Here's a quiz: Osama Obama - who coined it?

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-12-2006, 06:51 PM

Who was the first to say on national TV or radio.

I'll post the answer in a couple days, post your answers. Don't research it, I think this will be interesting.

I'll give you all a hint - its not an Iraqi cleric.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-12-2006, 09:38 PM

BAH! I can't hold it in. After you vote click on the video at Youtube

yustr · 12-13-2006, 05:40 AM

I get your point Jeff but it’s a rather lame attempt to make one. A 74 year old stumbles on a name - then corrects himself - versus a venomous blowhard deliberately using it to denigrate a United States Senator. By repeating it seven times its clear Rush is planting the seed (and fertilizing it) with his listeners that Obama = Osama. Even if they “know” that they are not the same guy by linking them he covers both with the same brush at a more guttural level.

If they fall for it, and I’m sure they will, then is that it’s clear that Rush’s listeners are as brain-dead as he obviously thinks they are.

So tell me again what point you were trying to make.

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Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh repeatedly called Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "Obama Osama" and "Osama Obama" during the July 11 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show. In criticizing a July 10 speech by Obama in Eatonville, Florida, Limbaugh added "Osama" to the senator's name seven times. Limbaugh justified his use of the phrase by explaining that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) had once done so.

bry623 · 12-13-2006, 06:06 AM

I voted for Unlce Rush.

My take is that Rush is using it, because that is what he does. (Hilary Rodham Rodham, DIngy Harry, Sheets Bird, Slick Harry, John Kerry [who served in Iraq], Drive By Media) He uses these as catch phrases which infuriates the left.

Now he is being blamed for comparing an African American to this century's Hitler (ha ha ha I Hitlered the thread) when all he is doing is poking a little fun at the Senate's best swimmer.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by bry623

Now he is being blamed for comparing an African American to this century's Hitler (ha ha ha I Hitlered the thread) when all he is doing is poking a little fun at the Senate's best swimmer.

He said he original goal was to poke fun and prove the hypocrasy of Ted Kennedy, and then it blew up. The fact is that this is somethig that the left started using and then the right got blamed for it. There are certain "taboo" phrases by right that only the left can use. Osama Obama is one.

Want some more Ted Kennedy hypocasy? He has several trusts set up in Fiji. He has never been to Fiji, neither has his family. He got 500 million dollars, and paid .04% on it. About $132,000. He paid taxes on about $ 2.5 million and the rest he got away because of the Fijian law. Ted Kennedy has referred to people who use tax shelters as crooks. I guess that only applies to others. The fact is that the left-wing all-star is hypocrit, and a liar.

I guess "do as I say, not as I do" would be a good slogan for most of the left.

The fact os that liberal ideas are worse and they are usually impossible to follow. Even those advocating them can't use them for themselves. (The) right is never ever wrong.

yustr · 12-13-2006, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffdrummer

... The fact is that this is somethig that the left started using and then the right got blamed for it.

Here's where your wrong. The one USING it is Rush. Think for one minute who's trying to gain from saying it. That's all I ask of you - THINK.

... (The) right is never ever wrong.

Let's see. You're on the right and you're wrong about this (and so many other things). Therefore logically there can be no right. So all the others who thought they were right must be pretty upset at you because you just, single handily, obliterated the entire right. Well done. And all this time I thought it was going to take thought and compassion to accomplish it.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 07:07 AM

Rush is using it - yes. Didn't I explain why? To expose hypocrasy, which is easy since there is so much. How mad does it make you when I say Barrack Hussein Obama? The left hates that middle name and calls the right petty for using. Yet the left kept calling George Allen, "George Felix Allen Jr."

And if I single handed just destroyed the right I must be pretty important. In fact I must be one of the most important people in the USA. But it is always true. Whenever the ideas of the right face the left, the right always wins. At least their ideas do.

**40sondacurb** · 12-13-2006, 08:36 AM

There is no hypocrisy, he slipped his tongue.

