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“I had never been known for bigotry, racism, sexism…But within a month, I was all of those”

Aug 2, 2016 4:44 pm By Robert Spencer

These reminiscences of Rush Limbaugh resonated with me, because I had the same experience. He says: “My entire life I had never been known for hating anybody. I had never been known for bigotry, racism, sexism, any of the phobias. But within a month of starting my radio program, I was all of those.”

Likewise, in my entire life I had never been known for hating anybody, but as soon as I published my first book, Islam Unveiled, back in 2002, I was taken aback by the accusations. I had naively assumed that Muslims of good will would respond thoughtfully to the points I had made in the book, and a fruitful public discussion would ensue — it is embarrassing to think back on just how naive I was.

What really happened was that Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper, with Keith Olbermann guest-hosting on an MSNBC show, called me a “hatemonger,” and it was only then that the Islamic supremacist strategy dawned on me: they would smear and defame every foe of jihad terror, until there were no foes left, and everyone else was afraid to speak out for fear of committing professional suicide. No opponent of jihad terror is acceptable to them: each and every one of us, and everyone who dares utter a critical word about Islamic terror, is smeared and vilified as a “bigot,” and “Islamophobe,” etc.

The agenda is clear: sweep away all the foes of jihad terror, so that the jihad can advance unopposed and unimpeded.

It has been a wonderfully successful strategy for them, although it must also be noted that it never would have gotten anywhere without the willing and eager help of the mainstream media. Now that it has come out that the media was paid by Leftist groups to reflect their agenda on the Iran nuclear deal, and that the mainstream media colluded with the Democratic Party and acted willingly as its propaganda arm, I expect it will come out eventually that the unanimously negative coverage given to foes of jihad terror was also something bought and paid for.

In the meantime, it has not been easy going up as one individual with few resources against a massively funded regime with all the power of government and media behind it. It is likely not to get easier, either, but only harder, unless there is a massive sweeping-out of the political and media elites.

And yet, in a certain sense I have had the easiest job in the world, because all I have had to do was tell the truth. Rush says: “But one of them, a guy named Bob Dilenschneider, said, ‘You know, you’re worried about this way too much. That only means one thing, and that is: You’re too effective.'” I was told exactly the same thing by the same man. The truth has a power that all the money and all the access and all the power and all the influence cannot ultimately defeat.

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“It’s Our 28th Anniversary!, Rush Limbaugh, August 1, 2016:

…And just as Donald Trump has been in the public eye for 30 years and it is only recently he became a racist after he decided that he was going to run for president, it was the same with me.

My entire life I had never been known for hating anybody. I had never been known for bigotry, racism, sexism, any of the phobias. But within a month of starting my radio program, I was all of those. And I didn’t understand it at first. I didn’t understand any of it at first. You know, in a sense — and this just occurred to me. In a sense, 28 years ago I was kind of like Trump is now, in the sense that there was nobody to tell me anything. There was nobody to really advise me.

I had a couple of people who correctly identified what was going on. I mean, a lot of people said, “You need to hire a PR firm, Rush. You need to answer some of this stuff.” So we interviewed a couple PR people, and I learned very simply, PR people, you pay them to tell you what kind of work you have to do. I said, “I don’t need that. I already know what I need to do!” But one of them, a guy name [sic] Bob Dilenschneider, said, “You know, you’re worried about this way too much. That only means one thing, and that is: You’re too effective.

“And as long as you remain effective, you’re gonna be a target for destruction to these people. So you may as well get used to it, and there’s no PR campaign you can mount to do away with it. They’re always gonna be coming for you.” Because I had transcended the realm of radio and broadcasting and entertainment, and I found myself front and center in American politics, which was not the objective. But the people that constantly criticized the program claim that was the whole purpose….

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  1. KrazyKafir says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    Anyone, who exposes the biggest liberal lie ever perpetrated on the human race, that all cultures are equal, will be a major target of the liberal smear machine. It’s the very foundation of their ideology.

