Posted on 08/10/2009 4:18:01 PM PDT by seanmerc
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RUSH: These guys have threatened me again. This was last Friday at the White House, Jake Tapper -- this the presidential daily brief. Jake Tapper says, "Rush Limbaugh went on a very long speech which he compared Democrats to Nazis, the president to Hitler, and I'm wondering if the president's seen any of this. Obviously the Nazi imagery has been condemned by Jewish groups, and I'm wondering if he feels anything about the language being used this way."
GIBBS: Any time you make references to what happened in Germany in the Thirties and Forties, I think you're talking about an event that has no equivalent. And I think any time anyone ventures to compare anything to that, they're on thin ice and it's best not deployed. We can have a discussion in our democracy about where we want to go and why or why not we want to take certain steps. The president strongly believes we can do so without yelling at each other, without pushing each other, without degrading each other and do so in a way, I think, that respects the difference in all of our opinions.
RUSH: Now, you may have realized, folks, if you're listening the first hour of the program that I was slightly angered when I started. This is exactly why. Nobody was comparing Obama to Hitler. We were comparing Obama's health care to Germany's health care in socialized Nazi Germany. But, if I am "on thin ice," is Nancy Pelosi is thin ice? Nancy Pelosi... Jake Tapper, do you know this yet? Do you know that Nancy Pelosi started this? She called friends of mine -- audience members of this show decent Americans protesting the takeover of one-sixth of their economy by the government by a man who has a five-minute career -- Nazis. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, said they were running around carrying signs with "swahstih-kahhs," as she said, on them. So I simply responded in kind. And old Gibbs here wants to say I was comparing the genocidal Hitler to Obama. That's just typical of this bunch, to take that position on it. I was comparing one socialist to another, pure and simple. But if I'm "on thin ice," then Nancy Pelosi must be on thin ice as well. I'll move forward to audio sound bites... Yyeah, let's go to number four and five and six. Yes, because I happened to dominate the Friday night newscasts. Chip Reid, CBS News, says that conservative websites and Rush Limbaugh are whipping activists into a frenzy.
REID: Websites of conservative groups that list Democratic town halls and urge critics to go and be heard! And conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, who, Democrats say, are whipping activists into a frenzy, comparing President Obama's health care plan to Nazi policies.
RUSH ARCHIVE: ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate. ...
REID: To give an idea of just how nasty this battle over health care reform has become, Capitol Hill Police say they are now investigating a possible death threat by a constituent against a Democratic congressman from North Carolina.
RUSH: Yeah, we heard about this, and this guy. Then after that said there were hundreds of congressman getting death threats. This "Adolf Hitler, like Obama, ruled by dictate," what would you call all of these czars? What would you call firing the CEO of General Motors? What would you call setting up a "pay czar" and telling the pay czar to determine who can make what?
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Rush has been firing back on the Nazi theme.
As is usual, it’s Rush 10, White House 0.
Interesting how a college dropout can out argue all those lawyers.
(Of course, if any of the White House clowns had been good lawyers, they’d not be in the White House.)
Obumer still thinks he’s in Chicago.
In fairness, wasn’t his dad a lawyer and his brother is one?
Have to be pretty quick in that household to survive.
“BushHitler.” That is all I have to say.
Bill Gates, Rush Limbaugh and Richard Branson, all dropouts who are 50x smarter than the Dem leadership.
Politics attracts narcissistic nonachievers IMO. Most politicans would never cut it in business and many not even in Law.
GO RUSH!
And his Grandfather and namesake. A cousin is a federal judge. Another cousin is on the Missouri Supreme Court.
Looks like Rush is the only one of the entire family that grew up and amounted to something, lol!
I think you’re talking about an event that has no equivalent.
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There are plenty of equivalents, especially in countries with communist revolutions.
RUSH FOR PRESIDENT~!
Democrats, Demons, Nazis
I honestly can never buy another Pepsi Cola and they are really endanger of having their brand get labeled with a symbol of hate and destruction.
Boo Pepsi, Boycott Pepsi
Now he needs to target their crotches and kick the hell out of them.
Any one who has read Jonah Goldbergs book: "The Secret History of America;s Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change," a thoroughly researched academic work of history,would know that the Obama movement is natuionalist Socialist. Wgen they seize power as an elite and define American citizens as "demagogues, racists,greedy" and work to seize absolute power as they do now, they are well on their way t being fascists,
Rush is right, He is not puffing. Obama's foot fits Goldberg's Shoe, perfectly.
There is no question in my mind that the Obama movement is fascist.Ask Hillery Clinton's Dem convention delegation fromm 2008. They made the mistake of not knowing Obama was a fascist, to their great detriment. They fell to Obama;s fascist measures inside the Dem convention, where there was a putsch, and some of them were afraid for their lives ( unreported in the press.).
Interesting that the Democrats didn't have any problem with THEIR folks calling George W. Bush, 'Hitler'. But the Democrats have never had the problem of being consistent.
The uhbama crew really loves to use the updated hitlerian visuals and emblems, don’t they? Is this because liberals are generally so stupid they need a picture to get the gist?
Funny you should say that, I quit buying Pepsi too!
That logo is just too coincidental and creepy.
HUAC?
I guess opposing totalitarian government even in :casual conversation” needs to be punished
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