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
I have seen the scoreboard, it is awesome.
I see Rush as taking the bullet for millions of embryos. He has also changed the rules of "emotional blackmail."
I love October.
Ann must be chuckling. She has made the point that libs make spokesmen out of people who they think cannot be attacked. Sorry, you step in the arena, you are fair game.
Grounded?
Hope I wasn't too hard on Arlen! I proofread often for my husband and he's used to my playing devil's advocate.
Thanks...
Given the grammar and formatting of your post, I hope he's quite successful.
<< Given the grammar and formatting of your post, I hope he's quite successful. >>
I don't spoon-feed him.
**It will never end until the people stand up and say "enough."**
Okay, I say ENOUGH. Enough trashing Rush. He's a great guy and I love listening to him at work.
Well .. I'm sorry, but I heard the program and Rush has nothing to be ashamed of - nothing at all.
I totally understood where Rush was coming from. I had seen Fox's display of his disease, but for those who hadn't, it's very difficult to watch and it does take a few minutes to adjust. I'm sure Rush was shocked to see him so out of control since his only contact had been seeing Fox on Boston Legal - where Fox does not show those types of symptoms.
But .. now that it's been exposed that Fox has already said he purposefully does not take his medication - and currently that he takes "too much medication". I personally believe Fox knew exactly what he was doing.
I think it's difficult to discover some of these people we admire in showbiz could be so LIBERAL.
Illness or not .. if you enter the political arena .. you have no right to demand sanctuary from accountability. Like Ann Coulter taught us .. the left uses these people as "unasailable" because of an illness .. but no more.
A leftist pacifist socialist who actually never did listen to Rush's now 3 explanations of the same facts about Prop. 2 in Mo. on cloning, and on Fox's being used by the DNC and the Senate candidates in 4 states with his inaccurate statements about stem cells, and the voting records on that issue. Ben Cardin voted against stem cell research. This lefty is uninformed or is lying to smear Rush and the commentators who have tried to report accurately on stem cells and cloning.
just } unjust?
not just
I can be a terrible proofreader.
The opposite is taught.
Who are you, please? ;-)
Incorrect, sad to say. See this article: Missouri Cloning Amendment Deceptively Claims to Ban Cloning
Hey hey hey--how's it going!
The MSM is tantruming because we refuse to stop debating the issues despite the fact that they are, once again, using a victim as a human shield for their agenda. This used to work so well for them in the '70s, '80's and some of the '90's. They thought Michael J. Fox would insulate them from having their lie exposed. It did not and it was Rush who refuted, no NUKED the lie. That is why they are attacking him.
As he said on his show today, by attacking him, they really expose themselves. Not only that, they fall into a rather nice trap. People will read/hear in the MSM about Rush and what he allegedly said or did. Naturally, many will want to tune in to hear what Rush has to say. Oh, at first they will tune in thinking they know the story, thinking that it will confirm everything they heard in the MSM. But an appreciable amount of people end up listening and getting the other side of the story. Rush ends up with a bigger audience and the New Media further erodes the MSM monopoly by destroying the MSM's credibility.
A comma can be used as a pause only when connecting two independent clauses.
Here is one cite of the rule:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
Who am I? Certainly not a grammar expert, though I've recently brushed up on the rules since my husband became self-employed. I am a Wife, Mom, Catholic, Conservative, Southerner, Ebay seller, genealogist, Cat Lover, etc.
Good for you. I guess I misunderstood where you were coming from. Rush is indeed taking the heat for all of us by taking the lead in bursting the victim-shield bubble the liberals use.
Oh, what a tangled web they weave!
If your husband has a good self-employment idea, feel free to FReepmail me. ;-)
It's GOING!!!
Still smokeless in Shoreline...still living in your old house...still 2 kids (thankfully)...still...well...still everything..
How 'bout you guys..
Sick of living in Western WA in Oct. during mid-terms???
I CERTAINLY AM!
:-)
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