Posted on 03/05/2009 9:39:12 AM PST by Zakeet
On Tuesday, liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller called Rush Limbaugh's now well-publicized statement about wanting Barack Obama to fail "treasonous," and wondered if he should be executed for saying such a thing.
Miller made this rather provocative comment on CNN's "Larry King Live," and oddly nobody batted an eye or seemed at all put off by it.
Not surprisingly, the topic of discussion between King and his guests -- which other than Miller included the Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, conservative talk radio host Lars Larson, and GOP strategist Nancy Pfotenhauer -- was all the brouhaha surrounding Limbaugh
LARRY KING, HOST: Nancy, what do you make of hoping for failure. Supposing it worked, and there were maybe some socialistic inclines, but more people went to work and more people had health care? Why would that be bad?NANCY PFOTENHAUER, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think the point is that Rush -- and I agree with him wholeheartedly on this -- believes these policies are antithetical to the American dream, and absolutely the wrong direction for the economy. I would be delighted to challenge the other two panelists on this one. What he has put together in the so-called stimulus package is an embarrassment. You had Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid writing the bill. You've put in 46 billion for 15 programs that OMB already declared ineffective. You have 300 million dollars going for golf carts, for heavens sake. Then turns around and, in a downturn economy, and advocates a tax increase. At the same time, he is making protectionist noises. This is a nasty economic cocktail, and it is going to hurt the American people. And I think that's what Rush Limbaugh has been trying to underscore. And he is exactly right.
KING: If he fails, Stephanie, that will be good?
STEPHANIE MILLER, LIBERAL TALK RADIO HOST: I guess that is what Nancy and her friends want. As long as you have a place to listen Rush on the radio -- if he fails we all fail.
KING: If his policies fail, he fails, right?
MILLER: Exactly. To me that seems treasonous. [...]
KING: Nancy, the problem with all this is does it bring discord? Does it take away from real issues when we get into basically personality stories?
PFOTENHAUER: You know, I think it is a distraction. And I think that's why the Democrats love it and they want to keep it going. I think the Republicans will turn the page, move on, and start really spending their time doing what they should be doing, which is articulating solutions to the problems that we're facing. And, frankly -- and pointing out how what Obama is advocating, the Obama administration is advocating, these aren't new ideas. They have been tried and they have been tried several times and failed. You can point to places like Germany and France that have done almost exactly what the Obama administration is advocating. What you see there is a third lower quality of life. You see lower economic growth. You see higher taxes and you see higher unemployment. So, it's not a recipe for success. It is a recipe for mediocrity at best. That's why Republicans have to step forward and articulate their solutions.
MILLER: You are right, we should stick to the same policies that got us where we are now. I agree with you.
PFOTENHAUER: I think there need to be real changes.
KING: You criticized the Bush policy?
PFOTENHAUER: I did on the record at the time.
MILLER: Nancy, you are right about one thing. We love this episode of Republican. It's delightful and it's not solving any of the serious problems that the country is facing. You know who is it good for? Rush Limbaugh. He loves this attention.
If I could say something tonight that gets me that kind of attention, like maybe Rush Limbaugh should be executed for treason. How about that?
Well, if Miller was saying this to get attention, let's hope her wish comes true.
Regardless, isn't it interesting that nobody seemed shocked by this comment? King completely ignored it and moved on: "Lars, it is true that any kind of -- Rush is a personality -- is enjoying this, isn't he?"
Imagine that.
YOU GET IT!!!
Thanks for posting up.
Making note of Miss Miller’s name.
The Dems have got them their Emmanuel Goldstein. Let the daily two minute hate against the evil Rush Limbaugh commence!
Anybody have this Stepanie Miller’s address? How about the names of her husband and children?I think it is time her personal information was published online.
How someone who earns a living exercising the 1st Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech could advocate treason for another exerciser of that same right is beyond belief. What a hypocrite!
Treason? That would imply that Rush was, at one point or another, loyal to or supportive of the pretender Obama, a notion that is patently false.
No, Stephanie Miller and the treasonous scum that are her fellow leftists are: (a) too stupid to understand the difference between treason and free speech; and (b) upholding a double standard vis-a-vis how they publicly spoke about Bush.
Well I was kind of sarcasm, defending the 1st Amendment. It’s insane that the Administration is going after media personalities, not even policy in congress. It’s like a Totalitarian silencing campaing (unprescedented) in my short lifetime. Maybe different in Roosevelt, Nixon years?
Near Virginia Beach, VA there’s a lake off Witchduck Road (yes the namesake) into which accused witches in the 1600s were dunked until they either drowned or confessed. I nominate Stephanie Miller for the first bitch... er.. witch dunking of the 21st century in this legendary lake.
“So. Now, for disagreeing with the Obamafuerher, we should be executed for treason? Who is he that we must extend a straight arm and parrot “Sig Heil”!?”
Just your run-of-the-mill Liberal - they all “think” that way.
Beyond pathetic, she was mean. She was on during the Monica Mess, and when ever Linda Tripp came up, Miller would cue the sound of a cow elephant.
So the “peace” crowd has no problem killing millions of American babies every year, it is enthusiastic about executing talk show hosts and a vice president (along with his family) who do not agree with them, and it believes terrorists have unfettered rights to terrorize.
I like this party of peace. Don’t fanatical Muslim terrorists claim Islam is the religion of peace? Well by gosh, they are obviously made for each other.
There ya go. They are playing games with us. Forget it. We have better things to read and think about then some skank whose brain is no bigger than a gnat and follows a party line that is scripted.
Her dad had to have shock treatments so maybe it is genetic.
Hey, that’s nothing compared to “nappy headed hos”
Let’s get our priorities straight.
So are the Bill of Rights but no one on the left seems to understand them either...
That is an absolutely frightening picture. I almost lost a keyboard over it.
I’m seriously coming to believe that there is some strange psychosis involved with all these libs. They all seem to think and act the same.
Funny how they apply standards to everyone else but don’t apply them to themselves. It’s odd and bordering on delusional.
“Just as the MSM is asking each GOP Congressman and Senator whether he or she wants Obama to fail, what the MSM shouid also be asking each Democratic counterpart is do you favor executing Rush Limbaugh for treason?
What makes Stephanie Miller any different from Rush Limbaugh?”
WTF??? You really don’t have a firm grip on reality or logic, Spock you ain’t.
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