it really, really scared rush limbaugh. and you know, rush limbaugh is not just any blowhard -- i mean extremist right wing radio host. in fact, rush limbaugh is one of the most feared power brokers in the entire republican party today, and that comes not from any left wing person. that comes from a republican party operative who worked in the george w. bush white house saying that rush limbaugh is in fact a feared power broker throughout the republican party. mighty rush limbaugh was so upset by the fact of sandra fluke speaking truth to power that he decided he was going to take her down. he claimed that sandra's advocacy for contraceptive coverage made her a slut and a prostitute. he said she was having so much sex that she needs a whole lot of contraception and she wants other people to pay for it. think about that. mighty rush limbaugh doesn't seem to understand the birth control pill is not like viagra. [ laughter ] [ applause ] you don't take a birth control pill just before having sex like, oh, never mind. sandra fl

rush limbaugh hates draft dodgers, he hates drug addict, and rush limbaugh is both a draft dodger and. anyone with that much self-loathing coursing through him every minute of his life is a worthy subject of our pity. imagine, imagine the constant agony of being rush limbaugh. you see him sometimes shaking in his chair with hatred, as if he's doing everything he possibly can to get out all the hatred in him, but there's nor hatred in there than rush can ever get out, and that's the hatred that has him shaking in that chair. he is an enraged prisoner of that hatred, and that hatred, the hatred that he can never, ever get out is his tragic hatred of himself. [ male announcer ] before you take it on your road trip... we take it on ours. this summer put your family in an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz now for an exceptional price during the summer event. but hurry, this offer ends july 31st. but hurry, with two times the points onake lunch dining in restaurants,ch? you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. there's more to enjoy. those little things for

rush limbaugh hates draft dodgers, he hates drug addict, and rush limbaugh is both a draft dodger andating coursing through him every minute of his life is a worthy subject of our pity. imagine, imagine the constant agony of being rush limbaugh. you see him sometimes shaking in his chair with hatred, as if he's doing everything he possibly can to get out all the hatred in him, but there's nor hatred in there than rush can ever get out, and that's the hatred that has him shaking in that chair. he is an enraged prisoner of that hatred, and that hatred, the hatred that he can never, ever get out is his tragic hatred of himself. [ cellphone rings ] the wife. hey, babe. got the jetta. i wiped the floor with the guy! not really. i would've been fine with 0% for 36 months, but i demanded 60. no...i didn't do that. it was like taking candy from a baby. you're a grown man. alright, see you at home. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. we good? we're good. [ male announcer ] at 0% apr for 60 months, no one needs to know how easy it was to get your new volkswagen. that's the

rush limbaugh is a drug addict.w host drug addict who committed crimes to get his drugs and was convicted of those crimes while mitt romney was building the country, and suspended his appearances on his radio show to deal with his drug addiction. rush limbaugh hates barack obama. hates him. but he knows he can't say exactly those words, so this is the way rush found today to say, i, rush limbaugh, hate barack obama. >> i'll tell you what. i think it -- i think it can now be said, without equivocation, barack obama is trying to dismantle, brick by brick, the american dream. there's no other way to put this! there's no other way to explain this! he was indoctrinated as a child. his father was a communist, mother was a leftist, sent to prep ivy league schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced. >> ah! so ivy league schools reinforce contempt for america. did mitt romney's ivy league schools reinforce contempt for america? did george w. bush's ivy league schools reinforce his contempt for america? and, he

>> rush limbaugh at the limbaugh institute for advanced conservative studies.ddress -- >> so began the third hour of today's radio seminar at the limbaugh institute for advanced conservative studies, which i happened upon by merry chance simply because my local ford dealership quickly performed a minor repair on my fusion hybrid just in time for me to get back behind the wheel and hear this -- >> this is from the "orlando sentinel" 36-year-old jacksonville, florida, man is accused of performing a sex act on himself while driving south on i-95. dawn, you may not want to hear this. i don't know how you can avoid it. >> of course, the only way for dawn to avoid it is for rush to stop talking about it, but as the dean of the limbaugh institute forr eadvanced conservative study, rush decided it was time for some advanced conservative study of sex while driving. >> he denied performing the sex act. he said another driver who reported him to authorities misunderstood what he was doing while driving. he said he was using drumsticks to hit his steering wheel. he told de

