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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Andrew Klavan, writing in the opinion column:
If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.
Oh no, you haven’t. Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”
On further questioning, it always turns out that by “heard him,” he means he’s heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh’s show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.
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Therefore, I am throwing down my gauntlet at your quivering liberal feet. I hereby issue my challenge — the Limbaugh Challenge: Listen to the show. Not for five minutes but for several hours: an hour a day for several days. Consider what he has to say — the real policy material under the jokes and teasing bluster. Do what your intellectual keepers do not want you to do and keep an open mind. Ask yourself: What’s he getting at? Why does he say the things he says? Why do so many people of goodwill — like that nice Mr. Klavan — agree with him?The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don’t want you to listen to Limbaugh because they’re afraid he’ll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don’t want to listen to him because you’re afraid of the same thing.
Don’t believe me? Well, then, gird your loins. Gather your courage. Accept the Limbaugh Challenge. See what happens.
I dare you.
Hat tip to Rick.
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Klavan’s dead on. We should all issue this challenge to our listening challenged.
- philmon | 03/29/2009 @ 22:32Amen to this piece.
And a big “screw you” to those who pretend to be on “our side of the aisle,” yet who apparently detest the man and claim that he’s some kind of blowhard. At the very least, I should like to issue them this challenge as well. I’m talking here about the so-called moderates and “country-club bluebloods” (to borrow Limbaugh’s term) who think the Right needs to spend more time “reaching out” to the Left.
If Rush were really running things (as his opponents claim he does), the conservatives in this country would have declared all-out war on the political Left a long time ago. We’d be calling them on every syllable of their garbage, fighting them tooth-and-nail over every inch of political soil at election time, and probably accusing them of treason just for good measure.
If listening to Rush Limbaugh were somehow compulsory, I doubt that the Democratic Party would even continue to exist in its present form as a viable political party…to say nothing of winning any more national elections. They’d be utterly destroyed every time they ran a candidate…and those that were contemplating a run for Congress or the Presidency would be in a mad-dash, trying to out-do each other to see who could get “right” the fastest.
Imagine what life in this nation would be like if our parties were Republican and Republican-lite…instead of Democrat and Democrat-lite. The former is what the political scene would look like if everyone were listening to Rush.
- cylarz | 03/30/2009 @ 03:53I’ll be happy to reach out, man, but if you catch my arm and I catch yours, I’ll be trying to pull you aboard my ship to save your ass from your sinking one.
If it starts to go the other way, sorry, I’m not gonna let us both drown. The lefties and the bluebloods can just go down with the USS Progressive if they don’t want to get aboard the Right ship, ifyaknowwhatimean.
- philmon | 03/30/2009 @ 10:31