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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 12:01 AM
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Confessions of a former Ditto Head...cool
Calling All Dittoheads

Posted by Wayne Christeson (04.27.06, 7:20 PM)


Al Franken famously described Rush Limbaugh as a big fat idiot. Jim Derych is a bit more measured in his appraisal but he reaches essentially the same conclusion. Derych, a financial planner from Memphis, has written a new book called Confessions of a Former Dittohead (Ig Publishing 2006) in which...

Al Franken famously described Rush Limbaugh as a big fat idiot. Jim Derych is a bit more measured in his appraisal but he reaches essentially the same conclusion. Derych, a financial planner from Memphis, has written a new book called Confessions of a Former Dittohead (Ig Publishing 2006) in which he traces his roots as a hardline dittohead at the University of Tennessee into his maturity as a born-again Democrat. (For the intelligent of you out there who may not know what a dittohead is, it is a slavish adherent to the rantings of Rush Limbaugh, the gangsta rap thug of rightwing talk radio.)

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 12:07 AM
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1. Gee. How come we never hear about disaffected Dems turning to
Republicanism? All these lovely stories about former Pugs seeing the light! Wonderful! Keep em coming. :)
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:09 AM
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2. Well, he pretty much pegged Rush, didn't he? n/t
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argyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:03 AM
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3. In one paragraph he pegged his core listeners quite accurately also.
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