Progressive Politics writer, Karen Harper, published an excellent piece, Rush Limbaugh attacks on Sonia Sotomayor may prove toxic to the GOP, in the Examiner this morning. The GOP party of “No” continues to self-implode by alienating women and Hispanics with hysterical language and ridiculous accusations. WTG, GOP! Exerpt:
The vilest hysterical attacks on Sotomayor have come, not from elected representatives in the Republican party, but from those who have volunteered to shoulder the mantle of ‘town crier’ for the GOP. Loudest and most hysterical is Rush Limbaugh who ignores and skews facts to rant and rave hysterically to his listeners, calling Sotomayor a racist and all but blubbering about the oppression of white people.
“How do you get promoted in a Barack Obama administration? By hating white people or even saying you do, or that they’re not good or put ’em down, whatever…make white people the new oppressed minority and they’re going right along with it because they’re shutting up. They’re moving to the back of the bus and I can’t use that drinking fountain, okay. I can’t use that restroom, okay.”
Limbaugh appears to be hoping to stoke the fires of racial discord among his listeners who call themselves ditto-heads, listeners who seemingly prefer to allow Limbaugh to do their thinking for them. Nobody in the Obama administration has declared that they hate white people. The majority of the Obama administration is in fact made up of white people. Sonia Sotomayor has never said she hates white people. But Limbaugh’s hysterical comments would have his listeners believing that everyone in the Obama administration hates white people and that they (his listeners) are now “oppressed.”
Karl Rove implied earlier in the week that Sotomayor isn’t intelligent enough to be a Supreme Court Judge. He also said her colleagues don’t like her. Later in the week, Rove apparently remembered that women and Hispanics vote and tempered his earlier remarks saying,
“I think Republicans need to take her on in the appropriate fashion which is about judicial philosophy, her record on the court, her writings and her statements. They need to do so with respect.”
But it’s too late, the damage is done.
RNC chairman Michael Steele was criticizing Sotomayor before Obama announced his nomination of her. On May 8, Steele called Sotomayor “abrasive” and said the Supreme Court is “not a place for abrasive personalities.” This week, Steele is revising his critique of Sotomayor and advising Republicans to “step back from this.” Once again, it’s too late, the damage is done.
TV personality Glenn Beck called Sotomayor an “Hispanic chick lady.”
It would be easy to dismiss Limbaugh, Beck and other radio and TV showmen as simple entertainers with a penchant for generating ratings which translates into advertising dollars were it not for the unfortunate fact that Limbaugh has taken on the role as “titular head” of the Republican party and elected Republicans have let him by cowing before his mammoth wrath. Every elected Republican who has dared speak a word construed as critical of the P.T. Barnum-like showman has subsequently acquiesced to Limbaugh’s reactionary rage by apologizing with cringe-worthiness.
Limbaugh, Beck and Rove aren’t the only non-elected Republicans who have exhibited symptoms of hysteria. Tom Tancredo has equated the HIspanic non-profit organization, La Raza, an organization similar to the NAACP, with the KKK and forged a tenuous guilt-by-association link to Sotomayor.
G Gordon Liddy, convicted felon, stooped to an all time low by calling the Spanish language the language of illegal aliens and then intimating that Sotomayor and consequently all women, are incapable of rationale by sheer virtue of their ability to give birth, surmising that Sotomayor would be influenced by “menstruation.”
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich called Sotomayor a racist and said she should withdraw herself from the running for Supreme Court judge. Resignation seems to be a favorite theme with the disgraced former Speaker. He admonished Nancy Pelosi to resign as current Speaker for saying the CIA lied to Congress. Gingrich himself resigned the Speakership in 1998 because while being one of the leading voices calling for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, he was having an affair with his young secretary. The discredited Gingrich has lately been back in the political arena spreading his opinion whenever given the chance. What his motivation is is unclear but what is obvious is that he is contributing to the toxic meme that is poisoning the GOP.
