Posted on 08/23/2005 5:08:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: There is a network today that is obsessed with Pat Robertson. This network has called me no less than three times asking me when I'm going to talk about it so they can record it. This network hasn't cared one whit about any of the outrageous assassination threats that George Bush gets from members of the left. They don't care. It's so patently obvious. I knew they're going to be listening, that's why I keep saying, "The mainstream media does not set the agenda of this show!"
If you want to find out what I think, report what I think, not what you care about what I think on your interest, but if you want to report on this program, actually report what happens here. But don't think you can call here and set up a premise where I'm going to fall into your trap to help you try to condemn the entire conservative movement. The jig's up! It ain't going to happen anymore -- and if I did say something about it, it would just be to tweak them, where they wouldn't understand it and they'd report it and it would be cast as the absolute worst thing in the world that had ever been said. (ahem)
In fact, I'll tell you what it is in this context. I was talking to guys around here, and I was telling everybody, three different inquiries, and they all want to know what I was going to say about Pat Robertson. I said, "You know what it is…?" In fact before this even happened I got an e-mail from friend today who said, "This Robertson stuff is just unfortunate because you know the mainstream press is going to try to link you with it."
I'm not kidding: five minutes after I get his e-mail is when I get the first inquiry about this! So, H.R. down here today and Snerdley in there, and I said, "You know what would be fun to say?"
They said, "Don't say it! Don't say it! Even if you put it in total context, it will be misreported and they won't report your context, and they'll report as though you actually said it."
I said, "Well, I will have actually said it but in the guise of tweaking them." You think I should say it or not? Snerdley thinks (interruption) Now you think I should? Okay. Here's what I was toying with, because I knew -- and it still may happen. Let's see if it happens. Let's see if what I'm about to say to you ends up being reported as, "and Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the Pat Robertson controversy yesterday by saying," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, let me say at the outset, I am not weighing in on the Pat Robertson controversy. That's not what this is about. I am tweaking the mainstream press, desperately hoping I criticize Robertson so that they can lump me with him and all of us with him to try to discredit the whole of the conservative movement and so what I would say that we were toying around with here:
Well, Pat, why did you not include Castro?
They're pretty weird that way. But they don't hide behind the Gospels as justification for their (misguided) beliefs.
Using "religion" as a cloak to justify a call to murder cheapens the religion.
And unfortunately, the Able Danger scandal will go down the same path as this did as the GREAT COVER UP.
Cuba, like Iraq costs more than it is worth to correct.
Rush was hoping Robertson would also mention Casto so as to rile up the MSM and then our side could counter with the JFK incident.......
"The law that makes assassination of foreign leaders should be overturned, immediately. So when the time comes, we can take out this nutcase, immediately."
No, no, no! We have to run this stuff by the U.N. first! They have to get their cut from Chavez and steal a few billion earmarked for starving children in Venezuela. Then the U.N. issues 17 or 18 hollow threats telling Chavez to knock it off, which he ignores for, say 30 years or so...
Then, we act.
Same script, different nutjob. ;)
murder? I'd call it self defense!
I wonder what their reaction would be ? if the USA had known of OSBL plan to send his goon hench men and ATTA over here to fly those planes into the WTC, but, had a chance to " TAKE OUT " OSBL, and would have save the USA from the 9/11 attacks.
"Thank God someone didn't KILL Hitler in 1939 - 40000000 people could have been saved"
GREAT point!!!!
Lots of them. Maybe they weren't actual Democrats who held elective office, but a lot of their underlings did. Remember Craig Kilborn's "Snipers Wanted" image during the 2000 elections? Remember Alec Baldwin calling for Hyde's stoning? I could go on....
An 18 year old with Podcasting ability and no FM connection?
Rush is so danged arrogant.
Its really amazing it took this to let most of the sheeple in this country to even realize this guy existed. Maybe the MSM will focus on why it might be America's best interests this guy (Plus his buddy pictured)is gone. Am I putting to faith in the MSM for that?
Big deal, some of us here on FR has said the same thing.
R U sure they were'nt serious? R U sure ALL that heard them thought they were'nt serious??
There are kooks out there who'll believe anything they hear and are inclined to believe to begin with. But a joke is a joke no matter how tasteless it is. Robertson was dead serious.
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