rssAfter the Fire, After All the Rain, I Will Be the Flame
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 9:08 am
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Rep. Phil Gingrey’s (R-Ga.) climbdown from his critical comments about Rush Limbaugh has been reported elsewhere, but we only now see the transcript of Gingrey’s even more humiliating, pleading, fat-kid-in-gym-class call to Limbaugh’s show.
I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments (laughs) and I just wanted to tell you, Rush, and — and all our conservative giants who help us so much to maintain our base and grow it and get back this majority that I regret those stupid comments. [...]
Rush, congressional Republicans and our leadership need you and other conservative giants to galvanize the millions of Americans who don’t live in Washington. They may not even live in Republican districts. Maybe they’re in Democratic districts. But we’ve gotta have your support, and of course I know you reach millions of people across the country. I’m telling you, I heard from quite a few of them (laughs) since my foot-and-mouth disease yesterday, and I just thank you so much for what you’re doing, and we’re with you 100 percent — and we know that you’re with us a hundred percent, more importantly.
Limbaugh had Gingrey’s back.
Look at me as taking the heat. Look at me as taking the fire, directing it away from you so that you guys can go stealthily and do what you’re doing here in building an opposition to this.
Do they realize the show is being taped?
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22 Comments
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Perhaps the Democrats should just accept reality and do all their negotiations with Rush, since the so-called Republian leadership obviously takes their orders from him
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 10:43 am
Congressman Gingrey's district in GA is adjacent to the one I live in. Clearly I should send him some flowers and a sympathy card.
“Sorry to hear you got de-nutted, Phil.”
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 10:59 am
“Do they realize the show is being taped?”
What dittohead would really care? How would transparency disturb them? They cheeringly encouraged Bush to spy on them, they swoon to Rovian dirty tricks, they worship Limbaugh/Reagan at the same time they misunderstand Liberal respect for Obama and ignore all the actual scrutiny coming from the Left.
Besides that they also assume that sycophantic, syrups fawning from the media doesn't go both ways, and that it isn't insincere and orchestrated to still better serve corporate interests.
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 11:09 am
Limbaugh's audience is filled with idiots who think they're brilliant, which is hilarious when you're watching The Office, but horrific in real life. They want to think – NEED to think – that the GOP still has power, value and relevance (and let's face it, with all the water carriers and lickspittles in the media treating every droll-filled opinion as having value, they so still have all these things). But since they're not the majority party, the dittoheads like to imagine their reps as emerging masters of espionage, working in the shadows to rebuild their mighty empire of doughy white guys. Rush knows this and feeds into that paranoia, that idea that “We know something THEY don't, and we'll win.” It's not unlike Evangelicals who placate their flock, many of whom might be down and out and of shaky faith, by assuring them that they're in the right place, they'll get what's coming to them, and more importantly, those NOT in the flock will get what's coming to THEM, too (cue ominous laugh). They need to feel like they're part of something strong, something better than what's preceived as the best.
Like I said, they're idiots. Sorry, but they are. Fear of inadequacy is no way to govern effectively.
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Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
Editors: Please correct the congressman's designation. By his own admission, he is Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Limbaugh), not Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Georgia). Thanks for fixing that typo!
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
so – are we all gonna vote Democratic reps and senators in in 2010 or aren't we? Bring on 2010!
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Good idea, Roy, it would save time and therefore money.
I was born in GA but left in 1980 and would never move back, pretty as the state is. I love my relatives but don't physically visit them, more from poverty than anything else. What if I got stuck there and could not get back home? GA left my party, the Democratic party, and from racism, I've read. Racism is disgusting to me and always has been. I'm part Cherokee, for crying out loud. How can anyone with Cherokee blood be a racist, but my mom was and tried to teach it to me, but it was too late. One of her African-American “maids” was better to me than she, my own mother, was. I'm proud to be part Cherokee, non-racist and a Democrat. I'm ashamed to be from Georgia.
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Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Condolences on the loss of your testicles, Congressman.
Comment posted January 29, 2009 @ 9:46 pm
Wow. You can't sink much lower than this. There are certain asses you just don't kiss.
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