In yet another blatant example of Obama-bullying of conservative media sources, the White House has issued another threat against radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
For the video of Rush describing the latest threats, click HERE.
In addition to complaints that the rhetoric of Limbaugh and Beck may lead to 'violence' at Town Hall meetings, the White House, the DNC, and others have warned Limbaugh in particular that he is 'on thin ice' for consistently comparing Obama tactics to that of Nazi Germany. Click on the link to read from the Limbaugh website the comments of WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs concerning Rush being 'on thin ice.'
Of course, this may be only a precursor to an all-out assault on conservative talk radio through the FCC's new 'Chief Diversity Officer' Mark Loyd, who was appointed by Obama. I wrote extensively about Loyd and his views on conservative talk radio, and his plans for dismantling it, in a column several days ago.
The Obama plan is not unlike that of the Nazis in Germany and the Communists in the old Soviet Union who believed that it was essential to control all of the sources of news in order to maintain a stranglehold on the society. All Obama has to do is to find a way to silence conservative talk radio and Fox News Channel, and he will have the bulk of the media in his hip pocket.
Sanders stated in an interview that conservatives have a monopoly on the media and are using that media to thwart Barack Obama's plans. He mentioned 2 media sources alone--Fox News and conservative talk radio.
Conveniently, Sanders failed to mention the Obama-minions of MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, CNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Miami Herald, and umpteen million other Leftwing media outlets whose bias in favor of Obama is stunning.
America needs conservative talk radio and the political commentators of Fox News such as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in order to provide at least a modicum of balance in a media that is dominated by Leftwing hacks who have a vested interest in seeing Barack Obama succeed in changing the country into a Socialist-Fascist state.
This is not about saving the careers of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity,or Mark Levin. This is about the citizens having access to the truth. Were it not for these talk radio hosts and hundreds of faithful Internet writers and bloggers, the truth would be forever lost in a flood of government propaganda delivered by the state-run media.
For example, who is reporting the truth about the healthcare bill on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, or CNN? Are they telling you that even if Obama decides to nix the 'public option' in the healthcare bill, the bill will still create a government-run system? Are they telling you that the bill will still contain provisions to ration care for the elderly and transfer healthcare dollars from Senior Adults to 20 million illegal aliens? Are they reporting that doctors will be required to adhere to strict rules set by government bureaucrats when treating their patients? And did they happen to mention that the bill will still contain a 500 billion dollar cut in Medicare?
You won't hear any of this in the mainstream, traditional media on TV. But you WILL find these important nuggets of truth on conservative talk radio, Fox News, and In the faithful and courageous articles provided by Internet writers and bloggers.
We MUST not allow Obama, the FCC, Mark Loyd, the Democrat Congress, or anyone else deprive us of these sources of truth.
For more commentary on other issues, visit my blog at The Liberty Sphere.
Comments
You're a f-ing moron. Obama can't exert nearly at all the same amount of power over the press that Communist Russia or Socialist Italy did back in their day. The Obama administration has a right to "bully" Limbaugh as they do, because when man who has a radio show that gets over 200 million listeners a year, says that our President should be dead - thats borderline treason, and is certainly hate speach.
I agree with you about liberals and media - but you have to understand this, Glenn Beck/Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh/Bill O'Reily are just a few of the political programs that together dominate the political opinion media market, and they are hardcore right wing, where liberal media outlets use a rhetoric is only MODERATELY liberal (Neilson statical data backs that up). So the slander used on those programs reaches far more ears than liberal media outlets. Also, if you look at the demographic of the conservative names mentioned above, they both have no education, or job. F-ing moron
Shorter Sean:
Shut up, he explained.
Hey Sean,
F--- off, you f---ing f---. And oh yeah, you're a f---ing stupid f---.
Wow, that was fun!
But seriously. You're an ignoramus. Try not to knock over your bong on the way back to you X Box. Your mother hates when you get that smell in her basement carpet.
"speach" (learn grammar and spelling).
... The Obama administration has a right to "bully"
Oh - so the Bush administration should have bullied all those protesters that had nooses and called for his execution?
Let me reminds you of the words of Samuel Adams:
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Sean the F-ing moron here is you. You are licking the jackboots of a would-be dictator. You spineless peice of crap, crawl back under your rock.
Some final words from Adams for you:
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
You are a slave. Come back when you decide to be a free man.
Ha - here we go with the name-calling leftists who can't seem to form a sentence without an explicative involved.
People - if you don't like Rush, Sean, Glenn, etc. - just turn off the radio. This is a free country with that wonderful first amendment. You know, that thing that allows you to spew hate at a writer of an opinion column? Instead, please go bury yourselves with MSNBC, NPR, any network station, or Air America (are they still in business?). It's okay if someone happens to have a different opinion than you. And if you're that upset at the thought of dissenting voices in this country, you're more than welcome to move to one that removes that right. Maybe Venezuela or Cuba would suit your tastes.
You're a bullshit little queer,Sean...Rush never said any such thing....
Sean says "when man who has a radio show that gets over 200 million listeners a year, says that our President should be dead"
So marxists/liberals first got angry when Rush DID SAY he wanted Obama to fail, because if Obama(democrats) succeeds, then the COUNTRY FAILS.
That didn't work, because Rush was speaking a fact, so now a drone like Sean must up the verbage from "our President should FAIL" to "our President should be dead"...
Sean, you ignorant slut!
TJ said "Maybe Venezuela or Cuba would suit your tastes"...
It is interesting that these liberals won't leave our "mean, bigoted, racist, uncaring," country for these Latin Socialist "paradises".
Is it because they, as wimpy white liberals, would be outnumbered 50 to 1? And end up working the farms gathering up all of the fruits and vegetables for the Venezuealan or Cuban militaries?
Libs: At least there is no winter in Venezueal or Cuba, so you would not have to burn oil or natural gas for heating your 3500 sq. ft. house...HYPOCRITES!!!
I have praying that divine Providence will intervene and keep my beloved country and fellow citizens from the misery and destruction of another civil revolution. However, the more I read some of the liberal's comments the more I believe that maybe it would be a good thing. At least it would give us the opportunity to remove significant amounts of anti-FREEDOM DNA from the citizenry pool.
Nex ut Tyrannus!
How come this article fails to mention how the Obama administration "threatened" Rush Limbaugh? I couldn't get the video clip, but my guess is there was no threat made at all. My guess is somewone in the administration mentioned his name and to him that was a threat. He's a blowhard who will do just about anything to try to make himself look more important. If you were thinking, "Oh, who is this Lib?" don't. I'm a life-long republican, but I'm an American first and what Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Olberman, Matthews, etc...are doing is very bad for this country and for our democracy. It makes us all look like ignorant jerks!
Spook,
You are part of the problem.
How come this article fails to mention how the Obama administration "threatened" Rush Limbaugh? I couldn't get the video clip, but my guess is there was no threat made at all. My guess is somewone in the administration mentioned his name and to him that was a threat. He's a blowhard who will do just about anything to try to make himself look more important. If you were thinking, "Oh, who is this Lib?" don't. I'm a life-long republican, but I'm an American first and what Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Olberman, Matthews, etc...are doing is very bad for this country and for our democracy. It makes us all look like ignorant jerks!
So where or what was the threat Obama targeted at Limbaugh?
From the link given, Rushbo didn't state a threat to him. He made mucho anxious bloviating. Once, he vaguely mentioned Obama spoke of him. Didn’t say what.
He does drone on & on about Nazi's so much--all the time. Femma-Nazis, Eco-Nazis, etc. It was only a matter of time, before Rush's obsession to all things Nazi & fascist would arise and fabricate a connection to Obama.
Sad… but, predictable.
June, think again!
Look at the addition link at Paragraph 3--it is directly from the Limbaugh's website.
Gibbs threatens Limbaugh, saying he is on 'thin ice.'
Obama has no right to bully anyone especially after the non-stop attacks that Bush endured in his second term as presidency. Understand I am not a Bush zealot by any means. I think he had many failings as a president. But what the liberals did to Bush is 10X worse than what Rush is doing. If you read the transcript they are making an issue out of a parallel to a similar program during Nazi Germany. He did not call Obama a Nazi. I heard the broadcast. I agree that there needs to be some cooling off by both sides, but the sad fact is the liberals started this and now the conservatives are waking up and answering the charge. Sean, you need to chill out and take off your liberal glasses and see things the way they actually are. if you are stupid enough to take the government at their word, you deserve to be treated just like the indians(native americans) because they made the same mistake.
