tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post3171947808732858490..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": The Get-Limbaugh Obsession ExplainedLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-90110125268942457292009-10-22T18:49:21.428-05:002009-10-22T18:49:21.428-05:00Anon,
So your point is that, in talking to conser...Anon,<br /><br />So your point is that, in talking to conservatives as he does, RL encourages them to be less benevolent toward and less trusting of liberals, and that this can be a bad thing for liberals. I think you are right about that. But this is consistent with my claim that he is not trying to provoke the left and is not even talking to them, and that there are prominent people on the left who are producing the same sort of intellectual pollution and spewing it in the opposite direction.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-37177856251718327102009-10-20T20:20:19.965-05:002009-10-20T20:20:19.965-05:00No. The point of libelous accusations is that they...No. The point of libelous accusations is that they affect their targets against their will. If I exhort people to suspect their neighbors of this or that for whatever reason, the social dynamic between my listeners (assuming they take my words to heart) and their neighbors is affected with or without the complicity of their neighbors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-87388116506003899372009-10-20T11:20:56.050-05:002009-10-20T11:20:56.050-05:00Anon,
I doubt that he is trying to be provocative...Anon,<br /><br />I doubt that he is trying to be provocative. Rather, he is throwing red meat out there for that 30% constituency of his and they are snapping it up. Anyone else who listens in is basically eavesdropping. Like Ann, I've always wondered why lefties pay so much attention to him. He's not talking to you. I agree with her: just turn him off. That's what I do!<br /><br />To me, he sounds no worse than his lefty counterparts. (I'm speaking from scant information here because I find them all too boring to listen to.) Surely, he has never said anything remotely like <br />Chris M.'s comment about shooting Rush in the head. If he had, every person on the planet would have heard about it <i>ad nauseum</i>.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-17261932106333652292009-10-20T09:40:24.350-05:002009-10-20T09:40:24.350-05:00I've never understood the frothing-at-the-mout...I've never understood the frothing-at-the-mouth hatred of Rush Limbaugh. I personally have never heard his radio show, I have read a number of written editorials by him, and they struck me as forceful, frank opinions, but by no means over the top in any respect. Maybe his radio show is different? I find it very ironic that the only information about the content of his radio show I ever receive is from my leftist friends who seem to listen to him faithfully. If it makes them so angry to hear his views, why are they listening to this show all the time? Just turn it off. Other people apparently enjoy him and should have a right to listen to him. And yes, I also wish Obama would stop campaigning and start thinking about real issues like the health of the US dollar and the obesity of our deficit.Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-82558783668317486912009-10-20T03:51:07.621-05:002009-10-20T03:51:07.621-05:00It's no surprise that trying really, really, r...It's no surprise that trying really, really, really hard to be provocative sometimes results <i>in</i> provocation. Whether he's a bad faith provocateur or genuine, he must know that what he says is, in our society, pretty pungent, sharp stuff, stuff bound to engender anger in proportion to that which he vents. And when you make libelous accusations, true or not, a reaction is often produced. If there were leftist pundits with balls as brassy (Olbermann might be closest, but he's still a shout's distance behind), the same mechanism would likely be in effect, or made to be so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-36720216922789348362009-10-18T16:49:51.275-05:002009-10-18T16:49:51.275-05:00So yours is a case of sincere hate, I take it.So yours is a case of sincere hate, I take it.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-2424283730029707922009-10-18T16:48:33.449-05:002009-10-18T16:48:33.449-05:00For so many years Limbaugh has spent his time on t...For so many years Limbaugh has spent his time on the radio mis-labeling or mis-characterizing others . Finally he had his judgment day.Montananoreply@blogger.com