Time's Cox Slips In Limbaugh Drug Jokes

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If you don't have immediate primary results, there is always resorting to cheap shots. On Time's Swampland blog, Ana Marie Cox dipped back into the Limbaugh-druggie jokes:

Conventional wisdom -- and, who knows, maybe it's the truth -- has it that a close night tonight for McCain will be due to talk radio. Fine. But does a not-as-good-as-it-should-be* result for McCain necessarily bode well for Mitt Romney? I couldn't help but notice the way the nets have been slugging the story: [Graphic from CNN on Limbaugh vs. McCain]

Because, you know, Limbaugh's not the one that's running. I'm sure he could beat McCain -- at least in ratings, and maybe in an election if R's opinions on drug use change dramatically -- but Romney is the one that needs to.


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Does Rush needs to butt out? His judgement is being questioned. The shot at his drug use is nothing. He'd better be right because the fallout for being wrong will not just effect him.

The battle won

One thing I have learned from debating liberals over the years is this: rejoice when they attack you personally - call you names, rehash past transgressions, etc. - because it means they have run out of facts with which to debate you!

(Funny how when conservatives bring up Monica or Chappaquidick, liberals tell us to move on because that's all in the past, but bringing up a mistake from Rush's past is good comedy. Also funny how, if a Hollywood leftie is treated for drug use, they're heralded for their courage in going public and getting help, whereas Rush ... well, we all remember Aaron Brown's remark about the "permanent smirk attached to (his) face.")

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The difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives believe liberals are wrong, while liberals believe conservatives are evil.

uhhhhh

her name is cocks..  uhhh huh,, huh...

same old same old for the dems.. personal attacks when no facts are present.. it's all about how they "feel"... and that makes them "feel" better...

Time is figment of it's own stupidity thinking Americans........

are stupid.

George Bush had to learn the hard way with Americans that you do not lead Americans, you simply get in the direction they are going and provide leadership.

Rush Limbaugh is no different and he indeed knows it, but Time thinks Americans are stupid on the left and right and only sway the way Obama or Rush tells them.

If you look really hard at the numbers tonight they PROVE exactly what I went on record here. The EAST is full of racism, but the west from North Dakota and Minnesota all voted for Mormon Mitt and Black Obama in high numbers.
The divide comes in Oklahoma which went McCain and east it went to Huckabee.

None of this has to do with talk radio. It has to do with Americans voting for a comfort factor. Racism appeals east of the Mississippi as does the guy whose Baptist pew and hound dog you know. Take that dog and pew away and you have the New England area which McCain did well in as people there are afraid of religion and quite bigots to Mormons.

I stated before that the west is a place where you are measured by your word, by your ability as a person in accomplishing something and if people like you. The real genuine votes today in who the real candidates in the race are come from the north plains and the west.
Westerners can spot fake a mile away.

Teddy Roosevelt wrote about this country out there and said a liar in the east moving west became a highway man criminal and brawler would be a murderer as the west always amplifies everything.
Time does not know this as it exists in the rat hole of New York where lying and other immoral actions are compressed and not allowed to blossom into the big crimes as they are such a police state.

My opinion right now is the racists of Ohio will vote for McCain and the Texans will vote for Romney. Huckabee will snipe in the south as the south votes for their own remembering again the reconstruction years.
The same holds true on the DNC, Hillary takes Ohio as they are racists. Texas will go to Obama as will most of the south and the west.

Those are the facts and have nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh as Americans are going the direction they very well please as they always do. They don't give a fig how screwed up things get as they will sort it out later.

The cartels count on this in the way they staged this on the various agendas they have planned. If they cripple both parties then a Bloomberg gets in and gets Chavez elected. If they can't get Obama to sign on, they will move to put Al Gore in with the super delegates to offset Romney if he pulls this out. If McCain wins then the cartel has their boy and Obama or Hillarette goes back to the plantation.

The one certainty is, Obama or Hillary will not be President. It will either be John McCain, Al Gore or Mike Bloomberg.

This thing is just starting to warm up and I look forward to the information being leaked about Hillary as apparently the Times telling the world and Democrats that Bill Clinton is in business with Muslim terrorists selling uranium just does not matter.

 

 

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East vs. West

LC is dead right here. Speaking as a native Texan of 35 years, I can tell you without a doubt that the Texas primary is going to go to Romney and Obama.

The pundits will be astounded. TEXAS VOTED FOR A BLACK MAN?????  IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

They won't realize that (as LC says) the only racists are the ones who assume that Texas is a backward state full of racists (or religious bigots in Romney's case).  This happens because the pundits are projecting their own racism on others.

 

It's nice to see Skankette

It's nice to see Skankette is back to her "hilarious" best.  Money well spent as usual, Time/Warner. 

Right, fitz. Those

Right, fitz. Those oh-so-sensitive libs just cannot make an argument without slipping in the shiv of a personal attack. Wasn't she the same one the day before that said she would take a "chill pill" but Rush had taken them all?