If it is the GOP’s strategy to alienate and exclude women and Hispanics from the Republican party, then one could say that the aforementioned men have been successful.
The hysteria with which these men have reacted to the nomination of a Latina woman to the Supreme Court of the United States is toxic to the health of the Republican party. During the first three months of the Obama administration, the GOP has been perceived by Americans as the ‘Party of No.’
Thanks largely to former vice-president Dick Cheney and his pal Rush Limbaugh, the GOP can now add the descriptive, “party of torture” to its repertoire. Since Obama nominated Sotomayor to Supreme Court and the subsequent hysteria that has emanated from Limbaugh, Liddy and Beck, the GOP can now add the descriptive, “racist, woman-hating, Hispanic-loathing party” as part of its new meme.
Read the entire article here.
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Nominee
gee thats funny coming form commi red i heard the same hate from the left when clarence thomas and alberto gonzales where up . oh that dose not count . they are conservatives ..
he grate one,
Well, I was republican back then and I supported those guys too. GWB throttled the GOP right out of me, and apparently the “party” -what’s left of it- is in disarray. And I’m being polite about that.
There’s even a dolt that is criticising Sotomayor for how she PRONOUNCES HER OWN LAST NAME! Grate party you’ve got going on there. Doh!
“The Racist, Man-Hating, White-Loathing dem Party”
#3
You can’t be serious!
The Republicans are exposing what their Party has devolved into; a group of angry, small minded, frightened people who lash out at anyone or anything that does not mirror them and their experiences.
The Republicans have lost sight of what is important and relevant to govern and have instead focused on PETTY PARTISAN politics.
Remember, this is the party that spent 40 hours investigating the Clinton Christmas Card list (and found nothing amiss) and 10 hours on the torture at Abu Ghraib. They spent 70 million dollars investigating Whitewater and only 14 million (kicking and screaming all the way ) on the 9-11 commission. Look at the time and energy and legislation these hacks expended on Terry Schiavo compared to ANY REAL healthcare solutions.
Name calling, character assassination, taking things out of context and lies are all the Republicans know and do. They have no ideas and no solutions, it’s NO WONDER THAT THEY’RE ANGRY.
anonster.
Are you implying that Whitewater didn’t happen? Should we simply sweep vetting information aside when it may impact one of your sides candidates?
FYI. An appropriate name. Whitewater land deal is where “Crooked Creek” and White river meet in northeast Ark. When we return to CA I will gladly show you a photo that I took on that property when researching that event
*”WACO-WEAVER(Ruby Ridge)-Whitewater =
Impeachment!”
And so it happened. Put a few over priced pigs
in the mix and the strange deaths of Ron Brown
and Vince Foster….and the next thing you
know….there is a Monica in your future! Then,
you lose the Nuclear Codes! Oh my….thank God
it’s Obama and not “Da Hillary and Billy”
Say what you will about George, Laura and Dick..
they at least didn’t lose the Nuclear Codes!
In the meantime, we like “the Sonia”!
anoster what a riot . the party of hate is your far left party who attacks anyone with mean spirited talk any time you disagree with them . see your pal garofalo for that one .
Really, Whitewater, what came of that investigation? NOTHING, except Monica, big f***ing deal. George W. Bush started an UNNECESSARY and VERY DESTRUCTIVE WAR that resulted in the DEATHS of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS AND COST US BILLIONS!
This is why Republicans are CRAZY STUPID, they can’t figure out which is worse; a consensual sexual affair or an UNNECESSARY WAR.
Republican VALUES, indeed!
anonster.
Perhaps you might check your calendar before putting you big foot into your big mouth.
Whitewater was not about a sexual affair and it surely predated Monica L.
And if Bill Clinton would have acted with full support of the military option after American troops were attacked in Khobar Towers, two US Embbassies in Africa and the attack against the USS Cole in Yemen we might have avoided the war in Iraq.