limbaugh did say it was a conspiracy. i think he's just embarrassed now that he's been called out on it. >> do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever it is villain in this movie is named bane? >> i understand you're embarrassed. come on. mr. limbaugh is now purporting to be outraged that the liberal media is laughing at him for trafficking in one of the stupidest right-wing conspiracy theories of all time, and it's got competition. but you know what? it is not only okay to laugh, i think it is almost sort of important to laugh. i think it is almost sort of important to make fun of this stuff, like we did last night on this show. it is at least worth coming up with some way to pay attention to these conspiracy theories on the right. because when the conservative media gets behind stuff like this, they really can make huge swaths of the republican population of this country believe something totally unbelievable. and the next thing you know, you know, oklahoma

they said they have lost millions because of carrying rush limbaugh. the main carrier of the limbaugh program, which carries him on many other stations is not publicly traded so we don't have insight directly into their financials, but we can assume they are being financially impacted by rush limbaugh's racist hate media. this is a guy who has never been held accountable. never. after the initial cable news wave crusted and fell and we went onto donald trump's fund-raiser or whatever was next, there was a little bit of a quiet period. normally what happens with these things is everybody kind of moves onto whatever is next. what i'm really excited about and what to focus on in these comments is that in the stop rush movement, that didn't happen. we actively worked to gather all the efforts that were going on independently, all the different people and petitions. we had people build a website where people could go to see what sponsors were still with rush in what markets. are they national or local sponso sponsors. volunteers could sign up to listen to h

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and then ice tea versus rush limbaugh.ht later in the program. >> and here is ice tea saying the only reason why we got guns in america is to protect yourself from the police. (vo) now, it's your turn. (vo) connect with the young turks with cenk uygur. >> it's go time. ñ [ cheering ] >> cenk: the london olympics are about 24 hours away, and apparently that torch is not the only thing on fire. people are very interested in sex apparently. we'll tell you about that in a second. but first a quick reminder of the games coming up. >> the olympic opening ceremony is friday. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> that's a pretty view on the river. the opening ceremony about 36 hours away. >> it's going to be fantastic olympic, the best. >> cenk: she doesn't even know half the story. the olympians it turns out are getting ready for a massive amount of sex. in the 2000 olympics they brought in 70,000 condoms to the olympic village. they ron out and they had to bring in another 20,000. this time around they've got 100,000 condoms ready to go. my god, how

let's listen to rush limbaugh. >> our freedom of choice just met its death panel.e court of the united states -- what has been upheld here is fraud. and the internal revenue service has just become barack obama's domestic army. >> was he wearing a prisoner's costume on purpose? black and white stripes. joan, it dramatized. all it needs is a number on it. joan walsh, what do you think of rush limbaugh? i actually think they are angry. rush is an actor. palin has started screaming about this thing. she is really hurt that she lost this one. >> well, obama lies and freedom dies. it is so over the top. both of them. it would be so funny. it would be hilarious if it wasn't so scary. what we have here, chris, is an opportunity for the president -- he gets0aç do over. he gets to sell this plan again with the light of the supreme court behind him. you know, they tortured him with death panels and all the other lies and pulling the plug on grandmother. now rush is calling the supreme court a death panel. that's lovely. the president gets to go out in the light of day and wi

you will hear much, much more from rush limbaugh in a moment. and why are they slamming dick cheney for his trip to capitol hill? some are calling him partisan and confrontation natural. >> when he is no longer in public service but it willing to give up his time to come over here and help and takes a cheap shot like that, just does not make sense to me. >> the committee chair met with the former vice president dick cheney. he's here to tell you what went on behind closed doors. but first gov. romney is striking back and hitting hard. blasting president obama for making this now infamous comment. >> if you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. >> and today in the campaign trail gov. mitt romney hammering the president for his attacks on success. >> we appreciate the work they have done but they did not build this business. the idea to say that steve jobs didn't build apple, that henry ford didn't build ford motor, that papa john didn't build papa john pizza, that ray crock didn't build mcdonald's's, that ray c

and now opposes it again. >> rush limbaugh said it showed kerry was a snob.erry was going to go wind surfing in oregon to look like a real guy. democrat candidates have to pass the guy test. he's a northeastern erudite snob liberal. >> eight years later another republican from massachusetts is being scrutinized off the trail. but this time the reaction from the right is very different. laura ingram is blaming romney's aides for the jet ski. >> i don't even think this is his fault. this is his advisers. this isn't romney. this is the advisers saying take the week. should he get off the jet ski? >> and an editorial says it's a pr problem saying quote, the obama campaign is assailing mr. romney as an out of touch rich man and the rich man obliged by vacationing at his liakeside hoe with a jet ski cameo. today mitt romney defended his own time off this week. >> i'm delighted to be able to take a vacation with my family. i think all americans appreciate the time they have with their children and grandchildren. i hope more americans are able take vacations. >> join

