Rush: “I’m just noting the timing here.”

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Big Pants found a way Friday to blame President Obama for the Gulf Coast spill, baby, spill.

He's just sayin':

I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig....Now, lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day. I remember that. And then it was postponed for a couple of days later after Earth Day, and then of course immigration has now moved in front of it. But this bill, the cap-and-trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment. So, since they're sending SWAT teams down there, folks, since they're sending SWAT teams to inspect the other rigs, what better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing here. ~ Rush Limbaugh, 4.29.10

This president is one devious motherfucker. He blew up the oil rig to push his energy bill and make the socialist regime look good when it cleans up the capitalist mess. Brilliant! He's a regular Darkie Doctor Doom.

Comments

[Obama is a black man]

It is very interesting that the concept that this was in fact a terrorist act has not even been considered.

[joanie]

If Obama were really this malevolent, he's blow up the big slob first.

And "Racist" OIBM, that's because they have already pinned it on Haliburton. Read the newspapers once in a while you idiot.

Of course, some people consider Haliburton to be a terrorist organization so maybe you've got something there.

[Prick the pretension]

How do you know what's been considered, white man?

[joanie]

He's not white, he's pink. From his teeny tiny penis all the way up to his red neck.

[sparky]

oh dear lord..that's pretty lame, even for Rushbo.

[Duffman]

Rush is akin to the frog who's been put in a pan of cold water on the stove...as it heats up the frog gets cooked without even knowing it. What Rush apparently doesn't realize is that he's slowly 'cooking himself'...in a matter of time he will be totally discounted...even by his 'ditto-heads'.

[Puget Sound]

you all do realize he's just tipping his toe in the nutter fringe akin to the 911 conspiracy and twig truther crowd (talking to you, sparkles) types.

the fact that you can't see your being parodied is hysterical.

i don't even care for limbaugh but can see this one plain as day.

[KS]

I realize it, but the other usual suspects who are in the Daily Kos, MSLSD and Huff Post echo chambers won't, because they try to drown out the truth with their globalist corporatist mantra.

[sparky]

Well while you pound your manly chests with your fists over who scored the most verbal points, thousands of dolphins are giving birth this month..right into this oily mess. BP needs to be held financially responsible for cleaning up their mess.

[joanie]

And they need to get their fat-assed executives down there to save those animals!

Of course, I doubt the "manly chests" on this blog have a "klue" just what's going on down there. Too busy being "entertained" by their guru, Mr. oxycontin himself.

[Coiler]

Actually, putz, the 9/11 crowd is more Alex Jones. The so-called libertarians. Shitty attempt to compare Rush to anyone on the left.

[joanie]

Umm, "uninformed" attempt would also describe it. But that's normal for our sputs.

[KS]

Well while you pound your manly chests with your fists over who scored the most verbal points, thousands of dolphins are giving birth this month..right into this oily mess. BP needs to be held financially responsible for cleaning up their mess.

Posted by: sparky | May 01, 2010 at 10:08 AM

You are barking up the wrong tree, Sparkles. The administration's ineffectual response to this disaster is no better than the response to Katrina. How will the corrupt lamestream media report it ? Unlike Katrina and blaming the incompetence of Bush,. they will not impunge the Obama Admin or Big Sis and ignore the obvious fact that they are incompetent- they will once again hide the truth.

BP or whoever was determined to be responsible should be financially responsible. No one has determined who is at fault beyond BP - what caused the explosion ? Screw the corrupt lawyers who are bringing our country to their knees. The despicable lawyers and union bosses should be air dropped in the oil slick and fed to their brethren, the sharks... That would be a triumph of some sort for Americans.

[joanie]

Well, klueless fell for the spin from his corporatist right-wing entertainer and Fixed News.

That's why we call it Fixed News, Mr. Corporatist. Another case of privatize the profits but socialize the losses. Why are you such a socialist, klueless? Disaster politics at its best from the "I-Hate-Obama" crowd.

Apparently the administration tried to impose regulations last year but got a letter from the VP of BP - gulf of mexico - saying that voluntary compliance has been successful. Yes. Right. From Exxon to Louisiana - a perfect record. Well, putting people out of work and killing the ecosystem every few years is probably okay. As long as klueless' corporatists keep getting their paychecks and we get overpriced oil.

We certainly don't want government regs but we sure do expect government bail outs and emergency help.

What's wrong with that picture?

To stupid people, nothing.

[Coiler]

I wonder if KS blames the mayor where he works for everything?

