Tom Ridge Throws Down Gauntlet On Rush Limbaugh
Washington—Having had enough of Limbaugh’s criticism of Colin Powell, Tom Ridge laid down the gauntlet on Rush Limbaugh, evicting him from the Republican Party. The event took place after the interview on CSPAN’s Washington Journal where Ridge took a strong stance, supporting Colin Powell and blaming Limbaugh and Dick Cheney for having “a mindset,” that doesn’t foster unity.
Rush Limbaugh responded in like kind, saying, “I must have missed something, because I remember that Colin Powell endorsed the Democrat, Barack Obama, at a strategic point in the campaign in 2008. And then he went out later and said, ‘Americans want more spending, bigger government, and higher taxes,’ before California threw that one in the trash.”
So this morning, Ridge went back on Washington Journal, responding to Limbaugh’s rhetoric. “I’m so sick of Rush Limbaugh. He’s the reason we lose elections. He needs to get the hell out of the Republican Party. As far as I’m concerned, he isn’t a Republican anymore. The man’s running. The man’s hiding. He’s too scared to face me!”
Ridge continued his rant, threatening Limbaugh. “Meanwhile, he sits there in his ‘Southern Command Post,’ and destroys the Republican Party! I’d like to just have three rounds in a boxing ring with that guy so I could shut him up! I’m caling you out, Limbaugh. Let’s see if you have a big enough set of marbles to back up your crap!”
Tom Ridge Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’l take u on in boxing or just plain fighting Ridge u punk.
Kevin
June 26, 2009 at 3:03 pm
WHEN WILL THERE BE COVERAGE OF THE SHEP SMITH CRIMINAL ALLEGATION FROM 2000?
SHEP SMITH RAMMED HIS CAR INTO SOMEONE- FELONY CHARGE REUCED AND THEN THROWN OUT
WHO DID HE KNOW?
WHY DID HE DO IT?
SHEP SMITH NUTJOB?
blondiegoodgirl
June 26, 2009 at 8:50 pm
What the hell are you talkimg about???????????
Michael Barker
June 28, 2009 at 7:43 am
Haha, someone doesn’t agrre with your fascist agenda and you immediately throw him under the bus. Too funny. And you are the same weirdo that probably thinks FOX is fair and balanced, that is if they kick out the one guy who says something different from the rest of the wackos one percent of the time.
jerry
June 28, 2009 at 10:07 am
Shep Smith Tubbed When He Stood Next to a Dead Body on a New Orleans Off Ramp Broadcasting After Hurrican Katrina. That’s Weird.
Newts Wally
June 28, 2009 at 12:23 pm
This just goes to show you how uninformed the Republicans are. The Rep want someone like Rush. He knows whats going on and he is willing to expose what is going on. Ridge is way off base if he thinks his rant is going to help. If Rush ran for President he probably would win.
sunny
June 27, 2009 at 6:32 am
Oh shit! That would be time for bumper stickers saying God save America!!
Qwambo
June 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Mr. Ridge would like nothing more than to see real conservitives out of the way. With them gone he might actually have a chance to run again. For what? Who knows. Certainly not in PA. PA is still rolling in debt from his last time in office. Let’s hope Ridge finds occasion to do a PHOTO OP holding hands with Arlen Spector. That as it was for Santorum, will be his first round knock out.
Dixieboy
June 28, 2009 at 1:10 pm
RUSH FOR PRESIDENT…..he would kick your A$$ Ridge!!!
Jacqlyn Smith
June 29, 2009 at 12:28 am
Tom Ridge is lower than a snake’s belly. You can’t spell body odor without a B O
Barry Hodges
June 27, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Now Now Kevin, You should not pick on old, washed up politicians. They are very fragile. Rush Limbaugh destroying the republican party.He speaks for me and millions who have no voice. Tom ridge is an @ss.
Jeff
June 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Jeff,
you are so right,this man has nothing to say good about
us conservative republicans,just runs his mouth to hear
himself talk,a wahed up has been.
GeorgiaDawg
June 27, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I love Rush Limbaugh and any one who dosnt isn’t truly committed to advancing a progressive agenda. He’s the best thing to happen to the dem party since Hoover.go rush go! Have another hit + blab on!
big Joe
July 1, 2009 at 11:40 am
At last someone, namely Tom Ridge, has the nuts to call Limbaugh out. Tom Ridge is 100% correct and more Republicans need to dump on the likes of Limbaugh.
Qwambo
June 27, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Tom Ridge? Well Break Out the Sheathing, Duct Tape and Bottled Water.
I think Tom Ridge’s Parents “Chose Life”. Why Doesn’t Liberal Tom?
Newts Wally
June 28, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Tom Ridge is an idiot!!! Republicans won’t win elections acting like left wing looney Democrats, or supporting them in elections!! If the Republicans want to win another election they had better take a page out of the Reagan playbook… We need a Conservative that will stand up to the left and strongly contrast the Socialist left’s agenda!! Tom Ridge does neither!! Tom, I’ll fight you as well, and you’ll find a whole bunch of people in line right behind me willing to do the same!!!
Scott
June 28, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Colin Powell is the traitor and so is Ridge if he thinks Rush needs to shut up…..Ridge go suck and duck!!
Jacqlyn Smith
June 29, 2009 at 12:30 am
Ridge is a RINO, he has no authority to evict anyone.
Bob McDougal
June 26, 2009 at 3:15 pm
RINO? Explain please.
AdyJay
June 26, 2009 at 10:22 pm
RINO means Republican In Name Only, AdyJay.
electivedecisions
June 26, 2009 at 11:23 pm
He is mad because he can’t get the Howard Stern show in his placid village of nowhere land. Semper Fi!
BOBOO23
June 26, 2009 at 10:53 pm
tom ridge you blow hard, shut the hell up you RINO.
james
June 26, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Who’s Tom Ridge???????
gerry
June 26, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Exactly, Gerry. Who is Tom Ridge indeed!
electivedecisions
June 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Exactly!
Kevin
June 26, 2009 at 8:10 pm
This is a joke right? Scrappleface? Tom Ridge has been nowhere and done nothing since he bitched up homeland security beyond repair. If this schmuck is such hot stuff let him run for office again and put his money where his crocadile mouth is.
rob
June 26, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Tom Ridge is a joke!
electivedecisions
June 26, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Ummm, Tom? You might want to watch what you ask for or you might actually get it. Rush is not above actually appearing to show everyone you have no (ahem) sunflower seeds in your own pants. Rush has only correctly identified you and others like you as RINOS. Truth hurts, don’t it?
