You're right. They don't need anyone making up bulls***. And for every made up story that you find from the left, you can find made up stories, ginned statistics, or complete and total spin on the right too.

 

Let's be honest. Rush Limbaugh meant more than that one person when he said phony soldiers. He meant any critic of the Iraq war who served. Your service doesn't matter to Rush if he can score a cheap point off you on the air. Because he's in the business of making entertainment, not getting people elected. And right now, that includes making fun of war protesters.

 

You're a mind reader now.

You're a mind reader now.

 

As is everyone who claims he meant only one guy, or only one group.

As is everyone who claims he meant only one guy, or only one group.

 

I don't KNOW exactly what he meant. But I'm not going to make a statement as fact the meant this or that.

I don't KNOW exactly what he meant. But I'm not going to make a statement as fact the meant this or that.

 

You don't have to, plenty of Rush's fans and supporters have already done so.

 

BTW, RUSH is still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

You don't have to, plenty of Rush's fans and supporters have already done so.

 

BTW, RUSH is still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 

I'm not speaking for Rush's fans. I'm speaking for myself. Yet, like the comment I replied to, many of Rush's critics have also done so.

You're a mind reader now.

 

Nope, I'm putting two and two together. He regularly attacks veterans' service whose opinions he doesn't agree with.

 

He did it with Paul Hackett, he did it with John Kerry, and he did it with the guy in the Vote Vets ad.

 

The best part of the phony soliders thing was that, he trotted out his own phony soldier a while back.

 

He had a caller on the show, a phony officer claiming to represent units of the military that doesn't exist to get his own point of view across and even after the Pentagon contacts his show to tell him that this person and unit do not exist, he refused to rule out the possibility that he was talking to a soldier in Iraq.

To be fair, Rush says stuff on his show, a lot of stuff. Could he have a slip of the tongue? Could he misspeak? Of course. It is up to the audience to decide.

This whole letter fiasco sort of represents a good view of the difference between liberals and conservatives. The conservative (Rush)thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile causes and backs his commitment with his own money. The liberal (Reid)asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others.

 

 

This whole letter fiasco sort of represents a good view of the difference between liberals and conservatives. The conservative (Rush)thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile causes and backs his commitment with his own money. The liberal (Reid)asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others.

You should become a house painter. You'd be done in seconds with a brush that broad.

How funny that that is exactly what I am doing today, painting.

I think 'rightist' is a legit tem. In fact, I saw it somewhere in the forum a few minutes ago. Don't ask me where, because I am too damn lazy to look for it.

I guess I just dislike that they are both used like insults, and that it further amplifies this run for the extremes that out political system has been in for a while. This while so much of the public seems to want someone more centrist, reasonable. Leftist and Rightist sounds like people who can only turn one direction.

 

I guess I just dislike that they are both used like insults, and that it further amplifies this run for the extremes that out political system has been in for a while. This while so much of the public seems to want someone more centrist, reasonable. Leftist and Rightist sounds like people who can only turn one direction.

 

I used it in response to a Nuke post, not because I find the term useful, but to highlight the silliness of leftist and rightist.

I guess I just dislike that they are both used like insults, and that it further amplifies this run for the extremes that out political system has been in for a while. This while so much of the public seems to want someone more centrist, reasonable. Leftist and Rightist sounds like people who can only turn one direction.

 

I don't use it as an insult and have never considered it as so. Leftist, to me, describes a person's political outlook, like conservationalist describes a person's view on the environment. It has never crossed my mind that the term could be considered an insult and I don't really understand why it is.

I don't use it as an insult and have never considered it as so. Leftist, to me, describes a person's political outlook, like conservationalist describes a person's view on the environment. It has never crossed my mind that the term could be considered an insult and I don't really understand why it is.

Maybe 'leftists' have something to feel guilty about, which is why they consider it an insult?

Maybe 'leftists' have something to feel guilty about, which is why they consider it an insult?

 

I think I figured it out. Catagorize anybody as anything and it's politically incorrect. We all know how leftists feel about politcal incorrectness.

I don't use it as an insult and have never considered it as so. Leftist, to me, describes a person's political outlook, like conservationalist describes a person's view on the environment. It has never crossed my mind that the term could be considered an insult and I don't really understand why it is.

You probably don't use it that way. Others here do.

 

I just think its a poor term. But maybe that's because I have never fit well in either category.

 

You probably don't use it that way. Others here do.

 

I just think its a poor term. But maybe that's because I have never fit well in either category.

 

Just curious. What do you think aboutt the term 'neocon'?

Maybe 'leftists' have something to feel guilty about, which is why they consider it an insult?

Maybe 'neocons' have something to feel guilty about, which is why they consider it an insult?

 

Cheap labels cheapen the polemics.

 

"The candidate can choose from two platforms, but remember -- no substitutions. For example, do you support universal health care? Then you must also want a ban on assault weapons. Pro limited government? Congratulations, you are also anti-abortion. Luckily, all human opinion falls neatly into one of two clearly defined camps. Thus the two party system elegantly reflects the bichromatic rainbow of American political thought." - Jon Stewart

Maybe 'leftists' have something to feel guilty about, which is why they consider it an insult?

 

Kind of like calling someone a dog

molehill ---> mountain.

Just curious. What do you think aboutt the term 'neocon'?

Eh, I am not even 100% sure what that refers to. Seems like its used to talk about the current power base within the GOP - the religiously-motivated social conservatives. But since it just means "new conservatives", it seems like it would change over time.

 

Its really not worth all this fuss, I just don't like some of the terms used. I think we've beaten this horse pretty thoroughly at this point.