Random Thoughts Thread

[BoringSupreez]

Stealth Ceremony for Rush Limbaugh — and His Bust.
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[flex wood]

Stealth Ceremony for Rush Limbaugh — and His Bust.
Local news story that's of interest to me. Apparently, Limbaugh was in Jefferson City today (which is right about where I live) so that he could be inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Our local democrats are upset about it, but regardless of your political views I don't see how Limbaugh doesn't qualify. His radio show is huge, he's from Missouri, therefore he should be in our hall of fame.

You forgot bigoted hate monger and drug addict.

Do you know if red fox is in that hall of fame? Because if he's not I'm fixing to call someone a dummy and feign a heart attack.

[sabrage]

Hate sells. Just look at the internet.

[dsheinem]

Stealth Ceremony for Rush Limbaugh — and His Bust.
Local news story that's of interest to me. Apparently, Limbaugh was in Jefferson City today (which is right about where I live) so that he could be inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Our local democrats are upset about it, but regardless of your political views I don't see how Limbaugh doesn't qualify. His radio show is huge, he's from Missouri, therefore he should be in our hall of fame.

You forgot bigoted hate monger and drug addict.

As much as I hate Limbaugh, he certainly qualifies a famous Missourian and I have no problem with him in their HOF. I just find it amusing that one of the most clever wits in American history (Twain) and one of the most arrogant twits of all time (Limbaugh) might share space in the same hall.

[Ack]

Hate sells. Just look at the internet.

Or Keith Olbermann.

[sabrage]

Well, given that we were discussing a political commentator already, I refrained from listing another one (or Fox News)

[dsheinem]

Hate sells. Just look at the internet.

Or Keith Olbermann.

Limbaugh and Olbermann are not equivalents any more than FOX News and MSNBC are equivalents that somehow cancel each other out. They are the same in that they are passionate about their poiltical position, but I can't think of many instances of Olbermann''s commentary sliding into hate speech. Limbaugh does it regularly.

To put it another way: of course not everyone in the Republican party is a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. (in fact very few are) BUT if you are a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. than you most likely vote Republican.

[Ack]

Hate sells. Just look at the internet.

Or Keith Olbermann.

Limbaugh and Olbermann are not equivalents any more than FOX News and MSNBC are equivalents that somehow cancel each other out. They are the same in that they are passionate about their poiltical position, but I can't think of many instances of Olbermann''s commentary sliding into hate speech. Limbaugh does it regularly.

To put it another way: of course not everyone in the Republican party is a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. (in fact very few are) BUT if you are a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. than you most likely vote Republican.

You mean his years of parading conservative and right-wing thinkers as the "Worst People in the World" has nothing to do with his intention of diminishing their careers or ideas through blatant insult while completing disregarding the point? Not to mention that he even ended up fired for his donating to the opposition and was then again fired for his poor attitude. If he's not a bad seed...well, I'd say you need to rethink what a bad seed is.

And for the record, a Newsweek correspondent just compared Ann Romney's defense of motherhood to the Nazis on MSNBC. I'd say they're pretty hateful in their own right.

[Ack]

To put it another way: of course not everyone in the Republican party is a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. (in fact very few are) BUT if you are a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. than you most likely vote Republican.

You mean like the Black Panthers, most ethnic-based street gangs or prison gangs, most ethnic minority Christian organizations, etc.?

[Forlorn Drifter]

To put it another way: of course not everyone in the Republican party is a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. (in fact very few are) BUT if you are a member of a hate group, racist, homophobic, bigoted, etc. than you most likely vote Republican.

You mean like the Black Panthers, most ethnic-based street gangs or prison gangs, most ethnic minority Christian organizations, etc.?

That awkward moment whn most of the TAB members I know happen to be Democrats. The only reason they didn't vote for Obama is because... well, y'know.