“The assault has become so nakedly partisan and opportunistic”

Obama could help end this… but something tells me that’s not on his mind… instead, he and his ideological cohorts think they smell blood in the water:

Rush-LimbaughConservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is being targeted by multiple death threats after President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party ignored his apology for controversial remarks and continued to single him out for rebuke. The assault has become so nakedly partisan and opportunistic that even HBO host Bill Maher–who recently donated $1 million to Obama’s Super PAC–has called it a witch hunt with intimidation as its goal.

Maher: Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout

The death threats to Rush are captured in several screen grabs of his Facebook page. “Execute Rush, now!” states one; “Don’t just drop sponsorship someone kill this pig now please!!!!,” reads another. These and others are documented below, with images and names obscured, so as to not be guilty of fueling the same targeted hatred the White House and Democrats have now gone to great lengths to stoke.

The mainstream media is also culpable here, as NewsBusters has pointed out in an article titled “Onslaught: ABC Airs Eight Limbaugh Stories in Less Than Five Days.”

Harris played two nasty clips, one showing Jon Stewart mocking the conservative host as a “terrible person.” Harris excitedly related, “This morning, liberal groups are going all out. They’re mounting an aggressive online campaign to get Limbaugh’s sponsors to pull their ads. They are hoping this is Rush Limbaugh’s Don Imus moment.”

Yet, none have yet to point out the evil, uglier, if not dangerous, side of the very same campaign now being driven directly by Obama and his sycophants in progressive New Media, with the help of complicit mainstream outlets.

“I think karma got a death grip on breitbart, I think his passing is inspirational. Hopefully rush will die next,” reads another message directed at Limbaugh. Meanwhile, in comments posted at the L.A. Times Facebook wall, still undeleted as this article is written, readers state that it “would be nice to see that fat douche taken down but I’m not holding my breath”; “crossing fingers for a huge heart attack,” and so on.

There’s more at the link including references to  what appears to be White House involvement.

The culture war is heating up folks.  If you’re sitting on the sidelines, it might be time choose a side.

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Posted by on March 7, 2012.
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  • SoBeRight

    $10 bucks says 914 is the culprit making the death threats…

    /sarc

    Or it’s somebody on Rush’s staff …

    btw Rick, the faux outrage and making this Obama’s fault. Priceless right wing crap.

    • 914

      Sorry to disappoint you nincompoop.. I have been facebooking all morning.

      • SoBeRight

         THAT’s a relief!

  • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

    It’s almost amusing.

    It’s like the Taliban insisting on their opponents adhere to every possible interpretation of the Geneva Accords, while adamantly maintaining that THEY aren’t bound by the rules of war.

    But they’re establishing the ground rules for conduct now.  What is acceptable, what isn’t.

    Worse is to come, I think… especially if it looks like power might be slipping from their grasp.

  • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

    That’s hate.

    http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=5a7cb84546fb4ae1&hl=en

    That’s disagreement.

    Slight difference.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

    In other news gas hit $6 a gallon at a station in California.  I am sure on election day they are going to be worrying about Ms Fluke’s reputation.

    • pizz

      And if it goes down your talking point would be?

      Thank god for us oil company lovers. We were the cause.

      Amazing how you guys stick up for big oil!

  • JWH

    It’s to be expected that partisans are going to lob their (rhetorical) grenades and fundraisers will trot out Limbaugh as a boogeyman.  

    But death threats?  Hoping that Limbaugh dies?  Way over the line … and in this age, Limbaugh needs to take those threats seriously.

    • Hank_M

       Agreed. Way over the line. And it really doesn’t have to be this way.

      This must be the new civility the left lectured us about after the tragic shooting of Rep. Giffords.

      • JWH

        Which is precisely why  Limbaugh and his people need to take the death threats seriously.  There are some pretty screwed-up people out there, and they aren’t shy these days.   

        • Hank_M

           Good point.

          And it doesn’t help when the leader of the democrat party encourages his followers to get in their faces, punch back twice as hard, or even worse, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

          • JWH

            Disagree slightly.  Martial metaphors have a long, storied history in politics.  

            Remember Sarah Palin’s fundraising graphic with the targets?  I thought that was a perfectly fine image.  That said, in the immediate aftermath of Giffords’ shooting, it was gauche, and rightfully withdrawn.  

          • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

            “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” is not a martial reference it is a street gang reference …

          • SoBeRight

             You know “Street Gang” reference…. get it?

        • pizz

          You mean like right wing survivalists and  hate groups
          who are getting ready for the ultimate battle?

          Tell me what group on the left represents the use of
          arms in a war with the right? Peta? Code Pink? 
          Acorn? My God, you guys are out of your minds!

          • JWH

            Who needs a group? All it takes is one nut.

  • Commander_Chico

    PLEASE STOP BEATING ME!!!

          – The Dead Horse

    • SoBeRight

       lol!

    • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

      sorry, we don’t accept your apology …

    • SoBeRight

       What? You haven’t been enjoying Wizbang’s wall-to-wall coverage of the Super Tuesday primaries?

      You know, the biggest GOP primary day in the 4 year election cycle?

      I thought the analysis the Wizbang writers put up regarding last night’s primary results was simply stunning.

      • iwogisdead

        It’s funny seeing you criticize this site, since you spending so much time reading and posting here. Since you almost always have one of the first three or so comments on every thread, you must sit in front of your computer all day long and refresh this site, again, and again, and again. Don’t you have a job? Or is monitoring this site your job?

  • SoBeRight

    State senator Leland Yee (D) has received racist death threats after calling for an advertising boycott of the Rush Limbaugh radio show. The call for a boycott comes after Rush Limbaugh rebuffed Yee’s demand for an apology for mocking the Chinese president with non-sensical gibberish.

    The San Francisco Chronicle has an image of a fax that calls out the state senator as “Fish Head Leland Lee” and threatens, “Rush Limbaugh will kick your chink ass and expose you for the fool you are.” The fax also depicts a tow truck dragging a noose. Inside the noose is what is presumed to be the faxer’s depiction of “Hussein Obama.”

    Live by the sword, then cry like a baby when you get some sword in your face in return…

    • JWH

      “You do it too?”  That’s your best defense?  it’s no more valid here than when conservatives bring up Maher and Schultz to defend Limbaugh’s behavior.

      • herddog505

        That’s ALWAYS the left’s defense.

        But, as I always say, libs aren’t hateful, vitriolic, or violent: they are merely PASSIONATE.

      • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

        Maher and Schultz are brought up to show Obama’s hypocricy …  not to defend Rush …

      • SoBeRight

        No more valid.

        No less.

        • iwogisdead

          But still, shallow and irrelevant, like most of your comments. It’s the left that keeps ratcheting this thing up, with silly claims of a “war on women” and the like. Limbaugh made a tasteless hyperbolic comment, but nearly all of his commentary is hyperbole, for effect. The Dems can’t let it go because they don’t want to talk about the real issues. Keep misdirecting!

    • Hank_M

       ”Live by the sword….”

      How about we get the sword out of politics?
      Again, it doesn’t have to be this way.

      I note that the Senate launched an investigation into this shortly after it took place as did local authorities. Good. I hope they caught whoever was responsible.

      Yee was quoted as saying: “Such vitriol has no place within our political discourse or anywhere in our
      society.”

      I completely agree.

      How about you?

      • JWH

        One of the problems with this kind of thing is that in any sort of caustic situation like this, the crazies eventually emerge from wherever it is they hide.  They spout off some pretty violent stuff, and they are perfectly willing to deploy some fairly racist, sexist, and/or homphobic imagery while doing so.

        I’ve read some of the mailbag posts on Michelle Malkin’s blog, and it’s pretty nasty stuff coming from readers who are supposedly on the Left.  A few years ago, some folks (presumably on the right) had similarly nasty things to say about Margaret Cho.

        And so on.  

      • SoBeRight

        Death threats are illegal.My opinion that they are awful doesn’t matter.

        Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter – they’ve all elevated the vitriol to its current levels.

        Sarah Palin draws bullseyes on elected Democratic reps.

        They’re not going to stop what they do.

        And it goes way beyond the right’s talk show asses.

        Sarah Palin and John McCain ran around the country in 2008 calling Obama a “socialist who pals with terrorists”… such utter bull.

        But THAT is what you get from the GOP party leaders. Boehner, doing nothing but vitirol for the last 3 years, Eric Cantor, doing nothing but vitriol for the last 3 years.Check out Boehner and Cantors facebook pages for the last 3 years. The definition of Vitriol starts there.

        As long as the leaders of one of the two major political parties engages in this kind of vitriol the other party has a duty to respond. Obama didn’t respond duing his first two years in office, and the result was the Tea Party sweep in 2010.

        Never again.

        Meanwhile, we’ve got a White House and Congress to win in 2012.

        • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

          As long as the leaders of one of the two major political parties engages in this kind of vitriol …  oh, you mean Obama, Pelosi and Reid … I get it …

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

          “Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter – they’ve all elevated the vitriol to its current levels”

          yep Olberman, Maddow, Garidofo (spelling ) had nothing to do with it.   Dems saying republicans want to poisen the air, push granny off the cliff, have old people eat dog food (that one started in the 70s) have nothing to do with it.

          • herddog505

            As others have pointed out, look at some of the comments made about Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, etc.

            For that matter, some of the comments made here about Rush have been humdingers.  We’ve seen various hateful, vitriolic comments about his weight, his marriages, his addiction, and even intimations that he is a homosexual pedophile.

            Apparently, it’s OK to engage in this sort of thing if you’re a lefty, but NOT OK if you’re on the right.

            O’ course, we MUST give the left credit for their calls for civility… which usually come right after they finish being decidedly UNcivil themselves.

        • Mr Kimber

          Palin and McCain calling Obama a socialist who pals around with terrorists turned out to be correct. We now have 3 yrs. of proof.

        • Vagabond661

          Don’t pretend the left is innocent in who flung poo. There were books about how to assainate President Bush. http://www.amazon.com/Checkpoint-Novel-Nicholson-Baker/dp/1400044006

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

      A week from now we will find that it was Lee’s staffer or someone with connections to Occupy wall street that did it.

      • SoBeRight

        UHm, yeah.

        State Sen. Leland Yee received death threats after the San Francisco Democrat asked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese language in his radio show last week.

        Yee’s staffers said the messages came via fax this morning to both his San Francisco and Capitol offices  with the following threats:

        “FIGHTING The Marxist Nigger Thug Hussein Obama & Fish Head Leeland Yee

         To: JoBama Rectum Sniffing Moron LEELAND LEE Achtung! Fish Head Leeland Lee.  Rush Limbaugh will kick your Chink ass and expose you for the fool you are. Without exceptions, Marxists are enemies of the United States Constitution!  Death to all Marxists!  Foreign and Domestic!”

        Yeah, sounds like a democrat all right.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

          Obviously you dont know the democrats that I know.
          Wouldnt be the first time that a congressman has faked something like this.   I dont know if that is the case here but dont really care.   Death threats and crap like that and what is directed at limbaugh are way over the top.

          Since you have me off ignore now (chuckle) how about answering the questions in the BC threads.

          • SoBeRight

             “Obviously you dont know the democrats that I know.
            Wouldnt be the first time that a congressman has faked something like this. “

            I guess I don’t know the Democrats you know.

            Cause I don’t remember a congressman, democrat or otherwise, faking something like this.

            What’s the name of the Congressman who faked a death threat?

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Hey maybe I will anser your question as soon as you definitely answer the numerous ones that I have asked you and you havent answered.

            You see Stephen when someoone asks you to provide proof on the bullshit you say you are not very forthcoming with it. You demand proof from folks and answers to your questions but again you are not forthcoming with the same. something that the left practises quite regularly. (want me to provide proof that of that as well?)
            ————–
            Chico
            Yet more proof of what I was saying.

          • SoBeRight

            Well, if you’re going to exhibit the behavior you constantly complain about then it’s time to put you back in ignore.

            Hell, everybody else ignores you, but the way you follow me around shows you are obviously obsessed and of course I take pity on you – anyone would seeing such a sad person.

            It’s weird having a male stalker but hey, retired, lonely, I get it.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            LOL 

            Whats the matter?  Did the poor little baby get  called on  his bullshit and didnt like it?

            Oh the poor baby.   And now he has put me on ignore.   Oh I am so offended.

            —-

            Chico

            Take note of stephen acting just as I described. 

          • pizz

            Yea, I’d actually like to know the democrats
            he knows. A democrat could not get within
            10 feet of this guy without ……………

            And I’m sure a democratic operative
            would readily reveal all his dirty tricks
            to  ” retired military”

        • Mr Kimber

          Sounds like a Democrat…ya, it does.

      • Mr Kimber

        That is the 1st thing I thought of when I read this.

      • pizz

        Yee not Lee. Or was that Rush Humor?

  • http://profiles.google.com/rtssdorsai Jeff C

    every intelligent observer of the last 3 years, no matter what political party, recognizes that Obama has been a divisive leader …  anyone that can’t admit that is either ignorant or lying to themsleves …
    you may excuse it because you think the GOP has been obstructive but that doesn’t explain the first 2 years when there was no GOP obstruction …  again, being ignorant …

    admit that you LIKE the idea of the Obama “us against them” meme … black against white, brown against white, unemployed vs employed, everyone against Wall Street, everyone against Big Oil …  don’t be shy … divide, isolate and de-humanize … 

    • herddog505

      Well, he WAS the only thing between bankers and the pitchforks…

  • ackwired

    Tolerance of opposing views is a virtue.  In fact, you could make a strong argument that tolerance of opposing views is necessary for the success of democratic forms of government.

    • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

      The only forms of government that don’t tolerate opposing views end up viewing the people they govern as threats when they disagree, and eminently disposable when they don’t.

      • ackwired

        Certainly true.  I think it extends to individuals within government too. Legislators, judges, and bureaucrats need to tolerate opposing views and respect those expressing them.  If they treat those with opposing views as evil, or without respect, it leads to a situation where governance is impossible.

        • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

          And the larger the ‘system’, with more effect and power, the less likely that respect will be given to those outside it.

          Just think of your local DMV.

  • Idahoser

    Rush is still right.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AXDLBHGWBWIDXWT2LH62AO7I4M Real American

    po’ wittle Rush.