Unlike Teddy Rosevelt the only “big stick” president Clinton ever carried was a golf club.
Really, folks? You mistake the rantings of a few idiotic people for the beliefs of the entire party. True, they happen to be the leaders of the party, but then, George Bush was our president for eight years, and not all are Americans are that stupid. While these people’s opinions are racist, mysogynistic, and crude, it’s not quite fair to judge the entire Republican party on what they say. What’s that called again? Oh yeah, stereotyping. Knock it off.
While these people’s opinions are racist, mysogynistic, and crude, it’s not quite fair to judge the entire Republican party on what they say. What’s that called again? Oh yeah, stereotyping. Knock it off.
Well, you seem to be the self-proclaimed expert. Maybe YOU can tell us who the leader of the GOP is. B/c Rushbo is kicking folks like Colin Powell out of the party for any little deviation at all. The “pure” GOP seems to be shrinking at a fierce pace. It is made up of fringe elements like Rush, Bachmann, Beck, Steele, Palin, Hannity…. WHO is the leader of the GOP mob?
Splicegrl has a valid point, RV. The way you find the primary leader of any movement … is to look who the majority of people have chosen to follow, in this case the majority of Republicans. Splicegrl’s point is that the majority of republicans are not comfortable with the high profile right wing.
commi red who cares who is the leader of the republican party . its like your really gonna support who ever it is . your too busy with keith o and his bunch of goons .
SAHS Teacher,
However a recent Gallup Poll showed that the only folks left in the GOP are the Talibani types.
One third of the voters in CA are now Decline to State. No telling how many used to be Republicans.
Larry, Whitewater LEAD to Monica Lewinsky, remember the perpetual investigation of the Clintons, 5 years and 70 million dollars, to discover a blow job. Whoohoo! It’s a PERFECT example of Republican priorities , focussing on UNIMPORTANT PERSONAL VENDETTAS rather than substantial issues.
I know you can’t stop yourself, just keep pretending that the hellacious mess that Bush made was all Bill Clinton’s fault.
Was that “golf club” you were referring to, Buzz Patterson’s claim that Bill Clinton was too busy playing golf and passed up an opportunity to get; a) Saddam Hussein or b) Osama bin Laden? Which one was it? Buzz has made so many DISCREDITED CLAIMS. Before YOU go shooting off YOUR BIG HYPOCRITICAL MOUTH, YOU better get YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
You Republicans will tie yourselves in knots before you’ll answer the question; WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT, an affair or a war?
*When McCain picked Palin….he was “Lookin for
Love in all the wrong places!” as Johnny Lee
sang in “Urban Cowboy”! When the Dixie Chicks
left the party….Sean Hannity went for Martina
McBride. Coombs left Sean and that left Bill
O’Reilly without Geraldo who then had to pay
Dennis Miller off to stay on his side. Chris
Wallace had to take a lesser roll and now what?
Bret Hume is hiding out in his office and then
Old Rusty Limbaugh…is now stuck being the Great
White Father of the Republican Party.
The truth is:
Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan are now
all Catholic….and working in the media – not
looking to run for anything. Our formerly
beloved Republican Reagan Legacy….has been
highjacked and turned into a Laurel and Hardy,
Three Stooges….endless film loop.
Until we can garner some bigtime celebrity
candidates….we will be relegated to a mear
semblance of our prior selves..and just Class
“B” Farm Club status.
splicegrl, these “rantings” are NOT just words, they were followed up by DEEDS in the Bush White house.
Karl Rove was a master of the SMEAR CAMPAIGN, John McCain was even one of his victims (fathered an illegitimate black baby etc..).
Remember ALL the allegations of how the Clinton Administration had “SABOTAGED” the White House when they left (graffiti, cut phone lines, pornography on computers etc..), those stories were EVERYWHERE and ALL of them were FALSE.
