Zo wonders: Is Rush Limbaugh more like Hitler or Malcolm X?
posted at 8:10 pm on March 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
His conclusion, after a brief CPAC recap and ode to my beloved boss: Not at all like one, very much like the other. I wonder where Rush critic-in-chief David Frum would come down on that question. Both Hitler and Malcolm X were, after all, “saturated with race consciousness”:
The same applies to Rush’s yearning for a domestic failure for President Obama. His wish sounds (and will certainly be made to sound) like a wish for more economic hardship, more bankruptcies, more layoffs, more foreclosures. Nor is Limbaugh content to offer that wish for disaster only in his own name. He added in a broadcast last Friday, “The dirty little secret …is that every Republican in the country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so.” Those words too will be tossed into the teeth of every Republican in an economically hard-pressed district. “You won’t admit you want the recession to be worse – but Rush Limbaugh admitted it for you.”
Limbaugh explained at CPAC that he has some reserved private meaning to his words. He means only that he wishes the president’s harmful program to be rejected in Congress – or in some other way prevented from going into effect. But that’s not what the listener of the Limbaugh radio program hears, and frankly, I don’t think that Limbaugh’s CPAC explanation is precisely accurate. When Rush goes on to say that the only reason Republicans refrain from openly wishing for disaster is their fear of challenging a black-skinned president, as he again and again does, he is revealing that there is something more going on here than a mere call for more economic individualism. Limbaugh’s wishes for Obama’s failure are saturated with race consciousness – a race consciousness that Limbaugh (again falsely) attributes to the whole Republican Party. And he’ll be believed on this too.
Reid’s already pushing the “Republicans want Obama to fail” meme, in fact. I don’t think Zo addresses the subject directly, but I can’t be sure — my head’s always spinning after I watch one of his clips. Enjoy.
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toenail on March 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
correction! it works now!!
toenail on March 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I want him to fail. It will be good for America, and the free world.
~ ~ Cramer, who voted for the cipher.
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM
DO I have to listen to an idiot that couldn’t carry water for twit of the year. Easily dismissed which translates to “I hear your words but they have no meaning.
larvcom on March 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Godwin’s Law…
overload!!!!eleventyone
Joking, joking…
KingGold on March 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Where did you find this ignorant racist piece of dung?
Is he going to be the next White House Press Guru?
old trooper2 on March 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
I’m tired of this stupidity. Why should rush concern himself with what a moron like frum “hears?” How about frum puts a little effort into what rush is litterally saying? People cannot and should not be held responsible for what dumb people hear.
Zetterson on March 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Hannity had a track of Democrats wishing the Iraq war and Bush to fail, I wish he would post it on the web. …
tarpon on March 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I couldn’t believe that video of Larry King (of all people!) aggressively pushing the “GOP wants the country to suffer” meme. But the card the left is trying to play, as I see it is, “but what if it works, shouldn’t you support it?” That’s what King kept trying to get back to, and I’ve seen others do it as well lately.
I’ll probably take a (rhetorical) beating for this, but to me that seems like the rapist demanding we stop fighting and saying, “but what if you have an orgasm?”
There’s no room for honest policy disagreement anymore. There’s no room for the idea that I might honestly believe that these policies are harmful in and of themselves – that the loss of freedom and the encroachment of government is objectively harmful, EVEN IF we don’t have to relive the Depression, but especially if (as I believe) we may have to do. And that really just pisses me off.
Laura on March 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Good lord he talks fast! Maybe it’s the weird acoustics.
SouthernGent on March 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM
To whom are you referring?
amerpundit on March 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Zo12
bcm4134 on March 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Zo is adorable. He makes more sense than any leader of today.
His rants on the “plantation”, “slavery”, and the “40 years of spell” were fabulous.
He explains socialism, Hitler, the loooter/moochers being like Hitler, and Malcolm X, better than the media could ever imagine to, not that they’d want to.
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
This is definitely one of his hardest hitting. He is going to get a lot of hatefilled comments on this one :)
Spirit of 1776 on March 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
When everything is a lie how do we survive?
petunia on March 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Surely, you mean Al Sharpton.
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Shirley.
