Rush: I Think Obama’s the Second Kenyan to Win the Prize

They didn’t take it away from Arafat.

Speaking of classless (and something Amy won’t condemn since she’s obviously a committed Dem), the DNC’s reaction that people criticizing Obama were siding with terrorists was pretty over the top. But I cannot imagine a Swampland post dealing with that.

Unlike Joe Klein, however, Amy Sullivan (and, apparently, Rush Limbaugh) “did think that rejecting the prize could have been an option for Obama.“.

Get off you F*@king ignorant horse, spob. I think its already been said elsewhere that arafat shared the ’94 peace prize.

Speaking of “siding with terrorists”, did anyone check out who was financing Keith Ellison’s pilgrimage to Mecca? The Muslim American Society. Besides being a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, MAS agitated for the “rights” of Muslim cabdrivers to refuse to transport people with seeing-eye dogs.
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But we’d never find that out in the Swamp. But let Rush Limbaugh have his usual diarrhea of the mouth, and Amy’s all over it.

shared it with Rabin and Peres…

Did Sullivan actually listen to Rush for the first time in her life or did she just read about Rush at George and Hillary Clinton Soros’ website Media Matters against America?

So what? He got it, didn;t he? The point is that awarding a Peace Prize to Arafat is like awarding a humanitarian award to Idi Amin. And they didn’t take back the award after Arafat launched terrorist attacks against civilians.

Thanks, Amy (and please send us a “1000 words”, we like you and KT and want to prove it thru risible photo captions for your solemn amusement). As for Rush, I literally haven’t listened to him for a long time. The quotes here prove why. My one hope is that Rush buys the St. Louis Rams and will have to spend a LOT of time fixing that crappy team …thus cutting back on his running the R party, I mean, air time. But thanks, Amy, for bringing up the Holy Grail, thus opening the door to more Monty Python thoughts. Such as, will the corporate media treatment of Obama’s win be like the Bridge of Death guarded by the old man from scene 24? Meaning, must Obama continue to parse words carefully? (as for me, I’d prefer to be locked in the Castle Anthrax, but I digress.) Or is this media criticism like a wild goosse chase sim. to the Castle Aaaargh? Thoughts, Amy?

Look at the reaction around the world. Who is praising the selection and who is criticizing it? The republicans are joining a select company of like-minded people.

Good grief–think a Peace Prize is silly to give to Obama, and you’re siding with terrorists.
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You guys clown yourselves. Go back to defending the “wise Latina”, you didn’t look quite as stupid.

Rush buying the Rams. One piece of sh!t in hot pursuit of another.

Stick some toilet paper in your underwear. You’re bound to sh!t your pants before the day is over.

So many outraged right-wingers insisting they’re not outraged as the veins pulse on their foreheads. I hope I don’t run out of popcorn.

#2 – take a look at the comments from republicans and the rnc and then take a look at the comments from hamas and the taliban. They’re errily similar.

Boy it must suck to be a republican today – they’re ideology is being repudiated by the world community. And they’re reacting with the metal maturity of six year olds.

I personally love the finger being jabbed in their eyes – they definitely earned it.

Congrats to our President and our country. We – as adults – should all be proud of the recognition – of course the republicans can just continue to wallow in their delusion and bitterness.

And the Big Chief Howler Monkey of the Right-Whinge chimes in. So? Why is this important?

…what better way to free a president to pursue a hawkish foreign policy
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You really need to learn to write sarcasm better, Amy; it sounds like you are pushing for policy that will ultimately get more people killed and engender more hate, which is positively un-Christian…

Now that the America hating leftists from the Nobel committee evidently don’t hate America quite as much, maybe the clueless, utopian socialist can start working on his base of America haters in the United States. According to Rasmussen, 66% of Obama’s base consider the United States “unfair and discriminatory”. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/america_s_best_days

I’d really like to stick around and play but I have to stop and pick up my “Obama; Prince of Peace” cake from the bakery before I head to work. Have fun folks and say some really nasty stuff. Remember, the game isn’t over until thet’re lying on floor clutching their chests (pearls).

Who cares what fatboy thinks?