rush limbaugh is jumping into the fray. rush is taking credit for the campaign's sharpened personal attacks. let me play again governor romney's surrogates and former new hampshire governor john sununu what he said on fox news yesterday and then listen to limbaugh. >> he has no idea how the american system functions and we shouldn't be surprised about that because he spent his early years in hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in indonesia, and another set of years in indonesia, and frankly, when he came to the u.s., he worked as a community organizer which is a socialized structure and then got into politics in chicago. >> i think sununu has been appointed with the task of going out and performing the duties that i am suggesting need to happen. because that's smoking something in hawaii, he's doing it. never had a paycheck, chicago politics. the only thing he left out was that obama's been mentored, educated by a bunch of communists. >> let me bring in our "news nation" political panel. strategist margie

if you look at the kerry ad, what hurt there was not the rush limbaugh and all of that.hat hurt was it gave a visual for another factually false, by the way, statement about flip-flopping on the iraq war. at the end of the day people who fought harder for the middle class, kerry won that against bush. that's the heart of the problem here. jfk left his convention, was seen on his sailboat. most americans didn't have big sailboats in 1960. franklin roosevelt left his convention in 1932. took off on a yacht that went up the coast. and people didn't mind. they didn't mind because they thought they would stand for them, fight for them. they knew they were rich but they thought they were on his side. romney's problem and the reason his vacation is a problem is because people think he's disconnected, doesn't care about them. >> now, karen, fox news.com used the romney jet ski photo as the picture of the day this week. with a positive headline. romney recharges. then fox and friends hosts were applauding the jet skiing as an escape from the kids. watch this. >> he's in the back

today rush limbaugh launched a scathing attack on a growing list of republicans calling on governor romney to release his taxes. >> i saw practically the entire republican establishment thinks he should. what an asinine thing to suggest. i don't think romney ought to release his tax returns. i hope romney is keeping track of who on our side is caving to obama's demands. i hope he understands it's the tea party sticking by him and not the establishment republicans. >> but the whispers in the gop have turned into a deafening chorus. republicans are calling for romney to release his tax returns. "the washington post" says the debate is now causing some divisions inside his campaign. but romney is still shrugging it off. >> i think people in my party just say, look. this is a nonissue. release the returns and they'll go away. my experience is the democratic party has approached taxes in a different way than in the past. their opposition people look for anything they can find to distort, twist, and try to make negative. >> this is a conversation republican leaders in washington definitely don't

again and again and romney's right wing allies, limbaugh, he hates america. bachmann, we've got the muslim brotherhood sneaking around the government. demint, the most anti-american administration in history. what a horror show. a candidate who hides who he is sends out his wolfpack. say the other guy is the enemy within. creepy is too nice a word. and guy wants to suggest in lincoln's chair. robert costas and maggie haberman. i want to go to bob. thank you for joining us. bob, you've had a unique experience sitting with mitt romney talking about something he'd least of all want to talk about which is his tax returns. give us the tick-tock. >> so, i spoke to romney this morning, chris, and he's digging in, he's sick and tired of talking about his tax returns. talking about his offshore investments. he wants to move on. i'm not sure if he's going to be successful, but his whole strategy today was to push back against obama, show some spine and say he's going to play a little hardball with obama's allies and he's not going to give in and release anything pre 20

that shows you how deep rush limbaugh and his side into the we hate barack obama dpgig. >> ana marie,'m going to bet this is the last time the republicans will vote to repeal, because john boehner knows -- >> i don't know, 32nd time's the charm. >> i'm betting exactly one dollar on this. but john boehner has to know, this is not good for the image of the republicans in the house who should be about the business of trying to create jobs, and he knows that this doesn't look like they are about the business of trying to create jobs. and he has to do this, because they had to have this big, you know, outraged statement after the supreme court. but after this outraged statement, it seems that they should be able to move on. >> one would hope. i mean, it's definitely something that the obama campaign is already kind of pouncing on, to draw attention to the fact that, yes, they're doing this sort of meaningless stunt vote, that will amount to nothing, instead of creating jobs. and of course, they've been doing a lot that amounts to nothing. and i just want toed add really quickly that all of