X-Calif-Now-Kansan
June 26, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Tom “no-neck” Ridge All-Pro place kicker for the 1932 Albuquerque horned toads.
freeta goodholm
June 26, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Ridge, you are a loser.
KansasGirl
June 26, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I’ve been a Republican since 1963, I sure don’t need Tom Ridge to define republican for me. He is a go along to get along, finger in the wind, end justifies the means opportunist, with the moral fiber of a snake. He isn’t the only one either. The RNC keeps asking me for money, but my wallet is closed to Rinos.
Bob McDougal
June 26, 2009 at 4:30 pm
with the moral fiber of a snake.
You are correct, he’s a very low-down opportunist.
Snakes are far more moral fiber then that R(ino)IDGE,
so lets’ keep the snakes out of this.
john
June 26, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Agree totally….wish people like Ridge would stay home and stop causing problems.
arfdah
June 27, 2009 at 11:15 am
Notice the press only focuses on the Rinos? Last cycle it the Maverick. He was their Golden Boy…till he was handed the nomination by the dems in NH. The the “press” chewed him up and spit him out.
Jennifer
June 26, 2009 at 5:51 pm
This is the truth. Ridge has never garnered any support and his showing at the Republican convention was a real yawn. Let him and Colin ride off into the sunset as they never really supported the Conservative cause just trashed everyon that didn’t agree with their version of the world….
Joan
June 26, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Ridge is a loser!!
pj
June 26, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Tommy, you can’t hang–you’re nothing, absolutely nothing–just another spineless politician who’s trying to garner attention by mentioning a famous man. And,… to think that you are attacking a man who has YET to untie the other half of his brain behind his back. Oh boy, you’re in big twuble now.
Steve
June 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
your such a loser Ridge..join the DEM and good redence
Skip Coats
June 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Right on the money, Skip! He’s a Dem!
Kevin
June 26, 2009 at 8:11 pm
You do not even know that it is you’re and not your such a looser…
Qwambo
June 27, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Tom Ridge is a RINO has-been. Rush says it like it is and RINO Ridge can’t take the truth.
TCL
June 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Tommy sounds like John Kerry. Maybe he is just a big softy liberal in RINO clothing so he can ride the political fence and fall of on the side that benefits his political career moves.
He forgets, calling Rush out does not change who he is. What would be his argument for his leaving the Republican party? Sound logical to me.
ApplyCS
June 26, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Ridge is the biggest boob in the Republican Party by far as is Colin Powell. His future is not our future.
arkyump
June 26, 2009 at 6:29 pm
RUSH is right, Ridge is a RINO, Powell is a DINER (democRAT in nearly everyone’s rolodex).
jjr153
June 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Ridge, Snow, Collins, please leave the RNC, we finally got rid of Spector, we really need to clean out the Republican party.
Bernadette
June 26, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Tom, My family and I will be be leaving the Republican party with Rush.
Or should I say I’ll wave as the party goes the way of the Doo Doo Bird. If I wanted socialism I’d have voted for a Democrat.
This will be the last time I contribute or vote for the RINO party.
Mark
June 26, 2009 at 7:10 pm
RIGHT TOM RIDGE—-DOWN WITH THE BIG ONE
NAL
June 26, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Does Ridge remember why he could not support the repugnican pro-life platform ? Before he threatens anyone else with physical violence he should be examined at the VA . I hope he is placed on the firearms restriction list because he is a danger to himself and others . I hope he fights Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter , they have been causing RINOs to lose also .
nat turner
June 26, 2009 at 7:37 pm
There is a reason Ridge’s campaign never got off the ground – none of us ever believed HE was a Republican.
TexGal
June 26, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Rush has been losing elections for Republicans? Since when?
You ran Mc Cain- and he lost big time to Obama- who interestingly enough was supported by Colin Powell. Has it occurred to you that Powell cost the Republicans this last election? Perhaps if he supported the Republican party and McCain, things would have turned out differently.
Why doesn’t Ridge ask for time on Rush’s radio show to have this big showdown, where he “throws Rush out of the party”? I am sure Rush would welcome him.
Know Rush isn’t going on anyone else’s program just to talk to an underling like Ridge.
Joaneliz
June 26, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Tom Ridge – what a joke! Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, Arnold, John McCain and all those who worked hard to get these guys on the Republican ticket in all of the presidential elections need to switch parties or we need to start a Conservative party. RUSH IS RIGHT!!!
Jeannie Dunaway
June 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm
the weaker they are the more they want to blame someone else for thier failures. hey Tom take it to you pastor and take your new love with you.
wheel
June 26, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Ridge doesn’t have anyone to kiss up to now.
He mad about it.
Who said RINO’s are endangered?
Billp
June 26, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Ridge, Powell, Arnold: you are not Republicans!
You are only in the Republican Party to help the Democrats. Get out!
Rush is the only leader to stand up for what is actually what the Republican Party stands for: Freedom!
Ridge,McCain, Arnold, you are LOSERS!
Kay
June 26, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Wow , Sounds to me like obama got in Ridgeboys ear.
Rush dont bit. Ignore . This means your on target..
This shows who is who. Keep your head dont down
and keep teaching and giving info, we would not get if you were off the radio..
Its great that Ridge is Trippinn, Up your meds ,temper temper..
Great theater.. PS. Congrats on weight lose RUSH
jack
June 26, 2009 at 8:55 pm
My money is on Rush!
Tony B.
June 26, 2009 at 9:34 pm
MINE TOO. Go Rush….and by the way has anybody picked up on the anti South or Southern Rhetoric?
Linda of Boca Raton
June 28, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hey Ridge, I sense jealously.
KansasGirl
June 26, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I’ve got $20 that Limbaugh whoops Tom Ridge’s ASS!
Bill Higgins
June 26, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I want some of that action!! Rush wouldn’t even have to touch him. Just a stare from Rush and Ol’ Tom would go and pee his pants.
Gecks
June 27, 2009 at 8:42 am
Rush will verbally and factually destroy ridge come monday morning
whosebone
June 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm
WHEN WILL THERE BE COVERAGE OF THE SHEP SMITH CRIMINAL ALLEGATION FROM 2000?
SHEP SMITH RAMMED HIS CAR INTO SOMEONE- FELONY CHARGE REDUCED AND THEN THROWN OUT
WHO DID HE KNOW?
WHY DID HE DO IT?
SHEP SMITH NUTJOB?
blondiegoodgirl
June 26, 2009 at 10:46 pm
He’s a reporter. Who cares?
foster402
June 27, 2009 at 2:03 am
Get a life and get over it…in case you didn’t notice this story was about Tom Ridge and Rush not Shep.
George
June 27, 2009 at 12:53 pm
This is how Tom Ridge flushes his future away. Bye Bye Tom you can forget to write.
Alan H
June 26, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Tom Ridge, RINO, take a look at what the RINO’s have done to the Party; study Reagan and then come back and tell us why it is OK for Powell to vote for Obama and expect a pass from any real Republican.
DL13
June 26, 2009 at 11:10 pm
My RINO John McHugh voted for the cap and trade.
mixplix
June 27, 2009 at 4:04 am
blondiegoodgirl you really must be blond! The subject is not Shep Smith but Ridge and Rush. Hello – phones ringing – anybody home.
Here are ap more rinos who voted today for the “climate bill”
Mack-CA
Castle- DE
Kirk- IL
LoBindo-NJ
Lance-NJ
Smith-NJ
McHugh-NY
Reichert-WI
SO when your job is taxed out of the US then you might wake up.
What do you call a smart blond?
A Golden Retriever!!!!
Lighten up it’s just a joke….
JimW
June 26, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Some people are under the impression that Rush is a Republican. He isn’t. He is a Conservative. Or maybe a Liberterian or could be he is an Independent. Who knows, who cares? He is just what our nation needs.
marleymae
June 27, 2009 at 8:04 am
I would love to see Ridge and Rush debate the issues. I am glad to see that Rush always speaks his mind, and perhaps Ridge started speaking his. It dosen’t sound all that Republican to me..(an independent) I think if Ridge wants to call Rush out, then a debate on issues is what we would all like to see. The name calling, and fight invite says “childish” to me. This man is in charge of homeland security, sounds like he needs a nap, or perhaps a timeout!
Dragonaz101
June 26, 2009 at 11:19 pm
RIGHT ON !!!
Theresa
June 27, 2009 at 11:43 am
It is because of so-called Republicans like tom rich that I left the party and registered as Independent. His republican party is NOT the Republican Party I WANT to belong to. If what barry soetoro(barack obama) is doing is unity let him become a democrat. If rich, mccain & powell had the balls Rush has the party would have won the election. rich is out of touch with the people as MOST of the Republican Party is….thank GOD for Republicans like Sarah Palin and Rush. They are our only hope!!!
Lew
June 26, 2009 at 11:53 pm
That’s what I like about Rush; he separates the wheat from the chaff. Ridge-chaff. Rush-whole wheat!
foster402
June 27, 2009 at 2:01 am
The RINOs fear these two and they get a lot of flack from the republicans who don’t walk their talk.
mixplix
June 27, 2009 at 4:08 am
Let’s start some recalls. If these fools like Rich, Powell and wimpy McCain don’t want to support the Republican Party and are only going to bow to Obama’s let’s push to get them recalled…NOW!!! They are doing their best to let this half breed (Obama) to destroy this nation.
Now is the time to stop it.
John
June 27, 2009 at 1:11 am
Mr. Ridge is one of those “big tent” republicans. When I go camping with the wife and kids
I like a big tent too but I’m not going to let the skunk in just to prove what a nature lover I am.
paleocon57
June 27, 2009 at 1:11 am
I DONT THINK RUSH COST THE REP THE ELECTION AND I AM NOT A REP, BUT WITH WHAT WE HAVE IN CONGRESS I WOULD RATHER LISTEN TO RUSH THAN THE LIES FROM BOTH PARTIES,ITS SAD THAT OUR CONGRESS IS SO CORRUPT AND RUSH IS ONE OF THE FEW DEFENDING OUR CONSTITUTION OUR RIGHTS WE ALL NEED TO BE MORE LIKE HIM AND LET CONGRESS KNOW THAT WE BELIEVE IN THE REPUBLIC NOT CONGRESS OR THE PRESIDENT IF WE DONT WAKE UP REAL FAST IT WILL BE TOO LATE MAYBE WE SHOULD STAND BEHIND THIS MAN I HAVE ONLY LISTEN TO HIM A FEW TIMES AND HE MAKES MORE SENSE THAN ANY OF THE CORRUPT LAIRS IN WASHINGTON
barb
June 27, 2009 at 3:16 am
Who’s Tom Ridge?
http://anti-msm-news.blogspot.com/
equality 7-2521
June 27, 2009 at 4:07 am
Hey folks, lighten up on Ridge, he is just sticking up for his bitch.
dr_donn
June 27, 2009 at 4:14 am
Yes, RHINO Ridge, Rush does have a set big enough to take you on. Too bad all you’ve got is a big liberal left hug/kisses from Colin the liberal RHINO of the oops sorry I’m black set.
js
June 27, 2009 at 6:39 am
My money’s on RUSH! Tom, you can go hang out with all of you other loser has been RINO. RINOs are the reason the Republicans have been losing elections.
Josh
June 27, 2009 at 6:53 am
McCain was not the choice of most republicans, with all of the cross-over votes in the early elections the Dems realy picked him.
A must read, MS L.E. Ikenga’s article abouth Obama’s cultural identity.
Read and think about your choices, our future depends on it.
Jay
June 27, 2009 at 6:57 am
Rush pointed out what we all know that Powell who considers himself-a Republican voted for Obama-a Democrat, am i missing anything here???
beezu
June 27, 2009 at 7:05 am
Hey Tommy Boy, you attack Rush you attack me, and I think you need to just fade away into the nothingness that you are.
Al Morgan
June 27, 2009 at 7:42 am
My money is on Rush!
