Let’s play, ‘Imagine If A Democrat Had Said This’

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Rush Limbaugh 'Dreaming' Of Riots In Denver

DENVER -- Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments that appear to call for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.

"Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don't elect Democrats," Limbaugh said during Wednesday's radio broadcast. He then went on to say that's the best thing that could happen to the country.

Limbaugh cited Al Sharpton, saying the Barack Obama supporter threatened to superdelegates that "there's going to be trouble" if the presidency is taken from Obama.

Several callers called in to the radio show to denounce Limbaugh's comments, when he later stated, "I am not inspiring or inciting riots, I am dreaming of riots in Denver."

Limbaugh said with massive riots in Denver, which he called part of "Operation Chaos," the people on the far left would look bad.

"There won't be riots at our convention," Limbaugh said of the Republican National Convention. "We don't riot. We don't burn our cars. We don't burn down our houses. We don't kill our children. We don't do half the things the American left does."

He believes electing Democrats will hurt America's security and economy and appeared to call on his listeners to make sure that doesn't happen.

"We do, hopefully, the right thing for the sake of this country. We're the only one in charge of our affairs. We don't farm out our defense if we elect Democrats ... and riots in Denver, at the Democratic Convention will see to it we don't elect Democrats. And that's the best damn thing that can happen to this country, as far as I can think," Limbaugh said.

Later, Limbaugh downplayed his "dreaming of riots in Denver" statement, and said that he wasn't calling for riots and was referring to warnings of trouble if superdelegates decide the nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

Limbaugh's comments prompted Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to say, "Anyone who would call for riots in an American city has clearly lost their bearings."

Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar also responded to Limbaugh's comments Friday, asking Lee Larsen, senior vice president of Clear Channel Radio Rocky Mountain Region to reprimand Limbaugh.

"As I read Mr. Limbaugh's comments about riots at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, they appear to me to be a clear exhortation that those riots are exactly what he wants to happen," Salazar said in a letter to Larsen.

Denver will host the DNC on Aug. 25 to Aug. 28.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15980...il.html?taf=den

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Good on him. Liberals protest whenever they get the chance so why shouldn't republicans. Time we give liberals a taste of their own medicine and disrupt their lives as they have done for so many years. Force our opinion down their throats for a change.

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When you are a famous rich rep than you too can be a ###### idiot.

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Good on him. Liberals protest whenever they get the chance so why shouldn't republicans. Time we give liberals a taste of their own medicine and disrupt their lives as they have done for so many years. Force our opinion down their throats for a change.

Damn liberals protesting whenever they get a chance...

More than 150 members of Pro Köln, a Right-wing group, march in protest against the building of the 170ft high mosque in Cologne, Germany

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<cough> It isn't Limbaugh that is "dreaming" of riots in Denver. It's the far left. Limbaugh is just loving the idea that the left will continue to tear themselves apart. (and so am I ) So go ahead and have fun with Limbaugh, ignore the fact that it's your side that is doing it. Those of us on the right are just cheering you on! Go chaos!!! Woot!!!

Recreate ‘68 threatens Democrat convention in Denver

By Michelle Malkin • March 21, 2008 09:46 AM

“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that.”

Remember that quote. Protest organizers from “Recreate ‘68″ are throwing a tantrum over the Democrat Party’s permit process. Will they ignore it as an idle threat? Or, keeping in mind the history of left-wing violence against law enforcement, will they take the nutballs seriously for once? Via the Rocky Mountain News (hat tip - reader Katharine):

Denver could face a “dangerous situation” on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, war protesters said Thursday, after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.

“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer for the Re-create 68 Alliance.

“Blame the Democrats for trying to silence dissent in the city of Denver.”

The lottery for permits to protest, pray or hold other events in city parks during the DNC Aug. 24 through 28 resumed Thursday after the city bungled the drawing Tuesday by accidentally leaving out some of the applicants’ names.

The do-over went smoothly.

But when Jenny Anderson, event planner for the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, won the permit for Civic Center for a kick-off Aug. 24, Spagnuolo accused the committee of creating a “very serious, dangerous situation . . . for everybody.”

Re-create 68 - which has promised demonstrations that will rival those at the bloody 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago - will be at Civic Center on Aug. 24, with or without a permit, he said.

Via Wolf, more coverage from the Denver Post:

War protesters promised a massive conflict at Civic Center on the eve of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, after losing in a lottery process Thursday that awarded a permit for the park to the party planner for Denver’s host committee.

“We’re having our protest at Civic Center,” said a livid Glenn Spagnuolo, a lead organizer for the group Re-create 68. “We’re not going to give up Civic Center park to the Democrats. . . . They are creating a very dangerous situation.”

Re-create 68 and its affiliates packed the random lottery with applications to better its chances, but the single entry by Jenny Anderson for the host committee won for Sunday, Aug. 24. The convention will be held Aug. 25-28 at the Pepsi Center.

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Spagnuolo has been meeting monthly with city officials for a year, hoping to win the right to use Civic Center throughout the convention. He says 50,000 war protesters are coming for a march from Civic Center to the Pepsi Center on Aug. 24.

