Oxycontin Pigsnout tells his base that "the Confederate flag flies because of the Democrat Party"

[Miles Archer]

Limbaugh transcript lifted from F.R., and I deliberately did not include a link because....well, because fuck 'em.

RUSH: Folks, do you realize the Confederate flag flies because of the Democrat Party? Do people even care anymore about truth, objective truth, ontological certitude?

Do people care about this stuff anymore? Does it matter? Or is truth something so elusive that it's impossible to achieve because everybody has a bias and somebody's truth is somebody else's lie? And if a truth is a lie to somebody then it can't be the truth? Is this where we are now, facts are irrelevant? The Confederate flag in South Carolina.. There's a man. There's a name. There's a reason why that Confederate flag flies over the Statehouse in South Carolina.

You know the name, don't you, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Yeah, his name was Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, of (impression), "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there!" Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, well-known Democrat -- senator from South Carolina -- is responsible for the Confederate flag flying over South Carolina! When did this become a Republican problem? Who wrote the lyrics to the song Dixie?

When did all this become a Republican problem? If you go to Arkansas... You know, all these old racial segregationists, they're all Democrats. Bill Clinton's mentor from Arkansas, J. William Fulbright, was a proud segregationist! And Bill Clinton signed a proclamation authorizing the Confederate flag to fly over the statehouse in Arkansas. I've got the proclamation right there in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Where'd the Republicans get involved in this? But there they are, in full blame!

[Romeo.lima333]

1. rush saying something awful well that IS news

[RobertEarl]

6. republicans are taking it down

The SC Democrats have been trying for years to get it removed and now the republicans are doing so. So, pigboy, your republicans are trashing the flag.

NANANA, hey hey hey, goodbye. Eat it pigboy!

[Romeo.lima333]

8. it would be a good thing. i dont trust republicans to do it

[RobertEarl]

16. Oh, they are doing it

Not for the right reasons, but they are TAKING IT DOWN.

This is what is called a teachable moment. And the background is political in that they don't want to be seen as supporting the Roof's of the world.

As I watched the speech, I saw Rep. Clyburn, standing to the gov's right. He has overcome.

This is one giant step for a republican governor, but one small step for the oppressed.

[Kingofalldems]

2. That's a new talking point faxed out from the RW conspiracy this morning.

Fox had it too.

[tanyev]

7. Yep, either that or Andrea Tantaros is a fount of historical factoids.

I'd say that's unlikely.

[0rganism]

3. a lot of people don't know about the realignment in 1968

the transformation of the Dixiecrats into faithful members of the republican base - that was Nixon's electoral magick. but it's not common knowledge - you have to go out of your way to find it now, if you didn't live through it then. Limbaugh is, as usual, disingenuous at best.

iirc, the SC confederate flag was at least partly due to Strom Thurmond's activities in 1946.

[shenmue]

4. Such inaccurate, ignorant bullshit, I'm surprised the stupid microphone doesn't explode

[Siwsan]

5. I heard the same thing on NPR, today

I think it was Diane Rhem but I was out in the garden, listening, and the time line is all a blur. Anyway, the guest was saying the exact same thing, as if the party philosophy hadn't changed over the last 150 years.

[Va Lefty]

9. "Democrat Party" are they still on this kick?

You can't fix stupid.

[bunnies]

10. Well now that creates quite a conundrum.

It must be something to know your party is this stupid.

[gratuitous]

11. If that's so true

Then why haven't the Republicans - the heirs to the party of Lincoln, as they never tire of telling us - taken it down before now? Why were they so resistant to discontinuing this awful, terrible, DemocRAT tradition, Mr. Limbaugh?

Another difference between the parties: Republicans have to reach back to the 19th Century for their examples of Democratic party racism; Democrats have to reach back 19 seconds for an example of Republican racism.

[randys1]

12. I would like to slap the punk for saying Democrat Party, let alone in reference to this.

[Gregorian]

13. Oxycontin Pigsnout!

Wow, I hadn't heard that one before.

[marble falls]

14. Oxycontin Pigsnout, you do know only his mother is allowed to call him that.

[surrealAmerican]

15. Did he go to sleep in 1965 and just wake up today?

Should we be calling him "Rush van Winkle"?

I get why Republicans would want a do-over of the last fifty years, but to pretend they never happened ...

[lpbk2713]

17. He blamed Jimmy Carter when Dumbya's economy went down the crapper.

No wonder radio stations are dropping Oxyrush like a bad habit.

[rurallib]

18. as the toilet swirls, Rush moves to smaller and smaller stations

as advertisers run away as fast as they can and Clear Channel bleeds money like their balls have been cut by Joni Ernst