I Hope Rush Limbaugh Fails

Sorry, that came out harsh. I don't like Emanuel. A few papers put out articles about Rahm about his crass use of language before he was selected by Obama. That was all. Both Rush and Emanuel are ungracious in their speech. Forgive my lack of a gentle response. I still believe we all need to read more so we can be more informed and have direct sources instead of relying on he said she said (including what is written in the opinion articles here). Cheers.

Yes, and I hope Jim Wallis fails, because his politics are all out of whack. And I'm sure someone out there wants to see me fail because I'm annoying to a lot of posters here. And around and around and around it all goes.

Look, if I had a radio show I wouldn't have put it as bluntly as Rush does, precisely because I would have known that someone was bound to take it the wrong way. But it's not exactly a secret that Rush Limbaugh has a lot of disagreements with Barack Obama. So what's the big deal here?

LV

Does anyone really take Rush Limbaugh seriously anyway?

I'll admit that I've listened to his show for a few laughs in the past.

I remember hearing him talk about the health care costs associated with gunshot wounds. He said something to the effect that there were no health care costs due to gunshot wounds because when you shoot someone, they die.

Ironically, I happened to be working neurotrauma at the time, where many of our patients were survivors of gunshot wounds to the head.

Not pretty

I agree with Mr. Wallis about Rush LImbaugh's actions and standing as a role model. Let's not pray that he fails though - pray that his sin will fail and a new creation will grow in.

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." Hope is a powerful word that gives people a reason to live, a reason to have perseverance. Why should hope be used for the failure of another human? In Romans 12:12 it says "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Does hoping that Rush Limbaugh fails give you joy? My hope for Rush Limbaugh is that he would be drawn to God's heart.

Yes, I live among people who believe and practice "Rush Limbaugh spirituality".

Duh

Your example is one of the reasons I don't listen to Limbaugh on the radio. Is it possible, though, that in context he was being sarcastic and entertaining (or attempting to be)?

"His ideas of economic strength and patriotism are essentially the same as the propagandists of the Third Reich."

Many would say that of the Left, too. Both Right and Left are pretty fascist, if you ask me.

I guess being up close and personal with GSWs to the head made me incapable of seeing the humor in the comment.

Yeah, I don't know why people on that other thread went apoplectic about this idea. It's not that hard to understand.

You miss the point. Rush is not and never was simply talking about the politics of his opponents; for even disagreeing with him he in fact wants to consign them all to hell -- literally (and, if I may be so blunt, that attitude comes straight from the devil). And that should never be countenanced.

Except that he means what he says. And his listeners feel the same way.

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Where did he say he wants, literally, to consign his all of opponents to hell?

I disagreed with him strongly on McCain vs. Romney. I didn't feel less than human. Actually, his arguments for Romney were more reasoned than many of those I heard from other conservatives, though I still found them wanting.

Actually, Lord, Jim wasn't suggesting that Limbaugh should fail because of his conservative values or politics. He was suggesting such because Limbaugh is mean, and he didn't want his kids learning that. He was objecting to Limbaugh's *methods*, not his ends, in this piece regarding hope and failure. And I would imagine Jim would feel much the same about some of Rahm Emanuel's methods.

Well, remember, much as I don't like Rahm's approach or beliefs, he isn't anywhere near as vile in speech and anger as Rush Limbaugh.

Confession: I am leaching off of Lord Voldemort's comment to post my own.

Okay, first off, I'd like to clarify that I'm not on here to defend the various things that Mr. Limbaugh has said or done or whatever. I'm not a regular listener. I'm not even a sporadic listener. I have no oaths of undying loyalty to fulfill here.

I just want to say that Wallis' blog is kind of a joke. He doesn't deal with Limbaugh's actual statements about wanting Obama to fail at enacting his policies. He doesn't do much other than launch a sad personal attack on Limbaugh for being mean, rude, and generally unpleasant. He turned the issue from one about the clash of political ideals into whether or not people should like Limbaugh as a person, as if this were some highschool ASB election and we were going off of who's more popular. He basically plays into what is the stated political tactic by the Democratic Party and the White House to paint him as the leader of the Republican party so as to have a bogey-man to criticize now that Bush is gone. The worst that he says about the White House's disturbing tactic of launching a crusade against a private citizen, famous and vocal as he is, is that its a "waste of time" to debate him. Never mind that Rahm Emmanuel and Obama himself started the whole little kerfuffle between the two anyways. The key is that Limbaugh is fat, mean, nasty, and he smokes!

What's the worst part of Wallis' blog though is how sanctimonious and self-righteous the whole thing sounds. "As a Christian...As a little league coach..." Give me a break. And that quote at the beginning talking about Limbaugh's lifestyle and personal moral failures: what an Un-Christain, Un-Jesus-like, cheap-shot.

Well I'm glad that you're such a nice, good, family person, Jim! Why don't you have yourself a cookie as a reward being sooooo much better than that cigar-smoking, rude, fat, RICH, conservative jerk! I'm so glad that you're sooooo much higher on the moral ladder than that scum! Yeah, good job on being sooooo much more compassionate and loving. Go ahead and give yourself a good pat on the back and hang out with your nice, moral, Church friends at the charity event or the little league game talking about how much better than Rush Limbaugh you are. Why don't you go pray with your buddy Jesus talked about in Luke 18:11 and say "'O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people- the smokers, the rude, the divorced, the extremely rich--basically Rush Limbaugh."

You're what you are by the grace of God, Jim and you look like a jerk when you hold your moral accomplishments and character over the heads of others who haven't experienced the same grace. Its just like those self-righteous Televangelists going off on Clinton's sexual failures, only on the other side.

Again, I don't particularly care for Limbaugh. I don't have much time for Talk Radio in general. I just don't like self-righteous Phariseeism, and poorly disguised partisan assaults done in the name of Jesus.

True, to a degree one could and maybe I should have toned it down. The difference though is I'm not saying I'm better than Jim or making or quoting remarks about Jim's weight, relational failures, personal proclivities, etc.and then pointing out how much holier I am through my personal, moral accomplishments. I'm just saying that what Jim wrote was self-righteous and cheap, especially as a Christian Pastor, who is what he is by the grace of God. I think he basically launched a simple partisan attack against the new conservative bogey-man and tried to turn it into something more by cloaking it in self-righteous, religious language and placing a Jesus stamp on it. Phariseeism comes in all forms: conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican, etc. All of it stinks.

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Do some research. That is it. You don't know what you are talking about at all when it comes to Emanuel.

Yes, and I hope Jim Wallis fails, because his politics are all out of whack. And I'm sure someone out there wants to see me fail because I'm annoying to a lot of posters here. And around and around and around it all goes.

Look, if I had a radio show I wouldn't have put it as bluntly as Rush does, precisely because I would have known that someone was bound to take it the wrong way. But it's not exactly a secret that Rush Limbaugh has a lot of disagreements with Barack Obama. So what's the big deal here?

LV

Does anyone really take Rush Limbaugh seriously anyway?

I'll admit that I've listened to his show for a few laughs in the past.

I remember hearing him talk about the health care costs associated with gunshot wounds. He said something to the effect that there were no health care costs due to gunshot wounds because when you shoot someone, they die.

Ironically, I happened to be working neurotrauma at the time, where many of our patients were survivors of gunshot wounds to the head.

Not pretty

Ok, so I have been a bit crass in my responses. And as I read this post from derelicte he puts it in a way, I obviously could not.

Squeaky, you are right....no being snippey and you didn't deny it.

I agree with Mr. Wallis about Rush LImbaugh's actions and standing as a role model. Let's not pray that he fails though - pray that his sin will fail and a new creation will grow in.