Sorry, Republicans ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY SCUM BAGS, they’ve PROVED it over and over again. That’s why anyone with ANY integrity has QUIT the stinking cesspool that IS the Republican Party.
Anonster.
Your lame attempt of backpedalling now that you realize that Monica was not even on the scene during Whitewater scam makes me laugh.
As to the golf club I am not referring to Buzz Patterson. Are you trying to make us believe that Bill Clinton doesn’t play golf?
“Walk softly and carry a big stick” was my Teddy R reference. Here’s the commander-in-chief of the only super power in the world after the collapse of the Iron Curtain and he blows it by being a wimp while Amercian troops have died on his watch.
I am not impressed with your vocablulary choices which you appear to rely on when your angst shows its ugly head and you are unable to engage in a civil discourse.
Larry, let me quote some “civil discourse”; “putting you big foot in your big mouth” (misspelling yours) as they say Larry, you can dish it out, but you CAN’T take it.
Again Larry, read sloooowwwly this time, in the course of investigating Whitewater, Ken Starr came upon the rumors of the Monica Lewinsky affair, THEY EXPANDED THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION TO INCLUDE EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS.
Democrats today have shown their ugly faces, and its not the face of socialism. Its fascism.
“a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
The difference between fascism and communism is that in communism, the state owns everything outright; in fascism, a thin veneer of private ownership is maintained while the state exercises absolute control over industry. So the biggest difference between communism and fascism, which are both state socialistic governments, is that communism is complete state ownership, while fascism is complete state control.”
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/weebies/weebies12.html
You own the clothes you wear Democrats. Hispanics who hate their own and argue against the interests of their neighbors by siding with this statist garbage, white people who hate their own and proclaim everyone else victims, women who havent grown out of the 60’s and pretend they are still discriminated against, these are the un-americans who hate their country, everything it is and was, despise their neighbors…
…and still wake up in the morning telling themselves they’re the victims!
Terry, fascism is a widely debated term, in Laurence Britt’s book “Fascism Anyone?” he identifies 14 characteristics common in fascist regimes. He compared Hitler, Mussolini, Suharto, Pinochet and Franco to come up with these 14 traits;
1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for the recognition of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government are intertwined
9. Corporate power is protected
10. Labor power is suppressed
11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections
WOW, that surprisingly sounds like the BUSH ADMINISTRATION and the REPUBLICAN PHILOSOPHY.
You may think you can cover your party’s corruption by looking back…
The rest of us are looking at what is happening right now…
Obama Lifts Ban on Lobbyists! Back to Business as Usual
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
May 30, 2009 – 10:54 ET
Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump — a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House — the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted.
And now, we have to wonder: will the media notice this sudden change? I mean, a whole day has gone by and so far only Roll Call has mentioned it.
In any case, let special interests ring, baby!
Not to mention we have a supreme court justice who thinks that reverse racism, in the case of white firefighters, is acceptable jurisprudence.
when she gives her oath, she will have to lie…
thirty seconds finds….
First of all, there is no “Dr. Lawrence Britt.” The author of the 14-point fascism inventory, Laurence Britt, is a former corporate executive who wrote and published a dystopian novel about right-wing extremism, titled June 2004, during the height of the Lewinsky scandal. That is, to the best of my knowledge, his only published volume.
Terry, first take a deeeep breath, I never quoted a “Dr. Lawrence Britt”, but you ARE CORRECT the “Fascism Anyone?” was not a book but an article first published in Free Inquiry Magazine Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2003, by ……Laurence Britt.
Still, it is CHILLINGLY reminiscent of the BUSH YEARS.
Just stating how little credence what you cite actually has.
In with the good, out with the bad…
In with the good, out with the bad…
Goosfraba…
Serenity Now…
Thank you. Whenever I have to deal with the likes of you, I get a frontal lobe throb.
