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09.17.2006
Talk Radio's Tortured Arguments...Rush and Bill Belittle the
Truth...Again
By Steve Young
Remember when the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq began to mount?
Rush Limbaugh told us that we had to put it all into perspective.
There were more deaths from California automobile accidents.
I'm sure that mollifies both the families of war and highway deaths.
Yep.
A killer competition.
Which is worse?
Better yet, which is better?
Why not ask the parents of a son or daughter who is killed in either?
How about the children of a father or mother killed by a roadside bomb
on a highway in an Iraq?
Wow.
The Daily Double.
Then, when Enron went under and sent the futures of ex-employees into
a blind mistrust of anyone corporate, Rush hailed the spirit of
American entrepreneurism, and that for many victims of Lay-Skilling et
al, it actually was not all that bad.
In fact the Texan greedmongers had created, not a tragedy, but an
opportunity.
That el Rushbo's cup of anecdotal analogies held no water when dipped
into the real world of lost wages, pensions and medical made no
nevermind to the headmaster of building an argument on a single
dittoheads's story.
With the President's crusade to continue a program that the world has
considered torture for over fifty years, Limbaugh, Hannity and
O'Reilly have used their "traditionalist vs secular progressive (SP)"
culture war to construct their Christian Values explanation of what
the W's program really means for their fans.
In this case, those in Blame-America-First crowd, like Republican
senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and John Warner, as well as
former secretary of state Colin L. Powell, all military veterans with
a personal knowledge of torture and laws created to keep us from
becoming what and whom we abhor.
Now a cynic might say that these fellows may know better than military
skipsters like Rush, Sean and Bill.
But cynics are surely just part of the B-A-F crowd.
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Get the feeling that the Right Wing Hate Talk Radio crowd hates our
troops? Well, you happen to be right.
Harry
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