RUSHBO - Grabbing Conservative Opinion by the Balls

Just when you thought the ego of right-wing talk radio host Michael Savage couldn’t possibly get any bigger – after all he is “mulling” a run for the White House - we now learn that Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies will be representing him in all media.

On his show yesterday Michael Savage sounded like an aspiring teenage-actor who was promised the world by a dubious, predatory talent agent.

Movies, television and, yes, even rap music might be next for Savage, who according to himself, was already doing rap music 10 years ago (I kid you not).

Listen to Michael Savage boasting (MP3 00:32)

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Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh launched an interesting piece of criticism at last night’s Academy Awards. Of course he echoed the Conservative talking points that the Awards were just sooo boring. But he also seemed to have a problem with how international the whole affair had been. Can you believe that some people in the audience actually waved little Mexican flags???

Listen to this MP3 clip from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” (00:37)

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Liberals all over the world: Drop your New York Times! Turn off your CNN! Log off your left-wing Blogs! Get out of your liberal bubble!

If you really think you’re smarter than Conservatives, you have to understand their ideas.

Set down your Café Lattes and listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. Tune in to FOX News, pick up the Wall Street Journal and log onto Townhall.com.

Why are there GIs in Iraq? Because American Conservative Opinion affects the entire world.

So get up, get angry and have some fun. Let’s grab Conservative Opinion by the Balls on www.Rushbo.com.

FOX News aired the special “It’s out there” last night in which Michelle Malkin and Kirsten Powers were supposed to “blow the lid off the blogosphere” for us. I can’t find anybody who actually watched that show. Has anybody found footage posted somewhere?

“Liberal Hollywood” is at it again: Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” wins Academy Award for best documentary film.

Over the course of the day, one conservative commentator after another is going to rip into the movie again - as if they haven’t already done so ever since the film and its ideas became popular.

Let’s see what angle über-conservative and anti-environmentalist by conviction Rush Limbaugh will find in his radio show today to discredit the film and Hollywood at large.

Just to be on the safe side, Rush started predicting the outcome of the Academy Awards on his show on Friday. Because he loves to say I told you so.

Listen to the MP3 clip from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” (00:51)

The Drudge Report already links to the Reuters article “With Gore’s goading, Hollywood goes green at Oscars” with probably the worst photo that was taken of Al Gore last night . That’s usually how the concerted conservative hit wave will unfold. Let’s watch.

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Rush Limbaugh was at it again last week. If he doesn’t cook up his own wrong math, he picks up on other people’s misleading calculations about the war in Iraq.

Last time, as noted on this page, he compared the murder rate in Philadelphia to the number of fallen US soldiers in Iraq and came to the blatantly erroneous conclusion that the casualties in Iraq are not that big a deal after all.

This time Rush picked up on a column written by Alicia Colon in the conservative New York Sun in which she compares the military casualties during Bush’s war in Iraq with the number of military death during Clinton’s peacetime years.

Here is the quote from the Sun column:

“The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That’s 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who’s counting?”

Since Limbaugh’s “ditto head” listeners take most of his claims at face value, it is save to assume that few actually bothered to wonder why you would compare these two sets of numbers. 

The only reason why anybody would compare peacetime military deaths (due to accidents, illness, suicide etc.) during the Clinton years to the actual combat related casualties in Iraq is to confuse the issue.

Of course, Alicia Colon’s flawed comparison didn’t fly and was quickly debunked by blogger Andrew Sullivan, Salon.com and others.

But a flawed comparison has never kept Rush Limbaugh from assuring his weekly audience of 13 millions that things are just fine over in Baghdad. Here is what he had to say:

Listen to this short MP3 clip from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” (01:18)

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A bizarre story coming out of San Jose, Costa Rica caught the attention of ultra-conservative US talk radio host Michael Savage yesterday. A US military veteran in his 70s used his bare hands to kill an armed assailant during an attempted robbery of a bus full of American tourists (see Washington Post).

Now, to most people this sounds like a tragic incident that probably left a whole group of senior citizens traumatized and the assailant with a broken neck.

Michael Savage, however, couldn’t help but celebrate the event as a sign that the White Man is finally showing the Hispanic vermin what he is made of.

