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'All hands on deck, we've run afloat!' I heard the captain cry
SteveAudio —
... tried to capture an American ship, took the captain hostage, and were killed by Navy SEALS saving the captain's life. An example of sensible use of US military power, to protect US citizens and property from foreign criminals? Making sure the free market can safely export American-made goods? Swatting down third-world thugs who haven't worked hard for their reward, as the American Dream demands? No, it's racist cruelty and anti-Muslim oppression. Just ask Rush Limbaugh: RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, ...
Ahoy, Mateys
Shakesville —
Rush Limbaugh sides with the pirates. They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, ...
Limbaugh defends the teenage pirates of Somalia while a US Cargo ship evaded another pirate attack
Crooks and Liars —
Without comment:
RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black ...
Strange Bedfellows: Suddenly Rush Limbaugh is concerned about authorities shooting black men
Brilliant at Breakfast —
I don't recall hearing Rush Limbaugh spout any outrage when police killed Amadou Diallo or Patrick Dorismond or Sean Bell. But the whiny-ass id-driven two-year-old who dominates wingnut talk radio has all of a sudden cast what he would have called "terrorists" had George W. Bush still been in office as "black teenagers": ...
Suddenly Raising the Bar............
WTF Is It Now?!? —
The anal cyst-ridden, drug-addled leader of the Ruspublibot party supports Obama's handling of the pirate situation...... NOT: They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them ...
Limbaugh and Lee Harvey Oswald’s Mother
The Moderate Voice —
... “President Obama Ordered the Killing of Three Black Muslim Kids” is his own headline for this week’s Rush Limbaugh rant about the weekend rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Indian Ocean pirates: ...
