Freed Pirate Hostage Accuses Limbaugh Of 'Hate Speecn

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

Source: Boston Channel 5, ABC

Shane Murphy, the second-in-command aboard the American merchant ship seized by pirates, lashed out at Rush Limbaugh for the talk show host's racial characterization in discussing the rescue of the ship's captain by the Navy.

Read more: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19273935/detail.html

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Video at link. glad to see this is getting some airplay.

[patrick t. cakes]

1. K&R

well said sir.

[Black Adder]

17. So how come, I didn't see this on the

DRUDGE REPORT??????? :wtf:

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Nicely said Mr Murphy!

:patriot:

[Fearless]

3. Awhh... tear...

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Wicked cool! n/t

[ohio2007]

5. They are sea going gang bangas

not "black teenagers."

[tabasco]

27. You know as much about Somalia as you do Pakistan.

Jacques Merde.

[DarthCheney]

6. YES!

Thanks for posting.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

7. Wrong!!!

You can not accuse Rush Limbaugh of hate speech - NOT ONCE - did he ever use hate speech (not once but hundreds of times).:puke:

[47of74]

8. Just wait

The righties will now be coming out of the woodwork to attack Mr. Murphy for insulting their god the fat ass drug addict.

[Mz Pip]

9. They already are

It's obvious to the freepers that Mr. Murphy is a librul.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237475/posts

[Enrique]

12. Murphy's an "ingrate!"

how dare he say that after Rush saved him from the pirates!

[47of74]

13. Damn, that didn't take long!

[Fearless]

14. An excerpt...

"What do we expect from someone so stupid that he knew there were pirates in that area, he knew it was dangerous and he had no weapons. IDIOT! Too bad they didn’t take his sorry ass to shore and hold him for a few days."



Some people forget that international treaties actually apply. Tsk, tsk.

[AlbertCat]

19. From the comments at the article itself:

"How many feet over your head is satire?"

See...Rush was being his usual CLEVER SATIRICAL self. He's so witty!


The fact that ditto heads are fed and believe whatever that drug addict says is feet over their heads, but not anybody else's. Limbaugh couldn't do satire if he tried. Indeed he's killed satire....with the GOP

[MetaTrope]

34. Limbaugh is an inspiration to pedophiles everywhere

[Ahpook]

29. Those fucking idiots will bitch about anything.

It wouldn't matter how current events shape.

It's better to ignore them and let them sink into obscurity? :)

[donco]

23. Boil infested ass at that. nt

[Enrique]

10. someone needs to ask Michael Steele to comment

does he agree Limbaugh's comments were hate speech?

[pam4water]

11. Sweet! Boston FTW!

[suede1]

15. K&R.

[geckosfeet]

16. A real military hero, says rUsH is a purveyor of hate speech. Bye rUsH.

[cali]

18. he's not a military hero. He's a civilian sailor.

[geckosfeet]

28. I thought they were merchant marines? Is that not considered military?

In any case, he is more of hero than oxyfatboy could ever hope to be.

[tabasco]

30. No, merchant marines are civilians.

They are regulated by the Coast Guard but are civilians.

[Richardo]

20. That is fantastic

Suck it, Rush.

[valerief]

21. I don't get this.

"Just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas," Limbaugh said.

So Limpballs is assuming a Republican president would be white?

[AlbertCat]

24. See THAT'S the racist statement: Obama = black man = special treatment

[burning rain]

31. Besides that, there's Rush's self-pity on racial and political grounds,...

that cheap little argument so many white conservatives and Republicans make, "What if a Republican had said / done this, huh? You'd crucify him!" If John McCain had somehow won the election, and these pirates had met their end in the same way, I'll bet most progressives would have reacted the same way most of us did with Obama in the White House: that they had it coming.

And again, we see how so much of the right's political discourse these days amounts to whining about how mean and unfair lefties are to them. They're not even smart enough to realize that when you're whining, you're not winning. What a pathetic bunch.

[ekwhite]

62. There would have been a difference

McCain would have probably invaded Somalia and gotten us into another unilateral invasion of a Muslim country (if you can call Somalia a country anymore). Obama is taking a rational approach - increased patrols and international cooperation. The next step is to talk about halting the illegal fishing and dumping of toxic wastes that pretty much forced these people into piracy.

[mikekohr]

60. Limbaugh Hates American Indians Also, Here are his words:

From the website "International Brotherhood Days:" http://www.brotherhooddays.com/HEROES.html#RUSH%20LIMBAUGH:


RUSH LIMBAUGH: (Hosts the most popular radio talk show in America, also regarded as a world class gasbag, pill-popping blowhard, and shameless, self promoting, self absorbed, namedropping sycophant) -In my opinion-

"I don't give a hoot that Columbus gave some Indians a disease that they didn't have an immunity against." 17). (Quote from his best selling book, "The Way Things Ought To Be." pg. 45).

