A Nation Divided...

[maycocksean]

I give up trying to get a quote and the date and time on his radio show.

But what about the audio? Fabricated by a Rush imitator?

 

[the iron horse]

But what about the audio? Fabricated by a Rush imitator?

Post the quote.

 

[maycocksean]

Post the quote.

Okay, IH, you caught me. . .I admit I'm too lazy to go find the quotes. I haven't even looked at that website.



It's after 10:00 P.M., I have an hour and half commute to work tomorrow morning, my wife is down with a fever (which we hope isn't you know what), and I need to get to bed so I stay both healthy and alert on the highway tomorrow. I usually try to be thorough in my critiques. . .I wasn't this time. So sue me.

 

[the iron horse]

Okay, IH, you caught me. . .I admit I'm too lazy to go find the quotes. I haven't even looked at that website.



It's after 10:00 P.M., I have an hour and half commute to work tomorrow morning, my wife is down with a fever (which we hope isn't you know what), and I need to get to bed so I stay both healthy and alert on the highway tomorrow. I usually try to be thorough in my critiques. . .I wasn't this time. So sue me.

I'm with you. I'm off to sleep for awhile.

Take care

 

[Tiger Edge]

And see that's another thing. This Williams NEVER attends any of the meetings of the Black Community--every other Tues, how hard is it to show up--where we all get our marching orders from Rev. Sharpton and Jackson, and keep in lockstep. . .

 

[HyperU2]

Remember the last group of Americans that were "totally ready for the divide"? Didn't turn out so well for them. . .

Only one side is armed this time.

 

[BVS]

Like i said, I give up.


"We are the world...we are the children."

As a Christian I find your stance on racism to be pretty scary.

 

[martha]

That you would say a thing like that. . .well, if I didn't know you better I'd almost say it was. . .well, you know. . .

How well do you know him? He spends an awful lot of time defending Rush and his bullshit.

 

[Irvine511]

Like i said, I give up.

because you were demonstrably proved totally wrong in a matter of seconds by several posters?

to be fair, Rush probably does love underage black girls in the DR if his Viagra bust and that nation's reputation for sex tourism are anything to go by.

 

[Irvine511]

anyway ...

We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black." After Obama's inauguration, Limbaugh said during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News that "[r]acism in this country is the exclusive province of the left. We're witnessing racism all this week that led up to the inauguration. We're being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles. Bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president. We've got to accept this. The racism that everybody thinks exists on our side of the aisle has been on full display throughout their primary campaign. So I think they've done a great job, the media has, of covering up his deficiencies."

"I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy." Responding to accusations that he had called Obama "an angry black man," Limbaugh said on July 27 "they're finally hearing me -- he's an angry black guy. I do believe that about the president. I do believe he's angry; I think his wife is angry. All liberals are enraged all the time anyways. They're always mad." Previously, Limbaugh had said that Obama is "one angry guy."

"n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering." On September 15, Limbaugh said: "It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. I mean, you put your kids on a school bus, you expect -- you expect safety. But in Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on.' And of course everybody says, 'Oh, the white kid deserved it. He was born a racist, he's white.' Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white students are destroying civility on buses. White students destroying civility in classrooms all over America. White congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives. We can redistribute students while we redistribute their parents' wealth. I mean, we can just redistribute everything. Just return the white students to their rightful place, their own bus, with bars on the windows and armed guards. They're racist. They get what they deserve. Newsweek magazine told us this -- post-racial America. I mean, I wonder if Obama's going to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard."

"Obama's entire economic program is reparations." On June 22, Limbaugh said, "What they don't know is that Obama's entire economic program is reparations. If I were [Al] Sharpton, if I'd been guest-hosting Sharpton's show, and I got a call like that, somebody complaining, I'd say, 'No, hey, hey, hey. Shh, shh. Let me tell you the truth here. Everything in the stimulus plan, every plan he's got is reparations. He gonna take from the rich, he's gonna take from the -- he's gonna give it to you. It just can't happen overnight. Be patient.' That's what's -- redistribution of wealth, reparations, returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners, whatever you want to call it, it's reparations."

Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot." After reading extensively from an American Thinker column smearing Obama, Limbaugh said on June 26 that Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot."