[joanie]

You can listen to Dave's second hour yesterday if you go to My Northwest. He's interviewing the captain of the lead clean-up ship on the oil-spill clean up. Not sure there's a lot new but interesting anyway. Two hundred thousand gallons a day. A faucet that can't be turned off per Huffpo.

So sad.

Keep blaiming Obama if it makes you feel better, klueless. Just shows how klueless you are.

[Fang]

Rush may be parodying brilliantly, but as always with parody and satire, only about half the audience gets it. The other half takes it at face value. I know this because I am a writer (and editor) of, among other things, satire. Trouble for the right is that Rush and that other great comedian Glenn Beck are seen as the leaders of conservativism and the GOP. To at least half though, they just sound crazy and dangerous when actually they're just trying to be funny. It makes it easy for the Democrats and liberals to frame them as nuts, and encourages the nut jobs to act out. The outrageous remarks like the one above really works for their radio and TV careers, but as Michael has written, it hurts the political discourse, and in the end turns off the vital swing voters whose votes decide elections. In a long term strategy, Republicans need to take back control of their messaging from these comedians. If it's to be the Dems' Obama vs. the R's Rush (as Obama would love) the R's will lose big time.

[Ragnar Danneskold]

I wouldn't put it past Obama to have blown up these rigs to get his environmental wacko agenda over the finish line. He has proven that he will DO ANYTHING to further his takeover of the economy, and highjack the liberties of all of us. Real Americans are rising up. These haters will not prevail.

[joanie]

Ragnar is talking to you, klueless. Aren't you going to pick up the theme - or is it "meme?"

Waiting...

[sparky]

Poor hijacked Ragnar...lashed to the bow of the Ship of Clean Air and Water.

[Choch]

“As someone who spends a lot of time on the road, I used to find Limbaugh to be an obnoxious but entertaining companion, his eruptions more reliable than Old Faithful. But now that Limbaugh has become something else — the face of the Republican Party, by a White House that has played him brilliantly — he has been transformed into car-wreck- quality spectacle, at once scary and sad....The sweaty, swollen man in the black, half- buttoned shirt who ranted for nearly 90 minutes Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
— New York Times writer Timothy Egan on the Times “Outposts” blog, March 4, 2009.

[joanie]

This isn't a spill. This is much, much worse.”

According to pollution experts interviewed by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the best way “to understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana’s coast” is to “forget the world ‘spill.’”
"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse."

It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more. If that prediction holds, much of the state's southeastern coast will become a world-watched environmental battleground that hasn't been seen in the United States since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska 21 years ago.
Migrating sea turtles, a resident pod of sperm whales and spawning bluefin tuna are just a few of the marine animals threatened by the still-expanding oil slick, which is also closing in on coastal islands and wetlands home to a diversity of birds, rich oyster beds, and at least 10 of protected state and national wildlife management areas and refuges in Louisiana and Mississippi.

And according to the Times-Picayune:
…while birds, fish and marine mammals are the victims most noticed, there is even more damage going on below the surface, St. Pe said. "Shrimp die and crabs die and oysters die, but they don't float to the top. You just never see them, but the damage is often severe."

You won't hear this on Fixed News or from Mr. Oxycontin.

And all because the Bush Administration threw out a regulation requiring that these rigs have shut-off valves costing $500,000 each. Amazing stupidity but so, so typical of the greedy right.

[KS]

Well, klueless fell for the spin from his corporatist right-wing entertainer and Fixed News.

That's why we call it Fixed News, Mr. Corporatist. Another case of privatize the profits but socialize the losses.

Posted by: joanie | May 01, 2010 at 10:53 AM

Still waiting for any evidence to back up what you say. Keep throwing out your red herrings, Ms. Alinsky, but you are once again a lieing sack of crap.

I'll return fire and note that you are parroting talking points from the Huff Post, MSLSD and the network news that are spewing half truths. BTW. I didn't pay attention to what Limbaugh said - he mocked the environmental damage. So keep trying to defend the big government crowd. Obama and Big Sis were very slow to react - you can't deny that. If the press had gone after them, you'd be singing a different tune because you are sheeple from the left. Same old shit..

The environmental damage sounds very serious and I hope that it is able to be contained very soon. If marine life is dying and its devastating, any responsible news station should RESPONSIBLY report it. I'd bet that FNC reported it - shifty with truth one. How in the hell do you know what is on Fox News - you never watch it ? Talk about stupidity - look in the mirror, dear...

[joanie]

throwing out your red herrings,

Red herrings all died in the oil spill.

