Consider then that if you took Limbaugh’s name off those quotes, many people including liberals would not find those statements racist, or boderline at worst.

Keep in the back of your mind, someone new comes to this site every day. Someone new discovers Limbaugh every day, and Limbaugh can make a lot of sense to someone who has little to no exposure to politics at this level. You can only hope that you get to that new person before the Freepers do.

What made it so funny was how true it was. How many times do we just not see, or care about something that is “Not our problem”?

I recently got a library card in the city I live oin now, and saw Ann Coulter’s book, “The Church of Liberalism,” and decided I’d check if out to see what te crap she was really all about. After the first two pages, I wanted to go rant about the evil, non-sensical, absolutely moronic things she had to say… Until I remembered that it’s almost annoying to be annoyed with Ann Coulter because she’s so fucking obviously retarded that there’s no reason to even bring her up. Her lunacy is simply boring now.

Though I agree with you that the teaching of critical thinking skills is almost nonexistent in US K-12 schooling, never underestimate the great human power to rationalize and deceive oneself.

This makes me think of the passage in one of the Hitchhiker books (can’t recall which one) where the aliens hide their spaceship by parking it in the middle of a cricket field during a game. The idea being that if people want to see or not see something, they will convince themselves of whatever it is they want to believe, barring all factual evidence. Conservatives in a nutshell, I’d say.