Shorter Weekly Standard

Context is for when our guys say stupid things.

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113 Responses to “Shorter Weekly Standard”

  1. 1

    Pb

    From Jesse MacBeth to Scott Thomas Beauchamp

    Beauchamp FTW!

    liberals and anti-war moonbats have suspended logic and reason to embrace people because they liked what they had to say, regardless of whether the tales made sense, or their credentials were as they claimed.

    This, in defense of Rush Limbaugh and the Iraq war… Irony died, in an undisclosed location, an indeterminate amount of time ago…

  2. 2

    Zifnab

    Bill O’Reily isn’t racist. He’s observant.
    Rush Limbaugh isn’t denigrating the troops, he is simply separating the wheat from the chaff.
    George Bush doesn’t even know who Nelson Mandela is, so you’re taking his comment entirely the wrong way.

    Hitler loved Jews. Anyone who says otherwise clearly just has a book to sell.

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    Jake

    Yes, and I’m sure the writer tut-tutted the unseemly fuss made over Kerry’s joke.

    Limbaugh is big enough to defend himself and his healthy ego.

    And a family of four and their egos.

  4. 4

    Dreggas

    And let us not forget it’s ok for this

    quote from Andy Bacevich:

    David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment of the Iraq War and in describing the “way forward,” Petraeus demonstrated that he is a political general of the worst kind—one who indulges in the politics of accommodation that is Washington’s bread and butter but has thereby deferred a far more urgent political imperative, namely, bringing our military policies into harmony with our political purposes.

    because it wasn’t a full page ad pointing out what a POS kiss-ass Petraeus is, oh and it was by a conservative.

    H/T Andrew Sullivan.

  5. 5

    Tim F.

    liberals and anti-war moonbats have suspended logic and reason to embrace people because they liked what they had to say, regardless of whether the tales made sense, or their credentials were as they claimed.

    Right now, somewhere, Ahmad Chalabi is laughing.

  6. 6

    Wilfred

    because it wasn’t a full page ad pointing out what a POS kiss-ass Petraeus is, oh and it was by a conservative.

    Whose son was killed in the War to Make the World Softer for Rush Limbaugh’s Fat Ass. I was waiting for Bacevich to start speaking out – let’s see Godlfarb smear him.

  7. 7

    Bombadil

    You want context? Here’s the context.

    I don’t see how the context excuses or explains anything. Limbaugh is a pimple-assed peckerhead.

    [And, yeah, the link is to a “gay, fascist website”, but it’s one of the few places that you can find the quote in its entirety.]

  8. 8

    timb

    Yeah, I used Goldfarb’s link to go to Rush’s official transcript, and besides sounding exactly like Birch Barlow did on the Simpsons, I didn’t notice any difference. Real soldiers support going to Iraq, phony ones don’t.

    Goldfarb’s as big a clown as Limbaugh is.

  9. 9

    Bombadil

    I used Goldfarb’s link to go to Rush’s official transcript

    Yeah, I should have said, “but it’s one of the few places that you can find the quote in its entirety without having to take a shower afterwards”.

  10. 10

    BFR

    You want context? Here’s the context.

    It looks like he was insinuating that caller 1 was lying about his military background from the get-go. I liked the way Yglesias framed it:

    “One wonders if he’s literally doubting the existence of such people, and thus proving himself to be an idiot, or metaphorically doubting their authenticity as soldiers, thus proving himself to be morally contemptible.”

    In this case, it seems pretty clear that the truth is closer to the 1st than the 2nd.

  11. 11

    Matt

    “Limbaugh is big enough to defend himself” indeed.

  12. 12

    Bombadil

    “One wonders if he’s literally doubting the existence of such people, and thus proving himself to be an idiot, or metaphorically doubting their authenticity as soldiers, thus proving himself to be morally contemptible.”

    In this case, it seems pretty clear that the truth is closer to the 1st than the 2nd.

    I don’t see where they’re mutually exclusive.

  13. 13

    BFR

    I don’t see where they’re mutually exclusive.

    Just saying if you read the transcript from the top, he’s pretty much denying the existence of anti-war soldiers, anti-war GOP etc.

    “LIMBAUGH: Well, who are these Republicans? I can think of Chuck Hagel, and I can think of Gordon Smith, two Republican senators, but they don’t want to lose the war like the Democrats do. I can’t think of—who are the Republicans in the anti-war movement?”

    “CALLER 1: See, I—I’ve used to be military, OK? And I am a Republican. ”
    ...
    “LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on the moon!”

  14. 14

    Bombadil

    Just saying if you read the transcript from the top, he’s pretty much denying the existence of anti-war soldiers, anti-war GOP etc.

    Oh, yeah, I can see that. I just didn’t think the “idiot” and “morally contemptible” parts were mutually exclusive.

    Just saying…

  15. 15

    Mike

    Limbaugh’s not an idiot; he’s figured out what his audience wants to hear, and gives it them over and over.