Stupid ass sheeple.
If these damn liberals want a damn war, we'll give them a damn war! They just need to throw the first punch, fire the first shot, etc
More so than any government official has the "right" to threaten me, I and every citizen has the right to speak freely. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Unless you missed the 1st part. You do not have the right to not hear others, but you do have the ability to not listen.
Jason
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you right wing fringers keep your fox news, ufo's, ghosts, goblins, and gods....
Come on Limbaugh is just your typical fat Amerikan slob with even
a fatter mouth, a chicken hawk that ran away from the Vietnam War
because he had a pimphis arse.le on
The reason conservative talk radio dominates is because that is what most people LISTEN TO! The liberals just don't get this.
If people wanted to listen to liberals espouse their views then Air America would have been a smash hit. It wasn't.
This is how a free market works. You remember that concept; right?
The more people WANT something, the more people step up to fill the need. There's no conspiracy here and trying to regulate this or "even the playing field" or halt the so-called "manufactured dissent" is an all-out assault on the Article I of the Constitution. If they think the town halls and the "tea-baggers" are bad now, try to silence the people who REFLECT our views and give us a voice.
Nixon's "silent majority" has finally decided to get up off their fat, apathetic asses and that's a good thing. I just hope t isn't too late. This shift towards Totalitarianism began way before anyone ever heard of Barrack Obama. Saul Alinksky's playbook has been in use a long time.
Limbuagh should have been arrested when he called for violence during the Democratic National Convention
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called attempts by some opponents of health care reform to bring Nazi imagery into the debate, “outrageous, deeply offensive and inappropriate” and condemned remarks by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who compared President Obama’s health care logo to a swastika, and policies championed by the Democratic Party to those of the Nazis.
“Regardless of the political differences and the substantive differences in the debate over health care, the use of Nazi symbolism is outrageous, offensive and inappropriate,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor. “Americans should be able to disagree on the issues without coloring it with Nazi imagery and comparisons to Hitler. This is not where the debate should be at all.”
In recent days, street protests against President Obama’s health care plan have gotten ugly,
Great article! Thanks for it. Reading some of the comments, though, simply depresses me that Americans have gotten so incapable of independent thought, have become so wimpy that they need Sugar Daddy to take care of them. Poor babies. It's terrible to grow up and find you still can't take care of yourselves.
Sorry about Rush, my mistake.
Now Obama has said that private insurance companies will be forced to match a government plan that will pay for women's "reproductive services." He's too smart to say the word he means i.e. "abortions." Right out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals." He has also stated that Planned Parenthood will continue to play an important part in providing "reproductive services." ABC's Andrea Mitchell reported today the Obamacare will not pay for abortions. God help us if we are forced to depend upon liars like Andrea Mitchell to get the "news."
The White House threatens conservatives, when they attack Limbaugh. Limbaugh is a very funny talk show host which, we, on the far right enjoy thoroughly. Wasn't Randi Rhodes on the air when Bush was in charge? Did Bush attack her? Therefore, we are taking full note of the attacks on Rush as attacks on free-speech. This is not the first time Rush has been personally attacked by this administration.
I read quite a few of the Examiner columns and I suppose that you do too, Anthony. So, let me ask this. Has it been impressed upon you that you and the other examiners are making a difference and causing the public to consider things in the light?
I have no direct proof of this, but the sudden influx in comments of the insane left loonies who call names and deride, but never debunk the statements they say are false would appear to be an orchestrated effort. If that be the case, I would say we are getting to somebody in a fashion they feel deleterious to their tyrannical agenda.
I am especially amused at their sudden outrage over criticism of Obama which to date has been much milder and of much shorter duration than what these weasels put Bush through. I am also amused and angered that they pretend that we did not also criticized Bush for not upholding the principles he campaigned on.
keep it up. When the evil loonies are screeching it means the truth has burned them.
Bow and scrape to the 'drugster'.
