Limbaugh Sinks to New Lows
Well folks, he’s at it again! Self-avowed, conservative hit-man Rush Limbaugh has continued to make outrageous statements calling for the failure of yet another American “institution”. Not too long ago he expressed a sincere desire for the failure of the Obama Administration, and now he’s calling for the ultimate collapse and failure of automotive icon, General Motors. On his Friday radio broadcast Mr. Limbaugh expressed his total support for a boycott of GM, while making a wild claim that 17% of all Americans support punishing GM for accepting a government sponsored bailout. Limbaugh is quoted as saying he understood why people would want to avoid buying GM vehicles, “They don’t want to patronize Obama. They don’t want to do anything to make Obama policies work”. Fortunately, Mr. Limbaugh’s “ravings from the Right” have had very little impact on GM’s emergence as a viable, American auto maker. In fact, GM is showing brisk increases in auto sales, while Chrysler reported its best sales month of the year.
Once again, the Ultra-Conservative voices of the increasingly irrelevant Republican Party have done their party and the American people a great disservice. DNC spokesman, Hari Sevugan summed it up nicely by saying, “While it is not surprising that Rush Limbaugh would root for the failure of a national institution for political gain, it is surprising that the other so-called leaders of the Republican Party are silently going along with him given how many hard-working Americans rely on GM for a living”. It is not surprising, however, that the Republican Party is continuing to lose credibility (and membership) among the American people when its leadership fails to show enough “back-bone” to stand up to right-wing zealots, such as Limbaugh, whose stated intent is to bring down the government of the United States.
Time come for the moderate voices of the Republican party (such as General Colin Powell) to take back control of the party, and to publicly repudiate the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and O’Reilly, who are hell-bent on creating dissent and unrest across America by calling for the failure of American institutions. Perhaps, just perhaps, time has come for mainstream (former) Republicans to form a new conservative political party; a party that does not require the Limbaugh “litmus test” for membership. Hmmmmmm.
While not a Rush fan some of what he says makes sense. The Obama failing comment makes sense. Rush is against what Obama is for so why, if you are against someone’s stands on major issues, would you want them to do well with those ideas? I hope Obama fails on socialized healthcare, cap-and-trade, and many other issues. Wanted the president to fail in his agenda does not mean you want the country to fail.
And, being in auto sales myself I can tell you much of the “success” GM and Chrysler have now (Chrysler more) is a result of hundreds of dealers getting closed and them having to sell the cars for whatever they can get.
And as for Rush and GM… not one report I read shows anything he said which shows he calls for a boycott. Even on his site he does not say that:
In fact, this is what he said:
“Oh, you guys are… I love you people on the staff, but you are just too worried about me. Dawn is afraid that what I just said will be translated by the media, “Rush wants GM to fail.” Did I say that? Did I say, “I want General Motors to fail?” (interruption) No, I didn’t. (interruption) Well, yes, they can remove the… Yeah, they could clip it. They could remove the “did I say” pfft, and get, “I want General Motors,” and I’m just telling you. You know, I’m looking at this poll. We’ve got… It’s at zero here. He has 34% strongly approve, 34% strongly disapprove. “
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I used to be in a carpool 15-20 years ago with a confirmed dittohead. God we had fun arguing back and forth. Well, I had fun. He just got aggravated. I used to play a game, how long before Rush said something that was false on its face. Never had to wait too long. Honestly, didn’t get it then, don’t get it now.
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Harrison,
Limbaugh apologists often use this argument to justify his outrageous comments; i.e., I (Limbaugh) want all of Obama’s agenda to fail in its attempts to make America a better, stronger, more egalitarian nation because I would rather see America go “down the tubes” than to admit I’m wrong about anything. Afterall, I (Limbaugh) am a gift from God, smarter than everyone else, even with “half my brain tied behind my back”. Make no mistake about it, Limbaugh would rather see America crash and burn than see Obama succeed.
Harrison, on his Friday afternoon broadcast Limbaugh stated outright that he supported a boycott of GM. This is a matter of record! As far as GM and Chrysler are concerned, I hope that Americans will give these two American automakers a chance to succeed by supporting them in every way possible. A lot of American jobs are at stake.
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Windroot,
I used to think that Limbaugh really believed in his ultra-conservative, right-wing nonsense, and was only willing to “bend the truth a bit” to promote it. Now I am beginning to think that Limbaugh would rather see the American way of life utterly destroyed than to admit President Obama’s agenda might be working. I don’t know if he is evil, or just crazy?
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Alas, I was a huge Rush Limbaugh fan at one time. In fact, I had a dittohead tat on my right cheek (of course!), and I would show it off even when it was not invited. Thankfully, our Heavenly Father changed all that.
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I’m afraid your assertion of Rush and GM is wrong (this is from June 10th):
“I urged no boycott of GM. General Motors is a sponsor here. (interruption) I bought a General Motors — That’s right! I bought a new Suburban last week.
I bought one. This is absolutely absurd. This is just typical of the irresponsibility of the media.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061009/content/01125115.guest.html
There ARE many stories online saying that Rush called for a boycott but there is NOT ONE link showing the PROOF. I urge you to show proof of your assertion by linking to a primary source.