Dave
June 27, 2009 at 8:06 am
Is Tom Ridge the same dude who called our returning military and conservatives “Extremists”? What a jerk, wonder who pulls his chain.
marleymae
June 27, 2009 at 8:08 am
Lew, I agree completely. This is why we lost the election. I am now an Independent. We don’t need or want these RINO’s anywhere in Politics.
Left Coast
June 27, 2009 at 9:16 am
Republicans like Ridge are what cost us the election in 08. Republicans need to stick to basic conservatism, and leave the pathetic pandering lies to the Dems. This country has always been proud, and to keep her strong enough to drive back this alarming Socialist agenda, we need our values to be upheld by those that carry the party name. Otherwise, maybe it’s time for a new party. I hear the Libertarian voice singing softly in the wind now, which way the political winds blow will depend on the choices of those in office now. We are all armed and dangerous with our vote.
Duty Honor Country
June 27, 2009 at 9:19 am
Here we go again, let’s be more moderate, then the parties slip further left, another election, that same nonsense again, let’s be more moderate, this repeats until there is no sane decision maker left to save us from this downward spiral into left loony hell. Look back, at one time both the Bushes were considered moderates, (dad and son), what more could you want, someone even more moderate? Another republican party shift to even further empower the Democrats. What happened to the Ronald Reagan Republicans?
We have slipped so far into “bazaaro world” that no one knows what’s right and what’s wrong anymore, look at the Democrats, is there one non-crook among them? And Pelosi? She needs psycho analysis and that’s who they look up to, we watched elements of this party destroy the banking industry and cleverly point their crooked fingers at the republicans, and make it stick! Whenever the democrats are even close to having a scandal exposed, they point fingers points directly at the republicans.
You want to save this country from a Roman Empire like collapse? Then let’s get back to our real principles, attack these insane and socialistic programs, give us our choices back and I don’t mean the one’s that includes killing something not democratically correct to mention (DC CORRECTNESS).
So what will it be? Or is it too late? All the choices may have been made for us already, the new administration, with a new approach to their same old ugly ideas, wants to reclassify our lives, reinterpret free speech, and shift the burden of the unwilling class onto the working class.
The Republicans need to rebuild it’s platform, defend “American Values”, demand “Fair Trade” instead of “Free Trade”, demand equal time from the news media, publicize more, stop the apologizing for any and everything and most importantly stop exposing each other’s dirty laundry, weed out the moderate misfits and recreate an atmosphere that will draw a better class of citizen into politics.
Let’s start now, question why the democrats do not want Rush to be heard, why do they focus on a radio talk show host, why are they so afraid of allowing all opinions to be heard, is it they want to be the only America?
TOM RIDGE put your energy into protecting the party, stop caving in to the false believe that the republicans are losing because of it’s values and realize it was a PR war that we lost, the democrats keep picking and pointing, this is a daily barrage of attacks on anyone with the R before their name, replaying old accusations over and over again, replacing facts with propaganda in a style that would have made Hitler blush, and as far as Colin Powell goes, his political party either does not exist or he is a democrat straddling on the republican side of the fence, push him over, this man’s claims to fame are more image related than actual individual achievement. Good bye Colin, and don’t forget to take those “word wisdoms” and clever sayings you memorized from you desk blotter, brush up, you may need to spiel them again in four years.
To The Point: TOM RIDGE IS WRONG
Get To The Point
June 27, 2009 at 10:12 am
hey, jimbow, i know the topic, but i hereby change it; what do you think about shlep smith?
WHEN WILL THERE BE COVERAGE OF THE SHEP SMITH CRIMINAL ALLEGATION FROM 2000?
SHEP SMITH RAMMED HIS CAR INTO SOMEONE- FELONY CHARGE REDUCED AND THEN THROWN OUT
WHO DID HE KNOW?
WHY DID HE DO IT?
SHEP SMITH NUTJOB?
blondiegoodgirl
June 27, 2009 at 10:19 am
we dont care
more important things to worry about like stopping obama, pelosi and the dems from destroying this country
spankthecat
June 27, 2009 at 10:34 am
I don’t usually leave comments but I think Tom Ridge needs to leave the party… We need strong conservatives in the house, not go a longs like Ridge and Powell… I’m not sure wish one I’m getting tired of hearing “shutting up Palin” or “shutting up Rush”. Why dont they shut up??
Sounds a little like Obama bulling, Chicago thug, tactics….
Theresa
June 27, 2009 at 11:32 am
I voted for Ridge when he was governor in Pa. I believe now that the President is this country’s principal problem and that Rinos are merely fellow travelers. On to perdition!
Mike Smith
June 27, 2009 at 11:33 am
TAKE HIM ON RUSH !!!! OR MAYBE JUST LET GOV. PALIN DO IT… SHE HAS A STRONGER BACK BONE THAN RIDGE
Theresa
June 27, 2009 at 11:35 am
Tom Ridge, you are a cruel joke.
You have never held an office, unless it was handed to you, by men better than yourself.
Try running for office, on your own, see if you can make dog catcher somewhere …
You are a Republican loser.
You are something like 7-Up (remember the commercial? “Never had it, never will”).
You are a JOKE, your DHS was a joke.
It is STILL a joke under Janet Napolitano, who managed to turn the city of Phoenix into the kidnapping capital of the US! And was made head of DHS, as her reward for the outstanding performance!!!
Go away, find a pasture somewhere …
And I am a American conservative, and NOT a Limbaugh fan. Limbaugh is a show business geek, laughing all the way to the bank.
But, you, Tom Ridge, are STILL a loser!
http://www.youtube.com/user/StephenLoneWolf
Stephen Lone Wolf
June 27, 2009 at 11:40 am
I like Shep Smith . I use him as a TV newsman . When I need a chauffeur I will hire a Kennedy . As long as I live I will remember as the terrible events on 9-11 unfolded , Shep broadcasted live and ad libbed with great accuracy of what was known and what was not , throughout the day in a “grace under pressure ” manner that would have made Edward R. Murrow very proud .
nat turner
June 27, 2009 at 11:44 am
nat turner,
shep is now the an antithesis of objective
and why did he ram someone with his car and how did he weazel out of legal responsibility for it? is he nuts, yes or no?
blondiegoodgirl
June 27, 2009 at 12:28 pm
No , Shep is not nuts . He doesn’t even have a car . If he was driving no one was rammed . If he was driving and some one was rammed they probably deserved it . The police investigated and recognized he had done nothing wrong and the charges were dropped by the D.A. It is called good police work and prosecutorial discretion .
nat turner
June 27, 2009 at 1:53 pm
One more minor point . When someone uses gonadal references as euphemisms for courage , I think their ovaries might not go all the way to the top as is required for lucid thought , and they should be ignored by those wishing to engage in civil discourse about important issues .
nat turner
June 27, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Rush would destroy this MORON in a debate! If it is going to be a battle of wits Rush should refuse to take on an unarmed idiot! Colin Powell is a traitor to his party and voted for the worst President this Beautiful Country has ever seen! WAKE UP AMERICA!
