Department of ‘Distractions’

Definitely a distraction, but with the elections so far out what else is the DNC going to do?
Obama’s main ability to move his agenda is the ‘bully pulpit’ of the presidency, engaging the public opinion is part of his job. But the bulletin board is just silly time killing, in the same vein as occasional RNC outbursts about socialism.

At Least the Democrats Has the Guts to Stand up to the Anti-American Rush wish I could say that for the Republicans!

Kate
The President Isnt doing this The DNC IS!

People are so blind to Obama they won’t think he’s involved.

Angie in PA: You don’t think for a minute that your president didn’t know about this. Hummmmm, as said, you can’t educate stupid and especially if someone is looking for a handout.

You want the President on billboard watch…..now that would be a distraction.

President Obama is a Democrat. He is the President of the United States duly elected by the American people. The DNC is NOT President Obama, nor is he the DNC. The DNC is the Democratic National Committee; it does not speak for the President and the President does not speak for it, nor is he a member of the DNC. If the DNC chooses to play games with flatuential (as opposed to influential) Limbaugh, that’s their choice. Obviously, the only attention the President is paying to any of this silliness is to have a good laugh.

Those of you defending O and blaming it on DNC, have you been following your main stream media. The Whit House until yesterday were so proud of their strategy…they were everywhere talking about how they come up w/ it. As for me, never listened to the Rush, but I sure as hell am now…

Rush Limbaugh is an idiot.
As long as the Republican Party and the media continue treating him like some type of “leader”, then SOMEBODY has to point out how ridiculous he really is.
I don’t have a problem with it.
Seems like you do Jake . . . of course, Rush likes you, so I guess that says it all.

Silly liberals
Your very own Obama said the dow is a political tracking poll.
If you don’t like what he said, take it up with him.
Obama Daily Tracking Poll
down 268 and falling.

Concerned in OH:”A months long premediated and coordinated smear campaign by 0bama, Rahm, Begalla, and Stephanapolous. That’s not a distraction, that’s the “new bipartisanship” and the “new politics” of Hopenchange.”
You’re the one who said painting Rush as a leader of the Republican party was “demonizing him.” Still chuckling over how you seem to think being called a Republican leader is now a horrible slur!

“A months long premediated and coordinated smear campaign by 0bama, Rahm, Begalla, and Stephanapolous.”
As opposed to a weeks long ugly hoax about a racial attack that you pimped long after it was discovered she made it up.

The Obama administration is desperatly attacking free speech in America….
Why are we surprised?….Herr Obama thinks he has already achieved his ‘dictatorship’
He can’t afford any opposing views now…
So they must try to stop Rush Limbaugh and anyone else that can ‘out’ Obama…
You don’t have to like Rush or the conservative commentators……but…
You should be fighting for their right to speak freely without the gov. trying to gag them……or you’ll be next.
At least Rush identifys himself as a commentator only….George Stepsonofobama is a supposed News/man/reporter…and he conspired with Prancer Rahm….to push this contrived Rush sideshow to happen…
He’s lost all credibility….and is now trying to deny his part in it….
Hey George….enjoy those wednesday night cocktail parties at the white house….The rest of us will just continue to make do with less and less…party on…

“We’re moving toward everyone’s medical records being electronically centralized (except Obama’s).”
This is the new right wing talking point that works on fear.
The RNC sections Healthcare reform read in part:
Advances in medical technology are revolutionizing medicine. Information technology is key to early detection and treatment of chronic disease as well as fetal care and health care in rural areas – especially where our growing wireless communications network is available. The simple step of modernizing recordkeeping will mean faster, more accurate treatment, fewer medical errors, and lower costs. Closing the health care information gap can reduce both under-utilization (the diabetic who forgets to refill an insulin prescription) and over-utilization (the patient who endures repetitive tests because providers have not shared test results).

J Moore: “The Obama administration is desperatly attacking free speech in America….”
Pop quiz: What Whitehouse press secretary said the following during an official press conference about a media talking head:
“I’m aware of the press reports about what he said. I have not seen the actual transcript of the show itself. But assuming the press reports are right, it’s a terrible thing to say, and it unfortunate. And that’s why—there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party—they’re reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”

Only us News Wonks listen to this stuff..

