’)Sen. Obama is now using the words of Republican booster Rush Limbaugh in an ad targeted at hispanic voters. It’s hard for the GOP to distance themselves from Limbaugh – this is a show the president, vice president, and president’s brother go on consistently. He keeps the hardest of the hard core base mainlined on conservative bull and misinterpretation of the facts for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. For many, he is the GOP.
In 2006, Limbaugh went after Michael J. Fox’s Parkinsons disease because Fox advocated for Claire McCaskill. The backlash probably helped McCaskill to win her senate seat.
Limbaugh has admitted that he carries water for the Republicans, and nothing would be better for his show’s content than a Democratic president.
Perhaps we need to send him some roses after election day?
Hilarious!
Just a couple of weeks ago, I heard Limbaugh (Yes! I listen sometimes!) saying the Republicans needed to provoke Obama into “playing the race card.”
How’d that work out for you, Rush?
HOPE! CHANGE!
Obama is proving to be as much about change as John Kerry. Shit, why not run John Kerry again?
Are you reduced to just pushing non sequiturs now? Or are you in the Nader camp of saying Obama isn’t a change from Bush/McCain? Or just off your meds?
why not run John Kerry again?
Because he already lost to Bush once.
Like Quaker, I’m one of those liberal types who listens to Rush Limbaugh occasionally, most often in the car on the way from A to B. This morning was one of those times. He claims that the Obama ad took him out of context, that what he was actually doing was describing the way the Mexican Government treats its immigrants, contrasting their immigration law with that of the United States. I obviously don’t have access to his archives, but that’s what he claims, anyway.
Jake Tapper
Well damn. One ought to read the links before posting – more or less echoed about the third or fourth paragraph down in Martin’s blog post…
Yeah, Limbaugh always uses the “out of context” dodge. He thinks folks like Think Progress, Media Matters, etc. need to post the entire program in order to fact check his ass. Um, no.
So Jake Tapper is a lying partisan hack?
Oliver, Obama talks about “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for” yet every idea he has is a rehash of liberal wet dream proposals and programs that we’ve heard before. And now, desperately whipping out the race card, using a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD quote, and tying it to John McCain? Change my big white ass.
Jay, actually, sweeping the Republicans out of the executive branch and driving Arizona has-beens who’ve been preening on the national stage since the late 80s would be a big change.
Funny you should mock change when you’re the one lining up behind the candidate desperate for a “do over” after getting his ass handed to him by Bush in embarrassingly humiliating fashion and then, in a final act of submission, hires Bush’s campaign staff.
Americans are tired, tired, tired of Republicans and their failures. But yeah, Jay, keep shilling for the worthless ideas that have caused us so much trouble over the years. You’re not fooling anyone. Republican ideas and policies are loser ideas. Why you think we’d be interested is beyond me.
Wait.
What is McCain’s immigration position today?
I seem to recall he was for the bill he wrote.
And then he was against it.
And recently he ran spanish language ads blaming the democrats for killing the bill that he no longer supports?
Can that all be right?
Why you think we’d be interested is beyond me.
I wasn’t talking to morons. Sorry.
“I wasn’t talking to morons. Sorry.”
This makes sense. I’ve often thought that you don’t pay attention to what you say.
Yes, Barack Obama is proposing common sense solutions to Republican messes. We’ve tried to warn you about these things for a long time, but you all didn’t listen. It’s not Sen. Obama’s fault or ours that the liberals of the past were still smarter than the Republicans who keep making a mess of our country.
Yeah, Limbaugh always uses the “out of context” dodge.
I’ve heard him use it at least twice when he was obviously lying (based on the transcript MM provided), but he appears to be in the right here. As far as expressing the greater truth that the Republican Party’s platform is less friendly to the hispanic community than that of the Democrats, I think the ad was spot-on. But it looks to me like it pulled a Vic Mackey on the evidence.
Change my big white ass.
2004 – Republican
2000 – Republican
1996 – Centrist Democrat
1992 – Centrist Democrat
1988 – Republican
1984 – Republican
1980 – Republican
1976 – Actual liberal
1972 – Republican
1968 – Republican
1964 – Domestic liberal but unapologetic foreign policy hawk
1960 – Centrist Democrat
Jay, you can argue against the wisdom of the changes involved, but I don’t see how you could argue that there wouldn’t be a serious change.
Rush blames immigrants for his failure to satisfy wife after wife after wife
Linking Limbaugh to McCain is funny.
Seeing Obama lie to the brown skinned, spanish speaking folks…priceless.
McCain’s stance on illegal aliens is one of the things that most pisses off the right. It was the right that hung the name “McAmnesty” on him after he co-sponsored his amnesty bill with Ted Kennedy. To tie his immigration stance with Rush Limbaugh’s — who I don’t listen to and don’t like, but understand that he’s of the Tom Tancredo end of the spectrum, and repeatedly savaged McCain on McCain’s prior actions on the issue — is grossly dishonest. It’s about of a par with linking Obama with corrupt pols like Dan Rostenkowski and Mel Reynolds — hey, they’re all Chicago Democrats, right?
J.
“To tie his immigration stance with Rush Limbaugh’s … is grossly dishonest.”
Just noting that we have to speak of McCain’s mavericky immigration policy in the past tense. What’s his current position on immigration? Amnesty is gone and border security is at the top of the list. Enforcement is all he talks about now, just as the hard right demanded he do. He flip flopped on the issue and is now firmly in the hard right camp on immigration.