Media Matters: Limbaugh says "unemployment" is a new "entitlement" and "welfare program"

[1776Forever]

Limbaugh says "unemployment" is a new "entitlement" and "welfare program"
July 20, 2010 1:43 pm ET

Video at link:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007200041

Previously:

Limbaugh: Pelosi and Obama preventing unemployed from finding work, says "Obamaville is all about welfare checks"

Limbaugh: "Extended unemployment benefits do nothing but incentivize people not to look for work"

Limbaugh: Obama is "in the process of creating and building a permanent underclass" by extending unemployment benefits.

..............

How can ANYONE in their right mind think this man is anything but a money grumping BSer? I think what he says is the mantra of the GOP! They care about no one and definitely NOT the USA future recovery!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Father Coughlin started to implode by 1937

now Rush and I believe Glenny, are imploding too, in the same spectacular way.

I am sure Rush believes all his listeners are NOT unemployed... rub is more than just a few are. Your audience starts to turn you off when you directly insult them. That is communications 101.

Alas this is the new talking point...

[1776Forever]

3. Yes, and isn't the world a bad enough place without these idiots? Sad! n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. Limbaugh always has reminded me of Father Coughlin. Just a hatemonger. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Glenny started to take that place recently

but comparisons to Coughlin back in the 80s when I was in Graduate School, were made by my profs. One even said, prophetically mind you, that he'd be the end of the country as we knew it.

Ok I was in a HISTORY program... so that old saying by Santayanna was something they (and I) lived by.

[livetohike]

2. So what did Limbaugh do when he got canned at the AM

radio stations in Pittsburgh back in the 70's when he was known as "Jeff Christie"? He was probably the first in line at the unemployment office.

[1776Forever]

4. + Hope someone can answer that? Anyone know about what he did then? Great comment! n/t

[livetohike]

8. I was in college here (in PA) back then and know the AM

station he worked at. It was KQV - they played top 40 hits. He was replaced by another right wing nut ball named Jim Quinn (at least I think he started after Limbaugh got fired). So besides running home to Mama, I'm sure he must have signed up for unemployment.

[justabob]

11. went home to mom and dad

I was curious... This is what I found from the first link:

Toward the end of 1974, ABC prepared to sell KQV to Taft Broadcasting. Meanwhile, lame-duck management pressed Jim Carnegie, the new program director, to fire Limbaugh. "For about 90 days, they kept telling me to fire him, saying he was a no-talent bum," Carnegie says. "Finally, I either had to fire him or get fired along with him. I called him in and gave him the bad news."

To add insult to the pain, general manager John Gibbs reportedly told Limbaugh that he would never make it as an air talent and that he should seriously consider going into the sales end of the radio business.

Limbaugh phoned Harper, who had become program director at WKBW in Buffalo, in search of a job. But his admirer had nothing for him.

Three years after leaving home for the big time, he was heading home. Back to Mom and Dad in Cape Girardeau.

"I spent seven months doing nothing," he said. "I was bummed out. I loved the city of Pittsburgh."

Limbaugh spent the next decade bouncing from one radio station to another. In 1979 he abandoned radio all together and went to work for the Kansas City Royals as a public relations executive. Four years later, Limbaugh was back in radio first in Kansas City at KMBZ and later in Sacramento, Calif., where he replaced Morton Downey Jr. at KFBK and became a talk radio success."

http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/christie.html

[RKP5637]

6. Republicans I've know climbed over anyone/everyone to get corp benefits, unemployment,

anything they could get their filthy hands on when they got unemployed. Somehow then it made all the sense in the world to them. Evil F'en creeps.

[livetohike]

9. Hypocrites. As long as they have theirs they stab everyone else

in the back.

[RKP5637]

17. I'm convinced anymore it's a distinctive personality type that is republican. I avoid

all of them, I don't trust them. Years ago, way years ago, it used to be a political choice and moderate republicans were like moderate democrats in a number of ways, but certainly not anymore. The R's have become pretty crazy.

[livetohike]

18. They have become crazy - rabid, in fact. I know what you're

talking about with moderate republicans. I just finished Ted Kennedy's book True Compass. It's a nice look back, especially at the 70's and the Republicans who were in the Senate then. It's so different now. Really bad as far as finding common ground and trying to solve problems. These modern day Republicans are nuts. Every one of them.