He said Thursday that he would not respect the host committee’s permit and would occupy the park, even if it forced police to intervene.

Referring to the $50 million in federal security money slated for the convention, Spagnuolo said Denver police would need “$25 million to protect the Pepsi Center and $25 million to protect Civic Center.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/21/recre...tion-in-denver/

The "Re-create 68" Alliance is a group of local activists who will be acting as a clearing house in order to disseminate information for resistance so the power of the people can be expressed as loudly as possible!

The "R-68" Alliance is made up of activists locally known as the All Nations Alliance. The All Nations Alliance sponsored the Denver City Council resolution that made Denver the first major city in the country to take a stand in opposition to the Patriot Act and was also instrumental in exposing the Denver Spy Files and the J.T.T.F.'s and F.B.I.'s role in those files, in addition to organizing numerous anti-war, anti-racism, anti-imperialism rallies actions and protest including the G-8 protest in Denver!

We believe that actions can best be coordinated by local grassroots efforts. We encourage national organizations' efforts during the convention, but we ask that you please respect the proud and rich history of organized resistance that exists in Colorado.

http://www.recreate68.org/album1_dnc_011.htm

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Good on him. Liberals protest whenever they get the chance so why shouldn't republicans. Time we give liberals a taste of their own medicine and disrupt their lives as they have done for so many years. Force our opinion down their throats for a change.

Damn liberals protesting whenever they get a chance...

More than 150 members of Pro Köln, a Right-wing group, march in protest against the building of the 170ft high mosque in Cologne, Germany

Steven, Steven, Steven. How soon you forget history. The KKK was founded by southern DEMOCRATS. Didn't you pay attention in school? Oh wait.. I bet the dems have revised history in your school. Here, I will educate you again.

KKK's 1st targets were Republicans

Dems credited with starting group that attacked both blacks, whites

Posted: October 25, 2007

1:00 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh

© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.

An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.

The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

"Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective," Barton said in his book. "Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings."

Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said.

"Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party," Barton writes in his book. "In fact, a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.

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"Contributing to the evidences was the 1871 appearance before Congress of leading South Carolina Democrat E.W. Seibels who testified that 'they [the Ku Klux Klan] belong to the reform part – [that is, to] our party, the Democratic Party,'" Barton writes.

"The Klan terrorized black Americans through murders and public floggings; relief was granted only if individuals promised not to vote for Republican tickets, and violation of this oath was punishable by death," he said. "Since the Klan targeted Republicans in general, it did not limit its violence simply to black Republicans; white Republicans were also included."

Barton also has covered the subject in one episode of his American Heritage Series of television programs, which is being broadcast now on Trinity Broadcasting Network and Cornerstone Television.

Barton told WND his comments are not a condemnation or endorsement of any party or candidate, but rather a warning that voters even today should be aware of what their parties and candidates stand for.

His book outlines the aggressive pro-slavery agenda held by the Democratic Party for generations leading up to the Civil War, and how that did not die with the Union victory in that war of rebellion.

Even as the South was being rebuilt, the votes in Congress consistently revealed a continuing pro-slavery philosophy on the part of the Democrats, the book reveals.

Three years after Appomattox, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting blacks citizenship in the United States, came before Congress: 94 percent of Republicans endorsed it.

"The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat – either in the House or the Senate – voted for the 14th Amendment," Barton wrote. "Three years after the Civil War, and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans."

He also noted that South Carolina Gov. Wade Hampton at the 1868 Democratic National Convention inserted a clause in the party platform declaring the Congress' civil rights laws were "unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void."

It was the same convention when Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the KKK, was honored for his leadership.

Barton's book notes that in 1868, Congress heard testimony from election worker Robert Flournoy, who confessed while he was canvassing the state of Mississippi in support of the 13th and 14th Amendments, he could find only one black, in a population of 444,000 in the state, who admitted being a Democrat.

Nor is Barton the only person to raise such questions. In 2005, National Review published an article raising similar points. The publication said in 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate the Little Rock, Ark., schools over the resistance of Democrat Gov. Orval Faubus.

Further, three years later, Eisenhower signed the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats, and in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd's 14-hour filibuster, and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats, including Tennessee's Al Gore Sr., failed to scuttle the plan.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=58295

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Gary, you can bet your family farm that today's KKK and the neo-nazi's are mostly Republican, but that's not my point.

It's not liberals the go out and riot but extremists. Extremism isn't a liberal disease. That's the point I was making to BY.

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Rush Limbaugh - You can't believe what this man says or thinks, if you do, than WOW Just the fact that his name is in the article, is enough for me to throw up. Why didn't he get locked up for drugs, he himself said that is what should happen to you when you use drugs. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He should be doing twenty to life for his drug habit, others are, why not him? Talk about slapping the American public's face, he is showing that it is ok if your rich and white to do drugs, but for the poor non-white folks, LOCK EM UP FOR LIFE. Please, if you buy his #### than I have some oceanside property to sell ya.

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Rush Limbaugh - You can't believe what this man says or thinks, if you do, than WOW Just the fact that his name is in the article, is enough for me to throw up. Why didn't he get locked up for drugs, he himself said that is what should happen to you when you use drugs. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He should be doing twenty to life for his drug habit, others are, why not him? Talk about slapping the American public's face, he is showing that it is ok if your rich and white to do drugs, but for the poor non-white folks, LOCK EM UP FOR LIFE. Please, if you buy his #### than I have some oceanside property to sell ya.

Thats a nice tolerant liberal viewpoint you have there. I see conservatives don't have a lock on hatred. Please carry on, I find this insight into the liberal mind very enlightening.

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Gary, you can bet your family farm that today's KKK and the neo-nazi's are mostly Republican, but that's not my point.

It's not liberals the go out and riot but extremists. Extremism isn't a liberal disease. That's the point I was making to BY.

Sure I will bet my family farm on it. Hate groups like that are usually anarchists. But people like you want to try and paint an entire group of people with the same brush. I have seen you post pictures of Klan members before when a republican issue was brought up. Your just as bad as those that your trying to insult. You are showing prejudice, generalizations and intolerance to others. Just remember that not to long ago the mainstream dems in the south were the race haters. Even your ALGORE tried to stop the civil rights movement in the 60's.

"Eisenhower (a republican) signed the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats, and in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd's 14-hour filibuster, and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats, including Tennessee's Al Gore Sr., failed to scuttle the plan." Would all these mainstream dems be extremists?

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Gary, how many neo-nazi's or KKK members will be voting Democrat this year? You've got to be kidding yourself if you don't realize that such hate groups nowadays vote mostly Republican. Now that doesn't condemn the Party per se, anymore than any of the left wing extremist groups that vote mostly Democrat. The point is, which Limbaugh conveniently ignores, is that extremists of any persuasion are the problem, not liberalism.

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Gary, how many neo-nazi's or KKK members will be voting Democrat this year? You've got to be kidding yourself if you don't realize that such hate groups nowadays vote mostly Republican. Now that doesn't condemn the Party per se, anymore than any of the left wing extremist groups that vote mostly Democrat. The point is, which Limbaugh conveniently ignores, is that extremists of any persuasion are the problem, not liberalism.

Ok, so you know how they vote do you? Tell me, which candidates espouse the KKK's point of view? Which reps currently call for the death and marginalization of blacks, catholics and Jews? I would be interested to know this. Looking back in the past, with a few exceptions, I can only find dems that have held those views. Come on Steven, enlighten me.

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Rush Limbaugh - You can't believe what this man says or thinks, if you do, than WOW Just the fact that his name is in the article, is enough for me to throw up. Why didn't he get locked up for drugs, he himself said that is what should happen to you when you use drugs. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He should be doing twenty to life for his drug habit, others are, why not him? Talk about slapping the American public's face, he is showing that it is ok if your rich and white to do drugs, but for the poor non-white folks, LOCK EM UP FOR LIFE. Please, if you buy his #### than I have some oceanside property to sell ya.

Thats a nice tolerant liberal viewpoint you have there. I see conservatives don't have a lock on hatred. Please carry on, I find this insight into the liberal mind very enlightening.

Gary, you know how Liberals think, right? They're "tolerant and understanding" of someone's viewpoint so long as that person outwardly agrees with them. Otherwise, that person is a racist, sexist, bigoted extremist lunatic who needs to be locked away until such time they either learn to agree with Liberals or they're written off as complete sociopaths.

In all fairness, Conservatives aren't much better about this, but at least they don't attempt to "hide" their feelings and motives behind the guise of "equality and compassion." That's what I find truly distasteful. If you want to think one way, that's fine. I don't really care. However, if you insist on publicly promoting certain values and ideals, do it. Don't say one thing and do another.

Edited April 26, 2008 by DeadPoolX

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Rush Limbaugh - You can't believe what this man says or thinks, if you do, than WOW Just the fact that his name is in the article, is enough for me to throw up. Why didn't he get locked up for drugs, he himself said that is what should happen to you when you use drugs. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He should be doing twenty to life for his drug habit, others are, why not him? Talk about slapping the American public's face, he is showing that it is ok if your rich and white to do drugs, but for the poor non-white folks, LOCK EM UP FOR LIFE. Please, if you buy his #### than I have some oceanside property to sell ya.

Thats a nice tolerant liberal viewpoint you have there. I see conservatives don't have a lock on hatred. Please carry on, I find this insight into the liberal mind very enlightening.

I dunno - there's nothing in that post which could be considered particularly "liberal", at least not unless you're going to indulge in cookie cutter politics and stereotypical generalisations.

The point I guess is that Limbaugh is an extremely controversial figure to a lot of people - my parents in law for example (both registered Republicans) think he's a bit of a #######.

If someone wants to take someone like Limbaugh seriously more power to them. But as informed political commentary goes - there's surely better ways to spend your time.