Is Limbaugh willfully ignorant, a stinking liar, or just plain stupid?

Or all of the above?

It depends on whether or not he's had his daily dose of "legitimately acquired" meds.

All of the above. :)

I think all of the above are correct, or is this a trick question? Remember, NO education. He's an idiot.

Focus Rush Focus!!

Wow!  That Obama...quite the Maverick.  Make it easier to receive government handouts, disarmorment, and promoting relief and security in the Congo...all major parts of the Republican platform.  He really went out of his way to reach across the aisle to the Republican party.   I think he also was a supporter of the mainly Republican-supported bill to make Pres. William H. Taft's birthday "Obesity Awareness Day."

Show me where he supported a REAL Republican bill.

 

As far as "REAL Republican bills," I seriously doubt that you're going to find Obama's name or support on a bill that builds bridges to nowhere, alienates homosexuals, subjugates women, denies care to veterans, denies leave of absence to active duty soldiers, removes science from public schools, provides for the corporate welfare, or makes it easier for you to own a high-powered machine gun.

Flawless.

Hehe, Pete, you nailed it right on the head...   A "Real" Republican bill would be designed to malign the patriotism of a political opponent, apply libelous labels to truly courageous patriots,  legislate oppression of the weak, or encourage the persecution of anyone who deviates from their supposed  "higher moral standard". . .

And Eden's right, you're simply moving the goal posts in a pathetic effort to prop up Limbaugh's line of crap.

Nonsense he doesnt have to become a rightwinger to be bipartisan he HAS worked with Republicans. That is all that is necessary to show Limbaugh is lying...AGAIN

If he hasn't, so much the better, since Republican policy is what landed our nation in the economic, moral, political, and military swamp into which we're sinking fast.

Go pop another handful of Oxy, Rush...

And then glenn shows up to move the goal posts further back

Has Rush Osamabinlimbaugh EVER told the truth about anything? It would seem to be a fairly easy to simply start each day on MMFA with the following:

Rush lied today constantly on his show. Pick a topic and he lied about it. Next story.

Rush is talking in Republican terms. "Reaching across the aisle" is usually done with the goal of groping an altar boy.

Or looking for some viagara pills to pop.

To Republicans, bipartisanship means doing it their way. 100% their way. They view their fact-free ideology as a religion, and thus not open to compromise. If they say it, it is true.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

Things are going fine in Iraq.

The economy is doing great.

Saddam had WMD, and conspired with alQaeda.

Rich people are good. Poor people are bad. 

See? It's easy! 

To Republicans, bipartisanship means doing it their way. 100% their way.

It was the Bush neocons and Rove who pushed the definition to the extreme limit.  If they could blackmail on or two dems to support a bill they would claim it was bipartisan. We used to think it meant they was some meaningful support on both sides for the measure.

can you give a specific example.

Limpburger's idea of "reaching across" only takes place legitimately under a toilet stall, and that is something he is a pro at. That Obama won't stoop to Limpburger's level and that of his cronies is what ticks off this druggie comedian.

And where did EL FLUSHBO get his information from. His EIB(excellence in bull--it) network.

Who better personifies the precipitous decline in the quality of politcal commentary than Limbaugh?

Although Limbaugh lied by using the word "never", his lie becomes less impressive when we learn that Obama voted with his fellow Democrats 97% of the time in 2007, 96% in '06, and 97% in '05, according Congress Quarterly. He rarely reaches across the aisle.

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If this is true, all I ccan say is good on Obama!  Republican ideas are what have landed us in the swamp in which our economy/military/international standing/moral authority/etc. etc. etc. are all sinking, so the quicker they are ditched by our leadership the better.

"never reached across the aisle as a senator in legislation."

NOT VOTING!  LEGISLATING!

You've sought out truth that has little bearing on Limbaugh's lie. 

You Libs need to do better than this.  Both of these bills passed by UNANIMOUS CONSENT.  I wouldn't say that St. Barack really went out on a limb here.

Regardless--Limbaugh's claim was that Obama NEVER reached across the aisle.  This is clearly contradicted by the FACTS on the ground, as Media Matters pointed out.  Stop drinking the Republican koolaid and admit when your side is wrong. 

