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Here's why Rush Limbaugh is literally dangerous to Republicans

Michael Cole said:
Just because the media has such control over your opinion does not mean it controls the opinion of others, including your political opponents. There is plenty of stupid to go around, either side. Thinking the media is part of the Illuminati is a strictly Trumpist side of stupid, though.
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Maybe not on the planet you live on, but here on Earth, that's exactly how it works.
 
Lord of Planar said:
What if there are 10 times the cases not diagnosed, because people have mild or no symptoms?

By your numbers, that makes them about equal, doesn't it?
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What if there are 5 times the cases? That would make it twice as deadly, right?

You can't just make **** up, LoP. You gotta go with the data we have.
 
Michael Cole said:
What if there are 5 times the cases? That would make it twice as deadly, right?

You can't just make **** up, LoP. You gotta go with the data we have.
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Thing is, it is usually known when the common flu takes one down. With this, many people just have flu-like symptoms. Testing to verify is expensive. We know there are more people out there who have contracted it,m and the official numbers reflect.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Thing is, it is usually known when the common flu takes one down. With this, many people just have flu-like symptoms. Testing to verify is expensive. We know there are more people out there who have contracted it,m and the official numbers reflect.
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Agreed, but you can't just randomly pick a number. Other countries are weeks ahead of us. Might be a good idea to look at that data.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
So my advice to you and other Trump supporters is to stop listening to forehead-slapping faith-healers and high school educated propagandists like Rush and Hannity for medical advice. I would most definitely recommend not listening to a former real estate developer and reality television star for medical advice, especially one known for habitually lying.

Instead, I recommend you learn everything you can about science and the scientific method.

This is the first step. Read this article:

Scientific method - Wikipedia

I don't have time to do what your parents and your community failed to do.

Basic knowledge of science and the scientific method is a prerequisite for success in a modern, globalized world. So, start studying.
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Geezuz that was weak, it avoided the post you responded to, and we both know why.
 
Michael Cole said:
Agreed, but you can't just randomly pick a number. Other countries are weeks ahead of us. Might be a good idea to look at that data.
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They aren't testing everyone either.
 
bubbabgone said:
Geezuz that was weak, it avoided the post you responded to, and we both know why.
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Yes, it's because nobody has the time right now to hold the hands of Trump supporters and teach them how science works.

What do you care? Shouldn't you be watching Benny Hinn or something?
 
PoS said:
Yup, I think its a deliberate tactic to make people scared so they vote for Biden.
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Or so they don't die needlessly. That's also one reason for making people "scared" of CV19. So there's that.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Hannity is NOT a newsperson. He is not a journalist. He is an entertainer. Hannity's fans don't know the difference between an entertainer and a journalist. Hannity is on Fox News and therefore he must be extremely informed. Knowing the truth Hannity only speaks the truth. It's no surprise Hannity is pimping chlorquinine. Fox watchers sincerely believe that they are being let in on secret information. They are privy because "the Left", "the Leftards", the Democrats, the Socialists, the Communists, godless cretins, the Mexicans, and the Muslims don't listen to or watch Hannity.

Hannity once promised to be waterboarded to demonstrate that it isn't torture. We're still waiting for Sean to show us the truth on that one.
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You think CNN is any better? When CNN began in 1980 they advertised themselves as being "Infotainment." They aren't journalists either. CNN suddenly became "News You Can Trust" after Reagan's FCC abolished the unconstitutional Fairness Doctrine in 1987.

Fox News only exists because CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC illegal influenced the 1992 elections on behalf of "Slick Willy." Fox News sprang into existence the same year NBC released their hardcore Marxist channel, MSNBC. Today, 24 years after its creation, Fox News has roughly the same viewership as CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC combined.

Leftists never listen to anything outside their bubble. Take academia as an example. Anyone who opposes a leftist ideal is violently attacked. Why do you think they created the ANTI First Amendment terrorist organization? Leftists cannot tolerate opposition.
 
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Glitch said:
You think CNN is any better?
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Yes, CNN is 1000x better than anything on Fox News.

You guys don't like CNN because you don't like being told gay people, blacks, and immigrants are human beings with individual rights that should be treated with dignity and respect.

That's the bottom line.

Leftists never listen to anything outside their bubble. Take academia as example. Anyone who opposes a leftist ideal is violently attacked. Why do you think they created the ANTI First Amendment terrorist organization? Leftists cannot tolerate opposition.
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We are all leftists now. Have you bothered to read any bit of the CARES act, or is it only socialism when black people receive government assistance?
 
CaughtInThe said:
here's more from that same Rush Limbaugh transcript from his own show. dude is just flat out evil.

now, as you read this, think of the people here that use Rush's exact words/tactics on this very board. it's almost word for word (as many swear they aren't Fox/Rush/Sean consumers). it's an insult to sane people's intelligence.


"RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): But I’m telling you, folks, I have — there’s so many red flags about things happening out there. This coronavirus, they’re just — all of this panic is just not warranted. This, I’m telling you, when I tell you — when I’ve told you that this virus is the common cold. When I said that, it was based on the number of cases. It’s also based on the kind of virus this is. Why do you think this is “COVID-19”? This is the 19th coronavirus. They’re not uncommon. Coronaviruses are respiratory cold and flu viruses. There is nothing about this, except where it came from, and the itinerant media panic that — you can’t blame people reacting the way they’re reacting, if they pay any, even scant attention to the media.

If you read just two or three media headlines a day — pick one, pick two, pick three at random — you’re going to think that if you leave your home you’ve got a good chance of dying — and you don’t. But I can’t — there’s no way we here can stop a panic. There’s no way we can talk sense into a panic. I wouldn’t even try. But I’m telling you, just — to me, this is just a gigantic series of question marks and red flags, all this stuff that is — it’s just the timing of it, the objective — the gleeful, gleeful attitudes in the media about this, the gleeful attitudes that Democrat leaders have about this.

I’ll tell you what’s really more scary than anything, is how the American people — some Americans, I don’t know how many it is, seem to be okay with being told they can’t do this, and they can’t go there and you've got to stay here, and we’re gonna quarantine you there, and we’re gonna wrap you up over there, we’re gonna put you in this cocoon here, and you can’t leave and you — “Okay, okay, fine with me!” No, not okay.

Do you think Andrew Cuomo knows what’s best for you? He put this little quarantine around New Rochelle. I mean, it’s just, this is just — too much of this, to me, appears to be made-to-order for objectives that have long been held by the American left, the Democrat Party, the media, what have you.

I tell you what, let me take a brief timeout. And — here, before the timeout — in Chicago, the mayor of Chicago has just announced that they’re not gonna dye the Chicago River green. It’s St. Patrick’s Day next week. They’re gonna eliminate it. They do it every year. They dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day. They’re not gonna do that. The downtown parade and the South Side Irish Parade have all been postponed, as part of this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day. Over a hundred thousand people were expected to fly to Chicago. They’re not gonna go to Chicago. South by Southwest gets canceled, the mayor in Austin cancels it, and shortly after then starts begging people who live in Austin, “Hey, go ahead and go outside. Go ahead and go patronize some of our businesses. Go ahead, and go out to eat.”

Well, okay. If it’s okay to do that, why did you cancel South by Southwest? “Well, because the inertia was set in motion.” We’re gonna be canceling everything. We’re canceling everything we’re gonna do, any public meeting. We’re gonna play basketball games with no crowds. The baseball season’s coming up. We’re gonna play baseball games with no fans in the stands. How long is it gonna be before the NFL decides, “You know what? We’re gonna do studio only. No fans allowed in any of our stadiums.”

Where does this end? Especially when you realize there are diseases out there that kill many more than are being killed by this — and the people that are suffering mostly from this are elderly people who already have respiratory problems of one kind or another.

Anyway, look, I’m sure you can tell I’ve got to be very careful how I navigate this. Because the media is just waiting for people to come along and act like it isn’t a big deal, so they can point fingers. Now, I am fully aware of this, folks, but you know me. I can’t fake it in here, and I can’t act out things that I don’t believe. Well, actually, I probably could. You know, J.R. Ewing, “Once you fake integrity, the rest is easy.” And I don’t like going down that road, I don’t even want to have to try."
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He even got the acronym wrong.

"19" refers to "2019" "cornavirus disease -2019"

Not the 19th coronavirus strain.

Seems like folks should have stopped listening right there...
 
3leftsdoo said:
Trumpandemic = Responsible for a TINY fraction of deaths worldwide

Isn't that GREAT news?

I'm sure you're VERY happy!
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It's great news to idiots and ignoramuses. The rest of us know how exponential growth works.
 
Herkamer63 said:
:lamo You really think that Rush Limbaugh is dangerous to Republicans right now!? Have you seen Creepy Joe and Crazy Bernie, and how dangerous they are for the Democrats!?:lamo You got one guy sniffing, massaging, and threatening violence of others, while the other guy is wanting to allow incarcerated criminals vote, raise taxes at unprecedented levels on EVERYONE, and wants to destroy millionaires and billionaires when HE HIMSELF is a MILLIONAIRE! And they're BOTH RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, AND RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A GUY ON THE RADIO!!!:lamo REALLY!? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO COMPARE WHO'S ACTUALLY DANGEROUS TO WHO HERE!? HOW STUPID!:lamo Hey, I got an idea, let's talk about how dangerous abortion doctors are to women! THAT WOULD BE A FAR MORE INTERESTING CONVERSATION THAN A GUY ON THE RADIO, WHO HAS NO POLITICAL POWER!!!:lamo Oh God, the stupidity of people.
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Yet trump conveyed on of our highest honors on him.just recently.

