Rush Limbaugh actually spent time on his show trying to talk his callers out of impeaching President Obama. Could Frankenstein be turning on its creator?
It all began with a pro-impeachment caller:
CALLER: Two reasons why it’s critical for America that we go through the impeachment process. First reason is, the IRS profiling of conservatives and Christians was intentional voter suppression, and that’s a constitutional legacy for our kids. It’s something we inherited, and it’s something we owe to our children. But, Rush, the second most important reason is, Obama left two SEALs to die in the dirt in Benghazi. And they were sitting there for six hours. There was military that was ready, willing, and able to rescue them, and they didn’t. And, Rush, if we don’t at least go through this process for America of impeachment, we’re really leaving them to die in the dirt also.
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Well, you know, I would defer to our leadership, the Republican leadership, as to whether they do it, you know, whether this is before or after the reaction, but, Rush, we can’t go quietly into the night here. I mean, what happened to our guys in Benghazi has gotta be answered and to put up with the response of, “What difference does it make?” It makes a huge difference. And, you know, Rush? We may not win this fight. It may be that the House impeaches him and he gets off in the Senate, which is what happened with President Clinton, but we got to go through the process. It’s more about us as Americans than it is about Obama. We’ve got to go through this process.
Limbaugh says that Republicans are unlikely to impeach Obama, because they still feel like they are paying the price for impeaching Clinton.
The very next caller that Rush Limbaugh happened to to have on agreed with him that conservatives should get off the impeachment thing. Here is her call and his reaction:
CALLER: I just wanted to put in my two cents about the impeachment thing. I think it’s the worst thing we could do as conservatives, to even talk about it. I think we just got to get off the Obama thing because it’s got to be the worst thing we can do. Let’s just get on to the Democrats, let’s just get on –
RUSH: Yeah, I agree. She’s reacting, folks — Diane, thanks very much. We had a caller in the first hour who thinks for the sake of the country, we have to state who we are. We have to plant the flag and tell everybody who we are, what we stand for, and what we will not tolerate. And for that reason we need to begin impeachment proceedings against Obama, and that’s what Diane’s reacting to. Politically it would be disaster because it isn’t gonna happen, ain’t gonna go anywhere. It doesn’t have a chance, and Obama, folks, as much as you don’t want to hear it, he should not be the focus, at least in terms of persuading people.
It’s got to be the Democrat Party and the ideology, liberalism, socialism, because all of this that’s happening can be tied directly to a political party. Obama needs allies for this to happen, and he’s got them. This is what happens, and you can point it out city by city where liberals have run the place unchecked. You see literal ghost towns. You see bulldozed Third World type locations, and this is linked to a particular political party, and that I think is where attention needs to be focused. I agree with you, Diane. I’m glad you called.
It is funny to see the Obama hate that Limbaugh has spread since 2008 come back and bite him in the backside. I am afraid that monster he has created is on a path of self-destruction. Rush Limbaugh understands what will happen to the Republican Party if they catch a bad case of impeachment fever.
The Obama hate that Limbaugh helped to create has gotten completely out control. Limbaugh can’t talk them down anymore. They are hell bent on impeaching Obama because these are the seeds that Rush Limbaugh’s gutter stream of hate speech against this president have sown. Limbaugh has been demonizing President Obama everyday for nearly five years. What did he think was going to happen?
Of course, his audience is going to demand that the Republican Party impeach Obama. This is what he has been telling them that the president deserves. The Republican rank and file is reaching the point where their own media can no longer control them.
This dynamic caused the weird scene today where Rush Limbaugh was actually arguing against Obama impeachment. The right is starting to hit code red, and not sure if Rush Limbaugh can stop the Republican meltdown.
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Reynardine
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Now, now, they’re exercising their freedom of screech.
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donna
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
kind of like when McCain allowed his poodle Palin to incite hatred against Obama. he later tried to calm his own followers down but it was too little too late.
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DanaP
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 9:27 pm
He and all the rest of the trash like him NEED Obama in office to keep those lovely paychecks rolling in. Hate is big business nowadays, and Obama’s made more of these racist bigots millionaires than anyone else. Keep that in mind when long time Obama haters become Obama defenders.
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omomma
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Who gives a flying f_ _ k what Rush Limbaugh says to anyone about anything. Get this f_ _ _ _ r off the air.
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Sally
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 10:00 pm
Just goes to show you he doesn’t believe a word he preaches. I mean, HE’s been calling for impeachment for years, and now that the sheep agree with him, well, maybe he didn’t mean it. What a farce the GOP is. What a POS Rush and Beck and Palin are, inciting fear and hatred instead of thinking of positive ways to help this nation become great again. I am so sick of the Benghazi lies, and now that it turns out a GOP employee ordered the Tea Party investigations, well, golly gee, whatever will they whine about next? And this whole NSA thing is their doing too..THEY keep voting for the laws that make this legal…Bush did it illegally, Yoo came up with the Patriot Act to cover their butts, and the GOP has happily passed it ever since. Stupid idiots.
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Nathan Godfrey
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 10:20 pm
all the repugs need to step back,shut the hell up and do their jobs.
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Bruce Price
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 10:25 pm
It can’t be a matter of impeach or not impeach. Suppose the mood blows over, or the vote fails.
First, we have to indict all of Obama’s people who broke the law. In each scandal. F & F, Benghazi, IRS, all of them.
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Shiva
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
You are assuming some one broke the law? So far there has been no mention of law breaking
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Shiva
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 10:54 pm
Nothing funnier then when a ditto head comes in, spits some silliness out then runs back to rush screaming I did it rush I did it!
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Cha
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 7:02 am
Nobody “broke the law”.. surprise! now what do you republicons do? Keep regurgitating ignorant accusations.. that’s what you do best.
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Lucy Montrose
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 12:12 am
[Y]ou can point it out city by city where liberals have run the place unchecked. You see literal ghost towns.
Of *course* areas where liberals are strong are ghost towns! Where are the gated communities? Where did all the big-box stores go?! Why, Boulder doesn’t even have ONE Wal-mart… You have to drive all the way to freakin’ LONGMONT eight miles away! All those small businesses look SO dingy, too… like, gasp! *poors* and *browns* go there!!
And the most important part of a civilized, non-ghost-town… Teh Gunz. Does Carmel have any gun shops? Oh, the SCANDAL! if in Clint Eastwood’s home town you can’t even but a GUN!
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Shiva
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 12:20 am
Oh noooooooooooooooooo
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Zeno
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 12:41 am
Rush has finally recognized what a losing proposition it is to go crazy hell-bent-for-leather into another impeachment debacle against a popular Democratic president. It makes the GOP look like the chumps and douches they are. Rush has been knowingly exploiting the prejudices and ignorance of his listeners for many years, but now sees the fruits of his cynical manipulations — and he doesn’t like it that the inmates are taking over the asylum and he can no longer control them. Thanks, Rush, for taking the Republicans to the brink of destruction.
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majii
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:33 am
It’s all a game to the GOPers in Congress and for people like Limbaugh, Beck, Alex Jones, Pamela Geller, Fox News, etc., and their two main goals are money and power. When the republicans told Issa that he was going too far with his fake investigations, it showed that they know they’re dealing with a powder keg that can reap extremely negative consequences for them as a result of the lies they’ve told. They have taught millions of Americans to hate their own neighbors and citizens simply because a black democrat is in the WH. One would think they would have learned something last November, but it seems as if they haven’t. The republicans have forgotten all about governing and have stepped up their fake investigations into anything related to any agency that exists under Pres.Obama’s watch. The past has been forgotten. Everything that’s happening now, even if it’s been going on for years, is this president’s fault. Such is the depth of their hatred for Pres. Obama.
