Comments on: Who’s apologizing to who now?

By: shaunna

shaunna — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:05:16 +0000

rush is getting way too much press and blog energy (i say this even though i succumbed myself a couple days ago). i’ve come to the conclusion that he’s hyping it for all it’s worth to counter failing ratings and the inevitable consequence of such (i.e., cancellation), and the gop should grow a backbone and stop groveling to the fringe element… that “base” didn’t win the last election, and it won’t going forward, at least for the time being.

By: ilyka

ilyka — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:33:10 +0000

Corwin is a nice name for you. Like Casper the Friendly Ghost, or Toonces the Driving Cat–Corwin, the Helpful Hack.

Anyway, take it up with Wikipedia and/or some guy called Huberman.

http://books.google.com/books?id=AwJs8HTT1pwC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=%22we+miss+you+james+godspeed%22&source=web&ots=QA_wElIGlC&sig=tRw-0VppWsZ73zfJOE_SI-Kx7pY#PPA232,M1

By: corwin

corwin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:53:06 +0000

Jill,
I’m going to ask again for your source of the comment on MLK and James Earl Ray.Please provide it.If you don’t have a legitimate quote,with draw it and apologize . Manufacturing quotes is something that will destroy you.If this wasn’t said-and you’ve given no proof it was-you’re entering terrible legal liability.Even public figures have the right to damages if something is maliciously manufactured.Strange as it may seem,this is to help you.

By: jasmine

jasmine — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:35:11 +0000

Rush sort of my reminds me of the quintessential Mafia godfather whose bad side NO ONE wants to be on. I”m glad my local paper took him to task:
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_11832468

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:27:15 +0000

Silly Dreamweasel, you’re just missing the (invisible) part where Gibbs said that reporters who failed to obey (and Republicans who refused to answer) would be thrown in jail for refusing to take an oath of fealty to the President!

By: Dreamweasel

Dreamweasel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:12:26 +0000

“challenged” != “instructed”

By: Featherstone, QC

Featherstone, QC — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:48:44 +0000

“White House press secretary Robert Gibbs . . . challenged reporters on Monday to ask Republicans if they agree with Limbaugh’s desire.”

By: Dreamweasel

Dreamweasel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:05:07 +0000

You know, Featherstone, I took a moment to review that link I posted yesterday. Even squinting to read the fine print, I could not find the part where Robert Gibbs required elected officals to declare an Oath of Supremacy to the President. Nor could I find the part where he “instructed” the press to write about how awful the Republicans who agreed with Limabugh were.

Funny how you find the need to create a strawman argument in an attempt to defend Limbaugh. Let’s just get it out in the open how many people agree with his words.

By: Dan S.

Dan S. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:02:38 +0000

“. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

I don’t know about that – after all, depending on the whim of the slaveowner, one might be whipped, raped, killed . . . – oh, that’s not what he means, is it?

Really, though, there’s something here (assuming this is an actual & correctly attributed quote – I tend to be wary of such things without a clear citation) not unlike the Rawlsian ‘veil of ignorance’ – the speaker is simply unable to imagine that if they existed in the past they might have been a slave; instead, they can’t help but view it from an assumed point of privilege.

By: buddy cole

buddy cole — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:29:08 +0000

Rush ? Can’t we just stuff this bloated turkey with some dynamite and blow him up already ?