I have already credibly documented how powerful that Rush Limbaugh and his talk radio friends in the extreme right wing Neocon media are:
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Rush Limbaugh has also very arrogantly but correctly stated that his political opponents "haven't learned how to deal with people like me:"
Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'
Thursday, February 09, 2006
LIMBAUGH: "Neil, there is a new media out there today that doesn't let the left get away with defining the news, defining the circumstances, defining personalities and so forth.
And they haven't learned how to deal with it. They haven't learned how to deal with people like me, the problems they think FOX News causes, and everybody else. They are still in their 30-year-old playbook, in which they think they still G all they have to do is, you know, portray somebody they want to portray them, and the American people will see it, swallow it, and like it."
That can all change very quickly IF Democrats will nationalize how Rush Limbaugh made fun of Michael J. Fox with the candidates who Limbaugh is supporting (George Allen, Michael Steele, Jim Talent, and all other Bush rubber stamp Republicans) and also nationalize some other very stupid comments that Limbaugh has said!
Below is an excellent Countdown video titled "Rush's new low?" where Keith Olbermann documents Rush Limbaugh stupidly moving around to make fun of Michael J. Fox, shows Michael J. Fox doing a campaign ad for Republican Senator Arlen Specter on stem cell research, and credibly documents how arrogant and insensitive that Rush Limbaugh is! Here is the link to that video:
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Below the video is a transcript of the video. The video is much better in my opinion because it does a great job showing Limbaugh making an idiot of himself by moving around so much to make fun of Michael J. Fox!
Below the transcript is an article from Rush Limbaugh's website titled "Democrats Running Against Rush Limbaugh" where he says "It appears I've hijacked this election, because the Drive-By Media is making it about me, as though I am on the ballot."
Rush Limbaugh needs to be an issue in the races where Michael J. Fox is campaigning and Democratic candidates should be playing that stupid video of him over and over again and make their GOP opponents who Limbaugh is supporting take a "Yes" or "No" stand on him to put them in a tough spot and also to help diminish Limbaugh's powerful influence over about 20 million people!
Democratic candidates can also nationalize these two stupid comments from Rush Limbaugh which are far worse than anything that John Kerry has said in my opinion:
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Rove's Scalp Won't Silence Democrats
October 25, 2005
RUSH: "The way to fight this is to not give the left one shred of what they want.
When are we going to learn this? Screw them!"
It's Time To Challenge Democrats' Patriotism
August 21, 2006
RUSH: "I want to respectfully disagree with the president on the last part of what he said. I am going to challenge the patriotism of people who disagree with him because the people that disagree with him want to lose. And I want ask you people a question. What is patriotic about losing? How come we can't question of patriotism of people who are actively engaged in sabotaging victory over this enemy? Why can't we question their patriotism? We most certainly can, we most certainly should. Damn straight. I'm tired of pussyfooting around this so that we don't hurt anybody's feelings and challenge their patriotism, we've said for all these years, I'm not challenging your patriotism, I'm just challenging your judgment. Well, hell's bells. It's about time we do challenge their patriotism."
I also have many more stupid comments from Rush Limbaugh just like this if anyone wants them. They are available upon request to any serious Democratic campaign or PAC who would like them!
Rush Limbaugh is also a total hypocrite for saying in the article below "Democrats and the media are treating me again like a candidate" while at the same time he criticizes John Kerry and tries to put him on the ballot on his website:
Jim Webb has the best shot of all candidates in my opinion to nationalize Rush Limbaugh against George Allen because Limbaugh has openly supported Allen for President in 2008 on at least three separate occasions:
Rush Limbaugh gives us the lowdown
Q. Who do you think will be the GOP's candidate for president in 2008?
A. This is the first year I can remember, the first election that there's no acknowledged frontrunner. It's wide open. A number of people think it will be McCain, I hope not. I like George Allen.
Q: Who's your Republican candidate in 2008?
A: Right now I like George Allen. I anticipate the John McCain and Rudy Giuliani talk will die down in the end. But it's wide open. Republicans who win elections are conservatives, though.
It's early. The danger with mentioning names is that you hurt the feelings of people that you leave out. I'm going to leave some people out because of time constraints, but when I hear George Allen speak, there's a part of me, "Yes, rah-rah."
George Allen has also kissed Rush Limbaugh's butt by saying this in an interview:
by Judson Cox
An Interview with Senator George Allen
January 07, 2006 02:20 PM EST
NCC: Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly stated that your political speeches are inspirational and remind him of President Reagan; what is your reaction to his praise?
"That is as high a compliment as I can envision. I like Rush Limbaugh - he is an influential and smart leader. He is also entertaining. I find it relaxing to listen to Rush. It is a very high compliment to be mentioned by Rush, and to be mentioned with my political hero, the man who motivated me to get involved in politics, President Reagan. I was in law school, at the University of Virginia, when they asked me to become chairman of Young Americans for Reagan, which was my first experience in organized politics. Plus, Rush knows sports, and he knows football."
Jim Webb can put George Allen in a very uncomfortable position by tying him in with Limbaugh and making Allen give a public "up or down vote" on Rush Limbaugh!
George Allen is also as arrogant as Rush Limbaugh is when he said this stupid comment on CNN which should also be brought out in this campaign in my opinion:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER
Aired January 22, 2006 - 11:00 ET
ALLEN: "Karl Rove is trying to unite this country in this effort, by the way."
I strongly recommend that Democrats nationalize and hit Rush Limbaugh very hard while he is more vulnerable now due to his making fun of Michael J. Fox and with all of the media attention that he is getting from the national media who hates his guts!
That will help Democratic candidates now, will help to weaken Limbaugh in the future, and will also help to effectively counter all of the media coverage that John Kerry's comments will get by Bush and the extreme right wing media up to Election Day!
The extreme right wing media almost had to give Rep. Patrick Kennedy a pass on his DWI incident because that happened close in time to a drug incident with Limbaugh so there would not be a perceived double standard. Limbaugh's stupid behavior and quotes can be used now to help counter anything that comes up with John Kerry's controversial comments!
Please forward this on so that Democrats and Democratic candidates can have this information available to nationalize Rush Limbaugh's stupid behavior in this election!
Mitch Dworkin
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Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda which will help our local candidates to win their races!
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Gen. Wes Clark's endorsement of Jim Webb against George Allen
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Rush's new low?
Oct. 25: Rush Limbaugh attacked Michael J. Fox's new political ad. "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann discusses the attack with Air America Radio's Sam Sedar.
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OLBERMANN: At a time of mudslinging, lies, race baiting commercials and ad homonym attacks, this political season has yielded a brief and sadly isolated occurrence of one of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of public discourse. Our third story in the COUNTDOWN tonight, itGs called Gǣgrace.Gǥ YouGll see in a moment, but letGs start at the beginning an advertisement that started in Missouri this past weekend.
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MICHAEL J. FOX, ACTOR: As you might now, I care deeply about stem cell research. In Missouri, you can elect Claire McCaskill who shares my hope for cures. Unfortunately Jim Talent opposes stem cell research. Senator Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us a chance for hope. They say all politics is local, but itGs not always the case. What you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans. Americans like me.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D), U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE: IGm Claire McCaskill and I approved this message.
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OLBERMANN: As we told you on Monday, Rush Limbaugh attacked the ad and Mr. Fox on the radio show, but you really donGt get the full impact until you see it for yourself.
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RUSH LIMBAUGH, GǣRUSH LIMBAUGH SHOWGǥ: In this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking and itGs purely an act. This is the only time I have ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has. He can control himself enough to stay in the frame of the picture and he can control himself enough to keep his eyes right on the lens, the teleprompter, but his head and shoulders are moving all over the place. So, this is really shameless, folks. This is shameless of Michael J. Fox.
Either he didnGt take his medication or heGs acting.
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OLBERMANN: In fact, ask a doctor, FoxGs involuntary motions are not a side effect of going off the medication for Parkinson they are a side effect of taking it. When he and other victims do not take the drug, they become increasingly immobile eventually they are unable to move at all.
So, how did Mr. Fox respond to LimbaughGs assault on his integrity? A crack about his own medication history, perhaps? In fact, no, he responded with grace.
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FOX: It is hard for people and I understand, itGs difficult for people who donGt have ParkinsonGs or donGt know about ParkisonGs to understand the symptoms and the way they work and the way medication works. You get what you get on any given day.
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OLBERMANN: Rather than retract his baseless and factually incorrect assaults on Fox integrity, Limbaugh first said he would apologize Gǣif I am wrong,Gǥ then yesterday he restated his claim that Fox had stopped his medication to embellish the effects of the disease as if had been proven. And he went on to spin the story further claiming that Democrats exploit infallible victims like Fox so that critics canGt disagree.
Let me call in Air America Radio Sam Seder, whose GǣSam SederGǥ show airs every weekday morning. Who spent a fair portion of this morningGs program discussing both Fox and, IGm guessing, Mr. Limbaugh.
Sam, good evening.
SAM SEDER, AIR AMERICA: Thanks Keith, itGs a pleasure to be here.
OLBERMANN: Let me start with the obvious here, should we not be deferring to Rush Limbaugh on this because he knows so much more about prescription drugs then the rest of nation combined because, in fact, this may be his only area of genuine expertise?
SEDER: Well, if youGre suggesting that perhaps Rush is jealous of Michael J. Fox, that Michael J. Fox gets his medication via prescription, I think you might be on to something.
OLBERMANN: Limbaugh said Fox is being exploited by Democrats, that Democrats are exploiting victims to insulate themselves from criticism. Let me play another campaign ad. This is from 2004. It was for a Republican, and then let me get your reaction to it.
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FOX: Biomedical research could cure hundreds of diseases, save thousands of lives, and prevent millions of tears. I understand that, and so does Arlen Specter. He helped double the funding for biomedical research, more dollars for more research, for more cures.
Arlen gets it. ItGs that simple.
SEN. ARLEN SPECTER -, PENNSYLVANIA: IGm Arlen Specter and approved this ad to tell you there is hope for the future.
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OLBERMANN: So Sam, IGm assuming Mr. Limbaugh at some point threw the victim exploitation claim at the Republicans for that Michael J. Fox ad?
SEDER: Not that I recall, Keith. I mean, you know, I mean I think the bottom-line here is what you have conservatives are very worried that people will actually see the real world implications of their policies. I mean, this is the same reason why we canGt see the caskets of our troops that come back from Iraq. ItGs the same reason why they attack 16-year-old pages for being subjected to child predators in Congress.
I mean, this is all part of the fantasy world that they have to create for their followers or people just wonGt subscribe to the ideology.
OLBERMANN: We always try to see tipping points in politics, Bush had Katrina, Nixon had the Saturday night massacre, was this just Rush LimbaughGs? I mean, he attacks a scandal free actor who has a terrible disease, accuses him of faking it, issues a phony apology, comes back the next day and says he is faking the disease. Certainly even some of his adherence have to now view Limbaugh as was elegantly phrased by Harvey Levin today, as an oxymoron.
SEDER: Well, you know, I actually donGt think it is a tipping point for him. I mean, I think he may lose some people at the margins, but this is what his audience needs. They need to be inoculated from the real-world truths of the policy of thatGyou know, the Rush LimbaughGs of the world espouse.
I mean if they see these things, they need Rush to be there to give them an excuse to not take it certainly and Rush provided it for them today. You know, he basically said a disease is a liberal plot and the reason why Iraqis are fighting each other is because they want the Democrats to win. It actually allows his listeners a free pass on what reality is really about.
OLBERMANN: Do you think this sort of underlines, in bright red ink, the ties between the Republican Party and most of talk radio, that somebody said to Limbaugh, we need you to hit Michael J. Fox and he would just go ahead and do it without realizing heGd wind up hurting himself to this degree?
SEDER: I actually think itGs more of a cautionary tale of prolonged use of hillbilly heroin mixed in with handfuls of Viagra. I mean, I think heGs off the reservation on this thing. I actually think that Karl Rove is pretty upset about this because, I mean, look at the publicity that that ad has generated. ItGs now a national issue, where otherwise it would have been isolated in a couple of senatorial races. I think heGs off base here.
OLBERMANN: There is an anti-stem cell research ad thatGs also supposed to air in, locally at least, in Missouri during the World Series broadcast, ironically enoughGthat is being threatened, at best, by rain. It has athletes, it has the starring pitcher from the game four of the World Series, it has actors, people who are known less for their involvement in medical research than for their religious beliefs. It even starts in the Aramaic language with Jim Jim Caviezel reprising his first line from the Mel Gibson movie GǣPassion of the Christ.Gǥ
Is the subtext that the GOP will no longer even pretend to try to address moderate Independents with substantive debate as long as they can go out and shoot for that fundamentalist base and hope that they can drag these people to the polls in two weeks?
Yeah, I think youGre absolutely right. IGm not even sure if itGs the subtext. I mean it seems to be the text. You know, they donGt get that the reason why Michael J. FoxGs ad is so powerful is not because Michael J. Fox was on GǣSpin CityGǥ or because he was in GǣBack to the Future,Gǥ itGs because he has the disease. I mean, he actually feels the real-world implications of these policies.
I think youGre right. I think this is just an attempt to get their base motivated to go vote, and frankly I donGt think itGs going to work.
OLBERMANN: IGm IGm Jeff Suppan St. Louis Cardinals and IGve suffered from blisters for many year.
SEDER: Yeah, exactly.
OLBERMANN: Sam Seder of Air America, great thanks for your time.
Good to talk to you, Sam.
SEDER: Thank you, Keith.