Jim
June 27, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hey Tom, just get out of town,
and take your duct tape and
plastic with you. You are a
loser.!!!!
Howie
June 27, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Nice one Howie!
Bill
June 27, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Tom Ridge and his kind (Colin Powell the most reluctant warrior it has ever been my displeasure to meet) have been the reason that Republicans have looked like weak sisters for the last 2 elections. I’m a conservative. So he wants to fight? Fine. If Rush, who has never held elected office, (like ridge) and has never sold out (like ridge) and only sways people with the power of his thoughts and words (unlike ridge) doesn’t want to fight a soft weak little Nancy like Ridge, I don’t blame him. Tell Ridge to give me a call. I doubt he would have the onions to face a simple American citizen who is tired of HIS crap. He wouldn’t last 15 seconds against me or any of the other conservatives I know….Including my 65 year old mother or 33 year old wife…maybe not even my 2 year old son)!
Bill
June 27, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This is what happens when you can’t face the truth – you’re reduced to thuggery!
Tish
June 27, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Ridge is an embarrassment to Pennsylvania. He needs to leave the Republican Party AND Pennsylvania. He can move to Chicago and become an Obamass mobster.
Real American
June 27, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hay Ridge, why don’t you go have lunch with Spector? You don’t know ditty about the Republican Party!!
truth be told
June 27, 2009 at 5:26 pm
LAW OF THE LAND
Fox’s Shepard Smith goes unpunished
News anchor arrested for hitting woman with car, charges dropped
Posted: July 09, 2001
1:00 am Eastern
By Julie Foster
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
Shepard Smith’s mug shot
Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith will go unpunished for what police say was aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.
On Friday, Nov. 17, during the Florida presidential election fiasco, Smith was arrested for allegedly driving his car into another reporter who was standing in a parking space she attempted to save for a friend. The victim, freelance journalist Maureen Walsh of Tallahassee, was hospitalized and released later the same day with bruises on her knees and legs.
According to Sgt. Edwin Maxwell, Walsh was standing across the street from the state capitol when Smith drove up and “shouted some profanities at her and basically just struck her, striking her at the knees, which threw her up on the car,” he told the St. Petersburg Times.
After a few case-management hearings between attorneys and the court, the charges against Smith were dropped, said the Leon County state attorney’s office.
Smith, who used to be a reporter for 20th Century Television’s “A Current Affair,” was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a motor vehicle. The felony charge came with a $10,000 bail price tag, which Smith produced so he could return to work. The story, while reported briefly by local publications and wire reports, quickly fell off the media’s radar.
WorldNetDaily has kept tabs on the case exclusively in its weekly “Backroom” editions, available for free to subscribers of WND’s e-mail alerts.
The super-star television personality also went unpunished by his employer, the Fox News Network. Fox spokeswoman Irena Stefan characterized the case earlier this year as a non-story, saying there is “no news to report here.” She also explained that Smith had not been reprimanded by the network “because no charge has been made.”
On the contrary, Smith was charged with a felony the day of the offense. The charge was later downgraded to a misdemeanor – not an uncommon practice, according to the state attorney’s office – and the anchor pleaded not guilty.
Smith anchors Fox New Channel’s “Fox Report” weeknights at 7 p.m. Eastern.
blondiegoodgirl
June 27, 2009 at 5:41 pm
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/dsmithmug1.html
blondiegoodgirl
June 27, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Thank you for that additional information . I now know why the D.A declined to prosecute . Maureen Walsh was discovered to be a professional freelance flopper , someone who fakes auto-pedestrian accidents . Flopping is sadly often the only scam available to uneducated women of subnormal intellect when they are too homely for prostitution .
nat turner
June 28, 2009 at 12:21 am
Please Tom Ridge, sit down and be quiet. You didn’t say much when you tried to run for the Presidency and you still say nothing when you speak.
Rockn350L
June 27, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Yeah, Tom, shut up! You were a worthless second choice for homeland security, a so so governor of my home state, and a sorry excuse of a trojan horse for the liberals. You show up in my town, you had better pack coin rolls in those boxing gloves. You wouldn’t last three seconds with me, let alone three rounds. Bring Murtha with ya’! He’s another one who needs to go to greener pastures out in Amish country.
colorblindwhitey
June 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Ridge is not a republican. He is a stealth semi-leftist. Sound radical? Not so… he is the kind that compromises and gives away the farm. He is also the kind that cannot use reasonable arguments in a debate so he falls back to threats of violence and challenges to totally unrelated contests (boxing in this case which is a red herring). I am a 295lb powerlifter who could swat Tom Ridge like a fly. But what would that prove? It would feel good for sure, but it would not be a free exchange of ideas competing in the court of reason. His comments should disqualify him from membership in the Republican party.
People, it is time we take back that party from the country-club check-pansed money boy globallists like ridge and get on with the American dream.
PlainSpoken
June 27, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Honestly PlainSpolen, if you sat on Ridge, I would giggle a bit.
I am a conservative, but I will not leave the Republican Party. Why? I want to elect conservatives in the primaries so the nation will have conservatives to vote for at election time. If all the conservatives leave the party, then we get nothing of John McCain clones year after year. I just won’t send any money until they have someone I can support.
FlashGordon1023
June 28, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Gee Tom, where was all this ire toward democrats when they were trashing bush at every turn? Was that propmoting unity? Where were you when Reid said that he “hated” John McCain? Another unity meeting?
Rush is not the reason republicans are losing elections. The reasin is that lately all we’ve had to vote for on the national level is democrat lite. Why vote for someone pretencing to be democrat when you can vote for the real thing and know what you are getting?
l;astrep
June 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Ridge & Powell are both liberals, Rush is a true Conservative. Go RUSH!!!!!
