Media Matters - "Limbaugh calls for "massive bombing raids" to "pound Iran into submission"

[TomCADem]

Just another preview of what the right wing will claim they have a mandate to do based on their taking back Congress in 2010:

http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/2009/12/18

Rush could hardly focus his attention on a trio of stories he was just itchin' to address as he started off his final show of the week. Taking his cue from The Drudge Report, Rush highlighted the news that Iranians had reportedly taken over an oil field on the Iraq border. But Rush also wanted to address happenings in Copenhagen and that Al Qaeda's second-in-command al-Zawahiri's wife released a statement calling for Muslim women to join the fight.

Rush got to the al-Zawahiri story first, and found a way to tie in Obama:

LIMBAUGH: Now, I guess this is what Obama meant when he said the rest of the world's so much more open, how husbands in America are very backwards with their old-fashioned notions, compared to the very forward-thinking husbands like Zawahiri.

Next, Rush discussed the story about Iran. Well, that's actually putting it quietly. He "discussed" it, yes, but more notably, said we need to go to war with Iran. Oh, but we wouldn't need ground forces -- Rush stated as fact that we could topple the Iranian regime with air strikes alone. Rush warned that if we don't pound Iran into submission at some point, then they will get the bomb. However, Rush did concluded that the situation with Iran was "precarious," which is curious after having just moments earlier called for war with them.

Then Rush jumped over to health care reform and the controversy on the left over removing the public option from the Senate bill. Rush noted that Howard Dean is sounding a lot more like Jim DeMint. (We ask: When did Jim DeMint become a fierce public option proponent?)

Anyway, Rush went on about how Americans love their country and don't like their president trashing it, and that the Senate isn't acting in the interest of the American people by hurrying to vote on health care.

[Initech]

1. Why dont we pound Limpballs into submission?

[hayu_lol]

2. Drop Rush first...

forget the rest of the load.

[Fumesucker]

3. And it won't be post-partisan for Obama not to bend to the Republican will..

Wouldn't be prudent to aggravate the Republicans, they might say something nasty.

Give them what they want.

[Warpy]

4. If the military tries to take an ignorant gasbag's advice

I sincerely hope they will practice for the exercise on his house in Palm Beach.

He really needs to know first hand what he's talking about.

[Arkana]

5. Rush Limbaugh's not the President, so he doesn't get to order troops around.