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Evidence refutes liberalism.
No, evidence supports liberalism. History supports liberalism. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy -- liberals all. Hell, Reagan was a Roosevelt liberal ... he just stopped progressing and became a conservative. Any idiot with a history book can see that the conservative philosophy of today is the liberal philosophy of yesterday.
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There is no such thing as a New Democrat.
There's no such thing as a "compassionate conservative."
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The Earth's eco-system is not fragile.
My father's not a fragile man, but that doesn't mean its okay to abuse him.
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Character matters; leadership decends from character.
Yes, too bad Herr Limbaugh has no character.
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The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
"Ranger Rush strikes again. The original claim that FAIR had challenged was that "we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written" (radio, 2/18/94); in his second book, he had written that there is more forest land in the U.S. today than there was when Columbus first reached the New World. The real figures, according to U.S. Forest Service estimates: in 1492, approximately 1 billion acres of forest; in 1787, about 930 million; 1992, 737 million.
"In the past, Limbaugh has tried to prove he was right by showing that there is more forest land now than in 1952 (radio, 7/5/94) or 1920 ("Limbaugh Responds to FAIR," press release)--neither of which has anything to do with the Constitution or Columbus. Now in his third failed defense, he cites a statistic that is off by more than half a century and ignores 47 of 50 states."
--FAIR
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Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Please explain how Reagan is better then FDR? Or Truman? Or JFK?
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Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy -every time it's tried.
So do condoms.
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Condoms only work during the school year.
Why?
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Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
See, that's just blatantly sexist. Why isn't there a "men shouldn't be allowed on a jury where the accused is a hottie"?
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The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four "R's": reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.
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I am not arrogant.
Did you bother to read the answer to the above question?
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My first 35 Undeniable Truths are still undeniably true.
You mean like the USSR being the greatest threat to U.S. security? You do realize the USSR collapsed, don't you?
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There is a God.
Prove it.
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There is something wrong when critics say the problem with America is too much religion.
How can you look at Jerry Falwell or Pat Buchannen and not agree? When has blind adherence to a fictional deity done anything but brought pain and conflict? I mean, look at Omega's logic in bypassing the Bible to support the "war on terrorism."
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Morality is not defined by individual choice.
So, you'd rather force your morality on me? Fuck you.
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The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
Do you forget FDR? He won re-election 3 times, and while you might be able to prove your argument the first time, you'd be hard-pressed to prove that the American people didn't know he was a liberal the next three times. You don't know much about history, do you?
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Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
How can you support this person? Like you, Omega, he's living in another time, when men ruled supreme. Get a clue, boyo.
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Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.
Gee, isn't that how George W. Bush got into the White House?
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Too many Americans can't laugh at themselves anymore.
Oh, I laugh at myself a good bit -- but I can't wait to see Omega's response to this.
Now, for some more "Why Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" ...
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FAIR quoted Limbaugh from his TV show talking about the Gulf War: "Everybody in the world was aligned with the United States except who? The United States Congress." We pointed out that both houses of Congress had voted to authorize use of force in the Gulf.
Limbaugh singled this out on his radio show as "an example of what they've done in this report": "They claim that I said the only institutions who did not support George Bush in the Gulf War were the United States Congress, the United States House and Senate.... I did say that, and when I said it, it was true."
Good answer--except it's a lie. Limbaugh made the remark on April 18, 1994--more than three years after Congress voted to authorize force.
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In his book See, I Told You So, Limbaugh issued this invitation: "If you have any doubts about the status of American health care, just compare it with that in other industrialized nations." When we compared the U.S. with other industrialized nations--life expectancy and infant mortality--we found that the U.S. ranked near the bottom on both counts.
Limbaugh felt this was unfair. "Those two areas, those stats have almost nothing to do with the quality of American medical care," he remarked. "All the stats reflect is the epidemic of low-birth weight babies born to teenage and drug-addicted mothers, as well as the large numbers of homicides in American cities and drug-related deaths."
The comment shows how little Limbaugh knows about health care. Infant mortality, far from having "almost nothing to do" with the quality of health care, is closely linked with the availability of prenatal care. The mortality rate for infants whose mothers received little or no prenatal care is almost 10 times that of mothers who received frequent prenatal care, according to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics.
And the Centers for Disease Control estimate that homicide lowers U.S. life expectancy by about three months--which would do almost nothing to improve our rank. (The CDC did not calculate the effects of "drug-related deaths," but since illegal drugs kill far fewer people than homicide, they have even less impact on life expectancy.)
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Limbaugh tried to pass the buck on his claim that students at Chelsea Clinton's school had to write an essay called "Why I Feel Guilty Being White." It's a silly claim, given that 28 percent of the students at the school are not white. "My source for this story is CBS News," he had originally said. "I am not making this up."
In response to FAIR's report, Limbaugh said, "They say I'm wrong, it never happened, and that I made it up. But my quote was--my source was a CBS News fax, CBS News Service, that was sent to WABC radio in New York, which alerted me to this alleged incident. CBS cited Playboy magazine's February article, 'Unbearable Whiteness of Being,' and Playboy had cited Heterodoxy magazine, September of 1993."
He refined this explanation in his USA Today column, where he now described his source as "CBS Morning Resource, a wire service for radio talk shows run by CBS's radio networks." "Playboy, Heterodoxy, and CBS may well have been wrong," Limbaugh wrote, "but I quoted the story accurately and accurately cited my source."
But the source he had originally cited was CBS News--not CBS Morning Resource, an "infotainment" service. "CBS News never reported such a story," CBS News Vice President Larry Cooper wrote in a letter to USA Today (7/20/94). "Limbaugh's source was actually Playboy magazine. The story, crediting Playboy, was distributed to radio stations via the CBS Radio Morning Resource.... Morning Resource is not associated with CBS News."
Limbaugh reported a false claim and misidentified his source. But to hear Limbaugh tell it, quoting an inaccurate source somehow means that you are accurate. What it really means is that you failed to check out your source.
Heterodoxy, a right-wing tabloid, cited no source for the story, and couldn't remember where they got it from when we called them. But the first reference seems to be a story on Sidwell Friends in City Paper, a D.C. weekly (7/16/93). After rechecking with his (anonymous) source--a parent of a Sidwell student--reporter Paul Gifford now says that the actual title of the essay assigned to one class of 7th and 8th graders was "Should White People Feel Guilty and Why."
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After FAIR debunked Limbaugh's denials that he encourages political activism by his listeners, he came back with this in his USA Today column: "I don't have 'troops.' I do not encourage listeners to call anybody. In fact, I do just the opposite."
He discourages listeners from making political phone calls? That's not what he did last July 16, when he urged listeners to call the Democratic National Committee to ask who told Hillary to say she tried to go into the military. Or on June 30, when he twice read through a list of U.S. representatives who hadn't signed on to a Limbaugh-endorsed deficit cutting plan, adding coyly: "If you heard your congressman's name--you heard your congressman's name."
Day after day, Limbaugh organized opposition to the pro-Clinton health care caravans. Here he is on July 27: "The new location, for those of you in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex is the Arlington Convention Center. Sometime tomorrow, the health security express will show up at the Arlington Convention Center and have their rally. Now, you know what to do.... Why don't a bunch of people get together and offer for sale home remedies?... And keep in mind that the real snake oil is on these buses. The health security express, due in to the Arlington Convention Center tomorrow."
Of course, there's nothing wrong with media figures encouraging people to get involved politically--as long as commentators across the political spectrum are allowed to do that. But why does Limbaugh have to lie about it?
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