    • John spielman says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      Truth is the new hate speech for our precious “snow flakes”

      • CrossWare says

        Aug 2, 2016 at 10:49 pm

        In Canada even truth can be hate speech:
        http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/179449/canadian-supreme-court-kills-last-hope-free-speech-bruce-bawer

        • Rob Porter says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 1:42 pm

          Thanks for posting this article. This Supreme Court of Canada ruling, and shabby treatment of the brave and principled William Whatnot, among many other things long ago exposed Canada for the shabby excuse for a democracy it has become, and this in no small thanks to the feckless Supreme Court of Canada. Little wonder I long ago wrote to chief justice of the court, Beverley Mclachlan, to inform her she heads up “a court of supreme fools”. For me the irony is his, after graduating at UBC I returned to my native South Africa and for ten years, 1977 to 1987, through newspapers took a blunt position against apartheid and other things emanating from the National Party government of that that time. Barely a thing I wrote – in the country the Canadian media, politicians and academics portrayed as a repressive – was not published. Letter I wrote to cabinet ministers were responded to. In 1987, having read the statements from the ANC in exile, it was evident that they were heavily Marxist and likely to create a communist regime. I didn’t want that so sadly left. However, in Canada and to my dismay I discovered a Canada that wallowed in ignorance of South Africa, then the hostile focus of politicians, media and academics. Letters to newspapers in an endeavour to set the record straight never saw the light of day and over the last 28 years I’ve discovered that this is way it is in Canada. In reality through the press South Africa had far greater freedom of expression under the “racist apartheid regime”- as it was portrayed here. Today there is in Canada a disguising sex education curriculum promoting anGBTQ life-style that medical science has revealed is plagued by disease, mental disorder and suicide, but the Supreme Court of Canada, and no doubt less courts, will regard as hate speech exposing the truth about there harsh realities. This is no longer a truly free society, the free society just a facade. In fact I no longer have great ambitions to spend the rest of my life in such a country, not least because most Canadians don’t care, don’t wish to think about the implications, and don’t possess the moral fibre to fight back to ensure a free society. In my opinion Canada is now firmly on a path toward becoming an Orwellian ‘1984’-like society and not only is the media facilitating this, so are placid, complacent citizens.

      • Itinerant says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 3:02 pm

        In Germany, neo-Stasi Annette Kahane has been put in charge of policing the internet for hate-speech.
        In a state-sponsored pamphlet she describes examples so widespread as to encompass just about anyone, saying just about anything, just in case she misses someone she includes this:
        “Most of the time, emotional hate is disguised as rational argumentation.”
        http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/07/oh-mommy-i-aint-no-commie-i-just-fight-hate-speech-on-the-internet/
        A thought-crime in other words.
        These people are making Orwellian seem normal, we need new descriptors. and they must be challenged.

  2. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    I stand with Rush and Robert and Pamela and the writers of Gatestone Institute, Bare Naked Islam and Koran-at-a-Glance. God bless and protect you all. You are my heroes.

    • John spielman says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 5:56 pm

      I agree!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 7:32 pm

      Hear, hear!

    • DR. CHRISTOPHER LEE says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 1:17 pm

      AGREE

  3. cs says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    Me too, as I leftist, who used to make art exhibitions, I lost all my acquintances, but they were crap anyway, if you are so weak, to the point to not talk truth, because you have such weaklings as friends…. It is unworthy, change the people around you, be healthy. SJWs are sick damn asses.

    So the only alternative is too celebrate:
    Watch with me the video

    • John spielman says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 6:00 pm

      That’s funny

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 7:35 pm

      Whoa

    • Unknown says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 7:40 pm

      This generations is the worst one, the vast majority, doesn’t even think for themselves they need someone to tell what to do so they just repeat over and over and over the same speech “nazi, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic” etc. RIP critical sense.

      • cs says

        Aug 2, 2016 at 10:00 pm

        But there is a lot of people who is getting, they are understanding what is going on and they discuss it with property, they follow Pam, pity they don’t know Robert so well, but they are getting sharper by the day.

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 10:24 am

          Sorry cs,
          JMHO
          Video had some merit.
          But overall I give the video a thumbs down rating at getting the message across.

