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Norman Lear

Norman Lear

Posted: October 21, 2010 08:49 AM

I'm Worried About Rush Limbaugh

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Folks, I'm worried about Rush Limbaugh. Has anyone ever exploded, you know, burst apart, like if we humans had seams and they just burst open and guts and shit shot out in every direction?

Has that ever happened to anyone any of you have ever known even in the wildest of election seasons? 'Cause listening to Limbaugh in my car today, carrying on about Obama with less than two weeks to the midterms -- and I'm someone who's heard him a lot and knows what a screamer he is, how he can carry on like the kid you knew up the block who could stand there and holler dumbness until his face got red as a radish (oh, my God, is that where "redneck" comes from?!) -- today, riding with my car windows down, I thought, "This guy is gonna split a gut so bad I better put my car windows up even if I'm in LA and he's broadcasting from Florida."

So I put the windows up and when I got to a computer, I checked to see if Mr. Limbaugh was still in one piece or scattered in bits and pieces across the landscape, a chunk of bladder here, a piece of pituitary there and maybe his mouth around the wide end of a megaphone somewhere.

I'm happy to say I worried for nothing. Mr. Limbaugh was still in one piece. But one piece of -- what?

 
 
 
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Sandy Knauer
Writer & Activist
10:52 PM on 10/24/2010
Oh, but wasn't it fun to hope for those few minutes until you got to the computer?

Thanks, this was fun.
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Rodney Thorn
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
10:13 PM on 10/24/2010
When I think of Mr. Limbaugh - which is not often - it's to mourn the waste of all his hot air, a potential source of clean energy. What has to happen is replace his microphone with a pipe leading from his mouth directly to an energy plant. He could heat several homes, and that would constitute a social good far exceeding what he now does.
10:01 PM on 10/24/2010
My gress would be if Rush would to explode, it would create such a vaccuum, that a black hole would develop and devower the universe,........Or if Rush were to explode, there would be such a massive release of hot gas, that the polar caps would melt, and the seas wold raise.........
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Tim Barton
I am a progressive, and proud.
09:46 PM on 10/24/2010
He could sort of go the way of the overeating chap in Monty Pythons Meaning Of Life.
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SamEllison
I feel so clean!
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09:14 PM on 10/24/2010
rush who??????
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NoLeHace
Thieves want your money and Dems want your money
10:31 PM on 10/24/2010
They are the band that did 2112.
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shadow7
08:47 PM on 10/24/2010
Wouldn't Rush exploding have been just special? But, that could not have ended the story. The hordes of ditto heads who are so proud that they don't think for themselves would have to explode immediately afterward. Now, there's a vision worth retaining. Mass explosions across the heartland. Sigh.
08:27 PM on 10/24/2010
You're worried about Rush? Then quit listening to him. If you think you can counter his message and do a better job, then go for it.
08:36 PM on 10/24/2010
Very well said - Even though you said it to Norman F'ing Lear!
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ediva75
"Free Your Mind & The Rest Will Follow!" -Envogue
12:54 AM on 10/25/2010
AMEN!!!
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Skunkman
old & decrepit
08:15 PM on 10/24/2010
Limbaugh is no longer relevant. He is however a terrific family values advocate. LOL

Good night posters.

Mike
06:43 PM on 10/24/2010
OMG...........LOL................I only have one word for Mr. Lear: BRILLIANT !
08:38 PM on 10/24/2010
What was brilliant about it? What did he address? How did he call the dope addict out on fear mongering or appealing to the worst instincts of right wingers?
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Leah Watts
06:34 PM on 10/24/2010
What a brilliant assessment of Rush Limbaugh!
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JFoxCPT
05:59 PM on 10/24/2010
Humor is a good way to deal with these inane people like Palin and Limbaugh.
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elkhawk
Alternate your future
05:57 PM on 10/24/2010
"I'm happy to say I worried for nothing. Mr. Limbaugh was still in one piece. But one piece of -- what?"

Well, I can't say that I would have been happy, but I do know one thing. Norman Lear's still got it!!

Come on Norman!! We need another good TV show!
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JFoxCPT
05:56 PM on 10/24/2010
One piece of what!!!!!....Rush Limbog....as one piece of what.....

Hahahahahaahahahahahahahha. Thanks Norman Lear for the big laugh!! : )
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PotterE
Carpenter, Modestly Progressive Liberal
05:37 PM on 10/24/2010
I never received my CD of the DOD debate promised.
05:30 PM on 10/24/2010
You're the one inviting Rush into your house, that's your problem, not his.

Now Obama, Nancy and Harry are different, they've forced themselves into your house, they've expanded the government monopoly into your business, devalued your money and hit you with higher taxes.

Maybe like any "progressive" you need a reality check.
06:15 PM on 10/24/2010
Nah, that's not true. We the people, who elected our officials, and who ask them to stand on our behalf as our representatives in legislative affairs, have asked them into our lives with our votes. It's an interesting process you may have heard of called representative democracy. Limbaugh is paid by a privately held company - one in whose decisions we the people have no say - to spew his bombast and hateful rhetoric and scream himself blue in the face. And the shame is that that privately held company acts in the interest of profits, rather than those of we the people.

You're right about there being a difference. You're just backwards.
06:50 PM on 10/24/2010
We do NOT invite elected officials "into our lives", we vote for them to REPRESENT OUR INTERESTS when dealing with the Government Monopoly!

Rush's "bombastic and hateful rhetoric" is my educational and entertaining discourse of ideas, you ever LISTEN to his show, he has lively DEBATES, people on that disagree with him completely, conversing with them point by point, they have their say. Debates on "progressive" shows are extremely rare.

Profits? Since when are profits illegal? Or do you have a problem with individual freedom of choice and responsibility, living by the law, you'd rather impose your personal religious Sharia on the rest of us?

People like you and Norman Lear, "progressives" who want to dispense with the evils of individual freedom, human dignity, free choice and individual responsibility, marry religion and law, YOUR religion, that is, with you dispensing the inquisition, the rest of us on the other side awaiting your summary judgments.
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proudem
does not suffer fools gladly
08:38 PM on 10/24/2010
Nice reply...it takes so much patience to explain something to someone who refuses to understand...faved / already fanned.
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memery
I used to be disgusted; now I'm just amused.
08:39 PM on 10/24/2010
Phil, did Obama, Nancy and Harry force themselves on us with warrantless wiretaps? No, that was Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft. By the way, as of today, no one's taxes have gone up because the Dems are in charge. What are you talking about?
09:28 PM on 10/24/2010
When does congressional approval become "forced upon us"?

Who cares about personal income taxes, when they don't have a job, thanks to the Dems being in charge.

THAT's what I'm talking about.

Get the picture?