"There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?" 17).(Quote from his best selling book, "I Told You So." pg. #68). Rush must be using the "new math" to arrive at this conclusion. Most experts today, feel that in the United States and Canada alone, there were in 1492, approximately 10 to 20 million Native Americans.1). By 1900 there were less than 250,000 Native people left alive, a decline of well over 98%. At the time the "all knowing" Rushkie wrote this book there were approximately 2,300,000 enrolled native people and an additional 1,000,000 other Indian people of various degrees of Native blood. Using a very, very, generous figure of 3,000,000 Native people, there were at the time of this quote at least 15,000,000 fewer Native people alive as compared to 1492, a decline of at least 83%.

"Columbus saved the Indians from themselves."17). (Quote from his radio show.) Left to themselves the Taino People, over a period of thousands of years, formed a peace loving, prosperous civilization that numbered in the millions. After 50 years of Spanish domination they were reduced in number to nearly zero. It is my hope that the United States or any other nation ever again has to face such a "savior."
Bruce Whelan, the Lakota leader of South Dakota's Shannon County Republican Party, took issue with Limbaugh's comments - "I am kinda wondering what history books Rush Limbaugh was reading from."


mike kohr

[No Elephants]

46. Not that I especially desire to be fair to Rush, but, to be fair, for 208 years, that

that was the ONLY safe assumption about a President of ANY Party.

Given the excitement generated by the 2008 Democratic Primary, Republicans are going to be desperate to run a minority or a woman, or both. Which is why they keep hoping Jindal and/or Palin will appeal to SOMEone.

Too bad for them, Steele could not win squat, Jindal's no Obama and Palin's no Hillary.

[NewJeffCT]

61. To be honest, if you had asked me 10-15 years ago

I would have thought the first black president would have been a Republican, like a Colin Powell. Sort of in the "only Nixon could go to China" mold. Just like the first female PM in the UK was very conservative.

So, that makes Limbaugh's assumption even worse, in my eyes.

[Vidar]

22. K&R.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Imagine fat-ass Rush in that situation? He'd be crapping himself 24/7

Too bad it wasn't him in the thick of things.

[silver10]

33. Yes, too bad

But it will probably never happen - chicken hawks would never put their own precious asses in harms way, only other people to do the dirty work for them.

[PatrynXX]

26. Some really foul comments left on that link.

One comment has shane as an ungrateful punk. Gotta ignore those idiots that make comments with aggression in their tone.

[silver10]

32. How desperate?

Things are looking very bad for the past administration, maybe
indictments are in the air? Greater taxes for the corps and
top 1% who will have to pay their fair share? The pressure
must be great on ol' boil ass to find anything as a diversion,
discredit Obama, and roil up the legions of repug dumb asses. 

Kudos to Murphy for defending Obama and calling the fat boil
ass out for what he is - a hate monger who will stop at
nothing to discredit Dems, no matter if it is a big red
herring to the real issues.

[RedCloud]

35. Racists never learn to play what they call the race card.

Or the sexist card.
Or the workers card,
etc.

[Skittles]

36. thank you Mr. Murphy

more decent people need to speak up about the atrocity that is Rush Limbaugh

[Gamey]

37. Same false outrage if * had killed them?

In reality, Obama didn't kill them. He used means empowered to him to protect American interests. Sheesh, these stupid fuckers will damn you when you do and damn you when you don't. Translation: they having nothing but bitching, and pissing, and moaning and whining. Whiners. They are STILL waiting for their mommy's relief.

[Initech]

38. Awesome. Get that piece of shit off the air.

[960]

39. K&R

Limbaugh is truly pushing the envelope on treason.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. Limpbaugh has a screw loose

[certainot]

41. limbaugh fucks up people's lives regularly

with his distortions and lies. the GOP bought him the biggest soapbox in the country and liberals have completely ignored him. he gave them headaches, so they turned the dial, for 20 years. we wouldn't be in this mess without that talk radio monopoly and that coordinated uncontested repetition.

[caseymoz]

42. I don't believe Limbaugh would actually argue for the right of Republicans to shoot Blacks.

And not even say, criminals (shooting a White criminal feels too much like fratricide). Really, for satire you have to be aware of what your saying.

I think when Rush finally has his massive fatal heart attack, the autopsy will show that his brain was totally killed by a stroke at least two decades ago.

[zanne]

63. I like the way you think. nt

[pitchforksandtorches]

43. Why do Rush Limbaugh and his audience

hate America?

It seems obvious from this graph

that pirates have been actively preventing global warming, and as the number of pirates diminishes, they are less able to influence climate change. But why would pirates be concerned about global warming? Think of every pirate story you’ve ever read, what do they all have in common? (Well, besides the eye-patches, and the parrots, and the Arrrrgghhs, etc.) Buried treasure. And where is the treasure always buried? On the shore of some uninhabited island. No doubt you can see where this is going - if the climate warms, the sea levels rise, and the pirates can no longer find their treasure which is now underwater. Even their treasure maps would no longer be useful. Does evolutionary theory or Intelligent Design explain this relationship? I think not.
So we have a possible, reasonable-sounding explanation for some part of the unconfirmed above data we’ve selectively included in this theory. All that is needed to elevate anything from a simple hypothetical musing to a legitimate theory which deserves to be taught in the classroom. Spread the gospel, and the fundamental scientific law of FSM to all thinking Americans.