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Jo
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 3:31 am
Rush could make as much money directing all that hate at the GOP and he wouldn’t have to lie any more. They are useless as servants for the public good. They have to be fought to stop screwing us and stop taking away our rights. Other than that they waste our money with phony outrage and charges. They rage President Obama takes to many vacation days when they take three times as much. Someone should propose anything they do to the average person it must apply to them too, take away health care, wages, paid sick days/vacations, retirement, housing, food, schooling, police, clean air and on and on they need to feel the effects. Wow they are against everything good and senseable Americans don’t need them for anything. As a matter of fact life would be much better without them. What a legacy they will have to have silent memorials for them there won’t be anything good to say about them. Rush is just as vulgar as they are so they have to stick together they do it all for greed.
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Paws
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 7:29 am
It’s difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. The inmates are running the asylum now and they were created by the likes of Limbaugh, Palin, Fox News…
Trouble is, when you scream “scandal” every five minutes about things that aren’t really scandalous, you get to the point where people just don’t pay attention. The wingnuts pay attention, but moderates get, well, scandal fatigue. Most are getting quite tired and annoyed by it – especially when they stop and think about all of the real problems we have that no one seems to care about. The GOP talks about “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but they’re too busy “investigating” faux scandals and trying to restrict a woman’s right to be in control of her own reproductive health. If Congress spent half as much time dealing with the real problems as they do these “scandals,” we’d have a much better country. Alas, they do not.
I think most people have, quite simply, had enough.
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buckeyewill
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 8:17 am
Don’t worry they will impeach him.
They will lose in 2016.
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The Glenn Beck Review
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 8:19 am
For reasons that Rush and Congress is ignoring, Obama should be impeached.
http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2013/05/president-obamas-speech-on-drones-and.html
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ZaphodB
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 9:18 am
Rush said: “This is what happens, and you can point it out city by city where liberals have run the place unchecked. You see literal ghost towns. You see bulldozed Third World type locations, and this is linked to a particular political party, and that I think is where attention needs to be focused.”
Is he talking about that town in TX where the fertilizer plant exploded due to the “job killing” safety laws being ignored. Or is it those towns in PA where people are leaving due to poisoned water due to fracking? Or maybe the towns in AZ and FL where large numbers homes still sit empty due to poor banking regulations resulting in bankruptcies? Whatever it is, he certainly can’t mean the liberal states like CA, MA, OR, or CO because their economies are among the best in the country. With the national economy on an upswing since GWB left office, I’m not sure what Rush means.
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tz
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
From the Movie Cabaret . . . .
The linkage between decaying values and the rise of evil is clearly stated during an idyllic country party. A teenage boy begins singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, which at first sounds like a pretty folk song. Slowly, he is revealed to be a Nazi and the song takes on a disturbing new meaning. Other young people join him and this is one of the creepiest examples provided by a movie of how evil is started. Inserted in this sequence is a haunting shot of a sad old man watching the destruction of his country before his eyes. Tomorrow does not belong to him. Perfectly summarizing this scene is a quote from Brian: “Still think you can control them?”
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nacho
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 11:24 pm
I think the author is deceived. Our president has sustained an astounding popularity drop.
2 big reasons.
Losing the trust of the average young adult and average independent.
Most of us regard Rush and his equal but opposites like Maddow with a tolerant amusement.
The president is in real trouble due to failure to lead and a horrible record on delivering what was promised.
History will not be kind.
It shouldn’t.
He needs a new team and fast.
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djchefron
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 11:42 pm
A series of recent polls show President Obama’s approval rating at about 46 percent on average. This is somewhat lower than it was in late May, when it averaged 48 percent or 49 percent.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
While according to the sky is falling crowd I would not say thats a astounding popularity drop.
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The Glenn Beck Review
Jun. 18th, 2013 at 7:51 am
If you think that Maddow is equal but opposite to Rush Limbaugh, you have no clue what the truth is. Limbaugh lies.
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