Althouse: "I hope he dies."

December 30, 2009

"I hope he dies."

I'm impressed that it took 12 comments before anyone at Politico said that (or anything like that) after a report that Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized with chest pains and is in "serious" condition.

ADDED: Much re-tweeted at Twitter: "The people calling for Rush Limbaugh to die are the same people who ask to control your healthcare."

AND: Rush Limbaugh has said on his show many times that once the government runs health care, there is a threat that life-or-death decisions will be made based on politics, and people will worry that if they criticize the government or espouse the wrong opinions decisions will go against them.

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Mark30339 said...: Spot on Prof. Althouse. This is not just a great debating point, it's damn scary.; 12/31/09, 12:49 PM
Roux said...: Hopefully Rush will be alright and back to the radio soon.

The hateful comments don't bother me that much because I know how hateful many leftists can be. They control the White House and both houses of Congress yet they are angry. Why?; 12/31/09, 12:52 PM
Unknown said...: During Reagan's second term a little known disc jocky in Sacramento, California was making a name for himself by reading off the names of gay men who had died from AIDS each week while pushing the applause button and laughing

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=17575

That would be Rush Limbaugh. Ann's hero.; 12/31/09, 1:00 PM
AlphaLiberal said...: Arturius lacks self-awareness:

I do find interesting the cognitive dissonance of a group that prides itself on tolerance to express such spittle-flecked hatred over someone's political beliefs. .

Man, that's rich.

I do find interesting the cognitive dissonance of a group whose first response in debate is not to address the issue but to insult or ridicule the person now calling "hatred" the well-founded criticisms of Rush Limbaugh (who routinely insults people, himself).

Cons can sure dish it out but sure can't take it.; 12/31/09, 1:09 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: DBQ, how sad that you engage in simple-minded denial.

Snopes confirms this racist quote from Limbaugh:

"# "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

@ Alpha.

Your link to Snopes means nothing. The quotes on that link were collected from emails and the status of true/false is stated as being "MIXED". Which means some might be true and some might be false.

Snopes doesn't say which ones are true or false. So you link is worth spit.

I don't deny that Rush might have said those words BUT

If you can show us where in a transcript those things were said and we can determine that they weren't taken out of context, as often is the case......THEN you have something.

Right now you have squat. You liberals are such poor debaters, liars and lack any real logical senses.; 12/31/09, 1:12 PM
Rich Casebolt said...: The kind of spewing vitriol being directed by some at Rush ... is the product of a mindset where "freedom" is defined such that basic human morality -- and intellectual honesty -- is optional.

Always remember, the great difference between Left and Right is the former's embrace of relativism vs. the latter's occasional dabbling with it.; 12/31/09, 1:16 PM
Michael Haz said...: Opus One Media - That isn't me. Sorry. Common mistake, but I'm not in the asset management business. Never have been, except for my own money.

But just to be clear, my advice to you was well-intended; and not malicious in any manner.

You don't know who may be nosing around on the internet, looking for background information before picking up the phone and calling you regarding an engagement.

All I was saying was give yourself the greatest opportunity foe success by blogging under an alias to avoid having a prospective client not pick up the phone and call you because of something you posted using your corp identity.; 12/31/09, 1:25 PM
nrn312 said...: Nice guy Rush Limbaugh celebrates water torture.

The Club Gitmo T-shirt - When America Was Safe

New Club Gitmo slogan/logo with diving board and swimming pool (Water & Board); 12/31/09, 1:34 PM
garage mahal said...: If you can show us where in a transcript those things were said and we can determine that they weren't taken out of context, as often is the case......THEN you have something.

You're such a Dittohead. What sort of context can you think of that would justify "take that bone out of your nose and call me back" remark. Most of the time his "context" is worse than the offending comment.; 12/31/09, 1:36 PM
nrn312 said...: Right now you have squat. You liberals are such poor debaters, liars and lack any real logical senses.

Always nice to see this lunatic rant and rave.

Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes

1. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

...

3. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it...

4. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies...

5. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

Etc., etc., etc.; 12/31/09, 1:39 PM
Ric Caric said...: I'm a progressive who hopes Limbaugh's okay. Sure, there's a lot of bitterness toward Limbaugh on the left. But political bitterness is one thing we share with conservatives. It's probably one of the things that defines us all as Americans.; 12/31/09, 1:56 PM
Roger J. said...: Ric Caric--thanks for a note of sanity; 12/31/09, 2:05 PM
Unknown said...: hope god answers all prayers with a "Fuck you!" and decides to kill the prick anyway; 12/31/09, 2:27 PM
paul a'barge said...: It appears that Politico can't delete the "I wish Rush dies" posts fast enough to keep up so I think they quit.; 12/31/09, 2:32 PM
Alex said...: I hope he dies a horrible painful death.

Posted By: sinner | December 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM

Amazing what ghouls are on the left. So what that I wished Ted Kennedy an excruciating death? That guy was a monster and deserved it!; 12/31/09, 2:50 PM
Alex said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/31/09, 2:52 PM
Alex said...: You're such a Dittohead. What sort of context can you think of that would justify "take that bone out of your nose and call me back" remark. Most of the time his "context" is worse than the offending comment.

You are a smackhead. Lay off the smack for once.; 12/31/09, 2:53 PM
Alex said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/31/09, 2:55 PM
GFR said...: I hope Rush is OK - God willing he will not have had a heart attack at all.

Liberals are always wishing that Rush would die - a few years ago a liberal called in to EIB and praised Rush for smoking cigars - because they would give him cancer.

Liberals are NOT like conservatives - there are some very mean-spirited liberals out there.

I've never heard a Conservative wish that teddy kennedy would die but it's worth pointing out that Rush and kennedy are NOT morally equivalent. Rush is a great man while kennedy was a corrupt bully.; 12/31/09, 2:59 PM
LonewackoDotCom said...: Brian makes a false claim about me above. A quick glance at my profile page shows I've had this profile since March 2003, and it's the same as the domain name I used to use. Late last year I switched to 24Ahead.com. It's the same as the old site: all the posts from the old site are just at a different domain name.

As for a glance at Brian's profile page, well that's pretty interesting if you know what he's trying to do.; 12/31/09, 3:00 PM
carbona said...: Craig,

Andrew Sullivan is not a 'liberal', at least not in the American MSM sense of the word. He is a classical liberal. Remember, he was once condemned by the leftist gay community because he pushed for the mainstreaming of the gay community (i.e. marriage) over the path of becoming a special 'protected class' and all the bennies that entails. The few positions he has changed (e.g. his attitude towards the Iraq war) is evidence-based rather than ideological.

In other words, when he is wrong, it is usually for the right reasons.; 12/31/09, 3:33 PM
nrn312 said...: Amazing what ghouls are on the left.

Indeed.

An ugly finale for health-care reform

At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon -- nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislation's passage -- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) went to the Senate floor to propose a prayer. "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight," he said. "That's what they ought to pray."

It was difficult to escape the conclusion that Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) who has been in and out of hospitals and lay at home ailing..; 12/31/09, 3:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Peter Hoh said: "As Kennedy was dying, a guy stood on a St. Paul overpass with a sign that said, "I will piss on Ted's grave.""

It was Mary Jo Kopechne's brother.; 12/31/09, 4:01 PM
nrn312 said...: Nice try, but Kopechne was an only child.; 12/31/09, 4:13 PM
Chris Arabia said...: Alpha Liberal,

You avoided the thrust and pecked at the flank -- Snopes said the quote's true/false was mixed, i.e. it doesn't assert that the allegation is true. You need to clear that hurdle before sniping about the second part of DBQ's recommendation, context. Your apparent assumption that nobody would notice the sleight was itself a bit of a slight.

Also, your accusation of poor reasoning was subpar. People can infer that govt-controlled healthcare will lead to political alliances determining treatment decisions. IT'S NOT IN THE BILL, NOBODY SAID IT IS. It's unintended consequences, I think.

In 20 years, when there are multi-year waits, the unionized federal bureaucrat who authorizes treatment will likely be a democrat, and will be less likely to award the prize to non-dems. I think that's the argument.

You might not agree, and a reasonable person could disagree, but it's not a paranoid concern.

Assuming extreme scarcity of supply down the road, how do you think they'll decide who gets to live? Payoffs? Age? Weight? Bingo? Dance-offs?

