Rush Discovers Subliminal Message in Fitzgerald Praise
Rush Discovers Subliminal Message in Fitzgerald Praise
Rush Limbaugh, yesterday:
We finally have the press release which has been made public here by the independent counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald — who, by the way, the liberals…are all calling him “Eliot Ness.” He’s an Eliot Ness out there. What does that mean? It means that Al Capone is in the White House. These terms here are not accidentally chosen.
One minor kink in Rush’s theory: it wasn’t “liberals” who first noted the Ness/Fitzgerald link — it was a Bush administration official. From USA Today, 12/30/03, the day after Fitzgerald was appointed to lead the leak probe:
Acting in Ashcroft’s place, Deputy Attorney General James Comey appointed the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, to lead the investigation as special prosecutor. …
Comey described Fitzgerald, who also is a Bush appointee, as “Eliot Ness with a Harvard law degree and a sense of humor.”
We presume Comey doesn’t liken anyone in the White House to Al Capone, but maybe Rush knows something we don’t.
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HA! Accuracy is ‘untouchable’ for Rush…
October 28th, 2005 at 9:02 pmLike Rush and his legions of Dittoheads would even bother to have the slightest thought about exactly who said that, it was the mythical liberals and that’s good enough for them.
Seriously, why do they make it so hard to not look down on them as a bunch of ignorant hicks?
Thanks for your input, Mr Community College Dropout. We appreciate your hard work, as should you. It’s the limitless tolerance for poeple like yourself that makes America such a great nation.
October 28th, 2005 at 9:02 pmI have it on good authority (Grandma) that the Libby indictment was just a sop for the Grand Jury. They have been there for two years and deserve a piece of the action. The Libby indictment was a slam dunk. It cost Fitz nothing and opened up a whole new can of worms for the bushco. Fitz has stated the following: (1) Valarie Wilson was a CIA agent, a fact not necessarily known outside the CIA; her status was classified; making that information public knowledge was a crime (Two applicable statues); that status ws made public by as many as seven (7), count ‘em: 7, people in the Bush Administration. He so much as stated that someone was going down under one of the two “outing” statutes. He also got out the message that he had a bunch of people by the “short hairs” where they had two options: (1) Give up the big guys on conspiracy or do your own 30 years and Momma’s $1.25 million for covering their asses.
At least DUHbya only took his duty mouthpiece and not the Fat Lady to Camp David. He better be worrying about which Justice there now will cover his ass rather than who he can stack the dack with. Bushco is down the drain!
October 28th, 2005 at 9:32 pmPretty good line by Rush, actually. Most of his listeners won’t know it was a Bushie who first called Fitzgerald another Eliot Ness. And that line of attack does two things: makes it look like Democrats are trying to politicize the indictments, AND it subtly undermines praise for Fitz.
Smart and f*@&ing insane! — that’s Rush!
October 29th, 2005 at 3:00 pmRush’s whole gig is to make shit up because his audience doesn’t know any better. He should write fiction novels and screenplays.
October 29th, 2005 at 3:30 pmSince I had correctly predicted big Karl would not fall let me go on and make another. True I’m a real cynic.Once Elliot Ness wraps this up Bushie will find a way to get Mr. Comey the ax at Justice. How dare he appoint such a straight arrow to investigate my whitehouse? Watch it come.
October 29th, 2005 at 3:32 pmThe people I know who listen to Rush do it to have their prejudices reinforced. They are not interested in the truth at all. When I give them facts and resources, their eyes seem to glaze over.
October 29th, 2005 at 3:33 pmWe request that Secretary Rumsfeld remove talk radio host Rush Limbaugh from the American Forces Radio and Television Service (formerly known as Armed Forces Radio). Mr. Limbaugh, whose program is broadcast for one hour per day to U.S. troops overseas, has spent the past four weeks condoning and trivializing the abuse, torture, rape and possible murder of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison—gross misconduct that you have described as “fundamentally un-American.â€
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Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is ‘to propagate (actively spread) a philosophy or point of view’. The most common use of the term (historically) is in political contexts; in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments or political groups. A propaganda message can to be distinguished from more general forms of publicity because it includes significant and deliberate falsehoods, and/or omits so many pertinent truths that it becomes highly misleading.
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October 29th, 2005 at 3:59 pm“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war. Never mind whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters but victory.”
Libby? Cheney? Bush? Powell?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-last.htm
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October 29th, 2005 at 4:21 pmRush Lintball is a drugged, conceited, bloviator. If he would ever get his facts straight, he’d have to stop talking. We all heard Coomey say that Fitzgerald is like an Elliot Ness — Rush ignored that — or is his drug overdose affecting his hearing again.
October 29th, 2005 at 4:48 pmand…rummy only allows druggie / rush to be on armed forces radio???? IF…someone is stupid enough to think this idiot is telling even a grain of truth, they deserve what the get. The more his rating drop, the bigger his lies are. RUSH WAS ‘WRONG’….all this time.
October 29th, 2005 at 4:49 pm[...] From Think Progress: Rush Discovers Subliminal Message in Fitzgerald Praise [...]
October 29th, 2005 at 4:49 pmFurther distortions from the reichwing.
Are we surprised.
Has anyone else noticed that Rushbaby is getting fatter now that he no longer forces his made to make his oxycontin runs?
You don’t hear the trolls crying that “Rush isn’t fat anymore” do you?
So, it wasn’t discipline that made Rush thin, it was a drug addiction.
October 29th, 2005 at 4:54 pm#8 Enough Already — that’s a good reminder. Some of us have already written to Armed Forces Radio — can we do it twice? Every day? Will they listen?
October 29th, 2005 at 4:57 pmEd Schultz had a representative on his radio show the other day on this subject also. If guys want to listen to that blowhard, that’s their right, but the AFradio shouldn’t be a propaganda outlet for the Pentagon.
It creates rivalry within the troops.
It undermines cohesiveness needed in battle.
It creates unnecessary stress for the troops if they believe one thing and constantly hear another.
These are only a few of the reasons why one-sided commentary — propaganda — is a bad idea. Rumsfeld?
Schultz’ show was scheduled to be broadcast one hour daily last week, but three hours before it was to begin, the PR woman from the Pentagon who conducted the carefully rehearsed teleconference from Tikrit with Bush cancelled it.
Considering that Fitzgerald was involved in prosecuting actual mobsters in New York, the reference to Eliot Ness is quite appropriate.
October 29th, 2005 at 5:00 pmThe libby indictment is a strategy to get Libby to make a deal trading names for a lighter sentence.
Fitzgerald is no fool. He wants to get the person responsible for the leak – he wants Libby to give him Cheney, or Condi Rice or someone in between – Libby was just doing someone’s bidding – now it’s up to libby to either give that person up or take his chances with a jury, and judging from his lying to the grand jury – he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell
October 29th, 2005 at 5:11 pmYou disillusioned conservative Republicans are not “progressive” enough to be here. You could never keep up.
October 29th, 2005 at 5:22 pmI am sick of hearing the “wrong-wingers” saying that they only listen to Rush because he is so funny. There is nothing funny about his constant denunciation of all things truly American to push his distorted view of life gathered from his Repugnant cronies. These dimwits need to get a real life. That is true of the cretins who run WLS in Chicago as well, who pump out this neocon crap all day every day.
October 29th, 2005 at 5:25 pmSpeaking of indictments, when will Rush be indicted for or charged with illegal possession and transfer of controlled substances? It seems that the news about his ‘creative’ prescription drug acquisition techniques came out a few years ago.
October 29th, 2005 at 5:26 pmConsidering that Rush is a criminal and a drug addict, he sees ’subliminal messages’ everywhere. What else is a criminal druggie like him gonna see – the truth? bahahaha yeah right. The man has always been a paranoid pathological loonie, and thanks to the discovery that he’s a druggie – we now know why.
October 29th, 2005 at 5:47 pmUm, Al Capone was smarter than Bush… no way would that comparison even be considered close!
Bush=Norton from Honeymooners(B&W version)
October 29th, 2005 at 6:50 pmHere’s what Elliot Sanders, a good college friend of Rush’s from Missouri, said in 2002 about Limbaugh’s opinion of his audience: “Rush said that he thought most people are incredibly gullible, and he felt that the key to radio programming was to reach that crowd, and that it would be really, really easy. He thought he thought he could get anyone to believe anything he said, and the more outrageous is was, the more they would believe it.”
Sanders also claimed: “I don’t think these people realize he’s just pandering to them for ratings, but if they find out, I wouldn’t want to be there.”
“That is true of the cretins who run WLS in Chicago as well, who pump out this neocon crap all day every day.”
