Interestingly that hardly seems like a fair summation of this very thread right here.
OMG, I remember that!
Of course, what apparently bothered me was that he didn’t watch the movie. :smack:
Translation = Limbaugh makes fun of liberals’ wrongheaded efforts to address racism and sexism.
Limbaugh sometimes has African Americans host his show in his absence and had his good personal friend Clarance Thomas perform the ceremony when he wed Marta Fitzgerald. Of course in the eyes of liberals these guys don’t count as a blacks because they’re conservatives. And his wisecracks about “Feminazis” were aimed at strident, in-your-face feminists of the type inclined to call stay-at-home moms names for not seeking their own careers and attempting to harangue women into getting abortions when they were undecided about it…oh, yeah, and arguing that all sex was rape. :rolleyes: It had nothing to do with feminism per se nor equal pay as gonzomax claimed, just as the song “Barack the Magic Negro” was not an insult to blacks but a comment about people who voted for Obama simply because he was black.
It’s pretty much impossible to criticize anything liberals do in this country on the behalf of women and blacks, no matter how wrongheaded, without being labeled sexist or racist and that’s why Limbaugh gets accused of sexism and racism.
As you can see from this thread, people who hate liberals love Rush.
So people who dislike a certain political ideology tend to enjoy an entertainer who makes fun of that ideology and exposes its flaws and weaknesses? Yeah, I’d say so. Hardly a news flash. How do you feel about Al Franken and Janeane Garofolo?
See, he can’t be a racist— some of his best friends are Clarence Thomas!
Basing your entire shtick around hating the other side is sad, pathetic, and pretty much exactly what’s wrong with politics in this country today. I’ve said in the past that I have no problem with conservatives; it’s the anti-liberals (and anti-conservatives) that piss me off.
If all you can be is against, not for, the problem isn’t with the other side.
The point is that if he were truly racist it’s unlikely that smart, knowledgeable and highly educated blacks like those in Limbaugh’s circle would have anything to do with him.
Funny how little of that there was prior to the late sixties, isn’t it? 
Yeah, talk radio really dicked us over.
What facet of liberalism is one mocking when one attempts damage control on behalf of Republicans by attempting to portray the Republican policy of torturing prisoners as “frat pranks”?
So you are attempting to equate our torturing of three prisoners (and that’s all it’s been, including the mastermind of 9/11) with leading someone around on a dog leash?
Now admittedly it isn’t necessarily a good thing for guards to be leading prisoners around on dog leashes, but it is perhaps understandable when you consider the atrocities that soldiers witness during times of war and committed by the likes of those in their custody. Still, the two are hardly the same.
And then we have your contention that torture is “Republican policy”. Where in the Republican platform does it say, “Yay, torture!”? Aren’t you really just talking about a policy adopted by a few members of a Republican administration who suddenly found themselves charged with protecting the lives of American citizens and soldiers from terrorists and enemy combatants and who were doing all they could to glean information necessary to do so?
Ooh, could one of Rush’s fans tell me more about how liberals think and what they’re going to do, please? I can’t decide what to make for dinner tonight.
You might note that talk radio - a reactive phenomenon btw, not a proactive one - began at least two decades after the counter-culture revolution and the decline in civil behavior that followed in its wake.
Hatred, anger and aggressiveness toward its opponents is virtually a defining characteristic of liberal politics, and the reason is obvious - liberals simply feel that anyone who disagrees with them is by definition an asshole, and therefore the gloves should quite rightly be off. Naturally the other side doesn’t agree and retaliates in kind.
And thus we come to where we are today where liberals lament the lost civility of conservatives like William F. Buckley, but have created an environment in which the likes of Buckley would never be able to find an audience to begin with.
Well, thanks, but that doesn’t really make my dinner decision any easier.
Well, hatred with a side of aggressiveness sounds pretty tasty. Probably spicy, though.
Can you explain this statement further?
I’m assuming you date “the counter-culture revolution,” as most do, from 1967 or so (the year hippies became a nationally known rather than a localized west coast phenomenon).
So “talk radio” began in 1987?
More like 1988, I’d say, which is when Limbaugh’s show went national, though he didn’t really begin to be regarded as a figure of significant political influence until the early nineties or so. And it was still some time after that before other conservative voices began cropping up in the talk radio format.
And by “talk radio” I mean talk radio with a conservative (or at least political) agenda, which I believe is what Bosstone had in mind when she used the term.
She? Oh man, do I go for the polite correction, the snarky correction, or head games?
…Wait, I posted out loud, didn’t I…
Okay, when “he” posted.
But the point remains.