Here’s Rush Limbaugh, responding to a speech by Barack Obama in which he emphasized the role of government in supporting the private sector:
This is a bunch of people that don’t count. This is a bunch of people with miserable, meaningless lives who are lying to themselves; trying to tell themselves that they matter.
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This is a bunch of meaningless people (who know that their lives don’t account for anything) trying to matter, and coming up with this ridiculous philosophy that says, “Successful people have not done it on their own. Successful people only exist because of the nameless, faceless, real, true hard workers.” You know, before Marx there was no such thing as class-driven economics. If that guy had been aborted, we’d have a whole different world today.
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I’ll tell you what. I think it can now be said, without equivocation — without equivocation — that this man hates this country. He is trying — Barack Obama is trying — to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream.
There’s no other way to put this.
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This is what we have as a president: A radical ideologue, a ruthless politician who despises the country and the way it was founded and the way in which it became great.
He hates it.
So there you go. If you disagree with Rush Limbaugh, then you are a miserable person who’s life does not matter, and you hate this country. Good to know. I’ll tell you what. I think I can now say, without equivocation – without equivocation – that this man hates anyone that can think. He is trying – Rush Limbaugh is trying – to dismantle, bit by bit, any semblance of rational thought in his followers.
See what I did there?
Unfortunately, yes, a lot of people think Rush is worth paying attention to. They are bigots, pure and simple.