Obama is "Halfrican-American." On January 24, 2007, Limbaugh referred to Obama and actress Halle Berry as "Halfrican-American," stating that "Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican-American actress Halle Berry." Limbaugh then said: " 'As a Halfrican-American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,' Obama said." Limbaugh then conceded that Obama "didn't say it."

"Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side." On March 21, 2008, Limbaugh said of Obama's handling of the controversy surrounding remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "It is clear that Senator Obama has disowned his white half, that he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side." Limbaugh had earlier said: "[Y]ou know, opening these race wounds like this, taking us back 30, 40 years, making it look like no progress has been made -- what Barack Obama has done -- I'm going to say something here that might offend -- or not offend -- but might make some uncomfortable. But it is clear to me that there has been a major transformation in Senator Obama."

Sotomayor "a reverse racist" appointed by Obama, "the greatest living example of a reverse racist." On May 26, Limbaugh said then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a "reverse racist" and that liberals are wrong to assert that "minorities cannot be racists" because Obama is the "greatest living example of a reverse racist and now he's appointed one." On his May 29 show, Limbaugh compared Sotomayor's nomination to nominating David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and said the way to "get promoted in the Barack Obama administration" is "by hating white people."

Obama "wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya" and "wants to be the black FDR." On August 24, Limbaugh said he "finally figured out why it is Obama's pushing so hard on this health care bill." He asserted: "He just wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya. And look, you know, economic anxiety is necessary if you want to become the next black FDR, which is -- well, the black FDR. That's what he wants. He wants to be the black FDR, the next FDR, and FDR fed off of economic anxiety."

Latching onto LA Times op-ed, Limbaugh sings "Barack, The Magic Negro."

On March 19, 2007, Limbaugh highlighted a Los Angeles Times op-ed that described Obama as "running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro' " -- a term used by critics of pop culture to describe certain benevolent African-American characters. Limbaugh stated: "The term 'Magic Negro' has been thrown into the political presidential race in the mix for 2008. And the term 'Magic Negro,' as applied to Barack Obama has been done by an LA Times columnist, David Ehrenstein." Limbaugh later asserted: "I'm going to keep referring to him as that, because I want to make a bet that by the end of this week I will own that term," adding, "If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the 'Magic Negro,' there will be a number of people in the drive-by media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the LA Times did it, simply because they can't be critical of the LA Times, but they can, obviously, be critical of talk radio." Limbaugh continued to refer to Obama as the "Magic Negro" throughout the broadcast -- 27 times, to be exact -- and at one point sang "Barack, the Magic Negro" to the tune of "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Limbaugh defended his use of the song, stating, "Well, that's what we always do here. We do parodies and satires on the idiocy and phoniness of the left."

"God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama"; Obama "has yet to prove he's a citizen." Limbaugh has also advanced the theory that Obama was not born in the United States, saying that "God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama" and that Obama "has yet to have to prove he's a citizen. All he'd have to do is show a birth certificate."

Limbaugh on Gates controversy: "Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman."

On July 24, Limbaugh said Obama "all of a sudden, this guy that [moderates] elected, who they thought was all of these wonderful, perfect things, is now behaving as a community organizer and is fanning the flames of race, and is calling the police stupid. And I guarantee you those people -- we've all been waiting to ask the question, when are the Obama voters going to wake up? Well, this incident might be -- I don't know yet, a little early to say -- this incident might be the wake-up call for some of these moderates. ... You know that there were a lot of people that voted for Obama out of pure guilt. Hoping that that -- the election, his election would just wipe the slate clean, at least make them feel better about it. And this just destroys that. Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman when he doesn't know the facts of the case." Limbaugh also said on July 23 that white policemen are "under assault" "from the East Room of the White House."

Limbaugh suggests Obama would not have acted on Somali pirates if he'd known they were "actually young, black Muslim teenagers." On April 14, Limbaugh suggested the "correct" way to look at a situation in which Obama sent the military to retrieve American hostages from Somali pirates was that "if only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers were actually young, black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot."

