Unfreep this poll please - *** Rush Limbaugh calls for riots in Denver at Dem Convention ***

[MH1]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15980105/detail.html

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments calling for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.

"Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don't elect Democrats," Limbaugh said during Wednesday's radio broadcast. He then went on to say that's the best thing that could happen to the country.

Poll question:

Do you think Rush Limbaugh crossed the line when he hoped for riots during Denver's DNC convention?

Responses just a couple minutes ago:

NO - 47% (904 votes)

YES - 53% (1035 votes)

:wtf:


Inciting riots is illegal, folks. What has this country come to?

Stations that broadcast someone who calls for riots should lose their broadcast licenses, right?

Edit to add - per another thread - contact the FCC: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html

ETA #2: link to transcript at Rush's website (for now at least) (take out the spaces to make it work):
http: // www. rushlimbaugh. com/home/daily/site_042308/content/01125112.html.guest.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. voted, kick nominated ...... no change in the vote yet.

[file83]

51. I saw this poll earlier this morning (Thurs) and it was about 190 YES to 50 NO...

...obviously it got freeped some time since then.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. FReepers are ahead.

:wtf: Indeed!

[newmajority]

8. Well, at least we hope it's Freepers.

Given some of the crap I've read on this board lately, it might be.......... another group. :evilfrown:

[annabanana]

3. Sweet Jesus that's sick.. . . . . n/.t

[Deja Q]

4. Picture this: Air America host suggests inciting riots against the RNC convention...

would that be allowed to stand?

Of course not!

I know controversy is, by nature, provocative, but what he said did rather cross the line.

[backscatter712]

5. K&R

[rpannier]

6. 45% yes - 55% no

His supporters have no shame.

Capt Oxycotin should be pulled from the air for attempting to incite riots

[Canuckistanian]

7. The fat man's gone too far this time

Inciting riots is actually a criminal act.

I don't think he can talk his way out of this one.

[Suich]

9. I don't like the polls that

let you vote more than once! I just voted twice!

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. You are right ... I just voted 15 times by

reloading my window.

[MH1]

15. Heh, I didn't think to try that.

I guess it's a waste then.

[Kitty Herder]

58. Why do they even bother making a poll that screwed up?

Online polls are inaccurate anyway, but if you can vote more than once, it's even worse. I can just see some Freeper sitting at their computer voting 100 times in order to defend their beloved Rush.

[morgan2]

10. he's not crossing any line

he sits on the other side of the line.

[hlthe2b]

11. done...please keep kicked

[Nitrogenica]

12. This is terrorism.

[Xenotime]

68. Exactly! WHY CAN"T THIS GUY BE FIRED!!>?!?!?

[melody]

14. Voted, kicked, recced n/t

[Upton]

16. Voted

[barbtries]

17. i can't believe that

jeez - all of a sudden i'm afraid i clicked in the wrong space?!

but wait - isn't inciting a riot illegal?

[barbtries]

18. well their hands are quicker than mine and i ain't got all night

i think a bot is voting no. the poll is BS

[Stevepol]

19. Done. K&R

[Fridays Child]

20. Rush is running scared and he made a BIG mistake. What a fricking idiot.

K&R, by the way.

[DesertRat]

21. Voted. K&R

[MH1]

22. *** The FCC complaint is much more important than the online poll! ***

especially since it's apparently easily freepable, and there are far more freeps with nothing better to do.

[Triana]

28. FILE THE COMPLAINT with the FCC please! (n/t)

[Kitty Herder]

59. Agreed!!!

[bronxiteforever]

23. done K & R

[B Calm]

24. The next thing he'll be calling for the assassination of Obama.

Homeland Security needs to arrest this terrorist NOW!

[burythehatchet]

25. Steve Douchy already said "we need to kill her", referring to Hilldog

[eleny]

26. Sounds like yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre to me

[madokie]

27. 40% yes with 3166 total votes

[Liberal In Texas]

29. Done. It's really getting the freep treatment. Yes now 39%.

Votes Percentage of 3334 Votes
Yes. 1303 39%
No. 2031 61%

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Man, what's wrong with Denver???

61-39 that he didn't cross a line?! These people are sick.

[David Zephyr]

31. K&R.

:kick:

[RedCappedBandit]

32. lol - imagine if it was a dem calling for riots agains rethugs. nt

[smokey nj]

33. Poll DUed and complaint sent.

[newmajority]

34. Mike Malloy is going off on Mush right now

www.novamradio.com

[MH1]

35. Listening now

Thanks

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. done! k&r!

Yes. 1622 38%
No. 2652 62%

Stomp this one please DU?

[bdamomma]

37. this poll needs to DU'd seriously.

[HughMoran]

38. FReeped to crap

Freepers are fucking ass holes. I wish to kick one of their cowardly asses :D

[Swamp Rat]

39. k&r

[wildbilln864]

40. 62% say no!? nt

:banghead:

[SoCalDem]

41. EIB=ABC..just in case y'all didn't know that.. ABC , of the freaky debate

I wonder if Disney's aware that one of their employees is advocating incitement of rioting at a venue full of Secret Service and a presidential candidate..

[unkachuck]

42. done....Yes 38%...No 62%....n/t

[Mezzo]

43. Isn't inciting a riot fucking illegal?

why does no one EVER do anything about that gasbag? :shrug:

[judasdisney]

55. If you are a Neocon, nothing is illegal

"Treason doth never prosper,
for if it prosper,
then none dare call it treason"

-- Sir Jon Harington

[judasdisney]

56. If riots in Denver do happen, maybe Limbaugh will be held responsible?

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[wildbilln864]

44. kicking....

for more participation! :hi: and recommended!

[williesgirl]

45. done - 62% - NO as of now. Unbelievable. rec'd

[orleans]

46. it's getting freeped to death. 38 percent think he crossed a line.

really?

[kaygore]

47. Done--What kind of people live in Denver that the vote is 62%!

Good grief!

[hootinholler]

48. 32%yes 68% no - WTF!!??? n/t

[LaPera]

52. It is - The ONLy way the republicans know how to win lie, cheat & hack the vote!

[samsingh]

49. it's being freeped

[bdamomma]

50. kick

[Historic NY]

53. they have been freeping all the AOL pollls to death also.....

get the bots up.

[NM Independent]

54. K&R

Fucking Freepers :grr:

[bdamomma]

57. kick

e-mail the FCC and get this idiot off the air.

[backscatter712]

60. I'm not inciting people to eviscerate Rush Limbaugh with a rusty spatula,

but I'm dreaming of it...

[fight4my3sons]

61. yes 44% no 56%

Choice Votes Percentage of 8130 Votes
Yes. 3591 44%
No. 4539 56%
Thanks for taking part in our survey. Check back later for completed results.
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[TragedyandHope]

62. Transcript

Rush Limbaugh: "Screw the world, riot in Denver!"

RUSH: Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. This is Brian. Great to have you here, sir.

CALLER: Yes, thank you. I was calling to comment on -- on -- on first of all the gentleman that had called in earlier about your ego. I am a Republican, and I'm a very conservative Republican. However, I have to agree a little bit, Rush, that -- from a comment that you made a little while ago, that -- I do believe your ego is run away with you slightly.

RUSH: Well, first off, it was an e-mail. The guy didn't call actually, I read an e-mail from him that my ego was out of control.

CALLER: Understood. Well, I believe in ego. I believe it's a necessary for your occupation. I believe it's the engine that, you know, that needs to be fed to make you good at what you do. I'm in sales, and I believe that for myself. But your comment about wanting your Operation Chaos to go all the way, like back to 1968 with riots in the streets, turned over burning cars, and I believe you even said "literally."

RUSH: I did say literal riots. Al Sharpton has promised them!

CALLER: But you said, "That's what we want." That's not good for anybody, and hopefully you really don't want that, and most of us don't. I believe in your Operation Chaos. It showed great ingenuity, and it was and is a fantastic idea. However, riots and burning cars would make all Americans look bad. I believe our whole premise --

RUSH: To who? To who would it make all Americans look bad?

CALLER: To the world.

RUSH: Oh, screw it! Screw the world! You know, I can't --

CALLER: I think there's that ego again. (laughing)

RUSH: It will make...? Do you really think we ought to govern ourselves on the basis of what the world thinks of us?

CALLER: I believe that we need -- that our whole premise on working hard for our side is to bring all Americans together, Democrats, Republicans, and independents even, under one common goal that our forefathers designed for us.

RUSH: That's what we're trying to do. You don't bring them together. We don't bring people together. That's not how this country works. We defeat our political adversaries so that they're in the minority.