Jim, Redding CA
June 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Moron — YOU are the reason we lose elections. You and people like you, like John McLame.
Sorry, Ridge, but you had your chance — you got the candidate you wanted, who espouses the philosophy you say the Republican party should embrace, and he lost. Lost to a very beatable, radical, anti-American community organizer whose radical associations, extremist record and political views, and very shady past should have put him in Dukakis territory.
You had your chance, you blew it, now get off the stage before we throw you off.
chuckyschmucky
June 27, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I saw Tom Ridge Interview with John Roberts on CNN a few weeks ago and he could not even say he was a Republican….Rush speaks for me and I am glad to have him to put some Sanity into eac h day I have to listen to NOBAMA,PELOSI REES,FRANK,DODD and the rest of the LIARS!!! Where the HELL is
Ernie
June 27, 2009 at 7:53 pm
RINO party leaders Tom Ridge and Colin Powell are both Bush appointees
That says all you need to know about BUSH, The RINO in chief that got us into this mess!
ReddST
June 27, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Where would the Republican party be without Rush? Probably several million members short of doing anything effective. Rush is entitiled to his opinion and the reason it maddens some of the old gaurd in the party is that they know Rush is right. We elected the Republicians in 1994 with the help of broadcasters like Rush. The Republicians lost their way and are now angry because someone has called them out on what they do and say.
A perfect example of this was Friday we 8 republicans voted to deminish this country through a CAP & TAX bill that will cost millions of Americans job. This was a shameful act.
I would be willing to bet that not on of those 8 Republicians had read the bill in it entirity before voting yes, They should lose their jobs.
Reader2551
June 27, 2009 at 10:17 pm
What are you SUDDENLY AFRAID OF that you “throw down the gauntlet“ at Rush, Tom Ridge? Conscience startin’ to bother ya’? Worried your gonna lose your income and benefits? Worried about where you’ll find a real job? Maybe you’re worried CAP ‘N TRADE won’t make it? Maybe your gonna vote on Obama’s Health Plan to ‘let the old die young’ just so you can gain favor with the New World Order? If so, you ain’t got a leg to stand on, Tom. You’re gonna die – sooner or later – just like the rest of us, except for those of us going up when JESUS returns for HIS OWN. You goin’?
RUSH LIMBAUGH is in the arena – hitting the ball out of the park – day, after day, after day – teaching men, and women, to search out truth, and think for themselves. He doesn’t try to control us like you mug-wumps (mug on one side of the fence; wump on the other). Rush “walks his talk,” and consistently demonstrates the tool of “critical thinking” so we can learn to analyze, and do more than “just survive” in this world… a world that you and your cronies, and Obama and his comrades, are sucking the LIFE OUT OF! Who really LOVES AMERICA, and cares about AMERICANS? No Question, Tom… RUSH LIMBAUGH.
Oh, yeah… and one more thing. You said something about “marbles?” YOU wanna talk “marbles,” Tom? OK. I’m a gal, so pardon me while I blush, as I tell ya’ what my Daddy used to say, ’cause if your Daddy had told you, you wouldn’t be wearin’ DEM shoes, today. Daddy said, “It takes a big man to grow hair on his chest, but it takes ONE HELL OF A MAN to keep it worn off.” Better go get yourself a tube of Sunscreen-SPF 64, Tom Ridge. The parade’s passing you by. You lose.
BTW: RUSH ALSO ACCURATELY CALLS “DEM BALLS,” l-o-n-g before YOU ever see DEM pitches. He calls it “talent-on-loan-from-GOD.” Maybe you ought-a not mess with the man, Tom… just a suggestion but – you suit yourself.
la voce
June 27, 2009 at 10:18 pm
By the way. Has Rodge thrown Michael Steele out and RNC Chair? Mr. Steele better make sure UNCLE TOM
Dixieboy
June 28, 2009 at 1:24 pm
The last I know Michael Steel was the RNC Chairman. Monday morning Mr. Steel may want to check to see if O’LL UNCLE TOM AIN’T THROWED HIM OVERBOARD.
Dixieboy
June 28, 2009 at 1:26 pm
This has been a long time coming. Our mistake was in ever voting for “the lesser evil” the first time. Now, they don’t think they need us any more. That may be, but they will not get my support, now or in the future, until I see them looking out for my interests once again.
Bob McDougal
June 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I also switched from Republican to Independent because the Republican party began acting too much like the Democrats, of which I certainly wanted no part of. It’s RINO’s like Ridge, Powell and McCain who caused the Republicans to lose the election.
ElRushbo, I commend you for the great things you do by keeping the public informed about the treachery in the political world. Keep up the good work, sir!
gracie935
June 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I agree I have switched to Independent!!!
Mike
June 29, 2009 at 7:39 am
Tom Ridge and people like him are exactly whats wrong with the Republican party. They used to stand for conservative values and priciples. The last 8 years it’s been nothing but spend spend spend and let illegals in. WTF is wrong with these ass@*$#!? We need a real conservative that believes and small government, people rights and most important, the Constitution.
p t barnum
June 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm
As a former Pennsylvanian, I am ashamed of Tom Ridge and Arlen Specter and Colin Powell——-all RHINOS.
Go Tom, Arlen is waiting for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dolores De Armas
June 28, 2009 at 3:50 am
Tom Ridge and Colin are the reason we keep losing elections, when ever we have a true conservative we when elections, it is a shame that we can not get the RINO’s to see this and be real men!!!!
Roger
June 28, 2009 at 6:11 am
I hope the Republican leadership understands that Americans are craving a real alternative to the liberal Democrat policies / stances – not a watered down version of the same.
Since 40% of Americans say they are conservative, Republicans need to vocalize the Conservative message:
Freedom + Personal Responsibility = Opportunity
Phil Sukalewski
June 28, 2009 at 6:47 am
the best way to proove a fool he is wrong,is to let him have his own way. Be carful tom you saw what happend to Harry Reid.
bob
June 28, 2009 at 7:31 am
Tom Ridge and so-called Republicans like him are the reason Republicans lose elections. He has no standing nationally at all. And, as a former Pennsylvanian, I believe I speak for millions of western and central Pennsylvanians when I say that he never had any standing among us as well. Tom Ridge is the coward, not Rush Limbaugh.
NDA
June 28, 2009 at 7:48 am
If Tom Ridge and the Republican Party spent as much energy and time fighting liberals an liberal policies as they do falling for Obam’s focus on eliminating Rush Limbaugh they might win an election. Instead they focus on eliminating a large part of their own base.
Kara
June 28, 2009 at 7:49 am
If Tom Ridge and the Republican Party spent as much energy and time fighting liberals an liberal policies as they do falling for Obam’s focus on eliminating Rush Limbaugh they might win an election. Instead they focus on eliminating a large part of their own base.
Kara
June 28, 2009 at 7:49 am
Rush could take Tommy boy with one arm tied behind his back just to make it fair. Who the heck is Ridge anyway, never heard of the guy until he worked for Bush.
Linda B.
June 28, 2009 at 8:14 am
This is great. The battle continues. The Republican Party is in danger of complete disinegration and you rubes here in this comment section are just helping it along. Keep up the good work. If you are successful, by 2012 Obama will be a shoe-in with the Senate having around 70 Democrats. At that time we will do away with DOMA, as well as Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, ensure unions can organize without secret ballots, and universal healthcare is a reality like the rest of the civilized world. Oh yes one more thing, Judge Sotomayor will look like a conservative with subsequent Supreme Court nominations from President Obama.
John Cook
June 28, 2009 at 8:27 am
You are living in a fantasy world just like the rest of you LIBS. GET A BRAIN!!!!!!
Mike
June 29, 2009 at 7:35 am
The reason that the republicans keep losing elections is because idiots like Tom Ridge. Why would you want someone in the party who supported the other guy. This goes to prove what kind of loser attitude republicans like Ridge have. The future of our country is on the line. It is past time for real Americans to stand for our values and ideals. What we have now is the turning away from Aerican values. It was more important to elect the first black president that to elect a good president that was the irst preisident who was black. All we got was a neighborhood organizer wo can’t find his butt with a GPS.
FindTheMorons
June 28, 2009 at 8:31 am
Mr. Ridge has all the bluster to call out a private citizen, to challenge him, but not a hair on his @ss to call out the criminals, both Dem & Rep in Congress. He is a disgrace to the oaths he took to speak & protect the un-elected in the USA. I would slap his face and challenge him to a duel for his total dishonesty. We are the government, not the 535 #ssholes (plus two) we currenlty have elected. It is time to take the US government back.
Mr. Smith
June 28, 2009 at 9:23 am
Take a walk Tom! And take Colin, Steele, and Arnold with you. It is time for true conservatives to take a stand. This PC crap is costing us our children and our souls. We think that by compromising with the immoral or amoral libs that they will reciprocate , but they only take what we give and use it for leverage to take more.I for one , will fight and die before I sacrifice my childrens future , Earthly and eternal, to appease the left. Stand strong God bless
George
June 28, 2009 at 9:26 am
Tom Ridge,
So much for uniting everyone.
Your words have a resounding devisiveness to them.
Bob Keller
June 28, 2009 at 10:57 am
Tom Ridge? Oh yea wasn’t he the one that got Duct Tape stock to go up by telling us to use it for protecting our homes from biological and chemical attack? Oh yea, you know he has to be listened to, NOT! Standby Tom, Rush is going to have a field day on your azz tomorrow!
Freedom Rider
June 28, 2009 at 11:55 am
Tom Ridge – bye bye. In my opinion, you & Colon Powell are near worthless.
Bye bye, to both Ridge and Colon, with all due respect, of course.
PiggDogg
June 28, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Tom Ridge?
Well Break Out the Sheathing, Duct Tape and Bottled Water.
I think Tom Ridge’s Parents “Chose Life”. Why Doesn’t Liberal Tom?
Newts Wally
June 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I would like to promote the rules for the exchange. Here they are:
1) Contestant 1 States a Fact
2) Contestant 2 must disprove what contestant 1 said.
3) If contestant 1’s fact is correct then contestant 2 must take a lick from contestant 1.
4) if Contestant 2’s fact is correct then contestant 1 mst take a lick from contestant 2
5) Last man standing would be HMMMMMM?
rj4net
June 28, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I have always liked Tom Ridge…I have always like Rush Limbaugh more…I’m sorry Mr. Ridge told Rush he wasn’t a republican any more…Rush makes more sense when he speaks than any other conservative I have listened to…Democrats fear Rush…don’t believe they fear Mr Ridge…Still like Tom but I think he should apoligize…
Rod Wamsley
June 28, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Tom……calm down! Rush does speak for me!
Sorry, I think you called it wrong, Tom!
Miss Daisy
June 28, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Tom Ridge is a RINO not a conservative. He is the reason we can not win an election because he has abandoned everything the Republican Party should stand for.
Rush only speaks the truth and never backs off from it. We need some politicians like him with some marbles.
Ridge like most Democraps in sheep clothing, wants to fight what they canno defeat in the arena of ideas.
dr
June 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm
If Tommy Boy wants Rush out of the”GOOD OLD (boy) PARTY,” I am out too.
I have already notified the NRC to take me off their mailing list until they hear from me. That will be never as long as the RHINOS are mouthing off,trashing Rush and playing footsie with the Socialists.
We need J.C. Watts, who is a “real American” (not an African Colonist) to come out of retirement and articulate our side of the argument.
Sam
June 28, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I have also requested that my name be dropped from the RNC donation mailing list. The RNC wont see another penny out of me until they get it through their fat skulls that it is RHINOS like Ridge that are the problem and not a part of the salutation. Any donations on my part will go directly to a representative I am 200% sure is in line with conservative values.
Steve
June 28, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Good for you Steve we should all do the same….MONEY TALKS!!!!!!
Mike
June 29, 2009 at 7:27 am
Hey Tom…guess what….Rush Limbaugh is NOT a Republican. He’s a Conservative…and you are not fit enough to lick the shoes that Rush wears….MORON!
What are we now, in 5th grade? You want to fight Rush on the kickball field…..seriously. YOU and your Republican idiot comrades are the reason why we lost this election. You all are a bunch of cowards and until you all get your heads out of your a$$’ we will continue to fail again and again….I say we because until they put “Conservative” on the ticket I have to remain a Republican…but you make me sick doing it!!
