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Rush Gets Off On Hot Girl-on-Iraqi Torture

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 1:17 pm
by Rspaight
From Rush's show (quoted here):

CALLER: It was like a college fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --

LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?


Yeah, I always grab someone off the street and sodomize them with a broom handle whenever I'm feeling stressed out. What's the big deal?

And:

LIMBAUGH: And these American prisoners of war -- have you people noticed who the torturers are? Women! The babes! The babes are meting out the torture.

LIMBAUGH: You know, if you look at -- if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean, I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm -- yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. I mean, I don't -- it's just me.


I gotta hand it to Rush -- only he would find a way to twist this around into NEA-bashing. Occupying a country and torturing its people? Yawn. Let's talk about Janet Jackson's tit!

And then there's this (from the AP, not Rush):

U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday.

The envoy, legislator Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed they were true...

...Asked for details, Clwyd said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she "didn't want to harp on the case because as far as I'm concerned it's been resolved."

Clwyd, 67, is a veteran politician of the governing Labour Party and a strong Blair supporter...

...The abuse occurred last year in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and at another coalition detention center, Clwyd said.

"She was held for about six weeks without charge," the envoy told Wednesday's Evening Standard newspaper. "During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back."

Clwyd said the woman has recovered physically but remains traumatized.

"I am satisfied the case has now been resolved satisfactorily," the envoy told British Broadcasting Corp. radio Wednesday. "She got a visit last week from the authorities, and she is about to have her papers and jewelry returned to her."


Well, as long as she gets her papers and jewelry back, I guess that's all fine then.

When can we have our country back from these goons?

Ryan

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 1:40 pm
by lukpac
You know, Rush has said some stupid things, but this has to take the cake.

Even if one is to think that such "initiation" stuff is ok, you have to realize that in those situations the people at least have *some* idea of what's coming and have a choice (I'm not saying that makes it right, but...). In Iraq, obviously, those people didn't have a choice. Does Rush just not get that, or?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 5:55 pm
by Xenu
Exactly, Luke. He's completely ignoring the fact that these are PRISONERS, not fucking frat pledges. They don't have a choice in the matter. They're people, not playthings.

Does anybody else find it unwise for Rush to be propounding this as wonderful treatment of prisoners given his current legal situation?

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 5:26 pm
by Grant
So why isn't the FCC on his ass? They are too buzy taking it up the ass from the the white house...

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:25 pm
by czeskleba
lukpac wrote: Does Rush just not get that, or?


I don't think Rush believes, or even really thinks about, 50% of the stuff he says. His goal is to be entertaining and outrageous within the parameters his audience wants (ie Democrats always BAD, Republicans always GOOD). Nothing more.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:31 pm
by Patrick M
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 9:27 pm
by chrischross
czeskleba wrote:
lukpac wrote: Does Rush just not get that, or?


I don't think Rush believes, or even really thinks about, 50% of the stuff he says. His goal is to be entertaining and outrageous within the parameters his audience wants (ie Democrats always BAD, Republicans always GOOD). Nothing more.


Uhhhh -- he gets his talking points straight from the RNC and then pushes them to his audience, truly a "supply-sider". The concept of what one believes is really open to interpretation when you're back on the hillbilly heroin. What else accounts for the garbage that comes out of his mouth these days?