Posted on 12/27/2009 10:55:42 AM PST by kristinn
On November 19th, Rush Limbaugh caused a stir when he mentioned PrisonPlanet.com on his radio show and linked to them on his website, touting their article 'With Hurricanes At Thirty Year Low, Gore Turns To Photoshop'.
By the end of the day, though, Limbaugh or his handlers had tried to erase all signs of the endorsement, as Paul Joseph Watson pointed out in his article Rush Limbaugh Censors Mention Of Prison Planet From His Own Archives. Watson noted "Any links to the Prison Planet.com story, which were prominently featured all over Limbaugh’s website, have also been deleted and replaced with a similar story by Newsbusters, a Neo-Con news website. What caused Limbaugh to order the material removed? Our guess is that he was probably bombarded with e mails from the legions of virulently retarded Neo-Cons that make up the audience of phony right-wing websites like Free Republic, on which all Alex Jones material is aggressively banned".
In the fourth hour of his November 20th radio show, Alex Jones covered the issue, playing clips and showing screenshots indictaing Limbaugh's duplicity. Paul Joseph Watson, author of both articles, appeared on air to discuss the issue:
Watson: "He's even edited his own trancript to take out the part where he says prisonplanet.com .. So I think he probably, him or the people who run his website started getting a ton of emails yesterday afternoon from these FreeRepublic type neocons who really hate our guts; and any Alex Jones material is aggressively banned from FreeRepublic and those kind of websites. And he just probably got a lot of emails and eventually just removed it; and it's gone it's memory holed."
Jones: "But see all FreeRepublic and Rush Limbaugh and people are doing by being neocons is making themselves obsolete and not even pertinent in the debate. I mean Limbaugh and others are still saying there's no world government, when it's openly being announced. All we're doing is covering what's really happening. and we don't want to be enemies with any of these people, and we understand they're part of the fake right wing, you know, that has to keep conservatives and libertarians on the reservation, on their plantation. But we're here to bring liberty we're here to unlock minds. And we're here to expose the fact that our Republic is falling and imploding. And I want to encourage Rush Limbaugh listeners and supporters to come find the real deal here.
"I mean we're no compromise for this country and freedom and the constitution and the Bill of rights. and we're not gonna attack Ron Paul and stab him in the back. We're the real deal. And dont allow yourself to be co-opted by Rush Limbaugh..."
The Austin, Texas radio host ended the hour by calling out Limbaugh and other fake right-wingers.
Jones: "We don't need you to link to us Rush Limbaugh. You understand that? You're the old fake conservative dinosaur. We are the future.I've financed this whole thing with my listeners. I have no big corporations supporting me. I've built all this with the support. You see Rush Limbaugh making films every 6 months? You see Rush Limbaugh having the number one videos online over and over and over again? No. He had the military industrial complex go give him 600 radio stations. He's hooked up with the CIA on record.
"So go ahead Limbaugh, keep acting like youre the real patriot, and continue; Hey I think its good you're starting to go further. But we're forcing him to go further. This guy all these decades, twenty years has been denying new world order, denying global government. It was his job to keep you asleep while all this was being built. And now hes trying to take on some of our political coloration to stay relevant, okay. We're the future Limbaugh, and you know it and Glenn Beck knows it. And if you want to be the future, wake up and become a patriot. But you cant do that; you can just act like it enough to fool people because you're a creature of the new world order. thanks for the plug, Rush".
In June 2006 Limbaugh, who in recent years has had a gaggle of neocon government-apologist imitators join him on the talk show circuit, was detained at a Florida airport with an illegal Viagra prescription, after returning from a trip to the Dominican Republic.
Hannity, meanwhile, told actor Chuck Norris that Ron Paul is nuts, then a few weeks later called Ron Paul supporters extremists and said that we wouldn't have free speech if it weren't for the "military industrial complex".
Glenn Beck, who was touted by Sarah Palin as a possible running mate if she were to run in 2012, has demonized Ron Paul and his supporters for years, even comparing them to terrorists, while at the same time aiming to attract a constitutional type audience.
. In 1999, Before garnering an reputation for being a staunch Republican apologist, Free Republic owner Jim Robinson had a surprisingly critical opinion about George Bush, who was then running for president:
"So, it doesn't matter if he snorted coke as a youth? It was a long time ago, a youthful in-discretion? Kinda like people who frequented sneakeasies during prohibition? Kind of a cute story, eh? Well, how about all the people whose lives have been destroyed by being arrested for the felony of drug possession? What about the millions of people who are rotting away in your filthy drug infested prisons at this very moment?
"Well, by God, if you people insist on electing another cokehead as President, you damned well better throw open all the prison cell doors and free every man, woman, and child you're holding on drug charges. And if you're gonna elect another drug felon as President, you'd better rescind each and every one of your unconstitutional drug laws now on the books, including all of your unconstitutional search and seizure laws, and your asset forfeiture laws, and your laws that enable your unconstitutional snooping into our bank accounts and cash transactions. Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. You people are sick! Conservatives my ass. You people are nothing but a bunch of non-thinking hypocrits! You're a shame and a disgrace to the Republic!
"And, I, for one, am tired of taking orders from cokeheads and felons! Elect another one and I'll tell you what. I'll be ready for war! It'll be time to take up arms and run the filthy lying bastards out!" In 2004, Robsinson was questioned as to whether the quote attributed to him was legitimate, and replied in the affirmative: "Guilty as charged. It was a sarcastic reply to an absurd Wall Street Journal op ed piece that was promoting the idea that it doesn't matter if US presidents are illegal drug users. Naturally, I objected."
Occasionally a topic with Infowars content will make it to FreeRepublic such as this one about Obama Joker posters, yet ironically, with over 200 replies, doesn't seem to have one mention of Alex Jones, PrisonPlanet.com, or Infowars.com.
A whole host of internet discussion forums are available as alternatives, some of which have been started by posters who were either banned or left FreeRepublic voluntarily. Other liberty forums focus on libertarian ideology, news and were centered around Congresman Ron Paul's run for the presidency. Here is a partial list: http://www.strike-the-root.com/
http://www.lucianne.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
http://www.originaldissent.com/
http://www.freedomunderground.org/
http://www.libertyforum.org/
http://www.libertypost.org/
http://libertysflame.com/
http://the-peoples-forum.com/
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/
http://waronyou.com
http://OpEdNews.com
http://Freedom4um.com
http://dailypaul.com
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/
And of course, the classic libertarian site LewRockwell.com, which has my previous article at the top of their front page today.
Listen to the audio of the 11/20 Alex Jones clip below.
YouTube video of Alex Jones attacking Free Republic and Rush Limbaugh.
Keeping Freepers on the plantation? What an amusing thought. Sort of like the old EDS “cat-herding” commercial.
Well, good. Now I can breathe again :D
What kind of education would allow him to confuse words that are deeply ingrained in the American character.
The whole fallacy of your diatribe is assigning nationality to Al Qaeda. Their loyalty is not to any country, but to an ideology.
Yet, they operate within countries and in the case of Afghanistan, were given safe haven and a place to openly train.
In the case of Iraq, the point was to prevent an even worse attack as several sources indicated quite possibly could happen.
It isn’t “nation building” to depose despots and give someone the security to set up their own free governance.
I suggest you stop listening to kook congressmen and pundits and do some actual research beyond reading left-winged headlines.
Way too many good conservatives have fallen prey to them in the last few years.
I will wait now for the cry of “Afghan civil war.”
They pulled that on us in Viet Nam too.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/26/troops-hope-sacrifices-not-in-vain/
Also, in case you somehow missed it, Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his Saudi citizenship back in 1994
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/041094binladen.html
And, for your reading pleasure,
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010344
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=27483
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Unless the author or his/her agent has specifically negotiated reprint rights to specific entities, it is disrespectful to deny them the fruits of their creative labor.
We, the Freepers, must police ourselves or be policed by others.
Best regards,
Does that mean I get a free face lift? I don’t know what a neo-con is since it was something started by the MSM but If I get a face life its ok by me...
Gee Whiz, that reply is a novella....
L!How many people do you think bothered to read that thousand + word screed? If you take yourself that seriously, it’s impossible for me to take you seriously. Sorry.
LOL! I have seen this assclown Alex Jones’s name mentioned here and there and figured he(?) was affiliated with Mother Jones. Wow, what a kook! You have to wonder if the left finances people like Alex Jones with instructions to act like conservative caricatures. (Or maybe leftist operatives just find willing, naive chumps to promote?) The tactic has been used by the communists before when they financed fake “churches” in order to caricature the religious right.
What is up with "Examiner.com"? They have crappy writers and every article seems to be posted here by a blog pimp (not you, of course). Look at the posters form there...they post articles and then never come back.
Uh, you do realize that the original poster is kristinn, not kristen?
No need to be. We are being over run by these jackasses...new and old...that paste multi-page spam to threads.
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So we hanged the President of Iraq and kissed the butt of the King of Saudi Arabia. The irony and hypocrisy is not lost on the American Public. The trust factor has diminished among the people of this Nation toward their government...no matter which stripe it shows at a time.
When I joined this site in 1998...Nation Building was frowned upon and condemned as in the Balkins ect. There have been changes in the focus of FR over the years. More partisan politics and less conservative philosophy.
BTTT
My eyes, my eyes...
I can’t believe you just used the blink tag.
I haven’t seen it used in a loooong time, on FR or elsewhere.
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