tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post1608719530318475675..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: See, I Had to Look Up Something Limbaugh Said, And...Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-8116310957729933452013-07-25T19:48:21.318-05:002013-07-25T19:48:21.318-05:00please stop ruining the good name of anonymous wit...please stop ruining the good name of anonymous with this lefties, statists, and obamabots nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-63926498287270191122013-07-24T21:21:53.676-05:002013-07-24T21:21:53.676-05:00Just to supplement the point, notice that Limbaugh...Just to supplement the point, notice that Limbaugh also says Obamacare "needs young people paying the freight for <b>the elderly</b> who need all the care." I may have missed something, but is there a single American 65 or over, even one, who is going to be insured through Obamacare? Isn't there some other program already out there for those folks?Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-68400327902130197212013-07-24T16:39:34.311-05:002013-07-24T16:39:34.311-05:00Well, Limbaugh is sorta like you lefties. He isn&#...Well, Limbaugh is sorta like you lefties. He isn't moving, and neither are you. So it's ironic that you complain about each other. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-62407921885108133122013-07-24T14:24:13.869-05:002013-07-24T14:24:13.869-05:00Something else too--does this qualify as lazy mend...Something else too--does this qualify as lazy mendacity? It seems to have some aspects in common, like being untrue, and fitting the narrative you want to convey.ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-21482444458353521192013-07-24T13:22:57.101-05:002013-07-24T13:22:57.101-05:00This is one reason that most people don't take...This is one reason that most people don't take the conservative media seriously as a source for news. They mix utter falsehood in with whatever truth there might be, so you don't know what to belief and you end up doubting everything. <br /><br />I can't believe anything I read in conservative media because their standards are so low that this fake stuff gets reported and spread. Until some legacy organization with actual fact-checking reports it, who knows if it's true? (Like Friends of Hamas recently.) If the MSM media was as bad, then there would be no one with a reputation for being even mostly honest, and news would be a crapshoot.<br /><br />The weirdest thing is how self-congratulatory the Limbaugh audience is for being intelligent and thinking about the issues. <br /><br />Occasionally, one of his listeners will have an inkling about a discrepancy in one of his arguments. <b><a href="http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/search/label/Limbaugh" rel="nofollow">Here's a case</a></b> concerning Planned Parenthood. It's funny but also worrying how readily Limbaugh handles the chinks in his argument.ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-68446067643332127322013-07-24T12:48:19.621-05:002013-07-24T12:48:19.621-05:00My dad, the racist conservative, would always resp...My dad, the racist conservative, would always respond to complaints like Jonathan's with a quote from Man of La Mancha:<br /><br />Facts?? Facts are the enemy of Truth!!<br /><br />And he really, really believed that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-69360299497886239962013-07-24T12:12:20.533-05:002013-07-24T12:12:20.533-05:00Limbaugh makes the right nativist/xenophobic/bigot...Limbaugh makes the right nativist/xenophobic/bigoted/sexist noises, and that's why he has the undying trust of the nativist, the xenophobic, the bigots, and the sexists. Him being wrong on the facts can never change that. He's one of US, not one of THEM.<br /><br />His most offensive remarks are actually the ones that keep the audience coming back for more, because they are signals that Limbaugh is part of their identity group.purushanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-10162402952105226662013-07-24T11:59:37.057-05:002013-07-24T11:59:37.057-05:00What drives me nuts about Limbaugh is not the posi...What drives me nuts about Limbaugh is not the positions he takes or the principles he claims to hold, but that he is utterly indifferent to whether what he is saying is the truth or not. He's not even really a liar, because that implies that he knows he's saying something that is untrue. He simply doesn't care whether it's true or not.<br /><br />Take this business about young people signing up for Obamacare: It would take him (or someone on his staff) five minutes to find out whether it was true. But why would they do that? It does his program no favors at all to determine the truth of what he's saying. You can't fill four hours a day by saying, "We checked this out, and it's not true, so let's talk about something else." <br /><br />You'd think at some point, people would get tired of being told fairy stories about those EEEvil Democrats. But we haven't reached that point yet.TNnoreply@blogger.com