Limerick on March 3, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Did Zo peg D.L. Hughley and the New Slavery or what? TEE HEE!!!
baldilocks on March 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM
You get out from under the “spell” Zo refers to (for Chris Matthews, Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker it’s out of the One’s crotch).
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Zo, get rid of paypal on your website and allow for direct CC access.
Anywho, great perfomance as always. Few really know the differences, or more importantly, the similarities between Democrats and the National Socialist Party of yesteryear.
Multibucket on March 3, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Send Zo after DL Hughley.
Mike D. on March 3, 2009 at 8:34 PM
He sure nailed it, with authority. If only they could see themselves, if only.
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Oh, for crying out loud, Reid…
YES! YES! We do want Obama to fail so that the country doesn’t!
The level of craven, dishonest stupidity required to be a Democrat is breathtaking.
Kensington on March 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I wouldn’t be able to show my face in public if I had to pull the crap that Harry Reid does.
Kensington on March 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Sadly, though, he needs to go after all our ‘representatives’. We are really scroomed by them all, with very few exceptions. They no longer represent anyone.
The biggest joke is that the liberals pretend to be for the middle class, and the “little guy”. It’s all modern day serfdom. They don’t even hide the expoitation but the fools are under a spell, watching American Idol. They have the biggest, and emptiest idol in the WH, and are singing
kumbayaobamaya, while the country goes to hell, rapidly.Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM
“But that’s not what the listener of the Limbaugh radio program hears, and frankly, I don’t think that Limbaugh’s CPAC explanation is precisely accurate.”
Again, it’s very apparent that Frum does not listen to Rush’s radio program nor has he listened to his CPAC speech…….
Zo……..
………… +7%
Seven Percent Solution on March 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM
like a combination of David Copperfield and Gallagher….
sven10077 on March 3, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Good. Let him. If the moronic Porkulus had failed we’d all be much better off. And that’s just a tiny taste of the Hell that the idiot messiah is trying to drag America into. The only hope for America is that the marxist in the White House fails – just as Russia would have been lucky had Lenin or Stalin failed. But no, the Russians had to live with the successes of Lenin and Stalin for many dark decades. G-d forbid the same should befall the US.
progressoverpeace on March 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Did Rush really say that, or has it been misrepresented? It doesn’t sound like Rush to me — unless he was making some convoluted point about racism — because he has frequently stated that it doesn’t matter to him what race the President is.
jix on March 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM
I like Zo but I guess I’m just gonna have disagree with him on Rush.
terryannonline on March 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
God, I love intelligent people. Zo, you rock.
zeebeach on March 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Of course Malcolm X was a member of a fascist religious culy called the Nation of Islam. I think this rant is Zo’s way to give a massive head fake to the left. well done.
RobCon on March 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Obama and his flock of liberal sheep = Hitler and his Nazi party
Nice point.
TampaBayBull on March 3, 2009 at 8:46 PM
On topic that means you think that Rush is more like Hitler.
Entelechy on March 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Obama’s war on American ideals is lost.
sulla on March 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM
To me he is more like Martin Luther King.
Judging a man by the content of his charater not the color of his skin.
“I’m Free”
400lb Gorilla on March 3, 2009 at 8:55 PM
ZO IS AWESOME!
HondaV65 on March 3, 2009 at 9:06 PM
OK, that was smokin’.
rollthedice on March 3, 2009 at 9:08 PM
As always Zo,…Thanks for telling it like it is.
christene on March 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I’ve been watching Zo’s videos on Youtube for sometime now and he’s as brilliant as ever!
CrusaderPatriot on March 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Great stuff Zo! But how about doing it in a room that doesn’t have so much echo?
Maxx on March 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Another tour de force from Zo….
Another
steaming pile of shittour de farce from Frum.hillbillyjim on March 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I.
Love.
Zo.
D2Boston on March 3, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I like this guy, I do, but his clips are always rather long and he’s so intense, I just can’t make it all the way through one of them. I feel like I’d need a few cases of Mt. Dew in me to fully appreciate it. Good on ya, though, Zo.
CP on March 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
BTW, a funny thought just hit me, can you imagine this guy giving a speech at a GOP Convention?! LOL! How hilarious would that be?
CP on March 3, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Can we uh…
Can we replace Steele with Zo?
Skywise on March 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Newt Gingrich = Oscar the Grouch
Ya gotta love Zo!
