From Media Matters: Rush Limbaugh claimed during his February 27 morning radio update that “[t]he Obama budget … funds the relentless drive toward socialized medicine” — a statement that is neither accurate nor original. In fact, as the Urban Institute wrote in an April 2008 analysis, “socialized medicine involves government financing and direct provision of health care services,” and therefore, progressive health-care reform proposals do not “fit this description.” The analysis also noted: “Similar rhetoric was used to defeat national health care reform proposals in the 1990s and, with less success, to argue against the creation of Medicare in the 1960s.” Indeed, a Media Matters for America analysis found that dating as far back as the 1930s — with respect to at least 16 different reform initiatives — conservatives have attempted to smear those proposals by calling them “socialized medicine” or a step toward that inevitable result.
Racism dipped in a thin, patriotically correct sugar shell of “security” really works on conservatives! The ambiguously racist remarks made by the likes of Don Imus, Limbaugh, Savage, Glenn Beck and Cunningham are calculated, and ubiquitous on right-wing radio – and gives listeners cover for their racist hearts-of-heart. — Michael Hood
Neo-Nazi WorldNetDaily caught lying | Racist Bill Cunningham’s opens his sewer mouth again
2. “Obama sympathizes with ‘world leaders who want to kill us.’ — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
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4. “Obama is ‘a hack Chicago Daley-style politician’ who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you — all you’re going to have in your pocket is change.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
5. “The stooges from the New York Times and the sycophants in the media are conspiring to elect Obama.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
6. “At some point in the near future the media … is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama.” “At some point the media will quit taking sides in this thing and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they cover Bush, the same way they cover Cheney, and same way they cover every Republican.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
7. “I have had a dream about Barack Hussein Obama’s wonderful life a year from today.” “In the dream, Obama is president and has just met with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jon Il. Then, Obama was going to ‘saddle up’ to Hezbollah.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
8. “All’s going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing ["Kumbaya"] together around the table with Barack Hussein Obama.” — at a McCain Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
9. “Don’t call him Barack Hussein Obama, call him ‘the Messiah.‘” — Telling Sean Hannity on Fox News