Limbaugh suggests Democrats, media believe "you can't criticize the little black man-child." Referring to GOP ads comparing Obama to Britney Spears during the presidential campaign, on August 20, 2008, Limbaugh said: "It's -- you know, it's just -- it's just we can't hit the girl. I don't care how far feminism's saying, you can't hit the girl, and you can't -- you can't criticize the little black man-child. You just can't do it, 'cause it's just not right, It's not fair. He's such a victim." The previous day, Limbaugh had said that "it is striking how unqualified Obama is and, and how this whole thing came about with, within the Democrat Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy." Limbaugh went on to say, "I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative action has reared its ugly head against them."

"The government's been taking care of [young blacks] their whole lives." On February 1, 2007, Limbaugh responded to a Reuters report about a University of Chicago study that found that "a majority of young blacks feel alienated from today's government" by asserting, "Why would that be? The government's been taking care of them their whole lives."
"The days of [minorities] not having any power are over, and they are angry."

On June 4, Limbaugh said, "This has been the argument the Reverend Jackson has proffered throughout my life -- that it's impossible for minorities to be racist because they don't have any power. Well, president of the United States. We're talking now about a Supreme Court justice. The days of them not having any power are over, and they are angry. And they want to use their power as a means of retribution. That's what Obama's about, gang. He's angry; he's going to cut this country down to size. He's going to make it pay for all the multicultural mistakes that it has made -- its mistreatment of minorities. I know exactly what's going on here."

"[M]inorities never do anything for which they have to apologize." On April 12, 2007, Limbaugh criticized Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson for refusing to apologize to three former members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team who were accused of rape in March 2006 -- all charges were dropped on April 11, 2007 -- and asserted that "minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize." Presumably referring to the decision by CBS Radio and MSNBC to stop airing Imus in the Morning following controversial comments by host Don Imus, Limbaugh stated: "Everybody's demanding that everybody apologize in this country for simply breathing. It's getting to the point some people are not allowed to breathe or exhale, or make syllables." Limbaugh went on to complain about the protests Sharpton and Jackson led condemning Imus' remarks, saying: "They're members of the minority. Don't ever forget that this is the case. Minorities, victims, members of groups, are allowed to do anything to address their grievances and to get noticed, because ... they're so oppressed."

Limbaugh: "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." In 2003, Limbaugh resigned from his job as an ESPN commentator after saying that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb hasn't "been that good from the get-go" and "got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve," because "[t]he media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." After the Eagles reached Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, Limbaugh returned to making racial comments about McNabb, saying, "There's no question McNabb has improved and I'm happy to see it," but that "when the defense ... was propping the Eagles up," the media "were still giving McNabb credit -- because there's this social hope."

Limbaugh says "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips." On January 19, 2007, Limbaugh stated: "Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There I said it."

Limbaugh declares basketball "the favorite sport of gangs." Discussing the government's attempts to curb violence, Limbaugh told a caller on October 7: "It's not reasonable that you should understand the insanity that local and state and federal bureaucracies are doing. It's perfectly normal and understandable that none of what they do would make sense to you. My question -- OK, a 1 cent sales tax to fight gang violence. What do you spend the money on to fight gang violence? Afterschool program -- don't we already have afterschool programs? Don't we already have -- what do you call it, extracurricular events? Midnight basketball -- I mean, we've done it all. We've taken the favorite sport of gangs, and we put it at midnight to get them on the basketball court. We had 100,000 new cops with Clinton -- we've done it all. And the problem still is out of control. Liberalism doesn't work."

Limbaugh invented "racial component" to Hackett's decision to withdraw from Ohio primary race. During the 2006 Democratic primaries, Limbaugh invented a racial element to explain Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett's departure from the Ohio Democratic Senate primary race against then-Rep. Sherrod Brown, asserting, "And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too." In fact, Brown is white -- a point on which Limbaugh was corrected later in the program.

Limbaugh on Survivor series: "African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do." On August 23, 2006, Limbaugh suggested that the competition in a season of CBS' Survivor, in which contestants were reportedly divided into competing "tribes" by ethnicity, "is not going to be fair if there's a lot of water events." In support of this assertion, he cited a March 2, 2006, HealthDay article reporting that "young blacks -- especially males -- are much more likely to drown in pools than whites." He later added that Hispanics have "probably shown the most survival tactics," that they "have shown a remarkable ability to cross borders," and that they can "do it without water for a long time, they don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do." On his September 29, 2006, show, Limbaugh claimed "[t]here can only be one reason" Survivor scrapped "segregated" competition after two episodes -- "the white tribe had to be winning."

Limbaugh suggested Colin Powell only supported Obama because of race. After Limbaugh asserted that Colin Powell should leave the Republican Party because of his support for Obama, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that "t's not up to Rush Limbaugh to decide who ought to be in the Republican Party." Limbaugh responded on his May 18 show that all Democrats "had to do was nominate an African-American and [they've] got Colin Powell."

Limbaugh: Gates is an "angry racist." On July 27, Limbaugh said Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is an "angry racist."

Limbaugh called illegal immigrants an "invasive species." Referring to an April 1, 2005, federal court ruling that prohibited shipping boats from dumping of ballast water containing "invasive species," including some types of mollusks, into U.S. waters, Limbaugh described illegal immigrants as an "invasive species" that U.S. courts willingly permit to enter the country.
Limbaugh repeatedly calls Native Americans "Injuns." Media Matters for America documented at least four separate instances of Limbaugh using this slur on his program.

Limbaugh says Democrats' interest in Darfur is securing black "voting bloc." On August 21, 2007, Limbaugh claimed that Democrats "want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur." He continued: "There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in trouble." A caller responded, "The black population," to which Limbaugh said, "Right."

Limbaugh says that if "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today." On May 21, 2008, Limbaugh said that "one of the objectives of the feminazis over the last 20, 25 years has been to dominate the public education system so as to remove the competitive nature of boys. You know, there's a crisis of young man-boy education in the schools. And they did this on purpose, to eliminate male competition in the work force. This is part of feminazi grand plan." Limbaugh then said, "They forgot affirmative action for black guys. And because of that, every bit of their plan has gone up in smoke now, because they -- if -- they had to come out in favor of affirmative action for black guys, and that's -- see, this is one of the things that really irritates the women. And there are women all over this country fit to be tied -- trust me on this. ... [L]iberals eventually are going to be devoured by their own policies. And it has happened here. Because Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." He concluded, "So, it's just -- they just forgot that one thing: affirmative action for black guys. And if they had remembered to oppose that, then they wouldn't face the situation they face today."

Limbaugh's "colorblind" history of racially charged comments | Media Matters for America

 

[martha]

He's really indefensible.

Unless you think he's accurate.

 

[Irvine511]

He's really indefensible.

Unless you think he's accurate.

but he's NOT a racist, okay?

i'm sure some of his best friends are

Spoiler

likely female underage Dominican sex worker

black.

 

[phillyfan26]

all Democrats "had to do was nominate an African-American and [they've] got Colin Powell."

I mean, really?

Either he's a racist asshole or he's an empty-headed twat. Or both. There's no in between. To support him is to support racism or stupidity or both. To defend him is to defend racism, stupidity, or both. This is patently clear to anyone with common sense.

 

[yolland]

This is going in circles guys, we're only making each other dig in our heels further at this point. If 2861 isn't interested in explaining how Limbaugh's comments aren't racist or sexist, then there's really nowhere constructive to go. Maybe some of the rest of us should take a cue and just start ignoring it when OMG OUTRAGE!!! stories about whatever some librul media personality said are posted.

 

[hiphop]

Lol what a giant clusterfuck. It is amazing to see how easily people waste their precious time. Lucky me, I just wasted 3 minutes. Thanks.

 

[Tiger Edge]

anyway ...

yes, but do you have a timestamp for each of these quotes? i need to know the exact moment these glorious words emerged from rush's open piehole.

 

[Irvine511]

I mean, really?

Either he's a racist asshole or he's an empty-headed twat. Or both. There's no in between. To support him is to support racism or stupidity or both. To defend him is to defend racism, stupidity, or both. This is patently clear to anyone with common sense.

or, more likely, Rush knows that his audience are made up, in large part, of racist assholes who are resentful towards "black people" as a group for a variety of vague reasons connected to class that are far too complex to go into here.

