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
OK, Let's start with you then, Dave.
Democrats 2006: "When In Doubt...Bring Out The Gimp!"
Some people.....;-)
Rush takes a critical look at something and the liberals call him a hater.
Too many lies to count.
Rush's criticisms are well founded and legitimate, though his choice of words could have been better.
Shut up, whiners! Leave Limbaugh alone. Your efforts at demonizing him are pathetic.
Let me ask why...why bother posting some weasely jerk from Madison?
A waste of bandwith.
I'm outta here.
Typical liberals, they can't debate Rush on the issue so they have to drag out the old right-wing bogeyman.
As usual..the libs will do ANYTHING, ANYTHING..to try and take Rush down. They don't give one crap about M.J.Fox. This is an opportunity for them to jump all over Rush and distort what he's saying. How convenient! They make me sick. Hopefully it'll all backfire into their slimy faces.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
ROLF!
Didn't MJF admit that he took an overdosed, on purpose, of his medications which works the same way as going off the medication? Or have I missed something?
Exactly, I bet you were shocked to see him "that" way also;
especially when he kept his eyes on the camera for the recording.
Oh that is a spoof all right and pretty funny at that, kinda like this group that spoofs commies so good leftists visit their booths for literature.
Rush has more listeners daily than the liberal media has readers.
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