Reply #16: Well, I disagree [View All]

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

You will always find people on these boards listening to Fox News, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. because it is important to know how your adversary is framing their arguments, distorting the truth, parroting talking points, etc.etc. and polluting any real and sincere political discussion.

I think we MIGHT be at a tipping point at this very moment where it is possible that Rush could be publicly defrocked as the leader of conservative intelligentsia by virtue of just MORE people listening to him and discovering just how puny is his knowledge and how failed his dogma.

Right this second, he is STILL talking about "Environmental Whackos" ! Most of the world and our country have moved way beyond believing that the environment and climate change is just the concern of a few tree-hugging liberals. There is drought beyond compare in some places of the world, the Artic shelf is disappearing, people get mercury poisoning from eating sushi, etc. It is intruding into the life of the common man. Rush STILL acting like climate change is something Al Gore made up to sell books is just pathetic.

The more Republicans align themselves to and kowtow to a person like this, the more they discredit themselves. Plus, it's always fun for someone to ask a Republican, "Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh that ------(fill in the blank)" and then watch them squirm as they try to select whether to come down on the side of reality or risk Rush's wrath and know that they will have to crawl across his carpet of broken glass and apologize publicly to him within the next 48 hours.