Lol what a giant clusterfuck. It is amazing to see how easily people waste their precious time. Lucky me, I just wasted 3 minutes. Thanks.

must be awesome to be so awesome!

yes, but do you have a timestamp for each of these quotes? i need to know the exact moment these glorious words emerged from rush's open piehole.

somehow, i don't think that would be good enough.

but, yet, we can take, word-for-word, what some people writing decades after the fact who were creating a religion said that Jesus said over 2,000 years ago and use that to inflate our lives with meaning.

 

[maycocksean]

Lol what a giant clusterfuck. It is amazing to see how easily people waste their precious time. Lucky me, I just wasted 3 minutes. Thanks.

Makes me kind of glad I didn't try to find the dates of the quotes. . .

but, yet, we can take, word-for-word, what some people writing decades after the fact who were creating a religion said that Jesus said over 2,000 years ago and use that to inflate our lives with meaning.

How do we get from Limbaugh is a racist to. . .this?

 

[Irvine511]

How do we get from Limbaugh is a racist to. . .this?

i was noting a radical inconsistency in demands for "sources" on the part of one poster who doesn't believe that Rush is a racist, yet either Jesus was a total liar or that his own personal religion is the absolute truth for all times and always.

ultimately, what's happening is that he's seeking to find information that can be shaped to fit whatever preexisting worldview. not that we don't all do that to some extent, it just seems particularly breathtaking to do that in the same thread.

in other news, guys, this has NOTHING to do with racism. nothing, okay? and it has nothing to do with news entertainers using racism to stoke up drama on their prime-time Fox News shows.

Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | October 18, 2009
WASHINGTON - The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agency’s overall mission.

The Secret Service is tracking a far broader range of possible threats to the nation’s leaders, the officials said, even as it also investigates financial crimes such as counterfeiting as part of its original mandate.

The new demands are leading some officials, both inside and outside the agency, to raise the possibility of the service curtailing or dropping its role in fighting financial crime to focus more on protecting leaders and their families from assassination attempts and thwarting terrorist plots aimed at high-profile events.

“If there were an evaluation of the service’s two missions, it might be determined that it is ineffective . . . to conduct its protection mission and investigate financial crimes,’’ according to a inter nal report issued in August by the Congressional Research Service.

The report, which was provided to the Globe, said such a review should look at how money and staff are allocated, and whether some of the agency’s functions and workers should be transferred to the Treasury Department.

“This is a discussion going on not only in some quarters in Congress, but inside the Secret Service. Should there be a re-look at the mission?’’ said a government official, who like others was not authorized to speak publicly about security matters or reveal details about the number or nature of the threats.

Already, there are signs of strain on the agency, officials said. Budget documents submitted to Congress this year said the agency lacks the necessary technology to keep up with threats.

“The network and mainframe system used today struggles to support basic operations,’’ the agency said, requesting an additional $33 million over last year for computers and other information technology.

Asked about the concerns, Special Agent Edwin Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, said that though “there is no doubt the protection mission has grown,’’ the agency can still fulfill both its missions.

The financial crimes mission remains robust as well, he added, citing some recent large seizures of counterfeit currency.

The Secret Service, long under the Treasury Department but now part of the Department of Homeland Security, was established in 1865 to thwart counterfeiting, a focus that has expanded to include a host of electronic and financial crimes.

Its mission soon expanded to investigating the Ku Klux Klan and conducting counterespionage operations during the Spanish-American War and World War I.

The job of protecting presidents started in 1894 with Grover Cleveland, who was guarded part time. That role expanded after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, and it became a crime to threaten the president in 1917. Today, guarding the president and other top officials accounts for most of the Secret Service’s budget, which totals about $1.4 billion per year and continues to grow.

The agency has been directed by Congress to guard what it describes an “unprecedented’’ number of individuals, including presidents, vice presidents, their immediate families, former presidents and vice presidents, and visiting dignitaries - as well as presidential candidates during campaigns lasting longer than ever before.

The Service currently protects 32 people - 24 full time and eight part time. It also coordinates security at high-profile events, such as meetings of world leaders and political party conventions. Between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, the Secret Service said it protected 116 heads of state and 58 spouses.

“The service’s protection mission has increased and become more urgent, due to the increase in terrorist threats and expanded arsenal of weapons that terrorists could use in an assassination attempt or attacks on facilities,’’ according to the congressional report.

