Rush continues to provide radio host Alex Jones with some competition peddling fringe conspiracies. Today Limbaugh theorized that environmentalists may have been behind the explosion of an oil rig that is currently dumping thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Because the rig exploded one day before Earth Day. And Al Gore told an audience to engage in civil disobedience to show support for environmental protection. And Earth Day was inspired by a river in Cleveland catching fire. And cap and trade was strongly criticized by “hardcore environmentalist whackos,” and what better way to “head off more oil drilling” than by blowing up an oil rig? His logic is airtight.
What more can I say?
What, no Hegel quotes? Nothing from Thomas Malthus?
Yes, airtight as always.
what more can i say?
top billin
that’s what we got
got it good
and since you understood would you
stop schemin and lookin hard, i got a great big body guard
Sounds like Rush has been reading too much bad Michael Crichton, though hey, at least he’s reading.
Why can’t the right wing EVER see facts for what they are?
Rush might be on info overload. This week Italian environmentalists almost blew up an IBM research facility.
hahahaha. you all just can’t understand the sophistication of limbaugh’s humor. “i manifest absurdity to expose absurdity”, as my only conservative acquaintance (other than my family) quoted rush as saying.
What, is Rush back on the drugs again?
I blew up some firecrackers in my yard week on Earth Day. Which obviously adds further proof to Rush’s claims.
Yes, of course. It is every environmentalist’s dream to blow up an oil rig, kill a dozen people, and cause the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez. Isn’t that obvious?
I wish our side could come up with such entertaining conspiracy theories…
I saw Rush and a crew of tea baggers spilling oil into Puget Sound this week.
Those radical extremist terrorists really DO hate America.
When is Rush going to die in a methane explosion from his own accumulated flatulence? Strike a match, Sparky!
It wasn’t Angelina Jolie and her first husband, it was that guy from all of the 80’s movies with the long hair. Too much anti-virus software these days. – Hack The Planet!
@3, you got me.
30 years ago, when Three Mile Island had its meltdown, right-wing editors were playing the same blame game: (inside job by anti-nuke activists to score propaganda victory).
@14 for the in-context 80s win.
Psst – I still have 40 3.5 inch floppy disk if you’re looking for the good stuff. Primo hard case with a bezzled slide action.
Or…
BP blew up their own oil rig knowing that everyone would immediately blame environmentalists, discrediting them, and paving the way for unlimited offshore drilling. Think, people.
(Unless Exxon blew up BP’s oil rig, so they could have their cake and eat it too.)
This shows you how out of touch Rush has become, even with his own “movement.” The only people who didn’t criticize cap’n’trade were the investment banks, who stood to siphon off billions in unnecessary trading commissions. The right hated it for the “cap” part, the left hated it for the “trade” part, and practically everyone was happy it died but the members of Congress who were lobbied to enact it.
Must say, you folks laughing at the right-wing’s conspiracy theories are doing a great job of forgetting the last 8 years of “the government was behind 9/11”, talk about some serious conspiracy whackos…
What’s funny about that accusation is that even if, and that’s one of the largest if’s possible, environmental protesters caused this they couldn’t possibly be responsible for all this. Emergency shut off valves aren’t working and BP is too incompetent to shut it off, begging the government for help, leaving BP ultimately responsible. Never let facts get in the way of good entertainment, he’s 2 scotches short of Ron Burgundy.
Environmentalists torch car dealerships in the name of mother earth. Why not an oil rig?
Leave The Oil In The Soil
Leave the oil in the soil,
the land and oceans we did spoil,
from pollution we must recoil,
we cannot continue to despoil,
and mix toxins to moil and roil,
for our water will start to boil,
then we’ll lose all our topsoil,
and all our dreams will uncoil,
while politics continues to embroil,
in a mortal economic turmoil,
the corporate takeover we must foil,
or we’ll be buried in the subsoil,
like a gargoyle with a trefoil,
we’ll wait through Nature’s toil,
as She turns us all into oil.
Leave the oil in the soil,
or from us, Nature will recoil.