I got this in an email (I doubt I'll get anything from him again)

[Omaha Steve]

This is what was going on in your nation's capital over the weekend. Not freedom of speech. Enemies of the State!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkw7n9Qagu8


My reply to everyone that got the email:

Do I burn my SOCIAL security card? It has the word social in it. There is also Medicare. And the Socialist party helped workers gain unemployment benefits, workers comp laws, unemployment insurance and more. Enemies of the state? I think not. Enemies of the wealthy perhaps.

And as you point out, it is PROTECTED free speech. What is wrong with taxing the rich at a fair rate as I see mentioned several times in the video? We need more Ike's and fewer Becks etc. in the Republican party. See my sig file below.

Disclaimer: I had several friends at the rally. A few from my union. Many representing most unions. Now I know why Rush hates unions:

mediamatters.org



Limbaugh: Public-sector union employees are "freeloaders" and "leftist, socialist, neo-communist"

April 22, 2010



Limbaugh says "government union" leaders "essentially are communists"

March 04, 2010



Limbaugh: Obama sending out "union thugs," involved in "Mussolini-type stuff"

August 07, 2009



More red-baiting: Limbaugh calls NLRB nominee Craig Becker a "communist"

February 09, 2010



Limbaugh mocks "union thug reduced to sniffles along the processional route" (Kennedy Funeral)

August 28, 2009



# Limbaugh's drinking game: "a drink for every black person I see" on Kennedy's procession, lined with "union thugs"

August 28, 2009 filed under MMtv



Limbaugh claims black conservative "roughed up" by "union thugs"

August 07, 2009



· Limbaugh: Employee Free Choice Act should be titled "The Union Brass Knuckles Busting On Your Knees Act"
May 18, 2009 filed under MMtv



# Limbaugh: Obama thinks "union people" "have effectively been raped by American capitalism, and they have a lot of stuff coming due"

May 06, 2009 filed under MMtv



Limbaugh refers to Americans United for Change as a "union thug group"

April 28, 2009



# Limbaugh on requirements for federal aid to GM: "This is a union coup at the behest of the president. This is payback"

March 30, 2009 filed under MMtv



# Limbaugh defense of AIG bonuses follows attacks on "insane benefits" of UAW sending Big Three "down the tubes"

March 19, 2009 filed under Research



# Limbaugh on EFCA: "One day Tony Soprano will walk in with a lead pipe and he will start beating people upside the head to vote to unionize"

March 10, 2009 filed under MMtv


Steve


"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Oh waitz, I got a copy of Das Kapital

and the Communist Manifesto... RUN I might be one of them!

On a serious note, Freedom Works? REALLY... as in the Koch Brothers!!!!

They would not know a commie if one wiggled in front of them. For the record neither would the American Socialists... and I am serious on that.

[AmericanMan1958]

2. I was there,

I see a couple small groups... Mostly college age people.
But this video was made by America for Prosperity.
The Koch Brothers,
Same group that paid to bus in the People to the Beck Rally
Koch brother want to control it all....
That's a dictatorship....
Good try,,,But follow the dollar.

[sabrina 1]

3. Limbaugh is living in the past. Does anyone care anymore

about being called a 'Commie'? Doesn't he know the cold war ended over a decade ago and in today's world, the 'commies' are among our best friends and business partners.

How does he feel about the Chinese btw? He never mentions them.

Half the country has no clue what a 'commie' is so probably aren't in the least bit ruffled if someone accuses them of being one.

He's so out of touch. 'Terrorist' is the new insult to be leveled at anyone who disagrees with a right-winger these days. Are 'terrorists' 'commies? It gets confusing, who we are supposed to be living in fear of.

How about not living in fear at all? 'The land of free, home of the brave'? Brave? I've never seen a nation more willing to give up its rights than this one, especially the right, based on fear.

[tavalon]

9. Well put

[Bitwit1234]

4. And the tea bags and republicans call Democrats

"elitists". Since the Democrat party covers everybody and the tea bags and republicans exclude everybody but the white and the rich...who are the elitists?

[gristy]

5. Democratic Party

[Omaha Steve]

6. I got a reply from one that got my reply

I sent you nothing and I'd appreciate you to do the same for me. You and I are 180 degrees apart in our thinking and I'd rather not read your opinions.

[progressoid]

8. Ha.

I've had that angry, "don't email me!" response too. They aren't interested in a fact based discussion.

I did get a thank you from someone once. She appreciated the thoughtful correction of the bogus email. But that only happened once.

[boston bean]

7. Weren't the baggers told NO SIGNS for their Beckfest?

And they believe in free speech???

just point that out to them. Ought to shut them the fuck up, pronto!

[tavalon]

10. That's gonna leave a mark

Hopefully.