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Tully Mars 04-16-2009 04:37 AM

Pirates = merchant marine organizers?
 
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RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas. Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.


They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama.
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I don't listen to Rush. Found this on Crooks and Lairs this morning after a guy at my gym told me he said this yesterday. I found that odd in and of itself, that a Mexican guy would be talking about something Rush said. On my way home I noticed a picture of Rush on the cover of the local paper. Not exactly sure what the headline was but I think it was asking "Is this person crazy or stupid?" I turned on the TV and haven't seen anything about this on CNN or MSNBC.

Is this something Rush really said?

Is this a news story up north?

ngdawg 04-16-2009 04:45 AM

Heard their ages-doesn't faze me in the least. So we have to let suicide bombers, hijackers and pirates do what they want because they're under 21?
Gimme a break....

roachboy 04-16-2009 04:46 AM

limbaugh. what a fucking humanitarian. he's long been real concerned to understand things in all their complexity. and he's always maintained a certain gravitas. he was totally responsible with information when he was accusing hillary clinton of murder, and he's totally responsible now.

i expect you'd see this fine bit of nuanced information which takes account of the colonial and post-colonial history of somalia and indicates a real understanding of the situation there surface under the aegis of that other fine humanitarian and champion of historical complexity and accurate interpretations, bill o'reilly.

yeah.

uncle phil 04-16-2009 04:48 AM

limbaugh and his ilk are purveyors of hate. does anyone with a brain actually believe anything this person says?

Poppinjay 04-16-2009 04:58 AM

This Rush's MO. During a GOP administration, accept everything the government says. During a Dem admin, the most obscure internet site becomes gospel.

Another tactic he, Hannity, and Mark Levin all use is to put on callers who talk about how they used the shows to sass their college professors. The caller is almost always an otherwise stay at home mom. Listen for it, they put on one a week. The topic for the last few years has been what to do with all the brown people. The professor of course advocates open borders and suggest the student submit sexually to latinos.

She uses her great knowledge from Rush to tell him off.

All three shows have the same Executive Producer, a man by the name of Phil Boyce.

ObieX 04-16-2009 05:06 AM

Teenagers or not, you don't point a gun at someone. The second they picked up a weapon and attacked someone they forfeit their lives. If you don't want to get killed, no matter how old you are, you probably shouldn't become a pirate and fire machine guns and RPGs at people.

Tully Mars 04-16-2009 05:25 AM

So this is indeed something Rush said? I really didn't think it possible for him to sink any lower, alas I'm not that surprised. What does kind of surprise me is people still listen to him. I mean he's got the highest rated radio broadcast in the nation, yes? Just seems like at some point this type of stuff would turn off his listeners. Seriously Rush was claiming not long ago that Obama wouldn't have the balls to protect US citizens, that he'd want to "talk" instead of take action. Now that he's taken actions he's still wrong because the pirates were 1.) under aged and 2.) they weren't even pirates they "were merchant marine organizers."

WTF?

Cynosure 04-16-2009 05:30 AM

Yeah, Rush really cares about the plight of young black men, worldwide.

:rolleyes:

Poppinjay 04-16-2009 05:31 AM

Well, keep in mind that he may have 15 million listeners, but there are 285 million who do NOT listen. And he doesn't have anywhere near the market reach he used to have.

Since Obama's election, he's been spouting whatever the most outrageous thing he can come up with.

This is a man who used to put a condom over his mic to "protect" liberals from his ideas.

Personally, the image of talking into a phallic shaped condom covered device is not something I would want people to associate with me.

Tully Mars 04-16-2009 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Poppinjay (Post 2624618)
This is a man who used to put a condom over his mic to "protect" liberals from his ideas.

Personally, the image of talking into a phallic shaped condom covered device is not something I would want people to associate with me.

You're making that up, right?


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