It’s no secret that the right STILL hasn’t figured out how to effectively use the internets, so it comes as no surprise that the Grand Poobah of right wing radio talkies <corrected>, Rush Limbaugh, has made a complete fool of himself by using a 12 year old essay by a 10th grader to attack Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama.
The best story I’ve heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barak Obama’s comments about similarities between the recent housing crisis and the lead-up to the Great Depression. I imagine the comments were referring to the obvious similarities between those who obtained ridiculous sub-prime loans and those in the 1920s who bought stock they couldn’t afford on margin. However, Limbaugh decided that Obama’s comments were the result of a crazy “liberal education” - and even remarks how “lucky” he is that he didn’t graduate from college, thus allowing him to escape the perils of actual knowledge.
To prove his point, Rush says he did some Google searches for “Great Depression” and then proceeds to attack each of the results as liberal propaganda. Because we all know that college professors teach straight off of Google results pages. So my friend is listening and hears something rather striking… the name of one of our mutual colleagues - Paul Alexander Gusmorino (”The Third!” - I love the way Limbaugh says that).
Limbaugh found among the top results an essay written by Paul, entitled “The Main Causes of the Great Depression.” He quotes Paul’s essay and refutes each of its claims, dissecting them as if they were part of a Harvard professor’s lecture on the subject. He doesn’t pull any punches either. “Mr. Gusmorino, you better check Karl Marx and see if you plagiarized him in putting this piece together.”
Ouch. Those words would be harsh if they really were for a Harvard lecturer. But that’s not who wrote this essay. It was my friend who works as a Program Manager at Microsoft. When he was in 10th grade. Read on…
The story checks out. I followed his link and sure enough, the transcript is right on El Rashbo’s website. (scroll down a bit) He even has the Freepers going nuts over this.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Campaigns/Elections, Election 08, Right Wing Radio, Right Wing Stupidity, Rush Limbaugh
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Poor, poor drugbaugh…..always on the wrong side of every issue. But, he’ll be able to spend all next week making fun of Ted Kennedy….the reich-wingers can’t wait for Monday to roll around!
The Freepers are hilarious. Frat boys yapping about economics on the laptops their mamas bought them. Rush is the perfect leader for them.
OMG. Limpnuts was once a mustached sporting long haired hippie?
More evidence that Rush really is a douche bag. Let’s see, that makes about 10,000 pieces of evidence now.
I don’t really care.
I knew it, both he and Bush were both uni-low-brows ! That explains much…and that they both pluck.
Bob Davies @ 5:
Agreed, just like the Christo-fascists from the prior post, these are people you just can’t reach.
I despise the Freepers for promoting such a hate filled venue for so called religious and military folks. Go read them choke on themselves not trying to say bad things about Ted Kennedy. Freaks I tell ya.
Oh yeah. Rush is a boob.
I wonder how the “welcome back, kotter” look worked for the comedian.
ZOMG! I like cheese. Rush likes cheese. Ok, Rush likes cheese now, but my question is, did Rush like cheese when this totally hawt picture was taken?
I’m just saying…
Damn liberal conspiracies! They set this up to snare poor Rush back when they were in HIGH SCHOOL! How deep is their hatred for conservatives? Have they no shame? At long last, have they no shame?
Well, you really can’t blame him for falling for this - all of his sources believed it was true.
He is wearing a peace lapel pin. Love the irony.
Ruthless People @ 3:
Yeah, him and few others.
http://www.guerillastickers.com/Coleman%20Hippie
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
http://manolomen.com/images/To.....boater.jpg
Talkin’ bout my Generation
http://www.websophist.com/Bill.....w-HavO.jpg
“Limbaugh decided that Obama’s comments were the result of a crazy “liberal education” - and even remarks how “lucky” he is that he didn’t graduate from college, thus allowing him to escape the perils of actual knowledge.”
We get commenters on this site like that.
They pretend to superiority because we’ve all been brainwashed and they educated themselves, reading one end of the library to the other. Sometimes they’re hard to pin down, whether more liberal than thou or “libertarian.”
And then it usually ends up with for that reason that’s why they support Nader or Paul.
Yes, those freeper comments were comic gold.
my favorite was “These Marxists never quit…”
Nope, we never will
No, none of them inhaled.
Nice picture of Jeff Christie from WIXZ in McKeesport, Pa.
Vacuus Deus @ 19:
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/rushwixz.jpg
L.A. Confidential @ 20:
Same person? http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/....._00901.jpg
harley @ 21:
Naw this is probably Rush back then
http://www.eiaonline.com/uploa.....730024.jpg
I’ll laugh at this more easily once Rush & his flying monkeys are de-fanged and neutered. At least anesthesia will not be needed for this unpleasant but necessary procedure since they, in the immortal slap-down of Cary Grant, “have no feelings to hurt.”
Do we honestly believe Rush has any intelligence or dignity? Rush is a boil on his own butt.
P.D. @ 24:
Got him out of service in Vietnam.
Maybe your friend can sue Rush L. for using his property without consent. Smile. Seriously, it is sad that so many radio and TV people in the United States can use the public airwaves to put out so many un-researched ideas or thoughts as facts.
Yeah, only naive 10th graders believe that it was lack of government intervention that caused the Great Depression.
Why would anyone be surprised that Rush would use a 10th grader’s paper as his example? He IS, after all, an entertainer who knows his audience…
Yeah Harley, what a patriot! Rush can call everyone else weak on terror, and he never served! Reminds of the Young Republicans, you know the rich white boys who would never soil thier hands!
P.D. @ 29:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1UYquKlfT0
Other than his big, fat, foul mouth, Rush has nothing going for him. He was unattractive then, unattractive now. He is not paid for discussing the facts but to fill the airways with bile which appeals to the like minded. The simple fact that he is overpaid with big bucks shows just where our priorities lie.
WRONG WING
Hey! Didn’t you guys get the memo? It is no longer RightWing. It is Wrong Wing!!
Wrong Wing Pundit, Wrong Wing Radio Clown, Wrong Wing commentator, Wrong Wing, etc.
Those pinheads have claimed the moral high ground for too long! Call a spade a spade and call wrong, well, wrong!
We should vacate the Right/Left Paradigm ASAP. We should always ask who is the Party of Death and Destruction? Who is the Party of Lies? Who is the Party of Deficit Spending on a greater scale than all the Democrats in History?
Lets try to get some uniform language standards going here!
The Wrong Wing Pundits have claimed the positive spin words for a long time. I say let’s make people understand the true values of The Wrong Wing and the lies they use to cloak their real nature and agenda. There is nothing Conservative about stockpiling nuclear weapons. Nothing Conservative about our $9 Trillion debt and nothing conservative about 70% of that debt being run up under Reagan and the 2 Bushes! Nothing Conservative about scrapping Habeus Corpus and The Bill of Rights! Nothing Conservative about Torture. Nothing Conservative about the rampant greed in the wanton destruction of the environment. Apparently there is no room for Conservation in the Conservative Movement. Wrong! Wrong!
The American People have been sold a Bill of Goods while being stripped of our Bill of Rights. We must help pull the wool off the eyes of America and let them see just how Wrong the policies and legislation that they have been sold by the phony conservatives of the Wrong Wing.
Let’s get on it. No more references to the most radical and reckless political movement in modern American History as being Right or Conservative. They are Reckless, Wasteful, Deceitful, Dishonest, Fiscally Disastrous…Just Plain Wrong!
Rush is just bitter that someone would have received a 10th grade education.
This is SOP for the right — argue with an incoherent young’un and pat yourself on the back when you defeat them. Check this recent classic, where a WSJ editor debates the economy not with a leading academic economist, but with inarticulate, iPod-owning college kids.
I can’t tell if he looks more like Chris Berman or Rob Reiner…
Maybe he can get a job as Bush’s “fact checker”:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M.....6Ak02.html
Are you proud of your lack of a formal education? Do you like to brag about being intellectually superior to 15 year olds? Are you totally unfamiliar with the concept others refer to as “shame”? Have people spent hours trying fruitlessly to explain the term “integrity” to you?
“Yes”, you say? Well then, you just might want to be a contestant on next Fall’s biggest new network game show!
Coming this Fall on FOX TV: Jeff Foxworthy hosts “Are You Smarter than a Tenth Grader?”!
Contestants, with only the help of a HUGE paid staff, will attempt to discredit the research papers of REAL American tenth graders. In the fun-loving spirit of classic 50s’ game shows like “Are You OR Have You Ever Been..” and “Who Wants to Invoke the Fifth Amendment?”, contestants must also smear their chosen tenth grader as being an un-American sap! Bonus points will be awarded for condescending chuckling and the use of the phrase “My Friends”!
Winners will receive hundreds of millions in cash prices and the adoration of a multitude of fans, each one guaranteed to be incapable of independent thought! Bonus prizes will include a series of failed marriages, impotence, a classic case of homophobia, the lasting enmity of all African and Mexican Americans and your very own pilonidal cyst!
So, My Friends, the only question you need to be answering is: “Are You Smarter Than A Tenth Grader?”!!!!
this is too funny…and gives me an idea for a new reality game show
is rush limbaugh smarter than a 10th grader?
and i love the freeper’s takes on the causes of the great depression, and how everyone of them is wrong…although the best one is the guy who blames roosevelt
god, these people are totally clueless
The funniest part is where Limbaugh claims that the Smoot-Hawley tariff act was the single most significant factor affecting the depth and length of the Great Depression. Let’s see. In 1929, the absolute value of imports plus exports was less than 6% of GDP in the united states, and Smoot-Hawley accounted for less than half of the effective tariff rate in 1930 (and even less in the years from 1931 through 1933). But it was, supposedly, the single, most significant factor affecting a near 30% drop in GDP from 1929 to 1933. Yup. Sure nailed that one, Rush.
Has that man never known a skinny day?
Giving birth to him must’ve felt to his mother like passing the mother of all kidney stones.
joeedugan @ 37:
dang, your post just beat mine….but we have the same idea
i say we both call fox to sell them the idea
every week we have rush facing off against another 10th grader
ratings gold
Ruthless People @ 3:
Handsome devil, id’nt he?………………….
Sk8trboi Matt Hussein @ 1:
Strategist Says Kennedy Crisis Helps Obama
Dems have already started in politicizing Kennedy’s illness- pre-empting Limbaugh, I guess.
Amazing someone is acting disgusted at something that hasn’t happened. Something he hopes will happen- so he can be disgusted.
29 P.D. Says: Yeah Harley, what a patriot! Rush can call everyone else weak on terror, and he never served! Reminds of the Young Republicans, you know the rich white boys who would never soil thier hands!
That’s because in battle they’d soil their BVD’s.
Could not have happened to a more deserving little bottom feeder, I hope this cloggs up his butt cyst all the way back to his kidneys. CEO
Don’t be surprised… 10th grade, after all, marked the three toughest years of Rush’s life.
UncleJoe@41: If I’d have been 90 seconds slower, then you’d have had to post the “great minds think alike” thing. Instead, it’s me.
I honestly don’t know what is more embarrassing for Limbaugh, the fact that we was refuting a paper from a 10th grader, or that his “refutation” as such was so poor. Is that really the extent of his understanding and intellectual prowess? Smearing a paper because of it has some perceived sim