Democrats' Strategy Backfires As Limbaugh's Ratings Double

AOL News ^ | 3/7/2009 | Mark Impomeni

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

It wasn't supposed to happen this way.

The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats have been pursuing a strategy of tying elected Republicans to Rush Limbaugh, concocted in hopes of painting Republican opposition to the Administration policy proposals as extremist. ...

The conservative radio host, and liberal scourge, reports that his ratings have nearly doubled since Democrats began their campaign to marginalize him. Revenues are up as well. ...

Things are so good for him right now, even the White House has to admit its attacks on Limbaugh are becoming "counter-productive." ...

[Windflier]

I’m sure I’ll hear Rush one day.

Do yourself a favor and tune in soon. You're missing an historically important voice.

[FrankR]

"ACORN and/or civil unrest could unleash hell on conservatives. "

Well, I'm truly sorry that you are so frightened of them. I'm glad the real patriots didn't shutter in fear at the thought of the British a couple of hundred years ago. I guess the real patriots believed in "give me liberty or give me death."

I think you're letting the black dominated media portray a threat that is not as major as it appears. To be willing to surrender this country due to fear of some riots is ridiculous.

DCPatriot?

[SunkenCiv]

(Boston) Globe Column: A Perfect Example of Lies About Rush
NewsBusters | March 6, 2009 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 03/06/2009 6:56:53 AM PST by Zakeet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200644/posts

[SatinDoll]

Thanks, EBH, for the fine posting. This is real, meaty information.

Looks like we’re being conquered bit by bit.

[MinuteGal]

Hey, BO bro, stay outta da rushes.

Leni

[guinnessman]

There’s a common misperception out there that people who listen to Rush do so to have their opinions formed by him. Actually, the opposite is true. We already have our opinions and conservative principles. Rush is simply stating what we already believe.

Before I started listening to Rush, I would watch the news, and hear Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw editorialize on something, and ask myself, “Am I the only one here who doesn’t see it that way?” I felt isolated in my opinions.

But then I started listening to Rush articulate my own opinions and I would realize that there are at least 20 million people out there who also have the same opinion. It’s very liberating to realize that you’re not alone in your beliefs, that there’s a groundswell of support out in the country for what you believe in.

[Balding_Eagle]

I want someone to do the forensics to come up with what happened to the missing $500B in hours that drove GWB to sign TARP I. That will explain how the RATS engineering this calamity.

What you said.

It's like the Twin Towers suddenly collapsed, without any coverage of the planes that flew into them. No curiosity on the part of the press, nothing, just a hole in the ground.

[A Strict Constructionist]

I doubt it’s the Chinese, so that leaves the usual suspects and their associates.

[Rebelbase]

“Obama’s Alinsky methods are indeed backfiring.”

As Rush commented, Alinsky never explained what to do once the goal is reached.

That leaves poor old zero floundering around in his victory with only Stalin, Mao and Hitler for examples on how to lead.

[MaxMax]

Heh, and Rush is calling Obama's shills, Butt Boys.

Egg in their faces.

[Cheerio]

It's like the Twin Towers suddenly collapsed, without any coverage of the planes that flew into them.

Well anyone with a brain knows those were remotely piloted B-767s flown from deep within the Pentagon directed by Bush/Cheney. /s

[DCPatriot]

Well, this is one time, I won’t be upset if I’m wrong.

[EBH]

I am know high flying finance person, but the scope and level of this mess, triggered my gut way back in October. I started trying to back this mess and ignore all the finger-pointing between the two parties.

There is and was much more going on than just the subprime mortgage crash. The problem is tracking it back requires a good understanding of the convoluted world finance systems. I am sorry to say that just isn't me. And at the time that wasn't Bush and it is certainly not 0bama either. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela were and are still mining & hoarding gold.

It is important to strip away the noise people have been making. Some of our financial policies opened the door to the system being abused, but with all the ongoing noise we have not dealt with the truth of the matter.

Many, many things can be used for weapons and have been for thousands of years. Food, water, energy, gold, silver, diamonds, etc. 0sama struck our financial centers on 9/11/2001, Bush never let another physical attack on our soil happen again...or did he?

[EBH]

Hundreds more throng AIG Singapore office
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=22400&ccid=18

SINGAPORE, Sept 18, 2008 (AFP) - For the second straight day hundreds of anxious policyholders lined up in the hot sun outside Singapore offices of global insurance giant American International Group (AIG) Thursday.

Hundreds more — some vowing to terminate their policies — were already inside the offices of AIG and its wholly-owned subsidiary, American International Assurance Company Limited (AIA). They had returned after lining up on Wednesday without getting served.

Many in the crowd were unmoved by an announcement from the US Federal Reserve, the central bank, that the United States government would give an unprecedented loan of up to 85 billion dollars to AIG in a bid to avert a global financial calamity.

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But didn’t ?
KANJORSKI: On Thursday, Sept. 18th at about 11 o’clock in the morning the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help. It pumped $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide; we were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic out there.

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Check the dates out. What was going on over in Singapore that we missed and didn’t read in the MSM?

[Cheerio]

to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two.

That is the part I am interested in and want to know who triggered. The fact that AIG was suffering policy cancellations would probably not impact money market accounts here in the US.

I want someone to assure me there are no Soros or other DEM operative fingerprints on this mass withdrawal of $500BILLION in money market funds in two hours. This is not a coincidence IMHO.

[InvisibleChurch]

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[N. Theknow]

This would be a good time for Rush to plan another “Rush To Excellence” event. And another bake sale wouldn’t hurt either.

NASA is having a "Name The Node" contest for the ISS.

I tried getting a movement to name the new Node 3 for the International Space Station "Rush Room" but nobody seems to want to join in.

[InvisibleChurch]

(insert nelson muntz here)

[EBH]

A reliable source, however, has given FORTUNE a list of 15 counterparties, with no dollar figures attached. The list contained the names in the following order. FORTUNE sought comment from all of the financial institutions and none said their inclusion on the list was inaccurate.

Société Générale (France), United Arab Emerites, Iran

Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Hank Paulson, United Arab Emerites

Merrill Lynch International, http://www.menareport.com/en/business/213985, http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6&section=0&article=97741&d=20&m=6&y=2007, hmmm...United Arab Emerites

Deutsche Bank (Germany),the number of Islamic finance transactions is increasing especially in the real estate and capital markets sectors. http://arabnews.com/?page=6&section=0&article=116200&d=10&m=11&y=2008&pix=business.jpg&category=Business

Calyon, Crédit Agricole (France)

UBS (Switzerland)

Barclays (England)

Coral Purchasing, DZ Bank (Germany)

Bank of Montreal (Canada)

Rabobank (the Netherlands)

Royal Bank of Scotland

Bank of America

Wachovia

HSBC (England)

Barclays Global Investors

Revisit post #65, no I don’t have all the answers but if one wants to do more research of those on the list...the answer wouldn’t really surprise me. They took our oil money last summer and then they crashed the rest of the market.

[Rick_Michael]

haha...sounds like me living around the bay area.

In my teens I use to ask myself, ‘am I alone in how I think?’