Rush can dish it out the jokes, but he and his Minions can't take them. Yep, they believe we the people are stuck on stoopid. Look for a whole lot of embarrassed republicans to start calling themselves independents and moderates, claiming purity is not the goal. Snark
Has Rush met his Waterloo?
I HOPE so.
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Excellent read, Redeye! As you know, I jumped into this thing fast and furious. I happened to be on the road when ElBlubberButt made his outrageous remarks.
Setting aside how ill-informed he is on the subject of female contraception, notably that for women more sex doesn't equal gulping more pills, as is the case with Viagra.
Although his slanderous pejoratives were terribly offensive, when he said that the sex videos should be uploaded to the net so "we" could watch them, I knew there was a bigger issue here.
Of course, that issue was the use of our nation's public airwaves to solicit pornographic materials.
Hitting him in the pocketbook speaks to him in terms he understands - money.
But Lee Haven at Jack and Jill exposed the real deal: "the biggest fear of these rightwing broadcasters is that the “fairness doctrine,” which their hero Reagan killed, will be re-instituted. Radio managers weren’t too enamored of the government monitoring whether each minute of rightwing tit was met with an equal in length leftwing tat, so they often replaced talk radio with soft rock, or a gardening show, to spare themselves the headaches."
Ru$h's broadcaster license is a trophy, and that's the reason that complaints to the FCC for his soliciting pornography over the public airwaves is so important.
It's a step toward re-gaining the fairness doctrine, and returning civil political dialogue to the public forum.
". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 88)
The above quotes were the cornerstones of Jefferson's interest in education and the franchise. He placed education as the foundation of democracy and a prerequisite to vote.
It's the media, keeping people stupid.
Indeed, you and Jefferson are so correct! :)
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