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When a caller asked me, quite reasonably, to give him an instance or two of a bigoted opinion from Limbaugh, all he got was my embarrassed silence. Sure he's taken digs at poor people and rioters and feminists and the NAACP, but why should any of these be immune?

Sure he often brings up problems without offering solutions. But is this journalistic heresy?

Limbaugh's is often (for many of us) the hated opinion, but that doesn't, by itself, make him hateful. Having spent long years holding forth against the various orthodoxies of the age, I ought to understand the difference.

Prayers for the family and loved ones of Mr. William Raspberry - one of the few thoughtful,decent liberals. He has passed on. He'll be missed.

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He was probably the last decent, thoughtful liberal.