Just Plain Jim
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- Oct 12, 2009
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- Central part of China
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- Independent
That is the problem, I've never yet met anyone who "follows" a political radio talk show as if it were a religion. I just met thousands of people who try to paint people who listen to talk radio that way. They do so at pain of exposing their own ignorance and shortcomings IMO. Many people apply the same school of thought to political talk radio as they do news in general. Get it from a variety of sources and compare/contrast and reach your own conclusions. I know I certainly do and have for many many years. People get their "news" from "news" sources and in general get their opinion commentary from sources of the same. And once again, more bluntly, your personal issues and anecdotes are exactly that and not endemic of the millions of people who do listen to Limbaugh.
I have. Limbaugh went on, their ear pieces went in, it came out when the show was over. If they drove for a living, there was no way they'd miss the show, they'd schedule their route around his show. If they worked in the press at the newspaper, they'd listen, nothing was going to take away their Limbaugh. A man I worked with used his computer to listen to Limbaugh, god help you if you had to interrupt him.
Retraction, admission, he stated that he had been taken in by a hoax. He offered up the comment that it "felt right" which is actually a dig at a famous comment Dan Rather made when he got caught doing all the things you say Limbaugh did. As to the fact that he did it "talking head" style, yeah no shizz eh? And of course...so what?
What does Rather have to do with it? Just because one person did it one way does not mean everyone else now has that excuse, nor the right to make excuses based on that.
So everyone else listening, as you do, they are lemmings and you are not? Hey do let us know just how ignorant it is you are comfortable looking. Oh and yeah, I see you are back to that idiotic "followers of a religion" fluff. yawn
Not fluff, see above.
I think I am starting to see a serious pattern here. Jeez guy, you really are serving as your own executioner aren't you?
Cheap shot, should I say I see a pattern with you as well. you know I could, but I won't.
Well I guess you are to be applauded for learning to think for yourself, as oxymoronic as that is. You will still fare better in social situations and discourse if you also can learn to stop transposing your own personal issues and takes on things, as that of the rest of the world.
Yes, I can think for myself, and can notice around me what goes on, and can see what talking heads are worth, which is not much. As I said, people who listen to it like it is gospel are lemmings and have lost the ability to think for themselves.
You can keep on going, you are not going to change my mind. I started listen to Limbaugh in the late eighties, stopped soon after and would tune in from time to time and find he is spewing the same crap, just wrapped with different paper.
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