# Ideas as wise as ground zero mosque

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 25, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349 "2010-08-25T00:58:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/161 "2010-08-31T22:17:09Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#):
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> > No, I’m saying he dismissed it out of hand because he saw that it was from a section of Olbermann’s show that he thinks is pretty bad.
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> Exactly. So what the fuck is your complaint? You think someone can dismiss something out of hand and think it’s _good_? You’re even stupider than I thought.

So, you don’t dismiss Rush Limbaugh out of hand? I do.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/162 "2010-09-01T14:35:14Z")

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> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#):
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> So, you don’t dismiss Rush Limbaugh out of hand? I do.

1.) The credibilities of Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann are not remotely comparable.

2.) If somebody posts a link to someone on the right who’s often hyperbolic but at least sometimes honest and credible–say, Bill O’Reilly–I’ll at least watch the video and tell you why I think he’s wrong instead of just assuming the video is crap.

3.) Even if it were someone like Rush who’s often outright lying, I highly doubt I’d bother to actually tell everyone else the video is worthless–I’d just ignore the poster. And if I \*did \* for some reason feel the need to spout off something about not being able to believe that anybody would post such a video (not actually knowing what it was saying), then someone called me on the fact that I hadn’t actually watched it, I’d have the balls to actually admit I was wrong if I then watched it and discovered that \*in that instance \*he’d made a valid point.

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