Limbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.
Limbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh marks twenty years on the air today. During his show this afternoon, Limbaugh received a call from the President George W. Bush, former President George H. W. Bush, and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush. The Bush family congratulated their “pal” Limbaugh on his “twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.” Later in their conversation, former President Bush — apparently not realizing he was on the air — asked about “our man [Roger] Ailes,” the president of Fox News:
H. W. BUSH: Do you see our man Ailes at all?
LIMBAUGH: Oh, yeah. I saw Roger at Tony Snow’s funeral…And a couple of times earlier this summer.
H. W. BUSH: Are we on the radio, are we? [...] I didn’t know that. I’ll clean up my act here. I’m glad they told me.
Listen here:
Yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney sent Limbaugh a recorded message calling him “one of the great names in broadcasting history.”
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Americans are sickened that the Bush family feels it necessary to congratulate the country’s leading Preacher of Hate.
The Republican Party is the Nazi Party. Pass the word.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pmYesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney sent Limbaugh a recorded message calling him a “one of the great names in broadcasting history.”
bozo?
jerry springer?
joe pine?
speedy alka selzter?
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the list of bigger names
goes on and on…
:)
thank you.
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August 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pmYup. Good old GDumbya was sitting around over lunch with Poppy and Jebby. I heard the call. Sure sounded like “the drinking lamp was lit at the White House”.
What a big steaming pile of crapola . . . just like Limpballs himself.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pmHow nice.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:02 pmsnark/
Well would rush be part of the “liberal” media that is so negative about bush/cheney’s war ? Wait, I thought rush said he was tired of being the waterboy for the repubs what happened to that ?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pmIs Bush now on his month long vacation clearing brush on the ranch? I think he bought a pig in a poke when he bought that “ranch” it has so much brush on it that in 7 years he still hasn’t cleared it.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pmHmmm, It could also speak to the Bush work-ethic.
Heh. Runs in the family. Grandfather Prescott Bush was a Nazi symp and financial supporter of Third Reich. “Our man Ailes” is current minister of propaganda.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pm“our boy ailes”=the most important thing to take away from that.
So small a thing, and yet…
August 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pmAll these losers have now is each other.
-GSD
August 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pmNo surprise here folks.The Repukes ,a band of rich folks masquerading as common folks to decieve the least informed.Immoral scums.Repukes are.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pmIf the Democrats had the political sense of the Republicans, they’d be on television citing some of Limbaugh’s most disgusting statements, and claiming that Bush supports those statements unless he specifically denounces them.
Why don’t they?
Because if (say) Barack Obama went on the show of a drug addict who indulged in hate speech and praised him, the Republicans would be all over it like stink on shit.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pm“twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.” Obviously these people have a completely new meaning for ‘important’ & ‘excellent’. More proof the Bush clan are tasteless, hate-mongering goons. The faster they all just head out & clear brush for the rest of their lives, the better. Limbaugh represents everything that is the opposite of Jesus’ teachings & Christian beliefs– and these guys support him? How hollow their “family values’ mantra is.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pmLast night it came out that mccain’s staff were ready to hit Obama if he went to Landstuhl or if he didn’t. Obama couldn’t win. Why is it so hard to run a clean campaign on issues instead of personal attacks.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pmGood grief just read my own post, who am I talking about repubs can’t play honest they don’t know how.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pmperhaps the greatest demagogue in all of history, which is to say, not much of anything at all.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pmAmerica is rotting from withing thanks to these types of plutocrats.
-GSD
August 1st, 2008 at 6:25 pmDid the Prez really say “I’m here with a rump full of admirers”? Freudian slip?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pmThree Bushes take a dip in the Limbaugh Fountain of Hate. Which one will the Fountain bless? Let it be meeeee…
August 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pmWhich Bush enjoys the Rush ride most? Gives a whole new meaning to “mount Rush more”.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:37 pmAccolades from hellspawn.
