{"id":5179,"date":"2012-09-05T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:36:07","slug":"limbaugh-is-a-bloviating-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/limbaugh-is-a-bloviating-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh is a bloviating idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope 70,000 people surround the convention center and yell \u201cfuck you, Lush!\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Limbaugh: That &#8216;joke&#8217; Obama can&#8217;t fill &#8216;Black Panther Stadium&#8217;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh didn\u2019t just wonder. He asserted Wednesday that the stadium cancellation surely revealed that the president is in some sort of dire political straits. Along with Obama&#8217;s inability to draw a crowd, he also imagined what a crippling psychological blow this must be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have the ego Obama has, trust me folks,\u201d Limbaugh said, \u201cI know where of which I speak \u2013you\u2019re used to filling auditoriums and you don\u2019t fill them any more\u2014that\u2019s big. It is not new. He has not been filling arenas of 18 or 20,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is because Obama has become a \u201cjoke,\u201d and \u201cpeople laugh at him.&quot; Per his standard shtick, Limbaugh couldn\u2019t let the topic go without a racially-charged provocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow he can\u2019t fill up this 73,000 Black Panther Stadium,\u201d Limbaugh offered. \u201cThis does not make for a healthy environment and, I\u2019m telling you, when the crowds no longer show up, when you\u2019re no longer drawing crowds, that is a sobering day, that is a tough reality to face.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-limbaugh-obama-black-panther-stadium-20120905,0,5933815.story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-limbaugh-obama-black-panther-stadium-20120905,0,5933815.story\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-limbaugh-obama-black-panther-stadium-20120905,0,5933815.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope 70,000 people surround the convention center and yell \u201cfuck you, Lush!\u201d Limbaugh: That &#8216;joke&#8217; Obama can&#8217;t fill &#8216;Black Panther Stadium&#8217; Radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh didn\u2019t just wonder. He asserted Wednesday that the stadium cancellation surely revealed that the president is in some sort of dire political straits. Along with Obama&#8217;s inability to draw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/limbaugh-is-a-bloviating-idiot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Limbaugh is a bloviating idiot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}