If marine life is dying ...

See, more evidence of your ignorance.

You guys are easy. It's no work to prove everything I say about you. Give you enough rope and you hang yourselves.

[KS]

Once again you fail in reading comprehension and playing the Media Matters game of trying to incriminate someone by quoting them out of context.

"It's no work to prove everything I say about you."

Of course not, because you never tell the full truth...

Is that all you've got ? Grow up...

[joanie]

Name a lie.

I love giving you bad time. It's so easy. Everything you say can and will be used against you.

[Sailor man]

Obam-bam is a black Chicago gang thug. He won't last, the American People will see to that. How people like this could be elected is getting more and more suspicious every day.

[Ragnar Danneskold]

IF THE ENVIRONMENTAL WACKOS HADN'T KEPT PUSHING THESE RIGS FARTHER AND FARTHER OUT INTO DEEPER WATER, WE WOULDN'T BE HAVING THESE PROBLEMS. AMERICAN SECURITY AND THE COMFORTS WE ENJOY ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN A LITTLE SCUM AROUND THE EDGES OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IF YOU NOTICE, THAT AREA IS ALMOST ENTIRELY BLACK. NOT ONLY DOES THIS "CATASTROPHE" GET SUPPPORT FOR THE REGIME'S SOCIALIST AGENDA, IT WILL BRING MORE WELFARE MONEY TO BLACK OBAMA SUPPORTERS. DOUBLE DOWN DEMAGOGUERY!

[sparky]

Amazing how some people wear their racism like a big red bow-tie. And all in caps, too!

Things must be slow over on SP today, Ragnar the Sailor Man ( toot! toot!)

[KS]

"The environmental damage sounds very serious and I hope that it is able to be contained very soon. If marine life is dying and its devastating, any responsible news station should RESPONSIBLY report it"

That was my full quote that you cherry picked. That's the lie - OK ? This is a serous environmental disaster and hope that this is able to be contained and is not carried into the Atlantic by the currents. This could make Katrina look like a small scale problem - hope not.

The brain dead Congress may well be responsible in part because of the unintended consequences due to the choking regulations that required only far offshore drilliing, although this is probably equivalent to the 3-mile Island of offshore drilling disasters.

With that said, the malevolent White House will attempt to cave in to the Eco-Frauds, shut off offshore drilling altogether and keep screwing us at the pump - but that's OK because they want us to be more like Europe with high gas prices.

The Green Movement is really Red as in communism in action.

[sparky]

IF marine life is dying???

IF it's devastating???

[KS]

You mean to say that marine life is dying and is devastating. Get with the program, Sparkles..

[sparky]

KS...read what you wrote above....those are your words. I don't see how you can possibly throw the word IF in there. The evidence is already there.

[joanie]

The brain dead Congress may well be responsible in part...

What about the other part?

Thanks, Sparky. I simple refuse to take time to make simple explanations. I'd rather see him wallow in his own ignorance. It's more fun.

[Banquo]

If the "brain dead Congress" tried to do anything about it, KS would be against it...

[joanie]

Huffpo headline: GULF STREAM MAY SEND OIL SPILL UP EAST COAST

With a possibly neverending-river-of-oil spilling out of the Gulf, the entire US could conceivable be enclosed in oil eventually. If this does go up the east coast, might it spread to England eventually?

Apparently BP leased the platforms and rigs. I wonder if that means they could blame the subcontractor and escape all responsibility? The subcontractor would then declare bankruptcy and we tax payers would not only have to clean it up but pay damages to other countries and survive a toxic environment as well.

Disaster politics.

Es posible?

[KS]

Correct, if they do the wrong thing. It may surprise you that I think that they should suspend any future drilling until the real cause of this massive disaster is found - resolve the problem then move on in a reasonable time frame - and brain dead congress will need to be prodded..

Sparkles - read the time when I said if, then note that I have since found out more about this as the day progressed. That is all you have to bicker about - aorry for you. Ridiculous that you make anything out of that, except that it is you and Ph(J)oanie.

[joanie]

Why did it take you so long to find out the magnitude of this disaster? Where do you get your information?

[joanie]

You've packaged it tidily for our brain-dead Congress. Tell us, oh wise one, what should that brain-dead Congress do to resolve all that oil currently moving up the east coast ? I'm sure they would appreciate your expertise, KS. Why not give it to them.

Nothing prods brain-dead liberals like information. So, give it to us.

