Letters to the Editor
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Lamebrain= Limbaugh
This imbesicle alcoholic dope addict should talk! He can call himself lucky that he still has an outlet to spout and show of his nonsense and idiotic comments. Watching Michael Fox on CBS last night showed in all clarity how lamebrained this Bushy Rush really is. I wonder what kept him put of jail apart from his high priced lawyer when he stood accused of his drug abuse. He got to talk. But then he is the typical neocon.
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focus
Let's remember who Rush is talking to. He's not talking to denizens of Salon. He's not talking to the political center or left.
He's talking to *his audience.* That's how he got where he is, and that's how he makes the big bucks. By staying focused like a laser on his audience and what they want to hear.
Once you keep this fact crystal-clear in mind, his comments about the Fox ad make perfect sense. His audience eats this stuff up...
In media, the day you ignore what your audience wants is the day you're out of a job--with rare exceptions. But, you know, even the day Walter Cronkite denounced the Vietnam war in his gentle way, he was merely reflecting the increasing unease of many, if not most, *in his audience.* So even seeming acts-of-courage in media almost always give the audience what it wants.
To understand people like Rush, or Anne, or any of these right-wing mouths, you have to keep in mind who they're talking to.
Does it scare me that so many people in this country not only like what Rush says, but approve of it? Yeah. But that's reality. Until we on the left and in the center get very clear that a large number of people in this country live in a strange, vicious fantasy world colored in by people like Rush, we'll never get to trip the levers of power.
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Is there anything to this argument?
NO! The Jersey Girls did not make it impossible to reasonably debate domestic security policy - Ann Coulter just accused them of that so SHE could avoid reasonable debate! Same with Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox. Did Limbaugh discuss the reasons for his opposition to stem cell research? Of course not. The argument is fundamentally dishonest and illogical. By accusing the other side of closing off debate on the issues, the likes of Coulter and Limbaugh think they are somehow off the hook on the issues, and therefore jusitified in engaging in personal attacks.
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Why is anyone surprised?
I'm not sure if Limbaugh's persona is just an act for the microphone or if he really is naturally that loathsome. Either way, nobody who's ever heard his show should be surprised that he would make vile personal attacks on people who don't share his ideology. He has made a fortune out of pandering to the small-mindedness and meanness of his listeners. That there's high demand for this sort of garbage says something about the sickness of our society.
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If attacking the questioner is considered "debate"
Rush says "the left" put up Fox just so there would be no debate on the issue, and then goes on to personally attack Fox. Obviously, the stem cell issues can (and are) being debated. As is Cindy Sheehan's question about why are we still in Iraq. As is the 9/11 widows saying that Bush has failed to protect us from terror. What the right seems to confuse is the ability to debate the issues, with coming face to face with their lousy personal attacks.
Asking if stem cells will cure Parkinson's is good to ask. Just don't mock Fox while doing it. Asking if we should continue in Iraq is a good question. Just don't call Cindy Sheehan a whore or "porn addict" while doing it. Asking if GW Bush is the right man to be managing the response to 9/11 is a fair question. Just don't say that the widows of men who died in the Towers are happy they are dead.
It amazes me that the Limbaugh's and Coulter's of this world are so compassion impaired that they can't recognize the difference between discussion of an issue on its merits and personally attacking people who they don't agree with.
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Limbaugh and Coulter
marry, and nine months later have a pea brained, drug addited, yet somewhat pretty baby. That offspring grows into what some would consider an abrasive, drug addited , albiet somewhat pretty, adult that becomes known to all future generations as the, Anti Christ. Hey, it could happen...
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sorry,make that:
Limbaugh and Coulter marry, and nine months later have a pea brained, drug addicted, yet somewhat pretty baby. That offspring grows into what some would consider an abrasive, drug addicted, albiet somewhat pretty, adult that becomes known to all future generations as the, Anti Christ. Hey, it could happen...
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Al Franken Was Right
Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot!
The more shocking thing is that "his audience" is willing to sink to this level to uphold an agenda that has failed. So willing that they will continue to shove money at this oxycontin-junkie to mock human suffering. This man is excrement, and proves once again that there is no floor for these thugs. No low is too low. As pained as I was to see Michael J. Fox's symptoms clearly worsening, I was filled with disgust to see the video of Rush flopping around. Have you no dignity, sir? Have you not one ounce of compassion in your soul?
I suppose the answer to that is "no".
While we're throwing the bums out in November, let's make sure to throw his fat ass out along with the others like him. This is beyond disgusting. It's totally pathological. If there is a hell, as these Christians contend, his oversized, wrinkly, pimpled, pink behind should be the first in line to fry there.
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They're just working the refs
The republican party line about not using victims to make a point is simply another case of them trying to insulate people against effective strategies used by Democrats. Republicans have no problem hearing from victims when those victims are on their side. For example, soldiers who support the Iraq war publicly are never held up to the kind of criticism aimed at soldiers to say we should pull out of Iraq. Let's not pretend that they might have a valid point. They don't. They just want us to stop using a technique that they have found particularly effective.