The domestic threat is also growing, fueled in part by Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president, according to specialists who study homegrown radical movements.

Obama, who was given Secret Service protection 18 months before the election - the earliest ever for a presidential candidate - has been the target of more threats since his inauguration than his predecessors.

Two days before Obama’s appearance at San Francisco fund-raisers on Thursday, a 59-year-old Northern California man was indicted on charges of sending a racist, profanity-filled e-mail threatening to kill Obama and his family. The rambling e-mail included specific references to Michelle Obama and the phrase, “do it to his children and family first in front of him,’’ according to the indictment.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says that antigovernment militias and white supremacist groups have strengthened in recent years, responding to an increasingly diverse population and what they see as an expanding government.

A center study released in August found a nearly 35 percent growth in racially based domestic hate groups since 2000 - from 602 to 926. The center concluded that opposition to Obama’s election has only increased the phenomenon.

“A key difference this time is that the federal government - the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy - is headed by a black man,’’ the report said. “One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama.’’

Threatening language has also found its way into talk radio broadcasts and social networking websites, raising fears that individuals not normally considered threats to the president could be incited to violence.

For example, the Secret Service in recent months has investigated a poll posted on Facebook about whether Obama should be killed. It has interviewed a Florida radio talk show host after a caller mentioned ammunition, target practice, and the president, and federal officials have raised concerns about several instances in which protesters carrying weapons showed up at Obama events, including a man at an August town hall in New Hampshire.

“The racist extremist fringe is exploiting themes that strike a chord in the mainstream more than we have seen in the recent past,’’ said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, citing several elected leaders who have questioned whether Obama is a US citizen eligible to be president.

The Secret Service has been given more resources to deal with the changing environment. Its total number of employees has risen from 6,700 two years ago to a projected 7,055 in the new fiscal year that began Oct. 1, with almost all the new positions for the protection mission.

Its overall budget request has grown by several hundred million dollars a year, including a nearly a 20 percent increase since 2008 for so-called protective intelligence activities, the efforts to analyze and investigate threats, according to budget documents.

But a significant share of the agency’s budget still goes to investigating financial and other crimes, including 142 field offices nationwide and 22 overseas that also assist the search for missing and exploited children. A new proposal in Congress would allocate $20 million next year for the Secret Service to expand its role and investigate mortgage fraud.

“The establishment of a single mission, or a distinct primary and secondary mission, for the [Secret Service] is one option for Congress,’’ the congressional report said. “One argument for this is that the majority of the Service’s resources are used for its protection mission, and that Congress has raised the issue of the Service’s competing missions of protection and investigation.’’

Secret Service under strain as leaders face more threats - The Boston Globe

 

[The_Pac_Mule]

or, more likely, Rush knows that his audience are made up, in large part, of racist assholes who are resentful towards "black people" as a group for a variety of vague reasons connected to class that are far too complex to go into here.

My grandma listens to Rush. Guess she's racist.

 

[Irvine511]

My grandma listens to Rush. Guess she's racist.

yes, i just called your grandmother a racist.

 

[indra]

My grandma listens to Rush. Guess she's racist.

You mind thinking someone called your grandmother being racist but didn't mind thinking she was also called an asshole?



She must be a lot like my paternal grandmother!

(for the record, mine was both. And a mean bitch to boot.)

 

[UberBeaver]

yes, i just called your grandmother a racist.

Technically you called her a "racist asshole".

 

[The_Pac_Mule]

All I'm saying is its not good to stereotype.

 

[Irvine511]

All I'm saying is its not good to stereotype.

do women tend to watch Oprah? or, do Oprah viewers tend to be women?

 

[BVS]

Faux News:

YouTube - Fox News' War on the White House

 

[2861U2]

What's your point? Fox not kissing this administration's rear end means they're not news?

The White House is not smart doing this. It's an incredibly dumb idea. Even Democrats are scratching their heads. Why are you acting like this is a good move?

 

[BVS]

What's your point?

The sheer stupidity coming out of the mouths of these people... that's my point, to laugh at their stupidity.

Why are you acting like this is a good move?

Where did I do this?

 

[2861U2]

Where did I do this?

Well do you think it's a smart move?

 

[Irvine511]

get a room you two.