    And “morally contemptible” only applies to beings with a moral sense. Jackals aren’t morally contemptible; they’re just jackals.

  16. 16

    Bombadil

    May the gods make their faces to shine brightly on Charlie Pierce, and may his camels spit nothing but dates.

    Wait a second. Bill O’Reilly—Bill O’Reilly!—walked into a crowded restaurant somewhere in the United States of America and nobody in the place looked up at Bill O’Reilly and said, “motherf***er”?

    I weep for our nation.

    Here.

  17. 17

    Bombadil

    Limbaugh’s not an idiot

    Pronunciation:

    ˈi-dē-ət
    Function:
    noun

    1 usually offensive : a person affected with extreme mental retardation
    2: a foolish or stupid person

    I don’t know. Sounds about right to me.

    I will concede that you have a point about the “morally contemptible” part, but I still think it holds as well.

  18. 18

    Jake

    “LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on the moon!”

    But then he had to ease off the Oxy because the cops were on to him.

  19. 19

    rawshark

    Mike Says:

    Limbaugh’s not an idiot; he’s figured out what his audience wants to hear, and gives it them over and over.

    ‘If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question. Give him one. Better yet give him none.’

    Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451

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    Pb

    if you read the transcript from the top, he’s pretty much denying the existence of anti-war soldiers, anti-war GOP etc.

    The Presidential candidate with the most donations from the troops: Barack Obama, better known to Rush Limbaugh as “Barack, the Magic Negro“. The Republican candidate with the most—Ron Paul, Mr. anti-war GOP. Why does Rush Limbaugh hate our troops?

  21. 21

    RSA

    LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on be as big as the moon!

    No more accurate, but slightly truthier.

  22. 22

    demimondian

    LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on be as big as =the moon= my ego!

    No more accurate, but slightly truthier.

    No more accurate, either, but more believable.

  23. 23

    Perry Como

    Viagra presents, Real Wingnuts of Genius
    [Real Wingnuts of Genius]

    Today we salute you, Mr. No Real Soldiers Oppose the Iraq War
    [Mr. No Real Soldiers Oppose the Iraq War]

    Never has one man sacrificied so little for the ability to insult so many.
    [Oww, my anal cysts!]

    And just like you, I too would rather mock soldiers that have served honorably, than lose a political point.
    [I’m walkin’ on the moon noooow!]

    No Real Republican and No Real Solderies could possibly disagree with the Iraq war.
    [No Real Scotsman either]

    So crack open another baggie of Viagra and head on down to a country where the hookers’ ages are not much bigger than their shoe sizes.
    [Giggidy, giggidy]

  24. 24

    PK

    I listened to the audio on media matters, and it is bizzare! He denies that a republican or a soldier can be against the war! The phoney soldier comment is getting the most attention, but the most shocking comment from Limbaugh is when he asks “what is in it for the United States if we pull out”? That question represents the moral depravity of the GOP. The real problem with the republicans is that people in control are rich and seem have absolutely no stake in the future of the country. George Bush and Cheney, are millionaires. Limbaugh Kristol, and the TV Pundits are not exactly middle class. Whatever happens in the future as a result of this war, if the country goes bankrupts, or there is no healthcare for ordinary people these guys and their children are never going to face the consequences!

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    Dreggas

    Zifnab Says:

    PotD Perry.

    I second that

  27. 27

    Julie

    Perry Como for the win!

  28. 28

    Jake

    Fuckin’ A through Q, that is brilliant.

  29. 29

    fecapult

    My brother swears that if you follow every Rush quote with “I am, in fact, sedated!”, his show suddenly starts making a lot more sense.

  30. 30

    HH

    When I want context, I go to Media Matters. Well-known truth-teller David Brock said it, I believe it, that settles it.

  31. 31

    HH

    “Yeah, I used Goldfarb’s link to go to Rush’s official transcript, and besides sounding exactly like Birch Barlow did on the Simpsons, I didn’t notice any difference.”

    And if you follow this with, “I am, in fact, functionally illiterate,” it makes a lot more sense.

  32. 32

    Officious Pedant

    Hey, HH, I see you got the dictionary out before posting. That is so refreshing.

    As to David Brooks, well, who cares about that dude? The key here, which you seem to have missed, is that I can read the entire excerpt, watch the video, or hear the audio. I don’t need Mr Brooks for the play by play, because I have the source material. That way, I can make up my own mind.

    And let me just apologize for the uncivil tone…asshole.

  33. 33

    Bombadil

    When I want context, I go to Media Matters. Well-known truth-teller David Brock said it, I believe it, that settles it.

    Ah, but I didn’t even need to read what Brock said. I read what Limbaugh and O’Reilly said. I listened directly to the recordings, and read the transcripts (which matched the recordings). But we all know that facts have a notoriously liberal bias, right, HH?

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