      • Rob Porter says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 8:05 pm

        Unknown, are you talking about America or Canada, because in Canada this is the way it has become? Most individuals do not think for themselves or question things around them and when you meet one who does it is almost an amazing experience. Talk about brainwashed! Something must be horribly wrong in the education system. Raise in conversation contentious issue and the suddenly glazed eyes tell you that to these bright sparks such talk is ‘verboten’. You’d think they were living in the old Soviet Union and fear that a KGB agent could be listening.

    • Johnd says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 8:48 pm

      I too was a leftist with an interest in all religions, sort of an old hippie mystic. So when I started telling people about Islam, I was so surprised at their reaction, and overnight became a racist bigot, which is laughable if you knew me. The horrible thing is this has cut accross family as well. Unbelievable!

      • High Hopes says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 3:40 am

        I totally relate, I was the hippy of the family, but my ‘awakening’ to the reality of the world and supremacist jihad leaves me looking like the mad aunty!! The brainwashing of the younger generation goes so deep, they don’t want to hear how much things have changed for the worse, they are trained to accept the demise of their culture. Sad beyond belief….

        • JawsV says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 8:13 am

          “They are trained to accept the demise of their culture.”

          Spencer addresses this in his “Oriana Fallaci” booklet. You should order it and a few for friends ($3.00 each).

      • B. Bistawros says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 4:00 pm

        People who call you names simply wants to silence you from speaking the truth. Never allowed them to do that to you. You have every right to speak as they have every right to respond. It’s not a one way street.

        Most Muslims do this all the time, lies and deceit is their motto, until the attacks begin, then it may be too late for most people to fight back. Always remember ISIS is Islam and Islam is ISIS. They are doing what the Koran tells them to do.

        The godless Liberal Left do the same, political correctness is their motto too, the purpose again is to silence people from talking. They literally want to write a manual for us about what to say or not to say.

        Never yield and never give up, the truth eventually will spread like a wild fire and by speaking the truth you will save a generation of people and perhaps even your own Country.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 4:05 pm

        I hear so many stories like these from you guys…

        One local Anti-Jihadist I know runs a *yoga studio*. He is into meditation and eastern philosophy–but when he started to become concerned about the Jihad threat he became–much to his initial amazement–a ‘right wing bigot’.

  4. Guest says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Politics isn’t easy

    • Angemon says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 5:55 pm

      Especially identity politics.

  5. Wellington says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    People who deliberately distort or don’t understand the truth regularly demonstrate a proclivity to vilify or mock those who do grasp what the truth is.

    • Mark Swan says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 9:15 am

      You better believe it

  6. Oliver says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    RE: LIBERAL PRESS

    The “conservative” press is almsot as bad. Salon.com– a liberal website, some time back published how REPUBLICANS WHO DID NOT LIEK MR. TRUMP (like Glenn beck, and I beleive George Will-who at least had the courtesy to resign from the GOP) were given money (in beck’s case, the group that DeMint, a former Senator runs, bought some $1 million worth of beck’s books, and mentioned, dleivery not needed; money from soem GOp group– this was when there were primaries and Trump was winning.

    After the flack ofver the crap with Khan-LEFT OUT:

    Khan is an attorney with a law firm WITH ( THIS IS SHOCKING- SARC0 TIES TO CLINTON AND/OR THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.

    Funny, never mentioned.

    There is today (aug. 2, 2016) a very appropriate DRY BONES cartoon.

    In American politics- WHEN IS TI NOT RACIST OR SEXIST TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE BACAUSE OF THERI RACE OR SEX?

    ANSWER: IF THE CANDIDATE IS BLACK. IF THE CANDUIDATE IS A WOMAN.

    that sums the liberal asshole set up.

    My views

    • Keith W Jordan says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 12:21 pm

      Oliver-What are SARC0 TIES? It’s always a good idea to proofread.

  7. abad says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    Leftists do a lot of projecting.

    Having spent considerable time in one of the most leftist cities in the Rockies – Boulder, CO – I know so.

    They are the ones who use the N- word among others oh their racism hatred and bigotry are pretty much unmatched. But then they have plenty of time to do that in, being trust-fund babies and all. Most of them never had to work for a living or know hardship.

