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Originally Posted by MMM

If you want me to go point by point I can and am happy to, but you sum it up pretty well here.

Originally Posted by MMM

I would say that there is a significant faction of the conservative talk show listening public that, yes, does not check facts and, yes, believes every single word that comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth.

And I say that anyone who blantenly believes every single word from anybody is mentally insane.

Basically if you hear Rush say "Today Obama has decided today the official Obama national holiday" and he/she just don't check up on it and just don't go into work... then they are a nut bag.

Originally Posted by MMM

I don't know that it changes their way of thinking, actually it is probably the opposite.

You don't know? Well make up your mind. You wrote

Originally Posted by MMM

What it does is slowly create a culture where elected and respected officials will yell things at the president while he is speaking.

Originally Posted by MMM

Rush panders to that that way of thinking with intelligent-sounding soundbites and "from my dead hands" undying fortitude that what people are hearing is exactly what they want to hear from someone who can say it better than they can.

Sounds like the people who tune in then are getting what they are asked for.

Originally Posted by MMM

With freedom and power come responsibilty. And I would say that Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, etc. show diminishing responsibility in their positions.

How so? By calling them out? By stating their opinion. By pushing the conservative agenda?

Sorry... thats what they do... I don't know how you can call that irresponsible.

Originally Posted by MMM

Wow? Fine. This is America, they have freedom of speech, people are free to listen, I get all that. But this summer Americans were hanging stuffed dolls of reform supporting politicians at town hall meetings. People were bringing guns to presidential events. People were calling the president's policies socialist, fascist, Maoist, communist, Stalinist, and Nazi with no sense of shame or irony. I dare say half of the people using these (often contradictory) terms don't even know what they mean.

Yes... these are the crazies and the uninformed/uneducated.

You can also draw the same conclusion from what the government has declaired a health care emergency where people have no access to medical care. The ONLY way to fix this is socialized health insurance.... ., we would actually be saving money, and it won't cost us a dime to the deficit...
We would save pay back 4 trillion to the deficit in so many years

Now if someone believes this without checking the facts then I declair them nut jobs.

Originally Posted by MMM

But Rush has compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on more than one occasion. And he still defends that comparison.

Does he have the right to say it? Sure. It is irresponsible? Absolutely. But to think he doesn't feed a demon that is hurtful to the country is naive.

Going to play the Hitler comparison are we? To be fair, lets post some links to the audio or the transcript. Throw in Beck's "Obama is racists" too.

I would say if Rush said "Obama is hitler" "Hitler killed so many and Obama is too" "Kill Obama because he is the new Hitler" that is irresponsible.... But if he was comparing polictal tatics simularities..., which he was, that is just shock jock commentary... and you have to have the education of a first grader to believe Obama is the next Hitler.. or be a wacko.

Are you going to have wackbags call Obama as evil as Adolf Hitler? Sure... they are fulfilling there role as wackbakgs..

Is it a good idea to keep his listerners? Rush thought so...
He knows his listeners and assums they are sane.

If you think that is irresponsible... so be it....
Obama telling people opposed to his plan to get out of the way... is also irresponsible.

But I'll tell you one thing:




we are soo far off topic...