Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage

Via Think Progress

Yesterday, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh talked about the volcanic eruption that’s affecting air travel over much of Europe, saying it was “God speaking” in response to the passage of health care:

You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, “Hey, you know, I’m looking around. The earth hadn’t opened up. There’s no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping.” I think the earth has opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes — airspace has more affected — than even after 9/11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud over Northern and Western Europe. At the Paris airport they’re telling people to head to the train station to catch trains out of France, and when people get to the train station they’re telling people, “There aren’t any seats until at least April 22nd,” basically a week from now. It’s got everybody in a shutdown. Earth has opened up. I don’t know whether it’s a rebirth or Armageddon. Hopefully it’s a rebirth, God speaking.

:grr:

...will probably believe him!

...and instead, a hurricane bee-lined straight for CBN headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia, not long after he spouted his mouth off.

the places they were thinking about come off relatively unscathed and it was the poor and likely churchgoing residents that got slammed.

That he cursed Europe with the inconvenience of not being able to FLY IN AN AIRPLANE. OH NO LAWD, HAVE YOU NO MERCY?!?!

He sends hurricanes and earthquakes to the poorest countries in the world, killing hundreds of thousands, but Europe gets slapped with having to take the train to travel.

Makes sense to me.

your sarcastic response about Europe's inconvenience made me LOL. :rofl:

Hi! :hi: Welcome to DU, AmericaIsGreat!

But seriously, I despise when people try to use interpret misfortunes as some sort of divine message from G-d and I see it as a gross manipulation.

So God makes a volcano erupt in ICELAND to punish AMERICA? The mind reels.

Not to mention Europe's paying the price. Not us.

republicans limit it on poor people. God also hates America because we have a black president who is a Democrat, and not enough republicans in congress. SO god exploded a volcano in Iceland.

See, it makes sense if you analyze it rationally:crazy:

I think ol' Rush is at the medication pretty hard lately....


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And the hurt is on-going with every racist, mysogynistic, anti-GLBT thing he says. It seems that America has yet to pay its penance to banish this sort of diurnal evil and cast it away.

when the real Lord God smites him down he will be blown to smithereens and then some. He better be praying hard. Cause he is about to receive retribution.

... the beautiful spring weather we began immediately following the BFD's signing is God's way of saying "rock on!" to The Obama and the Democrats. (heh!)

That GAWD likes Obama's HCR and does not like the European Model...Other than the fact there is no GAWD firing off volcanoes in anger over any country's health care policies this would be the only scenario that makes sense.

It WAS U.S. healthcare reform, not Icelandic.

His "logic" is so incredibly flawed, it's all I can do to keep my eyes in my head...

What next Rush? Gonna steer a hurricane into the white house?

Enough is enough. If the clowns running radio stations want to run this ass 3 hours a day, they should be required to run an opposing viewpoint for the same amount of time.

3 hours of the Pigboy should be balanced by 3 hours of Mike Malloy, Randi, Stephanie Miller, or someone who isn't at batshit crazy as Jeff Christie!

You mean like, "No, Rush, it wasn't because of health care reform. Instead, it was because Obama is a Muslim!"

What is the "opposite" of crazy?

It can be "more crazy"!

No one can deny he's either fucking crazy (actualy that would be Beck) or a bombastic fool who is so full of shit he'll say anything for attention.

Wha?

A volcano affecting air traffic in Europe is God's answer to America getting healthcare passage?

Is God a drug-addled college dropout too?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

But he knows his brain-dead ditto-zombies will.

...when it's clearly meant to be tongue in cheek is why the guy is made of teflon for so many on the right. My dad listens to that jackass, and I've heard enough of Limbaugh to know that he is irreligious enough that there's no way he said that with any sort of implied sincerity.

You can't combat hate with dishonesty.

And then send his fat ass downstairs for furnace--uh, I mean FURTHER--instruction!

why HC passage in the US would cause a volcanic eruption in Iceland? Oh, never mind - I just remembered that logic is a foreign concept to these people.

Now this scumbag speaks for God?

Is GAWD's GPS broken? Does the heavenly sob even know how to find America on a map?

That makes more "sense".

but i never got the impression that he believed in god. am i wrong? :shrug:

she at the very least needs to have their head out of their butt.

Which would not be the case with Mr. Limbaugh.

Besides, we all know that at the base of the volcano in Iceland is a cult of airline passengers whose luggage the major carriers have lost over the years. They are stoking the giant fire which produce the smoke and ash which is crippling flights across the globe.

I said the volcano symbolizes the bullshit that spews from you mouth daily - cloaking the world in darkness and sabotaging my desire for people to discuss their differences in enlightened and respectful discourse. What The Fuck - are you deaf? Oh yeah - right - I remember now.

God.

How do you think the right wing would react if someone suggested that God made a volcano erupt in Iceland in reaction to the Catholic Church overlooking pedophiles in their ranks?

Manatee and Limpballs would be on the air 24/7 until that person was fired.

Ridiculous.