  8. Tommy says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    Rush is a true American hero. A brave soul who has no body guards from the violent liberals and RINOs.

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    “I had never been known for bigotry, racism, sexism…But within a month, I was all of those”
    ……………………….

    I know exactly how you feel. Before I started looking into Islam after 9/11, I was considered a somewhat left of center type, who believed in equal rights for women, minorities, and gay people.

    After I became alarmed about the increasing threat of Islam, I suddenly found myself accused of–yes–bigotry, and even “racism”–though Islam is not a race.

    I was suddenly–much to my surprise–suddenly considered “far right wing”, as well.

    Slowly I leaned that I am hardly alone–Geert Wilders, who is a soft socialist on economic matters, is “right wing”–Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is an African feminist, is “right wing”–and “racist”, to boot, despite being black.

    Never mind the liberal values that are under siege from Islam–free speech, equal rights, freedom of expression–we are *all* deemed “bigots” if we dare oppose the most unfree creed of all.

    Utter madness…

    • Guest says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 9:23 pm

      There are a lot of us here, mid-left, liberal but had some common sense as well. The few of my friends I dare tell my concerns about islam now actually seem to accept some of my points – a recent silver lining to the ever-growing black cloud of islamic terror attacks.

    • Gen Jones says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 10:39 pm

      I have a similar story. I went to art school and have a degree in filmmaking. I read all the arty banned books as a teen, saw the counter culture films. I have a deep respect for artistic freedom and freedom of speech, etc. I’m fine with being challenged by art or literature or ideas I don’t agree with. However I can judge these ideas for what they’re worth. And as a woman I am especially aware of the lie of equality in Islam. We saw through that “Oh we put you on pedestal” in the ’70s. I started reading up on Islam after a really disingenuous article in the NYTimes (sorry, hometown paper) had a supposed dialogue in their feature called The Stone about the veil/burka/niqab. The main writer, a woman compared veiling to wearing a shalwar kemese, the beautiful Indian garment that is like a long shirt dress over trousers. Really?!? I knew this was essentially wrong. Then I started educating myself. A few relatives and friends think I’m crazy if not a bigot. Weird, I was the kid in grammar school who would befriend the new outsider kids, from Nigeria and Vietnam, because I knew as a Christian it was the right thing to do. I’m simply against totalitarianism. I’m shocked how people will defend it. I think a lot of it is the way a small child thinks. At a certain point in their psychological development, they will deny that they took a cookie when they were told they couldn’t have one because that would make them bad and they can’t be bad. They want to be good and they are not yet mature enough to separate people from actions. So now all these people who recycle and watch documentaries about injustice and tweet how much they hate Trump can’t be bigots! Haha! So they’ll just keep virtue signaling instead of opening a copy of the Koran. Because they are the good guys and how dare anyone think they’re bigoted!

      Btw, Graven, thank you for your insight and comments. You don’t know me but I’ve been following you a long time and your smarts and sense of humor are appreciated. I especially loved your description of the “bad Santa hat” that one of the bright lights of Islamic jurisprudence wears.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 6:53 pm

      Good to hear that *some* of the people you are talking to are waking up, Guest!

      And thank you so much for your comments and you kind words, Gen. Can you you use your film making skills for the Counter Jihad?

      You can find some of my Anti-Jihad artwork here:

      http://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/library/?sort=3&page=1

      • LR says

        Aug 5, 2016 at 1:39 pm

        Cool, graven and Jones…

        I am an art’s lover too….And have been increasingly disturbed by the lack of sincere belief it seems in ‘free speech’, with the ‘unofficial banning’ of Mohammed cartoon’s, and all this ‘micro-aggression’ bs on campuses, etc.

        Have you shown your Anti-Jihad art anywhere graven? Thanks for posting the link. I had been wondering, where is the art on this?

  10. mortimer says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    When you receive flak, you are right over the target.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 7:37 pm

      Good reminder, Mortimer.

      Winston Churchill said, “You have enemies? Good, it means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life”.

