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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:03 AM
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If Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh became disgruntled...
And said "Why don't you all climb to the roof of your house and fly off of it?", what would happen next?
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prescole Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:07 AM
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1. Splat. Splat. Splat splat splat. n/t
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:07 AM
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2. Then they should be charged with murder
Because it's clear that Rush and Hannity listeners believe every word their heroes spew and would do anything for them.

I think you could make a case of cultish behaviour.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:07 AM
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3. What happens to lemmings?
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:37 AM
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10. I don't know; I don't think I've got enough bashers and builders.
:P
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:08 AM
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I can only dream
republican population control. i'm drooling.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:08 AM
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4. Well, let's just say we'd have no problem winning back the majority
:D
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:13 AM
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5. I dunno. Maybe they could give it a practice run today.
It would be a test of their influence over their brain dead listeners.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:16 AM
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6. Hannity and Limbaugh do for talk radio
Is what Jonestown did for kids beverages.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:20 AM
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7. Rush's Best Days Were In The Minority
In '92, when Clinton beat Poppy, I thought that would be the end of the Rushbo style of hate radio. He'd lost his meal ticket and would sound like a whiney loser. Well he did, but he connected with a lot of other losers out there and by '94 he was riding high.

Then during the Clinton years, he was able to spin the Clenis like no one could. Find anything wrong in the country, Rushbo could find a Clinton connection. Ratings grew.

Things haven't been as easy for Rushbo in recent years. He's got a lot more competition from even more feral hate spewers and a lot of his martyr rhetoric just doesn't play well when it's your party that's in control. He can't use a Ted Kennedy or Tom Daschele or Jesse Jackson like he used to. He's like a stand-up comic whose material got old.

But don't count Rushbo out. As the wingnuts get desperate...and we haven't seen anything yet...he'll be very happy to welcome that back to his good graces. That is, of course, until he's hauled off for his own trial.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:51 AM
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14. I think it's alot easier for the talking heads to play offense, that is,
Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 08:51 AM by Ilsa
when when their representatives are in the minority. Hopefully, we'll be playing defense again soon.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 09:06 AM
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15. Democrats Are Still Lousy At Offense & Defense
Right now, the right wing and their proxies have a big advantage in the media. Media Matters did a survey of MSGOP talk shows over the past few months and showed how badly skewed it was with Repugnican proxies. The few Democrats who make the rounds are "safe" ones like Joe Biden or another DINO who puts up a mild resistance and always makes Democrats look weak. This is the script and it's been played in the corporate media for over a decade.

It's easy to play offense when your lies and distortion not only go out unchecked and unquestioned, but the hosts and "credible" voices participate in that dirty echo chamber that has been used to lead this country to economic and social ruin.

Peace...
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 09:16 AM
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16. Amen to that!
It's easy to play offense when your lies and distortion not only go out unchecked and unquestioned, but the hosts and "credible" voices participate in that dirty echo chamber that has been used to lead this country to economic and social ruin.
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nookiemonster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:33 AM
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8. It'll leave one hell of a mess.
Time to call the "FReeper sweeper"

:)
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:35 AM
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9. Hannity/Limbaugh listeners are turkeys, and in the immortal words of
Arthur Carlson, "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
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dogfacedboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:43 AM
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12. But Mr. Carlson was an honest man who
probably really believed that. You bring back memories. WKRP was a GREAT television show. One of a kind. Great characters who actually had depth.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:38 AM
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11. 1 in 10 listeners would break their ankles jumping off their portapotties
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MessiahRp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 08:44 AM
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13. As a heavy guy myself...
I am amazed at how worked up and screaming mad those two get and somehow their blood pressure hasn't caused a heart attack, stroke or worse. :)

Just food for thought on two guys who sit and judge other people for far worse. :-P

Rp
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