It's funny how Anthony G. Martin believes that Hannity, and Beck have anything other than fake crocodile tears and lies, to contribute.
If this country does become a Socialist-Facist state, it'll still be a better place than what you hypocrites that like to covertly spy on the populace, had. Conservatism is just another word for Bigotry and Racism. Ironically, you compare Obama to Hitler and the pure racist hate that was shown against the JEWS. If there's anyone more racist than Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck or Coulter to mention a few, I'd like to know who they are.
It's sad that all of these White men are running scared. Limbaugh claims that the left is running scared of conservatism, really? I think Mr. Limbaugh must be going through drug withdrawls of some sort. The rest of you, drink long and deep from the GOP version of the Kool Aid tank, you'll need it.
For you Lilly White's espousing your stupidities, you no more own this country than the Blacks. This country belongs to the Native Americans. Don't believe it? Read your history fish brains, read how the sickly, deviate White Englishmen came to this once beautiful country and polluted it with hypocrisy, hate, diseases, and self serving religions that allowed the decimation of the great tribes. You won the war, but have lost the battle. You just are too stupid and full of yourselves to realize it. If a Black American won the Presidency, more power to him, at least it is giving you pale eyes, fits and starts. It's actually quite amusing.
I'm sure that Obama is having the time of his life making life miserable for you that believe that you are in control. Obama knew going in that he would be a one term President, so he will make it worth his while. Cry and gnash your teeth White Man, in the end you will have lost.
this rush guy is evil he makes my skin crawl
Just an FYI,I'm retired military,and love my government health care called tricare.No private health insurance can come even close.My daughter tried to get insurance and was turned down because of high cholesterol.We need things to change now.I wish everyone could have the excellent care that I have with Tricare formally known as Champus
Ok, are you seriously saying this with a straight face? As a history major this is unlike Nazi Germany you dip! The difference between people in Nazi Germany and Conservative know-nothings like yourself are that the speech Hitler was curbing was true!! The complete nonsense you pill-pushing friend Rush is trying to get people to believe are all lies!
1. Obama isn't trying to make the U.S. a single payer system. 2. You can't read, because the bull about death panels is completely false.
3. Reliable news sources try to put out the truth, but when you call these lies the truth, how is anythings supposed to be done! If you really cared about the 46 million uninsured, and you really had a heart, you would support Obama's plan, not the one the fear-mongering Republicans set up.
Rush maybe if you stop taking all those pills with your fat ass, telling people that you are on a diet and lost 97lb. in five months and when I saw you bouncing around on MSNBC, fatty you haven't change one bit and you certainly don't like people of color.I can't wait for your closet door to open up again.but you guys always hide behind God.
Oh yeah, they're getting burned by the truth. Kapath, you are the racist here. Funny you can't see that.
Don't give me that noble red man crap. I am cherokee/chickasaw but have not become a racist, unlike you have.
Kathy, I am glad you are happy with Tri-Care, my family hasn't enjoyed the same degree of satisfaction as you seem to have. I remember the VA hospitals as a place to go to die needlessly, but perhaps they had something personal against us.
It seems strange to me that the liberals are the ones trying to put the genie back in the bottle, or to put it another way, get us all back on the plantation, but the other side gets the blame. Or haven't you noticed that conservatives want all the citizens to receive their rights and due as free men?
Of course, you didn't notice, forgive me. I forgot how emotionally immature you people are. So much so, that facts mean nothing to you.
Wow, Anthony...saying you're on "thin ice" is a threat. Not in my book. But hey, maybe when you were bullied in elementary school and had your lunch money stolen, it caused you to be so traumatized and sensitive to every comment.
..and the reason that so many people listen to Rush is because that segment of the population has no life or anything better to do with their lives than take their marching orders from a sputtering gas bag.
you little uberidiots-following in the stumbled footsteps of your grandparents - the "so called hippies" which turned into very materialistic people - I think the new name should be 60s hypocrites hippies.
Oh I get it, Jules.
I doubt it "Johnny boy" are you a facist or a dreamer...do your eyes glaze over when thinking about the prez? do you jump up down in a fevered tempo at rallys? do you get so excited that you have to becareful you dont throw up...ect, ect, ect...
