Thread: OMG! Limbaugh nails the liberal interpretation of "The Rich"

...You look at the number of dollars Mitt Romney has paid in taxes, charitable donations, and Mitt Romney is giving away 40% of his income, if you count his tax rate and his occasional donations and other things. You look at the way he's being castigated, though. I've had people, so many people ask me over the years, "Why? Why are all these rich guys all of a sudden so liberal? Buffett, Gates." Folks, there's a simple answer: The filthy rich will SAY they are liberal -- they will do things in public that reflect that they might be liberal -- to keep the peasants with the pitchforks away from 'em.

It's all a game! Have you ever heard of a family called the Kennedys? Have you ever heard of a family called the Rockefellers? Every filthy rich individual or family must spout, support, do (in public) liberal stuff. It is how they convince people that their wealth is justified and is untouchable. It is a protection mechanism. It is to keep the Occupy Wall Street crowd off of their front yards and instead on the front yards of people that work at AIG. That's all it is. And these filthy rich people who claim publicly and do in public liberal things are simply engaged in 100% acts of public relations. It accomplishes two things. It keeps the hordes away from you.

When the president comes up and suggests that the rich aren't paying their fair share, they never say it about Buffett. Why? 'Cause he says it about himself. "Yeah, Warren Buffett, he gets it! That's absolutely right. Bill Gates, he gets it." So, they're left alone. The hordes, the peasants with the pitchforks never seek them out.

The second thing that happens is that in many cases they end up being loved for it. The Kennedys were loved because it was thought that all they cared about was the poor, and the Kennedys never used their own money to fix any of this stuff. No liberal ever does. They always use everybody else's. But that's why they do this stuff. It's pure public relations. It also justifies earning more. All you have to do is say, "I'm not paying enough!"

Why do you think the Clintons run around saying (Bill Clinton impression), "Hey, hey, yeah. (chuckles) Yeah, I'm richer than you are -- heh-heh -- and you know what? I don't need that tax cut. I'm paying too little." Okay, fine. You get a pass. You're a rich guy; you and Hillary get a pass. We're not gonna hate you. It's simple PR, folks. I don't even know how much of it is real. I don't know how liberal Warren Buffett really is, but I know that Warren Buffett loves being in the news. His secretary up there in the House gallery, in the State of the Union, as a prop -- as either a hero or a victim, regardless -- as an example of the unfairness in our country is just simply appalling. ...

Obama's Disgusting Use of Warren Buffett's Secretary as a Prop - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Oh, this is so true to life. At the very least, Libs and Progs ought to be hammering their rich to do the right thing and volunrtarily fork it over. Maybe Gates and a few others are doing it. But what about so many others? Streisand, Pelosi, Hanks, Spielberg, Soros, and on and on. How about some investigative reporting in that direction?!

Can't wait to hear why you chew out the GOP rich, but never your own.

Originally Posted by Telecaster

Obama's Disgusting Use of Warren Buffett's Secretary as a Prop - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Oh, this is so true to life. At the very least, Libs and Progs ought to be hammering their rich to do the right thing and volunrtarily fork it over. Maybe Gates and a few others are doing it. But what about so many others? Streisand, Pelosi, Hanks, Spielberg, Soros, and on and on. How about some investigative reporting in that direction?!

Can't wait to hear why you chew out the GOP rich, but never your own.

What? Did Rush run out of Oxy-Contin again?????????