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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar!
Posted by Melina | 10:31 AM
The "water carrier" Limbaugh is weakly protesting his disgusting comments, meant to shut down discourse by our soldiers, and what is he doing on Armed Forces radio anyway?
As much as I don't like the tit for tat senate time waste of debating this crap, I think that we should all speak out against the brand of hate speech that Rush Limbaugh is the daddy of.
Like Dave Johnson, I too am shocked and awed at how deftly the neocon talking heads have managed to twist this thing into a Rush-as-victim scenario, all the fuckin' way up to and including the NY Times!
As Brad says this morning, the NY Times Petraeus ad wouldn't have even be seen by many people outside of NYC if not for the Right's screaming protest at the entity that put the ad up. Of course, in a fight that is really about MoveOn having balls enough to raise some money and run and ad, and Rush having the constant platform of a national radio show that spews venom at everyone who doesn't agree with him, AND which is broadcast on Armed Forces Radio, when we know that they are not exactly getting fair and balanced, much less equal coverage of both sides of the debate in America, there is no comparison.
This is not tit for tat, its about 2 groups using their free speech on their own audience, but one is much more far reaching and reaches, in fact, to the captive audience of the people that he is telling to shut up.
And what can we say about a guy like Rush who use their own free speech to try to shut others down? I don't know. Its an insidious problem that he can even get the ratings to stay on the air when he wont honestly talk to opposing side or do anything that is not carefully controlled from his cocoon.
This is something that I like about the Sam Seders and Marc Marons of the world; they welcome conservative voices because they want to try to understand them and argue with them too. Its such better radio when you have an honest debate as opposed to a producer screening your calls to make sure that only certain types of callers get through.
The thing is that when the conservative callers call in to Sam's show, (Marc is currently on the air in a new video-cast with Sam that is live on Tuesdays at 11AM EST here,)their knowledge seems to consist of the very line of crap spewed by the likes of Rush and O'Reilly, and their brethren....and the logic, information, lies, and pressure points are often what we see in the White House daily briefing room and via the "talking points" that we know are sent out to certain conservative operatives to make sure that they are all on the same message. My question has always been, what are they so freakin' afraid of? If they are right about all of this, then what is the problem with some upstarts who have different ideas? isn't that what this country was founded on anyway? If Rush and his ilk were actually as patriotic as they claim to be, they would welcome dissent and other voices. As it is
How did the media world get to be so one sided?...Oh yeah...the fairness doctrine used to make it sort of lawful to present both sides...and not so much in separate shows and on other networks either...
I'm tired of Rush Limbaugh in his locked world telling everyone to do as he says and not as he does. I think that from what is going on in the republican party, its clear that the underbelly of that line is usually pretty sordid. And, when in doubt, its safe to say, that the gentleman doth protesteth too much.
So who is the victim here? The soldiers who have to rely on limited news sources and who might feel cowed into not speaking their minds...and us...the American public should not have to spend a minute on this crap. But apparently we do in order to remind everyone that there are two sides out there, and that THEY are not controlling the information anymore.

RIPCoco

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