Comments on: An Arizona county sheriff takes on right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh

By: Janice G.

Janice G. — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:45:52 +0000

First I wish to say that I am an “independent” voter, who used to vote republican. I am a Christian who does not support abortion, nor do I support gay marriage. Oh yeah and (I’m white, if that’s import, but I know it is to the GOP). Well here it goes:
I am so sick and tired of hearing the GOP bash the poor, the disabled, and those who work minimum wage jobs & those who are unemployed and must have food-stamps to feed their children, or who are on disability or SSI. My husband has a master’s degree, but is ill now, disabled and bed-bound.
I just went through a year of treatment for stage III breast cancer and I have 2 very gifted and top-of-the-class college sons, who would not be able to attend college without financial aid and student loans. It’s not like the days of Leave It to Beaver anymore, because I know, I was blessed to have one of those child-hoods. Time to recognise that things have changed and “the American dream” isn’t available to everyone anymore, no matter how hard you work and try to save!
There are many people who are among the “educated poor”, like me. And there are many who are who are the “uneducated” poor? But they aren’t stupid, they’ve been quite educated in “the school of hard knocks” which quite a few of the GOP have never experienced, myself included!…You talk about “ENTITLEMENTS” Rush, Fox News……O BOY DON’T GET ME STARTED!…..the “wealthy or well-offs” are the ones who feel they are “entitled” to everything: such as big bonuses and big perks!
Blaming the poor, who most often work 2 minimum wage jobs, and who are often single mothers working over a 12 hours day, is wrong!… and blaming them EVERY SINGLE DAY on your radio show is so out of touch, Rush!……. as if they are thinking “wow, I must not buy these potatoes and this hamburger today with these food stamps for my hungry kids, because someone had to pay more taxes.” No, Rush Limbaugh, they are hungry. Did you hear me? I said HUNGRY! For every dollar that goes to welfare or food stamps, over $3 goes to a large corporation, too big to fail! (A problem, no matter who is in power Democrats or Republications, example AIG who mismanaged over $180 billion dollars and continued to give big bones to their executives of these corporations, now who wants “entitlements”.. who wants a “Santa Claus”?) That cost our tax payers way more than the sick and poor and unemployed in this country do!… (Not to mention Goldman Sachs and many more!) The GOP thinks that they are better than the rest of us, because they say they are the party of “hard, responsible workers” who are so proud of themselves to be lucky enough to stay healthy, and were able to make it through college and find a good paying job. Dripping with arrogance and self-righteousness, they put others down and call every the poor person lazy and uneducated!
According to Rush Limbaugh, whom I have listened to almost every day for several years, (until I came to the conclusion that he deplores anyone who needs “Help” just to survive from day to day)! Hey we just want to pay our rent, put gas in our car, make car repairs (that’s if we have one), pay car insurance and gas to get to and from work and to drive to our places of worship……oh and by the way many of us have military spouses, sons and daughters who are fighting for this wonderful country too!
I don’t think Rush has studied the scriptures much, where Jesus says:
“When I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, when I was thirsty, you gave me something to drink, naked-clothing, in prison, you visited me, sick, you comforted me, and a stranger, you took me in. In as much as you have done it to the least of these my brothers you have done it to me! “
I love this country, and I’ve always worked hard, I currently pay rent, yet I feed and have taken in international students who have need, because no one else will, and families that had nowhere else to go, and because I believe the Lord Jesus is “entitled” to my service!
Hey Christian brothers and sisters, the GOP has high-jacked you, they’re hoping that you will vote against abortion and gay marriage, when all along they will do nothing about it, it’s just a dangling carrot in front of you, to distort your thinking to get you to think that the word Republican means Christian! We, as Christians cannot expect nonbelievers to live as Christians, all we can do is try to BE like Jesus and do all we can to LOVE and give of ourselves to others, so that it will result in a conviction by the Holy Spirit, which can bring the lost to Christ, and then intern they will confront their own sins,….. as well as I must do, ….as we know all have sinned!
The majority of people in this country love this country and our constitution, but we need jobs, food, clothing, a roof over our heads, and encouragement!
The “turn-off” in this election was this:…….Rush Limbaugh and his followers believe that “lowly peasants” like me “want STUFF”… what “stuff” Rush?… Food?…. Good health?….. A tiny apartment away from the cold?…. What stuff Rush?.. Hope? A Bible to read? Some toilet paper? Medicine? Oh, yeah. I remember hearing how some poor single moms with little kids got a few cheap $10 phones so they could call 911 when danger arises! How deplorable that anyone get something for free? I could rattle on and on… Oh yeah it’s called “class warfare” no it’s not Rush! It’s called being “HUNGRY” get it? I don’t think so!
“Let him who has ears, hear what the Spirit has to say”.
The term “race-card” gets brought up and laughed about on talk radio too. God knows our hearts, maybe we should all take a second look at our judgements of other cultures and races, and what they’ve had to endure! Oh..but then we would have to humble ourselves before God!
Romney’s comment about the 47% had a lot to do with it,… but of course you’ve been saying that kind of rederick everyday on the radio, haven’t you Rush, so yeah, it was because you turned independents like me OFF, Rush!! Hope you never loose your health or go HUNGRY or God forbid, run out of toilet paper! …..Oh, and when you say that your words are on “loan from God”……………be VERY careful!!