[joanie]

Well, I guess you don't have any. But, I just realized that you do watch only fixed news and that you really were ignorant of the scope of this catastrophe even though most of us knew of it yesterday if not before.

Fixed news finally had to talk about it. Isn't that true? Fellow corporatists don't rat out each other until they have to. And they finally had to.

So now you know.

[sparky]

That sneaky Obama...now he has gone and parked a Nissan with a homemade bomb in it in Times Square just to divert attention away from the oil spill. Goodness Gracious..will he stop at NOTHING???

[KS]

"I'm sure they would appreciate your expertise, KS. Why not give it to them.

Nothing prods brain-dead liberals like information. So, give it to us."
Posted by: joanie | May 01, 2010 at 08:11 PM

Ph(J)oanie is in her echo chamber again. Hey, you admitted that you are a brain dead liberal - the first sensible thing you've blogged all day - ROFL.

"Fixed news finally had to talk about it. Isn't that true? Fellow corporatists don't rat out each other until they have to. And they finally had to.

So now you know."

Posted by: joanie |

WTF are you talking about ? Speaking in your conspiracy theorist code again ? Keep drinking whatever you are drinking - but don't drive in your condition.

I am listening to Dr. Bill who is giving his valued expertise on the oil spill.

Projecting again, Sparkles ??

[KS]

Why did it take you so long to find out the magnitude of this disaster? Where do you get your information?

Posted by: joanie | May 01, 2010 at 08:01 PM

"This is a serous environmental disaster and hope that this is able to be contained and is not carried into the Atlantic by the currents. This could make Katrina look like a small scale problem - hope not."

Joanie -You're looking like an idiot again. I wrote this 3 hours before your slow witted response. it might pay to shut your piehole until you read and comprehend previous posts before responding. (that'll be the day)

[joanie]

So Dr. Bill is the first you've heard about it?

Just sayin'. . .

Just watched yesterday's Rachel Maddow. I get her video podcasts. (Don't tell anybody but no commercials - yes!!) Watching her show online is miserable. I never get through a whole show with those idiot and interminable commercials.

Really good show. Very poignant. She is just so good. And Kent Jones has gotten better too. I think he got some diction lessons or something because his whole delivery is sharper. It was such a good program. I just started getting her through ITunes. What a blessing - ITunes I mean.

Too bad you're stuck with Dr. Bill and two-day old programming. It makes you sound so dumb.

[KS]

OOOOOOO - Joanie thinks that's dumb. That comes from a reading comprehension challenged substance abuser.

Rachel Madcow more knowledgable than Dr. Bill in her book - yep you and Sparkles are the Keystone cops of the teaching profession...

[joanie]

Oh, so you watch Rachel, too? Well, that's a start. But..if you do, why don't you know what's going on?

I think he's confused, Sparky. Got a remedial tv programming guide for him?

[Obama is a black man]

Obama Administration Talking Points

1. Any positive news (few and far between)= The result of our policies

2. Any negative news (basically everything) = Blame Bush

[sparky]

Nope..going to follow the advice "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Now that spring is here, I have too much to do around the farm to waste time arguing with the chest beaters anymore. I wish it would stop raining for a few days because the back property has grass that is knee high! On the upside, the eagles are poking their heads out of the big nest out back and I think I see one baby. I took a picture of my neighbor's barn with the newly-leafed trees behind it this morning right at 8 am, for the "Moment in Time" project that the NYTimes is doing today..but my picture won't upload...maybe the site is just too busy.

[joanie]

animation of the spill

Good visual.

[joanie]

jakedog, May 1, 2010 20:38 ET
The damage to marine animals is heartbreaking.
I don't blame California and the East Coast for rejecting offshore drilling. I used to live in Houston. I had to keep a bottle of baby oil in my car because it was the only thing that would remove oil globs from my feet when I went to the beach in Galveston. Even if the sand looked clean, you still got those nasty black globs on the bottom of your feet. The oil companies tell you that oil globs are caused by natural "seepage" off the ocean floor. That's a load of crap. The oil seeps from the rigs, settles to the bottom and it gets churned up when there's a storm.
For the Gulf Coast, it's too late. We might as well keep drilling there. But California, Alaska and the East Coast better take heed. Tell the politicians to keep the damned oil rigs out of your water

Check out the animals that are endangered in the gulf. It is heartbreaking. I just heard Mike on Ring of Fire talking about the globs of oil encountered on the Texan beaches. None of this is a surprise. We never learn.

The pictures of brown pelicans on Huffpo - I wonder what they are planning to eat tonight?