Like he is a hero to the country.

How do you gibe that with your tirade?
 
Glitch said:
Naturally the left are heavily invested in having millions of Americans die. If fewer than 2.2 million Americans die, like they predicted
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Who on "the left" predicted this?

they will look like fear-mongering fools. Which we already know they are. When this is over President Trump needs to declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization for the terror they deliberately inflicted during this completely manufactured crisis. More Americans will die from medical mistakes made by doctors and nurses in hospitals than will die from COVID-19.
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It helps the case when you fabricate positions, attribute them to "the left" but no one with a name, then condemn half the country based on a lie. Nice job.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Yes, it's because nobody has the time right now to hold the hands of Trump supporters and teach them how science works.

What do you care? Shouldn't you be watching Benny Hinn or something?
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Who's Benny Hinn?

Bottom line is that there's no excuse for you not being aware of what's going on.
 
PoS said:
So you want people to panic. Got it.



:doh



Wishing more people to die again? Sheesh.



This is the first time I defended Rush-simply because of your outrageous OP.


Strawman fallacy.

Where did I say its a hoax?
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He was clearly referring to folks who already died.

And it is pretty obvious to anybody not predisposed to believe anything that covers trumps ass that saying "if people keep listening to trump people are going to die." Is not the same as "I sure hope a bunch of people die so trump loses in November".

And it's all moot anyway because a bunch of people are dead and more will die right now. No need for any prognostication or wishing.

Unless of course you are positing that wishing made all this happen.

Because last time I checked, of wishes were horses, everyone would ride.
 
TomFitz said:
Limbaughloonies like to play the dishonest little game of boasting how important and influential Limpballs is until he says something really really really offensive(it takes three, because most of what he says is stupid BS in the first place).

Then the dittoheads all start whining that he’s “just a guy on the radio”.

A guy who has spent most of his career promoting hyper partisanship for profit.

Not that this type of two faced behavior is unique to comments on Limbaugh.

Trump talks out of all sides of his mouth, and the bobble heads pick which one to defends. And if Trump says the opposite later (or, sometime in the same rant), they all start talking out fo the other sides of their mouths too!
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Every time they do it I hear that Shaggy song in my head: "It Wasn't Me" if you don't know it, check it out.
 
CaughtInThe said:
yes. it's not about your Republican brothers and sisters at the morgue at this very moment.



anyone ever notice that the people that most defend Rush and Sean constantly repeat Rush and Sean? this is just a Democratic hoax for a Democratic election that the ENTIRE world went along with. LOL.
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That's what CNN, MSNBC and the NYT said.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
The vast majority of conservatives, Republicans, Trump supporters, and other slow-learners listen to Rush and Hannity for their news and accept what they say as the gospel truth. If you don't believe this then you haven't been paying attention.

Most of the content of the propaganda that Trump supporters spread is a direct result of the things they hear on Rush and Hannity. They sometimes copy, word-for-word, the very things they hear on those shows on the same day they hear them.
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Hell, trump does it too. He got the whole "the cure can't be worse than the disease" bit from somebody on Fox.
 
CaughtInThe said:
the elderly Fox News watchers that i know are all hiding out in their houses. why is that???????
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What they do and what they say are two different things.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
The problem with Trump-supporting propagandists like Hannity and Rush is that they continued to support the propaganda that coronavirus was a hoax meant to harm Trump well after it became clear it would become a big problem in the U.S.

And they should be criticized for that.

Most of those quotes you've been seeing by media types and a handful of Democrats are nothing more than a transparent attempt to deflect criticism away from Trump. Even a few weeks ago Trump himself was trying to minimize the pandemic.

I find these pathetic attempts to rewrite history to make Trump look better to be quite pathetic.
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At least I am confident he is shedding independents by the election full as this goes on. Lots of them are just "regular" conservatives and not trump's fanboys. And many of them are educated and thoughtful.

Trump has failed miserably as a leader in all of this, focusing on how it might affect him personally before how it might affect the rest of us.

This is quite obvious already and I predict that when the dust clears it will be his delusions and the sycophants he surrounds himself with that chose to downplay this in the hopes it was indeed nothing to worry about that led to our current ****ed up situation.

I'm hoping we find out what it is Fauci has on him that allows him to contradict him while he's standing right there and physically mock him in the media. It has to be something amazing.
 
Glitch said:
Here is a thought, although I'm quite certain it is not original it is obvious that you haven't learned the lesson: Get an education, develop some skill, get a good paying job, and stop being insanely jealous of other people. You leftist socialists are so eager to spend other people's money you can't tolerate anyone spending their own money. It is what defines you as Marxists.
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How did I miss this gem.

Thanks again. Funny ****.

Oh, nothing new.

Next!
 
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