CALLER: I believe that, with -- with passion. But then also, I mean our -- our whole premise was our Constitution for our safety, you know, for our children's safety. And what would that show by riots and burning cars no matter what side did that? I just think, Rush, that that comment was a little out of line and maybe just not properly thought through. Because I don't believe that way, and I don't believe that most of us want that. Because people get hurt in those situations -- and we believe that our side as Republicans, we can do it better than the rest.

RUSH: As we would be demonstrating because there won't be riots at our convention.

CALLER: Actually they would be demonstrating as Americans --

RUSH: We don't riot.
CALLER: -- that they're more out of control.

RUSH: We don't burn our cars. We don't burn down our houses. We don't kill our children. We don't do half the things the American left does. We need the American left -- and this is another great thing about Operation Chaos; nothing to do with my ego. We need as many ignorant Americans to wake up and find out exactly who the modern-day Democrat Party is as dominated by the far left in this country. We need that to be seen. Now, I am not inspiring or inciting riots. I'm dreaming. (singing to the tune of White Christmas) "I'm dreaming of riots in Denver." Remember 1968? And which party did that? It was the radicals in that party, the anti-war radicals, the same bunch of clowns that are running around defining the Democrat Party today. What the world thinks of us? There was an analogy just this week about somebody in the world. I'm drawing a mental blank about this. But the fact is that the Democrat Party has members in it that have already said, "There will be riots," or something to that effect. Al Sharpton.

He was throwing down the gauntlet to the superdelegates: "You take this election away from Barack Obama, and there's gonna be trouble. There's going to be trouble in Denver." As for the rest of the world and what they think of us, you know, there's nothing that frustrates me more than to hear that. What part of the world do we care about? What part of the world do we want approval from? Do we want approval from the Europeans who have gone so damn wussy that they cannot -- they could not if they had to -- mount a military defense of themselves if they were attacked? Not even with NATO, because it has been allowed to lapse. Is it those people that we want the approval from? Do we want approval from people like Robert Mugabe? Do we want approval from some of the warlords and terrorists of Al-Qaeda? Who in the world do we want approval from? Do we want approval from Hamas, like Jimmy Carter does? We have the approval of our allies. We have the approval of the UK. We have the approval of the Australians. Do we want the approval of the Chinese? Do we want the approval of Kim Jong Il.

Who do we want to love us? What is this? I guarantee you: You live your life this way as an individual, and you are forever going to be confused and unhappy because you will be embarking on something that's impossible, and that is, A, to make everybody like you; and, B, respect you. This is something that has to be earned, particularly on the side of respect -- and respect is earned with strength. Nobody is going to respect you if they figure out you're doing whatever you have to do to get their approval. They're going to laugh at you! They're going to think you're a weak-kneed wuss. So the hell with that! We do, hopefully, the right thing for the sake of this country. We're the only ones in charge of our affairs. We don't farm out our defense, unless we elect Democrats. We don't farm out our protection against attack and national security, unless we elect Democrats. We don't farm out our economy and tear it up in the name of a hoax called global warming, unless we elect Democrats. Riots in Denver at the Democrat convention would see to it we don't elect Democrats -- and that's the best damn thing could happen for this country as far as anything I can think: Don't elect Democrats!

[mcctatas]

63. ...

Votes Percentage of 8194 Votes
Yes. 3638 44%
No. 4556

[veness]

64. Done! n/t

[rosesaylavee]

65. wow.

Choice Votes Percentage of 11877 Votes
Yes. 4395 37%
No. 7482 63%

what a bunch of sick bastards.

[pengillian101]

71. Update

Do you think Rush Limbaugh crossed the line when he hoped for riots during Denver's DNC convention?

Yes. 5454 32%
No. 11780 68%

[Supersedeas]

66. - 37 : i think the poll voting mechanism is hacked

[Mugu]

67. Done n/t

[formercia]

69. FCC complaint site has long delays.

Either people are pissed or they are throttling the network.

[mod mom]

70. 68% say NO UFB!

[chknltl]

72. Voted yes 6 times!

Unlike freepers I have a life to get back to so I'll stop at 6 votes. Polls are worthless crap if they allow one to multi-vote.

[HughMoran]

73. Freepers voted no thousands of times

Fuckin' 'tards.