First off, we have Michael Savage basically insulting Glenn Beck:
The we have Rush Limbaugh insulting a member of the United States Armed Forces, live on the air:
Transcript:
LIMBAUGH: We’re going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for waiting and for calling. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen, I voted Republican, and I didn’t — really didn’t want to see Obama get in office. But, you know, Rush, you’re one reason to blame for this election, for the Republicans losing.
First of all, you kept harping about voting for Hillary. The second big issue is the — was the torture issue. I’m a veteran. We’re not supposed to be torturing these people. This is not Nazi Germany, Red China, or North Korea. There’s other ways of interrogating people, and you kept harping about it — “It’s OK,” or “It’s not really torture.” And it was just more than waterboarding. Some of these prisoners were killed under torture.
And it just — it was crazy for you to keep going on and on like Levin and Hannity and Hewitt. It’s like you’re all brainwashed.
And my last comment is, no matter what Obama does, you will still criticize him because I believe you’re brainwashed. You’re just — and I hate to say it — but I think you’re a brainwashed Nazi. Anyone who could believe in torture just has got to be – there’s got to be something wrong with them.
LIMBAUGH: You know —
CALLER: And I know Bush wanted to keep us safe and all of that, but we’re not supposed to be torturing these people.
LIMBAUGH: Charles, if anybody is admitting that they’re brainwashed it would be you.
CALLER: No, no, no, Rush. I don’t think so.
LIMBAUGH: Charles. Charles, Charles —
CALLER: You, Hannity, Hewitt, and Levin are all brainwashed and you know it.
LIMBAUGH: — you said — you said at the beginning of your phone call —
CALLER: Yeah.
LIMBAUGH: — that you didn’t want Obama in there —
CALLER: That’s right.
LIMBAUGH: — but you voted for him because of me.
CALLER: I didn’t vote for him. I voted for McCain. I voted Republican.
LIMBAUGH: Oh, so —
CALLER: I voted Republican.
LIMBAUGH: — you’re saying I turned people off to —
CALLER: You turned people off with all your — all this “vote for Hillary” and all this BS, because you must think people are really stupid.
LIMBAUGH: That was Operation Chaos. That was to keep the —
CALLER: You — no. It didn’t work.
LIMBAUGH: — chaos in the [unintelligible] of the Democrat primaries.
CALLER: It didn’t work. And now what we have with you Hannity, Levin, and Hewitt: sour grapes. That’s all we have. And believe me, I’m not — I’m more to the right than I am to the left.
LIMBAUGH: Oh, of course, you are.
CALLER: I am, and that’s —
LIMBAUGH: Of course, you are. You wouldn’t be calling here with all these sour grapes if you weren’t.
CALLER: Well, I’m so tired of listening to you —
LIMBAUGH: Oh, of course, you are.
CALLER: — go on and on with this — you’ve been brainwashed.
LIMBAUGH: I don’t know of anybody who died from torture. I do not ever —
CALLER: We are not supposed to torture people.
LIMBAUGH: I do not ever —
CALLER: Do you remember World War II, the Nazis? The Nuremberg Trials?
LIMBAUGH: I —
CALLER: Do you remember the Nuremberg Trials?
LIMBAUGH: Charles —
CALLER: Klaus Barbie?
LIMBAUGH: Charles, let me say —
CALLER: Huh?
LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama —
CALLER: What’s the matter with you?
LIMBAUGH: Barack —
CALLER: You never even served in a military.
LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama is —
CALLER: I served in the Marine Corps and the Army.
LIMBAUGH: Charles, Barack Obama is president of the United States today because of stupid, ignorant people who think like you do. You pose — you and your ignorance are the most expensive commodity this country has. You think you know everything. You don’t know diddly-squat.
You call me a Nazi? You call me somebody who supports torture and you want credibility on this program? You know, you’re just plain embarrassing and ludicrous. But it doesn’t surprise me that you’re the kind of Republican that our last candidate attracted. Because you’re no Republican at all based on what the hell you’ve said here.
One of these days, Rush Limbaugh is going to do this, and he is going to end up in a body bag because of it. Does anyone remember Allan Berg? For those too young to remember; Allan Berg was shot dead outside of his own house, for 
essentially doing what Rush Limbaugh did to this man here. This goes beyond politics, this man served our Country and Rush Limbaugh insulted him. That is, my friend a disgrace. Rush should apologize to his audience for this. Nothing says megalomania more than calling your own audience liars and saying they are the one’s brainwashed.
Hence the reason why I will not listen to talk radio. I’m just too smart for it.Plus, the man was correct Rush Limbaugh never served a day in the United States Military, because he had a cyst on his rather large ass. Rush Limbaugh is the perfect example of what a “Chickenhawk” is.
There is more that I could write about this man, but I will refrain, Limbaugh is not worth the waste of bandwidth.
I listened to Rush’s exchange this afternoon with this calm, if only slightly off-base veteran (I don’t think Rush has been brainwashed but is only a sell-out). Simply appalling. This caller confronted Rush on his irresponsible antics and he snapped. Instead of saying anything, anything at all to indicate that he’s against torture, Rush just called this gentleman “brainwashed” and unleashed ad hominem attacks.
But is this how the neocons and GOP establishment treat veterans who did the grunt work most of them would never do? Support the troops? It’s more like Henry Kissinger’s line that soldiers are just dumb animals to be used. He just spat on this veteran’s service and even questioned the service when Rush obviously had no substantive answer to the man’s objections.
This exchange is a perfect example of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the “Right.”
I hear ya Carl. It’s a sad sick state of affairs. 🙁
Thanks for the comments. 😀
-Pat
No problem. I rather enjoy seeing someone else who is just as irritated with Rush as I am! I’ll be back again.
I was a big Allan Berg fan. He was the king of late evening talk radio in the early 80’s, heard all over the country from 50,000 watt KOA in Denver. He was also an unapologetic liberal. It is a myth that there is no market in America for liberal talk show hosts and Allan proved it. He was more entertaining than any talk show host on the air today, while not nearly as vile or inciteful as Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, etc.
If I remember correctly, he was killed by a bunch of neo-nazis because he was an outspoken liberal who also happened to be jewish.
Mr. Mapper,
My point was and is this. When you begin to insult your listeners, you run the risk of having something like what happened to Berg, happen to you!