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rush limbaugh: hitler or malcolm x?

By American Girl in Italy on March 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM in Democrats, Keith Olbermann, Republicans

The latest video from Zo. Love him, or hate him, agree or disagree, but interesting, indeed.

Personally, I love listening to what Zo has to say, and he offers perspectives on issues that I have never considered. This video tackles the attacks on Rush, from the left. Take a listen, and then share your comments below. I’d love to know your thoughts.

And just for fun, this video from Red Eye, that calls Garafalo and Olbermann out for their attacks on Limbaugh.

It was the kinds of attitudes expressed by Olbermann and Garafalo that Hillary supporters endured during the primary, and what led to my exudus from the party.

  • Tess

    Regardless of whether you’re a believer, these attacks on Limbaugh are orchestrated by the O/Axelrod cabal. No wonder they’re familiar.

    • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

      I read that last night! I was trying to read more about it today, but my computer was not cooperating.

      This was a great piece of that story..
      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/03/02/obamas-secret-phone-conferences-bear-fruit-tv-medias-limbaugh-at

      • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
        • beebop

          I guess you had to go all the way back to Nixon and dirty tricks for this … I am so thoroughly disgusted by what passes for “new” and “hope” and “change” I could 0vomit.

    • Larry the Lamb

      What attack? Caling him the Leader of the Republican Party. A big attack, who would want to lead that rag bag of fail?

      Funny how Steele said he was the Republican Leader and that Limbaugh was just an entertainer, then had to say sorry.

  • JulieD

    I’m with you American Girl – just not in Italy – boo hoo!

    Gargoyle & Oldman are freaks. The Dem Party is the Big Tent.

    What would the Gargoyle and Oldman say about Zo speaking his mind? How demeaning would the freaks be: he has to have some kind of syndrome or mental defect?

    So strange that Gargoyle thinks she speaks for all women and when she does it isn’t witty or funny. The lady commenting after her made a better joke about her looking like someone who would have served her coffee in 1994.

    Did the killer in Cape Fear serve coffee? Anyway,
    Andy Levy’s summary was great.

  • Ginger

    It makes the Admin look like snot-nose school children. “No, he did it.” “No, he did it.”

  • http://karatetraining.org/weblog Sensei Mitch

    Awesome post! Thank you for introducing me to Zo, he is brilliant and exactly what the Conservative movement needs.

    • Ellen D

      I liked Zo but someone should clue him in on history. He is confusing the Nazis with the Communists when he said Nazis were anti-religion.
      Actually, Hitler was Catholic and the Nazis made a deal with Rome to recognize only Rome as the representative of all Catholics instead of the German Catholic church which was dominant in Germany at the time (you guessed it, the German Catholic church wasn’t crazy about the Nazis).
      It’s the Communists who don’t like religion.
      Nice routine, though, Zo.

      • Diana

        Really? My mother in law was there, her nor her family would use the term Catholic to describe Hitler. In fact they said Hitler was raised Catholic, but he left the church and was a proud pagan. He let people there know all the time that he didn’t think religion was important and that he considered himself a pagan. That he rejected the Catholic religion or any religion.

        Other’s under Hitler were Catholic and would make the troops go to mass every Sunday, but Hitler himself didn’t go. She was a grown adult in German during World War 2, then she met and fell in love with an American soldier, my father in law. Several friends of mine in Germany who also still have parents that are still with us have told me the same thing.

        Here are some quotes from Hitler:

        Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery…. [here he insults people who believe transubstantiation] …. When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let’s be the only people who are immunised against the disease.

        National Socialism and religion cannot exist together…. The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity…. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things.

        Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

        The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death…. When understanding of the universe has become widespread… Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity…. Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity…. And that’s why someday its structure will collapse…. …the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little…. Christianity [is] the liar…. We’ll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State.

        The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

        Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism, the destroyer…. The decisive falsification of Jesus’ doctrine was the work of St. Paul. He gave himself to this work… for the purposes of personal exploitation…. Didn’t the world see, carried on right into the Middle Ages, the same old system of martyrs, tortures, faggots? Of old, it was in the name of Christianity. Today, it’s in the name of Bolshevism. Yesterday the instigator was Saul: the instigator today, Mardochai. Saul was changed into St. Paul, and Mardochai into Karl Marx. By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea.

