Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: ‘They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers’
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: ‘They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers’
Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP. These conservatives have been propagating baseless “facts” to suggest that young Graeme Frost was actually a rich kid being pampered by the government.
Rush Limbaugh has joined in the smear campaign. On his radio show yesterday, Rush introduced his hit job on Graeme by saying, “I had some rudimentary information on this two weeks ago, and it wasn’t enough for me to trust going with. But since then, it has been verified, and most of it’s been verified by a ‘Freeper’ at Free Republic.” Apparently, a posting by a “freeper” is all Rush needs for confirmation.
Rush proceeded to recycle the myths that Graeme and his sister must be fat-cat recipients of government welfare because they attend “one of Baltimore’s expensive private schools” and own a house in a decent neighborhood. As we noted yesterday, Graeme has a scholarship to the private school. His sister’s tuition is covered by the state due to her brain injuries, and the house was purchased for $55,000 in 1991 when the neighborhood was not as safe as it is today.
Limbaugh then tried to draw a parallel between Graeme and his “phony soldiers” remark:
So the bottom line for me is: They can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause. They have to lie. Be it about me, be it about their own voters (such as the Frosts) be it about President Bush, they must lie — and anybody who stands in the way of their succeeding with that lie becomes an enemy, becomes a target. That’s where I and my buddies in talk radio come in. We are a thorn in their side because we represent the truth they are trying to hide, the truth that they are lying about, and they have to do something about it — and they have to do that by lying. […]
They send the kid out to lie. They filled this kid’s head with lies just as they have some of these soldiers about me. Put lies in the kid’s head or put it on the script that he’s reading. He goes out and reads it. He’s 12-years-old! They will use anybody! They’ll corrupt anybody, to get where they’re headed. That’s who they are, folks.
Listen to it:
The real “bottom line” is: Rush propagates baseless information from a “freeper” to attack a 12-year old, fails to determine the facts for himself, and then accuses others of not being able to “rely on truth to make their case.”
When right-wingers attack soldiers who disagree with them on Iraq or kids who disagree with them on health care, that is indeed where Rush and his “hate radio” buddies “come in.” The right-wing attack machine personally assaults anyone for daring to disagree.
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:22 amI’ll be more than happy to disagree. As Al Franken, who is running for Norma Coleman’s Senate seat here in MN so wisely said…
‘Rush Limpballs is a big fat liar’
Kids, soldiers; what’s next, oh brave one, elderly women?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:22 amBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Gunfire from a private security convoy on Tuesday killed two Iraqi women traveling in a car in Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources told CNN.
Although the name of the security firm was not yet released, one of the ministry officials described it as a “Western private security company.”
Off topic, but worth noting. Which company could it be, I wonder?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:23 amI guess that makes him a “phony patient”.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:24 amYahoo! The rusher has just done what everyone has predicted he would;smear a child. AND …. he also has validated the fact he was talking about any soldier who speaks out against the Iraq quagmire. But the dittoheads and Dumbf@ck Repug sheeple, will keep listening and following him off the cliff of un-truth and false-reality.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:24 amFleghmball is such the tough guy!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:24 amNeedless to say, I agree with Rush on this one.
Comment by Rory — October 9, 2007 @ 11:23 am
Of course you do. Why bother even posting that bit of irrelevance?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:25 amHey Rory, gotta suck to still be supporting that drug-addled ED-disabled slob, doesn’t it?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:26 amI’m going to post the entire Graeme transcript because I sure don’t see what lies Graeme told. Maybe Rushbo can be more specific.
Anyone see lies there? Maybe Rush thinks it was a phony car accident.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:26 amhe had to start attacking this kid - Chelsea Clinton is too old now to be defenseless…
October 9th, 2007 at 11:26 amRory, since you agree with Rush that this kid lied, can you point out the lies from the transcript? Thanks in advance.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:27 amThe kid’s not an embryo so he doesn’t deserve saving. He’s also not old enough to slap into a military uni so he’s of no use to the govt. What good is he?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:28 amRush just needs material for his show, so why not smear a 12 year old? It’s par for the course for him. After all, he can’t talk about his Fuhrer, who has proven to the entire world that he’s just a failed liar and piece of excrement.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:28 amIt would be cool, though, if the Frosts could get guvmint-funded education vouchers.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:30 amRush informs another young boy that he’s off the SChip … but soon to be on his lap!
http://www.bartcop.com/rush-boy.JPG
October 9th, 2007 at 11:31 amThe boy turned 12 and so Rush no longer has any use for him. But he would have been delighted to meet him in a motel room in the Dominican Republic a couple of years ago, however. He would have “smeared” him in a different way.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:33 amThey can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause. They have to lie. […] and anybody who stands in the way of their succeeding with that lie becomes an enemy, becomes a target.
A good example of the psychological phenomenon known as “projection.”
October 9th, 2007 at 11:35 amThese right-wingers slay me
October 9th, 2007 at 11:36 am“…suggest that young Graeme Frost was actually a rich kid being pampered by the government.”
What? Too young to be pampered by the government? Is that reserved for billionaire old white men who own factory farms, defense companies, “military” contractors, Halliburton? There’s plenty of government pampering going on — but not to people who need or deserve it.
Thanks for the post Candyce. Great question for Rory also.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:37 amGood god. What a loathesome piece of sh*t. Rush missed his calling - he should have been the Kommandant at Auschwitz.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:37 am“So the bottom line for me is: They can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause. They have to lie. Be it about me, be it about their own voters (such as the Frosts) be it about President Bush, they must lie — and anybody who stands in the way of their succeeding with that lie becomes an enemy, becomes a target. That’s where I and my buddies in talk radio come in. We are a thorn in their side because we represent the truth they are trying to hide, the truth that they are lying about, and they have to do something about it — and they have to do that by lying. […]”
This is textbook projection.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:38 amRush and the Republicans have filled the American people’s heads full of lies for years and years, but now he has a problem with it.