What sounds like Germany in the 1930’s is actually common fair on the Savage Nation in 2007.

Listen to a short MP3 clip from “The Savage Nation” (00:49)

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After giving birth to the Fox News Channel, its president Roger Ailes wants to push out another one. He got knocked up by Joel Surnow with “The ½ Hour News Hour“, a satire show that is supposed to be a right-leaning clone of the left-leaning “Daily Show with Jon Stewart”.

But if the pro-lifers don’t intervene, this baby is destined for the first nationally televised partial birth abortion. Should the show turn out as non-funny as these trailers it will have the life expectancy of Terri Schiavo without a feeding tube.

If you appreciate these types of tasteless analogies, however, “The ½ Hour News Hour” might be right up your alley.

Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter on 1/2 Hour News Hour

Barack Obama on Fox’s 1/2 Hour News Hour

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Neal Boortz just went on and on and on today in his nationally syndicated radio talk show about the plight of Brenda Kelly that was featured in an article in the Charleston Post and Courier over the weekend.

Brenda is a working mom of six who lives way below the poverty line making 6 dollars an hour.

See, if there is anything that gets Neal Boortz really hyped up, it’s those pathetically poor single moms who give birth to six children, who let their men leave them, who can’t even get more than a high school degree and then have the audacity to claim that the odds are against them.

Neal just calls them losers and slobs who haven’t fulfilled their basic responsibility to themselves and to our society as human beings and members of our society.

Hey, Neil Boortz became a multi-millionaire, why can’t you, you pathetic losers?

These sound bites are absolutely stunning.

Neal Boortz MP3 Audio File (00:01:55)

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Der Imam der Al-Aksa-Moschee in Jerusalem hat die von Israel durchgeführten archäologischen Ausgrabungen in unmittelbarer Nähe seiner Moschee als feindlichen Angriff auf diese Heilige Stätte verurteilt. Daraufhin kam es zu Auseinandersetzung zwischen israelischen Polizisten und palästinensischen Demonstranten.

So in etwa klang die Nachrichtenmeldung, wie man sie in den vergangenen Tagen der Weltpresse entnehmen konnte (siehe New York Times oder N-TV).

Für Millionen von US-Bürgern ist es inzwischen allerdings Usus, die Nachrichten nicht in Reinform zu konsumieren, sondern von ideologischen Meinungsmachern vorher zu appetitlichen Häppchen verarbeiten zu lassen, die dann so richtig dem bevorzugten politischen Geschmack entsprechen.

Das hat natürlich den Vorteil, dass man selber nicht groß nachdenken und hinterfragen muss. Man vertraut einfach Propagandisten wie zum Bespiel dem erzkonservativen Talk-Radio-Host Michael Savage, der einem die vorgefertigte Meinung immer wieder bestätigt. Und das beruhigt.

Savage liefert beispielsweise zum Thema Al-Aksa-Moschee gleich eine entsprechend ideologisch eingefärbte Lehreinheit in Geschichte. Um es einfacher zu machen, schert er in gewohnter Manier, alle Moslems über einen Kamm, und als Sahnehäubchen gibt’s dann natürlich noch einen Schwung Pragmatismus à la Michael Savage: Warum nicht gleich die ganze Moschee abreißen und einen Tempel errichten?

Michael Savage’s Radiosendung hat wöchentlich über 8 Millionen Zuhörer!

MP3 Clip from “The Savage Nation” (0:55)

 

“Israeli dig in Holy Land upsets Muslims. What doesn’t upset a Muslim? Tell me what doesn’t upset a Muslim somewhere in the world! They have nothing to do but throw bombs and cut people’s throats. 

Palestinians run from tear gas, thrown by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem after a protest against an Israeli dig in East Jerusalem’s Old City.

Now, let me remind you of something. Let me remind you of something:

There is a site in Israel called the Temple Mount upon which there is a mosque. What most of you morons, you historic imbeciles don’t know is that the Temple Mount is the site of the original ancient temple that was destroyed by the Romans upon which the Muslim invaders built a mosque. There is a good argument for knocking down the mosque and restoring the temple by the way. After all it’s Israel. It is not, uh, Indonesia. It is Israel after all, it is not Saudi Arabia. They already have a Holy City”.