they should be consulting their doctors when it comes to things like this. They should be listening to their doctors.  Their doctors are up on the best research; they're up on the best science; they're up on the best medicine and get on top of it.  And so I would just say to the women of America, "Listen to your doctors, not to Rush Limbaugh."  

RUSH:  He's on the floor of the US Senate and I do not know what he was talking about.  Maybe it was the mammogram thing.  I have no clue what he was talking about.  All I know is that I could probably put my finger on a number of women's lives who have been saved as a result of listening to this show.  Okay, to the phones.  We continue now with Kathy in Santa Barbara, California, where Oprah is going to end up after she leaves Chicago.  Nice to have you.  Hello.

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O'Rourke

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by: Laughing Boy @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 07:08:14 AM CST

Oh wow, that changes everything

No wait, what's the additional context we're supposed to get from this?

The only difference is this additional lie.

There is no majority for the public option in an honest poll.

I guess you'd know whether a poll were honest based on whether it found the "correct" conclusion.

Bring back S[redacted]e H[redacted]y!

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by: sxp151 @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 07:41:40 AM CST

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Apparently he corrected Udall's identification

Mark's anyhow, not Tom's

"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 08:17:04 AM CST

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does Tom come from Utah, too?

   If he'd just lay off the Vicodin, he wouldn't have to keep correcting himself.

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by: One Queer Dude @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:29:16 AM CST

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Rush doesn't correct himself

He's never wrong

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 12:29:53 PM CST

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Um, what's your point, exactly?

It looks like they edited the transcript so he looks like he didn't make a mistake. Unless you're charging Thilly with making his own edits (outside of the obvious satirical edit, that is).

"The fact that we Dems can't rebuild the house does not mean you bring back the [Republicans] who burned it down." - DavidThi808

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by: Aristotle @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 08:59:48 AM CST

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Rush is at war with EastAsia

and has always been at war with EastAsia

"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:03:03 AM CST

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You can't change the audio

Rush Limbaugh really is a big fat idiot. And so are his fact checkers.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

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by: ThillyWabbit @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:04:43 AM CST

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No,

but the folks who are addicted to that kind of a Rush can certainly ignore it.  A la, fingers in the ears, singing a Limbaugh tune.

 "Tea patriots -- you can have their ignorance when you pry it from their cold, dead minds."

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by: Rainidog @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 10:21:41 AM CST

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What you think this clarifies

in any significant way is baffling, LB.  Huh?  

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by: BlueCat @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 10:32:41 AM CST

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Sorry.

Not implying Thilly edited, and I'm sure Rush did make the mistake about which Udall he was referring to.

I just often see Limbaugh taken out of context here, and wanted to post his whole passage.

Other than insults, there wasn't really any policy talked about on the thread (other than by...*GASP*...Libby), so I don't have much to say.

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O'Rourke

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by: Laughing Boy @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 11:43:04 AM CST

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I don't think I missed any context

He didn't misidentify Sherrod Brown, so I didn't see the part about Brown as relevant.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

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by: ThillyWabbit @ Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 18:24:49 PM CST

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Yeah

God forbid anybody takes Rush out of context.

Because he makes so much sense in context, don't you know?

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 20:47:42 PM CST

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