Posted on 10/27/2006 5:48:31 PM PDT by UB355
Plain talk: Limbaugh should be ashamed, but isn't
By Dave Zweifel October 27, 2006 Rush Limbaugh may not be this country's most disgusting human being, but he surely ranks among the top 10.
You're undoubtedly familiar with his latest outrageousness - claiming that Michael J. Fox was really faking those Parkinson's disease palsied shakes when he cut campaign ads for candidates who, like Wisconsin's Jim Doyle, favor embryonic stem cell research.
Fox, who came down with Parkinson's about 15 years ago and was forced to essentially retire from his acting career, thus became the latest victim of the well-honed Republican attack machine made famous by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential election.
Limbaugh, with his audience of like-minded flame-throwers, is a key player in the well-organized cabal that uses innuendo and, more times than not, outright lies to savage anyone who dares to disagree with the right-wingers who long ago took the Republican Party hostage.
You have to hand it to them - they're very clever.
Although few of them ever served in the military themselves, they've been able to turn war heroes into cowards. Just ask Democrat Max Cleland or even Republican John McCain - one lost his legs and an arm because of an enemy grenade, the other was a prisoner of war for more than five years - who were targeted by a well-organized campaign that started with Karl Rove in the White House and was spread by Limbaugh and his right-wing imitators on talk radio.
And, of course, there was John Kerry, a decorated and wounded Vietnam War veteran, who was made out to be a wimp by a propaganda machine whose favorite candidate hadn't even shown up for National Guard drills.
This year they've characterized an Illinois congressional candidate, Tammy Duckworth, an Army pilot who lost both legs in Iraq, as a "cut and runner."
So Michael J. Fox is only the latest to be the target of the cruel attacks that have nothing to do with the issues, but everything to do with planting seeds of doubt and fueling the whispering campaigns.
Limbaugh, of course, always tries to leave himself a way out.
"If this was not an act," he said of the Fox ad, "then I apologize." All of which is nothing more than a joke, of course, since to raise the issue at all accomplishes the mission.
The pity of it all is that all too many Americans fall for these tactics of character assassination. It will never end until the people stand up and say "enough."
E-mail: dzweifel@madison.com
What a bunch of garbage. Where do they get these people? >:(
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Rush has done a better job of firing up the base than any Republican could hope to. With all the MSM and Local drive by media saying Rush said Fox is faking it, when that is a lie. He has turned the light on the Media, they are liars.
"Plain talkin'" liberals are only fooling themselves.
Thank God for Rush Limbaugh and dpeople like him.
Rush was right. Fox is an admitted liar, and has no credibility on this issue. I don't give a damn about his ailment. It isn't a license to inject himself into serious political debate without being called out as a liar.
> Rush is indeed taking the heat for all of us by taking the lead in bursting the victim-shield bubble the liberals use.
I wish he had focussed on that instead of the faking/no meds angle which has muddied the message and generated sympathy for Fox.
His gyrations on the DittoCam didn't help either.
John Kerry said that he chose swift boat duty precisely because it was comparatively safe duty at the time he chose it.
If Democrats really wanted to help people, they would suggest increasing the support for non-embryonic stem cell research.
It's obvious that hard-hearted Democrats think their "pro-abortion" agenda is more important than flesh-and-blood human beings.
Rush is way less disgusting than the Democrats who are hiding the truth* from handicapped and ill people.
*That NON-embryonic stem cell research is curing people and embryonic stem cell research is fnot curing people.
If he had there wouldn't be any heat ... on Rush or the issue.
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