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musicalmac wrote:

It's ok, supergoo. I heard it, too, and I also thought it was sweet.

And I like Rush. toadkiller, if you've never made a mistake in your life, go ahead and bash, but if you're human (which I'm sure you are)... shut up.

Well, if I get fat and/or use drugs I'd lose my job.  So, those are two mistakes I don't make anyhow.

Rush is a tool and a hypocrite.

oatmeal wrote:

Czachorski wrote:

oatmeal wrote:

There are some people you don't want endorsing your products.  Pedophiles. Rapists.  Rush Limbaugh. 

Now your stooping.  His hypocritical actions are bad enough on their own - do you have to drop it down a notch like that and ruin your own credibility?

You're saying you do want pedophiles and rapists doing advertisements?

Ok, stoop some more, if you must.  Put words into my mouth that you know to be wrong.   Just keep digging deeper and deeper.  You are only demeaning yourself.

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Enough already. Mods, please kick this to where it belongs.

bloomsday wrote:

I see Al Jazeera uses Macs. 
Apple computer ownership should require an approved application before purchase.

Hmmm...

Al Jazeera uses Macs.  Rush uses Macs.

Al Jazera supports terrorism.  Rush...

oatmeal wrote:

Czachorski wrote:

oatmeal wrote:

You're saying you do want pedophiles and rapists doing advertisements?

Ok, stoop some more, if you must.  Put words into my mouth that you know to be wrong.   Just keep digging deeper and deeper.  You are only demeaning yourself.

Why do you hate America?

  Ok - I get you.

oatmeal wrote:

There are some people you don't want endorsing your products.  Pedophiles. Rapists.  Rush Limbaugh. 

How dare you equate Rush Limbaugh with rapists and pedophiles. Heroin addicts, narcissists, bigots ... but not rapists.  And that Viagra was for his blood pressure, altitude sickness, or some sort of boner powered iPod charger. I think Kensington makes those. It has nothing to with pedophilia in the Dominican Republic.

ConnertheCat wrote:

If I recall, Apple does all it can to tell Rush to not promote Apple as much as possible.

I doubt it.

I know his opinion of corporate Apple isn't very high.

I remember back in the 90s - he live on the air called microsoft support and asked them to assist him in removing Internet Explorer from a PC.

After a big long process, he simply said (to the MS tech guy) - "On my mac, I can uninstall it by dragging it to the trash. Why is so hard on Windows?"

It was hilarious.

This is getting mini thinkish - but I agree.

Rush is a political talk show host. What does is not a crime. He may be an smurf, but much of that is part of the act. His political view and philosophy may be offensive to some, the fact that he illegally obtained drugs he got addicted while previously taking them under prescription may be offensive to some, but none of that compares to rape and pedophilia.

Rape and pedophilia are wrong no matter who the hell you are, and they are NOT victimless crimes in the slightest. The drug abuse that Rush took part in was wrong, but it only harmed himself.

Political viewpoints - it's fine to disagree with them, but the right to have opposing political views, and even to be an smurf while promoting your view, must be protected or our society is not free.

LOL. 

I can't be the only one who finds the hypocrite/angry/bigot comments about Rush hilarious, can I?  Talk about irony...

Czachorski wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

oatmeal wrote:

There are some people you don't want endorsing your products.  Pedophiles. Rapists.  Rush Limbaugh. 

How dare you equate Rush Limbaugh with rapists and pedophiles. Heroin addicts, narcissists, bigots ... but not rapists

If you really believe what you wrote, it tells a lot about yourself that you can't see the difference.

To quote Lewis Black, it's the difference between "smurfy smurfy smurfy" and "stinky farty smelly."

Last edited by Aqua OS X (2006-11-20 12:14 pm)

wellfleation wrote:

He said that "all druggies should be imprisoned".

Source please.






Didn't think so.


Anyways...

I heard the first part of the conversation on the radio. He was going to continue the conversation after the top of the hour break but I had to do some stuff and didn't hear it. What I did hear was that the caller (a PC tech) asked how Rush got started on Macs. Rush told him that it was back in the pre-windows days. His boss at the time showed him a Mac and compared to what he had to do on DOS to accomplish the same thing, the Mac was the clear choice. He's mentioned several times on the air about his Mac preference.

I think Apple is missing out on a huge opportunity. Rush's show reaches 20 million people each week, mostly conservatives. Judging by most responses in this forum, there aren't many conservatives who use Macs. It's an untapped market with a strong leading role model with a lot of influence. I mean seriously, how many "Pro" stories does Apple feature on their website about these obscure little companies that use Macs. Here is a nationally known personality who runs a live webcam to millions of people with his MacPro and his 30inch Cinema display seen in front of him. He uses a custom software solution that gives him live text transcripts of the callers because of his hearing loss. Everything about his show his powered by Macs.

The only reason Apple won't advertise with him is for political reasons. I think that is a bad business decision.

Czachorski wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

He said that "all druggies should be imprisoned". He is an ass-hole hypercritical on every level.

I agree with part of what you wrote, but again, if what he did is so offensive, then why the need to pile-on comments that only detract from your otherwise powerful and correct message?  The hypochrite "on every level" - is that needed or true?  He is a hypochrite regarding his comments on drug abuse, but does that mean that he is on everything he talks about (every level)?

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200611090005

pastor macman wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

He said that "all druggies should be imprisoned".

Source please.

Source

pastor macman wrote:

Didn't think so.

Nope, you are wrong

A two second google search reveals you are wrong. Now get ready for your spanking kid.

Rush wrote:

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

Rush wrote:

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up." http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

Rush wrote:

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.   

This is all with audio, if you prefer to get it straight from the idiot’s blowhard mouth (see links).

Last edited by wellfleation (2006-11-20 1:42 pm)