Just because Obama does not get his agenda passed does not mean “America fails.” On the contrary, if Cap-and-Trade passes America will fail.
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Willy says that you conservatives just don’t get it do you.
Maybe it will make sense when China takes over America because we are dead broke and owe them billions.
10-4 Willy
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@ admin: I don’t know as I would go so far as to say that. I think that Harrison is right in that what Limbaugh said is perfectly consistent with his world view. How he said it and when he said it are fair game, though.
There is something in the American spirit that used to value fair play and giving the other fellow a chance. To be so adamantly opposed to everything from Day One is to violate both precepts.
Also, it seems to say to the majority of Americans who voted for Obama: “You knuckleheads don’t know what is good for you.” Precisely the type of paternalism so loathed by the right as coming from the government.
What makes their words ring especially hollow is the certainty that if their guy McCain had won, his mandate would have been absolute.
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Excellent post! Rush Limbaugh is and always was an idiot as far as I’m concerened and you nailed it right. His views on GM are downright anti-American.
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Well, Mr. Willy, as far as China taking over America perhaps you should consider the $787 billion “stimulus” which Obama signed into law that wound up costing over $1.2 trillion which, ironically, has been mostly paid for by China buying U.S. debt.
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FishHawk,
It sounds like your tatoo was on the correct location (or near the correct location) on your anatomy for a Limbaugh-related statement.
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Harrison,
All I can tell you is that Limbaugh made the statement regarding the boycott of GM on his Friday radio show. What other “primary source” do you want? Limbaugh is trying to squirm out of taking responsibility for his comment the same way he always does: by blaming the “liberal” media for mis-quoting him. He will never, ever take responsibility for being wrong about anything.
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Hillbilly Willy,
The Bible tells us that the borrower is servant to the lender. If that’s so, then the fifteen trillion dollars we owe to the Chinese and the Arab countries may enslave us all some day. What the conservatives don’t get is that creating American-made products with American workers is the answer to skyrocketing deficits, and not exporting jobs to India and Mexico to avoid paying American workers a living wage.
10-4 Cherlock
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Windroot,
What you say is absolutely correct. Limbaugh’s comments are very much consistent with his world view. This is a view that values conservative ideology over everything else, even the success of the programs proposed by the President and put into law by Congress; a Congress fairly elected by the people of the United States. Limbaugh is not imbued with talent “on loan from God”, and we, the majority of the American population are not as stupid as he thinks.
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Gloria,
Limbaugh thinks that we are all sheep, following the “Messiah” Obama to wreck and ruination. Only he, the great gatekeeper of true conservatism, knows the real truth. He is currently trying to blame his “GM boycott” comments on the liberal press; his traditional scapegoat. I agree with you, he’s an idiot!
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It seems as though Rush puts a transcript of every show online… in the transcript I showed he said he didn’t say it. If you are going to report that he said don’t buy GM cars shouldn’t you link to that directly? As I said, you won’t find it because he didn’t say it from what I can tell and I spent a little time looking into it.
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Again… he never said it:
Looks like you read this headline:
Right-Wing Radio Hosts Hewitt and Limbaugh Back GM Boycott
But he didn’t say it. In the earlier link I posted he said he just bought a new Chevy Suburban last week.
You got this story wrong.
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Harrison,
Limbaugh was very careful not to say “Don’t buy GM cars”; what he did say (and the transcript will show it) is that he would support those who want to boycott GM as a protest against the government’s 60% ownership stake.
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You said Rush was “expressed a sincere desire for the ultimate collapse and failure of automotive icon, General Motors.” This can’t be shown hence your statement appears to be misleading.
I don’t know where he said that he would support a boycott of GM, either since he just bought a new Chevy Suburban last week he said.
It looks like the transcript for every show he does is posted online so if he said it those words should be there.
With all due respect, looks like another baseless “blame Rush” thread to me.
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Harrison,
I just reviewed the transcript from Limbaugh’s radio show last Friday, and he did say he could understand why people would want to boycott GM and Chrysler. Don’t you think that all the “ditto-heads” would take this as his tacit support for boycotting GM? Since Limbaugh wants to see Obama’s agenda for America fail, and since the bailout of GM and Chrysler are part of Obama’s agenda, doesn’t this mean he would like to see those auto maker fail?
You can’t have it both ways, Harrison: either Limbaugh wants to see the Obama Administration fail or he doesn’t. Which is it?
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I think I’ve been very consistent in my statements. I think Rush Limbaugh does not want to see much of Obama’s agenda including things like socialized healthcare, cap-and-trade, what he sees as weak kowtowing to foreign leaders pass.
Now in your post above you seem to heavily imply that people who listen to Rush are not intelligent (hence using the term “ditto-heads”) enough to understand very much, that they will somehow come to the conclusion that Rush wants a boycott of GM, etc. so in this way even if Rush didn’t say something he still said it! I don’t see it that way and I haven’t tried to “have it both ways” either. It looks like he talked about an equal number of people being for and against the GM bailout is all.
All I’m saying is that before we post about what someone said and come down on them we should make sure they really said it. Rush makes some very provocative statements but it looks like this was one thing he didn’t say.
I’m not a Rush fan myself and very rarely listen to him although if I happen to be in my car and turn to his show I won’t change stations if he talks about something which is of interest to me.
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