a plate of Viagra accompanied by side orders of Dominican sex slaves and cigars

a plate of Viagra accompanied by side orders of underage male Dominican sex slaves and cigars

Fixed.

why Rush doesn’t do LIVE teevee.  Vintage 1990.  The crowd turns on him in a big way. 

The trouble starts at about 1:25 and just gets worse and worse. By about 3:20 he’s totally lost it.

After commercial break, it is clear he can’t control. He just sits there.  Not knowing what to do.

After second commercial break… well… I don’t want to spoil it.  hahahahahaha!

Limbaugh is not aware of all internet traditions.  What he calls a “combo-quote” is, I believe, more commonly called a “shorter”.  At least that keeps it in context as a paraphrase and doesn’t imply it’s actually a “quote” of what someone has said.

What Limbaugh didn’t realize is that the real shorter is “Limbaugh is no longer relevant in this town.”

I can’t believe Obama offered the communications post to Ellen Moran and not you, Betty.

The White House could use a spinmeister like Betty Cracker. : )

Mimi, that clip brought back some memories.

My daughter had an early dislike for Limbaugh because of his mocking of Chelsea (daughter is just a couple of months younger than her and going through her own awkward stage).  We would prepare for his TV show by balling up newspaper to throw at the the TV when he said “dittohead” or “feminazi”.

Good times.

I was editing my first feature back in 1987 when that whole conservative television craze started - with Morton Downey Jr, I believe. My editing room at the NYC 9th Avenue Film Center adjoined the front office, where they would play Downey’s show daily. I just could not believe the shit that would come out of that guy’s mouth.

Later, when Newt Gingrich was denouncing Public Television fr being too liberal, he added that Rush Limbaugh’s (short-lived) television show was his idea of good public television.

Good fucking riddance to all of those creeps.

Sadly, though, they won’t go away. The less relevance they have, the more they keep yapping. I can’t stand to hear them rattling on and on, spewing ridiculous talking points. It’s an annoying whiny drone.

Well done, as always, Betty.

One gripe:  You left out that the Limbaugh’s enabler in spreading that BS was none other than Byron York.

In the race for title of Lyingest Wingnut Scumbag, it’s too close to call.  Limbaugh’s ahead on volume, but York gets major stealth points.  Watch him on Bloggingheads.tv—every time he wants to spread a lie, he’s careful to couch it in, “I should have printed this out, but if my memory’s correct ...”  Whereupon he’d say something exactly like that “combo quote.”

More attention needs to be paid to York.  He’s ultimately more dangerous than Limbaugh (whom everyone with a brain already knows about, anyway) because his smoothness and lack of bombast let him ooze more lies into the discourse than anyone notices.

that whole conservative television craze started - with Morton Downey Jr

They’ve always been around, locally produced talk shows were usually RW back in the day, and when I was a little kid back in the B/W days, there was Joe Pyne, who was an O’Reilley type shouting bully who also did radio.

It’s unfortunate that the raving loon style of Podium Pounding Punditry is eclipsing rational dialog, debate, and fact-driven bi-partisan muck-raking with lots of hyphens..

The media has always been fucking awful, and total bullshit propaganda pretty close to the obedience practiced by Pravda in the CCCP.

The flavor of media degradation seems to shift with the times. Contrasting Buckley’s old Firing Line to anything on FOX is a decent thought exercise, however maddeningly fascist and war mongering, at least he was coherent in his psychopathology, and did not toe party lines verbatim.

Rush Limbaugh was born in 1951 to an American mom “Millie” and an American dad lawyer & WWII Fighter Pilot in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Since ‘President’ Obama now wants to silence El Rushbo even before BHO has a chance to try to re-establish the “fairness doctrine” to silence all conservative talk radio, I’ve got three questions (but answers to only two of them):

FIRST QUESTION: Who IS the actual and lawful 44th President of the USA?

ANSWER: Joe Biden

Biden was initially the Acting President for at least 5 minutes under either the Constitution’s Article 2 or the Constitution’s 20th Amendment, from 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, having already taken his Oath of Office and before Obama completed his ‘oath’ at approximately 12:05 PM, 1/20/09. Under the 20th Amendment if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, or alternatively under Article 2 if the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term, being 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, which ability and/or qualification includes that he take the Article 2 oath “before he enter on the execution of his office,” then either the Presidency shall devolve on the Vice President under Article 2 or the Vice President shall act as President under the 20th Amendment. (The importance of the oath in ‘commencing’ an ‘Obama Presidency’ — rather than merely the 1/20/09 Noon time — is confirmed by the re-take of the ‘oath’ by Obama at the White House on 1/21/09 after the first ‘oath’ was NOT administered by Justice Roberts NOR recited by Obama in the words as required under Article 2.)

