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 3)

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on Jul 10, 2005

(Sarcasm) oh Realy! YEAH!!!!! Oh,oh,oh, how do i go about this.....

AKABrutus

on Jul 11, 2005

Sorry Dharmagrl it is you that must open mouth and insert foot. Rush was merely saying it was unsuccessful as far as what the terrorists were trying to accomplish. They were trying to drive a wedge between Tony Blair, and the British people thus causing a rift between him and President Bush. It did not succeed. Unlike the cowardly Spaniards the British people are standing United. The terrorist’s scheme backfired and now the British people are even more committed to the war on terror.

dharmagrl

on Jul 11, 2005

Sorry Dharmagrl it is you that must open mouth and insert foot. Rush was merely saying it was unsuccessful as far as what the terrorists were trying to accomplish.

If that's the case, he did so incredibly badly. They way he said it, the words he used...were in extremely poor taste. How freakin' insensitive can you get? For an 'experienced' broadcaster he sure did use some poorly chosen words.

I love Paul Harvey, he's gotta be what 70 - 80 now? I wonder if I could listen to him on the internet, that would be so cool.

You can. www.paulharvey.com

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on Jul 11, 2005

see, thats what i was trying to get across.....

Moderateman

on Jul 11, 2005

I ffind both limbaugh, and savage to be right wing lunitics, to be paid no more or less attention that the far left kooks, a nut , is a nut, no matter the container.

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on Jul 11, 2005

but was unable to succesfully...

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on Jul 11, 2005

a nut , is a nut, no matter the container.

Lord Shitzu

on Jul 11, 2005

I just found out that my friend, who is in England/London on vacation, saw two of the bombings first-hand. She was almost involved in the train one, she just got lucky that her friend suggested they get breakfast so they ended up at the station after the bombings rather than during.

I've been unable to get a hold of her until today, and apparently she saw the aftermath of the tube and bus explosions, bodies, blood and all.

Fuck Rush Limbaugh, I don't care what his intent was, when your wording is disgusting I don't care how good your intentions.

And I again object to Para's use of the word "bacteria" in relation to human beings.

Dr Guy

on Jul 11, 2005

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.

No, it is the truth. A sucessful Terrorist attack would have had the English cowering in their homes afraid to use the transit system. Para was correct. He was not saying or trying to cheapen the death toll. IN context he was basically saying the vermin shot their load and lost. Becausxe they just do not understand the English. And I concur.

InfoGeek

on Jul 11, 2005

An example. Remember the scene in Python's Holy Grail. "It's just a flesh wound"? You don't go on television saying, "boy were we screwed yesterday". No, you act like a boxer who just got it, or a poker player who was just dealt a very bad hand. You put on your gameface and go to it.

Yes, the attack was successful in the fact that 3 package bombs all went off within minutes of each other causing loss of life and temporarily caused panic and the city came to a halt (at least traffic wise).

But London recoved, as NYC recovered. We are both still here.

IG

Reiki-House

on Jul 11, 2005

Taking massive quantities of narcotic pills can and usually always creates problems with the user's sense of reality. Rush Limback is a drug addicted pill popping addict. His words need no creedence, and that's before his I Love The Gitmo Resort shirts came to market.

drmiler

on Jul 11, 2005

And YOUR words have NO creedence clown! Rush has already BEEN to rehab! Which means he ain't taking no pills!

dharmagrl

on Jul 11, 2005

As I said in the original article:' Londoners and Englishmen will prevail, they will not be intimidated so in that respect the terrorists didn't get what they had hoped for....'

What he said was still insensitive. I honestly think that if it had been someone on the left that had uttered those words, people would have been all over them like stink on poo. If our beloved Reiki had said something about it, for example, people would have jumped all over him. But, because it's Rush, I'm taking what he said out of context.

Yes, the attack was successful in the fact that 3 package bombs all went off within minutes of each other causing loss of life and temporarily caused panic

EXACTLY! People died, so in a way it was a successful attack!

Rush Limback is a drug addicted pill popping addict. His words need no creedence, and that's before his I Love The Gitmo Resort shirts came to market.

I never listened to him much, and this latest 'talking out his ass statement' isn't making me want to listen to him much in the future.

And YOUR words have NO creedence clown! Rush has already BEEN to rehab! Which means he ain't taking no pills!

Nope, he's just being indicted for doctor shopping, money laundering and narcotis possession. But he's not taking any pills, so it's all cool right?

The bigger picture is that the terrorist attack didn't cause wide-spread terror that caused Britian to tuck its tail like Spain did

I would have liked to have been on the streets at the time of the attack, and I would have liked to have had you there too....I don't think any of us can say whether there was 'terror' or not because we weren't there I do think that had I have been on one of those trains...yeah, I'd have been terrified and I think that you'd have been scared too.

foreverserenity

on Jul 11, 2005

The bigger picture is that the terrorist attack didn't cause wide-spread terror that caused Britian to tuck its tail like Spain didI would have liked to have been on the streets at the time of the attack, and I would have liked to have had you there too....I don't think any of us can say whether there was 'terror' or not because we weren't there I do think that had I have been on one of those trains...yeah, I'd have been terrified and I think that you'd have been scared too.

I agree with Dharma here. You might not think it didn't cause too much terror, when in fact it did just that. The fact is people died, people got injured, there morning routine was interrupted in a fight for their lives. Something that will take a long time for them to forget, no matter if they were directly affected are not. It will be in their conciousness for a very long time. Until you've been there and experienced something like that, you'll never know and you won't want to either.

Lord Shitzu

on Jul 11, 2005

Totally agree. Like I posted earlier, my friend was there and saw all that, I shudder to think how it affected her. Looking on a scene of carnage, knowing you were almost part of it, that isn't something you shrug off, and those who think that there was no "terror" no trauma, are kidding themselves.

The British government's reaction is inconsequential compared to the effect this has had on people who saw it, who experienced it, it's all well and good to say "we aren't afraid," but like InfoGeek said, it's just putting on your brave face, that doesn't mean that you're not afraid, that you're not depressed and traumatized, it's just trying to make yourself not think about it and build up the resolve to move on with your life, and that's fine, but to say that the attack "failed" at causing terror, that's ridiculous.

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