        Doesn’t sound very religious to me…

  • NoBama

    Are any of them speaking ENGLISH?

    • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

      who are you talking about?

  • MrMike

    Limbaugh is a putz. But in all the time I’ve listened I never heard him advocating violence against a candidate like I did from Olbermann. Remember his statement about a Democrat operative taking Hillary in a room and only the operative come out. All because a woman 15 years his senior was running Obama ragged on the campaign trail.

  • Diane Rogers

    As a Hillary supporter I have checked in to this website regularly for some time now. Anymore of this Zo kind of stuff and I will have to delete NoQ my bookmarks menu. Too bad NoQ is being taken over by a philosophy Hillary would choke on. There is no way RushL can be seen as a hero of any website I can respect.

    D Rogers
    Author of the upcoming book NO COUNTRY FOR OLD WOMEN (What the Hillary Clinton Campaign Told Women about Their “Place” in 21st Century America.)

    • beebop

      No one is making Limbaugh a hero any more than say, Larry Flint. But he has a constitutional right to say what he wants as a private citizen and I for one am here to support his right to say it. As for the former Democratic party, I thought that’s what they stood for, too. Unless of course calling Rush things like “f^g, fat g*y slob” is part of the new pc?

      Take your outrage some where where faux is the new real.

      • Diana

        Yeah, wasn’t this past year an eye opening experience? I just had my eyes opened yet again from this young man. I don’t think anyone is trying to make Rush a hero, not even this young man. I don’t even like Rush, but what he said in that video is the truth. Which is exactly what he was pointing out, some very nasty little tidbits of history called facts.

        Exactly where this new Democrat party is trying to lead…the old school Democrats as well as the old school Republicans have one heck of mess to clean up in both parties. I’m to the point I don’t even care which party the candidate comes from. I just need a good old fashioned conservative candidate that still loves not only this country, but the people of this country. Even with all her faults she’s still the greatest country on this planet as far as I am concerned and she is still worth fighting for.

        • Benjamin

          To quote Rush fans, “ditto” Diana. I’ve never been a Rush fan, but I have always been pretty much a centrist (now Independent). The past 18 months of opposing Obama has brought out the conservative streak in me – because I must admit that guys like Limbaugh and Hannity make a lot of sense these days.

    • Larry the Lamb

      lol @ free advertising.

  • PamFlorida

    Never heard of Zo until today. Loved his “rant”.
    Rush is a little to the right for me, but he does make some good points. The Obama Party is waaay too left wing for me and I’m a lifelong Dem.
    We need another party-something in the middle to counter the extremists on both sides.

  • Peggy Sue

    AGI, I am not a conservative Republican, but that piece was damn refreshing. It’s about time the liberal Dems were called out for promoting so much nonsense, particularly the race and class divide that has seriously wounded this country.

    As for the Limbaugh witchhunt, I don’t think there’s any questions that this has been purposely manufactured and promoted by Obama’s inner circle. If I’m not mistaken, one of Alinsky’s rules was to “name and label the enemy” for maximum effect. I’m not a Limbaugh fan, but he’s become a lightening rod with his radio popularity. This is all very deliberate. Distract the populace from the insanity of the Dems financial and social program, keep us at one another’s throats so we’re divided, and then promise “pie in the sky” giveaways to mollify complaint.

    The Democratic Party, my party, has lost its mind and its soul!

    • beebop

      The party that says they embrace everyone is liar liar pants on fire!

  • wodiej

    cripes, the Dem’s are such a bunch os sissies. Awww..poor babies, big bad Wush Wimbaugh criticized their messiah. I’m gonna tell my mommy!

    • http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/01/25/political-wimps-and-cowards-whining-about-guantanamo-terrorists/#more-12310 marie

      Sissies?

      Rush wouldn’t face a debate with Campbell Brown/Ali Velshi:
      http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/cambpell-brown-vs-rush-limbaugh-vs-ali-velshi-vs-limbaugh/

      The funniest part has been watching those macho Republican VIP’s scraping and bowing to kiss his ring and apologize. Apologize! For exercising their constitutional right to disagree with someone?

      Republicans are just not the alternative to disaffected Democrats.

