{"id":12456,"date":"2008-04-28T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/28\/maybe-hes-on-his-meds-again.html"},"modified":"2008-04-28T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:57:26","slug":"maybe_hes_on_his_meds_aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/maybe_hes_on_his_meds_aga.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe he&#8217;s on his &#8220;meds&#8221; again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rush Limbaugh\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/rush.jpg\" width=\"94\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/15980105\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments that appear to call for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don&#8217;t elect Democrats,&#8221; Limbaugh said during Wednesday&#8217;s radio broadcast. He then went on to say that&#8217;s the best thing that could happen to the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah. Riots are better than &#8230; I mean &#8230; yeesh, words fail me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several callers called in to the radio show to denounce Limbaugh&#8217;s comments, when he later stated, &#8220;I am not inspiring or inciting riots, I am dreaming of riots in Denver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not your father&#8217;s &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Limbaugh said with massive riots in Denver, which he called part of &#8220;Operation Chaos,&#8221; the people on the far left would look bad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On behalf of Poul Anderson, who has an excellent book titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312872429?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\"><em>Operation Chaos<\/em><\/a>, go suck an egg, Rush.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There won&#8217;t be riots at our convention,&#8221; Limbaugh said of the Republican National Convention. &#8220;We don&#8217;t riot. We don&#8217;t burn our cars. We don&#8217;t burn down our houses. We don&#8217;t kill our children. We don&#8217;t do half the things the American left does.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No &#8230; you just <em>dream <\/em>about it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>I was appalled the other day, when I picked up my car from the shop, to be skimming through the AM dial (since they&#8217;d evidently disconnected the battery at some point, so my presets were gone), to run across five different stations in the area running Rush. But, remember, the media is liberal and works to stifle alternative voices &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/rush_limbaugh_has_gone_nuts_calls_for_riots_at_democratic_convention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. 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Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat, idiot. To coin a phrase. 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