The difference is quite clear and if you can't see that then I'll have to lower my expectations, and I really don't like doing that.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 09:14 AM

Lets ask Osama Bin Obama, Osama Obama, Barrack Obama. Uh, if that was a slipup, then Kennedy might be clinically retarded. Its no secret that Kennedy doesn't like Obama. It wasn't a slipup. It is clear. He was trying to make fun of him. Now the left blames Rush Limbaugh for that moron Kennedy.

So which is it, is Kennedy just plain idiotic, or did he do it on purpose?

If he slipped up, then wouldn't making fun of George Bush's speaking be hypocritical?

I'm sorry if I make you lower your standards, does this mean you will only vote Democrat now?

**40sondacurb** · 12-13-2006, 10:16 AM

Standards?

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 10:26 AM

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Standards?

Expectations. Boy you are nit-picky.

bry623 · 12-13-2006, 11:52 AM

So it is OK for Edward to slip up, but if Bush makes one (or dozens) slip up in speech, he doesn't get to live it down.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bry623

So it is OK for Edward to slip up, but if Bush makes one (or dozens) slip up in speech, he doesn't get to live it down.

The fact is that everyone makes mistakes in speech. Maybe Kennedy screwed up, it is a pretty bad one. But I can see how it may have been a slipup, and he accidentally over compensated and made it worse. I think it would be in the Democrats and Republicans best interest to stop with these petty things. The only reason I posted this was exactly what I am saying: Both sides make mistakes and say stupid things. Its time to lighten up and laugh with, not at politicians. Even Bush acknowledges that he is not a linguist, and he laughs at himself. There are few politicians that do that these days.

**40sondacurb** · 12-13-2006, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bry623

So it is OK for Edward to slip up, but if Bush makes one (or dozens) slip up in speech, he doesn't get to live it down.

#1. Bush didn't talk like that when he was governor, so he has no excuse to all of a sudden get sloppy with his speeches.

#2. He's the president; that makes him target #1.

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Originally Posted by jeffdrummer

Expectations. Boy you are nit-picky.

Well they're two completely different things. One implies I'm lowering myself and the other implies I'm lowering my expectations of how low you will stoop.

yustr · 12-13-2006, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffdrummer

...The only reason I posted this was exactly what I am saying: Both sides make mistakes and say stupid things. Its time to lighten up and laugh with, not at politicians. ...

Agreed. But think for a minute about who is doing that. Democrats or Republicans? Sure late-night comedians make fun of Bush's verbal stumbles. But not elected officials. Yet Republicans (and you as evidenced by your avatar) jump all over Kerry for his stumble regarding our troops.

Now go tell that to your flame thrower Rush. He was clearly not having a "laugh with" Kennedy. He was following his normal path of, as Bry pointed out, using "these as catch phrases which infuriates the left". Except they don't bother the left; none of them do. Why? We don't listen to him! We don't have to be told what our position should be!

Making light can indeed at times defuse a situation. This is not one of those times nor was that what Limbaugh intended.

**Fox** · 12-13-2006, 01:46 PM

Oh my god I was just waiting for this to show up somewhere. If it's one thing I've learned, it's that Republicans love mindless catchphrases, and this one doesn't surprise me. Apparently some people don't have enough maturity to let some things go unsaid.

~~jeffdrummer~~ · 12-13-2006, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by yustr

Sure late-night comedians make fun of Bush's verbal stumbles. But not elected officials.

Wait, wasn't Bush elected?

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Yet Republicans (and you as evidenced by your avatar) jump all over Kerry for his stumble regarding our troops.

That wasn't Republicans, that was troops.
I don't believe it was a slipup, I think it was supposed to be funny, but it backfired. But that is beside the point. Troops were infuriated.

Are you saying all troops are Republicans?

EDIT: I never thought of this, you do know that these were real troop in Iraq right? This wasn't a stunt by some kids in California.

View Poll Results: Who said Obama Osama first?
Kathleen Blanco	0	0%
Condi Rice	0	0%
John Kerry	0	0%
Rick Santorum	0	0%
Jon Edwards	0	0%
Jon Stewart	0	0%
Rush Limbaugh	2	40.00%
Ted Kennedy	3	60.00%
Oprah Winfrey	0	0%
Muqtada al Sadr	0	0%
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12-12-2006, 06:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
~~jeffdrummer~~ Register user Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 870 OS: MAC OS X 10.4.8, and 10.5!! WinXP SP2	Here's a quiz: Osama Obama - who coined it? Who was the first to say on national TV or radio. I'll post the answer in a couple days, post your answers. Don't research it, I think this will be interesting. I'll give you all a hint - its not an Iraqi cleric. Last edited by jeffdrummer; 12-12-2006 at 06:56 PM.

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~~jeffdrummer~~ Register user Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 870 OS: MAC OS X 10.4.8, and 10.5!! WinXP SP2	BAH! I can't hold it in. After you vote click on the video at Youtube Last edited by jeffdrummer; 12-12-2006 at 09:39 PM.

12-13-2006, 06:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 11,692 OS: winxp pro sp2	I voted for Unlce Rush. My take is that Rush is using it, because that is what he does. (Hilary Rodham Rodham, DIngy Harry, Sheets Bird, Slick Harry, John Kerry [who served in Iraq], Drive By Media) He uses these as catch phrases which infuriates the left. Now he is being blamed for comparing an African American to this century's Hitler (ha ha ha I Hitlered the thread) when all he is doing is poking a little fun at the Senate's best swimmer. __________________ "If you aren't a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative when you are 50, you have no brain"

12-13-2006, 07:07 AM	#7 (permalink)
~~jeffdrummer~~ Register user Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 870 OS: MAC OS X 10.4.8, and 10.5!! WinXP SP2	Rush is using it - yes. Didn't I explain why? To expose hypocrasy, which is easy since there is so much. How mad does it make you when I say Barrack Hussein Obama? The left hates that middle name and calls the right petty for using. Yet the left kept calling George Allen, "George Felix Allen Jr." And if I single handed just destroyed the right I must be pretty important. In fact I must be one of the most important people in the USA. But it is always true. Whenever the ideas of the right face the left, the right always wins. At least their ideas do. Last edited by jeffdrummer; 12-13-2006 at 07:09 AM.

12-13-2006, 08:36 AM	#8 (permalink)
40sondacurb Don't be a menace Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,285 OS: Vista sp2	There is no hypocrisy, he slipped his tongue. The difference is quite clear and if you can't see that then I'll have to lower my expectations, and I really don't like doing that. __________________ Donate to keep the forum running

12-13-2006, 09:14 AM	#9 (permalink)
~~jeffdrummer~~ Register user Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 870 OS: MAC OS X 10.4.8, and 10.5!! WinXP SP2	Lets ask Osama Bin Obama, Osama Obama, Barrack Obama. Uh, if that was a slipup, then Kennedy might be clinically retarded. Its no secret that Kennedy doesn't like Obama. It wasn't a slipup. It is clear. He was trying to make fun of him. Now the left blames Rush Limbaugh for that moron Kennedy. So which is it, is Kennedy just plain idiotic, or did he do it on purpose? If he slipped up, then wouldn't making fun of George Bush's speaking be hypocritical? I'm sorry if I make you lower your standards, does this mean you will only vote Democrat now?

12-13-2006, 10:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
40sondacurb Don't be a menace Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,285 OS: Vista sp2	Standards? __________________ Donate to keep the forum running

12-13-2006, 11:52 AM	#12 (permalink)
bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 11,692 OS: winxp pro sp2	So it is OK for Edward to slip up, but if Bush makes one (or dozens) slip up in speech, he doesn't get to live it down. __________________ "If you aren't a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative when you are 50, you have no brain"

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