Rush Limbaugh finally just comes right out and admits he's a thug:
I've had journalists tell me this. "Well, we're journalists." Why are you immune? Why are you immune to the same kind of destructive reporting and behavior that you dish out? You know, we have practiced -- I've practiced it once. I am not going to tell you the story because I'm don't want to give it away, and I would have to mention names, and I'm not going to mention names. But there was a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it. And we found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, "You know what? We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate. You're no different than Al Goldstein, and you're both journalists, and so forth."
And the guy started screaming on the phone, just went -- "You can't do that." We said, "Watch us." And it changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent, I would say, from what it was going to be. But nobody does that to these people. Nobody does it to them. And that would be so much fun. But I'd need to be wearing body armor every day. Oh, no question, these people are playing for keeps.This dude has just admitted to
threatening a journalists' children and yet
he's the one who says he should be wearing body armor to protect himself from
them? I...It...I just have no words...
And speaking of thugs, Michelle Malkin is back to bashing little kids who dared to receive medical assistance from S-CHIP:
“My winged monkeys have boldly stated that the child is fair game, but all I said was, “Fly, My Pretties!” This time it's not a 12 year old boy with brain damage but a 2 year old girl with heart trouble. Please someone tell me how the GOP are the party of "morals", I beg you, I could really use the laugh today.
Socialized military defense, roads, fire departments fine and dandy. Socialized medicine, the root of all evil. I just don't get it. Is it simply that nobody's making a profit in the latter? Or that we're all so petrified of losing our jobs and the health care (meager though it is) that they provide that our corporate overlords must keep the organ grinding and the monkeys dancing to keep us all complacent little serfs? As
Tony Benn said so well in Sicko, they keep us in fear and they can make us do just as they like. God can you even imagine a life where you didn't have to worry about medical bills bankrupting you? Or the idea of switching jobs didn't fill you with utter dread?
But really when it comes right down to it what these people (and I use the term loosely) are advocating is for the illness, injury and death of kids. That's what it comes down to. If your parents can't afford to pay outrageous medical fees to keep you alive then too bad, so sad.
Paul Krugman sums my own position up beautifully:
I don’t know about you, but I think American children who need medical care should get it, period. Even if you think adults have made bad choices — a baseless smear in the case of the Frosts, but put that on one side — only a truly vicious political movement would respond by punishing their injured children.Amen, brother, amen.
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