Yeah, nrn, great job responding to a (pretty good) joke with a fact that underscores the magnitude of the Kopechnes' loss -- Ted killed their only child, so he would have time to sleep off his drunkeness.

I didn't wish him ill, though.; 12/31/09, 5:02 PM
Alex said...: Snopes.com is a reputable source now?; 12/31/09, 5:08 PM
Medical Information Search said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/31/09, 6:04 PM
Synova said...: "Nice try, but Kopechne was an only child."

Dear God. That makes it *worse* doesn't it?

Someone has to speak for her, someone should. In a world with good people in it someone *will* speak for her.

And while we're talking about privileged white boys who can let a pregnant girlfriend drown while they save themselves and hardly face so much as a speed-bump in their life over it...

How does Rush Limbaugh talking about white people getting away with drug use and dealing (assuming the quote someone posted is accurate) amount to racism or anything else bad at all? Because he's mentioning *race* and it can therefore be twisted by people who want to twist it to be something obviously bad because it's clearly *racial*?

Blacks are convicted while white boys walk.

THIS IS WRONG.

And the fact that this matters not AT ALL to those who want to portray Rush as racist, only proves that they don't care about the problems people have in the real world, or about racial equality, but about hating Rush some more.

Rush points this out, doesn't he, this politically opportunistic usage of race by the left.

No wonder so many people hate him so much.; 12/31/09, 6:23 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: You're such a Dittohead. What sort of context can you think of that would justify "take that bone out of your nose and call me back" remark. Most of the time his "context" is worse than the offending comment.

@ Alpha.

Number 1: I don't listen to Limbaugh or talk radio for that matter. But, I can't stand liars or fools. You seem to be both.

Number 2: You still have nothing. Since you can't PROVE that Limbaugh actually said those things OR that you can't provide context.

@nrn312

Just quoting crap that is floating around on the internet isn't debating and you aren't convincing anyone of anything.

The issue is that just because you say something, or you recieved it in an email or you heard part of a sentence....doesn't make it true.

I'm not that guilible, but evidently you guys are. Hook, line, sinker with a big glass of kool aid

vw: hinitak

Like a heart attack except in the rear end.; 12/31/09, 6:28 PM
Finn Alexander Kristiansen said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/31/09, 6:50 PM
Finn Alexander Kristiansen said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/31/09, 6:58 PM
miller said...: Yeah, I think there are some people who post comments on this blog who believe that prayer changes things.

I'm not sure what your point is, though. Perhaps you can elucidate?; 12/31/09, 7:03 PM
Finn Alexander Kristiansen said...: Lem, you went kind of hysterical talking about my links being bad, and me making up quotes. You actually could have searched the periodicals yourself before accusing me of making something up. I'm not vested enough in the issue to make something up. In fact I used to be a huge Limbaugh listener way back before his peak popularity.

From what I can tell the links got cut off and so I repost them with the titles of the articles so you can actually search the periodicals yourself.

Second, a lot of what Limbaugh says is in jest, but I was simply responding to the statement made by someone that Limbaugh has never told someone to die. He has.

That said, I hope he recovers quickly because you never want to see anyone die before their time.

The first is:

"Limbaugh Suggests NYT’s Revkin Should “Kill Himself”
By Curtis Brainard

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory
/limbaugh_suggests_nyts_revkin.php

The second quote was from an article titled:

Public Eye: My Dinner with Rush Limbaugh
By MARGARET CARLSON Monday, Jan. 23, 1995

Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982270,00.html

(If the links get cut off again, I can email you them or you can check my own website. I thought maybe my netbook was somehow messing with the process).; 12/31/09, 7:12 PM
alan markus said...: Hey, good job - this one showed up at Real Clear Politics - Best Of The Blogs!; 12/31/09, 8:28 PM
former law student said...: Mr. Revkin documented Limbaugh's death wish for him:

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/thought-experiments-on-sex-and-death/

While all chest pains should be taken seriously, not every chest pain is a heart attack. Was Rush exerting himself? Was he short of breath? Did he have pains in his arm?

