Rush Limbaugh makes a total fool of himself
Before good old Rush goes off on one of his diatribes, he really should make sure he knows what he's talking about. But I guess that's too much to ask. At least this time there enough computer literate folks who can rub his nose in it.
His latest is the claim that the Democrats put the Stimulus Bill in a pdf format so we can't keyword search it, so we won't know what it REALLY says.
Um....
From Mediamatters for America Blog
During the February 13 broadcast of his syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Democrats "have reformatted the bill -- they've made it a PDF [Portable Document Format, created by Adobe Systems] file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don't use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a picture of a page. And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this." In fact, PDFs are searchable in multiple ways. In its Help Resource Center for Adobe Reader, a program that reads PDFs, Adobe Systems writes: "You can run a simple search, looking for a search term within in a single file, or you can run a more complex search, looking for various kinds of data in one or more PDFs. You can run a search using either the Search window or the Find toolbar. In either case, Reader searches the PDF body text, layers, form fields, and digital signatures. You can also include bookmarks and comments in the search."
Are we surprised? :)
Based on my experiences, the average person has very little understanding of the nuts and bolts of the technologies they use on a daily basis. And anyway, I would hardly expect Rush to know his bum from a hole in the ground, let alone a PDF from...well, whatever made-up file type he is talking about here. And since when has Rush Limbaugh ever let the facts get in the way of a good diatribe?
Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh should go on ahead and procreate - It would be interesting to see a child born with hooves.
"Rush Limbaugh makes a fool of himself"
In other news, water is wet.
What's frightening is the number of people who think he knows what he's talking about. :/
It must be a lot of pressure.... taking all that Viagra and being the head of the Republican party... he's bound to talk out of his ass fail to research his points from time to time... I mean, have YOU ever done a good job at work when you had an erection that lasted longer than 4 hours?
I'll give Rush a break on this one.
Original Post by floggingsully:
"Rush Limbaugh makes a fool of himself"
In other news, water is wet.
I've been told to laugh a little quieter if I don't want it to be obvious that I'm not working. It took me five minutes to stop laughing at this and when I tried to explain why I was laughing, I started all over again. =)
Rush Limbaugh is a great source of humor. I appreciate the depth of his stupidity at least once a week. It makes me feel better about my life.
Original Post by nomoreexcuses:
It must be a lot of pressure.... taking all that Viagra and being the head of the Republican party... he's bound to
talk out of his assfail to research his points from time to time... I mean, have YOU ever done a good job at work when you had an erection that lasted longer than 4 hours?I'll give Rush a break on this one.
*Nelson Laughs*
Scroll down for Rush and Homer
My grandmother - 73 yrs old - speaks English as a second language - just bought her first laptop about 2 yrs ago - gets Medicare forms via PDF. I taught her to "click on the little binoculars".
Go ahead, Rush... click on the little binoculars... you can do it!
Original Post by clairelaine:
Scroll down for Rush and Homer
Except Homer has a soul. :)
It's not news that Rush made a fool out of himself, isn't that a common occurance?
However, as to the basis of his rant...did congress get to really review the document? That I doubt. There just wasn't enough time for every member to read over 1000 pages before being required to vote, even if they knew how to use the find function. That does worry me.
They always use staff and committees to review legislation and give them a recap. That seems to have been the case here. Anyway, no one complained as they did with the previous administration's bill.
Perhaps dear Rush would like a PNG of the bill?
They didn't read the Patriot Act before it was passed.
They didn't read any of the omnibus spending bills before they were passed.
They didn't read the Medicare Prescription, Improvement & Modernization Act (about which republican senators blatantly lied on the senate floor about what it would cost, and over which the administration threatened the Medicare actuary that he would be fired if he told anyone the true cost of what was in that bill) before it was passed.
But now. NOW! omg!! *screams* they're not reading the bills!
Original Post by nomoreexcuses:
They didn't read the Patriot Act before it was passed.
They didn't read any of the omnibus spending bills before they were passed.
They didn't read the Medicare Prescription, Improvement & Modernization Act (about which republican senators blatantly lied on the senate floor about what it would cost, and over which the administration threatened the Medicare actuary that he would be fired if he told anyone the true cost of what was in that bill) before it was passed.
But now. NOW! omg!! *screams* they're not reading the bills!
ummm...that's the whole point! Even with your sarcasm....It doesn't make it okay that they did in the past either. Please don't try to turn this into a past administration vs current administration issue, or a democrat vs republican issue.
Whatever side of the fence you're on it's a major problem! How much confidence can you have in a congress (or government) that doesn't even get the chance to review the legislation?!
Original Post by kathygator:
They always use staff and committees to review legislation and give them a recap. That seems to have been the case here. Anyway, no one complained as they did with the previous administration's bill.
Lots of people are complaining :) Why is everyone turning this into a party line debate? Or am I just reading it wrong?
Look...I'm not arguing that the bill shouldn't have been past. Something needed to be done and I sincerely hope that this is a step in the right direction.
However, IMO...this outlines a fundamental problem in congress and demonstrates how f*cked up they are.
Original Post by kathygator:
What's frightening is the number of people who think he knows what he's talking about. :/
To me that is the scary part. I have acquaintances who take what Rush says as basically the word of god. They do no research of their own, they take what he says and run with it and start spreading whatever it is among people they know. It's the blind leading the naked. To me, that is the scariest thing.
1. I would like to point out the hypocrisy that republicans weren't complaining about not getting to read the bills during the last administration. So they think that what is good for the goose, is not good for the gander.
2. As mentioned in another post above, these people have dozens of staff members, some paid and some unpaid, who read a section of the bill and summarize what it says - so as long as they read what their own staff gives them (condensed version), and as long as they hire competent staff, they usually know what is in the bill. Ironically, there are republican congressmen who voted AGAINST the bill, and then sent out a press release to their local news outlets bragging about the money that would be arriving soon in their district. Again - that is sick, sick hypocrisy. Vote no and take credit too. Gross.
3. This legislation was discussed in congress and on every news outlet for the past month, given that it was written and distributed before Obama was even sworn in. That is a far cry from the Patriot Act that was introduced and voted on 5 minutes later during a time of national hysteria that the past administration wished to exploit.
4. Being able to read legislation isn't what Rush was complaining about in the first place. His statements were to mislead people into thinking that democrats were not acting in a transparent manner, which is not the case with this issue, at least and is truly laughable coming from him.
Original Post by amy_blue:
Original Post by kathygator:
What's frightening is the number of people who think he knows what he's talking about. :/
To me that is the scary part. I have acquaintances who take what Rush says as basically the word of god. They do no research of their own, they take what he says and run with it and start spreading whatever it is among people they know. It's the blind leading the naked. To me, that is the scariest thing.
The colloquialism you seek is:
The blind leading the deaf.
Makes a lot more sense.
However in El Rushbo's case it's more like the deaf leading the blind.
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