To quote the Simpsons:

"Just don't look, just don't look."

If you don't, I promise, he WILL go away.

To quote the Simpsons:

"Just don't look, just don't look."

If you don't, I promise, he WILL go away.

and strange. Sorry for the double post.

...first allegations of child molestation against him came during the Clinton years...

No doubt the moral relativism of the time led MJ down that path. I think Rush is on to something here.

...again.

After all, Apple Computers is flourishing while Obama is in office... I mean, they did okay under Bush 1, Clinton, and started to take off under Bush 2 (Electric Bugaloo)... but under Obama, wow!

I'm sure there are other, better examples. This was the first I came up with.

Limbaugh started his drug abuse so we can blame that President for all of his crazy talk. . .

by that token, MJ was being beaten by his father under Nixon. What does it all mean?

When you are addicted to hillybilly Heroin, you say incredibly stupid shit. It is his listeners I question mostly though, are they insane? WTF?

... how this country got so screwed up, just remember this: Limbaugh makes about $1 million per week because so many people tune in to his show to hear this stuff.

A pet peeve of mine is the "ignore him and he will go away" approach to attentionwhore Limbaugh (and his ilk...Sarah Palin for example).........IGNORING him for 20 years enabled him to build an ARMY of easily manipulated simpletons by distorting reality, which subsequently assisted in prior year right wing victories......conversely these days with his distortions being the fodder of public discourse, he is the Democratic Parties best friend as any GOP politician can at virtually any time be forced to kiss limp ball's ring (alienating moderates) for fear of losing support of the increasingly batshit insane base.

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"This sort of attempt to blame Obama for everything bad that happens to anyone, anywhere is too absurd for that."

Not so absurd, though, that liberals couldn't spend the last 8 years doing exactly the same thing with Bush, right?

You make light the of words "is there no end to the evil of President Obama?", yet you and others worship him like a god, seeing no end to his good.

HE is another "freak" who has had his success as an individual and is dying in this new era of Obama. I don't regret that Salon/Koppelman publish his treasures so we get to enjoy the death rattles that we wouldn't otherwise hear, but who REALLY cares any more what he says?

I would guess there are other freaky right wing nuts who listen religiously to Limbaugh (because some of them manage to come to Salon to post in the letters), but is Limbaugh changing their minds on anything they didn't already believe?

So why are we writing about it?

limbaugh blathering about michael jackson?! how is this exceptional or worthy of posting?

Isn't he the clown with the Carrot Top hair, the big shoes and fast food chain? Ah. Now I see why the Right loves Reagan--they're confusing him with the Happy Meal guy.

Actually... no.

Liberals did not blame Bush for the sexual indiscretions of politicians, Democrat or Republican.

Liberals did not blame Bush for the death of celebrities who passed away while he was in office.

If you have any cites that demonstrate otherwise, please provide them. Or admit that you're just making things up.

For the most part, liberals blamed Bush for the things he actually did, like warrantless wiretapping and giving the German head of state an unwanted back massage. He provided plenty of fodder for these criticisms.

I think we can all agree that Limbaugh is a conservative, and that he is blaming President Obama for Michael Jackson's untimely death, while giving Reagan credit for all his success, and I think we can all agree that his hypotheses are not true, in fact so absurd as to be laughable. If you can find an example of a liberal doing the same thing with Bush, about which we can all agree that it is A. a liberal doing it and B. the liberal is clearly blaming Bush for something that is indisputable that Bush had nothing to do with, then please cite it. Otherwise stfu. My guess is you can't, you just decided to type something because you think you are some kind of smarty pants.

talking about another. too bad it wasn't rush they found with cardiac arrest - then again, give him more time...

Because if it does continue, Jackson will rise from the grave and do a far more disgusting and menacing version of Thriller the next time the Republicans are in the White House.

Picturing Limbaugh dancing along to Thriller or Billie Jean...

Hearing that Limbaugh brought up Michael Jackson and didn't demonize him is surprising. What's not surprising is that he used Jackson's death to take a shot at Obama, but the effort was entertaining. I also found it amusing that Limbaugh thinks that this piece of fluff would upset liberals. If he wants to upset liberals, and I know he does, he has got to try harder.

Actually, I haven't found Limbaugh upsetting in quite some time. Maybe I've become inured, maybe he's off his game, maybe my hard drive is just full. Or maybe, and I think this will upset Limbaugh, there are so many haters to the right of him, he's starting to sound like a moderate.

John Lennon, but does Rush think there's connection?

because Jackson's career peak would have nothing to do with being in his early to mid 20s, coinciding with prime time for musicians, would it.

One of the great joys of being an Australian tourist in the US is the oppurtunity to drive from LA to SF on the coast road, during the Bush years we made the drive on 3 ocassions and on each drive for some reason the rental's radio was tuned to Rush. When you are trying to get out of LA you don't have the time to switch the channel so you listen for a while, to be honest it drove me bonkers listening to that drivel. We made the LA to SF drive last Xmas and Rush was there again but I listened with out emotion, subconsciously I knew that the f**kwit was now irrelevant. The direct channel to the White House gone he was no one to fear and fast approaching satire.