May you be touched by His noodly appendage.

http://www.venganza.org/

Yo Ho Yo Ho - a Pirates Life for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A19q7rysLs&feature=related
…but we're loved by our Momies and Dads

[RowdyRacer]

44. How many teenagers did "W" kill??

GWB killed teenagers, infants, and entire families who never did a goddamned thing against the U.S. - I don't remember El Rushbo's outrage about that...

[BobTheSubgenius]

45. I refer you to some of Al Franken's early work:

Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot (And Other Stories)

[Norquist Nemesis]

47. And Limbaugh will now put his target on Murphy and drag Kennedy

and Kerry into it somehow simply because the guy lives in Massachusetts. Faus did the same thing with the captain (who lives in VT).

Yes, hate speech is Limbaugh opening his mouth. And still there's a corporation who either 1) doesn't acare because it is still making a big profit from his hate speech or 2) doesn't care because Limbaugh is the megaphone that invades the subconscious of the peons with the "principles" necessary to keep profits flowing to the top.

[No Elephants]

48. I live in Boston and the only quotes from Shane that local TV stations have been airing say

something like, "This has nothing to do with race....Come on Rush, you're either with us or against us.

Makes the guy sound like he's a fan of Rush who feels Rush misunderstood and wants Rush on his side.


I firmly believe the only reason Massachusetts keeps voting blue is that this state has more institutions of higher learning per square inch than anywhere else. Most of the students and the professors are probably voting Democrat. The state legislature, while nominally overwhelmingly Democrat, votes the wrong way on issues a lot more often than I'd like. And a poll showed recently that people would rather see Mittens Romney in the State House than Governor Deval Patrick.

[pnorman]

49. Not directly relevant to Mr. Murphy,

but this concerns captain Phillips. A friend who had sailed with him (as engineer) wrote me this: "I had Phillips with me in ROS for 60 days, he had a reputation of picking out 1 Officer and making life miserable for the person. Here, it was a meek C/M (Chief Mate) who had a terrible stutter. I had mixed feeling when I heard he was hostage. Glad he is alive but there are plenty of people out there who aren't."

pnorman

[Rusty5329]

50. Shane Murphy, Pirate Fighter, Takes On Rush and the Dittoheads

Source: Daily Kos/ThinkProgress

Via thinkprogress, Second-in-command of hijacked ship blasts Rush Limbaugh’s ‘disgusting’ comments

You may remember this comment from good old Rush, cries like a baby, Limbaugh:

"If only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers are actually young black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot."

Well, Shane Murphy, the second-in-command of the Maersk, has responded...

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/25/724467/-Shane-Murphy,-Pirate-Fighter,-Takes-On-Rush-and-the-Dittoheads

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Please go recommend this diary and push it to the rec list.

Thanks!

[SpiralHawk]

51. Republicon Chickenhawks: "Ooops. Whine."

"Just because we are big-mouthed, overpaid, drug-abusing, draft-dodging, Republicon Homelander corporate apparatchiks is no reason to tell the truth about us. Whine."

- Republicon Chickenhawks & their so-called leader Rush 'Draft-Dodger' Limbaugh

[Rusty5329]

52. actually...

no "Ooops. Whine." The freepers and dittoheads have a simple standard operating procedure:

1: Call him a leftist.

2: Make a bunch more racists remarks.

3: ?

4: Profit!

[Lint Head]

53. Wonder what he uses that mouth for in the Domenican Republic when

he travels there with Viagra in someone else's name.?

[Rusty5329]

54. ewwwww

ewwwww, ewwwww, ewwwww.....

[tomm2thumbs]

57. so I am the only one who google-mapped that house, I mean mansion

egad

[Rusty5329]

58. do you have a link...

I haven't seen that.

[classysassy]

55. The enemy is watching

how the scum,the dittoheads and their leader are destroying our country.Our so called leader do nothing to stop those evil brainless bastards,open your eyes america,we will let the conserative haters in this country destroy thid country,while we sit on our hands.There are laws in place to stop the bastards,but our lawmakers are a bunch of cowards.Hate speach is unlawfull,but where are the congresscritters and the justice department?,hiding under their desk,afraid of slimebaugh and the fox foul fools.

[Rusty5329]

56. I understand the sentiment...

but the President cannot infringe upon free speech just because he disagrees, even if it is tasteless and hateful. But these comments do more to help Democrats win elections than anything else.

[flyingfysh]

59. it looks like the Republicans are not only pro-torture

but now they are also the pro-piracy policy.

[nichomachus]

64. Don't forget that Rush is BFFs with Clarence Thomas

Rush was married to one of his wives by Thomas in Thomas' living room. They are best buds. So, this racism says something even worse about Rush -- or something very disturbing about Thomas -- that he would pal around with a racist pig.

[SlingBlade]

65. The Captain lives in Vermont and has

Called out one of the nations loudest mouthed bigots

That's two for two, Hell of a guy.:toast: :bounce:

:kick: