Geez, can Limbaugh make a freaking issue out of everything!?
If you haven’t heard, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) had a run-in with a junior car-jacker. When the congressman was going to pick up his kids from a rec center, an 8-year-old kid came up to him and said he had a gun and wanted Moran’s car. Instead of handing over his keys, Moran grabbed the kid and took him to the rec center office. The kid was questioned by Moran and the rec center administrator. The kid tearfully admitted that his step-father had taught him about car-jacking. Moran felt sorry for the boy, and didn’t press charges.
The next week, the parent are filing suit that Moran choke-held their boy and that the boy had only said he liked Moran’s car.
When Limbaugh got a hold of this story, he said Moran had gone immediately to the Today show to publisize the incident (wrong; it was in the Washington Post Tuesday morning), and that he was more apt to believe the little boy, because “congressmen lie too”. Brother!
I just see a little JD trying to lie his way out of trouble with parents too ignorant to see it.
Personal story that parallels this: once while driving past some kids waiting for a school bus in my subdivision, one of them threw a rock (albeit a small one) at my car. It smacked my windshield. Noting there were not cars behind me, I stomped on the brakes to a screeching halt and then backed up to the bus stop. By the time I stepped out, I saw two kids sprinting back home, scared shitless.
When I came home, I passed by a mother and child walking around the parking areas. The little boy pointed at my car. After I parked, the mother came up to me and started yelling at me for chasing her little “darling”. I then lit into her about the rock, how it could’ve hit me, made me lose control of my vehicle, etc. I told her that if there was a next time, I’d charge her little angel with assault. That shut her up nicely.
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
