May 18, 2010

"We start analyzing these things rationally or logically or logically, it's not going to make any sense."

I was going to analyze that assertion rationally but I was afraid it wasn't going to make any sense.

The quote is from Rush Limbaugh, who proceeds to complain that everything's gotten too politicized.

AND: Speaking of internally inconsistent assertions....

13 comments:

Franco said...

Rush means you have to go outside the realm of logic to understand the left. Yogi Berra could not have said it better.

Unknown said...

Statement usually followed by the phrase, "You can't make this stuff up."

Be said...

Ann: I get the humor and am actually sympathetic to the content, but can't understand the delivery. How do you get work done when you're listening to this stuff? (Serious! Do you tape it or look up stuff online later?)

(Pee Wee Herman "HAAH" at my verification word: perspec.)

Phil 314 said...

Andrew Sullivan and Rush Limbaugh...
Professor will do you torture youself so

Penny said...

"It has nothing to do with the rise of conservatism and anger over our out-of-control government."

IT! "IT", is taking on a life of ITs own!

Now some might think that IT is the "singularity", not mentioning any names here...especially while they are on a well-deserved vacation...maybe even scuba diving in the Cayman Islands.

Others, on both the right and the left, clearly see "IT" as a rallying cry!...um...to either get elected or get their man/woman elected.

And still others see "IT" as their way of saying the following..."I am so angry about "IT", I am seeing red!"

Penny said...

Be specific about "IT".

Otherwise?

You're spitting into the wind.

You might get that hocker out of your mouth, but when all that phlegm shows up on your tuxedo, your suit or your t-shirt...face it...you're going to feel rather foolish, whereupon most of you will go home to do your laundry.

Penny said...

Just trying to share here, what many of us have learned the hard way.

Anger might make you FEEL better, but it makes you stupid.

Opus One Media said...

Anyone who listens to Rush and puts more store in what he says than they do with a 3 Stooges short has a serious values problem.

Opus One Media said...

edutcher said...
Statement usually followed by the phrase, "You can't make this stuff up."


well the problem, edutcher is that he usually does.

I'm Full of Soup said...

The election results are trending to a rebuff of President Obama and his far left liberal policies.

dave1310 said...

Ah, the problem is a lost comma, probably during transcription. Think it should read "We start analyzing these things rationally or logically or, logically, it's not going to make any sense.

To me it just means that - without rational or logical analysis then, most logically one must conclude, it's not going to make any sense.

bagoh20 said...

At the link this is the quote and I don't see a problem:

"RUSH: Well, once again, you start analyzing -- it's a good point, don't misunderstand -- but we start analyzing these things rationally or logically, it's not going to make any sense."

Maybe they edited it, or Ann brought some back from Cali.

Ann Althouse said...

"How do you get work done when you're listening to this stuff? (Serious! Do you tape it or look up stuff online later?)"

I subscribe to the podcast and listen to it while I'm doing little tasks in the evening or the next morning. Well worth it. No commercials.