By: Suzie

Suzie — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:48:56 +0000

Now that a year and a half has passed since this accusation that somehow Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh were responsible for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, we have since seen murder, violence, and hundreds of millions of dollars in destruction by the Occupy goons. This isn’t just rhetoric (which there was plenty of), this is actual mayhem. Where was the column or thread about that?

By: Ancient Bobcat

Ancient Bobcat — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:39:08 +0000

Take your one-sided liberal blog where it fits in…..D.C.!

By: Doris Riley Short

Doris Riley Short — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:04:04 +0000

Geraldo is a piss ant!

By: DaveH

DaveH — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:50:06 +0000

By: DaveH

DaveH — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:17:59 +0000

Irony of ironies.

http://tinyurl.com/47ugs38

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Arizona shooting survivor in custody after allegedly making threats
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 15, 2011 7:46 p.m. EST

(CNN) — A man who was shot but survived last Saturday’s massacre in Tucson, Arizona, was taken to a county mental services unit Saturday after making a threatening comment at a town hall event, also in Tucson, Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jason Ogan said.

James Eric Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed after he made threats against a Tea Party member at the event sponsored by ABC News, Ogan said.

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By: DaveH

DaveH — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:43:18 +0000

Very good read:

http://tinyurl.com/6c6bw5o

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The argument for free speech, however, does not assume free speech has no negatives, much less that free speech is always “civil.”

The argument for free speech holds simply that the harms from government restrictions on speech are worse than the harms from free speech itself. If government can determine what constitutes acceptable speech, it will use that power to restrict speech in inappropriate ways.

Opponents of the civil rights movement, for example, could readily have argued that inflammatory speech by some civil rights leaders posed a violent threat, especially since a few civil rights advocates, like the Black Panthers, presented themselves as well-armed, and indeed committed (a few) acts of violence. Civil rights opponents could then have used real or alleged connections between violent and nonviolent groups to restrict speech by all civil rights advocates.
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By: Marked Man (Mark)

Marked Man (Mark) — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:40:29 +0000

Suz, I think the use of the word ‘Toots’ as granddad is implying was popular in the 30s and 40s…

By: Lynda K

Lynda K — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:44:44 +0000

I say Suzie does quite a bit of “tooting” as she is mostly full of hot air!

By: Cold n P

Cold n P — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:57:02 +0000

Suzi, your use of the words “Toot” is in its use as a verb.

gdad is using “toots” as a noun.