Think Progress

Specter defends Limbaugh: ‘I like him.’

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who is trailing Club for Growth president Pat Toomey in the polls for the 2010 GOP primary, has been lurching to the right recently, most notably by announcing last month that he will vote against the Employee Free Choice Act. On the Howard Stern radio show today, Specter took to defending Rush Limbaugh:

specter1.jpgSpecter: Do I like Rush Limbaugh? … Yeah, I like him [...]

Stern: He’s a crackpot? He’s an enemy of the country.

Specter: (laughing) Uh, no, he’s not. He’s expressing his opinion.

Stern: Senator, wait a second. In all seriousness. He wants the president to do poorly? Listen, I never voted for Bush, but I always wanted to see him do well. I’m an American. I want my president to be successful. Who says ‘I don’t want my president to do well?’ That’s anti-American!

Specter: Well I haven’t heard Rush Limbaugh say that. But there’s a lot of talk which is provocative.

It’s puzzling that Specter hasn’t heard about Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Obama fails. The issue has been covered by blogs and the front pages of national newspapers for months. It even earned Limbaugh a spot on the cover of Newsweek. Or perhaps Specter is learning from the others who have criticized Boss Limbaugh and have then apologized to him.

- Matt Finkelstein



190 Responses to “Specter defends Limbaugh: ‘I like him.’”

  1. IgnoranceIsNotBliss says:

    Oh, Specter has heard alright. he just doesn’t want to put himself in a position where he has to apologize to Rush. That would make me feel creepy as well.


  2. raynman says:

    The Specter Maneuver:

    Kiss butt first, ask questions later


  3. RUCeriousDragonfly says:

    Oh, crap, Arlen, get a restroom stall fer X sake!


  4. tombaker says:

    Ever the consummate lawyer, Specter has never stuck to his own word, or spoken ill of those who pay his retainer.

    Sad, for a guy that old to have so little integrity.


  5. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    Erm….Senator Specter….you have a little schmutz on your nose.

    Yeah, right there…the brown. Yep, got it.


  6. shoeless Chilopoda says:

    Does Rush Limbaugh have a man-sized safe too?


  7. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Or perhaps Specter is learning from the others who have criticized Boss Limbaugh and have then apologized to him.
    _____________________________________________________________

    How in the word could acknowledging Rush Limbaugh’s words of “I hope Obama fails” be criticizing him? Limbaugh said this quite proudly and more than once.

    Oh wait — anytime anybody agrees with or quotes verbatim a crackpot remark made by a wingnut, that’s considered an act of hostility and “hate”. Just ask Bill O’Reilly. They really get annoyed when people do that.


  8. gummble-bee-itch says:

    Arlen needs to take his fingers out of his . . . ears.


  9. Bob says:

    Perhaps non-intentional but very apropos: rush is Boss Hogg ‘person-o-fied’.


  10. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who is trailing Club for Growth president Pat Toomey in the polls for the 2010 GOP primary…
    __________________________________________________________

    Oh, that explains the lurch. But has it occured to Specter that he’s going to alienate a lot of moderates by kissing up to Limbaugh? Good luck on winning the general election with less than 20% of the vote, pal.


  11. ralph the wonder locust says:

    It’s kinda funny that criticizing Rush has become the third rail of Republican politics.

    I’m sure that value system will serve them well. Or, at least it will serve the nation well.


  12. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    One of God’s Commandments is, “Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness”. Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail. He stated that he wanted his policies to fail.

    What was that one about false prophets…


  13. Marie says:

    This is Specter being Specter.

    Hey, Arley, Don’t offend Rush Limbaugh, or his listeners, but show yourself as a true whore; we know you’ll do anything (bend over, lay down, kiss butt, however demeaning) for a vote.


  14. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    One of God’s Commandments is, “Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness”. Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail. He stated that he wanted his policies to fail.
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    From the transcript on Rush Limbaugh’s website: “I hope he fails.”

    You are a liar, Daryll.


  15. tombaker says:

    [i see the PMSD crowd is finally getting out of bed...]

    hi mr. bumpfister.

    do you need help with “the spiders”?


  16. ralph the wonder locust says:

    I see Zooey beat me to it.


  17. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Daryll, what was that about “bearing false witness” again?

    Or is this another case of a “misheard prophecy” like that whole “President-elect Huckabee” thing?


  18. SKdeAnt says:

    Zooey Lepidoptera Says:
    You are a liar, Daryll.

    tell us something we DON’T know, Zooness…


  19. StratRat says:

    Aw geez, here comes the loons. RR is already making no sense and has become a laughing stock straight away. You cannot believe in God and support the GOP – no way. Those two philosophies are worlds apart from each other. God is love, the GOP is war and pain. Not even close.


  20. Helen Rainier says:

    Arlen Specter: All bark and no bite.


  21. katydid says:


    Specter: Well I haven’t heard Rush Limbaugh say that. But there’s a lot of talk which is provocative.

    It’s puzzling that Specter hasn’t heard about Limbaugh’s statement

    he didn’t say he hadn’t heard ABOUT it… he said he hadn’t HEARD it.
    still doubtful, but he can claim that much…

    careful parsing for sure…


  22. SKdeAnt says:

    bumpfister Says:
    PEOPLE WANT OBAMANATIONS POLICIES TO FAIL,WE ALREADY KNOW HE’S FAILED,NOT HE CANT EVEN PROOVE HE WAS BORN HERE.HIS SCHOOL RECORDS ARE NOT REPORTED ALSO,BECAUSE THE APPLICATION STATES,HE WAS NOT BORN IN US.HE’S A FRAUD ALONG WITH MOST OF GOV.

    Ooh, a big crazy one!


  23. Marie says:

    Rupture Ready said: Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail. He stated that he wanted his policies to fail.

    On Inauguration Day,
    The growling voice of diehard conservatism, the King of Talk Radio, sang the only sour note on America’s day of euphoria when Barack Obama was sworn in as President and Dubya Bush packed off to Texas. “I hope he fails,” he said. “Somebody’s gotta say it,” he added.


  24. Buckie Boy says:

    ReichWingers have a knack for not hearing what they don’t want to hear.

    #1 First put fingers in ears.

    #2 Say: LALALALALALALALA (loudly)

    Problem solved.


  25. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    SKdeAnt Says:

    Zooey Lepidoptera Says:
    You are a liar, Daryll.

    tell us something we DON’T know, Zooness…
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    I’m wearing my Captain Obvious cape today. It’s very nice… ;)


  26. charade says:

    Specter has Bush’s disease. He didn’t personally hear it so he can’t comment on it.

    Specter’s fighting for his political life right now and is due to be unseated in 2010 so he’s become the GOP pimp-of-all-pimps.


  27. Xisithrus says:

    Specter is free to agree with peoples opinions, that he seems to agree with Rushs opinion means I dont agree with his opinion, which is my opinion


  28. charade says:

    Specter’s political career is over and he knows it.


  29. charade says:

    How does the song go? Na na na doo doo stick your head in do do while plugging your ears with your fingers.


  30. paleolib says:

    Hard to believe Arlen thinks losing the primary by 10% is worse than losing the general by 10%. Your career is over either way cowboy. This sleaze move to kowtow to the right certainly eliminates any sympathy I may have sort of had though.


  31. Buckie Boy says:

    RupteredRectum – How’s President Phuckabee doing?

    The neighbors still trashing your lawn?

    How far along is the (plastic blowup) wife?

    Do you have any special lighting in your ‘Flogging out the Gay’ closet?

    Do you still have voices in your head telling you that they are ‘God’?

    So many questions, so little time.


  32. Xisithrus says:

    Yet I must remember opinions are not based on truth or fact and not let an opinion influence my emotions.

    But its not Specters job to agree with a pundits opinion as the pundit works to influence others opinion. Its Specters job to represent his constituents opinions not some pundit whose opinion is formed by advertising revenue.


  33. tombaker says:

    RR – I know what the “Golden Rule” is…

    …what’s the one you’re preaching here?


  34. spring heeled jack says:

    After seeing Michael J. Fox on TDS last night, I will always hate Rusty Limpballs.


  35. misscoleopteramolly says:

    bumpfister Says
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    PEOPLE WANT OBAMANATIONS POLICIES TO FAIL,WE ALREADY KNOW HE’S FAILED,NOT HE CANT EVEN PROOVE HE WAS BORN HERE.HIS SCHOOL RECORDS ARE NOT REPORTED ALSO,BECAUSE THE APPLICATION STATES,HE WAS NOT BORN IN US.HE’S A FRAUD ALONG WITH MOST OF GOV.
    ___________________________________________________________

    Um…we seem to have a troll here who’s not only entertaining us with his lack of literacy, he’s also quoting an old GOP talking points sheet.

    But as long as he’s graced us with his presence, I’ll go ahead and ask — what, exactly, would you consider sufficient “proof” that President Obama was born in the United States? He’s already provided his birth certificate, and he has given his permission for a number of groups (from all sides of the political fence) to examine it for authenticity. This is more than any other presidential candidate in my lifetime has been asked to do.

    And my second question — what in the world does this have to do with his policies failing?

    Third — yes, there are some misguided souls who want Obama’s policies to fail, simply because they see this whole thing as a sporting event and they are desperate that the other side not get any opportunity to score. Unfortunately, our situation is a great deal more serious than that. Obama’s policies are all we’ve got at the moment — the Republicans are only offering more of what got us into this mess in the first place. So the smart people are wanting, hoping, and praying Obama’s policies succeed. If they don’t, we’re in trouble.

    But I suppose you’d enjoy gloating over his “failed policies” from your cardboard box under a bridge.

    My feeling is that you probably won’t be able to expand on your points with any follow-up detail (unless you cut and paste from a wingnut blog somewhere). But please — prove me wrong.


  36. ralph the wonder locust says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail.

    Oh, really?

    Rush Limbaugh Says:

    I Hope Obama Fails.

    Now, how’s he gonna get outa this one, people wonder… but of course! It’s the ol’ right-wing rhetorical ju jitsu:

    RaptureReady Says:

    You misinterpreted/misconstrued the meaning of his statement.

    Didn’t stick the landing, though.

    Sad, Daryll. Really sad. Unless you want to claim that “hoping” the President fails is not the same thing as “wanting” the President to fail…


  37. Xisithrus says:

    You misinterpreted/misconstrued the meaning of his statement. Many times on air, Rush has denounced your President’s socialized policies. My question to you is did Rush ever say that he wanted the President to fail because of his race, creed or political affiliation? Be careful because God knows your soul.

    I think Rush’s opinion is irrelevant as its one that serves mammon [materialism and money]

    As I recall it was George W. Bush that, publicly on CNN, he forewent his ‘free market policies’ to save the free market via a socialist policy. Rush said ‘he’, not ‘policies’ thus he wants ‘him’ Obama to fail in my POV.

    Rush is not about truth he is about ratings..about money and his personal wealth, about being a country club republican.


  38. Libellula saturata Annie says:

    Arlen Specter is a quivering, festering maggot-riddled sack of liquid excrement, and RabidRupture has a straw.


  39. Xisithrus says:

    In other words, Daryll, Bush went socialist, burdened you with debt, to save the free market which, hello, makes the free market a welfare king


  40. Xisithrus says:

    RR Said: No, a little over two months (Forgive because I learned about the actual timing from her OBGYN; I am excited); I do not support homosexuality because it is a perverted sin; Yes, Jesus does talk to me through dreams. Irregardless of your faults, Jesus still loves you!

    Jesus, by your own statement, loves gays, yet you call them perverts?

    Stop judging Daryll.


  41. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Oh, my! In my haste to knock Daryll’s hanging curveball into center-left, I missed this little nugget of (to mix sports metaphors) mobile goal posts:

    My question to you is did Rush ever say that he wanted the President to fail because of his race, creed or political affiliation?

    As if any of those conditions had been attached to the initial claim that Rush said he Hopes Obama fails. A claim that Daryll flat-out denied, unconditionally. Daryll simply said “Rush never said that”.

    Do you still maintain that Rush never said he hopes Obama fails? Be careful because God knows your heart.


  42. tombaker says:

    Xis – nice synopsis. Summarizes neatly what “the backpedalling right” has had to say for itself over the last few weeks.


  43. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    You misinterpreted/misconstrued the meaning of his statement. Many times on air, Rush has denounced your President’s socialized policies. My question to you is did Rush ever say that he wanted the President to fail because of his race, creed or political affiliation? Be careful because God knows your soul.
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    It’s not up to me OR YOU to interpret his meaning when he makes a statement as clear as “I hope he fails.” I saw the video, I heard him say it, I read the transcript. That’s exactly what he said — and meant. No qualification necessary about race, creed, or political affiliation needed — that’s just a figment of your imagination.

    Be careful, Daryll. Your god knows what’s in your heart and mind. You are going to burn…


  44. Xisithrus says:

    Be careful for not matter what you do Jesus loves you and Daryll will still think you a pervert…

    Daryll, are you cognizant of the paradox of your words?


  45. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Rapture’s Wrong: Rush Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails January 16, 2009

    BTW As an added bonus you can click here and watch why Rush doesn’t do live audience gigs.


  46. Xisithrus says:

    tombaker Says:

    Xis – nice synopsis. Summarizes neatly what “the backpedalling right” has had to say for itself over the last few weeks.

    Thx, the hypocrisy is maddening yet he [Darryl] does it consistently and ignores it, somehow…


  47. Xisithrus says:

    Daryll Said: I disagree. If the Banks were not bailed out, our economy would have failed. That is called recovery, not socialism.

    Thats not capitalism when the weak survive. Capitalism is competition between businesses not using the government, the taxpayer as a means to survive. Too big too fail is cornyism as there are many banks that could take these banks place and do a better job.


  48. Xisithrus says:

  49. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Be careful because God knows your soul.

    Then He knows you for what you are: a false prophet.


  50. RandomChaos says:

    Hey Daryyl,
    S T F U you retard. You are a lying sack-o-shit. PROVEN FACT time and time again.


  51. Xisithrus says:

    After this comment, he was attacked by the liberal media. -RR

    The media has never been liberal, the media is a business, just as banks are. They are in it for profit, not bailouts.

    BTW, what media outlet got a bailout to stay in business?


  52. tombaker says:

    I think “cornyism” is even more fitting – wish I’d mistyped that one myself – you’d better copyright it before Colbert gets ahold of it.


  53. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Please cease acting like a moveon.org blogger. It is not becoming of you. Save your soul before it is too late.
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Oh, that’s rich. Blow it out your ass, Daryll.

    How’s that for “becoming?”

    Worry about your own soul — it’s in more peril that mine.


  54. dixie blood says:

    katydid Says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    he didn’t say he hadn’t heard ABOUT it… he said he hadn’t HEARD it.
    still doubtful, but he can claim that much…

    careful parsing for sure…

    Excellent point and I thought the same when I heard this today.

    I thought, what a typical, scum-bag, lawyer, politician, spineless, d|ckless, bawls-free, and gutless can’t stand up to a fat, drug addicted, sexual predetator response.


  55. Xisithrus says:

    But, if you plan to accomplish a goal that harmfully affects others -RR

    Yet bailing out wall street, which harms others, puts them in debt, so the failed business model can fail again, is okay with you?


  56. tombaker says:

    Daryll’s substituting Eric Cantor’s equivocations about Rush’s comments for Rush’s own equivocations about Rush’s comments.

    Try to keep your shills sorted a little better Daryll.


  57. Xisithrus says:

    tombaker Says:

    I think “cornyism” is even more fitting – wish I’d mistyped that one myself – you’d better copyright it before Colbert gets ahold of it.

    Lol =)


  58. ralph the wonder locust says:

    wags camponotus saundersi Says:
    Be careful because God knows your soul.

    Then He knows you for what you are: a false prophet.

    It’s amazing that Daryll speaks so judgmentally about all the rest of us who he says are going to hell, yet it all seems to be an elaborate performance to convince himself and God that he’s actually a good Christian. And it doesn’t seem to be working.

    Daryll, you’ll find a great deal more comfort in accepting your own failures and asking God’s forgiveness than you will in condemning and judging others.


  59. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    pastcaring ceratopogonidae Says:

    Rapture’s Wrong: Rush Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails January 16, 2009

    BTW As an added bonus you can click here and watch why Rush doesn’t do live audience gigs.
    April 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pm Add Karma Recommend (0) | Report Abuse

    Here is my example. I hope that you become successful in every aspect of your life. But, if you plan to accomplish a goal that harmfully affects others, I hope you fail in that portion of your life. Comprende? Pray to God for more insight.

    Before you try to remove the speck of dust in my eye, remove the plank form your own.

    Comprende pince puto cavron cara de maracon? P.S. Chenga tu madre!


  60. Xisithrus says:

    MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. You are wrong. These media outlets are biased and lack balance and fairness.

    Thats your opinion and your welcome to it but I have seen no bailouts for these media outlets.


  61. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    You sound like these poor losers

    How very christianist of you.


  62. tombaker says:

    Jesus hates poor people.


  63. Xisithrus says:

    I hope you fail in that portion of your life -Darryl

    So if a man is in need I should turn them away?

    And if a man is stranded I should deny them a boat?

    And if one is hungry I should deny them food?


  64. tombaker says:

    Xis – only if they’re Democrats, because that’s who Jesus hates besides poor people.


  65. pete says:

    Don’t worry about us, Daryll. We have all seen you reveal hateful traits that would, if he existed, result in Jesus hating you. You are so utterly against the message of the Gospels that God, if he exists, abhors you. You’re a vile little sh!tstain and, if Hell is real, you have a confirmed reservation in the deepest pit.


  66. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    P.S. Darryl your bible is a misprint.

    You are proven wrong again and again and again.

    Sucks to be you and you know it.


  67. Xisithrus says:

    Daryll Said: You sound like these poor losers, that are unskilled workers, that decide to blame others for becoming extremely successful because they had no drive to exceed in life.

    I didnt know life was about money..Here I am thinking its about happiness, which money cant buy…


  68. pete says:

    BTW. Though I seriously doubt any woman has ever let you touch her the thought of a parent like you makes me weep.


  69. pete says:

    If Jesus existed? He was a socialist.


  70. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me – Matthew 25:40

    Daryll tries very hard to ignore this particular verse.


  71. ralph the wonder locust says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    You sound like these poor losers, that are unskilled workers, that decide to blame others for becoming extremely successful because they had no drive to exceed in life.

    Good thing Daryll’s not into judging people. Because that would be against the teachings of Jesus, if he were to go around judging others.


  72. Xisithrus says:

    Daryll Said: You sound like these poor losers, that are unskilled workers, that decide to blame others for becoming extremely successful because they had no drive to exceed in life.

    Actually I am skilled =) I am just not a fan of usury which, you know, material things have nothing to do with life.

    Seems Daryll has lost his spirituality.


  73. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Also, yes, this generation has a voice in my wifes womb

    How far along is the little pachyderm now?


  74. Xisithrus says:

    Did the dollars you make Daryll impregnant your wife with child [life]?


  75. ralph the wonder locust says:

    wags camponotus saundersi Says:
    Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me – Matthew 25:40

    Daryll tries very hard to ignore this particular verse.

    wags, i don’t think that particular verse is even in the Bible Daryll uses.


  76. Xisithrus says:

    Can not a unskilled worker, a loser, make a child [life], Daryll?


  77. Xisithrus says:

    Can you, Daryll, take your money, or gold, with you when you die?


  78. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    No! idiota.


  79. Xisithrus says:

    It is. But these unskilled workers are greedy. They want to secretly create unions and force companies to pay them 23 plus dollars an hour, realizing that their request will eventually harm the company. No!

    And a CEO making 400 million a year and causing you to pay more for fuel isnt greedy?

    Did the unions cause the financial problems of today? No.


  80. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    It is. But these unskilled workers are greedy. They want to secretly create unions and force companies to pay them 23 plus dollars an hour, realizing that their request will eventually harm the company. No!

    Hooooo boy, 23 bucks an hour! That’s 46k a year. Biiiiiig greed, yessir.


  81. BrianFL says:

    I listened to this interview, and Specter came off very pathetic in my eyes. I like Howard Stern, but respectable politicians should have nothing to do with his show. Specter was literally pandering for campaign money from listeners and from Stern personally. Specter admitted we were lied to about Iraq WMD evidence, but then blames that purely on “the analysts”, not anyone in the Bush administration. He sat and kissed Limbaugh’s butt even though Limbaugh blasts him constantly and considers him a RINO. He sat and defended the Republican Party even though they are actively working to oust him by supporting his primary competition (Club for Growth’s anti-tax nut Pat Toomey). Specter is one of the few moderates left in the Republican Party. If he had any cohones, he’d switch parties before the Republicans can oust him.


  82. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    You are still wrong and there is nothing typically liberal about telling you so.

    The only thing that is typical in my telling you so is that this site is the ONLY place you can go where someone will actually tell you the truth about how stupid you are.


  83. pete says:

    The thing is, Daryll, that you have told so many monumental lies that we can only assume you are a vile person, despised by all. I am disgusted that you consume the resources that could support a warren of rats, or a few hundred ponds of cyanobacteria.


  84. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    So, Daryll, everyone makes mistakes.

    Just admit you were wrong on what Rush said.

    Not how he tried to qualify later.


  85. Xisithrus says:

    But these unskilled workers are greedy -Daryll

    You think 23 dollars an hour will make one wealthy?

    Do you realize since the inception of the FED that the value of your dollars has dropped 96%?

    23 dollars sounds like alot to you but it really isnt much.


  86. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Read my previous post.

    Which one? The irrational one or the crazy one?


  87. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Because of their lack of skills, their salary should be in the $30,000 range.

    Says who? You? You have no say in their salary. Collectively, they do.


  88. Xisithrus says:

    The unskilled workers…I hear that alot.

    Jesus was an unskilled workers. Neggar bar neggar they called him. Carpenter son of carpenter is what it means.

    Jesus was poor Daryll and basically unskilled, by your definition, yet you use his words while cheerleading usury and greed.


  89. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Most of these factories are in areas with a low cost of living.

    Most factories are in and around cities. Cities have a higher cost of living.

    Try again.


  90. tombaker says:

    doesn’t even matter where you live, right Daryll – 30k in Manhattan, KS – 30k in Manhattan NY. too bad most unskilled workers now make more like $14k.

    nice. and. simple.

    all. that. daryll. can. understand.

    The Lord’s disappointed in ya Daryll. Ya’ done busheled over the light of your own intellect – and ya did it voluntarily.


  91. tombaker says:

    The Apostles were a Union.

    Jesus was a Socialist, AND a Union Leader.

    Time to re-think everything Daryll.


  92. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Your comment proves why unions should continue to be busted.

    Your comment proves that you are a false Christian.


  93. Xisithrus says:

    Back in my hometown in Indiana, $46,000 will get you a lot. Most of these factories are in areas with a low cost of living. -Daryll

    Alot of what Daryll? Perhaps college for his kids so they could not be unskilled laborers?


  94. Xisithrus says:

    Carpentry is a trade.

    So why was Jesus poor?


  95. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Daryll, you seem to have wandered off the true path of the topic of this thread.

    Let’s get back to it.

    Above, you said, quite plainly,

    Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail.

    Almost immediately, Zooey Lepidoptera offered you a link to Rush’s own site, a page that was headlined, “I Hope Obama Fails”.

    Yet, rather than admit that you were mistaken, in the face of inarguable evidence, you tried to claim, first, that Zooey had “misconstrued” what Rush had said. Then later you tried to insinuate that it didn’t count because Rush didn’t say he hoped Obama fails because on reasons a, b or c.

    Yet the fact of the matter is, you said “Rush never said that he wanted the President to fail” and Rush actually said almost exactly that.

    Care to acknowledge at least this little bit of reality?


  96. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Daryll Perdón, pero te equivocas, como de costumbre, Y lo que en el infierno Qué quieres decir con Entiendo nuestra sociedad así?

    Una vez más, idiota.

    Sorry to the rest of the posters, but I wanted to drive my point home.


  97. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    After reading these comments, I find it so amusing that Daryll has no clue as to how assholierthanthou and judgmental he is. Daryll places himself above the TP commenters, apparently as an example of what we should strive for.

    But all of the TPers — believers and non-believers — are better Christians than Daryll could ever dream of being.

    All of us.


  98. Xisithrus says:

    46K is not much Daryll and I would hardly call it greed when people are trying to keep a roof over their family and provide for their family as inflation debases the dollar.

    400 million a year is greed…


  99. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Voy a rezar por ti Daryll


  100. gummble-bee-itch says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    400 million a year is greed…

    In Northeast Indiana, yes.

    Greed is geographic? You really have never cracked that Holy Bible, have you?


  101. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    BLASPHEMY!!

    Your specialty!


  102. Xisithrus says:

    Entiendo cómo los liberales están intentando influenciar negativamente a nuestra sociedad y belittle a los que intenten parar sus actos dañosos. Jesús le ama, a pesar de su maneras negativas.

    The liberals dont intend to influence society negatively. Look around Daryll, these job losses werent cause by liberals, it was caused by greed. Look at these derivative gambles at the heart of the banking credit mess. Greed.


  103. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    Congratulation, tombaker.

    You made Daryll play the “BLASPHEMY!!” card. :-D


  104. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Daryll, you wouldn’t know blasphemy if it bit you on the nutsack.

    That much is clear. You’re driven by you fears and prejudices and you contort the tenets of Christianity to justify them, and then you condemn everyone who doesn’t conform to your bizarre parallel reality.


  105. Xisithrus says:

    Okay Daryll, Jesus was about gold..where is all his wealth?

    Jesus said a rich man will not get into heaven…because yo know, he was rich and greedy, right?


  106. ralph the wonder locust says:

    gummble-bee-itch Says:
    RaptureReady Says:

    400 million a year is greed…

    In Northeast Indiana, yes.

    Greed is geographic? You really have never cracked that Holy Bible, have you?

    Nope.

    A few months ago he claimed that the Bible said “an idle mind is the devil’s playground”. I asked for a citation — book, chapter verse… He disappeared. Never acknowledged his foolishness or that I had even addressed him.


  107. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    122 RaptureReady Says:

    Bravo Bravo…you can lie in 2 languages!!!


  108. Xisithrus says:

    GOD created the universe from nothing, and charged humanity nothing for it, you know, cause he was about wealth, cause you know, wealth, this human creation, created life.

    Money is life. What a crippled logic concept.


  109. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Look at GM. How can they afford to re-invest in their company, when they are paying outrageous wages and pensions.

    Maybe they should have tried to be a good little business and make a product that sells.


  110. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Usted puede ir al infierno por mentir al igual que usted puede robar para Daryll



  111. Xisithrus says:

    Look at GM. How can they afford to re-invest in their company, when they are paying outrageous wages and pensions.

    Thats not what killed GM, it was gambling.

    http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

    Look at the charts, the biggest gamblers are the ones being bailed out


  112. Xisithrus says:

    Took Spanish as an elective at my Alma Mater (Oral Roberts).

    BTW would Jesus need a diamond mine?

    Oral Roberts has corrupted christianity.


  113. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Alma Mater (Oral Roberts).

    bwahahahahhahaa


  114. Xisithrus says:

    When you become as materialist as DC Daryll, you are are no longer a Christian but a mammonist.


  115. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    139. RaptureReady Says:
    Le deseo lo mejor en su aventura de vuelo desnudo a la tierra de cuento de hadas … yo Daryll no puede ocurrir lo suficientemente rápido.

    Y Oral Roberts eh?


  116. joe cantwell says:

    a republican caller on rush limbaugh’s show:

    And it was crazy for you to go on and on like Levin and Hannity and Hewitt. It’s like you’re all brainwashed. And my last comment is, no matter what Obama does, you will still criticize him because I believe you are brainwashed. You’re just — and I hate to say it — but I think you’re a brainwashed Nazi. Anyone who can believe in torture has got to be — there has got to be something wrong with them.

    ***

    more here.

    >>>


  117. Xisithrus says:

    Jesus still loves you, despite your infantile liberal actions. -Daryll

    Its pretty clear Daryll, you have become a wolf.


  118. ralph the wonder locust says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Look at GM. How can they afford to re-invest in their company, when they are paying outrageous wages and pensions.

    Daryll may have a point:

    General Motors Corp (GM.N) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner’s salary and other compensation rose 64 percent in 2007 to about $15.7 million, mainly due to option grants, according to a proxy filed on Friday.

    So that’s the wages… how about the pension?

    In nearly 32 years with the company, Wagoner accrued pension benefits that the company valued at $22.1 million at the end of last year. The actual amount Wagoner will receive could vary because it will be paid in installments over the rest of his life.

    It’s good to see you’re outraged about such greed, Daryll!


  119. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Jesus still loves you, despite your infantile liberal actions.

    psssst

    jesus was a liberal

    a jewish pacifist too


  120. Pachydiplax de St. Augustine says:

    Hello RaptureReady:

    I have always enjoyed sex with christian gals, after I taught them what sex was all about.

    Have you ever had a six appendage rubdown?


  121. Xisithrus says:

    Nothing wrong with investments to aid your calling. -Daryll

    And what is your calling? Hot Tubs? Lear Jets? Diamond Mines? Hookers? Blow? Becoming Ted Haggard?


  122. Xisithrus says:

    Daryll has revised Christianity. Jesus was a stockbroker banker non unionist greedster who invited usury into the temple and how said only the rich can get into heaven!

    Its okay for Daryll to be wealthy thru usury but never can the tradesman, such as Jesus, neggar bar neggar, can be wealthy

    Thanks Daryll, I alway knew you were a fraud, thanks for proving it.


  123. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Jesus still loves you, despite your infantile liberal actions.
    April 7th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    And your Invisible Sky Daddy still loves you, in spite of your judgmental, bigoted, idiotic, and bloodthirsty ways.


  124. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Try this, unskilled workers earning $30-$70 dollars an hour, which includes a pension.
    April 7th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Why does Daryll hate decent, hardworking Americans?


  125. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Try this, unskilled workers earning $30-$70 dollars an hour, which includes a pension.

    Wait, it was 23 before…lay off the hyperbole pills, dude.


  126. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Si Senor. La mejor universidad del país (a mí).

    Lo sentimos, pero Oral Roberts no es la mejor universidad en el país, en mi humilde opinión.


  127. Xisithrus says:

    Daryll doesnt believe in GOD, or Karma. He believes in materialism


  128. Xisithrus says:

    Who woke you up and allowed you to breath that next breath?

    Lemme see, if I was Daryll I would say the ATM machine..wait wait, thats wrong, equity!!


  129. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Zooey allow me to translate for Daryll:

    Y tu papá cielo invisible aún te ama, a pesar de su juicio, intolerante, estúpido y sanguinario maneras.


  130. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Who woke you up and allowed you to breath that next breath?
    April 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    The sun — and the college boy next door.


  131. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Who woke you up and allowed you to breath that next breath?

    Who stirred paint chips into your cereal as a kid?


  132. Xisithrus says:

    Try this, unskilled workers earning $30-$70 dollars an hour, which includes a pension.

    Daryll hates the military as well.

    At least the unskilled do actual work instead of letting a computer make bets for them.

    BTW Daryll, how much actual work, I mean burning calories, does a CEO do versus a ditch digger?


  133. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    On average, auto laborers earn 23 plus dollars an hour. GM pays their laborers between $30-$70 an hour. That is not right.</blockquote>
    Again, says you. And these laborers are for the most part NOT unskilled.

    Why do you hate workers?


  134. tombaker says:

    hey Daryll, what’s worse,

    a blasphemer,

    or

    a reprobate?


  135. Xisithrus says:

    I rebuke all sexual sins, in Jesus name. Through Jesus, you can change.

    Yeh, and the hookers and blow band at the RNC agrees


  136. Xisithrus says:

    Okay Daryll, how much does it cost to print a promissory note?


  137. Xisithrus says:

    Lmao, Daryll has been proven to be a fraud.

    All he talks about is money in the name of a poor guy named Jesus who had no use of money!


  138. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    I rebuke all sexual sins, in Jesus name. Through Jesus, you can change.
    April 7th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Yeah, whatever. I bet you’ve never even given Tiffany an orgasm.


  139. barfly says:

    Took Spanish as an elective at my Alma Mater (Oral Roberts).

    Did they ever get an internal O2 system at the City Of Faith?

    And were the designers of the building Roberts alumnus? That would help explain how a hospital could be designed and built without an internal oxygen system.


  140. Xisithrus says:

    Give it up Daryll, you dont believe what you spout.


  141. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    I rebuke all sexual sins, in Jesus name. Through Jesus, you can change.

    El odio de ti no es la respuesta.


  142. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    pastcaring ceratopogonidae Says:

    Zooey allow me to translate for Daryll:

    Y tu papá cielo invisible aún te ama, a pesar de su juicio, intolerante, estúpido y sanguinario maneras.
    April 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    It’s all Greek to me. ;)


  143. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    Hay otro hilo Limbaugh. Usted debe precipitarse allí Daryll


  144. barfly says:

    I loathe greedy people that exaggerate their actual worth in the American workforce.

    Must really hate those CEOs, eh?


  145. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    I loathe greedy people that exaggerate their actual worth in the American workforce.

    Like $22 million CEOs?


  146. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Jesus es verdadero. El es un dios omni-presente. Sin el, usted no existiria.

    Leave Jesus out of it. You exist period. Jesus ain’t had nothing to do with it.


  147. Xisithrus says:

    I loathe greedy people that exaggerate their actual worth in the American workforce.

    LMAO!!

    The whole universe was created for nothing, that means your fiat dollar, gold, silver, uranium has no value, just as your CEO does!!

    Life is free!


  148. Xisithrus says:

    Value, pffft, Daryll, his material being has a value, just as his ‘valued’ CEO has no actual value!!


  149. Xisithrus says:

    What is your pseudo value Darryl?


  150. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    A unskilled worker earning $30-$70 an hour with a limited/no educational background.

    Creates more wealth than the $22 million CEO, and is way more honest about it.


  151. Pachydiplax de St. Augustine says:

    RaptureReady:

    I’m a dragonfly and I’ve had my eye on a butterfly.

    Would JC approve of a dragonfly/butterfly relationship?

    Oh, is there a lot of money to be made in the god game? I’ve always known there was sufficient sexual opportunities for an old pervert like myself, but I think its time to build up a nest egg. Do you know of any rich, horny christian broads?


  152. Xisithrus says:

    A unskilled worker earning $30-$70 an hour with a limited/no educational background.

    And by reading a book my value increases?


  153. Xisithrus says:

    So, let me get his Orwellian math right, if I sit behind a desk, because I read books, and take two hour martini lunches, and do no actual physical labor, my GOD body is worth more money because Jesus never said that was so?

    OMG Daryll, you funny!!


  154. wags camponotus saundersi says:

    Oh, is there a lot of money to be made in the god game?

    Billions.


  155. barfly says:

    A unskilled worker earning $30-$70 an hour with a limited/no educational background.

    Sniffs the economic elitist…

    Why do you hate blue collar Americans?


  156. Xisithrus says:

    By learning the foundation of your skill and becoming a well-rounded person.

    Arent all skills those which GOD gave us?


  157. Xisithrus says:

    You do not become a Pastor to earn a high income. You become a Pastor to feed those who are spiritually hungry. -Daryll

    No wonder you are a failed prophet


  158. Xisithrus says:

    You would be considered an innovator. Laborers put together your innovation/end product. Thinkless job. -Daryll

    Funny, wall street is considered innovative yet requires bailouts to exist…

    And isnt a laborer a creation of GOD?


  159. barfly says:

    You would be considered an innovator. Laborers put together your innovation/end product. Thinkless job.

    Try telling that to an aerospace worker, who has no more educational back ground than an auto worker, yet has to fabricate parts to blueprints that occasionally have incorrect data, and if he doesn’t spot the design problem, could end up wasting thousands of dollars of company money, because a designer made a simple mistake.

    You must know little or nothing about how things are actually produced in this country.


  160. pastcaring ceratopogonidae says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    Laborers put together your innovation/end product. Thinkless job.

    Usted nunca ha puesto nada juntos has Daryll?

    I’d hate to see the Ikea furniture in your house.


  161. Xisithrus says:

    You learn the foundation of your skill in a higher learning institution.

    You mean rote memory, read a book take a test. Thats not wisdom


  162. Pachydiplax de St. Augustine says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    You become a Pastor to feed those who are spiritually hungry.

    Isn’t sex a spiritual experience? I’d like feeding sexually hungry women.

    Are there any good prayers to get women to give up their physical bodies as well as their money and souls?


  163. Xisithrus says:

    You know what Daryll, I went to a school that taught how to get an airframe and powerplant license. It taught how to take the test. It didnt actually teach you how to repair large jet aircraft.

    IE the learning institution didnt teach the actual job.


  164. barfly says:

    You mean rote memory, read a book take a test. Thats not wisdom

    And the last time I had to take a fabrication qualification test, it wasn’t an open book test, like they use in the halls of higher learning.


  165. Xisithrus says:

    And the last time I had to take a fabrication qualification test, it wasn’t an open book test, like they use in the halls of higher learning. -Barfly

    True. I worked with many people that could take and pass a written test but when it came to actual troubleshooting, using logic, they failed miserably.


  166. barfly says:

    I have never taken an open-book test. 128 credit hours of pure hard work.

    They are now the norm, so your education must be horribly dated.


  167. Xisithrus says:

    I have never taken an open-book test. 128 credit hours of pure hard work. -Daryll

    Again, thats memory, not actually building something with your hands or inventing something.

    And what makes you think the little amount of energy you exerted entitles you to higher wages when you burn few calories?


  168. Xisithrus says:

    Congrats to Oral Roberts for turning Xianity into a rote trained elitist entitlement program


  169. Xisithrus says:

    Congrats Daryll, you are now a materialist trained monkey of higher rote memory…


  170. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    I have never taken an open-book test. 128 credit hours of pure hard work.
    April 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    What!? No Masters degree? For shame…


  171. tbone says:

    A bit late, but I must give props to Pete for working cyanobacteria into the comments!


  172. Game of Life says:

    specter is just being true to his repugishness.

    I wonder if he remembers WTC disasters?

    There could be a repug that one thinks: hey, s/he is smart, s/he has commonsense, s/he has leadership skills…why is s/he not a dem.

    then out of nowhere repugs start losing their phony baloney good/healthy behavior (base on repugs’ lack of shame) and start lying and start spewing their same old bs. WTF?

    I mean, Out Of Nowhere.

    All of them are sneaky, useless, lying, stealing, blank pages joke.


  173. Game of Life says:

    Zooey Lepidoptera Says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    I have never taken an open-book test. 128 credit hours of pure hard work.
    April 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    What!? No Masters degree? For shame…

    I’m going to entertain you having a degree. Why the extra 8 hours?


  174. The Republic of Hymenoptera Stupidity says:

    RaptureReady Says:

    It is. But these unskilled workers are greedy. They want to secretly create unions and force companies to pay them 23 plus dollars an hour, realizing that their request will eventually harm the company. No!
    _________

    Let me be BLUNT… you’re full of SH!T
    “realizing their request will eventually harm the company”???

    This SILLY beyond words.

    Real wages have pretty much stayed FLAT in the country for the last 30 years. Adjusted fro infaltion, $23/hr is NOTHING anymore. Meanwhile, CEO pay has gone from 25 times the average worker’s pay to a peak of over 500 TIMES in the early years of this decade.

    You’re full of SH!T.

    BTW, this is the original fruitcake Darryl. The language is all wrong. This is someone else.


  175. Game of Life says:

    rr, Did you complete your 4 yr degree in 2 yrs? Did you have a triple major?


  176. Ape-Man says:

    Specter is obviously as whacky as he seems. Did folks vote for him or something?


  177. Zooey Lepidoptera says:

    GoL,

    128 credits is the current requirement for a Bachelor of Science degree. :-)


  178. Libellula saturata Annie says:

    Daryll – I’m going to pray tonight. Yes, you’ve inspired me to send up some fervent prayers to the ears of the Almighty.

    I’m going to pray that God smites you right between the eyes.

    Thank you, Ja-HEE-sus!!


  179. fergus says:

    I am continually amazed by the crap that Rectum squeezes out. I worked in a factory for 7+ years with people who had college degrees. They chose factory work over their specialties because they couldn’t make decent money doing what they were trained to do. I worked for government for 28 years with people who were college educated and working in my job for the same reason. Yet, our supervisors, most of whom had no college, were making more money than the college trained employees. AND, they were doing a lousy job of managing. Rectum has said that he is anti-union. Why doesn’t he think workers should be able to set the value of their labor? I’m curious to know just what he was taught at Oral Roberts. I didn’t thing that school taught so much as they indoctrinated. Kind of like the lawyers(?) that Liberty University turn out, who then go to work for the Justice Department and (possibly) deliberately screw up the prosecution of Ted Stevens. What does Rectum do for a living? He claims that he’s trained in science. From Oral Roberts that would be Intelligent Design Science, unrecognized and ignored by true scientists. What kind of job can a Roberts-trained scientist get, anyway? Probably a Southern high school science teacher, making about $30,000 a year. Most definitely he wouldn’t belong to a teacher’s union. That’s so unChristian, you know. This guy’s a phony.


  180. Eugene atrax robustus Debs says:

    Ruptured Retard Says:

    What does God think about morons RR? Yes Limbaugh DID say he wanted Obama to fail. He said it and then repeated it later. You are either a liar or very VERY stupid. I dont really care which


  181. FaireMaiden says:

    This freak ‘likes’ Rush Limbaugh? Then he’s a sick f–k. But then, we’ve always known this. How do we know? Because he’s the cretinous wanker that promoted the ‘Magic Bullet Theory’ that is probably the most despicable miscarriage of Justice in the history of our country. Arlen Specter should have been shot for treason 45 years ago.


  182. CageyCretin says:

    Rapture Ready — Continue the good work, my child. You are doing wonderfully. The data you present and the manner you present it is a marvelous example of linguistic and logical gymnastics. You keep your responses short, and deflect questions and criticisms by ignoring them completely, distorting them, or (best of all, my little one) rephrasing the whole matter into a new topic. Keep them hopping, from one point to the next, refute, obscure, and throw out plenty of that Christianity stuff to keep their emotions charged up (because you know that many are non-christians and the christains among them will be incensed at your misuse and misquoting of their bible).

    Ah, your masterful arts are becoming honed, and your skills are earning you top bonus dollars… and I KNOW — YOU DO LOVE YOUR DOLLARS.

    Don’t you worry about that “camel and the eye of a needle” thing — its all crap.

    YOU know, better than anyone, that those things mean ONLY what YOU DECIDE they mean, and I will be there, every step of the way, to help you to understand those meanings and to interpret for you those parts that you do not understand.

    I am in your corner, I am with you always, and it is I, and only I, who am your one saviour and guiding light — the purest and brightest light of them all..

    Love, Lucifer.


  183. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    If Toomey beats Specter in the Pennsylvania primary in 2010, then Pennsylvania will elect another Democrat in the general election of 2010. PA will not elect another “Santorum” type to the Senate.

    OT – I’ve been wondering if Gov Ed Rendell will give the Senate race a try. Could be interesting.


  184. moondancer says:

    Specter, the banana slug with chameleon abilities, tacks to the right again. No, he is not moderate, he is opportunist. I have more respect for a buffoon like Santorum, at least you know where he stands. It is a point of shame for me that Arlen is my senator. I intend to work very hard to change that. I pray that the economy works against him, and his hypocrisy is understood.


  185. moondancer says:

    Cats r Flyfishin said: “…wondering if …Rendell will give the senate race a try.”

    Not likely. My sources say he sees himself as a replacement on Obamas cabinet as people move on. But only after his term ends. He will not give the GOP an in to seize control of the state gov’t like Napolitano did in Arizona.


  186. aljr1947 says:

    Arlen Specter? Maybe his support for Rush was somehow vectored in to the path of the magic bullet. What must go on in this man’s mind?


  187. 10hourday says:

    I think Arlen Specter is on to something here. After Obama appointed a cabal of Goldman Sachs cronies and establishment Wall Street crooks to run our economy I’m looking for some truth also. I don’t know who it is or where the truth will eventually come from; maybe it’s not Limbaugh but it’s got to be somebody. One thing I see is that Obama has the establishment corruption disease just like every crooked politician before him. We’ll see if he’s as bad as the bum Bush. Right now he looks like he’ll be right there with him.


  188. labman57 says:

    I like the Jack in the Box clown, but I wouldn’t go to him for political advice.

    Limbaugh exemplifies the irrational, self-righteous, hate-mongering mindset of the far-right faction of the GOP. They have nothing substantive to say…..about ANYTHING and are rapidly becoming irrelevant to the serious, thoughtful discussions being conducted by most Americans.

    Limbaugh and his ilk are as significant as a rusty hinge on a frequently-used door. They make a lot of noise and occasionally inhibit positive progress, but are generally just regarded as little more than an inconvenient annoyance.


  189. guzide says:

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