      • beebop

        When the POS and his little evil minions take private citizens — joe the plumber is a great example — and demonize them to distract as though they were human smoke and mirrors they are worse then sissies. They are TERRORISTS trying to take the focus from the real issue — what they are doing to this great nation and substitute nonsense … just to appeal to America’s Idle!

  • bart

    Loved the video. Zo sounds like a very interesting person. You’ve got to respect someone who goes against expectations and speaks his mind.

    Also, if it seems weird to see him on NQ, it’s actually, IMO, a very good thing.

    Virtually all of us were democrats who felt we got left behind or tossed under the bus during the primary. That’s the negative. The positive is we came out willing to listen to a greater variety of opinions on issues and aren’t simply following the party line.

    We reserve the right to decide for ourselves and reject the idea that we aren’t democrats anymore.

    • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

      i’m with you 100%. i will no longer close my self in the liberal bubble, and filter everything throught the liberal media. I left that party and now am independent. i learned the error of my (our) ways, and will no longer close off alternative thought or ideas.

      and thanks for the comment.

      • beebop

        Did you see the piece in the London Times on Line talking about the tacky gift that MEEEEchelle gave Mrs. Brown? Here’s the link …. very funny!

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5848073.ece

        But thank goodness her arms are encased in some fabric so as not to frighten people off! :)

        • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

          i’ve been planning on covering the whole debacle. the english are ticked.

          • beebop

            You can take the girl out of Chicago …..

  • cynic

    Limbaugh, like any other American, has the right to say whatever the hell he wants on air, so long as he isn’t advocating overthrow of the government by force. (Presumably we all agree that freedom of speech stops somewhere short of telling people it’s time to take their guns out of the closet and head for the town square.)

    That doesn’t mean he isn’t subject to–and quite possibly deserving of–verbal return fire from the people he’s criticising.

    I sometimes find this guy entertaining, and sometimes find what he says thought-provoking. But I’m also fully aware that he’s consciously exploiting anger, partisan divisions, and philosophical disagreements primarily to the benefit of Rush Limbaugh, exacerbating and widening all of those dangerous fault-lines in the process. He’s deliberately attempting to errode confidence not only in the Obama administration, but also in the administration’s efforts to hold together an economic structure that could quite literally fly to pieces at any moment. Dammit Rush, that’s the only economic structure we’ve got! I’m all for fixing much about it, but totally blowing it apart doesn’t strike me as a reasonable step in that direction. Particularly when the primary goal seems to be to put people back in power whose inability to inspire confidence cost them political dominance to begin with.

    Right at the moment, everything happening with our seriously-wounded economy is a direct reflection of confidence levels. Banks could fail due to sudden fear. The markets could redefine the meaning of a crash due soley to a sudden mood-swing. With the tight, fast media feed-back loop, the whole system is hair-triggered. Trying to totally destroy confidence in our leaders when the economy is teetering on the brink is a very dangerous game. It’s irresponsible. The responsible thing would be to back off and give democratic policies time to work or fail on their own merit. If they fail there’s 2010, and what’s done could be undone.

    The thing is, people like Limbaugh don’t want to run the risk that democratic policies might succeed. They prefer to try to discredit and kill the effort before anyone has a chance to find out. They want power back so badly that they’ll risk everything you own to get it. While they errode confidence, they’ll tell you that the other guys are the risk, and the other guys are erroding confidence. They’ll point to the results they themselves are helping to produce as evidence.

    • beebop

      Gee … I would really love to hear how this is different than undermining the war effort my little uber leftie?

      Don’t get me wrong. I opposed it from the start. But when you’re in, you’re in. You’re either at war to win it or not. You’re not “a little at war.” You don’t vote against funding the guys doing the heavy lifting. You know?

      Eight years of screaming “Bush lied and people died” is coming back to bite you in the butt. But this time, it’s “0bomba lied and got elected to rip this nation in two.” Or something like that. I don’t think that poetry needs to rhyme necessarily, do you?

      • cynic

        Limbaugh was a major advocate and supporter of the invasion of Iraq too, wasn’t he? He kept up a steady drum beat.

        He suggested that people who argued against the war might be guilty of treason, and blamed any setbacks once the war began on their lack of support.

        And if it turns out to have been a total waste of lives and money, that too will be some failure of the left.

