Rush Limbaugh Hates America -- And So can You (Hal Cohen)

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Hal Cohen -- World News Trust

Feb. 16, 2009 -- You may find it hard to believe, but Rush Limbaugh hates America. He’ll never admit this, of course, but it’s true. In fact, all Washington Republicans hate America. Okay, that may be extreme, but I intend to prove it using their own Rubrics. I’m sure you’ve seen this video.

A member of the mainstream media, CNBC, called him out on the statement. Rush’s initial reaction was to tell the reporter that he’d been reading too much liberal propaganda. The reporter, to his credit, would have none of it, replying that he hadn’t read anything he’d just listened to what Rush said. This forced Rush into a feeble backtrack that he didn’t actually hope Obama fails, just his policies. At best the difference is purely semantic.

At this point, I would like to ask media watchdogs like Media Matters, and Crooks and Liars to locate and post instances of Rush, at the beginning of Bush 43’s presidency railing about how Democrats want him to fail and how outrageous it was for them to do so. Then maybe this intrepid CNBC reporter can play these clips and ask El Rushbo why its okay for Republicans to hope for Democratic failure but its outrageous for Democrats to behave the same way. A good follow up question would be to make him cite any Democrat actually saying publicly that they were rooting for failure.

Republicans routinely bring up the hate-America meme when confronting criticism. The responses to the September 11th attacks are a perfect example of this. Democrats who pointed out the fact, and by the way it is a fact, that Al-Qaeda used our presence in Saudi Arabia as a recruiting tool, were said to be blaming America for the attacks. However, when Evangelical Christians said that God allowed the attacks because America tolerates homosexuals and abortions, they weren’t blaming America.

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1. Tokyo Rush

[Optical.Catalyst]

2. Its called 'Projection'

Republicans accuse us of being 'haters' to cover up the overt hate being spread by the Republicans themselves.

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3. Indeed

It takes a special mind to turn everything around.

[ms liberty]

4. K&R n/t

[certainot]

5. 1000 paul reveres in reverse- the talk radio monopoly

rush spent quite a bit of time calling liberals traitors for wishing bush to fail, iraq to fail, etc.

we wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for the talk radio monopoly limbaugh spearheads.

we need some new Fairness Doctrine ASAP. as long as they have that monopoly they can slow down any progress - we don't have time for the flat earthers it enables with its uncontested volume and repetition, the planet's getting crispy.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. He so hates America - As leader of the GOP, some say he is the terrorist within. nt

[Danascot]

7. Mr. Cohen doesn't get it

It's very simple. Just remember, there are two sets of standards, one for Dems and one for Repukes.

It's an extrapolation of Nixon's assertion that when the president does it it's OK. More precisely when a REPUBLICAN preseident does it, it's OK. The omission is inconsequential because it's implied.

40 years on this assertion has evolved into a truism that when Republicans do it, whatever IT is, it's OK. And conversely when a Dem does anything it's prima facie illegal, immoral, unethical, false or otherwise just plain wrong.

I don't know why I even have to explain how this works. But people like Mr. Cohen and a surprising number of people here at DU continue to refuse to grasp the obvious.

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