“Only us News Wonks listen to this stuff..”
Very true.

I totally agree that the White House and administration are now full of immature children who refused to grow up. Obama is showing his lack of intelligence, experience, and dignity by instructing his minions to attack a private citizen. Doesn’t that make everyone here mad? Isn’t it unconstitutional? Better yet, has anyone read the Constitution lately and realized that NOTHING that is going on in Washington is authorized by this bedrock of our Republic?
Obama’s entire administration is a farce and a nightmare from which we hopefully we all awaken soon. Handing our government over to these thugs was the gravest error in judgement this country has ever shown. Obama is a puppet who is about to fall flat on his face.
He also is ineligible to hold the office, in case anyone hasn’t been informed. He is not a natural-born citizen, and that fact is about to be exposed on a national level.

Obama Daily Tracking Poll
Down 313 points and falling..
Change we can believe in..

axle413: “Obama is showing his lack of intelligence, experience, and dignity by instructing his minions to attack a private citizen. Doesn’t that make everyone here mad? Isn’t it unconstitutional? ”
To answer my pop quiz, it was Ari Fleischer who leveled that not-very-subtle threat I posted towareds Bill Maher at a press briefing on Sept. 26, 2001. Were you upset then, by the president being cited by his press secretary:
“…there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party—they’re reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”
And you have to be astonishingly ignorant to think even Ari’s comment is even vaguely unconstitutional. You really should read it – part of the beauty of the Constitution is that it’s short and sweet.

All of you who are trying to distance Obama from this Rush quandry…let me make it clearer to you…..
Rahm Emmanual…is President Obama’s…CHIEF OF STAFF….get it???
Prancer Rahm conspired with George Stepawayfromthetruth and two other insiders[dont want to spellcheck their names]
So tell us all again Obama is’nt up close and personaly involved…..

Thanks for introducing this Independent to Rush. He is the only one mking sense today! :)
You can’t believe a word Obama says! :(
Obama was selected to be the salesperson for the far left-wing agenda! He is a sales wonk not a policy wonk!
He has a gift of ofuscating language born from his postmodern relativism, concepts such as right and wrong, goodness and badness, or truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation, and his training under the Saul Alinsky ideology in “Rules for Radicals.”

“Thanks for introducing this Independent to Rush. He is the only one mking sense today! ”
ROFLMAO as opposed to the last time Rush was in the news and you rushed to defend him.
It is self loathing that right wingers have to pretend to be something else or is it the realization that one has to rebrand the same tired old bs?

I am going to give money to the DNC. Republicans and their boss Rush want the country to fail. We need to distract them while Obama is running with the ball.

I think Obama is going to need a bigger distraction.
The whole world is beginning to realize what a complete fraud he is.

“It would be a direct message if the statetment was not taken out of context. What Rush really said, however, was if Obama were to push socialism on us, then he hoped Obama will fail. I’m sure you would too if you were not a socialist.
Is this statement any more of a hate statement than Rev. Wright’s “God D___ America” statement”
Classic right winger….complain about context then immediately offer a statement without context.

“Not just fringe dems. People wrote books and plays about killing Bush and were interviewed by network media news people.”
Name these non fringe Dems.

“Now I am trying to remember to get this right, but didn’t democrats have a non-stop 8 year abusive rant hoping Bush would fail, and die and so on.”
New right wing talking point straight from Rushbo.
Of course they can’t name any actual times when a Democrats or leftwing personality stated they hoped Bush failed.

Obama is a liberal idiot. Impeach Obama now.

justahousewife:” I’ve never known a sitting American president to target a voice of descent. Another dangerous first for Obama. ”
Valerie Plame. Paul O’Neill. Richard Clarke. Ari Fleischer, during an official press conference regarding Bill Maher (a blowhard, but definitely a voice of dissent!).
“…there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party—they’re reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”
I will just have to remember that you really don’t know much at all about reality.

Let me just thank all of the O voters. Lovely closing bell…wonderful changes he’s bringing in. To those thinking those no’s on the board don’t affect you…watch.

