Limbaugh: 12 yrs. a slave won because SLAVE is a magic word--WTH??

John Stewart and Bill Maher are comedians whose genre is political satire.

Rush Limbaugh is a right wing opinion maker who regularly expresses both mysogeny and bigotry. Just exactly what his good ol boy, gun totin', white audience wants to hear.

I would agree that his ability to analyse politics and comment on them is "intriguing" to many intellectually challenged.

As to the left not having its "intriguing" political commentators, I guess you haven't seen much of Ed Shultz or Rev Al.

 

That is the most backwards comment of the year. Its LIBERALS who take everything he says too seriously, which is why they get their nose out of joint every time he speaks. Anyone who actually listens to him as an entertainment medium knows his show is mostly his opinion. You've got it all backwards kiddo.

 

The only movie I saw in the best picture category was Gravity, but when I saw the nominees, I even turned to my girlfriend and said '12 years a slave' would win without ever seeing it.

Now how did I know that? Lucky guess?

 

lol, we'll agree to disagree then.

 

Same here - except I made the same pronouncement even before the nominees were announced.

So you and I are either the luckiest people on the planet or we just know how Hollywood works.

 

I like DeGeneres too. She is witty, clever, and for the most part, leaves politics aside, in other words she does not smother people with her politics like Rosie O'Donuts does.

 

Hehe. No problem. I only came to the conclusion that his critics take him far more serious then any fans because he's the target for so much rage on websites, forums, networks and talk shows.

 

What? It is a false white guilt narrative. Black people were victims of constitutional injustice and continue to be. Get real. This is but one note in the symphony of destroying this country by getting good people such as yourself to think that this is the main thing. Have you failed to notice that Black people are still enslaved? Do you have any compassion for the millions of people still in slavery all over the world who include all races and creeds?

 

Me three! Everybody knows that Hollywood loves "White Guilt" movies.......and would love to have more of their pet minority win Oscars so they can pretend that they are not 'racist' as they sit in their all White enclaves.....send their kids to all White schools, etc.

 

Calling someone who is addicted to drugs a drug addict and a many married / many divorced man a serial monogamist is name calling?

No, it's a description, not a name.

 

I have to agree with that. I never read threads about Limbaugh... started by his listeners.

Well, they're listeners obviously... but haters, not fans.

 

Forgot to add that condemning liberals for name calling is hilarious considering all the name calling Limbaugh does. You're even calling a group of people you disagree with a name..."liberals". In your following post you call someone a name.

But then you wouldn't understand things like this because you've succumbed to right wing propaganda.

 

Because the only time he's ever really mentioned in a thread is by people who hate him, using him as some guide or measurement related to how stupid Republicans or Conservatives are. He's not a measurement of anything other then his own echo chamber. Sure, some people agree with some of the things he says and many obviously don't. But he's just a guy blathering on about his opinion who happens to have a crap load of listeners.

 

On a related note... Isn't it about time for Obama to have just a smidgen of all the tsuris you Liberal wish onto Rush?

 

Wrong on all accounts, as expected. Easiest way to get into a spotlight is make a movie about slavery ( a case in point), not just something notable, or about a war, depicting its horrors (but not heroism of soldiers). How many awards were won by the Lone Survivor, which is an excellent, excellent movie?

 

It's so strange, the obsession they have with him.

Every time some lefty attempts an insult it's "Did you hear that from FOX and Limbaugh?".

I've heard the guy, he's just a Conservative radio personality that rakes in big bucks.

I guess his pointing out of Obama's failures, and the fact that he makes big money are what bother them.
The reality that he is only a radio host escapes them.

 

It reminds me of a line from the Howard Stern movie "Private Parts." It goes something like this (doing my best to paraphrase from memory):

"The average Howard Stern supporter listens to him 29 minutes a day. Number 1 reason given: To see what he says next. The average Howard Stern hater listens to him 78 minutes a day."

"But if they hate him, why are they listening to him??"

"Number 1 reason given: To see what he says next."

 

Unfortunately couldn't get to see ANOTHER Hollywood rendition of how bad white males are.

There was a "knockout" victim in the lobby of the theatre, and the show was unfortunately (thankfully?) cancelled.

 

Where was I wrong?

 

Good call. I remember that line, and that's exactly it.

 

Not so sure about the bolded part.

I think he's a measure of a few things.

1. He's a measue regarding what GOP candidates can't get away with based on criticism he recieves.

2. He's a measure of things the majority of righties think, and simply may just be afraid to express. Kind of a look into the less civilized parts of the righty psyche.

I listened to his broadcasts every day for 3 weeks when I was working nights once. I started a daily thread titled "lies Rush Limbaugh told today". What I found was unexpected. I set out to document his "lies", and found he's too smart to do that.

What he does extremely well is create false and misleading impressions, and then his listeners run off repeating unsupported conclusions. It's an old trick. Rush will present an inadequatly supported insinuation, then say "I don't know"...or "nobody is asking all the questions"...or..."nobody has given us any ansers"...or "I'll let you decide"...and crap like that. The mainstream media does it too, but not at the rate Rush does.

Rush is on 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. He creates false and misleading impressions so fast, nobody anywhere has time to unwind them before the next round comes out the next day. The story will be cold before anybody would care that Rush did that.

The reaction I got from my daily thread was also unexpected. I expected a lot more fight. But all I got was dissmissive anger. It's like I entered whites only lunch counter if I was black

Most of his daily listeners would say "don't you have better things to do?", which I found ironic because they listen to him daily.

A few engaged my list of "lies" (false/misleading impressions). After fierce resistance on the first point, they would lose interest, and just give up, leaving behind some weak comment bout my bias, or just dissappearing.

Not much matters with him, his audience will be mostly dead by 2030

 

And how is this "displaying my ignorance?"

I said he was predominantly a short film director, which he is...

Methinks you don't know how to sufficiently formulate an argument...

If you want it to be racist, you'll find it racist...

Um, Denzel Washington definitely deserved his Oscar for Training Day...

An argument could be made for Will Smith or Russell Crowe that year, but to say that Denzel didn't deserve the Oscar is a crock of (*)(*)(*)(*)...

 

Saying it was gonna win by default is the same as saying that it didn't deserve to win...

And Rush was an idiot long before this...

 

Although I liked Denzel in Training day, I suspect it was given to him as a "make up" oscar for Malcolm X (which he should have won for).

That happens often, even to directors. I always suspected that Scorsese's "The Departed" won best picture as a "make up" for other times his films didn't win. Many people believe Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas deserved to win best picture.

 

You're absolutely right that Washington winning for Training Day was a "make up" for earlier work (Malcolm X) and you're absolutely right that that sort of thing occurs all the time. Scorcese is a good example. I also think of Aaron Sorkin getting passed over for A Few Good Men (which was far and away the best adapted screenplay of that year) so they gave him one later on for the less-deserving The Social Network.