Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh - Page 8

RandyWayne · #71 01-27-2009, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Innocuous

Yep. As a business man, if my costs go up I don't sacrifice my profit, I increase your price. Three cheers for capitalism! Yay!

It is just one of the Ferengi's "Rules of Acquisition".

*AQuietPlace* · #72 01-27-2009, 10:17 PM

I don't understand why the democrats keep yelling about Rush. All they're doing is driving up his listenership. The best thing they could possibly do to protect their own interests is to never mention him again. Pretend he doesn't exist. The more they gripe about him and Hannity, the more clout they give them.

Light · #73 01-28-2009, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Innocuous

You are mistaken in regards to EIC's. For several years I have paid no federal income or state income taxes and received a sizable tax refund from each govt due to the wonders of EIC's and tax write-offs in the current tax code. I guess I'm a welfare recipient and deserving of scorn and derision by the fiscal conservatives on this board. Really, you're splitting hairs. A tax cut helps me AND the economy, at least in theory because chances are I'll spend the tax savings. The same applies here, people are getting tax breaks and the hope is they'll spend the money and thus help stimulate the economy. I don't see much difference. The mechanism is the same, the targeted people is the same, and the end result is the same. I used EIC's because I have been a person in need, a small business person in a tough sector and a now during tough times. The EIC helps me by reducing my tax burden and by giving me capital that I can re-invest in my business which is good for the economy.

Hey get use to it republican only want the tax break for them self. Trickle down. Lord help if a poor person gets a dollar. They do not say a word about corporate welfare just when the poor get something. My brother in law is a republican and very very well off yet he is in the government give away trough that he tries to keep the poor out of. Go figure!!!

chaotic_resolve · #74 01-28-2009, 11:38 AM

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Yes, and then there's $100's of millions in the current stimulus bill for contraceptives. I'm not really an anti-contraceptive type, how's that going to stimulate the economy? If they work and people take full advantage of it I can only see a slowing down of the economy.

DrudgeReport and other news sources were saying that Obama pulled the contraceptives money as a way of extending an olive branch to the Republicans who were against it. Pelosi wanted it, but Obama pulled it out of the bill. (however, watch for this to be inserted again in another bill at a later date)

I quit listening to Limbaugh and Hannity over a year ago and what a wonderful year it's been. As much as the two like to accuse the Democrats of doom and gloom, they were full of as much doom and gloom as the Dems - and probably are even more now!

The thing about talk show hosts that I cannot stand is that both sides are so closed-minded. Limbaugh and Hannity would rather suffer toxic poisoning than offer any credit to the Dems and Obama. The other side is much the same.

So now I get my news from Drudge, Huffington, Fox and a host of other broadcast/cable news online sites.

In the words of Sara Palin, i read them all...

Innocuous · #75 01-28-2009, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by chaotic_resolve

DrudgeReport and other news sources were saying that Obama pulled the contraceptives money as a way of extending an olive branch to the Republicans who were against it. Pelosi wanted it, but Obama pulled it out of the bill. (however, watch for this to be inserted again in another bill at a later date)

The language you use when referring to the contraceptive thing seems almost...graphic.

edjen01 · #76 01-28-2009, 01:29 PM

people actually take Rush seriously? you've got to be kidding. i haven't paid any attention to him...since he got kicked off that nfl pre-game show for making racist comments.

if he's back screaming at anything and everything...then its time for him to go back on the meds.

Thomas Trini · #77 01-28-2009, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by edjen01

people actually take Rush seriously? you've got to be kidding. i haven't paid any attention to him...since he got kicked off that nfl pre-game show for making racist comments.

What racist comments? You mean the thing about McNabb? Funny, there was a black commentator who made the same comment a month ago, and credited Rush for pointing it out in the first place.

edjen01 · #78 01-28-2009, 07:59 PM

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What racist comments? You mean the thing about McNabb? Funny, there was a black commentator who made the same comment a month ago, and credited Rush for pointing it out in the first place.

well something must have happend because he left...or got fired...either way the nfl is better for it.

Jermyn Davidson · #79 01-28-2009, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by edjen01

well something must have happend because he left...or got fired...either way the nfl is better for it.

If Rush Limbaugh's show dropped off of the face of the earth, I'd never miss it!

I really dislike Limbaugh-- I don't think he's a good person. I do not respect him at all.

chaotic_resolve · #80 01-29-2009, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by edjen01

people actually take Rush seriously? you've got to be kidding. i haven't paid any attention to him...since he got kicked off that nfl pre-game show for making racist comments.

if he's back screaming at anything and everything...then its time for him to go back on the meds.

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Originally Posted by Thomas Trini

What racist comments? You mean the thing about McNabb? Funny, there was a black commentator who made the same comment a month ago, and credited Rush for pointing it out in the first place.

Limbaugh didn't get kicked off or fired from Sunday NFL Countdown ... he resigned from the show.

I doubt you know the story or have read the quote ... most likely just heard the bits and pieces of spin. For those who haven't seen the quote, here's it is:

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"McNabb is overrated ... what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well."

"There's a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."

For those who know the situation and paid attention to it ... Limbaugh's comments were not at all racist. Read the quote again ... where's the racism?

In fact, look at this, from Sports Illustrated:

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A black commentator, J. Whyatt Mondesire, the head of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, actually wrote in his newspaper that McNabb was a "mediocre at best" quarterback who was "trying to disguise that fact behind some concocted reasoning that African-American quarterbacks who can scramble and who can run the ball are somehow lesser field generals..."

And Limbaugh's racist for saying almost the same thing?

Not so...