What would the republicans say if they heard of a fifty something year-old man visiting an island (Dominican Republic) known for it’s child sex trade and in his possession were comic books, teen magazines, candy bars and in an unmarked bottle, thirty three 500 mg Viagra, sleeping pills (GHB), condoms and lube?????
If that person was Rush Limbaugh they’d say: NOTHING!
The GOP the party of Larry Craig and David Vitter!
Terry, by the by, I hope you noticed that I took the time to refer you to the source of my information, which is FAR MORE than YOU DID. I am STILL WAITING for you to cite the source of your facts from the “Monday@UCI Universal Health Care 101/w/guest speakers” post.
Heretofore I will be referring to you as; facts-out-of-my-ass Crowley.
Anonster-i-dont-know-what-google-is
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11285514&ps=bb2#11291249
NPR michael moore sicko fact check
Real hard. Wade through the Moore propaganda canards to get to the WHO reality check.
Anonster-i-dont-know-what-google-is
why dont you ask your simpleton friend duplo to back up his slander, just like you try to back up yours?
see, when your rotten, duplicitous hypocrisy and anti-americanism releases its noxious fumes, the only defense you have is to point at the “credibility” of others and twist the truth.
Democrats, party of “whorehouse” Barney Frank, “rapist” Bill Clinton, “charlatan” Al Gore, “failure” Jimmy Carter, et al.
facts-out-of-my-ass Crowley, what slander have I indulged in?
As to Rush Limbaugh, I never knew he was gay, it’s ALL OVER THE INTERNET, thanks for the hot tip.
*Anonster – Your #22 was priceless. Saddam
Hussein seems to be missing from your list.
How about Hugo Chavez? How about Fidel..himself?
How about 10 African Presidents? All your basic
heroes we suppose?
Give yourself a break….and become what you
are…a weak knee independent!
anoster was in berkley hating america burning the flag when that was going on .
Winships, you BOTH can’t get snookered, one of you needs to remain sober, to be the “designated writer”, that way you won’t feel so foolish the next day.
Terry. Based on my interaction with him, I sadly must report that anonymous is a lost cause and a very bitter individual. He will be slamming the Bush family until his last breath.
Sorry I cannot engage in typical topical research as we are on vacation and do not have access to the Internet as often as when we are home.
Larry- the hypocrite- Gilbert, based on my interactions with you, I would say that YOU are a LOST CAUSE and very bitter that George W. Bush is responsible for SCREWING up the country.
I must admit, you do, do your darndest to try and pin the blame on Clinton, twisting yourself into all kinds of amusing knots, but when you’re trying to defend the BIGGEST SCREW-UP IN AMERICAN HISTORY, you can’t help but get all tangled up.
I don’t know why you need the internet, just make stuff up like you usually do.
*Anonster…..is probably one of those brilliant,
well informed Americans that are blaming Pearl
Harbor on Ronald Reagan! Excuse me…that was
9-11…right? They all called in on C-Span this
morning before the unveiling of the Reagan
Statue at the Capitol today! No Anonster, you
need to keep writing those fan letters to Jimmy
and Rosalind Carter. Explain how wonderful the
world was when they were in charge. Tell them
what great contributions they made to American
Society…the greatest perhaps since LBJ! Give
us your address and we will see you get an “LBJ
All the Way” t-shirt in extra-small.
Winships, Do you EVER REREAD THE NON-SENSICAL GARBAGE YOU POST?
It is like a series of MENTAL FARTS.
Ok i have got it “Anonster is a UCI professor”.
Never left the campus,hangs out with white,guilty,rich bill Aryes type. Hates his country,hates his conservative parents, love’s the victims, because they are the only ones that believe his crap!!
Anonster,get off the campus,your clueless about life!
I wonder how the liberals are going to defend her now that she has proven herself to be a tyrant and a sexist racist?
As it turned out, Rush Limbaugh was right.
Of course, the democrats are too spineless to take any sort of responsibility for their decisions and actions. They truly are pathetic.
Huh?