Finally, I'm sure that all comments wishing Rush were dead were merely the same sort of robust humor that Rush and his fans delight in.; 12/31/09, 9:03 PM
Independent Thinker said...: Piss on the Kennedys'; 12/31/09, 9:12 PM
Independent Thinker said...: Piss on the Kennedys.; 12/31/09, 9:13 PM
former law student said...: regarding garagemahal's comment: a friend suggests that Rush's chest pains make useful cover for him (or an associate) to search for Obama's birth record. If his is uniquely missing from his birth date/week/month...; 12/31/09, 9:51 PM
section9 said...: Alpha, you're a treat!

Only national socialists like Alpha would want to let the same kind of people who allowed the Underwear Bomber into the United States to run the healthcare system in the U.S.

And all so the Democratic Party can hand out more pork jobs, more corrupt kickbacks, and more graft to its pigs feeding at the trough. Alpha is just an intellectually corrupt partisan hack who is interested in what is good for the Democratic Party.

People like Alpha are part of the problem, like a mirror image of the DeLay Republicans. Sorry, Alpha, but you're like the GM Board of Directors in 1965. You think that what's good for the Democrats is what's good for the country. You don't see the Jacksonian wave that's coming at you. None of you Obamist Sturmabteilungen do.

Yeah, Alpha, you can kiss my ass.; 1/1/10, 6:59 AM
AlphaLiberal said...: Let's not forget,
"Bury Obamacare with Kennedy."

Or, "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8"

Ann Althouse was not offended by these.; 1/1/10, 11:03 AM
AlphaLiberal said...: @Dust Bunny Queen:

Snopes doesn't say which ones are true or false. So you link is worth spit. .

It doesn't if you don't bother to actually READ IT.

He admits to having said it. The "Mixed" on the page refers to a wide range of quotes, not to the take the bone out of your nose" quote.

And the context is all there.

Conservatives are such poor debaters and liars.

Again from the Snopes piece:

# "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

Rush Limbaugh acknowledged making these statements in a 1990 Newsday article; 1/1/10, 11:08 AM
AlphaLiberal said...: Here's an idiotic statement from Section 9:

Only national socialists like Alpha would want to let the same kind of people who allowed the Underwear Bomber into the United States to run the healthcare system in the U.S. .

Yo, genius. Some Dutch TSA-types let him on that plane, not the Democratic Party.

What a stupid statement.; 1/1/10, 11:11 AM
AlphaLiberal said...: DBQ:
First, George Mahal asked the very good question which you ignored. What context would justify saying ""Take the bone out of your nose and call me back," as Rush Limbaugh admitted.

Number 2: You still have nothing. Since you can't PROVE that Limbaugh actually said those things OR that you can't provide context. .

You prove to be dishonest. This is all explained in the post from which I clipped the PROOF that Limbaugh actually said that thing.

It's all there. But you pretend it's not there and attack my integrity instead. You're really very dishonest.

Here, search on "bone" until you find it.

Bottom line: Lush Windbag has said no end of harsh and hateful things. Don't cry for Lush.; 1/1/10, 11:20 AM
AlphaLiberal said...: Meant to post this link:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp; 1/1/10, 11:23 AM
Nichevo said...: So, Alpha, for all the disgusting things you have said, you deserve death, is that it?; 1/1/10, 12:24 PM
chickelit said...: Hate to be a thread-ender but it's over.
Rush (life) won.

Carry on elsewhere!

wv: "ecoath" That what Gore would have swore!; 1/1/10, 3:40 PM
Michael Haz said...: BREAKING!! LIMBAUGH IS OKAY!!

Really good news to begin the new year.; 1/1/10, 4:07 PM
former law student said...: Chest pains mean something, even if they don't mean a heart attack. I'd like to hear from one of his doctors.

I'd put my money on either heartburn or gallbladder.; 1/1/10, 5:04 PM
scott ridgway said...: People who support Rush Limbaugh have no capacity for critical thinking, no sense or history, and a propensity for thinking they are better than everyone else -- particularly liberals. My first reaction was that the world would be better off without this money oriented ass spewing right wing PROPAGANDA -- why not? He takes his talking points from the NeoCons, then goes on to con his listeners. Look up that critical thinking stuff -- the people on this site obviously have no idea what it is, but I will tell you this -- critical thinking is the first thing Cults stop their members from doing. Just like Limbaugh's Ditto Heads. I know that this is a waste of time... but I still love all you nuts.; 1/2/10, 9:46 AM
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