Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Rushbo and the pirates
I was trying to find something to listen to on the radio and came across Rush The Idiot bumping his gums about the pirates. (I heard this on the radio so there is no verification). Apparently some knucklehead from Ohio decided that pirating would be a good field to enter since he was "without a job". He bought uniforms and was going to hijack boats in the Gulf of Mexico! After the Navy rescued the Maersk captain, this dude decided pirating was not such a good idea. Rush Limbaugh is blaming Obama for this guy's inability to be a pirate entrepreneur.
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Ohio huh? Wouldn't happen to be "Joe The Plumber" looking for another warholian 15 minutes? Have to be a candidate for world's dumbest criminal. The piracy off Somalia happens because of sympathetic war lords on nearby soil.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for a blog!
Here is the transcript of the show from Limbaugh's own site. I smell a fake. I think he made it up just to be able to turn the Somalia story into an Obama bashing story.
ReplyDeleteRUSH: I got an e-mail folks. Get this, from a gentleman in Ohio who's really bummed out by the rescue of the captain of the Maersk Alabama. You'll recall that on this program last week, we had a couple of audio sound bites from the commander of the USS Cole, it had a hole blown in it when it was docked at a port in Yemen. The commander of the USS Cole praised the Somali merchant marine organizers as having a brilliant business model. His point was that they're not terrorists, they're criminals. They've got a great, great business model, that they go out there and they hijack ships, and they demand a ransom, and they've been getting the ransom, and it was praised as a brilliant business model. I got an e-mail from Ohio, from this guy, he's very upset about this now because he was prepared to go into the pirate business. He had heard what a great business it is; he had heard a US naval commander praising the business model. So he had gone out and he had invested in pirate uniforms.
He even tried to get hold of Johnny Depp for some advice, and he was gonna go get some dinghies and just park 'em out there in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of the southeast United States, just going to start hijacking ships and demanding ransom 'cause it was a great business model. But now that President Obama has bravely interceded here and thrown the business model for a loop -- and he's outta work. And he was really inspired by this comment this week that the pirates are running a great business model, he's gonna start his own pirate operation out of Ohio. But it's all down the drain, so to speak, because of the operation. So another entrepreneur cut short by the Obama administration, ladies and gentlemen.