Julie...I didn't know that you could read minds, but I'm not an Obama supporter- sorry to burst your misinformed bubble. I loathe both parties, and have learned to think for myself. If it were up to me, Ron Paul or someone of his ilk would be in the white house. GWB was horrible, and BHO is about the same in my book. There is so much distortion and outright lies on both sides- Hannity is the worst on the right, and Olberman on the left. My point is that anyone that takes what either of those morons say seriously are delusional and unable to think for themselves. Hopefully you don't fall into that category.
And about that snide little comment about hippies- my father was career military, so I guess that you're wrong again.
Jeebus. I thought Martin was Limbaugh's fatter, more doped-up cousin. What healthcare bill? There is none. Relax. Your conservative radio blowhards and the commentators on Fox News aren't going anywhere, because there will always be enough crazies willing to listen to their rhetoric. And besides, media is a business. They can't be fired by the government like U.S. Attorneys can. Remember the Dixie Chicks? They were crucified, and somehow they still kept their careers. I wish more Republicans would try to remember and understand what it was like for most Democrats over the last eight years. Please don't forget that if someone said something nasty about Bush, especially during his first term, they were wire-tapped or treated with scorn because speaking against the president during war could undermine his actions. So remember, we're still at war (because we're always at war) and saying something bad about Obama or trying to undermine him is treasonous and downright unpatriotic!
Are you kidding me???? Arrest the talk show hosts; why because you don't agree? It's OK for thugs and tax evaders to run the White House and impose their will on the people by shutting up anyone with a brain. Last time I looked this was America; home of the free; although with each passing day it does seem more like a communist take over. Glad the retired gentleman has great gov insurance. Ask the ones that have to use the VA. I used Air Force insurance; I’d rather pay, thank you!! Of Course I wasn’t an officer. Mr UniteUS Rush has NEVER EVER called for violence. While he has always supported Israel and the Jewish community YOUR president and his buds DO NOT. Do your research, please. It is the Dems tactic to call anyone that can think for themselves names and accuse those same of outrages behavior. Gee, which side pumps money into ACORN? We see through you all. I just hope we can fix it after you all run away.
Tx, did I really just read you say Unite Us Rush? Are you freaking kidding me? He is doing more harm to the unity of the US than anyone I can think of...well other than maybe Olberman and Sean the Manatee Hannity. You make like his drivel, but please...a uniter? I about pee'd in my pants reading that because it's so ridiculous.
kaptah-Uh I'm not a white man, but am conservative. You appear to be a racist? That's the prob with many libs; you guys can't have a discussion, you have to resort to name calling.
John, heehee. No,I was making a comment to "UniteUs". Guess I forgot to hit the space bar before I added Rush. UR version is still funny :)
I still haven't seen any refutation of Anthony's points except standard denial. Sayin it ain't so without saying why you think it ain't so is childish and revealing. It reveals that you don't know ..... oh, well, let me take back what I was about to say, you obviously do know it, you emit great quantities of it.
Anthony and Rush could both stand to lose a little weight and lose a little more of their feeble minds. In your dreams, Tony. Go pork on pasta, paisan
Straight Arrow,
So you claim to have Red Heritage. Of course I'm racist against those that humiliated my ancestors. You should be too if you weren't so busy trying to make excuses for Liberals that stand behind the premise of ' equality ' and ' freedom ' and all the worn out buzz words that are like the buzz of flies to our ears.
You want equality and freedom? Turn back the clock and keep the English Puritans from setting up shop in this once clean and great country. All some of us have left are the stories and songs of our forefathers. I'm a racist? Yes, you speak the truth and speak it well, so tell me, what do you have to be proud of in what reamins of this country stolen from us? Do you really believe the words of the White Man? His Laws and his Sins?
A fat, rich white man that could care less for those smelly Native Americans living in squallor on the reservation, living off of the crumbs and drippings of the White Masters.
I think not.
Rush IS Right.
I love big brother. Nothing but angels exist in government. The government is here to help. Health care is a right. There oughta be a law! Silent any dissent.
(and Lib's wonder why conservatives call them commies.)
Obama,Initiate the Fairness Doctrine on Radio!!! Get these Cons Whackos off the air!!!
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