GROW UP AND GET TO WORK….and for once in your life….LISTEN TO RUSH LIMBAUGH BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY SHOT IN HEII YOU HAVE TO WIN in 2012!!! idiot!!
KJW
June 28, 2009 at 6:51 pm
When is Texas going to secede so I can move there and become a citizen of that country?
Rich
June 28, 2009 at 7:01 pm
This guy just cracks me up! If he did have anything left in the political world, he just finished sweeping it into the dust pan. When are these blowhards going to get it? You think that you can diss Rush L. and it’s going to change the political world? Rush isn’t running for office. He’s the messenger of facts. As others have said, Ridge is a RINO with the rest of ‘em, Powell, McCain, Graham, etc. And yeah, that’s why “pubs” keep losing. Get real conservatives in the mix and watch what happens! Never mind these whiners who just want to get their share of the spotlight.
Jayjay
June 28, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Ridge Sucks! Traitor! Another one afraid of the truth. Shame on you Ridge! Limbaugh speaks for MANY of us. So get your head out of the Obama/Polosi/Reed butt! Grow up, idiot.
PAJean
June 28, 2009 at 10:48 pm
It would be great if we had something that we could use to determine if someone was actually in agreement with what the majority of the party wanted. Maybe we shoudl set up a process where the actual members of the party got together and took note of what the beliefs and positions of the party should be. Not a few fat cats, but the grass roots people in every city. Those ideas could then be be brought up to a county convention in each state, voted on by representative chosen by the people, then again presented and voted on at a state level. Finally, delegates selected from each state could meet at a national level to create a national party platform, stating the beliefs and positions of the membership of the party. Oh, wait… we do that. The Republican party actually has a platform that we can use to determine what the party actually stands for. Now, who do you think agrees with more of that platform… Ridge (who did not secure the border when he was in charge of DHS), or Rush (who defends the planks that Ridge wishes would simply go away).
The reason that Barry O is in the white house right now is that each of us have conservative friends that voted against the RINOS to get them out of power. Obama had only 52% of the vote. 10 of that was these defecting conservatives that want to get the Tom Ridges out of leadership of the GOP. Name me a single time that the leadership of the Republican party was more liberal. Has been that way for just a bit longer than we have been losing elections. Imagine a party with a house leader like Mike Pense, and a Senate led by… thats right, we have no conservative senators now remotely close to being nationally known. In order to win, conservatives need only convince 11% beyond their base if they run as conservatives and fully embrace the conservative platform of the party. Liberals need to convince 30% beyond their base. Explain, Mr. Ridge, why you think that that kind of math is less appealing than the massive losses your RINO buddies have been leading us to since taking control. BTW, threatening physical violence against someone because they do not agree with you is not very statesman like.
IowaFalcon
June 29, 2009 at 1:33 am
tom u my lady SUCK!
Long Live RUSH!
DANO BOONE
June 29, 2009 at 6:31 am
Alays knew Powell and Ridge [among others] were RINO’s. They must be sent packing with Spector et al.
Art A
Art A
June 29, 2009 at 7:16 am
Ridge……you should get out of the Republican party along with your buddies Powell and Specter!!! You are no longer welcome…..we are going to systematically get rid of all of you!!!!!!!!!
Mike
June 29, 2009 at 7:19 am
WHAT IS UP WITH YOUR WAITING MODERATION????????
I HAVE HAD THIS HAPPEN SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE…..
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO POST MY COMMENTS I WOULD LIKE A RESPONSE AS TO “WHY”!!!!!!!!!!
GET WITH IT “FOX”
Mike
June 29, 2009 at 7:47 am
Ridge, Answer the question? Colin Powell endorsed the Democrat, Barack Obama, at a strategic point in the campaign in 2008. Colin Powell said Obama would be a better CIC than McCain. Do yo agree Ridge? Answer the question? And then he went out later and said, ‘Americans want more spending, bigger government, and higher taxes,’ before California threw that one in the trash.”
So far Powell is wrong on Obama and bigger government and McCain is still alive and kicking.
Maybe you need to shut up Ridge. What Colin Powell did is unforgiveable. He let race cloud his judgement.
Why have a two party system if both parties look alike.
Jean
June 29, 2009 at 9:01 am
Jesus, you people are morons. The linked article is *satire*.
J
June 29, 2009 at 11:04 am
[...] the people at FoxNation didn’t realize the blog, Elective Decisions, posted a satiracle statement from former Governor Tom Ridge (R) about Rush [...]
Fox News Boycott » FoxNation Doesn’t Get Satire
June 29, 2009 at 11:05 am
I find it HILARIOUS that far righties commenting here AND on the FoxNation site haven’t picked up on the fact that this is SATIRE.
It is a FAKE story! See the “Satire” tag in the top right?
too funny
ssn697
June 29, 2009 at 11:09 am
Hey GOPers – this site is political SATIRE. I can’t believe I have to explain this to you, but Ridge did not challenge Porky to a fight.
SpaceCat75
June 29, 2009 at 11:27 am
[...] on Jun.29, 2009, under Week 2 Last week, Tom Ridge went on C-SPAN and spoke about Rush and Cheney, a satirical piece ran on the Elective Decisions blog, and FOX reported it as fact. It’s a little [...]
Open discussions - Call Me GOP
June 29, 2009 at 11:57 am
It’s all staged, nice try boys….c’mon, spice it up a little if you want coverage.
angelfire
June 29, 2009 at 12:05 pm
[...] over who is and isn’t a real Republican, the satirical site Elective Decisions ran a hilarious story which, somehow, the FoxNation site took seriously. Not only took seriously, but kept coming back to [...]
Fox confuses satire for reality. Again. | theCLog
June 29, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Are you people as dumb as you seem, or did I misread the little box in the upper right hand corner?
Lily
June 29, 2009 at 10:07 pm
[...] Decisions, which features “the satire of Chris Davis,” then wrote up a post saying that Ridge responded to Rush by challenging him to a fight: So this morning, Ridge went back on Washington Journal, responding to Limbaugh’s rhetoric. [...]
Fox Nation Pushes ‘Satire’ Site’s Article About Ridge Attacking Limbaugh As Fact-Based Truth | Pure Politics
June 29, 2009 at 11:00 pm