        I know this guy for what he is.

        • beebop

          Again, I’d like to hear why those of us with a difference of opinion on POS — some of us the same who disagreed with shrub — should have to keep still about our disagreements? Please try to stay on point. I know that you find it easier to distract with but but but Rush/Bush, but he isn’t really the point now, is he? The point is to keep Americans from looking at lost wages, lost homes, lost stock values, and spreading socialism …. so sorry. People are waking up. Perhaps the rising cost of ingredients and lack of lending has had an adverse affect on the availability of koolaid? We can only hope!

          • cynic

            Hey, I didn’t jump from confidence and the economy to How Democrats Lost the War in Iraq.

            No, I don’t believe people should keep still. I’m a firm believer that constructive critical feedback is an essential part of attaining any goal.

            What burns me about Limbaugh are the goals he clearly has in mind, and how he puts them ahead of restoration of national economic stability.

            Basically he wants to destroy all confidence in Barack Obama and the democrats at any cost, so that republicans can regain control of the government; he wants to redefine the republican party by pushing it far to the right–which he appears to be successfully doing, judging from all of the more moderate republicans now duly chastised, who are lining up to pay obeisance to him.

            Restoration of confidence and the stability of the national economy should be Common Goal No. 1 regardless of our political affiliations. We can always get back to pounding on each other once the country isn’t in danger of sudden disintegration. We might put political posturing off until the beginning of 2010.

            And btw, what gives some radio talk-show blowhard the temerity to challenge a serving President of the United States to a one-on-one studio debate? If Rush’s ego grows any larger, he’ll need to be tethered to his chair by one foot like a hot air balloon. Like somebody said, “You salute the rank, not the man.”

            • beebop

              Oh right, I forget how much esprit de corps there was during the past eight years. It was just one huge group hug!

              “God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview.

              Heavens to Betsy! Let not our talk show hosts (entertainers) say what our politicians dare to say …. especially when they come from different ideologies … isn’t that your point?

              Restoration of confidence and the stability of the national economy should be Common Goal No. 1 regardless of our political affiliations. Even if you think that the actions being taken are not working? And don’t just take my (or Rush’s or Cramer’s) word for it, just take a look at the stock market. The only day it doesn’t fall are the days no one from the POS’s administration is talking, waits until after the market closes to talk or its Saturday when they talk.

              And btw, what gives some radio talk-show blowhard the temerity to challenge a serving President of the United States to a one-on-one studio debate? If Rush’s ego grows any larger, he’ll need to be tethered to his chair by one foot like a hot air balloon. Like somebody said, “You salute the rank, not the man.”

              This is by far the most stunning of your butt licking comments … This is the kind of thinking that — had it been abroad in 1770′s — would have voted for continuing to pay those tea taxes to George III. Congratulations to you and “Sir Edward Kennedy … ” As for me (and mine), give me liberty, or give me death!

              • cynic

                Apparently many Americans have lost all understanding of courtesy, respect, and decorum. I strongly suspect our founding fathers would behaved respectfully toward George III, even as his enemies.

                • cynic

                  …would’ve…

                  BTW, the market is dropping like a stone again today. No doubt Obama said something, or failed to say something.

                  Or maybe GMC’s talk about bankruptcy had a little bit to do with it.

                  I say it’s the general lack of confidence, exacerbated on a daily basis by continuous repetition of the mantra that Obama’s plan is bound to fail. The more people buy into that the worse things will get.

                  Maybe you should make a comparison chart plotting the increase in Rush’s daily ratings against the market decline. You’d find a much stronger correlation between that and anything Obama is saying.

                  Not to imply any sort of cause-and-effect relationship, of course…

                  • Wisewoman

                    Cynic. I remember when Bill Clinton won election. Since he had laid out his specific plans for the nation, the stock market rose the following day and continued to rise slowly despite the Repubs dire warnings. That was because enough of the nation had confidence in him and believed that his policies were right for the nation. I also remember that he decided that he did not need to implement his stimulus package to rescue the economy. Instead he put forth a budget with spending cuts and small tax increases to begin to balance the budget.