  11. common sense says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – TP

    Robert, Savage, Rush, Pamela, Varney, Dobbs, Hannity, Sussman and so many more are as heroic to me as Thomas Piane ever was.

    My views offend almost everyone here in Cali especially some “pseudo intellectuals” know it all family members. I don’t speak with them anymore and would not want to THAT is how bad it is. I was “embarrassingly” naive about how even your own family might try to brand you.
    Thanks to all the aforementioned people and JW they are unable to withstand the storm of truth that I reveal.

    • David says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 6:44 am

      Your not alone! I have family members (actually Blood Kin!) Who haven’t spoken to me for about THIRTY YEARS.
      And some think I’m just horrid for spreading the (Gospel) truth about the origins/founder of that Satanic Cult called islam.
      BUT, the Truth is a powerful source of light. Like a search light cutting through the FOG! It will eventually make it’s presences known and people will move in its direction.
      I live for that day.

      • Budvarakbar says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 9:06 am

        Make sure you can sense the rising and be able to get out of the way when the fools all start catching on and start a stampede and simultaneously start looking around for someone to blame for their lack of cognizant reasoning abilities — in short do not let them crush you in their stampede – let them go on by — when the dust settles they will still be slimeballs!

  12. Kay says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/02/islamic-victims-rights-campaigner-banned-from-facebook-for-islamophobia-urges-people-to-make-a-video-saying-they-cant-arrest-us-all/

    More FB censorship.

  13. Catholic says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:46 am

    Try being Catholic, and standing up for what the Church actually teaches.

    • Dom107 says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:34 am

      As a “cradle” Catholic who recognised the absurdity of it by the age of 9 and who remembers the banned list of books which good Catholics should not read I have never heard that the Qur’an,Hadith or Sunnah
      are on that list.Why don’t Catholics today ask their Church to officially read study and pronounce on these books and have Pope Francis say with a straight face that Islam is a religion of peace
      Other Christian leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury should do the same.Why is it left to people like David Wood to give us a scholarly assessment of what are the main inspirations of terrorism in the World today

      • Budvarakbar says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 9:18 am

        You are making a serious and potentially terminal mistake — the “It takes a scholarly assessment — blah blah blah” BS cop out (rip off the taxpayers for a research grant) excuse:

        Try this — from 5-1/2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCLDjPNpf4

        Or go to the writings of Winston Churchill

        We don’t need no STINKING STUDY! — let alone a “scholarly assessment” Grow the hell up and smell the sh-t before you drown in it – and still have a head with a nose to smell with!

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 10:44 am

        Dum Dum
        Dom 107

        You have topped yourself with that stupidity.”with a straight face ”

        First off let me point out a key — Troll INDICATOR.
        Whenever I see a commenter begin with any variation of:
        I am a — (FILL-IN-THE- BLANK) the odds are almost 100% Troll.

        The stupidity of suggesting that any Christian denomination must teach the the Qur’an,Hadith or Sunnah and that you recognized the absurdity of it by the age of 9 that they were not doing this and therefore chastise Catholics for not having these books on hand for nine year olds is beyond stupid. Even with your duplicitous qualifiers in your last two paragraphs suggesting that the real purpose could then be to instruct against Islam by handing out Korans you and your comment are full of Doo Doo.

        • Keith W Jordan says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 1:50 pm

          To Jay Boo – Dom 107 did not say what you claim he said, and I think he makes sense.

      • Linde Barrera says

        Aug 4, 2016 at 11:32 pm

        To Dom107- I am responding to your comment of 7:34 am, Aug. 3, 2016. I am a Luthern Church Missouri Synod Christian lady and I too wonder why if the Pope loves Islam so much, why he doesn’t strongly suggest to his priests that they read the Quran in its entirety (in teams of priests) and site the hideous verses that abrogate the peaceful ones. Then the clergy could see and declare that Islam is not the religion of peace that Islamists say it is. Further, all Protestant clergy of every denomination should do that as well. Out of 100 converts to Islam, 65 are from Protestant denominations and 10 are from the Catholic church. My source is Pew Research Center. You can see the Protestant ministers are not doing a good job of teaching the doctrines of Christ, because if they were, few people would convert to Islam of their own free will.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:30 pm

      Stay strong, Catholic!

  14. Indian says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:47 am

    I an proud to say that Trump posted a link to jihad watch in his Facebook wall. Our website will reach millions of people, Future president Trump visit jihadwatch, I am very happy about this.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      Great to hear, Indian.

  15. Dean says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 3:16 am

    This process of attempting to marginalize through name calling (triggers) goes much deeper than the superficial issues that the names represent, and even deeper than early regressive leftist like Salinsky planned. With the assistance of Shrinkdom a new religion has developed that I call the Church of Hyper-Sensitivity where from the altar of feelings the followers are taught that there only contact with reality are their feelings and for whom reality is an infrequent option. After decades of these sermons legions of savages have been sensitized to respond only to words as symbols of their selective smug feelings of moral superiority wherein facts never matter. It is rapidly becoming the dominant religion in America.

  16. G. R. Gunning says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 3:49 am

    The thinking processes of at least two generations of Westerners has been irreversibly damaged by Political Correctness. The will hang on to their absurd and misguided views even as the beheader’s axe falls on their necks. Maybe there will be 1 second left for hem to shriek RACIST!

  17. Singh the Sikh says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 5:32 am

    Hatemongering is islam’s speciality, both among the own kind and against the kuffar, which is at a genocidal level. Muslim murderous urge is irrepressible when in close proximity to the kuffar, as facts throughout history, as well as contemporary events, show.

  18. vcragain says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 6:04 am

    Well I have never seen Rush as anything but a complete bigot – so this was interesting to me – but I have never heard anything but bigotry coming from his mouth – so ???
    What this article does tell me is that the polarization of BOTH sides has become ridiculously extreme to the point that there is no meeting anywhere ‘in the middle’ to allow compromise. Now – when you actually ask ordinary people -in depth- about what they believe and what they think is important, without any political bent or denigration of either side, they generally all actually want the same things for their families. So it seems to me that we are all getting used by the political organizations of Left & Right in order to further their own “industries” – ie money-making machines ! Once money can be made from anything humans become totally out-of-whack and rational discussion becomes impossible. Why do I just get a feeling of ‘let me off this planet !!!’ every time I try to figure out how we could fix things ? So tiresome ! Time for some completely different political structures.

    • duh swami says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 8:03 am

      Not all bigotry is bad…If it was, all resistance to Islam would be evil…

      • Mark Swan says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 9:29 am

        Yes that word bigot is getting pretty much worn out.

        • Laura says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 7:14 pm

          As has the word “discrimination” – it used to be a good thing to be discriminating in your choices 🙂

    • Budvarakbar says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 9:26 am

      La – la – la – la – la -la

    • Laura says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:15 pm

      I find it interesting you say all you’ve ever heard from Rush is bigotry, then I believe you’ve never heard him!

  19. Richard Paulsen says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 6:53 am

    The developing world has not changed, despite of all help and migration. They will not develope the more they go to the U.S.A. or Europe.
    Time to demand change instead of defending this destructive politics worsening in the developing world as in the developed.
    Absurd paying for mosques in not muslim countries instead of using the money to help starving people and to stop the ISIS/daesh.
    The western world does not need islam and its mosques.

    • JawsV says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 8:20 am

      “The Western world does not need Islam and its mosques.”

      Islam should be banned. Muslims, as carriers of Jihad, should be banned. Mosks should be razed. And in the trash the Koran.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:46 pm

      Richard Paulsen wrote:

      The developing world has not changed, despite of all help and migration.
      ………………………

      It depends, Richard. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile were all part of the “developing world”, and are now pretty much first-world nations. Places like Thailand and India are making strides.

      These are places that have taken steps to embrace education, innovation, productivity, and the free market.

      But I very much agree with you that the Muslim world is pretty hopeless–and it is hopeless because of Islam.

  20. jayell says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 6:57 am

    There are those old sayings like ‘It takes a thief to catch a thief’ and ‘It takes one to know one’….except, with the sort of person we’re talking about here the ‘thieves’ that they say they’re catching aren’t ‘thieves’ at all. These people are just projecting their own tendencies towards bigotted prejudice onto someone else with whom perhaps they disagree, because they haven’t got a decent argument to counter them. They are pathetic, just like silly children in the playground how simply parrot some stupid irrelevant insult at another child to ‘get something back at them’ – and anyone with any sense can see what utter morons they are.

    • JawsV says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 8:23 am

      I totally disagree with the “Takes one to know one” idiom.

      As an obvious example, we know all about Muslims and Islam yet we are not like them at all.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 7:48 pm

      I think all “it takes one to know one” means is that thieves tend to immediately recognize other thieves because they are familiar with their MO. It does not mean that good people cannot learn to understand evil–just that it does not come naturally to us.

  21. Steve Klein says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 8:18 am

    OT: Just saw a clip of Mr. Kha talk about sharia law on CNN, suggesting “there is NO such thing” as sharia law. The same old, same old, “It varies from country to country,” etc.

    Good grief.

    Watch for it. Google it.

    • Steve Klein says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 8:18 am

      Sorry: Khizr Khan

    • duh swami says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 8:26 am

      Denying that sharia law exists, indicates that there is something there to deny…
      There are Quran only Muslims who reject hadith and sharia as being man made…The rest of the Islamic world see that as apostasy…

      • Steve Klein says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 8:35 am

        I believe I have read this specious argument in one or another of Spencer’s books, put forward by Islamic supremacists like Reza Aslan. The notion that there is not one comprehensive sharia law but many sharias in many countries, etc.

        This looks to be what Khan is suggesting. There is a piece by Paul Sperry this morning. I’ve not read the whole thing yet.

        http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/02/khizr-khan-constitution-sharia/

        Khizr Khan Believes the Constitution ‘Must Always Be Subordinated to the Sharia’

        by PAUL SPERRY 2 Aug 2016

        Notwithstanding his war-hero son’s genuinely patriotic example, Khizr M. Khan has published papers supporting the supremacy of Islamic law over “man-made” Western law — including the very Constitution he championed in his Democratic National Convention speech attacking GOP presidential nod Donald Trump.

        • duh swami says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 8:58 am

          I used to have fun debating with 2 different Quran only Muslims…Both were very clever, but not quite clever enough…
          One claimed that Mohammad of hadith is not the Mohammad of Quran, but some local character…That’s close to Spencer’s conclusions, that Mohammad may not have existed as reported…

        • Budvarakbar says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 9:32 am

          Just getting killed does not make you a ‘hero’ – pull your damn head out!

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 3, 2016 at 7:50 pm

          Swami, the Mohammad of the Qur’an is pretty appalling, as well.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 9:30 am

      The SOB should have his law license(s) permanently revoked and his whole famn damily sent back to Pakistan on the first available garbage scow

      • LR says

        Aug 5, 2016 at 1:53 pm

        Budvar…If he is a citizen he has a right to be here and speak his mind, and people have a right to criticize what he says.

        And the show goes on….

  22. duh swami says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 8:19 am

    I bin listening to Rush show since the beginning,,,I used to yell at him…but ‘slowly’ I turned and now I yell with him…

  23. duh swami says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 9:11 am

    I remember Rush when he wore a c9ondum hat…those were the good ole days before Allah stuck his node in the tent…

  24. LR says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 3:53 am

    Re: Discussing Jihad/Islam with ‘leftists’, or others similar.

    Sometimes it’s good to just test the waters with people and listen to what they think first. Respect that, and then ask questions.

    Recently, I was talking with a friends daughter who is going to Purdue, and we got on the subject of ISIS, along with other topics. I mentioned that the MSA won’t even condemn Hamas and Hizbollah terrorist groups. I also asked, if it’s such a small group of Muslims that are terrorist minded, and they have ‘hijacked’ the true religion, then why is terrorism growing all over the world, and getting worse?

    I noticed her gaze of looking off, and wondering.

    Sometimes, it’s so important to just listen, and then pose questions regarding a subject.

    Some people end up knowing a lot more than you might expect.

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