Now that Michelle and Zo have met, maybe our favorite conservative video star could get a part-time gig here at Hot Air. I can just imagine the pro-Christian and pro-Rush bait posts.
Terrie on March 3, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Stand back while ZO opens another can of woop A$$
Badbrucskie on March 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I was wondering if Alonzo was going to be at CPAC… They should have let him do a speech. Maybe next year they will give him fifteen minutes. (They would be wise to do so.)
I’m sure I’d be just like he pretended to be if I got to meet Michelle…. But I’ll bet he was actually suave and debonair.
LegendHasIt on March 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Dude, if he’s racist, who’s he targeting with his racism?
jimmy2shoes on March 3, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Question to AP:
Why would anyone give a forum at HA to this asshat?
awake on March 3, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Malcolm X had left the Nation of Islam, before his assassination. From my perspective, it was most probably racist whites fearing his message going mainstream that assassinated him for it.
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I am a white male, and have heard recordings of Malcolm X, and agreed with much, but not all he said.
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Come to think of it I would say the same about Rush.
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Zo for Speaker of the House.
darktood on March 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM
ZO: When hasn’t he been!?! He’s Malcolm X, baby
Sultry Beauty on March 3, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Frickin Classic Zo. Sterling effort.
JP1986UM on March 3, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Laura on March 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I want the dems and Obama to fail so badly i want their policies to fail so badly that liberalism/progressism will be a curse word for 200 years into the future. I want Obama to do to liberalism what bush did to comassionate conservatism. Relagate it to the dustbin of history. I want all the idiots that voted for the twit to understand what a massive mistake they made and I esp want the liberal white guilt crowd to lose their life savings because of their boneheaded vote.
We hear all the time that elections have consequences. Maybe if the idiots that voted for this man see their entire personal wealth go down the crapper maybe then they will understand the consequences of their actions.
It is called tough love and liberals have never had to deal with it in their lives.
I hope and pray that Obama is a laughing stock by the time he leaves office.
unseen on March 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I like ‘Zo’s vids so much I put closed captioning on a couple for him… don’t know if anyone can read as fast as he talked on this one… Whew! Take a breath, man! On second thought, to paraphrase Halsey, keep taking it to them with everything you have.
TASS71 on March 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I usually need 16oz of Rockstar Zero Carb before I watch……about 250mg caffeine.
Zo is one talented communicator. We need a variety of methods to get our message out.
scruplesrx on March 3, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Anyone who thinks Alonzo is an ignorant racist piece of dung would be wise to ‘Check their premise’.
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Or perhaps just stop with their Freudian Projection
LegendHasIt on March 3, 2009 at 11:19 PM
As a fellow David, I’m going to have to hang my head in shame as Frum besmirches the name.
Find out what Frum would do, then do the opposite.
David Block on March 3, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Lenin almost failed. He came pretty close to failing. The only reason why he didn’t was because he bailed on true Communism/socialism at the last possible second and instituted market economics. Stalin undid those changes and almost bit the dust himself, but the US recognition of the USSR (from communist democrats on our side of the pond) came at a critical time.
If you get the chance, read ‘The Naked Communist’ by Skousen. It’s a pretty good view of Communism in that time frame (but it’s severely outdated! Nevertheless it’s a good read). Better yet, google ‘A time for Decision’ (or something like that): it’s a speech given by Ronald Reagan during the Goldwater campaign. It will make your head spin about what the goons in FDR’s admin did back then.
Chaz706 on March 3, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Looks like you saw a black man and had your own racism kick in. I’ll keep that in mind.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Isn’t this the dude that did the rap metal song about drilling in Alaska, and then to illustrate the problem he farted into his gas tank?
Rap metal and fart jokes. A little cerebral for my tastes, but funny nonetheless.
Proud Rino on March 4, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I can’t believe how many people still call Hitler right-wing, yet as Zo said, the Nazis were liberals.
Zo forgot to mention Hitler’s gun control.
jgapinoy on March 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Zo is good. He should be considered to talk at the next Republican Convention…
DL13 on March 4, 2009 at 12:30 AM
A Time For Choosing, Rendezvous With Destiny, October 1964
Mallard T. Drake on March 4, 2009 at 12:42 AM
The 25 points of Hitlers Nazi Party
Note in particular point 24 and point 25:
24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.