Are you gonna start singing “Kumbaya”?
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Re-read your post–a few grammatical/spelling errors. When you yap about others being six year-olds, try to avoid those things.

…good luck with the cake. I wonder how well cookies shaped and frosted like Nobel medals would go over with everyone.

Buying the Rams would be interesting. Would he require Steven Jackson to cut his dreads so we can see his name on the back of his jersey?

One thing that almost blew BO’s chances of getting the prize was when, after the Somali pirates were taken out, the next mission was a small radio studo in Juno Beach, Fla.

“I think Obama’s the second Kenyan to win.”

Seriously, who was the first to whom he was referring?

Jaguars got ‘em in two weeks – I’ll be the judge of that.

Wangari Maathai (2004) –
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-bio.html

Hmm. Rush… We’re still pretending he’s relevant? OK, have fun with that.

I guess it’s inevitable that TIME will subject us to the dour rantings of the wingnuts.

OK, Amy, you can check Limbaugh off your list. That just leaves O’Reilly, Beck, Coulter, Malkin, Steele, Kristol, Goldberg, Krauthammer … I’m sure I’m forgetting someone. Get writing, swamp bloggers!

Just when Rushbo was starting to the think that “the world has rejected Barack Hussein Obama” he has to face this horror. Someone please send him an extra supply of Oxycontin.

Also I would be *fascinated* to know what John McCain thinks about this. (I believe ** is now the accepted internets markup for an *ironic* remark?)

“I congratulate President Obama on receiving this prestigious award. I join my fellow Americans in expressing pride in our President on this occasion.”

McCain’s statement.

Nancy Gibbs TIME -Obama’s Nobel: The Last Thing He Needs

Simon Robinson TIME-Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama

Add those two to Amy, Joe, and Michael and it is impressive in its single take, if differing by tone and degree.

Rush was casting aspersions on Obama and the Nobel Committee!! No way

Seriously, of course this was reasonably expected.
However, I am sad we did not hear his wailing and gnashing of teeth when he first heard the news.

I think he threw himself on the ground and wept after he heard of the award to the President– Following which he popped some pills for calmness (whatever he takes these days) and then took some time thinking of the drivel to serve up on his show about this prestigious award. He probably called Beck for inspiration but Beck aka “Communist Hunter” was consulting with his own hysteria creating committee so was unavailable.

So the best poor Rush could come up with is hat Obama is the second Kenyan to win the award. How utterly infantile– and since I have had teenagers around me for a few days now, I want to add the word “barf worthy” to my otherwise adult descriptions of Rush’s emm thoughtful ranting.

So far it seems Rush needs more help for his diatribe. I think he needs Palin on speed dial, somehow I think she will give him the salt he needs to feed his bottom feeding fanatical following of Anti-Obama/other hate spreading members of his “Rush is our leader” Cult.

LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/

Amy Sullivan:
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Did you, yourself, actually listen to Rush Limbaugh’s show today (the one in question), and did you, yourself, compile a list of his quotes from your own transcript of that show?
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Why do I get the distinct feeling that you did neither, and that this post is a direct copied-n-paste from emailed opposition research, Amy Sullivan?
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Can you please set the record straight, and answer for the originality of your work?

Hey folks, the prize is given, as the Committee chair explained:

“We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he has done in the previous year,”

Which is why people with debatable lifetime records on peace, Kissinger, Teddy Roosevelt, Le Duc Tho, and even the revolting Arafat have been awarded it. As the Committee Chair also said:

“The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world,”

IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR

The Chair then asked: “And who has done more than Barack Obama?”

It is a fair question. Rather than argue about the prize or Obama’s worthiness as a person, why not reflect on the fact that this distinguished committee thought his recasting of American Foreign Policy the greatest contribution to world peace in the last year. Right or wrong call, it is a fascinating perspective and a useful debate.

Or we could just be arrogant and pronounce the Nobel committee naive, starstruck, leftwing, or something else so we can avoid thinking.

Not to worry Art, you will soon find out because of course President McCain will be on one of the Sunday shows. MTP, I think.
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(I think I saw a tweet this morning that he said the appropriate response was Congratulations.)

Can’t wait to watch Obama apologize for winning this.

Do you agree with Rush spob that trying to find peaceful solutions to problems around the world is a bad thing?

Rush is an idiot!

Don’t forget Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage, and Mark Levin. Funny. A whole cadre of movement leaders. And still irrelevant.

spooge, testee, and crustydog…your tears sustain me.
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Cheer when an American city loses the Olympics, cry when an American President wins the Nobel Peace Prize…what a party.
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We’d kick you out of the country if anybody would take you, seriously it would be easier to place Gitmo detainees.
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The whole world is laughing at you.

Darn it: that Obama is not playing fair. He has announced his decision to donate the money to charity. That deprives the Punditocracy of another day moaning about the money.

By the way are TIME’s reporters under-employed.?How many of you are writing advice pieces to Obama: should he take the prize? should he refuse the prize?

Anything else of interest happening today?

It sure beats having to read and understand health care legislation, don’t it?

…well, in addition to bidding for the Rams, Rush has found something new to do…
http://www.startribune.com/blogs/63881832.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI

The only prize Rush would want is the Nobel Piece of Pie Prize.
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Zing.

Actually, that was Limbaugh’s observation today, too.

I’m sorry, you were saying?

Here’s the exact quote:

“Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn’t deserve the award. Now that’s hilarious, that I’m on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban.”

Something nice happens to Obama and the right’s response is to act like a bunch of classless jerks. Who could have seen that coming?
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I don’t like McCain’s politics, but he does deserve credit for acting with a bit of grace.

Can anyone translate the above into English?

spob,

Have you lost your sense of humor? How many times have terrorists said kind word about Obama before the Right-Wing jumped and said that sinse terrorists “liked” Obama, he must agree with their policies and objectives?

The Dems statement comparing the Republicans to Hamas and the Taliban was just a bit of tongue-in-cheek payback and mild stuff compared to the stuff from our friend, Rush Limbaugh.

Considering that Limbaugh’s fans call themselves dittoheads, your post is proof that irony is not dead.

Maybe we could also ask the dittoheads when they plan on coming up with their own opinions for once? If ever?

Michael Grunwald has a piece on this stuff. Tell us, Michael, has someone on the Nobel Committee told you that this is yat again a “stick it to George WB” moment. care to provide some proof? IOW: can you document this atrocity?

The thing I find most annoying about the ultra conservative movement is how hypocritical they are. When Bush was in office, they demanded everyone respect the President’s Office (if nothing else). This whole us versus them, “support the President or else” mentality, conveived in the twisted mind of King Karl Rove, was their bread and butter rallying call all during the Bush administration.

It’s AMAZING how the far right are now rooting for the President’s failure. They crowed when the US lost the bid to host the Olympics. They are obstructing everything the President is trying to do now. And here Lord Rush, acolyte of the God of the Far Right goes off and calls the President of the United States, who just won the most prestigeous peace prize known to mankind, ‘a Kenyan’ as opposed to being proud that it was won by an American. Seems to me that had Bush won any such prize (aside from that being utterly impossible), Rush wouldn’t have called him a Britian.

So much for respecting the office.

So much for Patriotism, too. Apparently for them, it’s only patriotic to support your country and your President when it’s your man in office.

It’s bad enough they’re sore losers and poor winners, but why is anyone listening to that drug-addicted fossil these days in the first place?

I believe in my bones that the greatest threat to the security of the United States are people like Rush and those who follow him with slavish devotion.

When you stake your career on “I want Obama to fail,” and Obama succeeds, what are you going to do? If you make your living as a word merchant, you use words to create the illusion that actual success is perceived failure. Witnessing Rush’s writhing contortions as he tries to harpoon his own Moby is salve to my soul. There is a God and He has sent me entertainment.

I’ve been too busy all day to read or comment on this, but at a glance it’s staggering how far people will go to criticize our president for receiving recognition! We must be the most insane country on the planet to actually have heated debates over being recognized for making an effort at “togetherness.” US to the rest of the world: Peace? HELL NO! You came to the wrong place if you’re looking for f-ing peace!

My old-school hard core Goldwaterish Republican (nobody spoke for him on everything) beloved Grandfather is surely spinning in his grave.

We have a very volatile situation brewing. A good third of the U.S.of A. has slipped their leash, and today’s technology makes it very visible. And a lot of it is really ugly and not very Jesus-like.

I didn’t think Obama necessarily deserved the award, for precisely what some sane critics believe: He’s not done yet.

That said, he HAS moved the tone (among the sentient and rational) about as broadly and quickly as I can remember in my 50 years. Reagan did it, too.

We have a lot of morans in this country.

Peace and diplomacy is not a right wing value or a left wing value, it’s an American value.
Last week some cheered when the Olympic Committee chose Brazil over the United States for the Olympics, today they have to criticize the President for his prestigious award.
The criticism of Jeremiah Wright by the same folks seems shallow now, doesn’t it?

What Swampland could really use is a page that takes longer to load.

Also.

on a brighter note, President Obama has been recognized for capturing the attention of the world—what he does with that could be monumental. Instead of arguing over the validity of his efforts thus far, can’t we just take the advice of John Lennon and “give peace a chance”?

Wow, donating the money to charity. What a guy! And to think of how many midnight snacks he could have bought for Michelle. Coulda kept her fed through next week.

We’re not just rooting for Obama’s failure carpevis, were hoping and praying with all our hearts for it. For the sake of all we hold dear and precious we are hoping he fails. Living in the un-united states of Chicago is just not what I want for my kids and grandkids. Yes I’m one of those rightwing rednecks that you so despise, My son who serves in Afganistan is too. This “president” seems to care little about our fighting men, actually he downright despises them. It’s plain to see. I could actually care less about his Nobel prize, it’s never been more than a useless trinket with a hunk of money attached to it. Do you hate us conservatives or could that possibly be fear? There are many more of us than there are of you and the number grows larger everyday. And we ALL vote! You’d better get acorn in gear ’cause 2010′s acomin’!

Has it occurred to anyone yet that what really is grabbing spobs knards is the fact that the Swedes are just about the blondest, blue-eyed…
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Nah. And that simply can’t be why we haven’t heard rusty howl today, either.
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Couldn’t be. Nah. No way! Nada. Nope…

Oh, and spob:
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The connection between terrorists and the GOP?
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Let’s see here, last week we had maybe the 10th of 11th low level terrorist attack by RW extremists that resulted in loss of life on American soil this year.
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And Al-Queda?
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Zilch. None. Nope. Nada. Matter of fact, Obama’s now snuffed at least three efforts this year.
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Napolitano was right…

“There are many more of us than there are of you and the number grows larger everyday.”
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Oh. So -that’s- where the KoolAid went.

He probably listened to Huckabee:
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/09/huckabee-warns-republicans-on-nobel-reaction/

Awsome comback sackoharry. You’ve left me speachless. Better get back to your altar. You’ve rested yout knees long enough.

Numbers don’t lie spob. And, despite the old saw that liars can number, you just can’t cut it.
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Maybe because the cumulative death toll is larger than the number of fingers you have wrapped around your penile member when you listen to Beck.
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Al Queda 0, GOP Crackpots 11
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There. Did it for ya…

Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, a very good one, and he would be spouting leftist ideology if the political climate in the U.S. were to make a long-term shift in that direction.

The cake went over like a lead balloon. I took it home last night when I left. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have survived the night.

It seems that President Obama has proven that he can claim to have shown the world that “American Exceptionalism” is reality. With this Prize that notion is now held by people outside of the United States. Now why couldn’t George W. Bush and the Republicans accomplish that feat? They certainly did talk about it alot. As has Mr. Limbaugh of late.

Rush should be effusive in his praise of our President.

“How can he now send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan after that cotton candy speech he just gave this morning”

This is how:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/first-person-shooter/

The people “destroying your country as a superpower” are the ones who did this:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/the-rest-is-silence/

Are Mr. Limbaugh and his “red-blooded Americans” too cowardly to expose them?

“They’ve done it by rewarding a pacifist”

A “pacifist”? Really?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/dignity/

Good Lord, the conservatives sure have a bug up their behinds about George Soros. It’s a good thing no comparable conservative billionaires have ever sponsored conservative media or conservative political outfits.
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You know, aside from Richard Mellon Scaife, Joseph Coors, Rupert Murdoch, the Olins, the Richardsons, the Bradley Foundation, etc. etc.
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As we all know, it’s OK if you’re a Republican, right?

At least *he* doesn’t think and act like a six year old, spob.

“Do you hate us conservatives or could that possibly be fear?”
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Is that what they meant by “Next time, we’ll bring our guns!”, 2/3rds of a nut?
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I can only hope that you don’t go overboard when you worship Timothy McVeigh…

Obama may be the second Kenyan to win the self-described “peace” so-called “prize”, but I think he is the first Muslim to win the “prize”. The terrorist Arafat was pretty much an atheist, right?

Easy about that “Invade Canada” stuff.

Rush emasculates America in the same way that the guy that has to buy the oversized “dooley” with naked girl mud flaps and exaggerated exhaust pipes demonstrates his own male insecurities.

If Rush were to meet an untimely (timely?) end from eating too many ice cream cones and driving himself to apoplexy over ridiculous stuff, I would do…
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absulartly nothing!

So they are “rewarding a pacificist”…..it’s a peace prize, Rush ….get it?

We can only hope that when Rush shrugs off his mortal coil the circumstances aren’t anywhere near as dignified as those surrounding Elvis Presley’s.

It’s a shame you can’t see ALL of this from an ‘outsiders’ point of view!! As a CANADIAN and former CALIFORNIAN, I was pleasd to see the American people had advanced enough to vote ‘a man of color’ in as President. I noted though, as the campaign dragged on, that ‘THE ONE’ was saying some very puzzling things, as were his running Mates. He , the One, proclaimed OPENNESS and FAIRNESS, loudly!!! And then came ‘transforming’ speech……I just KNEW you were in trouble……they asked for his birth certificate…..I again knew you were in trouble………folks, you were so busy heaping praise upon him, you missed, or ignored, the ISLAMIC influence in his speech?? Well, it seems he has done what 9/11 couldn’t do. He has brought America to it’s knees!!!! They didn’t award him the Nobel Prize for anything more than shutting down the worlds biggest super-power, the United States of America!!!!

An “outsider’s point of view”? Outside of what? Reality?
You lost us with “The One”. That just the designation that you looney tunes used to describe Obama. We don’t think the President is the Messiah, The One, The Anti-Christ or any of your other colorful and false descriptions. Face it, we rejected grampa and his eye candy running mate because they weren’t fit or qualified for the job. It was that simple.
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And the birth certificate thing? Seriously, move on. Use all caps next time. That might convince us. More exclamation points too. That always adds validity.

Ammo still on backorder?

Rush Limbaugh is eerily reminiscent of Kanye West.

[...] “Folks, I think the people who used to run the election board for Saddam Hussein’s government were hired by the Nobel people here to tally the votes.” * “Obama’s not only the first post-racial president, he’s also the first post-accomplishment president. He’s now judged on wishful thinking.” * “Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and he gets a prize for it.” * “I think Obama’s the second Kenyan to win.” * “The elites of the world are urging him not to do the surge in Afghanistan, not to take on Iran. How can he now send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan after that cotton candy speech he just gave this morning?” * “You are destroying your country as a superpower–keep it up, bud. These are the accomplishments they’re looking for. He’s basically emasculating this country and they love it.” * “He goes out there and admits he’s not qualified!” [followed by clip of Obama saying: "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize."] * “The Nobel Peace Prize is almost a straitjacket for Obama. That means he’s gotta be a man of peace. The way the left defines a man of peace is, everybody else can go to war but we won’t. Even if we’re attacked, first we’re going to try to find out why they don’t like us.” * “It really is insidious. The intent of the committee is to neuter the United States of America. They’ve done it by rewarding a pacifist.” I think Rush is thinking about this all the wrong way. After all, what better way to free a president to pursue a hawkish foreign policy than to award him the Nobel Peace Prize before his first year is even over? Obama doesn’t have to spend the next three or seven years chasing that Holy Grail of global statesmen and diplomats–he’s been there, done that. Heck, he could invade Canada if he wanted to. What’s the committee going to do–take back the prize? So, cheer up, Rush Read more [...]

It’s too soon! That’s furr shurr.