You’re right, John the Elder, and at least one of those cretins in upper management believes there’s still a ‘fairness doctrine’ in the media; he applies it whenever he needs to keep liberal voices off the air.
October 29th, 2005 at 7:40 pm>>>>>>>>>
…but maybe Rush knows something we don’t.
>>>>>>>>>
NAHHHH!
October 29th, 2005 at 8:38 pmRushies doesnt even bother to try and evaluate before swallowing the Masters Spooge.
See here.
90% of Americans believe in a God or Creator.
80% of Americans consider themselves Christian.
Vote was Fairly Even so we split the 80% to 40%
Gee Golly and Gosh Darn Beaver, that means that half (40%) of the Christians are Liberal?
Of Course ‘Liberal’ is a Freeper code word for Poor Blacks or Non-Bushian. In Reference to war it Means Pacifist.
The People whom sign Rush’s Paychecks are the Very ‘Liberals’ he speaks of.
The Eastern ‘Liberal’ Establishment.
Note that Kristol Media Publications for Conservatives and NEO-CONS, is also bound to the PNAC group. PNAC is bound to AEI American Enterprise Institue. AEI has many Neo-cons in Upper Govt Offices, Panels, and Boards.
Bush Named Wolfowitz to World Bank. Scary. Yet no one Blinked an eye.
What the People have seen is basically a Neo-Con Corporate Sponsored, Think Tank Produced, Kristol Media BS, and Colluding Officals at the Highest Levels involved in a Fiasco to Remove Saddam, and remake IRAQ into an Economic Democracy thru Loss of Life.
Makes you want to throw up..
October 29th, 2005 at 8:54 pmAl Capone was sent to Alcatraz where he suffered with syphilis. If our “Eliot” can accomplish the same results for the Bushie administration…..
I nominate Eliot Ness for Prez.
October 30th, 2005 at 12:02 amIf I were Rush I wouldn’t make that comparison. I’d leave it at the most straightforward comparison, one nobody has mentioned, both Ness and Fitzgerald are from Chicago.
If there is a need to go beyond that it necessarily goes to Capone not being charged with his gang related crimes but instead with tax evasion. That would nicely compare with Libby not being charged with his worst crimes like outing Plame but rather with perjury et al.
October 30th, 2005 at 1:44 pmAl Capone was a crook, but he was also a scholar compared to GW…
October 30th, 2005 at 2:11 pmI think it is truly awesome that the only thing Rush can come up with as a defense for the horrible actions of this administration is this weak attack. The curtain has been pulled back on these clowns and there is no where for them to run.
October 30th, 2005 at 3:13 pmJyms
October 30th, 2005 at 3:16 pm“The curtain has been pulled” – as in – “Ignore that man behind the curtain” -Wizard of Oz
Logic has never been Rush’s strong suit.
Phony inferences, inuendo, the straw man, red herring and appeal to common ignorance are the substitutes for real arguments in this man’s world.
He is a Huey Long of the right, a modern day hero of those for whom there is no distinction between conclusion and premises.
How does he stay on the air? Advertisers, local and national.
Do your part. It’s only a start, but I really wonder how he can stay on the air in many of our larger cities.
An open boycott will not work, it will only encourage his followers. A subtle whispering campaign is more in order.
I listen to his program only to make sure that I do not patronize his local advertisers
October 30th, 2005 at 7:29 pmMind games
the mind is a tool,
witta mind of its own.
if you don’t control it,
it controls you.
if you is not consciously choos’n tha thoughts you entertain n dwell on, you is a slave ta yo thoughts.
if you become offended, upset, angry n hateful, it is coz you’ve allowed yo thoughts ta takes you there.
if you dwizzell on n entertain negative thoughts, tha negative energies they create affect yo mizzind, emotions, spirit n body through illnesses . I started yo shit and i’ll end yo’ shit. these negative energies also radiate fizzy you affect’n blingin’ in yo life.
yo thoughts create negative or positive energy, n if you is not in charge of T-H-to-tha-izzem, who is?
the most positive n reward’n energies
in all creation
are love n gratitude.
and bizzoth is yos
November 1st, 2005 at 1:13 pmwhen you receive all ridin’ wit thankfulness.
Elliot Mess, Public Eye….
November 27th, 2005 at 12:31 ammanagement masters
Interestingly, this was on CNN last week.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm