Rush Limbaugh: Open mouth, insert foot.

Published on July 10, 2005 By dharmagrl In Current Events

Am I the only one who finds his statement about the London bombings offensive?

It's like I said -- 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded, out of over 1 million people in that transit tube. It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks.

So, if that wasn't a 'successfuk' attack, what is? Are there guidelines about what constitutes a 'successful' attack versus an 'unsuccessful' one?

Pull you head out of your arse, Rush. People DIED. People were INJURED. It's not about how big it was or how many people didn't die. Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of the scale. To me, an unsuccessful attack would be one where bombs didn't detonate, or where the bombers were caught before they could complete their plan.

Londoners and Englishmen will prevail, they will not be intimidated so in that respect the terrorists didn't get what they had hoped for....but to make statments like that almost belittling the incident....

....that's just disrespectful.

Comments (Page 1)

Danny Bassette

on Jul 10, 2005

I thought Rush tried to be offensive. Wasn't that the whole point of his show, entertain with offensive news? As for it being a terrorist attack, if it caused terror I'd say it was 'successful', regardless of deaths/injuries/other damage.

kingbee

on Jul 10, 2005

an unsuccessful attack would be one where bombs didn't detonate, or where the bombers were caught before they could complete their plan.

exactly.

where they didn't succeed was by not providing rush with enuff grist for his hatemill. he's like one of them zombies from 'the dead' movies only instead of brains, he feeds on 'more bodies...more blood...more horror'.

dharmagrl

on Jul 10, 2005

he's like one of them zombies from 'the dead' movies only instead of brains, he feeds on 'more bodies...more blood...more horror'.

He's an asshole, to be blunt. Rush ought to go take a vicodin and STFU.

As for it being a terrorist attack, if it caused terror I'd say it was 'successful', regardless of deaths/injuries/other damage.

Me too. Apparently Rush is all about playing the 'we did it bigger and better' game.

What a prick.

Shovelheat

on Jul 10, 2005

I don't know. A "successful" terrorist attack is kind of like "winning" a war. Is there really such an animal? But I do agree with one thing:

He's an asshole, to be blunt. Rush ought to go take a vicodin and STFU.

I used to kinda like him years ago, but he has grown ~yawn~ tiresome...

dharmagrl

on Jul 10, 2005

I used to kinda like him years ago, but he has grown ~yawn~ tiresome...

I've always thought he was a self-righteous prick, but he did make the occasional good point and was somewhat entertaining. Nowadays he's just....an ass.

ParaTed2k

on Jul 10, 2005

I heard him say it and it is taken way out of context in your link. Rush was congratulating Mayor Livingston on his attitude towards this attack. Mayor Livinston stood and thumbed his nose at the bacteria and so did Rush Limbaugh. To me this is nothing more than Rush Limbaugh's version of Prs. Bush's "Bring it on!" and also the "Bring It On" and "The quickset way home is through Baghdad" from me and my team in Desert Storm when we first heard Hussein use the line, "The Mother of All Wars!"

Say and think what you want about Rush Limbaugh, but he was merely backing up the "we will not be broken" statement from Mayor Livingston. Plus, if you compare what the bacteria could have accomplished with their attacks, they did fail pretty miserably... Unless of course, London decides to make it more succussful than it was, and from what I'm reading, they aren't, so why should we?

dharmagrl

on Jul 10, 2005

I heard him say it and it is taken way out of context in your link

I read the entire transcript, and I was STILL offended by his choice of words.

To even suggest that it was a failed attmept is incredibly insensitive.

zinkadoodle

on Jul 10, 2005

I agree. Rush is an arrogant prick. In fact, his remark is indefensible. It's just in the poorest of taste, and insulting to everyone who was affected by the attacks. Yup, take a whole lot of vicodins, mon. At the same time.

The line that really got me recently was, "Either you're for Jesus, or you're against the GOP". If that doesn't thin the ranks of his followers, not much else will. He's a piece of work.

Evorg

on Jul 10, 2005

I've never listened to Rush Limbaugh

I'm more of a Paul Harvey kinda guy.

ParaTed2k

on Jul 10, 2005

Dharma, it wasn't a failed attack they set out to bomb the Tube and that bus and they did it. Where it was a dismal failure is, while it killed people, it hasn't seemed to kill the spirit of the rest of London, England, or the freedom loving world. What happened was the bacteria's choice, how London, England and the freedom loving world reacts to it is another choice altogether. Terrorists don't kill just for the sake of killing, they choose their targets for very specific reasons. The failure is in the outcome of the attacks. So far I haven't seen any reason to believe that London or England is ready to give in to the bacteria. In that London and England has succeeded in making the bacteria a bunch of pathetic failures.

Myrrander

on Jul 10, 2005

It's the glorious orgy of blowhards that feel like it's their divine duty and right to have a comment on every single little thing.

*sigh* Defending free speech can be so tiresome sometimes. But necessary, so hey, what can ya do?

dharmagrl

on Jul 10, 2005

The failure is in the outcome of the attacks.

So, would you call the attacks on the towers a failure? Because, according to the definition you gave me, they were.

I wouldn't call the loss of thousands of lives a failure. I wouldn't call the destruction of humanity a failure. I wouldn't call ANY life lost to terrorism a failed attack on the terrorists part. They set out to destroy, and they did just that.

dharmagrl

on Jul 10, 2005

Defending free speech can be so tiresome sometimes. But necessary, so hey, what can ya do?

Hi, Myrr! How are ya?!

I've never listened to Rush Limbaugh

You aint missing much. Just a bunch of self-love and arrogance.

It's just in the poorest of taste, and insulting to everyone who was affected by the attacks.

EXACTLY!!!! I don't care how he said it, in what context (altho I can't see how you can count the number of lives lost and use the words 'failed, terrorist, and attempt' in the same sentence without it being anything but insensitive and derogatory).

That Jesus quote got my back up as well.

ParaTed2k

on Jul 10, 2005

No, I wouldn't call the WTC attacks on 9/11 a failure because the towers and the pentagon weren't the target, the financial and military infrastructure of the western world. It took a few years to recover from those attacks, to the death toll and the loss of property (both running deep), the outcome was successful.

In terms of outcome, I would compare this attack in london more on par with the Oklahoma City Bombing. Both were tragic, both were carried out by cowards, both were terrorist attacks, and neither managed to do the damage to their target intended.

I am not saying we shouldn't mourn the loss, nor am I saying anyone should just shrug it off. It was all the shrugging off of terrorist attacks throughout the last 30 years that empowered the bacteria to this point.

However, we should also keep a sense of perportion and history here. This attack did not kill thousands (as it could have), it was not big enough to disrupt the infrastructure of England and from what I am reading, it did not destroy the spirit of the British people.

So, while the bacteria were successful in proving that they are cowardly tapeworms, they failed miserably in their mission.

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on Jul 10, 2005

I agree with you Para...

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