Conservative commentators are engaging in an orgy of America-bashing over the selection of President Barack Obama as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Right-wing pill-popper Rush Limbaugh, the de facto head of the Republican Party, took the airwaves and "agrees" with the extremists in the Taliban that Obama doesn't "deserve" the award.
In a segment picked up by Media Matters, Limbaugh said: "Everybody is laughing. Our president is a worldwide joke. Do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award. Now that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something that the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban?'
There are some legitimate questions as to whether the President should have been awarded the prize—Obama acknowledged feeling somewhat undeserving—but he did not seek the honor. It's also quite rich that Limbaugh says "everyone is laughing" at the same time the international community says Obama has restored America's reputation.
Not a stretch to imagine the extreme anti-gay and anti-women Republicans side with the Talban. Will the dittohead tell this to our troops in Afghanistan?
JUMP to listen.
I hope he chokes. This guy makes me ill.-QH
Posted by: QH | 09 October 2009 at 16:39
What a fat loser! Didn't they also just announce he will be a judge for Miss America Pagent 2010?
Posted by: CC | 09 October 2009 at 16:40
so he agrees with the groups that sheltered al qaeda? the same people who tore down the trade center?
fat drugged out hateful sob..
Posted by: Remy | 09 October 2009 at 16:47
We cant even be glad for our leader when another nation gives him an award....
You know what the world is saying about us.....
"stupid Americans"
I weep for America
Posted by: Mellovirgo89 | 09 October 2009 at 16:56
I hope the racist cow chokes on a hamhock!
Posted by: Honut SInti | 09 October 2009 at 17:01
Maybe if we just don't post and give him any media attention just maybe he will run along home and hide!
Limbaugh has millions of daily listeners. That's plenty of attention. Look at what Think Progress and Color of Change are doing with Glenn Beck. They're encouraging thousands of people to contact his sponsors, who are dropping like flies. -RM
Posted by: Cedric | 09 October 2009 at 17:13
Let's see. The Taliban just attacked the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan and killed at least 17 people. Iran just sentenced activists to death. And Rush Limbaugh brags that he agrees with them. At least he finally admits what many people had been saying about him. He and his fellow rethug inmates side with the extremists of the world. They root against America and oppose anyone that supports peace efforts and respect towards others. If President Obama admits to America's failings, then he's accused of kissing ass, apologizing to the world, and showing weakness. The world is not acting crazy over President Obama receiving the Nobel Prize. It's the many stupid Americans who are showing the world their ugly sides. But I do enjoy watching the rethugs implode. It's like watching the movie "Scanners" with the heads exploding.
Posted by: Ravenback | 09 October 2009 at 17:24
Limbaugh is an idiot...he needs to jump of a building. I promise I won't miss him at all.
Posted by: MW09 | 09 October 2009 at 18:07
Cedric, it doesn't work like that. That's like saying ignore racism, homophobia or gaybashing and they will stop. When you hear stuff like this, you're supposed to fight back not pretend it isn't happening.
Rush is a big fat loser. Always has been, always will. And Rod I live "live" for you always calling him a pill popper. I hope he chokes on an Oxy and dies. THERE! I SAID IT!
Posted by: Face and Waist | 09 October 2009 at 18:16
Notice the only people that whine and bitch about stuff all the time are the same ones that NEVER offer any real solutions. I'm not saying, but I'm just saying...
Posted by: kayman | 09 October 2009 at 19:22
It's obvious that Rush and his ilk are those types of people...
Posted by: kayman | 09 October 2009 at 19:23
Rod, please don't place that pig's face on the site again. I threw up a little.
Posted by: Seven | 09 October 2009 at 20:54
All this old man wants is attention cause. He will be forgotten tomorrow.
Posted by: James M | 09 October 2009 at 22:49
And also this nutcase wants to buy The St Louis Rams...Rod are you aware of that?
Lord for once we would have an ALL WHITE FOOTBALL team!
Hilarious
Posted by: MRCHOCOLATE615 | 09 October 2009 at 23:01
I am sure that, as Rod implies, there many areas in which Limbaugh and the Taliban agree.
We could start with their shared belief in the inferiority of women and the need to exterminate gay people, and then move on to their shared desire for totalitarian rule.
Posted by: Jim | 10 October 2009 at 00:02
OK he has millions of followers because of what? The media!!! I did not say ignore him I said lets not give him what he needs is fuel for his own fire. I have this chick at work who LUVS his dirty drawers. I tell her if he is so great then why doesn't he run and win for presidency? If you put that much faith in one man then why do you worship? She could not come up with a good answer. Think for yourself and let others give you factors. You take in what you have before you and you determine what is right. Of course she has not mention his name since. OH we know RACISM LIVES EVERWHERE!!! I cannot stop that nor have the time to change your mind when I have such a short time on this Earth. If you want to have those beliefs who I am to judge.
Posted by: Cedric | 10 October 2009 at 08:31
rush is a bloated bigoted buffoon
but even he is right about obama's nobel prize being a global guffaw!
shame!!!
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Posted by: alicia banks | 10 October 2009 at 09:23
Boss Limbaugh and Glenn Beck will never shut up because their racist base hates President Obama and pandering to their racist views is big money for these media whores.
But, as Rod suggested, boycotting their sponsors is a way for us to show our displeasure at their treasonous, racist, divisive rhetoric.
Posted by: Distant Lover | 10 October 2009 at 11:23