Huff TV: Arianna on Countdown Discussing Rush Limbaugh And The GOP

Arianna discussed Rush Limbaugh and The GOP Smear of Graeme Frost with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

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[pangardenguru]

Rush is only popular to other small minded bigots but normal healthy decent people know him for the pig he is and try to just disregard him as much as possible. He is really a sad excuse for how rotten a human can be. There will always be idiots and bullies, loud, obnoxious hateful gasbags like Rush Limbaugh. Just disregard him I say. Life is just too short to waste on garbage like him. There is beauty in the world too..there is inspiration, there is decency...­..lets put some focus on those things and stop giving so much to such a disgusting human waste as he is.

[TimmySlagle]

I don't get it.

The Democrats trot out a "victim" to try and put a face on the SCHIP debate, and Rush Limbaugh properly identifies it as a political tactic. So Rush Limbaugh is the jerk?

I believe, the Democrats were the ones abusing Graeme Frost. Dragging him in from to the cameras, to put a pathetic face on the issue, then discarding him, once he had served their purpose (remember Cindy Sheehan?)

This issue isn't about kids like Graeme Frost anyway, who was already eligible for SCHIP. This controversy is over the EXPANSION of SCHIP to include "children" up to 25 years old, poverty up to $83,000, and possible inclusion of illegal aliens.

Why can't the Democrats be honest with what they wanted to do. Instead of adorable Graeme Frost, maybe they should have found a 24 year old, living in the basement of his parents $400,000 home, complaining about having to pay for STD treatment out of his own pocket, in between bong hits.

Anyway, this story is at least a week old. Why was it on last night? Hmmm; could this have anything to do with an eBay auction that nobody on the Left wants to talk about?

[1differentdrummer]

You see, that is one of the problems. How can you look at a Swiftboat type smear involving absolute untruths and see it as "Rush properly identifies it?" Minority Leader McConnel lied about it after his right hand man had gone back to the press identifying his previous email as erroneous and Rush takes the smear and runs with it. How can you accept vilification of a twelve year old kid and his parents under any circumstances, continue it and attempt to justify it? Isn't this lacking common kindness?

[TimmySlagle]

"How can you look at a Swiftboat type smear involving absolute untruths and see it as 'Rush properly identifies it?'"

What absolute untruths? Graeme Frost WAS a political tool for the Democrats, his parents DO own 400K in real estate, and he DOES go to private school.

Since when is telling the truth about public figures, a vilification?

Graeme Frost and his family, wouldn't even be public figures, if the Democrats hadn't been looking for a child to exploit for political purposes.

The Democrats exploited a sick little boy, the Republicans called them out on it, and now the Republicans are the bad guys?

What a twisted sense of morality, you Leftists claim.

[gearbox]

I, for one, would like to see you back up your supposed " eligiblity" claims with a few well documented facts. Or, is it that the actual "facts" just get in the way of your claims?
And, regarding the C.Y.A. style eBay auction, so what? That was a puny attempt by him, his staff and his publicity "handlers" to make him seem to be a champion.

[TimmySlagle]

gearbox writes: "I, for one, would like to see you back up your supposed " eligiblity" claims with a few well documented facts."

Eligibility
Maryland has one of the highest income eligibility
thresholds for children—insuring children in families with
incomes up to 300% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/mma/pdf/MCHP%20-%20revised%20eff.%200704.pdf

Lets see, that comes to about fifty thousand per year, Graeme's parents made about 48. Yeah, they qualify.

further: "And, regarding the C.Y.A. style eBay auction, so what? "

Well gee, if a grilled cheese sandwich that looks like the Virgin Mary, goes for a measley $28,000 on eBay, and was covered by the HuffPo; don't you think the largest charity auction in eBay history should have earned a headline?

...cricket­s

[AverageWhiteMan]

Raising 4 million to a charity that helps children of servicemen and women is puny ?

Sounds more like the work of a champion than someone who is puny.

[Arethirtypercentinsane]

Wow, how insightful Timmy! Keep clinging onto the notion that the GOP represents the common people in America. Forget it Pal, your party is toast! George W., Rush, Sean, Cheney, the whole lot of them have ruined your once halfway respectable party. Stick a fork in em!

[Benny59]

...and what do you think Rupert Murdock is going to do with his new letter?

[transendentilist]

I'll talk about it. Apparently you don't know the meaning of the word compassionate. The bushies fell all over themselves trying to sell the idea that they are, "compassionate conservati­ves." What rush did, was a good thing, as far as giving the money to Marine Corps families, but it doesn't in the least make up for the damage to this country that he contributes to daily. He's a self serving, greedy, dishonest swine, who makes millions off of suckers like you.

[LoriB]

Arianna is always articulate, insightful, classy, and a delight to watch.

[TXfemmom]

Limbaugh and the right wing nuts do and say things much, much worse than what Stark said, and what he said was the truth, and then they cry foul whenever anyone other than a right wing zealot says anything.

Limbaugh, and his like, however, serve a very dangerous purpose, and that is to keep the linatics focused and in their "we are being attacked and misused" mode. He sounds and uses the tactics of the Nazis.

[Mr.Fitz]

I think what we really need to emphasize is the fact that elected officials are participating in socialized medicine.

[Sooner1976]

We should all get what the politicians get. If it's good enough for them, we should all have it.

[LindaJay]

And not only are they participating in it, WE are paying for it!

[ramal]

If you were a middle-aged, overweight, impotent, drug addict with a severe personality disorder you would be angry and lash out at small children too.

[azureblue]

Who stil hasn't explained why he was caught returnign from a trip to a place known for child prositution with a huge bag of Viagra that was obtained under his doctor's name.

Hey Rush and your dittoheads, wassup with that?

[CarIV]

"Rush Limbaugh is SUCH a complete idiot, if he weren't also such a bully, you'd almost feel sorry for him.... "

He just raised 4.2 million for the children of marines killed in action.
What a dirtbag, huh?

[Dash Riprock]

He's still a dirtbag. Raising money doesn't make him a saint, or even a good guy. He spreads hate and generates a mean spiritedness in the public. He's been one of the root causes of the continued slide of politics in our country. His bombardment of the the public with a twisted vision of right and wrong has contributed to things like the Oklahoma City bombing, the practice of the government listening to our phone calls and other infringements on our constitutional rights. He's a dirtbag of the highest order.

[TimmySlagle]

"His bombardment of the the public with a twisted vision of right and wrong has contributed to things like the Oklahoma City bombing"

THAT is totally out of line.

In fact, the charity he raised the 4 million for, provides scholarships for children who lost their parents in that attack.

[Alvin4NY]

To save his reputation! It's a "look over here" move.

[Nano]

CarlIV, so he should get a pass for falsely sliming a 12 year old boy? for calling troops who disagree with him "phony soldiers? for mocking the tremors of Michael Fox?

great standards there on the right ... you don't get it ... argue on the merits ... quit personally sliming everyone who disagrees with you ... its a simple concept ... deal with the merits of arguments

[PoorVets]

YeP, 4.2 in his pocket and 4.2 to the Neocons.

[Sooner1976]

But none went to the children of those soldiers who dissent, huh?

[only1Demvoter]

Sooner : Those are just the " phony Soldiers " anyway. Boilbutt doesn't believe in them. -ralph

[boomer1949]

RL's only claim to fame (except of course his drug issue) is spewing hot-air, hate-filled diatribe, and he makes money from it.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense sees him for what he is. Unfortunately, there are those who believe the $--t he slings; this alone is very scary.

[leftLibertarian]

Ms Huffington:

Good for you, Rush LimpDick is a coward.
BUT

I smell a rat and it an't Rush.
Excuse me but this is a habit of the Democrats and their supporters: changing the subject from the Democrats lack of backbone to the Republicans.
I know most of the Republicans back Bush and the Iraq War.
But what are the Democrats going to do about Bush and Cheney's Crimes?
When is Pelosi going to Impeach Bush and Cheney?
Will these criminals get a free pass?
Will the American taxpayers have to pay for their pensions?
Why do the Democrats refuse to punish them?

[skeeto]

With this logic The bad guys were the ones that couldn't catch Jack the Ripper.

[JCP]

That's why I visit this site so many times daily. That performance was incredible, Arianna. I like the meme pushing the marriage of the mainstream right to the lunatic fringe. No wait, not "marriage," how about the "uncivil union?"

[cuthbertallgood]

Ms Huffington you were perfect last night on Countdown. The only flawless media outing of the week from either side.
Thanks.

[TomChicago]

Always delightful to watch and listen to Arianna. There is too little of the genuinely articulate and thoughtful on the MSM, and that's why I'm here.

[spicegal]

The right wing fringe are like a bunch of viscious rabid trapped animals. They have nothing, so all they can do is attack and smear, and of course it doesn't matter whether it's a 12 year old child or a person with a debilitating illness. I've never understood the attraction for Rush. By now you'd think he right wingers would have grown tired of his bile. He's a drug addict who's literally made millions carrying water for the republicans. I really like the way Arianna describes it as a pathology of the right wing. It's a very apt description.

[only1Demvoter]

spicegal : The " attraction " is simple : The ' unscrupulous ' leading the ' blind '. -ralph

[MancRat]

Limbaugh is merely trying to ape the mAnn Coulter schtick.

When mAnn has a book out, she goes off the meds and gets bat shit crazy in the media. Fatty Limpdick is just testing the same methods out for the falling listenership of his piss-poor program. Make stinky waves and get more people tuning in.

What does EIB stand for on his reinforced chair? Extremely Ignorant Bloviator?

[Janus]

According to Limbaloney, his EIB Network stands for Excellence In Broadcasting, but many of us see it as Excrement In Broadcasting.

Actually, this clown is a soidisant intellectual with no academic credentials (as is true of his wannabe pal, Sean Hannutsy on the Fox Newsfixer Channel). Perhaps one day, if not already, a group of ultra rightwingers will arrange a compliant college to grant them honorary degrees. He broadcasts over the ABC Radio Network, the source of a number of rightwinger propagandists whom the Dupes never miss tuning in.

Probably his worst performance ever was in his exaggerated bodily motions in his chair as he shamelessly mimicked Michael Fox's Parkinson's disease recorded on videotape and shown many times in television stories about it.

Limbaloney gave us this performance, in retaliation to remarks made by Fox with which Limbaloney did not agree.

I'm sure that the Dupes across the Country and plentiful here on HuffPost sit mesmerized with slack-jawed drool during his adolescent daily outbursts in their adoration of this idiot, were delighted with his obscene, mindless antics.

[mari2JJ]

If there is one person who can show Rush up for the hateful bigot he is, it is Arianna Huffington. She gets right down to the facts and gives very reasonable statements that confront Rush for the big blow hard that he is. She just leaves him standing speechless. When she is finished, what more can be said. It is amazing that he even tries to defend his diatribe of this family, whose children carry such heavy burdens after their automobile accident. This wonderful kid who stands up for his sister who is even more disabled resulting from that accident. Having said all this, no surprise that Rush just keeps on badmouthing this family even after he knows the facts about them. Probably the real problem is that he has with processing facts or more likely, he is just plain hateful. How Rush like is this behavior. Not a single thing that has happened in this election cycle illustrates more clearly the sort of people the Republicans seem to endorse so much, they surely put up with his disgusting behavior.