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photo-volt When you consider that Republicans in the Senate are set to kill the START treaty — which would, among other things, enable tracking down and securing of loose nukes and thus make the world a safer place — not on principle but solely for the partisan political purpose of denying a diplomatic success for Pres. Obama, it is not surprising that Rush Limbaugh went to great lengths to try to undercut an honor recently given GM’s new Chevrolet Volt.

What sticks in the craw of Republicans like Limbaugh is the fact that the Obama administration’s bailout of GM has been a resounding success. They can’t stand the fact that just this month, GM — which Limbaugh and his ilk sneered at as “Government Motors” after the bailout was announced — marketed its first IPO since the federal government saved it from extinction.

(And it must kill them to know that at least one of their party’s foreign funders couldn’t resist buying into the IPO. Muslim Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who owns a $2.3 billion stake in News Corp., the parent company of the GOP Fox channel, invested $500 million in GM to buy a 1 percent share of its stock, according to the Wall St. Journal, which he and News Corp. also own.)

But what really has Limbaugh freaking out is the fact that the Volt has been named Motor Trend’s 2011 Car of the Year, a prestigious award from a reputable, nonpartisan and unassailable authority. In Limbaugh’s dark world, nothing that reflects well on the president can be permitted to stand. Even if the honor otherwise celebrates American ingenuity and know-how, if it benefits Barack Obama, no matter how indirectly, it can not be allowed to go untarnished.

So it is not a surprise that upon learning about the Motortrend award, Limbaugh rushed to his microphone and unleashed a particularly vile screed, smearing GM, the Volt, energy conservation, Motor Trend and, of course, the president with lies, disinformation and Republican propaganda.

What is surprising is how vigorously and aggressively Motor Trend has responded to Limbaugh’s lies and spin. Here’s a perhaps too-lengthy excerpt from the column by Todd Lassa titled, Rush to Judgment:

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$500 Million

Amount invested in General Motors by Muslim billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, as reported by the Wall St. Journal. The Muslim prince also owns “at least a 7 percent, $2.3 billion stake in Fox’s parent company News Corp.,” according to the right-wing extremist propaganda website World Net Daily. Other sources say Alawaleed is the fourth largest investor in News Corp., along with Australia native Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family. News Corp. owns both the Wall St. Journal and the GOP-operated Fox “News” channel. What makes the purchase of 1 percent of GM by this foreign owner of Republican Party media outlets is the fact that GOP propagandists used his media empire to rail against the Obama administration’s bailout of GM, sneering at it as “Government Motors” and loudly, repeatedly — and wrongly — predicting it would fail.

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Limbaugh Annihilated for Lying, Cluelessness, Being Un-American by an Unusual Source: Motor Trend Magazine

Muslim Co-Owner of GOP’s Fox ‘News’ Buys 1% Share of Socialist Government Motors’ IPO

$500 Million

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), accusing Democrats of creating Hurricane Helene for political purposes.

“Liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”

— Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney finding that Georgia’s six-week abortion law violates Georgia’s Constitution, reports the AP.

“Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion US debt in crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper ‘$35 trillion crypto we have no debt.’ That’s what I like.”

— Donald Trump, floating a plan to address the federal budget deficit and demonstrating his deep understanding of the crypto marketplace.

“To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Politico, on his trip to Nebraska to push for the state’s Republican leadership to change how it awards its electoral votes.

“I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.”

— George Clooney, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding to Donald Trump’s call for him “to get out of politics.”

Numerati

254,000

“The pace of hiring picked up strongly in September and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%, signs the economy had continued momentum in a month the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest-rate cut in four years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

49% to 44%

A new Susquehanna poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 49% to 44%.

40 trillion

$55 million

Kamala Harris raised about $55 million in high-dollar events in California this weekend, a haul that pads her financial advantage over Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports.

57%

A new NBC News poll finds about 57% of voters report feeling negatively about Project 2025, with 51% saying they see the proposal “very” negatively and another 7% saying they view it “somewhat” negatively. Just 4% of voters reported viewing the conservative policy plan positively.