Just about all that Limbaugh is going to get.
Until Karma has its way.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:37 pmclean up your act?… to late, pappy…
August 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pmand we’re glad you told us…
Karl Rove doesn’t know how to run a clean campaign and obviously he’s working on McCain’s. For free no doubt. After all who has more to lose than Rove if Obama is elected. With McCain as President Rove would never even have to face charges for all the crimes he’s committed.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:44 pmPres George Bush, calling to congratulate you on twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.
More evidence that carrying water for the political, social, and economic elite can earn you a nice living.
That’s what all these reichwing hatemongers dream of: Making lots of money, golfing with the wealthy and powerful. It’s what keeps them spewing the same halftruths, spin, misdirections, and outright lies. What a sorry state of affairs.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:52 pmLimbaugh, as well as the entire Bush clan makes me sick to my brain.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:52 pmTheir man Ailes’ first job was at KYW. Coincidence? you decide.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pmThere’s a Fox behind the Bush.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pmHussein Mccain:
eeewww.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:57 pmRush=Bushlicker
August 1st, 2008 at 6:58 pmDuring his show this afternoon, Limbaugh received a call from the President George W. Bush, former President George H. W. Bush, and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush. The Bush family congratulated their “pal” Limbaugh on his “twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.”
The modern day 3 Stooges , giving glowing reviews and praise to their fat , moronic buddy………..How quaint.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pmI wish they hadn’t told HW that he was on the air. I’d like to hear what he’d say thinking he wasn’t on air.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pmtexaslady Says:
Last night it came out that mccain’s staff were ready to hit Obama if he went to Landstuhl or if he didn’t. Obama couldn’t win. Why is it so hard to run a clean campaign on issues instead of personal attacks.
Because the Repugs (and McDepends) are morally and politically bankrupt. They’ve got nothing else to go on. As soon as Obams eats Johnny Boy alive in a few debates, watch the hate machine go into full speed ahead. And much of our voting public are LIV; they want someone to regurgitate whatever they are supposed to know.
It will be a long and shit-slinging campaign season. Get out your Handi-Wipes and your disinfectant!
August 1st, 2008 at 7:09 pm“Important and excellent broadcasting”?
Well, there’s no accounting for taste…
August 1st, 2008 at 7:21 pmLimbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.
How is this news? Rush gets a call from the Bush family every day according to Scott McLellan.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pmThanks Big George, for encouraging me to learn more about Aires. Puts the “sur” in surreal!
August 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pmRush Limbaugh is a despicable human who breathes hatred and intolerance, on a large scale, into American society and the President of US actually calls to congratulate him on 20 years of his vitriol? Hah! It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Michelle Malkin (who, evidently, is also an absolute moron) had a post on her blog celebrating Rush Limbaugh as if he was some kind of idol. How sick is that?
August 1st, 2008 at 7:58 pmRush on air for 20 years whipping retards into killers of the Christian liberal church going, to protect the country is valued by a President to call him?
Or was it Rush’s fax machine was down and Bush needed to get his daily talking points to Rush by phone..?
August 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pmIt’s like celebrating the 20th anniversary of a tumor.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:33 pmCraig Crawford was on Book TV re: his book Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media. He said the basis for part of his book was studying Dan Rather’s interview with Bush 41 when Rather tried to ask 41 about Bush about Iran Contra and Bush attacked him. Craig’s theory was that Bush went into the interview planning to attack Rather.
Craig went to CBS and interviewed people about it and ran into a cameraman who worked the interview. The cameraman told Crawford he knew the attack was planned because when it came time for the attack, Roger Ailles – who was there off camera – held up a big cue card telling Bush when to attack Rather. Anyway, the interview with the cameraman put the seal on what Craig thought, it was an organized planned attack. I would add an attack on a journalist to protect Bush’s keester and avert answering questions about a huge issue – treason on the part of Reagn/Bush.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:35 pmIt’s the Bush family that has been the tumor, Helena. Rush is just the fetid smell that accompanies it.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:39 pmI want to puke.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 amHeh. Runs in the family. Grandfather Prescott Bush was a Nazi symp and financial supporter of Third Reich. “Our man Ailes” is current minister of propaganda.
Why would any Jewish person vote repug? This should be a given.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 amI remember when Rush was considered a kook, way outside of the mainstream discussion. It is nice to see how mainstream he has become.
People like Rather who are real journalists get their career destroyed for speaking the truth, but having a false document (it didn’t seem intentional). People like Rush Limbaugh throw out lies and smears on a Regular basis and get rewarded for it.
We are living in Bizarro world. I want to get off this carnival ride.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 amUgh, so now that we have PROOF that FOX News’ sole goal is to tow the conservative line, can we please have the FCC force FOx to stop saying “Fair and Balanced” and require FOX to say “The most one-sided, opionated, conservatively slanted program that sometimes has a little bit of truthful reporting”
Seriously.
For more on Ailes read Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 amWhy do you beat about the bush?;
Get off your seat begin to push;
Next year won’t come ’till this one’s through;
Are you so dumb I thought you knew!
About the bush I’m feeling beat;
My bones are old don’t smell my feet;
Salute the flag and watch the polls;
They’ll vote McCain to save their souls.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 amYou’re no fun, Nixon’s the One;
Chuck Heston stuck to his guns;
Waves don’t part for some dumb fart;
Gas given Beano the runs.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 amCountry First: but first put Toby Keith on your Ipod. “I Wanna Talk About Me” you know all I want is buck and a quarter gasoline like the good ol’ days when the good ol’ boys first put Geo W Bush in office. Toby Keith and John McCain have fresh new ideas to repeat the success of Geo W Bush: “Beer For My Horses” and lynching.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 amToby Keith’ nose is brown from following bush around. Face it the Dixie Chicks had it right from the beginning. Takes a woman to have the courage to tell the truth.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pmWhat is that behind his left ear, is that a hearing aid?
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pmYou know, I find that all those people who claim to be hearing impaired are faking it. They are just looking for sympathy. They need a parent to tell them to knock it off, and quit fooling around.
/snark
Just like Mussolini.
F-U-C-K you limpballs. I hope it is shown massive doses of viagra causes prostate cancer just to have you leave this world faster. You will swing alongside boooosh from the whitehouse portico. Just like Mussolini.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 pmDeath to the Bushes!
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 pmtexaslady Says:
Toby Keith’ nose is brown from following bush around. Face it the Dixie Chicks had it right from the beginning. Takes a woman to have the courage to tell the truth.
Toby Keith is a dumbass redneck. Maybe he got kicked in the head by broncos too many times.
Let’s see a debate between that ignorant stooge and Natalie Maines.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 pmWhat’s the requirements for posting here??
(1) You must have attained “The Age of Awesome Wisdom” (under 18)?
(2) You must think that Hate-vomitus is superior to Reason? (3) Your life revolves around inane Conspiracy Theories?
(4) Intellectual insufficiency that leads you to believe that foul language substitutes for brilliant repartee?
My FIRST two (2 for those of you who have trouble ‘reading’ numbers) degrees were in Broadcast Journalism & Political Science. My NEXT two (2) Master’s were in Special Education and Educational Psychology.
“El Rushmo” is truly legendary in his ability to attract (and HOLD) an audience as well as his longevity! Is it the rather awesome salary that he commands in the free-market system that has most of you with your panties in a wad from jealousy?
I spent 41 years teaching metally retarded & emotionally disturbed teen-agers. Why do I read most of your comments and feel that I’ve gone back into the classroom???
By the way, “TripleKick 6,” next time you need an old Combat Medic to take your 6, gimme a shout!
De Oppresso Liber
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pmCargo Drop Sends!
“Our man Ailes.” Wow. That says everything you need to know about Fox News and Rupert Murdoch.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm