Rush defends Somali pirates

[cybok0]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30235630#30235630

[HDRoberts]

And yet he complains about Jesse and Al playing the race card.

[msmith198025]

Rush is an idiot

[cybok0]

Rush is an idiot


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[fallout2600]

IMO, Rush is losing his audience, he supported Bush throughout without regard to the spending that was taking place and now he is trying to act like the small govt libertarian. Hypocrisy.

[msmith198025]

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Suprised? lol

I have thought that long before now. He sees no shades of grey. It is black and white to him and that is it. His side is ALWAYS right. That is a huge turn off for me. Someone has to at least be capable of seeing both sides of the issue, and admit when they or their party is wrong to get any attention from me

[cybok0]

Suprised? lol

I have thought that long before now. He sees no shades of grey. It is black and white to him and that is it. His side is ALWAYS right. That is a huge turn off for me. Someone has to at least be capable of seeing both sides of the issue, and admit when they or their party is wrong to get any attention from me

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[HDRoberts]

Rush is an idiot

Something else we agree on. :)


IMO, Rush is losing his audience, he supported Bush throughout without regard to the spending that was taking place and now he is trying to act like the small govt libertarian. Hypocrisy.

All the evidence needed to show himself a partisan hack. He can contradict himself, yet magically is never wrong.

[Madtown HD Junkie]

I would say this...I like Chris Hayes less than Olberwoman.

I would also agree Rush was wrong here. Stupid for saying it.

[Nooblet the LEET]

I'm guessing this is becasue he apparently repeatedly predicted Obama would sit on his hands during the hostage situation. After the outcome we saw he had to try and spin it to his advantage, or he could be popping prescription pills again.

[msmith198025]

I'm guessing this is becasue he apparently repeatedly predicted Obama would sit on his hands during the hostage situation. After the outcome we saw he had to try and spin it to his advantage, or he could be popping prescription pills again.

Either of those is possible. I would lean towards the first however

[Bear Paws]

As usual..Olberwomen took a piece out of context of a complete segment.. I listened to that segment and Rush was making fun of Anderson Cooper and David Gergan on what they said. Typical you guys are jerking your knee to hear your lip flap with out knowing the whole story. It was a tongue in cheek parody of Cooper, Gergan, and Sharpton . But I know... you like your version better. Heil Olberman...

Read this and hear it.;http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041409/content/01125110.guest.html

"David "Rodham" Gergen was discussing the ramifications of this last night. Let's go to sound bite eight. We'll use number eight. He was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night. Cooper said, "Does Obama need to move forward in this --" by the way, the Somali merchant marine organizers have hijacked four more ships today, four more ships have been hijacked."

" It was three earlier today. They've hijacked an additional one now for a total of four today. And, of course, we predicted this yesterday. While bestowing upon Obama all the brilliance and credit he deserved for a brilliant operation, we were very much concerned here that this kind of action against three young teenagers, black Muslim teenagers on the high seas could anger the pirates, merchant marine organizers even more and heighten and increase hijack activity. The left itself warned us of this in Iraq, they said all we're doing is creating more terrorists. So apparently we've created more hijackings on the high seas, in the Gulf of Aden by teenaged black Muslims, the merchant marine organizers."
Here's David "Rodham" Gergen responding to Anderson Cooper's question. "Does he need to move forward in this situation? Does he need to resolve the question of these other pirates, their hideouts along the coast there in Somalia, or does he just kind of move on and hope it doesn't happen again?"

GERGEN: The natural temptation is to want to go in with military force and clean out those nests of pirates and just demolish them for even touching an American in the way they did, but there are some complications. Anderson, in his case this is complicated by his diplomatic outreach to Muslims. He's done a good job laying the groundwork, reaching out in Turkey as we saw a few days ago. If he over-responds to this, if he uses force against Muslims in what seems an excessive way, it could totally undercut his own efforts.
RUSH: It was a risk that he took, no question. But of course until David "Rodham" Gergen mentioned it last night, nowhere else in the Drive-Bys was the fact that they were Muslims mentioned. That's why the use of the word pirates continues. The defense secretary, Robert Gates, said there is no purely military solution to merchant marine organizing in the region. "As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small there's really no way, in my view, to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids." A Pentagon spokesman confirmed Gates' quotes which were first reported in the American Forces Press Service. There's nothing really we can do until we go in there and nation build is what he's saying. We gotta go in there and take care of the situation on land and build up their economy such that these kids don't feel the need to become merchant marine organizers. (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley, you have a question here for your host? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. That was then, and this is now."'


SHARPTON: The so-called pirates, they call themselves voluntary Coast Guard in Somalia, which may be more apt.

RUSH: Well, there you have it, from one of America's true leaders of the civil rights movement, the black community, they're not even pirates. They are voluntary coast guards. So in fact what we have here, according to the Reverend Sharpton, these young kids, black Muslim kids, three of which were ordered shot by President Obama on Sunday afternoon, they're just a voluntary Coast Guard trying to protect Somalia, they're just patrolling off the coast of Somalia as sort of a voluntary National Guard, so-called pirates, they're not really pirates, according to reverend Sharpton. He's confirming me, Mr. Snerdley. Don't look so incredulous. They're just community organizers and they have decided to organize out on the high seas as a means of protecting their beloved country, is all this is about.

[msmith198025]

Context means alot, and I have not listened to the whole thing.
Rush is still, IMHO, what I said about him earlier however.

[Bear Paws]

Context means alot, and I have not listened to the whole thing.
Rush is still, IMHO, what I said about him earlier however. Then how can you form a informed opinion. Especially if you knowingly only take the word of a pathological liar and known fraud liked Olberman.

[msmith198025]

Then how can you form a informed opinion. Especially if you knowingly only take the word of a pathological liar and known fraud liked Olberman.

No, do not misunderstand. I said earlier that I think Rush is an idiot. What he says here will not change that. However, I take it back in the context of this thread if it was said in the manner you have stated. I simply have not had the chance to look.

[froggigger]

No, do not misunderstand. I said earlier that I think Rush is an idiot. What he says here will not change that. However, I take it back in the context of this thread if it was said in the manner you have stated. I simply have not had the chance to look.

Rush is constantly and consistently taken out of context. It is rare indeed to have a Rush segment publicized with enough context to get what he really said and meant. The next time you hear some quote that makes him look very bad, take the time to seek ALL of what he said and not just the line or two in the news. It might surprise you. Naturally, you can still think he's an idiot. :)

[Nooblet the LEET]

Oh so anytime someone quotes Rush it's always out of context? Thats a handy way to avoid criticism.

I can never tell when he's being serious or not anyway since it all looks like a farce to me.