                    In contrast, the day following Obama’s election the stock market took a tumble (I believe 4 or 500 points) and started a new fall that has for the most part continued since then. I told my sister then and there that there was no confidence in the lyng, race-baiting, cheating, con artist named Obama. I can say this with sincerity and malice towards him because I am AA. The only confidence he engenders is with the Kool aid crowd.

                    • Diana

                      I also think they knew from the very beginning that President Clinton’s words were not just words. That he was truly going to work with both sides of the table for the American people. Which he did. President Clinton had some things that were in his agenda the same as the rest have had. The difference is his agenda came second unlike Obama’s because he took the responsibility he had to the American people seriously. The same way Hillary would have done.

                • beebop

                  hahahahahahahaha

                  When were you last at huffington post … the best of America’s understanding of courtesy, respect, and decorum.

                • FREEDOM_IS_DEAD

                  Apparently Americans like you have lost their F*&^ing minds.

            • The Real HC

              Barack Obama is doing fine destroying confidence in himself, all by himself. Rush Limbaugh is a radio personality, not an elected official. If you dont like what hes saying, change the channel.

              The White House should be above debating a radio personality. The press secretary should behave with more dignity. Speaking of, I am completely embarassed at the 25 DVD collection our president gave Gordon Brown.

  • buckwheat

    I spent 20 years hating Rush Limbaugh, now i listen to him everyday and he makes some great points. Same thing for fox news…..If you want some truths about oliar, go listen to Rush, he is not afraid to tell everybody the truth about that fraud.

    • ziggy

      You have become part of the reason Rush Limbaugh earns $150,000 per day. Rush earns more in 3 days than the President of the United States earns in a year, which certainly proves something. He lives in a mansion with 31,000 square feet of floor space. Unlike the President, Rush feels our pain! His sole concern is the well-being of his average radio listener.

  • CarlyinNJ

    Great Post AGI!!!

    There was a time I could not stand to listen to Rush for even a minute; now given PBO and Company’s SCAM pulled on the American people, Rush actually makes sense (to thinking people, that is). Those who are still drunk with KoolAide and those waiting for their NONStimulus Checks $$$$ don’t yet see the light (or the truth)!!

    ZO is a TRUTHTELLER, thanks for including him!!!
    The “Article” at “News Busters” (provided through the link above) on the “Secret Phone Conferences” with chosen media flunkies and betrayers of the public and the demented ones at the White House is just chilling!!!

  • tarma

    Thanks for the video! The relative merits of Rush are, in my opinion, less meaningful than Zo’s spot-on observations regarding the self-rightious hypocrisy of the New Democrats.

    • Karma

      I agree.

      It reminded me of when Rush had a half hour tv show when Clinton was Pres, which was often annoying. He didn’t apply the same standard to Republicans that he did with Democrats. Twisted other stuff, etc….but I often watched.

      Someone in the Republican party should give Zo a show or tv segment to annoy as many Obama-Dems as possible with logical debate. He deals with information in a totally different way than Rush did (don’t listen now). It would drive new people to the Republicans the same way Rush did in the 90s.

      Someone give this guy a bigger platform….quick!

    • sybilll

      I agree. Zo is more about conservative principles. I have followed him for a long time. I knew he would gain a following, explaining the double-speak of the Liberals.

      • snosandy

        I discovered Zo several months ago and I think the conservatives would be wise to make him a voice for their party.

  • Publius

    “Newt Gingrich is all kinds of cool.”

    Yeah.

    • beebop

      Got a problem with freedom of speech … ?

      Go.Some.Place.Else!!!

  • Doc99

    Obama to drop shield if Russians help with Rush Limbaugh. We expect Putin’s response momentarily.

  • socalannie

    I’ve seen Zo’s stuff a few times before. He does have an interesting perspective on politics thats easy to understand for overwhelmed people like me. Thanks Sara, for sharing this! Love your posts.

  • Marissa

    I’m with sarainitaly. I left the Dem party and don’t feel that I have to subscribe to every liberal agenda. I consider myself a liberal conservative. LOL.

    • http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

      i do too! haha that was the best way I could think of to describe what i *believe*.

  • Ashy1

    ZO is the freest thinking black man I have ever heard. Too bad he didn’t run instead of Obama. Now ZO would be a truly post-racial president.

    ZO FOR PRESIDENT

    • FREEDOM_IS_DEAD

      I so wish there would be more of such AA men.