“Are claiming that these 2 books were not written. That this play did not exist.”
If its such a big deal, name the books and the play.
I understand you are working from talking points but a little research pays big dividends.

May 7, 2005
(AP) Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called President Bush “a loser” during a civics discussion with a group of teenagers at a high school on Friday.
“The man’s father is a wonderful human being,” Reid, D-Nev., told students at Del Sol High School when asked about the president’s policies. “I think this guy is a loser.”
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Not the exact same words Rush used, but hardly respectful dissent.

“I left the democrat party during the hate-filled primaries!”
And yet you enjoy the hate filled Rush Limbaugh.
If you’re that easily led around, I doubt the Democrats will have to do much to get back your vote if they ever had it.

All the Republicans have to do is show a chart of the stock market dropping since Obama was elected.
What is it now?
A drop of over 30%.

Another day in the land of Obama, another day poorer.

Funny, the only one feeling threatened by Limbaugh is Obama & Co.
Such thin skin in the White House.
Obama does not like a dissenting opinion.

@jhw539
Well, it took Obama just a couple of months to do the damage the last administration took a year to do…imagine what Obama will have done in 6, 12 months?!?
And we voted in Obama because he was going to make a change from the past, things were to get better; you know he will raise the oceans, blah, blah, blah.
If we wanted more the same, then weren’t we supposed to vote for McCain???

Sally J,
Since you like charts so much, chart what began as a surplus when Bush took office to the deficit and the financial collapse that was in place when Bush left office.

Remember Michael Moore?????
Didn’t he do a movie about Pres. Bush?

“Shall we get into what Republicans referred to President Clinton as WHILE he was still actually in office?”
jhw I believe the Reid comment was while in office but your point about respectful dissent directed at the President still stands.
Rush even went after a young Chelsea.

“Funny, the only one feeling threatened by Limbaugh is Obama & Co.
Such thin skin in the White House.
Obama does not like a dissenting opinion.”
Funny, it’s not their leadership groveling and cowing to him begging for forgiveness for something they said about him……..

Shall we get into what Republicans referred to President Clinton as WHILE he was still actually in office?
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Sure – I’d love to know. Memory lane and all that.

And yet you enjoy the hate filled Rush Limbaugh.
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Can you quote some of the hate filled things you have heard him say Ryan? thanks

Plumber:”Can you quote some of the hate filled things you have heard him say Ryan? thanks”
It is of course a matter of opinion, but a few quotes include:
“since [Sen. Barack] Obama [D-IL] has — on his mother’s side — forebears of his mother had slaves, could we not say that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own [Rev.] Al Sharpton?”
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it. ”
“I’m going to tell you, what’s good for al-Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today. That’s how you boil this down. And it doesn’t have to be al-Qaeda. What’s good for terrorists is good for John Kerry.”

“Can you quote some of the hate filled things you have heard him say Ryan?”
Not sure if I have enough space.
He called combat veterans against the Iraq War as phony soldiers.
He made fun of Michale J. Fox’s Parkinson disease.
He insinuated that Sheldon Brown’s treatment by the press had to do with his being black (He’s white)
He compared the torture at Abu Gharib to a frat party
Shall I go on?

Shall I go on?
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Please do. I recall the beef with Harry reid about the soldiers. Rush made a mint on that phony Harry Reid letter and donated it to the soldiers, and challanged earmark-Harry to match him. Harry declined.
But I note you provided no quotes for any of the “hateful” things you allege. Could it be you never heard any of it?
Why would you listen to someone you dislike so much?

Hi liberals!
I see that obama’s tactic of redirecting weak-minded individuals’ attention to the Steele-Rush thing while Rome burns is working on you! Meanwhile, the DJI is down again nearly 300 points commensurate with the confidence in has in obama’s ability to charm the markets with his rhetoric. Boy, if you all can tell truly me that this is what you voted for, well then Lenin was right.

