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Rush Limbaugh’s Occupy Wall St. Rant Proves The Protesters Are Winning
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh proved that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are winning by going on the attack and calling the protesters, “stupid, idiots, and tools.”
Here is the audio from Media Matters:
Here is the transcript:
CALLER: Hello, Rush, it’s always such an honor to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I’m a very involved conservative, and so I was somehow mistakenly put on SEIU’s robo-calls and conference calls, and this last call was very enlightening. SEIU is changing subjects from Obama administration scandals and his economic policies to active class warfare. They are supporting — they’re part of the group of activists that supports Occupy Los Angeles, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, and –
RUSH: You know what’s crazy about these people?
CALLER: What?
RUSH: These are the people that marched on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend and so forth.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: You know how stupid these people are?
CALLER: Incredibly.
RUSH: These people are out marching for big government. They’re advocating for Obama’s reelection. They are marching against Wall Street. Who’s in bed with Obama? Wall Street.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: These people are tools. They are abject tools. They are an embarrassment. I mean the Vietnam War crowd is embarrassed at this bunch, how stupid they are, and then to be steered onto the Brooklyn Bridge where they can then be charged with a crime for obstructing a roadway? This is a bunch of idiots. How did the SEIU end up with your phone number?
CALLER: Well, I was working for Meg Whitman, her campaign for governor.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, she’s the CEO at Hewlett Packard.
CALLER: Right. And Meg Whitman was our only chance at getting the governorship back –
RUSH: Yeah, McCain loves her, that’s right, I remember.
CALLER: And after what Brown or his people called her, nothing was done about that, –
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: — nothing was done about that, but somehow I mistakenly got on their robo-call and I have been getting calls since last November, and it’s really amusing ’cause you can find out what the other side’s doing.
Limbaugh’s little insult fest combined with Fox News’ attempts to spin and smear the protests and protesters today are the strongest evidence yet that the right wing corporate power brokers are scared. They are afraid that the message of the protest will get out and reach the American people. They are terrified that the people just may rise up and take back their government. The right wants to make Occupy Wall Street a partisan protest.
Their worst nightmare is that conservatives will join with liberals to form a mass movement that cuts across partisan lines in an effort to fix the broken political system and give the government back to the people. In order to prevent the message from spreading to the hard right, Limbaugh and Fox News are trying to frame the protests as strictly a left wing affair.
The truth is that there are people on the left, right, and middle involved in Occupy Wall Street. The idea that conservatives might catch on that unless they are the super-rich, they are also part of the 99% terrifies the political right. Rush Limbaugh thinks the protesters are idiots because he is a part of the 1%. The right wing is scared.
They are afraid that the message of Occupy Wall Street is spreading. They are terrified Occupy Wall Street will become a truly revolutionary movement that will topple the power structure that has allowed them to own and manipulate the American political system for decades.
Deep in his heart, Rush Limbaugh is most worried that Occupy Wall Street is coming for him.
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Ingarose
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Yes, they are scared. I left already two posts on the previous article. But now it becomes dangerous. They feel finally a little wounded and we know that a wounded animal is very dangerous. Wounded animals often behave in a total rabid way and that is how some of those on Fox and talk radio are behaving.
Ignia
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:05 am
Is this going to be the Left’s version of the Tea Party?
I keep getting this strange feeling of deja vu….
sam i am
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 pm
did rush just admit the conservatives are NOT open and truthful?
at the end
dumb hick
Punky Brewster
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Limbaugh is also in the top 1% for most failed marriages
majii
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:28 pm
When Wall St. was bailed out in the Fall of 2008, it was not with money labeled as belonging to the right or the left. It was with money that came from all of us. We have all been treated poorly by Wall St. Occupy Wall St is not a movement intended to benefit only those on the left. Hopefully, it will help all of us–left, right, and center because there are individuals in each of these categories who lost homes to foreclosure and/or need jobs while Wall St. refuses to do anything to help.
Der state
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Exactly.BoA also recently settled for $8.8 billion,WITH INVESTORS.To hell with the people who were kicked out of their homes as a result?Investors may help back you,but homeowners make you the profit$.
Anne
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Limbaugh is at the bottom 1% when it comes to rationality and sanity. Like other attempts to discredit movements by labeling them as communist-inspired, he and his ilk are trying to label it as leftwing, when it is obviously encompassing people from all points across the political spectrum. That means that some conservatives have already caught on that they are in the 99% non-wealthy group that has been hurt by the malfeasance of Wall Street. I wonder how Limbaugh and those other fools feel about the fact that the arrests have only galvanized people participating in the movement.
SinghX
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:39 pm
“…I mean the Vietnam War crowd is embarrassed at this bunch, how stupid they are, and then to be steered onto the Brooklyn Bridge where they can then be charged with a crime for obstructing a roadway? This is a bunch of idiots…”
Really? Really, Rush, those protesting against the Viet Nam war were an embarrassment to who Rush; to you and your fleas? Mr. High School letter jack never serve a day in his life and everybody knows why. He’s the embarrassment!
Does he honestly believe protesters were steered so they could be “tricked” when the joke is on people like him? Bottom-feeders like Rush-ball are not thinkers, cons and connivers, yeah, but he could never see that those supposed ‘enforcers’ were enforcing to call more attention. It would never occur to such a smart man like Rush…no, he’s such an honest broker! He and only he has the real insight to all things ‘Mera’kan, so everybody else should shut up and go home before he sticks his cigar in your eye…oh hell, he’ll do it anyway just for grins ‘cuz that’s the kind of guy he really is…ask any of his ex’s.
Greg
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:06 am
I’m just amazed that so many so-called independent, non-establishment people such as Alex Jones have eagerly jumped on the bandwagon and proclaimed this a tool of Obama.
Great masses of people have been brought together by a desire to end the parasitic exploitation by the corporate elite– it doesn’t matter who is trying to coopt the movement. Those people are power all on their own, and those who are against the corporate oligarchy are not going to suddenly change their minds and support corporate tool Obama just because Obama desperately hopes they’ll help him. They won’t.
I really am starting to think many of those right wing, so-called anti-establishment figureheads might be in bed with the corporate oligarchy themselves.
KatzKids
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 7:20 am
I don’t think there’s ever been any doubt that those “so-called anti-establishment figureheads” ARE completely in bed with the corporate oligarchy. They have been all along and anyone listening to their rhetoric understands just who they stand for. The anti-establishment meme is just another cover, just like their supposedly independent “think tanks.”
SinghX
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 7:51 am
Remember the old 60′s movie “The Odessa Files”? It’s a story told by many about how the old upper echelons of Nazi Germany got out before they got caught, and with plenty of loot stashed around the world. They reorganized, and 20 years later…yati-yati…they’re back or their heirs take on the mantle…
My point is, these people are indeed anti-establishment; they’re the bad guys disguised as captains of industry and they have been “rooting” themselves within our system like a cancer, spreading and waiting until they have infected the “public body” to the point of crippling it. They are mostly the heirs, like the Koch’s, Bush’s who’s families supported the “anti-establishment” regimes of the past.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 9:10 am
“RUSH: These people are out marching for big government. They’re advocating for Obama’s reelection. They are marching against Wall Street. Who’s in bed with Obama? Wall Street.”
I am going to assume that rush has no idea of what he just said in the above paragraph. If Wall Street is in bed with Obama, then wouldn’t the people be marching in favor of Wall Street in order to get Obama reelected?
Just proves that rush can say anything stupid and his people will go right along with it.
Mr. Peabody
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
He’s saying that they’re demanding more money for the government from Wall Street (“marching for Big Government”),and, although they (probably) want Obama re-elected, Obama is colluding with Wall Street. Hence, they are “fools”.
jh
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Why bother? The poster is obviously an ignoramus.
Betty
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:21 am
There are no jobs for these people, they’ve all been outsourced and 80 of 100 of the largest corporations paid no taxes last year. Bank of America who was bailed out and made millions last year paid no taxes and in fact got 4million rebate. The richest 1% have 75 percent of the money and are NOT taxed heavily due to significant loopholes in the tax system. Wall St. executives make huge salaries and bonuses even though they helped to tank the economy and got big bailouts. Corporations that enjoy the benefits of working here, hiding taxes offshore, and outsourcing jobs, are not taxed heavily and should create jobs here. That’s why people are protesting. And this is just the beginning. Taxation without representation started the first revolution here, and lobbyists have taken away the people’s voice.
Der state
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Betty,this is the best comment I have seen concerning the overall picture of these protests.Also,a quote which always strikes me funny…”I would like to add that there is nothing to add.”..to your comment.
Dean Colwes
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Rush is an idiot. Why would anybody want to listen to a minor league baseball annoucer turned main street media blow hard and finally a drug addict. This man is the lowest element of all of man everywhere.
rikyrah
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
yes, they are scared. good
mikeyhatesit
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Rush’s comments just seem like the standard Bizarro Superman speech of the the Right Wing. “Me love liberty and the Constitution!”
Either that, or a classic clinical case of denial & projection. His complaint that the #OWS groups are protesting against the very things that they are supposedly for perfectly lines up with the Tea Party fervor of voting for to keep the same policies that impoverish the country in effect.
The #OWS movement really should be attracting more libertarians than it seems- and I mean true Libertarians, not the faux Reagan Repubs who want deregulation of business while over-regulating private life. The kind of libertarians who want fairness at all levels of society, moderated by those who ensure that nobody’s success comes at the cost of causing poverty to others.
ME and You
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Rush: You’re a drug addict that had the money and things against people to manipulate, like Herbert Hoover hiding his homosexuality, to keep you from going to prison. Be real! As the Holy Bible says, ” there is nothing hidden in secret which will not be revealed.” Stop being such an insecure human being! Life is more than puffing on an expensive cigar.
neil
Oct. 7th, 2011 at 8:34 am
What slays me is Limbo talking about tools.If anyone knows about tools it is Limbo.The man is the biggest shill for the right that I have seen.It always amazes me that there are people out there that listen to this damn fool.