[RKP5637]

19. And it's so horrible for the country. Americans should be uniting for a

better country for the 21st century, but instead we have all of these splits in the country and these NEW republicans off the deep end. I often feel like I'm living in a Twilight Zone episode.

[livetohike]

22. I don't know if we are just so tuned in to it because of the easy

and instant access to news or what? Many of my friends aren't aware of half of what I see/hear about politics. Much of it doesn't interest them. Maybe it's just us :shrug:.

[RKP5637]

24. I've been told that too. I think a lot of people are pretty busy with all types of

things in life. During 8 years of Bush I started paying attention more, and of course then we had more internet presence and cable TV news. I think a lot of Americans don't pay a lot of attention probably because this country has had it so good and in the big picture a pretty stable gov.

I think it's going to sneak up on many people and then they will wonder WTF. And that's what these RW'ers love because then they grow like a silent cancer.

As you say, "maybe it's just us." :shrug: I'll be glad when the midterm elections are over, we'll get an idea of the direction then.

[theothersnippywshrub]

13. I have heard him talk several times about receiving unemployment benefits.

It has been several years since I last heard him talk about it, but he definitely has talked about it. I also remember him talking about drawing unemployment and using credit cards to buy Cheetos and chips.

[laughingliberal]

16. I remember that. It was years ago before we had any left-wing talk radio.

[w8liftinglady]

5. I totally recommend this,but can't reply-the "f" word is on my lips

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Reminder: Rush says whatever he has to in order to get people to listen to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBV0Qhal4bc

Rush admitted it at this year's talk radio conference (Talkers Magazine).

[laughingliberal]

14. Yeah, Rush. 30 years of Reagonomics has nothing to do with a permanent underclass. Jackass! nt

[Historic NY]

15. Unemployment comes from insurance its not welfare.

[HughBeaumont]

20. This corpulent pile of cowshit is almost too stupid to insult.

The Kick-em-while-they're-down GOPig doesn't even know the difference between an entitlement and insurance. Quel surprise.

[Catshrink]

21. Limbaugh...

[RKP5637]

25. I saved this, it's so cute! n/t

[Catshrink]

26. I'll save this one for BecKKK

[RKP5637]

31. LOL

:toast: :rofl:

[dkf]

23. I'd call unemployment an entitlement. What is wrong with that?

[1776Forever]

27. It's the connotation that these unemployed people won't look for work now because of the payments.

It goes with all the other GOP slander to the unemployed.

[dkf]

29. So we are agreeing with repubs that entitlements are for lazy people?

I thought we were trying to argue that extended unemployment benefits in times of high unemployment are normal? My thought is why be defensive and try to accede the point that entitlements are bad.

[1776Forever]

33. No - WE are NOT - But the GOP is! Unemployment is insurance against losing jobs! n/t

[MadMaddie]

28. Don't we all pay taxes to support unemployment?

So it's not free money right? Most people have worked all their lives and paid into it and never needed it. Now they do....

[dkf]

32. Except we pretty much used it all up.

And federal extensions don't come from unemployment insurance which is run by the states.

[guitar man]

30. Fuck that useless piece of shit

Unemployment is insurance for people who work for a living and wind up out of a job through no fault of their own. The last thing I want to hear out of this clown is him claiming he knows a damn thing about work since he's never done a lick of work in his entire powdered and pampered existince.

What idiots like him can't comprehend is how the job market works for us. If I had a shitload of money and an agen like he does I'd never have to look for a "job" either.

But if after 10 years, which is how long I've been with my current employer, I woke up laid off tomorrow I'd be in serious trouble. If I wanted to move from my job to the exact same job I'm doing now it would be a damn tough move because there aren't 50 of is in the entire state, there might not even be 40. I work in television and each of the " big 3" stations in each market probably have 3 people doing what I do and the smaller stations have one, maybe two positions each. So between Oklahoma city and Tulsa it's easy to do the math and realize that unless I get laid off at the exact right moment I'm either changing what I do for a living or I'm looking to move out of state.

So no, it's not always so easy to just "jump up and go get a job" , especially one that's going to pay anything. It's not like I can walk into mcdonalds at 46 with my resume and expect they would hire me to flip burgers. Not gonna happen.

So pigboy just needs to shut his damn mouth about anything to do with work, he knows NOTHING about it. :grr: