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LIMBAUGH RIPS BUSH WHITE HOUSE OVER GLOBAL WARMING 'FLIP-FLOP'
Drudge Report ^ | 6/3/02 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 06/03/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT by hchutch

Just the headline


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; drudge; limbaugh
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To: christine11
The current caller seems to be arguing that Republicans can only be elected if they pretend to be Democrats.
1,201 posted on 06/04/2002 9:42:07 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: christine11
Rush says it's the the interpretation of the report that matters. The Left will use it to advance their agenda...for example, "burning of fossil fuels = DRIVING." Inotherwords, can you smell new EPA regulations?
1,202 posted on 06/04/2002 9:43:12 AM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: truthkeeper
please keep posting rush's comments. i appreciate your effort. thanks!
1,203 posted on 06/04/2002 9:43:16 AM PDT by christine
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To: fightinJAG
"...maybe playing his ridiculous "George W. Algore" clip on NBC will only reinforce the stereotype of Rush as a loon..."

Not that the Truth matters when the BushBackers are bashing Limbaugh, but the "George W. Algore" comment was from an e-mail Rush was reading from one of his listeners...Rush never said he agreed with it.

MUD

1,204 posted on 06/04/2002 9:43:25 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
but the "George W. Algore" comment was from an e-mail Rush was reading from one of his listeners...Rush never said he agreed with it.

Yes, that was my take when I heard the comment yesterday. (I was only listening with half an ear at the time.) Thanks for the correction.

BTW, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this original contention - that Rush said this, I mean - made by a FReeper who claims they stopped listening to Rush a while ago? Can we at least be factually correct here? Sheesh.

1,205 posted on 06/04/2002 9:48:48 AM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: christine11
I'd like to keep posting Rush's comments but I have to go help my electrician in the kitchen right now (otherwise he'll screw up all my electrical outlets. LOL)
1,206 posted on 06/04/2002 9:50:33 AM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: concerned about politics
"Rush called Bush : George W. Al Gore."

FWIW...Rush never called Dubyuh "George W. Algore," he simply read an e-mail from a listener who did.

FReegards...MUD

1,207 posted on 06/04/2002 9:51:27 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim
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To: Twodees
What you said in your post about those of us who respect the President was moronic, and reveals how little you know about us.....or him. There is nothing cultish about the respect that a huge number of people have for him, but if it makes your little ego feel better to insult us, go ahead.

I am a 'fan' of the President because he is a man of character, and is obedient to God's purpose for him, and I like what he is doing in moving this country back toward morality and righteousness.

I know very little of what I know about him from seeing him on TV, but rather from reports from people whom I trust who do know him, and reading extensively. But you go ahead with your petty little fantasies about who you imagine me to be, as compared with who you imagine yourself to be. It doesn't bother me a bit, because I know who I am, and you're dead wrong about me.

Sorry I was so unoriginal with my insult.......it just fits you so perfectly.

1,208 posted on 06/04/2002 9:52:36 AM PDT by ohioWfan
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To: Mudboy Slim
We all know that happens a lot. Rush's comments are taken out of context CONSTANTLY (usually by the Left, however).
1,209 posted on 06/04/2002 9:52:47 AM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: fightinJAG
All Rush is doing is alienating many of his listeners and certainly
marginalizing his former influence.

You didn'tunderstand his position yesterday, try actually listening
to him today. He is perfectly clear on this issue.

1,210 posted on 06/04/2002 9:54:41 AM PDT by itsahoot
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To: truthkeeper
"...wasn't this original contention - that Rush said this, I mean - made by a FReeper who claims they stopped listening to Rush a while ago?"

The contention has been made by numerous folks on this thread, so I lost count as to who did it originally. I do believe a lot of FReepers who trash Rush aren't regular listeners or else they'd realize the respect he has for Dubyuh...Limbaugh--like many of us--simply disagrees with Bush's "New Tone" strategery and his apparent devotion to Triangulation.

FReegards...MUD

1,211 posted on 06/04/2002 9:55:36 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim
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To: Joe Hadenuf
I would, but something about your previous posts makes me think you wouldn't listen. :o)
1,212 posted on 06/04/2002 9:55:51 AM PDT by ohioWfan
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To: christine11
One more, then I gotta run. Rush: "My whole beef with this report is that it gives ammo to the Left, which they have already taken. Shortly they will begin firing..."
1,213 posted on 06/04/2002 9:55:57 AM PDT by truthkeeper
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DRUDGE:

BUSH DISMISSES ADMINISTRATION REPORT ON WARMING

1,214 posted on 06/04/2002 9:58:04 AM PDT by theophilusscribe
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To: all
Al Qaeda's Wet Dream - One Term PipeBombNews.com | June 4, 2002 | William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher PipeBombNews.com

Posted on 6/4/02 9:20 AM Pacific by johnqueuepublic

Al Qaeda's Wet Dream - One Term

By William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher June 4, 2002

A few weeks ago, agent provocateurs in the American press - via yet another convenient leak of an internal FBI document, provided by congressional Democrat fellow travelers - commenced the now only too familiar attack on President Bush.

Milking the opportunity, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the Washington Post have gone into an exquisite 3-card-Monty ruse about how “”Bush Knew” – of course absent any facts that would prove the allegation and ignoring Mr. Clinton's less than stellar stewardship of the military/intelligence apparatus charged with preventing terrorist incidents.

The disease has even affected the pointy heads at the Wall Street Journal who last week, in a fit of pique, mistakenly called for the resignation of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, over lapses in security, which in their wooly headed manner of thinking, somehow led to 9-11-01, despite the fact that Mueller had assumed the directorship only one week previous to the Islamic sneak attack.

This week, in a pincers operation, the New York Times - who now apparently touts its articles by feeding them first to Matt Drudge - is alleging that the Bush administration is back peddling - flip flopping - on “global warming” and by extension the Kyoto treaty. This is really Byzantine; the Times claiming that Bush is confounding them by not being as hard right as it has been alleging all along – oh well.

The Times lashes out at Bush by misrepresenting the “UN Climate Action Report 2002” [a 263 page - 5.7 MB Adobe file] - the lead-in paragraph:

“In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment.”

If one takes even a few minutes to glance through the report one will see nothing of a “stark shift.”

What you will find is a thoughtful treatise on the complexities of climatology; it is no revelation nor is it capitulation that human activity has some bearing on the .6 degree C warming effect that may have been in play since 1900 – a single cow’s flatulence also has an effect – one, given the obvious spin intended by these sordid efforts disguised as journalism, possibly more salutary.

The intent here is to frame Bush as having caused 9-11 through inattention and, additionally, and having abandoned his core beliefs - thereby hoping to dishearten the conservative core of his support, a tactic which seems to be gaining traction.

The ultimate goal?

To destroy the Bush administration by any means and at all costs.

Aided in its effort to cast Bush in the worst possible light are a bevy of hot air devices, also commonly referred to as conservative radio talk show hosts [who shall here go unnamed - but you know who they are] who shifted into hyper-drive with wild crazy suppositions borne with sanctimonious scorn on the wings of their, undoubtedly superior, intellects – intellects, many of whom, having “risen” without the vexing influence of much formal education.

Lets cut to the chase.

Conservatives are on the verge of pissing away all that they have worked for, and they are doing so simply because they are reacting to headlines and stories contrived to sow internecine warfare. They are taking the bilge dished out by the DNC because, for some deep-seated pathological reason, Republicans and conservatives innately believe that their leaders will sell them out - it is almost a matter of faith. In this case they are making a preemptive strike and dropping their loyalty at the time when it is most desperately needed.

The formerly much feared conservative shock troops are now in a near autistic state of self-flagellation, which if not checked could well result in the demise of this movement and indeed this republic.

You heard me, the DEMISE of this republic – under what passes for Democrat leadership, this Nation has a less than 50-50 chance of surviving to 2010 – greenhouse gasses be damned.

Last week the Bush administration issued new surveillance guidelines allowing the FBI to monitor public Internet sites as well as attend church and political meetings to help prevent acts of terrorism.

The broadside from the ACLU was to be expected; the idiotic response on “civil liberties” grounds by the right - again driven by the lunatic element in talk radio - was not.

It was neither appreciated, called for, nor in any way justifiable.

Why now?

Ok we will tell you - the Islamic Jihad already has some version of the ATOMIC BOMB or are imminently close to having it or another similar psychologically devastating weapon of mass destruction – the actual mechanism is not that important.

That’s right, no we don’t have sources that close to the scene, but most anyone should be able to read the tea leaves.

The delivery of such a horrendous weapon, wielded against, let’s say the White House and/or Congress could conceivably throw us into a death spiral and ignite a worldwide thermonuclear exchange.

For some mysterious reason the so-called conservative movement has contracted an early onset of senile dementia - not only betraying their president in wartime but also abandoning their party when their poker hand consists of four aces.

The problem is not in the Bush administration abandoning conservative principles, the problem is that many self appointed leaders of conservatism - drawing from the Jessie Jackson/Al Sharpton playbook - are elevating their own agendas over that of this Nation.

The left would just as soon see a major commercial center nuked as lose in 2004, as long as they can lay the blame on the Republican Party.

Bottom line:

We are at war, start acting like it, those who fraudulently attack your Commander in Chief, attack your Nation, your family, and your way of life.

Suck it up, gut it out and start standing up to the left [and gently – if possible – our lost sheep on the right] to do otherwise cedes the battle to the enemy.

That is simply unacceptable.

© PipeBombNews.com, all rights reserved.

1,215 posted on 06/04/2002 9:59:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: truthkeeper
""My whole beef with this report is that it gives ammo to the Left, which they have already taken. Shortly they will begin firing..."

I thought his whole beef, well yesterday anyway, was that Dubya was adopting liberal policies and abandoning conservatives?

1,216 posted on 06/04/2002 9:59:58 AM PDT by rintense
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To: itsahoot
Maybe he will, but who'll be listening?

Rush had lots of listeners because he was entertaining and funny, as well as politically savvy.

There's nothing funny about him now, and his falling for the NYT story makes him not so savvy, IMO. We'll see how the free market works, but I wouldn't bet on him unless he stops whining.

1,217 posted on 06/04/2002 10:01:11 AM PDT by ohioWfan
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To: theophilusscribe
Whoa.

"Message received."

1,218 posted on 06/04/2002 10:01:40 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
Yup.
1,219 posted on 06/04/2002 10:02:26 AM PDT by theophilusscribe
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To: rintense
""My whole beef with this report is that it gives ammo to the Left, which they have already taken. Shortly they will begin firing..."

Well it sures looks like rush was loading the ammo yesterday with his rants and rush being "terrified" of a Thomas Oliphant article was also embarassing today.

1,220 posted on 06/04/2002 10:02:42 AM PDT by Dane
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