This is significant because at such time that the Supreme Court finally rules on the merits on Obama’s disqualification as not being an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (clearly he is NOT under either and/or both of two theories — (1) BHO refuses to show Birth Certificate to deny Kenyan birth/res ipsa loquitur “action speaks for itself” or (2) BHO admits dad was Kenyan/British, not American, citizen at Jr’s birth), Biden’s automatic status (without needing to take a separate Presidential Oath) of being President would be predicated upon four different bases: First, having been Vice President under Article 2; second, having been Vice President-elect under the 20th Amendment; third, having been actual President in the hiatus before Obama took the ‘oath(s)’; and fourth, retroactively deemed President during the full period of the Obama usurpation so that the acts of the Federal Government under the usurpation can be deemed authorized and/or ratified by Biden’s legitimacy.

SECOND QUESTION: Who will be the 45th President?

ANSWER: Hillary Clinton

One must assume that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been aware of all of the above. Biden’s wife recently “let the cat out of the bag” on the Oprah Show that both Biden and Hillary had considered alternatively Veep or Secretary of State, in either case, setting up Hillary to be President on a vote of the Democratic Congress if need be.

THIRD QUESTION: Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika or a knowing participant?

ANSWER: Yet undetermined.

Ted! Desperately sorry to burst your bubble, but look here:

AMENDMENT XX
Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933.

Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment was superseded by section 3.

Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

So President-Elect Obama could have sung the alphabet song with his hand on a Spiderman comic, and he still would be your very own President Obama.

The “Obama as Unknowning Victim of Hillary Clinton Troika” is a new one, though, and very entertaining. I can see Hillary nestled in her troika, her little hands snuggled in a warm muff.

Don’t TED on Me whispered:

THIRD QUESTION: Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika or a knowing participant?

Answered here:

Wow, Ted, you sound hot.

Run a Google search on:

Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika

You’ll find that Robot Ted is en fuego today, apparently because it’s just so much fun to cut-and-paste dire predictions that never come true, on any site with open posting.

I don’t know if it’s the utter stupidity of everything he posts, or the deadpan earnestness with which he types it—but most sites welcome him as an addled, harmless crank who spreads mirth wherever he posts.

Ted’s a lot less fun now he’s stopped dogwhistling for a military coup and armed insurrection.

But Ted, I’ve told you off before for your inordinately long and tortuous sentences - 153 words in that fifth one-sentence paragraph? More homework needed, I think.

Scooter’s link was worth it just for this:

,___,
[O.o] Put this owl on your profile
/)__) If you’ve seen the Cremation of Care
-”—”- Ritual at Bohemian Grove

I had vaguely heard of the Bohemian Grove, but really had no idea how verdant and bucolic and Neronian homo-erotic Gilded-Agey it was. Is.  All we have up here, I think, is Chautauquas.

And now they have come into the computer age with their own typographic owl smiley.

So Bush traipsed about in the underbrush with vine leaves in his hair? Is there a discernible difference between that and his usual demeanor?

but most sites welcome him as an addled, harmless crank who spreads mirth wherever he posts.

So . . does that mean we’ve now joined the “big boy” blogs since we won that contest?  Yaayyy!!!

Come back again soon Ted!

a thing he called a “combo quote.” Ever heard of it?

Isn’t that what is meant by conflation?

While I’ve never seen the Cremation of Care in the woods at Bohemian Grove, I have seen bears mating there. 

Also chubs, twinks, and daddies.

I’m not sure if any of you have seen this, but it caught my eye.

I’m not sure if any of you have seen this, but it caught my eye. (NRO cruise)

Imagine that: a literal ship of fools.

And hey gang, we’ve got us a Birfer with an even more elaborate than usual conspiracy theory! Woohoo!

Brendan, you are right about York. He is a noxious liar and all the worse for being sneaky about it. BTW, I emailed him demanding a clarification on the definition of “combo quote.” Will let y’all know if he explains!

Betty Cracker -

Imagine that: a literal ship of fools.

And can you imagine having to listen to the pontifications of Karl Rove, standing before the Parthenon? Can you imagine his turdly take on Euripides?