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Democrats Running Against Rush Limbaugh
October 31, 2006
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RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program that the Democrats and the media are treating me again like a candidate. I'll never forget the late great writer from Sports Illustrated Ralph Wiley, who during the NFL season when I made it through five weeks on ESPN before that fell apart with the Donovan McNabb flap, Ralph Wiley accused me of hijacking that NFL season. It appears I've hijacked this election, because the Drive-By Media is making it about me, as though I am on the ballot. It went so far as Bill Schneider taking approval polls of Michael J. Fox and me. And this is how it ran, last night on The Situation Room with Paula Zahn, she says to Schneider, "Michael J. Fox out there campaigning for candidates. Do you have any idea how those ads are cutting," hmm, Billy boy?
SCHNEIDER: Michael J. Fox is a very popular figure. We did a poll and asked people, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him, nationwide, 75% to 14 unfavorable. That is 75% favorable. We compared Rush Limbaugh, who was critical of Michael J. Fox though he apologized for his remarks, he's got 26% favorable, 58% unfavorable, and even among Republicans, Michael Fox is better regarded than Rush Limbaugh.
RUSH: Well, neither of us are candidates, so you know at what means, Bill? (Raspberry). And it doesn't matter. I'm not in this for approval ratings. Fox probably is. But I'm not. About this business of apologizing, I think I need to clarify that, too, because the libs are even misreporting that. They're trying to say that I apologized to help convey the notion that I was wrong. Folks, I stand by everything I said, stand by everything I did, except I said I would apologize, I remember the quote, hugely and bigly, if somebody can prove to me that I was wrong in suggesting that either Mr. Fox didn't take his medication or was acting a little in those ads that he produced. And of course his own book, which is not being mentioned by anybody in the Drive-By Media, he admits to manipulating his medication in order to appear more sympathetic in congressional appearances and so forth, which I also said I understand from his standpoint. When he said late last week that he was overmedicated, not undermedicated, that is when I apologized. I apologized because he came out and said that he was not under-medicated or off his meds or acting, he was over. And that's the one thing I had not thought of. That is what I apologized for, but nothing else.
Mr. Fox keeps making an issue of his symptoms out on the campaign trail. This is yesterday in Ohio campaigning for Sherrod Brown.
FOX: I'm not supposed to speak with you until my symptoms go away. (Laughter.) Or maybe I'm just supposed to go away. But I'm not going to go away.
RUSH: Mr. Fox, nobody wants you to go away, and nobody has told you you don't have a right to say what you think. All people like me are doing is questioning the accuracy of what you're saying, which we have a right to do as well. You have a right to be wrong all day. You have a right to be wrong all day long on embryonic stem cells, and you can try to convince people all day long, but it's not the fact that just because you're suffering your symptoms that we're going to be quiet about this when you're wrong. When you're going to tell people that Republican candidates are not interested in a cure for Parkinson's disease or not interested in research that might lead to a cure, I can't just sit here and let that go by. We did in the past because we felt guilty disagreeing with somebody who was suffering from a horrible disease. But there are promising areas of research in adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells, and even gene therapy using a virus that Mr. Fox's foundation has helped fund that do show results. Embryonic doesn't.
I'm just not going to sit here and let it go by uncommented upon. Nobody's asking Mr. Fox to have his symptoms go away. Nobody is demanding that he shut up or go away, nobody that I know of, anyway, and certainly not me. By the way, have you seen the story in the UK Daily Mail where scientists have actually grown a human liver? Small size, about the size of a one pence piece. You know where they got the stem cells to make it happen? It wasn't embryonic. It was cord blood. They got the stem cells from the umbilical cord of babies after their successful births, and they have successfully grown a small human liver. We're light years away here from this becoming practical reality, but there is success, stem cell success, growing a human liver from cord blood stem cells, not embryonic.
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‘World’s Worst’ Person: Rush Limbaugh
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But the winner, comedian Rush Limbaugh, having buried himself by calling Michael J. Fox a faker in those Missouri campaign ads. Having put up his own headstone by saying the symptoms a Parkinson’s suffer gets when he stops taking his medication include shaking, actually it’s immobility.
Rush has defaced his own memorial today saying of Fox, “Every one of his ads is run for the benefit of a Democrat, even in Maryland, where the Democrat beneficiary of the Michael J. Fox ad voted against exactly what Michael J. Fox advocates in the ad.”
That would be Benjamin Cardin.
Actually, Mr. Cardin voted for the stem cell bill Fox endorsed. So Rush you're 0-4, and as to the Democrats-only part, you really need to look at the ad we showed last night from 2004 with Mr. Fox endorsing Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania: 0-5.
Who’s off his meds and is exaggerating the effects of his illness? Comedian Rush Limbaugh, that’s who!
Thursday's “Worst Person in the World.”