The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:
COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD
25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.
These read as very similar to liberal or “progressive” ideas.
You go, Zo!
Mallard T. Drake on March 4, 2009 at 12:54 AM
YouTube needs a SloMo button.
Shy Guy on March 4, 2009 at 1:46 AM
I like this idea.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 4, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Zo seems to be a pretty straight talker to me, I’d like to see him out there more, like CNN..
ahkjr33 on March 4, 2009 at 3:52 AM
This is getting so ridiculous.
I think it is safe to say Rush is neither Hitler or Malcolm X. I realize that Democrats want to make the GOP all Rush all the time in the hopes that their guy will look all wonderful in comparison..but they might live to regret that.
Rush on the other hand will get lots of publicity out of all this. It can only help him professionally.
Terrye on March 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM
I’d be interested to see if Rush’s listener ratings have gone up in the past couple weeks. I’ll bet they have.
And I love Zo! He needs his own television show.
ErinF on March 4, 2009 at 7:26 AM
I read what AP posted before watching the clip and it seemed like Zo was very negative to Limbaugh’s message. I them read the comment before watching the video and there was such a difference in responses that I thought I should probably watch the video.
Well, what do you know?! It seems like if you don’t watch the video you would come away with a bad impression of Zo. If you do watch the video, you realize that it is Frum making the negative remarks and not Zo. A whole different perspective and a realization of what a self-loving turd Frum is.
Vince on March 4, 2009 at 7:37 AM
ZO IS AWESOME!!! TAKE THAT DL THE CLOWN!!
Dubn8tr on March 4, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Zo rules!
sabbott on March 4, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Silly trooper, don’t you know that only white males can be racist? Black Americans are utterly incapable of racism for all time because white Americans used them as slaves 200 years ago!
[rolls eyes]
This is one of Zo’s hardest hitting videos. The part where he went after DL Hughley and the race peddlers was simply brilliant.
But Zo needs to find a room that’s less live for recording these. Someone get this man a dead space!
Harpazo on March 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM
fess up old trooper2… you read the quote and thought it was a transcript of what Zo was saying and commented without looking at the video
FLKraKa on March 4, 2009 at 9:20 AM
The man is of clear and agile mind.
ZO for RNC chair.
*scrambles for checkbook…Ahhhh!!!! Nothing in the account—–runs upstairs…breaks open piggybank*
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM
If people want to replace Michael Steele, how ’bout Zo?
oldleprechaun on March 4, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I like it the natural reverb, but he talks so fast that he needs to cut the reverb back so you can catch every delicious word!
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 9:29 AM
ZO is what makes U.S. strong and vibrant, why you ask? Because, he is real. He speaks his mind and is not afraid to tell us the truth – unfortunately many of U.S. do not want to hear the truth.
His delivery (the acoustics and speed) are what makes U.S. listen. The chosen acoustics keep the message coming back 2-3 times so we do not forget. The speed is intentional, the brain is capable of fully understanding a message delivered at 750 plus words a minute, but to understand the same message in text can only be digested at 200 words a minute. So the speed of delivery makes your mind to focus so you do not miss a word and the acoustics reinforce the spoken words.
The bottom line – listen and read later to reinforce your understanding.
MSGTAS on March 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I could be wrong but I think you are confusing the quotes from David Frum with Zo’s video. The snooty, elitist BS about Rush isn’t a transcript of the video. :)
mrsmwp on March 4, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Hey AP, how about an update to explain that the quote isn’t ZO.
Or is that by design?
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM
A PATTERN IS EMERGING!!!
ANYTIME ANYONE POSES A REAL SERIOUS THREAT TO THE DEMOS, THEY GO ON THE ATTACK…THE HARDER THE ATTACK THE MORE THE IDIOTS FEEL THREATENED.
SO PALIN, JOE THE PLUMBER, RUSH, ZO, AND ON AND ON CAN TAKE SOLICE THAT THEY ARE ON THE CORRECT TRACK FOR OUR NATION…
LET’S BACK THEM AND SUPPORT THEM WITH WHATEVER MEANS WE CAN!
Ltlgeneral64 on March 4, 2009 at 1:50 PM