[qam1]

All conservatives who favor smoking bans are stooges of the Tobacco company *BUMP*

I guess Philip Morris pays Rush to say "In my formally nicotine stained hands"

[buccaneer81]

If somebody waved 50k under Paul's nose to pitch Tofu or a subscription to High Times his tune would change in a hurry.

[Ramius]

Um, so what?

[ASA Vet]

Whiney Liberal

Redundancy Alert!

[L.N. Smithee]

Well, it bothers me. It particularly bothers me because so many of these pitchmen claim to be conservatives. Conservatism in America is a philosophy of great ideas that has roots reaching back through Barry Goldwater all the way to Locke and Hobbes. But to hear these bozos tell it, you'd think that conservatism was invented yesterday to sell things. To get back to the New York Times for a second, I am among those conservatives with a long list of gripes about that newspaper's coverage. But how can Rush Limbaugh, for example, attack the New York Times for selling out when in the next breath he will be selling soda?

I was prepared to submit a reasoned rebuttal to this article, but after reading this, forget it. This guy's an ignoramus.

[brownie]

"He doesn't claim to be a news person," said Pollak. "He's a talk- show host."

Pollak, who is a very nice guy, did his best to explain the distinction to me. When it comes to TV and radio, he said, news reporters can't do ads. But opinion people like Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can.

I don't get it. I'm an opinion person.

Althought this guy claims to be a conservative (I doubt that's true, based on this article), he expresses the very problem of liberal bias in the news. Every time the conservatives complain of liberal bias in the news, the liberals counter by pointing out conservative dominance of radio. They simply cannot understand the difference between someone claiming to be a "neutral journalist", simply reporting the news, and someone who openly expresses that they are biased and giving an opinion.

In other words, liberals do not understand that there is a difference between news "reporting" and opinion. Thus, they see no problem in putting opinion into a "news" story, and don't understand that doing such is bias.

[The Old Hoosier]

Does it bother Mr. Mulshine that Tom Daschle, an honest-to-goodness public official and not just a radio host, takes legal bribes from Boeing via his wife's lobbying paycheck?

[Zorrito]

Paul Mulshine is NO liberal. He's the best conservative columnist in Jersey.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

These guy's could be the one's who said this:

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/pulpfiction/407/Cat2.wav

[Anthem]

Well, I don't like yakking announcers at baseball games either. So I watch the kids play.

[eyespysomething]

What goes on behind the scenes could be worse. For example, I've noticed that virtually every radio and TV "conservative" is pro-cigarette. The impression created is that Republicans and conservatives have deep sympathies for the plight of the tobacco companies.

Not the ones I know. When I wrote recently in favor of banning smoking in bars, the president of a Republican club in one of the most solidly Republican towns on the planet told me he agreed with me. I don't even know many Republicans who smoke cigarettes anymore.

Ummm, its not about smoking, ok? Its about THE GOVERNMENT GETTING THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE AND THE HELL OUT OF PRIVATE BUSINESSES' BUSINESS AND TO QUIT TELLING ME WHAT IS RIGHT TO DO AND WRONG TO DO!!!!!!!

ahem, sorry about that.

[ChadGore]

The funny thing ?
This article at the NJ.COM site has this advertisment smack in the middle of the text.

[rogers21774]

Calvin and Hobbes I know, but who is Locke and Hobbes?

[Great Dane]

This guy needs to get a life, where does it say you must be anti tobacco to be a conservative....... or anti anything for that matter.

[Lost Highway]

The difference is that "journalists" claim to be impartial when they are not. Rush freely admits that he is not impartial. Therefore I have an accurate lens to view Rush's comments through. I do not have the same luxury of the "journalist".

[Diddle E. Squat]

Proof that male PMS exists?

[Texas Federalist]

Conservatism has its roots in Hobbes??? Uh . . . . . no.

[Lancey Howard]

But how can Rush Limbaugh, for example, attack the New York Times for selling out

Rush attacked the NY Times for "selling out"?

[Jeff Gordon]

I asked him if Paul Mulshine was being paid to tailor his articles in favor of certain DNC ideals.

"The answer is: Who knows?" Silverman replied. "There's huge potential for abuse. My suspicion is that there is probably no direct payment but there is probably indirect payment, all kinds of benefits of various kinds: travel, resorts, dining, whatever."

[ladyinred]

Moron alert!