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, that's liberal humor!!!! HAHAHAHA!

Rush is an idiot. He's one

Rush is an idiot. He's one of the Judas Republicans who are trying to change what being a "conservative" means. They want to eliminate the "moral" leg of the conservative stool altogether. He rarely talks about overturning Roe vs Wade and he NEVER talks about the homosexual filth that is flooding our children's schools! He refers to them as the "social issues". All he talks about is his fantasy of kicking out the illegals and TAX CUTS!  He is NOT clean and sober. All of the recent partying and voice loss plus the STUNNING admission that he drinks WINE daily ( last week on his show), all add up to one thing. He's cracked. Just think about it folks, most of the time that you idolized him he was HIGHER THAN A GEORGIA PINE! You don't even really know who he is! And who he is, is pretty screwy! That's how he can forget all of the libtard things that Reagan did ( abortion bill, amnesty, raising taxes) and lambast McCain for much of same. I mean has McCain KILLED CHILDREN? Reagan DID! But somehow this gets lost in the sauce (pun intended). I for one am unaware of a Narcotics Anonymous program that allows one to DRINK. You?

Keith, get a grip. Rush is far from stupid.

He's one of the Judas Republicans who are trying to change what being a "conservative" means.

Horse-hockey. Rush, along with a mere handful of conservative commentators, is trying to keep what little is left of the conservative movement alive.

He rarely talks about overturning Roe vs Wade and he NEVER talks about
the homosexual filth that is flooding our children's schools!

He clearly states his opposition to abortion pretty much daily. He has also regularly railed against the homosexual agenda being carried out in our schools.

-No, he hasn't called for mass executions of gays, which I am sure is your ultimate fantasy here.

All he talks about is his fantasy of kicking out the illegals and TAX CUTS!

Perhaps you find something wrong with these most fundamental elements of conservatism?

....plus the STUNNING admission that he drinks WINE daily

Wow, that is just horrible. I mean, what's next? Rush's ingesting mass quantities of Golden Grain? Will moonshine be next?

Keith, I have problems with Rush on occasion as well, but I am far from accusing him of being Benedict Arnold.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

RD, don't waste your

RD, don't waste your time.

I doubt Keith even listens to him. Most of the people that criticize Rush don't, they just "know" what "everyone says" about him. I heard one idiot say Limbaugh wants all black people to go back to Africa.

That's the kind of "urban legend" stuff that some liberals pass around like junior-high gossip.

And Keith, Rush doesn't talk about overturning Roe v Wade because he knows it just isn't going to happen. Not even if Pastor Huckabee is elected President. Not in our lifetimes, and I don't even know how old you are.

  I drink wine several

 

I drink wine several times a week.  Am I evil?

Just wanted to check this.

Well, you are to that

Well, you are to that incoherent lunatic.  He could use some meds himself.  I hear Zoloft is quite effective.

Don't be so hard on Keith,

Don't be so hard on Keith, after all he's only repeating things he heard from his leader Fred Phelps. 

The Conservative movement is about to be reborn.

That's right, I forgot. 

That's right, I forgot. 

So Rush is an idiot, and

So Rush is an idiot, and McCain is a Saint? Wow. Rush is a voice that represents his audience. He is the King of conservative thought.

Wow, just wow. Self

Wow, just wow.

Self rightious blow hards like you are why many people absolutely hate Christians. You do nothing but make conservatives stupid.

Rush has be the conservative voice of America for 20 years. He is one of the most loyal conservative out there.

Rush sticks to his core principles

Rush is one of the only people to stick to his core principles. His loyal following(which I am one of) listen to him for his wisdom and wit. He has 20 million radio listeners who do so by choice. People like Keith probably never listen to him on a regular basis and comment on hearsay. And to keep bringing up the drug stuff is a joke since he admitted the problem and went for treatment The guy is brilliant and has a desire to see republicans become more conservative. He openly admits he is conservative unlike democrats who bristle at any mention that they are "liberals". Why do they fear such a label? Because they know liberalism is bad for the country.

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Thank you reminding us that

Thank you reminding us that the Left does not have the "nutjob douchebag" market cornered.

 

They're having their

They're having their orgasm.  They think McCain's win means Talk Radio (Rush) is over...it's not.  But they're happy because they have proven (by virtue of getting their guy in as the GOP candidate) that they are not irrelevant.

Correct me if I am wrong,

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Rush's audience grow by leaps and bounds during Clinton's presidency?

The same people will be looking for a voice that they agree with if McCain is President, but I don't think he stands a chance in a general election. The media propping him up now will turn on him and the democrats voting for him now will return to the dem fold.

As and aside, Rush was "shocked" to learn that 75% of those voting in republican primaries on Tuesday were actually republican. That number shows what has been going on during this nomination process.