Rush Limbaugh Poll

[Rooster71]

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Rush's shtick is to voice certain views in such a way as to be controversial. I view Rush the same way I view Michael Moore. Both have found a very lucrative way to enrich themselves. Anyone who takes either of them as being serious political pundits needs to get out more (or at least learn to formulate their own opinions).

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So very true. I just wish more people were able to formulate their own views without having to listen to Limbaugh or Moore.

[Rooster71]

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Stupid poll that I won't dignify with an answer.

Sheeesh - you hate him so much, turn the damn channel and forget he exists. It'll probably add a few years to your life.

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Thanks man, this is the best laugh I've had all day! You say "stupid poll that I won't dignify with an answer." Yet you go ahead and take the time and effort to respond anyway.

[Utah]

My problem with him is that he speaks his views as if they were the TRUTH and he has millions of disciples that happily spread his pathologic lies and skewed ideas.

Can you give me an example of one of his lies. Just one. He has some skewed ideas but I have yet to hear him lie.

[jokerswild]

Hi Welcher,
I've heard him for about 10 minutes a few times because he's on the same station as the local baseball club. He lied more than Bill Clinton did in 4 years in those few minutes.

Seriously, besides the fact that he distorts anything he can, his blatant anti-Semitism and hatred for blacks, he 's lied constantly about his health problems. His drug addiction would be sad, other than he has preached that white collar drug addicts should go to prison for the same crime.

If you listen to him regularly, and never have heard him lie, then you are less intelligent than I thought.

[MMMMMM]

"What type of wealth redistribution are you referring to?"

My guess is that Moore is for all intents and purposes a Socialist--and quite possibly, a closet or latent Communist.

"I assume you are talking about the progressive tax structure."

Nope, but I don't doubt Moore that supports more and more taxes.

"Unfortunately, that is the law of this country."

Glad you agree it is unfortunate.

""Wealth redistribution" is just a BS catch-phrase, this concept is prevalent in every society."

Again, unfortunately.

"So in regards to Moore giving his wealth away....if I follow your logic that would mean that if a wealthy medical doctor supported free health care (provided by the government, free to the patient) for the poor, but he did not provide free health care (out of his own pocket) to the poor, then he would be a hypocrite? Is this correct?"

You bet. Any wealthy doctor who supports "free" health care but who does not provide any free or discounted health care for some poorer people is IMO a hypocrite.

"The above is just an example, but the same point would apply to many situations."

Indeed it would.

[Utah]

Please dont respond to my posts

[MMMMMM]

"He claimed there are more Indians alive today than there were when Columbus landed."

Sounds surprising, doesn't it? Might it possibly be true???

I don't know if it is true or not.

Here's something surprising: there are more deer in the USA than when the Pilgrims landed. Approximately seven times as many, in fact. That's what happens when you remove the natural predators of a species that adapts well to semi-rural areas and suburbia.

[Rooster71]

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My problem with him is that he speaks his views as if they were the TRUTH and he has millions of disciples that happily spread his pathologic lies and skewed ideas.

Can you give me an example of one of his lies. Just one. He has some skewed ideas but I have yet to hear him lie.

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Typical conservative response...don't answer the question, just turn it around. Well, I'll go ahead and humor you. Last year, Limbaugh claimed (numerous times) that Bill Clinton was instrumental in North Korea obtaining nuclear weapons.

Then we have Limbaugh's claim that volcanoes do more harm to the ozone layer than human-produced chemicals.

One of my favorite Rush whoppers is the one where he says that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the 1950's than in the 1980's. This can be found on page 84 of his "I Told You So" book.

We can go back to '94 for a real fun one where he says that "it has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema."

The one that really shows Limbaugh's intelligence is the statement that "we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the constitution was written."

I could go on and on, but it would be a waste of my time.

[jokerswild]

To bad. You shouldn't have welched.

[Rooster71]

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"What type of wealth redistribution are you referring to?"

My guess is that Moore is for all intents and purposes a Socialist--and quite possibly, a closet or latent Communist.

"I assume you are talking about the progressive tax structure."

Nope, but I don't doubt Moore that supports more and more taxes.

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I am asking "what type of wealth redistribution are you referring to?" because I would like to know. If you are saying he is a communist, then I would like to read some documentation of this. I'm not trying to be an ass, but honestly I have not seen much information online regarding his political views other than the disagreements with Bush policy. He is not an elected official, so he has no public "platform," this is why I am wanting to read this info first-hand.