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My favourite story however was this commentary:

Rush, to Judgment
It’s been a bad year for bully-boy conservatives. Time for them to taste their own bitter medicine.

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(in mock Limbaugh tone) Look, the Clinton liberals and feminazis won’t tell you, but here’s the problem with this big talk-show host who turns out to be a prescription-drug junkie. You have a guy who finally stops spinning and fesses up for his actions. Fine. He says he won’t play the victim. Good. He’s off to rehab. God bless. But what he and his apologists want you to forget is that he broke the law—yes, the L-A-W. Some of us around here still have respect for it. FOLKS, THIS GUY didn’t just use drugs, he put another person in harm’s way to feed his own habit. He repeatedly sent his maid out into a parking lot to score for him. Thousands of pills. Talk about cowardly. The housekeeper was being set up by her big celebrity boss to take the fall if they got busted. Now, that’s the problem with these famous people who develop the wrong ’60s values. The little person—the kind of average American who listens to this program—takes the risks, while the celebrity gets the slobbering praise for overcoming his “problems.” That’s the world these liberals have brought you. Unforgivable.

Conservatives have the nerve to blast the liberals for playing too rough, the better to rally the faithful. The big guy himself could help the dialogue if he returns to the airwaves after rehab with a more tolerant and less vitriolic message. But then he wouldn’t be Rush Limbaugh anymore.
And finally, the liberals are baaaack!

We’re Baaaa-aack

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For two years, we’ve foolishly heeded then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer’s McCarthyite warning that liberals needed to “watch what they say and watch what they do” because our loyal, patriotic opposition was un-American. Yes, we kept our mouths shut while the right-wing took sole possession of God, the flag, national security and family values


Conason reminds us that liberalism is actually Americanism: “If your workplace is safe, if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor, if you are paid a living wage, including overtime...if your food is not poisoned and your water drinkable...if our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn’t black with pollution...if people of all races can share the same public facilities, if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race, you can thank liberals. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of these advances.”

(from Joe Conason’s “Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth,” )

I know. I know. Rally round boys, the liberal media is on the attack with their lies and distortions. Better fire up the 'fair and balanced' FOX channel.

To me though, it looks as if the non-conservatives (referred to derisevely as "libs" ) aern't going to roll over and play dead after all. It looks as if people have had ENOUGH!!!

It's time to reap the whirlwind.

The funniest thing though is the wacko far neocon right is now crying foul when the left and center rises to the occasion to attack back. Over at ol drug head's website, i found this article which pretty much mirrored one notable posting here on this very thread.

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a new kind of liberal: smart, well educated, articulate … but mostly angry – the kind that is doing far more harm to liberalism in America than Rush Limbaugh could ever do.
(ahem) G-man?

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But, in any event, keep posting Whomod. You singlehandedly do more damage to the lie of the "thoughtful, tolerant, compassionate liberal" than a thousand issues of National Review.
onward with the peice..

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Conservatives, basically, are about smaller government and lower taxes and individual responsibility. Liberals, on the other hand, are supposed to be about the free exchange of ideas, without the name-calling. Liberals are supposed to be the good ones, the smart ones, the sophisticated ones and mostly the better ones. I know this, of course, because my liberal friends keeping telling me how good and smart and sophisticated and better they are.

Once liberals were like John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. They were upbeat and enthusiastic – and mainstream. These days they’re more like Eric Alterman and Michael Moore and Al Franken. They’re closed-minded and nasty - and fringe.


Too often we talk right past each other in our culture, and no one has clean hands on this one – not liberals or conservatives. Incivility is a two-way street. Still it seems to me that liberals – the very people who take such pride in seeing themselves as compassionate and open-minded – have, in a sad kind of way, become precisely what they have long accused conservatives of being: mean-spirited and closed-minded.


The fact is that liberals, more than anything else, need to remember how to be liberal (!! :lol: !!) - and not let the angry fringe hijack a philosophy that once, a long time ago, was something to be proud of.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/15/124248.shtml

In other words, they'd like us to go back and play nice and let Rush and his ilk have their way with our pansy pinko pacifist asses. As with the right wing criticism of Clark being a closet Repub, i want to commend them for putting their partisan interests aside and looking out in the best interest of the left and the Democratic party. - As for his "angry fringe" hijacking a philosophy. Wouldn't that adequetely describe the Republican party at the moment?

No thank you. Brace yourselves. People are finally starting to wake up and taking an active part in your self-declared 'culture war'.

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"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies." - Rush Limbaugh
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In defense of "Bush haters".

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16981