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Limbaugh: Cho was a liberal
April 23, 2007 6:26 PM
On the April 19 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show , the famous conservative talk radio host opined about the political views of Seung-hui Cho, the Virginia tech massacre madman.
"If this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? " Limbaugh asked. "This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich and all this other -- this guy's a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act. Now, the drive-bys will read on a website that I'm attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them. That's exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just pointing out a fact. I am making no extrapolation; I'm just pointing it out. "
Limbaugh went on to say that "back in the early '90s, when there was any kind of an incident, crime or what-have-you that attracted national attention, in the early days of this program, the drive-by media went out and they tried to connect the perpetrator to this program. They did everything they could. In fact, it went so far as Bill Clinton blaming me for influencing Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Murrah building . These are the people sponsoring lies and distortion for the purposes of dividing this country and creating hatred. These are the people that invented this kind of tactic, if you will ."
The reference to Clinton harkens back to CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS the former president made after the Oklahoma City bombing in which he slammed "loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable."
Clinton did not mention Limbaugh's name. In fact, he didn't even say "talk radio," but many folks inferred that's who he was talking about.
Limbaugh, conversely, spoke more directly. Cho "had to be a liberal," he said just days after the worst school shooting in U.S. history.
What do you think?
-- jpt
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Well I think all drug addicts are liberals. So come out of the closet Rush!!
Sounds stupid doesn't it Rush
Posted by: Rich | Apr 25, 2007 4:51:55 PM
Regarding Brain Dead Limbaugh's comments about Cho being a liberal, let's see how that matches up with basic logic.
Liberals refuse to own guns.
Cho owned 2 guns.
Liberals revile hunting.
Cho enjoyed hunting humans.
Cons own & love guns.
Cho loved & owned guns.
Cons love hunting.
Cho loved hunting humans.
Cons are always angry & bitter.
Cho was clearly angry & bitter.
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Of course it doesn't tally with logic to any degree.
CONCLUSION:
Limbaugh! Go down to your local Winn Dixie grocery store. Find the pork-brains in cans in the canned meat section. Yeah, I know, son, but beggars cannot be choosers!
Posted by: werewolfinsheepsclothing | Apr 25, 2007 4:31:00 PM
Take another vicodin, Rush. Talk radio is inhabited by a bunch of guys who have degrees in broadcast communications. They're not political scientists, they're not civics experts; they're guys with good radio voices and opinions that are just 'out there' enough to get them noticed. Take away Rush's show or Hannity's show, or Elder's show and they're stuck giving away tickets to the kiddie concert at the mall and reading the news and weather at the top and bottom of the hour. Rush is a radio personality, take away the venue and he ceases to exist.
Posted by: LH | Apr 25, 2007 3:31:47 PM
VTech just kicked in yo!
Posted by: rj | Apr 25, 2007 2:52:43 PM
The fact still stands that you are 22 times more likely to shoot someone you know than to shoot an assailant with your firearm.
The myth of the lone citizen stopping a criminal is just that, a myth. If you have a gun you are MUCH, MUCH more likely to be that criminal in a moment of passion.
Posted by: Marko | Apr 25, 2007 2:37:21 PM
I think Cho's "shoot first ask questions later" approach is a perfect demonstration of the Bush approach to foreign policy. So he must be a Bushie. This is as logical as anything I've read here so far.
Posted by: Paul | Apr 25, 2007 2:36:02 PM
RUSH said, you guys will fall for the bate!!! SUCKERS
Posted by: l.a hood | Apr 25, 2007 1:05:13 PM
More so than Blimpboy, I am upset at ABC for giving this guy any more credence. We just need to ignore this twit and eventually he will become irrelevant
Posted by: Ed | Apr 25, 2007 12:32:41 PM
To say Cho was a liberal is as arbitrary as bringing up the fact that Hilter was conservative. It's just Limbaugh being his normal, extreme right-wing self.
And if I recall correctly, evidence points in the direction that Jesus was a liberal. Let's see, Hitler or Jesus????? I'll take number two.