"Going out on a limb" was not Limbaugh's claim.

Excellent article--an example of what Media Matters should be doing more often.  Unfortunately, these pieces are few and far between here, taking the back seat to Olbermann nonesense and disingenuous pieces about what reporters "should" have included in their reporting. 

Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama has "never reached across the aisle as a senator in legislation."

Maybe Rush used to research things but lately he's just been pulling stuff out of his a@@.

The Republicans seem to be getting a lot more footloose with the word "never". I don't remember "I have never had sexual relations with that woman" being afforded the same slack.

Having voted yearly more than 90% on democrat bills is so close to "never" they might be considered one and the same. Rush's wording is indeed wrong, 'Rarely' would have fit better. Nonetheless, i am sure he got his point across.

However, when discussing the personal integrity of a female intern with presidential integrity in the balance, "never" would  result in sufficient personal damage to said female intern. Not to mention the damage to the presidential integrity when this claim is disproved. Perhaps it would have been better if Bill used "rarely"as well.

FIN: "Having voted yearly more than 90% on democrat bills is so close to "never" they might be considered one and the same."

LIMBAUGH: "he hadn't gotten anything done. He can't unify his preacher. He's never reached across the aisle as a senator in legislation."

Limbaugh is NOT TALKING ABOUT VOTING!  He's talking about LEGISLATING!

FIN: "Rush's wording is indeed wrong, 'Rarely' would have fit better. Nonetheless, i am sure he got his point across."

Righties love to throw around talking points about how Democrats never get anything done in Congress when the reality is they have nothing brag about either. 

"Rarely" describes just about every US senator in the past ten years.  Even some of the longest standing Senators have introduced literally hundreds of pieces of legislation, only to see them get struck down in committee and never even make it to the chamber floor for a full debate or a vote. 

In the last 10 years, John McCain sponsored over 400 bills.  65% of them never made it out of committee, only 12 were successfully enacted.

In his two years as a senator, Barack Obama has sponsored over 120 bills.  93% never made it out of committee, 1 was successfully enacted.

Most of the 15 members or former members of Congress who were running for president in '08 can count their successfully enacted bills from the past 10 years on one hand. 

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By the way, i do not think that Rush intentionally lied, he just generalized based on the data.

Bill Clinton however......

Sorry, chum, no dice.  If you use the superlative "never," any contrary example proves the statement wrong.  But hey, the OxyMoron was attacking Democrats, so I guess it's all okay with you, hmm?...

Bill Clinton, however ... finarfin

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Bill Clinton has been out of office for nearly eight years.
Time for some new material, troll.

SGDave, I'll plead guilty to bringing up Clinton's name, only as an example of the use of the word "never". Now that I think about it, he may have said "I did not have sex with that woman" (no "never"), so even if my point still sticks, and Fin volunteered to prove it, the exact word wasn't there.That'll teach me to use the Googles for quotes.

By the way, i do not think

You could have stopped right there, and your post would have been 100% correct. 

Oh for crying out loud. Why does anyone ever expect Mr. Limbaugh to be saying anything that's true? The man's record is almost perfect when it comes to being wrong. He is pitiful; he is pathetic. He is on record against Sens. McCain, Clinton and Obama, so why doesn't this big coward who didn't even vote for decades either shut up or run for office himself? Answer: Because if he shut up he wouldn't be able to find other employment, and if he ran he would be slaughtered by any opponent with half a brain and equal access to a microphone. Hey, Mr. Limbaugh, here's a deal: You and I debate, on a neutral network, the following proposition: At least 90% of what Media Matters has said you were wrong about in the past five years on the radio was, indeed, incorrect. And then people vote for who wins. If I win, I get half your money, and you agree to quit the airwaves. He's a coward. He won't take the bet.

As he mentions quite frequently, he has half his brain tied behind his back. It really prevents any progressive thought; well that and the abuse of prescription pills.

Bravo to UNITARIANPATRIOT. I'd love to see the big GASBAG come out from behind his radio mike and engage in a fair and open debate. But he's to much of a coward to do that.

On top of all this, didn't RL say that McCain would be a disaster because McCain is too willing to reach across the aisle?

Rush Limbaugh is the fat, ignorant neighbor that you try and avoid at all costs.