The “Phony Soldier” quote directly spoke about Jesse MacBeth.
Here is the story from the Seattle paper about it:
A Tacoma man who falsely claimed he was a decorated war hero when he took the stage at demonstrations held in opposition to the U.S.’s role in Iraq was sentenced this morning to five months in prison in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Jesse MacBeth, 23, was also sentenced to three months in a halfway house after his release and three years of probation.
MacBeth claimed that he was an Army ranger who killed more than 200 people, many at close range, including some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet.
In reality, MacBeth made it through only six weeks of Army basic training and never set foot in Iraq.
Conservative bloggers exposed MacBeth in May 2006, destroying his credibility and embarrassing the Seattle company that produced the video about his exploits. …
PepperSpray Productions in Seattle produced the video titled “Jesse MacBeth: An Iraq Veteran Speaks Out.” In the film, MacBeth told nuanced tales of brutal killings he carried out at the behest of his commanding officers.

It seems to me the more they bait Rush the more idiotic Rush looks.
Let’s face it; I have seen on these blogs Rush’s opinions repeated over and over again. There is a large portion of the public who take him seriously. All they are doing is pointing out how absurd he is, and Rush is showing us that they are corrtect.
Look what it has done already, the RNC want’s Steele out now.

Politico:
Congressional Republicans are trying to figure out how to distance themselves from Rush Limbaugh without really distancing themselves too much from Rush Limbaugh.
Democrats laid the trap by declaring Limbaugh the head of the GOP, and Republicans in Congress can’t seem to figure out how to solve the riddle.
They don’t want to appear that they are taking marching orders from the conservative talk show host, but at the same time, they are wary of criticizing him and enduring the wrath of his powerful microphone and millions of listeners.

My suggestion for the billboard (the maximum ten words):
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

“The “Phony Soldier” quote directly spoke about Jesse MacBeth.”
Nice try but nope.
“No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.” Limbaugh interjected, “The phony soldiers.” The caller, who had earlier said, “I am a serving American military, in the Army,” agreed, replying, “The phony soldiers.”

“That’s because all of this publicity they are giving to Rush will only lead to even higher ratings for his show.”
Thank you for bringing this up.
Rush could care less about this country as long as he has great ratings.

Since more Rush ugliness was asked for here it is.
Quotes on women:
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society
She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her — guess what — she’s off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She’s smart enough to know she can’t feed herself. She’s actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn’t have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat’s taught me more about women, than anything my whole life
We’re not sexists, we’re chauvinists — we’re male chauvinist pigs, and we’re happy to be because we think that’s what men were destined to be. We think that’s what women want.

“set up straw men for weak-minded “Americans” to attack while these hugely destructive policies are put in place”
You mean like ACORN?

All this criticism that the Obama administration is getting from right-wingers for challenging Rush directly is pretty amusing.
What does an NFL football team do when confronted with a sly tricky defense that may have talent but doesn’t have any real strength? They run the ball right at them.

Speaking of distractions:
“Officially, Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Pitt came to the Capitol to see Nancy Pelosi , D- Calif. , the speaker of the House of Representatives . (He also met with President Barack Obama at the White House , but out of public sight.)”
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The meeting was about a New Orleans’ charity.

What would he make of it?
hello, Jake, Obama runs the DNC. It’s his freaking people’s idea. You really think Obama didnt give the green light to the Rush Strategy?

7 Broken Promises in Record Time
1. Make government open and transparent.
2. Make it “impossible” for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.)
4. No more secrecy.
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill.
6. You’ll know what’s in it.
7. We will put every pork barrel project online.
Is it any wonder Obama’s team is using distractions? It’s not like the sycophantic mainstream media will ever take him to task anyway. Except for real journalists like Jake of course.

“Jim Cramer is a talking head who has been SPECTACULARLY wrong about issues he is supposedly an expert on.
He’s just another excitable bald financial analyst in a sea of them”.
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 5, 2009 7:27:50 PM
Oh, you’re right Ryan, the stocks AREN’T reacting to obamas lack of focus, huge taxes on the horizon), and basically ineptly flailing around and “gyrating” (I for one make more than 250,000 and no way in HELL will be spending, investing, or hiring, for, well who knows how long, and that’s the essence of why the DJI keeps tanking). When he talks about taxing the “evil rich”, he is not speaking of the lazy entitled slugs like Paris Hilton, or Hollywood actors that make $20,000,000 in 3 months for a crappy and inaccurate film about a Hitler assassination attempt. They are talking about people who have worked their butts off their whole lives to try and get themselves and their family ahead. They have seen financial security as the light at the end of the tunnel for many years of hard work. Take doctors for example. College 4 years, medical school 4 years, residency (at 180-100 hrs/week at 30-40K/year for 3-5 years), 100-200K in debt in loans at the end of it. Many don’t get to enjoy their lives and start a family until they are 30-40yrs old. But they are going to be punished because they make more than the 250K limit. Think about how WRONG and counterproductive that is. I note BTW when demonizing people who (work their butts off for the most part to) make alot of money, he never seems to include pols and Hollywood elite…

Today I got an email from a Jen O’Malley Dillon wanting me to send a slogan for a contest to put on a billboard in Rush Limbaugh’s hometown. Two days ago I received one from Tim Kaine. Maybe now they will take me off the freaking mailing list. I wrote back that this is something kids would do. GROW UP. What are they going to do in a real crisis?-put up a billboard about the Communist leaders? Put up a billboard about the nasty Iran guy? Are they going to crush eveyone here that disagrees with them? There won’t be enough billboards for that. Apparently they have never heard of free speech? I hope Limbaugh sues ’cause I’ve had enough of the juvenile crap. GET A LIFE PEOPLE. This internet chain letter stuff is idiotic-and so are they. TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST-YOU’VE DRIVEN ME TO BE REPUBLICAN. INSTEAD OF SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS, GET SOME CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM OBAMA. If he’s pissed it all away, then you all have NO BUSINESS asking taxpayers to bail anyone out.

We need to ask ourselves, if words, be it constructive or destructive are free, why do we have to pay for sessions with the Psychologists?
Words can either make or mare. Words are like eggs, once its falls and breaks, it can not be taken back.
A word, depending on the recepient’s level of education, awareness and exposure, may connote 1001 meanings.
That is why in the valley that the worlds economy is, soothing words are sine quanon.
Speakers are supposed to be responsible enough to know that in times of massives unemployment, massive depreciation of values of investments in 401(k), massive foreclosures, words that should be sent out there are words of encouragement.
Words to tell those who are hurting that everybody is praying for the recuperation of the ailing economy.
Words of hope, words of encouragement.
Rush Limbaugh has the opportunity to be heard by over 20million Americans on weekly basis. This group of Americans are the old, the least educated, the uneducated and retirees who faithfully tune in to get a fix from the “wisdom” of Rush Limbaugh.
They don’t read Newspapers, the don’t access the Internet hence,whatever they hear from Rush Limbaugh is believed to have come from an enlightened mouth.
These words are capable of turning this group of People for or against the Government.
Must the Government fold its hands and watch while Rush Limbaugh misleads its Citizens, the answer is NO!
So I believe that if Rush Limbaugh can not help in soothing the pains of People with kind words, he should keep his peace and remain silent.
If he is endowed with so much wisdom, why not run for Office? It is easy to be an arm-chair Critic. It is easy to be a chicken-little.
Rush Limbaugh should either shape-in or shape-out.

All you have to do is turn your radio off if you don’t like it. Maybe your way of silencing someone is jail? Communism anyone? As far as your description of the kind of people who listen to Limbaugh-how would YOU know? So now the Democratic party is going all out to silence people? And they think that putting their opinions on billboards to intimidate is the way to go? Be careful what you wish for.

“Rush Limbaugh should either shape-in or shape-out.”
Your idea of shape-in or mine?

“Who is saying Obama’s insulting pig comment was “bogus”"
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“Everyone with half a brain. ”
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 5, 2009 6:45:13 PM
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And those of us with 2 halves know exactly what Obama meant.

I loved the “7 broken promises in record time” blog…VERY well-written. I’m so sickened by all the “we inherited this mess”…sounds like he didn’t have a clue what he was taking on.

Stacey: All oblabla does is lie and the followers don’t know the difference between truth and lies. The 7 promises were made and the followers can deny all they want to…it is true.