Limbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.

[Triana]

Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh marks twenty years on the air today. During his show this afternoon, Limbaugh received a call from the President George W. Bush, former President George H. W. Bush, and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush. The Bush family congratulated their “pal” Limbaugh on his “twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.” Later in their conversation, former President Bush — apparently not realizing he was on the air — asked about “our man Ailes,” the president of Fox News:

H. W. BUSH: Do you see our man Ailes at all?

LIMBAUGH: Oh, yeah. I saw Roger at Tony Snow’s funeral…And a couple of times earlier this summer.

H. W. BUSH: Are we on the radio, are we? <…> I didn’t know that. I’ll clean up my act here. I’m glad they told me.

Yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney sent Limbaugh a recorded message calling him “one of the great names in broadcasting history.”

:puke:

LINK:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/limbaugh-marks-20-years-on-the-air-with-call-from-the-bush-family/

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Give the barking dog a pat on the head.

[fascisthunter]

2. one fascist to the other

[CosmicMaskedAvenger]

3. ugh

we need some good progressive thinking people on the radio to counter limburger's daily rants.

[Triana]

4. Problem is: who owns the media?

GE
Disney
Viacom
NewsCrap
...

multinational repig-loyal corprats who, in combination with Republicans in US government, make up the plutocracy that controls all media - TV, radio, magazines, newspapers.

They'd never allow it.

[CosmicMaskedAvenger]

6. We need fairness

I hope Nancy can get the fareness doctrine back into law, so at least we will have the opportunity to present our side of the issue to the people. 20 years of limburger stinking up the airwaves is 20 years too many! I think the people will respond if we can just get our message out and point out the idiocracy and criminal intent of the other side!!!

[Initech]

5. To quote Bill Hicks:

"People often ask me where I stand politically, it's not that I disagree with Bush and his foreign policies or his economic policies, it's that I believe that he's the child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth."

[Triana]

7. child of? he IS Satan!

Well, IMO he is. He's evil/psychopathology embodied.

[creeksneakers2]

8. The Bush call was followed by a racist skit

There's a concerted effort on from the right wing to make this election about race. Its no coincidence that McCain's out of the blue race card accusations come in the same week as the right wing promoted sleazy guilt-by-association accusations using the rap star Ludacris.

It goes straight to the top. Today, George Bush, his father and his brother Jeb called up the Rush Limbaugh show and gushed praise and congratulations on the lying, hating and racist host. The GOP obviously approves of inflammatory racial programming on the radio.

Limbaugh followed up the president's call with his often used racist pronouncement that only blacks are allowed to criticize blacks and whites are forbidden. Limbaugh maintains this even though he smears Obama daily himself. McCain attacks all the time too. Limbaugh's pronouncement is designed to inflame racial hatreds.

Limbaugh then put his staff member, Bo Snerdly, on the air. Limbaugh says Snerdly can criticize Obama because Snerdly is black.

Then Snerdly impersonated a black stereotype who was angry with Obama for condemning lyrics by the rapper Ludacris. Then Snerdly said he would "translate" his comments for the "brothers and sisters in the hood," implying,if not outright saying, that blacks can't understand plain English.

Snerdly then went into a rant using slang that supposedly "the brother's and sisters" could understand. He said "yo" this and "homey" that all the while pretending to be an angry black on the side of Ludacris, who is the current object of right wing outrage. One message of the whole bit was that blacks endorse the offensive statements by Ludacris.

Limbaugh routinely uses Snerdly this way. Limbaugh describes his overall theory of race in politics as the "liberal plantation." According to Limbaugh's theory, liberals provide welfare to blacks so that blacks will be poor and need the government, and thus can be enslaved by liberals. Blacks are willing coconspirators, presumably because they prefer welfare to working, and call any black who wishes to work hard for a living an Uncle Tom. With his theory, Limbaugh promotes the idea that all blacks are lazy and on welfare, hate blacks who work, when in fact 88% of blacks are employed, compared to 93% of whites. Limbaugh also assumes that blacks are too stupid to know what's good for them and blacks are all in a big dishonest conspiracy together.

A general theme of Limbaugh's show is that blacks and liberals are the real racists and that white conservatives are under constant evil attacks from those who wish to continue "the liberal plantation." In reality,the whole theme is there to provoke white anger at blacks and liberals.

The GOP has been using racism as a wedge to get white votes since Nixon came up with the plot. If the president can call up a bigot like Limbaugh and congratulate him on "important and excellent broadcasting" and even go on to say he appreciates "the contribution you've made" then the entire GOP must be completely comfortable with racial hatred as an election tool

[mitchum]

9. Ugh...that must have been what circle jerks at Berchesgarten were like