Posted by: AZ | Apr 25, 2007 12:07:07 PM
Everyone is missing the point about the Va Tech shootings. It is not the guns. Listen carefully - EVERY school shooter in recent history was on some type of mood altering drug, either Ritalin, Prozac, etc. It is obvious to anyone but liberals that concealed carry laws have reduced crime and there is a reason why mass murderers go to gun-free zones like schools to do their dastardly deeds instead of gun ranges or police stations. If you can't figure that out, you are hopeless.
In none of the states with concealed carry have the lib predictions of daily gun fights over fender-benders materialized.
Posted by: 45acp | Apr 25, 2007 11:12:57 AM
Shorter Limbaugh -- all bad people are liberals.
This reminds me of the phase of desperation the Dems were in a number of years ago when they couldn't come up with anything better than "all conservatives are mean."
Posted by: DB | Apr 25, 2007 10:17:56 AM
I lived in the same building as Cho last year, and I got to know him a bit. The person who wrote to say he was "ideologically liberal" is a liar. Cho was as conservative as could be, and in the few interactions I had with him when we talked politics, he made it clear he thought liberals were idiots. He regularly listened to talk radio and was a big fan of guns. He grew up in a red state, the son of conservative Korean parents, and he ended up going down in a blaze of glory, the dream ending for certain types of conservatives.
There is no question he was a conservative. And as a conservative myself, it pains me to admit it.
Posted by: Steve in Virginia | Apr 25, 2007 10:00:02 AM
Gosh, you gotta love hate-filled right wingers.
First they demand free access to guns and then they blame everybody but themselves for all the gun violence.
Posted by: Jimmy | Apr 25, 2007 8:44:05 AM
Jeez, Rush is such a joke. People really listen to this guy? This is a America , we have the right to be liberals and even ignorant, uninformed drug addicts . Cho was just another kind of nut who wanted attention, much like Rush. The little weeble needs to get over himself.
Posted by: Laura | Apr 25, 2007 7:37:34 AM
Liberal? Conservative? Deeply disturbed individual picked on by his rich neighbors throughout high-school for his family's occupation of doing the rich neighbor's laundry?
Posted by: Scott | Apr 25, 2007 6:07:49 AM
I remember meeting and talking to Cho a long time ago and he told me that was ideologically liberal. And I hate Limbaugh. So what.
Posted by: Curt | Apr 25, 2007 1:54:30 AM
All you who claim to be conservative but don't like Rush are most likely lying. That's like saying you're a liberal(funny how so many of them don't like to admit it, though)and then saying you don't like Bill Clinton. Oh yeah, I forgot...libs think nothing of stabbing each OTHER in the back, too. That's what haters do and no one knows how to hate more than a leftist liberal. And what hypocrites they are because they claim to be all peaceful and loving. Also, I wonder just how many of these posts are by the same liberal people, trying to make their opinions seem more popular. They're especially known to do that.
Posted by: Jay T. | Apr 25, 2007 1:38:49 AM
Why is liberal viewed as bad all the time? I can't understand it. Cho obviously had a lot of problems. Some self-inflicted, some with family, some with society. Yet the ones associate with society continue. Talking about it with a few of my co-workers, I got comments like, "I'm glad the nut killed himself." Kind of makes me sick to hear things like that. Most of the people I hear are never in situations like Cho may have been in. Nor do they have any mental problems. Whose to say that you wouldn't do the same thing in his situation. What he did that day was horrible. If he had lived though, I would want him to be given the opportunity to seek treatment and then spend the rest of his life in jail. I'm sure some will say, "Easy to say when you aren't affected." I don't know how I would feel if a loved one was murdered, I'd probably want the guy dead. However, just because I am the victim and I want something done, doesn't make it right. I would hope that society as a whole could make the better decision. People like Rush here are always trying to make a headline. To bring politics into such a tragedy is just silly.
Posted by: Chris | Apr 25, 2007 1:37:28 AM
This is just the Oxycontin talking, right? ....and remember, drug addicts should all be imprisoned; no appeals, no parole.
Posted by: Klaatu | Apr 25, 2007 12:51:44 AM
One more thing...Those with concealed carry permits tend not to "shoot up the town," so to speak. They tend to be incredibly responsible and quite handy in a pinch.
Posted by: DRK | Apr 25, 2007 12:46:03 AM
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