The Republicans own the misinformation game.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:38 amBush is a “phony recovered addict”, because he has to be stoned out of his gourd to smear kids and to keep on smearing soldiers.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:39 amAnyone see lies there? Maybe Rush thinks it was a phony car accident.
Comment by Candyce — October 9, 2007 @ 11:26 am
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Brilliant!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:39 amThe #1 difference between the right and left is the right’s lack of emptahy for authentic human suffering.
“I believe that the lack of empathy shown by Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Kristol, and, yes, Mr. Bush is genuine, not feigned. […] What’s happening, presumably, is that modern movement conservatism attracts a certain personality type. […] If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ woes, you fit right in. […] If you’re poor or you’re sick or you don’t have health insurance, remember this: these people think your problems are funny.”
Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2007/ 10/ 05/ opinion/ 05krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
October 9th, 2007 at 11:39 am“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales… The answer is to find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too.” - Rush Limbaugh… hypocrite.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:39 amfunny stuff coming from a guy who calls his followers “ditto heads”.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:42 amNeedless to say, I agree with Rush on this one.
Comment by Rory — October 9, 2007 @ 11:23 am
Then, why say it?
And to you and Rush I challenge you to provide a list of verifiable facts for your condemnation of this kid and his family. Of course, facts are something you both really find “needless to say” - never mind.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amRory, since you agree with Rush that this kid lied, can you point out the lies from the transcript? Thanks in advance.
Comment by Candyce — October 9, 2007 @ 11:27 am
Rory? Um….Rory? Hello…..?
Chickenshit.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amNeedless to say, I agree with Rush on this one.
Comment by Rory — October 9, 2007 @ 11:23 am
of course you do, neocon.
—- SWEET NEO CON (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
October 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amThe dems use phony soldiers and phony 12 years old.
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 11:38 am
that is rich. Phony evidence to invade a country and thousands have died. Phony fear of same sex marriage to inflame a non issue. Phony morality abounds with republicans.
You follow a fool
October 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amDoesn’t this family have any legal recourse against Limbaugh? This sounds like slander to me.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
If socialistic, government-mandated-and-funded health care is good enough for members of Congress, why not all Americans?
Universal health care will inevitably arrive in America, when corporate interests who favor it (i.e., automakers, service industries) outweigh corporate interests that oppose it (i.e., insuerance companies).
October 9th, 2007 at 11:46 amThe dems use phony soldiers and phony 12 years old.
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 11:38 am
Zionist-Crusader has a phony brain.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:46 amIt’s difficult to quantify the hatred I feel for that man.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:47 amRush says, that boy was a phony 12 yr old.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:48 amWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:43 am
Before you bankrupt the country? Get real. The pittance being spent on programs like this don’t come close to comparing with the cash being spent in Iraq right now. Hell, it doesn’t even compare to the money being lost in Iraq. Couple that with the tax breaks to the wealthy & there’s your “bankrupting the govt”. You’re nickel & diming the poor while giving the rich huge breaks by way of noncompetitive contracts, tax breaks & huge checks for no services. Why is it that Reps pinch every penny that goes to the poor but don’t mind the billions going to the wealthy & corporations?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:48 amWhy is it that Reps pinch every penny that goes to the poor but don’t mind the billions going to the wealthy & corporations?
To Republicans, capitalism is for the poor, socialism is for the rich.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:49 amcaption:
“9 over par? This is a phony course!”
October 9th, 2007 at 11:50 amWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
Comment by ARealAmerican
Hmmmmm…. any guess as to whether or not this person also supports cutting funding for the War or not??? Oh, wait. That’s a different sort of entitlement mentality, not based on charity, but on greed. So it’s a better way of bankrupting the government.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:51 amTo Republicans, capitalism is for the poor, socialism is for the rich.
Comment by koko the talking gorilla — October 9, 2007 @ 11:49 am
I don’t get the idea that the average Rep voter is a member of the “rich”. I guess they’re stupid enough to believe they too will be taken care of someday. It hasn’t happened in almost 7 years but govt fairness, like victory in Iraq, must be just around the next corner.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:51 am#30 Then you must agree that we need to end corporate welfare: oil subsidies, farm subsidies even Wal-Mart, the nation’s larges business received $1B in subsidies. How about airline bail-outs? You know, before we bankrupt the country.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:52 amPresident Bush is 61, what’s his excuse for lying about the SCHIP bill raising eligibility for the program to households making $83,000 (not in the bill, any waivers for income limits still have to be approved by the Administration).
And why was Bush all for spending hundreds of billions on prescription drug insurance to seniors, but cheaper health insurance for kids is some kind of “creeping socialism”?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:52 amActually, the #1 difference between the right and left in this country is that the right believes in protecting innocent life, such as unborn babies and the infirm, and in destroying evil, such as murderers, rapists, and terrorists. The left believes in protecting evil and in destroying innocent and defenseless life. It is pretty cut-and-dry. Any questions?
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:51 am
That seems to contradict the point of this article doesn’t it? How is the right protecting innocent life by trashing this 12 year old?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:53 amPelosi and Reid sure are doing a good job of punking the Republic Party on health care. It’s an issue that all Americans care deeply about, and GOP members of Congress are gonna have to split with Bush or their anti-CHIP votes are really gonna sting at election time.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:54 amNice. Rush has fallen so low that he has to attack a 12 year old and call him a liar.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:54 amSounds like slander to me. I think Graeme should sue Rush. Wouldn’t it be great if a 12 year old stood up to Rush to say - “No More Lies about me Rush!”
Whenever the right wing is on the defensive, they accuse the left wing of doing exactly what they are doing. When the right wing is dishonest, they accuse of being dishonest. When the right wing is spending money like it’s going out of style, they accuse of the left wing of tax and spend. When the right wing is caught draft dodging, they accuse the left wing of getting phony medals. Ad nauseum.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:54 am“Rush proceeded to recycle the myths that Graeme and his sister must be fat-cat recipients of government welfare because they attend “one of Baltimore’s expensive private schools†and own a house in a decent neighborhood. ”
As if it would be difficult to come up with thousands of children who do not attend a private school and who do not live in a decent neighborhood. Therefore, the program is really not needed.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:54 amWhen faced with truth, call them liars. Typical Repukian Fascist Propaganda at its worst.
Black is White, war is peace, ignorance is security, thruth is a lie, opposition is being phony.
Go figure, it’s 1984 again.
Buck Fush
October 9th, 2007 at 11:55 amHiya Zooey! How’s school coming? Google dc protest sept 29 2007-photos on flickr. check it out. look for me, I’m the one with the veteran for peace sign.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:56 amWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
And yet, we can spend 1.5 billion a week on a stupid war in Iraq and these guys don’t bat an eye.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:56 amYou can hardly make the claim that this 12 year old pawn being used by the socialists to further their agenda is innocent.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:54 am
Of course he’s innocent. He’s a representative of a benefactor of a program that Bush wants to limit. What is he guilty of, since you say he’s not innocent? How is it socialism for the poor to want the same kind of govt health insurance that the politicians get?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:57 amWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:43 am
If one had some modicum of sense they may be fooled into believeing that “ARealAmerican” was speaking out against the government’s penchant for no-bid, cost plus contracts given out to the major donors to the Bush administration.
If “ARealAmerican” had sense…the possibilities are staggering.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:57 amLimpdick has sunk to the bottom, smearing a 12 year old. Need any more proof that conservatives are pukes?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:58 amYou can hardly make the claim that this 12 year old pawn being used by the socialists to further their agenda is innocent.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:54 am
One can hardly make the claim that you have any critical thinking skills at all.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:58 amcorrection… benefactor = beneficiary
October 9th, 2007 at 11:58 amYou can hardly make the claim that this 12 year old pawn being used by the socialists to further their agenda is innocent.
You are behaving exactly like the Krugman quote says: “If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ woes, you fit right in.”
Again demonstrating rightwingers’ inability to empathize with genuine suffering. What a bunch of soulless, subhuman sh*tbags.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:59 amTP -
Dump the trolls. Do we have to listen to a moron call a 12 year old guilty of furthering a socialist agenda?
Come on - what is this sh*t?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:59 amThe New List of Republican Dislikes:
Children
October 9th, 2007 at 11:59 amPuppies
Kittens
Rainbows
Unicorns
I’m no fool. The dems have brainwashed you fools.
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Proof?
Link?
Anything?
…
Bueller?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pmRush is losing credibility. It used to be he was the first to attack someone maliciously. Anchor baby Malkin beat him to it this time and he’s pissed!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pmRush wouldn’t the truth unless it came in the form of a table of hillbilly heroin
October 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pmI’m the one with the veteran for peace sign.
Comment by Uncle Ho — October 9, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Hi, Uncle Ho. School is driving me insane this semester, but I’ll get through it. :)
I shall use “the Google.”
October 9th, 2007 at 12:04 pmThis is the desperation and the true nature of the Friedman “profit over everything” mentality. the human cost is meaningless. This bastard attacks one child and family here in America and we are outraged, but he is literally begging to launch another “Shock and Awe” campaign on the children of Iran….
October 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pmThese people are monsters. Driven by nothing but greed and self gratification. Rush is a water carrying apologist and sympathiser for the CFR Imperial Regime. We must draw a line in the sand before it is too late and we find ourselves living on the wrong side of the American Green Zone.
Proof?
Link?
Anything?
…
Bueller?
Comment by Luis M — October 9, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Give him time! He needs to find a freeper.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pmI’m no fool. The dems have brainwashed you fools.
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Once you have to explain that you are not a fool, it’s too late.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pmBy then Everyone knows for sure.
This 12 isn’t the one to blame, it’s the dems who phonied him up.
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
Thank you, oh crusader. Laughter is good for the soul. How, exactly, has this boy been phonied up?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:07 pmThis is war now. Everytime someone speaks up for the Democrats, they’re smeared by the right. No exceptions.
Time to drop Rush from Armed Forces Radio Network. Dems, are you going to fight back yet? I don’t want my tax dollars going to pay for his broadcast.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:09 pmIt’s fine for Bush to use babies as props when vetoing the stem cell research bill but dems can’t use a 12-year old to aid in the heath care bill. How come they can do it be we can’t?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:09 pmadded to the Republican dislike list:
flowers
October 9th, 2007 at 12:09 pmbutterflies
Sara Lee
I probably have a higher IQ than about 70%
Based on my experience, people who boast about their IQ aren’t half as smart as they think they are.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:10 pmI know that this 12 year old is being manipulated by the socialists.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Terror and the New Red Scare!!!
brought to you by “ARealAmerican”
October 9th, 2007 at 12:10 pmThey send the kid out to lie. They filled this kid’s head with lies just as they have some of these soldiers about me. Put lies in the kid’s head or put it on the script that he’s reading. He goes out and reads it. He’s 12-years-old! They will use anybody! They’ll corrupt anybody, to get where they’re headed. That’s who they are, folks.
They = 70% of the US who knows you are a prostitute for war profiteering.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pmI believe there’s a saying: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!”
But apparently, if you’re a morally bankrupt neocon watercarrier, the saying goes more like: “If you find yourself in a hole, keep on digging until you emerge in China.”
October 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pmComment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Again, could you please clarify where the child lied and why you are defending Rush’s smear of this kid? Where was his lie?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pmNeedless to say, I agree with Rush on this one.
Comment by Rory — October 9, 2007 @ 11:23 am
I believe you would agree with Rush if he advocated the extermination of all left-handed people.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pm#46 do you honestly believe that the Republican party actually gives a F**K about the unborn? They don’t truly want abortion made illegal, they truly don’t want to end it. They only want it to hang around for fundraising and vote raising purposes. How can I reach this conclusion? Easy. During the last six years when they had control of everything they were able to have a major terrorist attack on our soil and not investigate it independently. They were able to invade a sovereign nation posing no threat to our country. They were able to essentially legalize torture and government sanctioned kidnapping. They were able to establish a secret prison system. They were able to break many long standing treaties with their novel thinking process. They essentially ended the notion of habeus corpus and have put justices on the SC who do not believe in precedent. They have made listening to citizens phone calls without a warrant or probable cause acceptable. They have established a new class of individuals who are not accountable under US or any other laws. They have broken the budget. They have ended the notion of competitive bidding. They lost an entire US city and shrugged their shoulders. They broke down the barriers between the church and government. Yadda Yadda Yadda, and they have made all of this perfectly palatable to their supporters as well as getting all of it passed easily. You think that overturning abortion would have been an easy issue for them yet they never even tried. All this makes me believe 100% that they only keep the issue around for political purposes because if abbortion was illegal then many of those supporters would have no reason to support the right. It is all part of their market segmentation approach to gaining votes. After the votes are tallied they go right back to their regualr agenda though.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pmFox got “dupped,” huh?
I guess that’s the new meme.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pmJust like Michael J. Fox got dupped into doing that ad in Missouri. Another pathos-based advertisement based on half-truths.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
You mean Michael J. Fox only has half of Parkinson’s Syndrome?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:13 pmdems are stuppid — Comment by Zionist-Crusade
I like your way with words, Jughead.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmGregM, that’s a phony syndrome and you know it.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmdems are stuppid
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Ohhhh, the irony….
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmNotaRealAmerican - you have been brainwashed with the Repukian Fascist Propaganda Machine, oh wait, you’re not smart enough to know that, sorry, carry on your Fascist Pig Talking Points.
Buck Fush
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmdems are stuppid
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
What a moran.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmI probably have a higher IQ than about 70% of the people on this blog.
Comment by ARealAmerican
Oh, yeah, your posts really reflect that.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass off for a few hours, after reading your inane posts.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pmSeverus - good call on post 87.
Since the right has been co-opted by the soulless neocon corpo-facists we’ve truly seen how they trot out ethics and morals for election time and election time only.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pmComment by Candyce — October 9, 2007 @ 11:26 am
Great post, Candyce. I would like Rush or any of his numerous supporters to point out which statement Graeme made that was false.
So the bottom line for me is: They can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause. They have to lie.
I think a psychiatrist familiar with Limbaugh’s work could tell you that this is a classic case of projection. What Rush said is true, but of conservatives like him. They know that if they tell the whole truth (such as, for example, they want lower taxes because they are greedy and selfish) that they won;t win any arguments, so they resort to lies and falsehoods to win the day (such as cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans will mean more jobs for the rest of us because the rich will have more money to invest, which supposedly creates jobs. Actually, they’ll just keep most of what the government gives them back or pass it on to their grandchildren.)
October 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pmThe trolls in here are parroting the spin that it looks bad to attack the 12 year old, so they are now going after the “socialists” that “manipulated” them.
Yes. That’s “critical thinking”. Congrats to you upper 70 percentile boy.
But let me explain to you, you simple-minded little Free-Market apologist: you will never be what you hope to be, in that little 1% club with the Rushs’ and the Bushs’. You are being played, idiot. You are being made the sucker once again. By time you realise that they never had any intention of letting you sycophants in their club, it will be too late. They will force you to pay insurance that you can’t afford and you can’t use, when you need it. They will check your “papers” just like everyone else’s. They know a pathetic suck-up when they see one. Just like us.
So you keep on with that idiotic line that you think for yourself while you repeat the talking points for the cause. You keep thinking you will be one of the chosen few… you keep telling yourself that just as long as you possibly can.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pmdems are stuppid
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Okay, seriously, who are you? My hat’s off to your humor, sir.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pmdems are stuppid
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Oh, the irony….
Man, these trolls have me laughing so hard this morning.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:17 pmARealAmerican, how do you feel about corporate welfare?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pmSo you keep on with that idiotic line that you think for yourself while you repeat the talking points for the cause. You keep thinking you will be one of the chosen few… you keep telling yourself that just as long as you possibly can.
Comment by willyloman — October 9, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
Absolutely fantastic, willy.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pmYet another symptom of leftist, socialist, elitism: shout down anyone with an opposing opinion or belief, and call them them names. So much for the free speech that you hold so dear.
Comment by ARealAmerican
This is the whole psychological problem the right has in a nutshell. He’s posting this statement under a thread about the rightwing attacking and trying to intimidate a 12-year old boy for advocating a political belief. The dementia is really stunning.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pm100 - Ouch Willy! Don’t hurt the poor child!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pmIt’s the new republican sport. Kicking children. It’s fun. It’s easy. What’s not to love. Vietnam vets, soldiers, and now little sick children.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pmComment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Banging your head on that wall has got to hurt.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pmBush is the greatest President ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Wow. One more “ever” and you might have had me….
October 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pmSo, what you are saying is that if John Kerry had been elected President, Hurricane Katrina would NOT have hit New Orleans?
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Just how high an IQ are you claiming to have?
bwahahahahaha
October 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pm#
They lost an entire US city and shrugged their shoulders.
Comment by Severus — October 9, 2007
So, what you are saying is that if John Kerry had been elected President, Hurricane Katrina would NOT have hit New Orleans?
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Reading comprehension is something that some of us here at ThinkProgress may take for granted. If we study this example closely, we can see how simple disconnects in our ability to comprehend ideas expressed by the written word can lead to all sorts of misunderstandings!
ACTUALLY ARA…I believe that the poster here may have insinuated that a Kerry presidency wouldn’t have flown merely flown over NO while his good ol’ buddy Brownie completely botched FEMA’s response to one of the most devastating natural disasters we’ve experienced in recent memory. I don’t think anyone here thinks that John Kerry can control the weather…although I wouldn’t put it past his wife.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pmBush is the worst President ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
October 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pmActually, the #1 difference between the right and left in this country is that the right believes in protecting innocent life, such as unborn babies and the infirm, and in destroying evil, such as murderers, rapists, and terrorists. The left believes in protecting evil and in destroying innocent and defenseless life. It is pretty cut-and-dry. Any questions?
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:51 am
I have to disagree with you. I believe that the #1 difference between the right and the left in this country is that while we all agree that the world is a dangerous place, the right believes that it always will be and that you must destroy those who diasagree with you, while the left believes that the world can be made a better place if we all just learn to drop our ignorant prejudices and actually learn the truth about one another. The right wants to tell you who you should fear, while the left wants to tell you who you should love. The right wants you to hide in a corner in fear, while the left wants you to come out and see for yourself what is happening. The right wants you to shut up and obey those in authority, while the left feels that good ideas don’t always come just from the people in charge and that any good idea is worth paying attention to regardless of who it comes from. The left believes in attacking a bad idea on its lack of merit, while the right believes in attacking the person giving the message regardless of its veracity.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm#103 is that what I said? I said they shrugged their shoulders,, implying that the city was lost and the republican controlled administration did not care. Katrina was going to hit regardless of who was in office. Only republican sympathizers make the claim that dems blame Bush for Katrina or that Dems claim Katrina would not have hit had Kerry been in office. The big difference would have been that the government would have responded to Katrina in a manner similar to how they responded to the three Hurricanes that hit Florida (a battleground state) ion 2004 (an election year). But since Louisiana and NO are Democrat states we got the response we got. Of course you do a nice job of diverting attention away from my premise that the Republican party does not truly care about the unborn, they only care about the issue.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pmWhat I don’t want is a bunch of parasites taking ever more of my hard-earned dollars through federal entitlement programs. This is America. It is every man for himself. It has made us the most powerful and industrious nation in the history of this planet. I can live with it. I am self-sufficient. I don’t need government handouts. If I am ever in need, I have friends, family, and charity to help me out. If you can’t live with it, and you can’t make your way in life on your own two feet, then go to Canada and Western Europe with the rest of the socialists and pay 60% income tax.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
If you’re truly concerned about govt spending you should be bashing Bush for emptying the treasury on his buddies… not the poor.
I live in Canada, make a lot more cash then you do, have healthcare and pay 35% tax. Apparently my education was superior as well.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pmPlease please please people. Before you “rush” to conclusions about why Rush Limpo relies on evidence just sitting on his chair, aren’t you forgetting something. “THE BIG CYST ON HIS BATOOTY DOES NOT ALLOW HIM TO MOVE AROUND MUCH”. Doctors only allow him to travel to certain exotic resorts with men on a private aircraft with a bagload of Viagra.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pmSo you keep on with that idiotic line that you think for yourself while you repeat the talking points for the cause. You keep thinking you will be one of the chosen few… you keep telling yourself that just as long as you possibly can.
Comment by willyloman — October 9, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
Well said, willy.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pmUniversal health care will inevitably arrive in America, when corporate interests who favor it (i.e., automakers, service industries) outweigh corporate interests that oppose it (i.e., insuerance companies).
Comment by koko the talking gorilla — October 9, 2007 @ 11:46 am
And considering how the weight of health care costs for employees gets heavier and heavier each year for corporations, that day may not be far off. Many smaller companies can no longer offer their employees health care insurance at all, or they can offer a group plan where the employee pays 100% of the premiums themselves.
Like it or not, Americans are already paying for the health care of others. Not through taxes, but through higher prices for goods and services. When you buy a Ford Taurus, you are paying more for the health care of the Ford employees who made the car than you are paying for the steel that went into the car. And it will get worse.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pmAs usual, Rush is right, and you would rather talk about him than your own candidates and congressmen.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:28 pmI am self-sufficient.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
You maintain an extensive garden? Do you own a car?
You aren’t self-sufficient, and until you actually realize that you will continue to promote policies that reinforce your “every man for himself” delusion. Every citizen, his or her well-being, in the country has some sort of effect on us all. Socialism is one thing, and by the sounds of your arguments is one thing that you haven extremely poor grasp of. Providing health care for children is a completely different thing and your lack of depth and compassion concerning this topic says a lot about your character.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:28 pm#113, sadly you fail to nocite the parasites in thhe rpeublicna party who have treated their business supporters as if government spennding and contracts are an entitlement program for them.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:28 pmLike it or not, Americans are already paying for the health care of others.
Comment by missmolly — October 9, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
Where do you get off trying to inject truth into a discussion concerning Conservative philosophy? Blasphemer!!!
/snark
October 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm#113, sadly you fail to nocite the parasites in thhe rpeublicna party who have treated their business supporters as if government spennding and contracts are an entitlement program for them.
Comment by Severus
But they are his friends!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm#87 - well said!!
And they call *us* stupid….
October 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pmLiberals fully support free speech. But a troll’s only purpose is to disrupt the converstion here at a liberal website. The fact that they’re here speaks volumes. They’re afraid of this little 12 year old and those of us that support him.
And they know the GOP is the party who likes to f*ck kids. When they’re not molesting them.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pmI am self-sufficient.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
You mentioned in an earlier post that the right is concerned with protecting innocents, but by this post it really sounds like you’re just looking out for yourself.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pmThis is Rush’s general M.O. Rush cannot rebut reasonable ideas, so he has to discredit the person voicing them. His favorite way of doing this is to imply that 1) the person is a complete idiot, and 2) because the person is brainless, he/she has been duped by others. Not only has Rush employed this technique on Graeme Frost, but he also used it on Brian McGough.
Discrediting people is SOOOO much easier than discrediting talking points! And, of course, all the dittoheads just lap it up.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pmWow, the trolls on this are so idiotic that I really don’t think I will take the time to point out their stupidity.
They are writing their own punchlines - Todays top ten stuPPid troll quotes.
1. dems are stuppid
2. Bush is the greatest President ever ever…..
3. I probably have a higher IQ than about 70%….
4. Just like Michael J. Fox got dupped into doing that ad…
5. left believes in protecting evil and in destroying innocent and defenseless life
6. this 12 year old is being manipulated by the socialists.
7. The dems use phony soldiers and phony 12 years old.
8. Needless to say, I agree with Rush on this one.
9. Yet another symptom of leftist, socialist, elitism
10. before we bankraupt the government.
Stupid is as stuPPid does.
Buck Fush
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pmThis is America. It is every man for himself. It has made us the most powerful and industrious nation in the history of this planet.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
That’s your problem right there. This statement is so flawed as to almost be laughable. This country was not founded on the principle of “every man for himself”, not by a long shot. Have you read the U.S. Constitution? It begins, “We the People…”, not “We the Individuals Looking Out For Ourselves.” If this country truly was about “every man for himself”, then why would corporations bother to merge with one another? Why would people enter into contracts with each other? Why would we even have social institutions like churches or professional sports teams if everyone was only looking out for himself? Your “argument” is inherently flawed.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pmI think ARealAmerican is off somewhere in his basement fighting the socialist scourge!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pmIf dems had any moral decency at all, they would be republicans
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
Could you please enlighten us with your definition of “moral decency”? Please, please, please tell us it doesn’t just have to do with preventing gays from having sex.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pmIf dems had any moral decency at all, they would be republicans
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
Do you have a gig at Zanies coming up? You are too funny.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pmYour “argument†is inherently flawed.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — October 9, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
ARealAmerican was forced to pull out all the classic desperation moves trying to defend his buddy Rush…I almost feel pity for him…he must’ve furiously pounded out his rallying cry for Cons everywhere only to spew some incoherent and contradictory jabber about how he’s selfish and all that.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:36 pmTo state the obvious: universal health care will inevitably arrive in America. It will occur when corporate interests who favor it (i.e., automakers, service industries) outweigh corporate interests that oppose it (i.e., insurance companies). It’s about saving America’s competetiveness in world markets, and eventually even the GOP will come around. We already have functioning government mandated and funded health care members of Congress, for veterans, for the poor and the elderly, so all the screeching about “socialistic” medicine is just noise that serves only interests of the for-profit health insurance business.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:36 pmIf dems had any moral decency at all, they would be republicans
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
wow, all the trolls have a fresh batch of “Stupid Pills” this morning.
Hey ZC, how about your hero Sen. “Tappy McWideStance” Craig. Now there is an icon of Republican “moral decency” if there ever was one.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:39 pmThe free market will see to that.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
12 Year Old Boy: (In response to hearing about the proposed S-CHIP program) The Socialists are coming! The Socialists are coming!
ARealAmerican: (Enter screen right, dressed in Capt.America garb) Fear not lad!!! The forces of free market will separate the wheat from the chaffe and make sure that only those worthy of reaping the benefits of its splendor will survive!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:39 pmARealAmerican thinks he’s a true patriot, but he’s merely a flag humper.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pmhe’s merely a flag humper.
Comment by Zooey — October 9, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
LMAO…I wonder if hearing Taps gets his patriotic fervor really cooking?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pmOn topic,
I couldn’t expect any less from that walking, talking smear machine that Rush Limbaugh is.
Stooping as low as to denigrate the soldiers currently in service and a 12yo is beyond the pale.
“Conservatives” support the troops and want to protect the children as long as they shut up and pose for the photo op, and help further the neo-con agenda.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:44 pmARealAmerican thinks he’s a true patriot, but he’s merely a flag humper.
Comment by Zooey — October 9, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
lmao
October 9th, 2007 at 12:44 pmThe free market will see to that.
It takes a special faculty for willful ignorance to believe that the free market can be relied on to efficiently allocate public goods, like national defense, fire protection, police protection, and health care.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:46 pmI am self-sufficient. I don’t need government handouts.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
Cool, use your money to pay for the illegal war in Iraq that is creating more terrorists bent on attacking the USA every day. I’m tired of my taxes paying for your mistake.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:47 pmKids, soldiers; what’s next, oh brave one, elderly women?
Comment by Zimzone — October 9, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Oh, he’s probably smeared Helen Thomas a few times over the years. And he probably supports clubbing baby seals so………maybe puppies or kittens? Baby ducks?
EIB=Excrement In Broadcasting
October 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pmImpotent Rush got busted with a phoney prescription for viagra. It belonged to someone else.
The story is, he likes to take along some viagra when he’s vacationing in countries that allow sex with little boys. Uh oh. I think he’s got a crush on this poor 12 year old kid. Call the authorities!
Gee, and I wonder how he got that cyst on his ass?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:49 pmmoral decency, Republicans(oxymoron)
too funny. LMFAO!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pmRush Limpbaugh is a FAT COWARD! You didn’t see him fighting in Viet Nam did you? He’s a coward who like to fight with other people’s children. He has no right attacking children, but that’s what Republicans do. Come on my misguided Republican friend defend this
October 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pmIf dems had any moral decency at all, they would be republicans
Comment by Zionist-Crusader — October 9, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
If Republicans had any moral decency, they wouldn’t be Republicans.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:53 pm.
Why do the NeoCon propagandists that parade as journalists hate Americans?
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:53 pmmoral decency, Republicans(oxymoron)
too funny. LMFAO!!!
Comment by Uncle Ho
OxyMoron? Rush is addicted to OxyContin! He used to pick it up at a Denny’s parking lot 3 miles from his house.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pmGee, and I wonder how he got that cyst on his ass?
Comment by RagingGurrl — October 9, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
It was congenital, and while it kept Rush from serving in Vietnam, it didn’t stop his father from serving in WWII.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pmThe boy turned 12 and so Rush no longer has any use for him. But he would have been delighted to meet him in a motel room in the Dominican Republic a couple of years ago, however. He would have “smeared†him in a different way.
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — October 9, 2007 @ 11:33 am
Yet another evil attempt by a liberal dem to spread lies about Rush. If you weren’t so far gone in Rush-hatred you’d admit that he really went to the Dominican Republic to have sex with 12 year old girls.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pmCan’t you comprehend your OWN words?????? Can’t you understand English? Can’t you libs even HEAR things correctly???
My God! If you could you would admit that Rush is NOT smearing a child BUT the libs and lib media who are behind it!
Phew! Talk about writing a NON STORY again!
Are you libs real???? UNBELIEVABLE!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:56 pmI just wanna point out again, what a great job Pelosi and Reid are doing smacking the GOP around on health care. It’s an issue most Americans care deeply about, and GOP members of Congress, if they want to keep their jobs, are gonna have to split with the White House on this. That’s a first, and it bodes well for the Dems’ effort to reign in Bush’s Iraq fiasco.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pmGee, and I wonder how he got that cyst on his ass?
Comment by RagingGurrl — October 9, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Well, actually I tend to think of him as a cyst on my ass.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pmAre you libs real???? UNBELIEVABLE!!
Comment by John Kerry — October 9, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
Are you really John Kerry? UNBELIEVABLE!!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pmWe need to end this entitlement metality now, before we bankraupt the government.
Comment by ARealAmerican — October 9, 2007 @ 11:43 am
Ummm… Mr “RealAmerican”?? ** cough cough**
3/4 of the current Fed deficit was run up by THREE presidents - Reagan and the 2 Bushes… you need to get a better talking point, or people are just going to keep making fun of you… and giving you psychic wedgies..
October 9th, 2007 at 12:59 pm‘this is America. It is every man for himself.”-comment by ARealAmerican
folks, what we have here is the TRUE face of “compassionate conservatism”
October 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pmi got to kitty’s comment (#19) and had to say something. she (?) hit the nail on the head. who should the govt take of first? the rich or the poor? i am sick of tired of hearing the conservatives give a pass on the corporate welfare queens. the govt is supposed to care of the sick and poor. how many kids could we cover with SCHIP with one day’s cost of the iraq occupation? let’s face it: we spend way to much of our GNP on military spending. i didn’t say “defense spending”. could we spend a little less on imperialistic military ventures around the world and more on health care and education for our children here at home, for god’s sake?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pmand giving you psychic wedgies..
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — October 9, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
Oh, those psychic wedgies are the worst. For some reason, they’re always worse than you imagine. :)
October 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pmHey Uncle Ho,
I found you in those pictures. :)
October 9th, 2007 at 1:06 pmI probably have a higher IQ than about 70% of the people on this blog.
Comment by ARealAmerican
Uh Huh. People who have to brag about their IQ’s are like those that brag about their sexual prowess; neither are really “up” to the task.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pmWhat pictures Zooey? Can we see?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pmOh, this is a special one.
1. There are no “chosen few.” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
2. What I don’t want is a bunch of parasites taking ever more of my hard-earned dollars through federal entitlement programs. If you were thinking about fiscal responsibility, you should think about the national debt, not the federal deficit. After DHHS (see: Medicare) and the Defense Department (not including any costs for the Iraq War, which is a violent offense in itself to any reasonable discussion on budgeting), the largest payment our government makes every year is on the interest our debt accrues: $406 billion. As for your comment on “parasites”, the defense department defends our national property as well as our lives, and the rich pay a disproportionately low amount of taxes for the protection of their property.
3. This is America. It is every man for himself. Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what can you do for your country.
4. It has made us the most powerful and industrious nation in the history of this planet. Heads up, as of 2006 the European Union has passed the USA in GDP. And just because they didn’t have a violent revolution capped with a bunch of flag waving and pompous, self-congratulatory ceremonies doesn’t mean the Euro isn’t kicking the Dollar’s ass in open combat.
5. If I am ever in need, I have friends, family, and charity to help me out. And as one of your friends, let me be the first to quote you on that occasion: Every man for himself.
6. If you can’t live with it, and you can’t make your way in life on your own two feet, then go to Canada and Western Europe with the rest of the socialists and pay 60% income tax. Most people in Canada pay about 22% in income tax, and they get free health care with it. And it’s a democracy. Their highest tax bracket is 29%.
You. Fail.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:12 pm#136 did I say anything about Gov Blanco or Mayor Nagin (A former Bush supporter?) or their performance before during or after Katrina? That is an issue unto it’s self. Are we talking about their actual performance? Their perceived performance or the performance scenario created by the rightwing punditry? Did they perform at the top of their game? Not at all, but at least they performed and tried to do their jobs. They made the effort. As to post Katrina…Umm I think you need to revisit what has happened there. But once again this distraction has nothing to do with the notion that the Republican party only uses abortion as a political tool and really has no concerns for the unborn or any living person other than themselves.
As an aside I think it is telling that you simply pull one item out of the list to harp on, I’ll take it that because you don’t address any other point in the list that you agree and that since you don’t address the main point of the post that you agree that abortion is only a political tool to be used when convenient (election and fundraising times)
October 9th, 2007 at 1:13 pmThe only Republican concerned about 12 year olds is Fingers Foley
October 9th, 2007 at 1:15 pm#169 - RagingGurrl
Look for the guy in the boonie hat, standing next to an Amazon in a white t-shirt. (in the group of 451 photos) :)
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2007/ 10/ 09/ rush-limbaugh-on-graeme/ #comment-4112742
October 9th, 2007 at 1:17 pm#174 ~ Enough talk. Someone wheel out the guillotine.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:18 pmZooey, the other 4 people in the foreground with me were on the bus from Detroit. The one next to me is Laura and is married.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:29 pmyippeeeeee!!! guillotine, ha-ha, guillotine.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:30 pmHere is a partial list of Repukians with moral decency.
And this list doesn’t not include the perverts and pedifiles
Convicted and jailed
Con. Bill Janklow(R-SD), John Rowland(R-CT), Larry Franklin(R), Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), Gov. John Rowland (R-CT), Vincent Cianci, Mayor(R-RI), Jack Abramoff, GOP
Convicted
State Rep. & House Min. Ldr Galen Fox (R-HI), Gov. Bob Taft (R-OH), Brian Hicks, CoS to Gov. Bob Taft (R-OH), Cherie Carroll, Cof S Exe. Sec. to Gov. Bob Taft (R-OH), State Rep. Dan Doyle (R-OR)
Arrested
Leandro Aragoncillo, Thomas Noe, Bush-Cheney 04 campaign chair, NW Ohio; Commissioner; Uni. Regent (R-OH), Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Pleaded guilty
New Hampshire-4 Republican-2002 phone jamming scandal, James Tobin, NE pol. dir. Nat. Rep. Sen. Campaign Com. (R-NH), Chuck McGee, former Exec. Dir. New Hampshire Rep. Party (R-NH), Allen Raymond, GOP Marketplace Pres. (R-NH), Michael Scanlon, former Cof S to Tom DeLay
Indicted
Adam Taff, 2004 con. candidate, KS-3 (R-KS), Dan Druen, Tran. Com. (R-KY), Bob Wilson, Dep. Per. Sec. (R-KY), Darrell Brock, Chairman of Kentucky GOP (R-KY), Basil Turbyfill, Personnel Adviser to KY Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY), Bill Nighbert, Tran. Sec. (R-KY), Dick Murgatroyd, Dep. CoS to KY Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY), Jim Adams, Dep. Trans. Sec. (R-KY), James Tobin, NE pol. dir. Nat. Rep Sen. Camp. Com. (R-NH), Hayes Martin, Treas. of Charles Taylor’s con. camp. (R-NC), Bernadette Noe, Thomas Noe’s wife, C of Lucas County GOP; C. of Lucas Co. BoE. (R-OH), Jim Ellis, Dir. Amer. for a Rep. Majority (ARMPAC) PAC (R-TX), John Colyandro, Tex.for a Rep. Majority (TRMPAC), DeLay ass. (R-TX), Warren RoBold, Lobbyist & DeLay ass. (R-TX), Steve Rosen, Amer. Israel Pub. Affairs Com. (AIPAC), Keith Weismann, AIPAC, Larry Franklin, Col., USAF Res., DoD
Under indictment
George Ryan(R-IL), Kenneth Tomlinson(R), Armstrong Williams(R), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), AG Jane Brady (R-DE)
Under investigation/Probed
Karl Rove(R), Ben Stevens (R-AK), Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL), Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), Ralph Reed (R-GA), Gov. Felix Camacho (R-Guam), Dalton Tanonaka (R-HI), Rep. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House (R-IL), Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL), Bob Kjellander, RNT (R-IL), State Rep. Lee Daniels (Elmhurst) (R-IL), Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), Jim Kittle, GOP state chairman (R-IN), Rep. Chris Chocola (R-IN), Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY), Sen. John Sununu (R-NH), Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH), Tom Wilson, GOP State Chairman (R-NJ), Jeanine Pirro, DA and US Senate can. (R-NY), Gov. Froilan Tenorio (R-Northern Marianas Islands), Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC), Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH), Douglas Moormann, Gov. Taft