. >> rush limbaugh today said something about mitt romney and how the party is just kind of stuck with romney supporter during the primaries. but let's listen to this, because what he's really saying is mitt romney doesn't really matter at all. >> romney better learn the election isn't about him. all i mean is, let's -- can i just be honest? among our side, the conservatives, the independents, everybody who wants drastic, significant change in this country, very few are running around saying, we want mitt, we want mitt, we want mitt. they're running around saying, get rid of obama and the democrats. get rid of obama and the democrats. that is the animating thing of this election. that is the motivating thing of this election. >> david corn, i think rush actually was being honest there. >> yes, once in a while, a broken clock is right, sometimes twice a day. first, i've got to say that i feel like ana marie and i should be singing, "i got you, babe," -- we won't do that, don't worry viewers out there. >> i can't carry a tune. >> with the republicans going after this, again and again and

really, really scared rush limbaugh. [laughter] and you know rush limbaugh is nojuohd , incrush limbaugh is one of the most fearepowerbrokers in the entire republican party today. anta sntfoay n. paopivwreuli the george w. bush white house. saying that rush limbaugh is, in fact, a feared powerbrokers rout t rubn y. upby fthandr heide gotoe coge made her a slut and a prostitute. he said she was having so much sex the she eeds a whole lot of contcepon a joins other pe pe ay i nkao that. mighty rush limbaugh doesn't seem to understand the birth control pill is not likeviagra. [laughter] [aus do t abi ol llt re in sex like -- oh, never mind. sandra flukewas not cowed by aus he- asinn. f ut h ppit ppen. women and men around the country were disgusted by libaugh. and in short order he los nearly 100% of his national [cs seiss. asllfyin in honoring this amazing champion, this role model, now 12an o ore. hean pau >> thank you so much for that, that very warm and lively wee. lv ki t ful noingtes staying quiet during comments, exc

first and foremost, wanted to say regarding rush limbaugh.because i got high high" is appropriate for him. what i wanted to talk about was regarding mitt romney and releasing of his tax forms. whenever bain purchased a business, wouldn't they look at a company's balance sheet looking at the tax returns, a number of years out to make sure that things were apropos before they went ahead and purchased the business? wouldn't it be the same thing about him releasing his tax forms? >> that's a decision -- well, you would think they would. here's the problem -- >> stephanie: i'm sitting in clear channel where they piled a lot of debt on us, outsourced a lot of jobs, a lot of our friends, bye-bye. i do know what i'm talking about. >> anywhere in the country, go to a clear channel station there are so many empty cubicle where is this company used to have at least a dozen more workers per floor. >> stephanie: oh no. everyone here is jamaican now and they have seven jobs. going to run six companies. would that be okay? for the same salary you were makin

you can always count on rush limbaugh to give the right wing view.that government played a role in helping to boost the private sector. here's rush. i think maybe at his worst. >> i think it can now be said without equivocation, without equivocation, this man hates this country. he was indoctrinated as a child. mother was a communist, father was a leftist. sent to prep schools where his contempt for the country was reenforced. he moved to chicago, the home of the radical left moment. this is what we have, a radical, ruthless politician who despises the country and the way it was founded. >> isn't it funny is support the dominated by republicans, went to ivy league schools. what nonsense. your thoughts on what this -- >> my take on this, chris, is that mitt romney was as one point and to some extent, still is an establishment republican and yet he has run a campaign from the beginning that's been for the most part all attack. it was that way in the primaries. it's that way now. so, if you have an establishment republican behaving like an attack dog, y

senate in massachusetts in ninety four but no conspiracy theories do crazy when it comes to rush limbaugh so do either of you to buy it i mean is it possible to batman's in the tank for obama i don't buy i don't buy that argument i'm not even going to pretend to to buy that argument absolutely not we'll agree on something jim and now you're going to have to apologize to the limbaugh you think anybody this agrees with them so look at ok it's absurd i mean. i mean trying to hide the stuff together obvious just keep politics from around and get people riled up. and i think that that's actually a good point that we're not having enough dialogue just like we i think we've tried to have tonight about real issues instead of this kind of distracting stuff adam franchesca thank you both for being just take it up. after the break a decade after the bush tax cuts went into effect it's clear that they did very little if anything to create prosperity for americans who were millionaires or billionaires so what would our economy look like today with out the bush tax cuts and what americans have been bet

. >> now, joe, rush limbaugh says romney was booed because he was white. listen to this. >> obama's the preezy. he's confident they'll boo romney simply because romney's white. he's confident of that. so romney takes advantage of the occasion. he makes a speech that is, really, i think over these people's heads in the sense his audience was much larger than just inside the convention. >> now, i want your response to that, but three things i get from this. one he was booed because he was white. so i guess joe biden and other speakers are not white. second, he was talking over their heads, whatever that means. and talking to a wider audience which may mean that rush and i agree for once, that he wasn't really there to talk to those people. he was there to use them as a back board to talk to some other people, joe. >> well, let -- you're right on three. i'm with you on that one. that speech was not written for that audience or the intended audience the naacp leadership represents. you know. i served on that board for 14 years. i watched ronald reagan come thr

. >>> have you heard rush limbaugh's latest cause. about the latest batman movie. the one that comes out in a couple of days. >> what are you? >> it's called dark night rises. rush is having trouble with the village in the movie. specifically, the name of the villain. the name is bane. let's listen to a bit on this one. >> the villain in the dark knight rises is bane. what is the name of the venture capital firm that romney ran and around which there's this make believe controversy? bain. release names have been known summer 2012 for a long time. do you think it's accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is village in this movie is named bane? >> okay. i'm hearing a lot of batman movie lovers. i want to bring in our showbiz correspondent. they have been getting in touch with me saying what is rush talking about. what's the hollywood scoop on this? is he onto something here? >> here is the thing. i appreciate a good conspiracy theory just as much as the next person. this one, i don't know. we

. >>> plus rush limbaugh's ridiculous batman bain conspiracy theory takes a turn today. >>> and chris christie could be the keynote speaker at the convention in tampa, but he might not be willard's number two. is this already causing a rift in the gop? you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so good, now it's guaranteed. [ normal voice ] so i can trust 'em. unlike randy. are you in good hands? this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. >>> it's the story of a company that took advantage of the post-9/11 insurance market. it was headquartered in bermuda. and can you guess who has ties to this company? yep.

this agenda was set by rush limbaugh yesterday. when he said the president, quote, hates this country. today is the gop's new talking point. and rush admits the connection. >> so i think sununu has been appointed with the task of going out and performing the duties that i am suggesting need to happen. >> the romney campaign performs the duties that rush says needs to happen. this is ugly politics. but the american people won't be fooled. they know what our president really stands for. and what he really says about this country. >> we will not be going backwards. we will be going forwards. we will win this election. and we will remindtle world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. god bless you. >> joining me now is steve, co-host of "the cycle" here on msnbc. and joan walsh, editor-at-large with salon.com and msnbc political analyst. first let me thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> steve, this what the romney camp does when it is in trouble, take orders from rush limbaugh, and

you can count on rush limbaugh to give the right wing view. today talking about bain, catch this clip of obama saying he boosted the private sector db here's rush maybe at his worst. let's listen. >> i think it can now be said without equivocation -- without equivocation, this man hates this country. he was indoctrinated as a child. his father was a communist. mother was a leftist. sent to prep, ivy league schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced. he moved to chicago. it was the home of the radical left movement. this is what we have. as a president, a radical who despises the country and the way it was founded and the way in which it became great. >> isn't it funny that our supreme court is dominated by republicans who went to ivy league schools. it isn't like they all came back indoctrinated. your thoughts on what this rush quote means. >> my take on this, chris, is that mitt romney was at one point and to some extent still is an establishment republican. >> yeah. >> and yet he has run a campaign from the very beginning that

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from rush limbaugh or some critics in washington. >> the president is hitting mitt romney where it hits on health care. >> the guy i'm running against tried this in massachusetts and it's working just fine. even though now he denies it. >> the big panel weighs in on the president's offensive. >> and cookie gate returns to the headlines. >> i'm not sure about the cookies. >> as a potential running mate goes down snooki style. >> there's no spin necessary for the june jobs numbers released tie by the bureau of labor statistics. the latest report illustrates the results of intense political activism by leaders. plain and simple, the numbers are a victory for republicans. the economy added 80,000 jobs in june. that means the modest gains from the first three months of the jeer are leveled out by the last three. which averaged 75,000 per month. four months before the presidential election, job growth is treading water. it should come as no surprise that mitt romney put blame for the stagnation squarely on the president's shoulders. for the president's policies have clearly not been successfu