I suggest republican "leaders" make limbaugh an honorary minority member of congress

[BOSSHOG]

No telling what right wing radio will spew today but I guarantee there will be one rolling theme. THEY had nothing to do with the election results.

[Joiwind]

1. Oh yes they did. The hell they didn't

I was a stone dittohead, Hannitized, Savage Nation member in 2002. Then the right wing started going after "illegal immigration".

"Hey, Pedro!! By the authority invested in me as a white man, I demand to see your documents!"

RW radio adoption of the immigration "issue" in was the beginning of my bluing. I called up Glenn Beck in Orlando and had to remind him that neither the USA nor the state of Florida had an official language (Florida had defeated 2 English-only measures in the 1980s). He cursed me out and called me a spic-lover and un-American. Hey, guy, I'm a conservative like you, I thought.

The sheer unbridled racist, nativist asshattery associated with the immigration issue unhinged me from the only other issue tying me to the GOP, abortion. When I came to my senses that 40 years of voting GOP hadn't stopped a single abortion, I realized that we pro-lifers needed to find another way to address that issue, and it wasn't worth turning my country into a trailer park over.

When I started doing my homework, I found out that what the RW talk show hosts really cared about was money. They and their bosses had it, and wanted to keep it.

Pull the lever, and bingo! Another Democratic vote for 2006 and 2008.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Thanks for sharing that, joiwind. A hearty welcome to you!

:hi:

I'm curious to see how hate-filled the Limbaugh/Hannity crowd will now get. I really hope they are finally marginalized...the whole "us versus them" mentality they spew.

And, like you said, it's all about money. I posted a quote by Boortz here a couple of weeks ago. I was skimming through his book and came upon a passage where he said, essentially, that it's his job to be inflammatory, so he will lie to do it and for his listeners not to believe everything he says.

They are all shock jocks, but somehow they gained credibility as providing news and educated, informed commentary. Go figure. People who need an enemy flock to them...life is easier that way, much more black and white, no gray.

[Joiwind]

2. Oh yes they did. The hell they didn't

I was a stone dittohead, Hannitized, Savage Nation member in 2002. Then the right wing started going after "illegal immigration".

"Hey, Pedro!! By the authority invested in me as a white man, I demand to see your documents!"

RW radio adoption of the immigration "issue" in was the beginning of my bluing. I called up Glenn Beck in Orlando and had to remind him that neither the USA nor the state of Florida had an official language (Florida had defeated 2 English-only measures in the 1980s). He cursed me out and called me a spic-lover and un-American. Hey, guy, I'm a conservative like you, I thought.

The sheer unbridled racist, nativist asshattery associated with the immigration issue unhinged me from the only other issue tying me to the GOP, abortion. When I came to my senses that 40 years of voting GOP hadn't stopped a single abortion, I realized that we pro-lifers needed to find another way to address that issue, and it wasn't worth turning my country into a trailer park over.

When I started doing my homework, I found out that what the RW talk show hosts really cared about was money. They and their bosses had it, and wanted to keep it.

Pull the lever, and bingo! Another Democratic vote for 2006 and 2008.