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Rush (Limbaugh), Not Weighing in on Pat Robertson
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 8/23/05 | Rush Limbaugh

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?


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assassination; castro; chavez; dittoheads; hugochavez; mediabias; patrobertson; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; venezuala; venezuela
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I love cliché arguments, they convince how smart you are and I must give up immediately. So you win, I lose, and as long as I love you we will get along just fine.

LOL Ain't dat da troot!

41 posted on 08/23/2005 5:45:58 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Utopia
The thing is ? Robertson was talking about the US ability with covert operations to do that, and Robertson was not invoking the name of the God of Israel to do this, he was just talking about the US's capacity to do this.
Basically, he probably was saying out loud what our leaders in Washington were already thinking, and reflection what most Americans are thinking about Chavez , but won't admit it.
If anything, lose lips sink ships, and if the US had any plans to deal with Chavez, now, after since Robertson said those comment, now, the Pentagon or the C.I.A either will have to abandon any plans to deal with Chavez, or come up with new plans to deal with him later.
42 posted on 08/23/2005 5:48:30 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: wagglebee

Yes, he was. He didn't get bowled over like a lot of the folks on here did. But it has given them a wonderful opportunity to do their favorite thing, which is to liken Christians to Islamofascists.


43 posted on 08/23/2005 5:49:42 PM PDT by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: Reagan Man
Rationalizing the call of murder by a religious leader just because he's your guy is still a call for murder.
44 posted on 08/23/2005 5:51:33 PM PDT by Utopia
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To: Utopia
Yes, that message is something that Louis Farrakhan has been preaching to his people for years.
45 posted on 08/23/2005 5:52:30 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: mabelkitty

Christianity (from the eyes of Pat) = kill those who disagree with US interests?


46 posted on 08/23/2005 5:52:43 PM PDT by Utopia
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To: Utopia
I still see absolutely no difference between Robertson and his comments and an inman's with his. Both use religion for their own perverted disgusting ends of violence and death.

OK, when Chavez has his head sawed off with a knife for the whole world to see by lunatic Christians who say they did it because Pat Robertson told them to, THEN I'll grant you your point.

Otherwise, drop the childish equivalency routine.

47 posted on 08/23/2005 5:53:11 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
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To: Reagan Man
The ban on political assassinations is in the form of an executive order (originally signed by Ford, and later reaffirmed by Carter and Reagan), it has never been a Congressionally mandated law. Bush could end it with a stroke of a pen and he would never even have to announce it publicly.

We have launched attacks that could have killed many foreign leaders (Saddam, Kaddafi, Milosevic and others), nobody has ever complained about those. Robertson offered an opinion about ending the regime of a maniacal dictator, the left is upset because Chavez is one of their new "pets," just like Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Ortega and Gueverra have been and/or still are.

48 posted on 08/23/2005 5:53:24 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: mabelkitty
I've never much cared for Robertson either... or any Televangelist for that matter. I'm a fairly religious person but I keep it to myself and never claim to know more than the next person or claim to be right and someone else wrong.

I always thought there was something untoward about him, but I didn't know about any suspicious dealings... I guess sometimes the gut feeling is the right one.

49 posted on 08/23/2005 5:53:47 PM PDT by infidel29 ("It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."- T. Roosevelt)
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To: since1868
.05% of 26 million. Enough to do a lot of damage. Remember the FARK'S that Mrs. Clinton had pardoned????????
50 posted on 08/23/2005 5:57:58 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Utopia

On this issue, I agree with Pat Robertson because he makes complete sense. Religion has nothing to do with it. Besides, I usually support an American point of view, before a foreign point of view. Hugo Chavez is definitely not on my list of people who I'm willing to defend. Under any set of circumstances. Know what I mean? LOL


51 posted on 08/23/2005 6:00:22 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure the borders;punish employers who hire illegals;halt all welfare handouts to illegals.)
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To: wagglebee

Thanks for posting this.

In context though, how many lives would have been saved had Hitler been killed or Pol Pot or Stalin.


52 posted on 08/23/2005 6:01:31 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
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To: Reagan Man
Very well put!!!!! Some on this thread just do not get it.

You can check my post for the last 3 or 4 months, saying that Chavez needed to go, and Venezuela was a boiling point for Islam.
53 posted on 08/23/2005 6:01:31 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: wagglebee

Glad to see Rush not giving the MSM their evening soundbite. As always, Rush is right. I wonder who was the network that called him 3 times. Probably CNN.


54 posted on 08/23/2005 6:01:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

Great point!!!!!!!


55 posted on 08/23/2005 6:03:24 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: wagglebee
You're right. It's not a law, but rather an executive order. Thanks for correcting the record.

I think we are in general agreement on the Robertson remarks. I've only been defending him for ths last 18 hours.

56 posted on 08/23/2005 6:03:42 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure the borders;punish employers who hire illegals;halt all welfare handouts to illegals.)
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To: wagglebee


Pat Roberson is an embarassment - always has been.


57 posted on 08/23/2005 6:04:03 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: wagglebee

Post #14 well-said.


58 posted on 08/23/2005 6:04:07 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Utopia
Pat Robertson is not a religious leader. He is a Christian tv news talk show host and a businessman.
59 posted on 08/23/2005 6:05:39 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Normal4me
Not only does America and the Bush administration want to kill Chaves, but it was also reported by FreeRepublic that Rush Limbaugh is advocating the assination of Cuba's elected president, Fidel Castro.

Did you ever wonder why even liberal presidents like Carter and Clinton never normalized relations with Cuba in all these years?

It's not because of the Cuban-American voters.

Castro had JFK assassinated.............and it's been kept secret ever since.

If the American people had been told the truth from day 1, they would have demanded retribution against Cuba.......but the Soviet presence kept Castro safe.

Now the truth still can't be released because it would reveal the secret-keepers of the past to be exactly what they were........appeasing cowards.

That has always been my opinion.

60 posted on 08/23/2005 6:05:42 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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