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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:05 AM
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WTF? "Civility is the New Censorship"
Rush Limbaugh complains that calls for “civility” are yet another left-wing plot to silence him

http://img.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011311/content/01125108.guest.html
Civility is the New Censorship

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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:07 AM
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1. So why did they take that down themselves?
:shrug:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:08 AM
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2. more of that made up persecution horseshit.
all these fucked up conservatives want everyone to believe in their made up status as victims.

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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:13 AM
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3. Censorship? Funny I don't think anyone is proposing a Mandatory Civility Law
He is free to continue lying and saying horribly vitriolic things.

The fact that he is doing so says a lot about him.
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el_bryanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:16 AM
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6. It's not a straightforward logic
Limbuagh is not going to stop attacking Liberals and that is his core truth.

Limbaugh is a hero and that is another of his core truths.

so putting one and two together, he is going to attack liberals and he will do it heroically. How could he do it heroically, particularly in the face of people saying maybe he and others should tone it down? Well, by heroically withstanding some imaginary social censorship.


Bryant
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:21 AM
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8. It follows perfectly out of his "Democrats are Evil Authoritarians" nonsense
Good analysis, I appreciate it.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 11:43 AM
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12. You guys are good
Just gotta love the way yall post shit that makes limeballs look good.



""Limbaugh is a hero
he is going to attack liberals and he will do it heroically. ""
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:14 AM
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4. and Complaining about Bigotry is now Bigotry too
to the right wing sociopaths that is. Broken brains
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:14 AM
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5. Political porn
Right-wingers want to keep porn off of the public airwaves right?

Rush is political porn.

All the "good Christians" who listen to him shouldn't do so any longer. I don't want him censored; I want the market to speak and say he no longer has a sizable enough audience to warrant being on the air.

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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 10:18 AM
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7. Limbaugh creates his own world and language.....

hmmmm, that sounds familiar.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 11:22 AM
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9. It is if you are a raging asshole.
I guess expecting good manners and civility is going to be compared to herding the Jews to concentration camps next. Truth be told, I do wish we could herd up all the assholes and put them on an island somewhere. Or another planet.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 11:38 AM
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10. In other words "Civility" is an elitest action and the Right
will have nothing to do with it.

It's amazing that the Right Wing is allowing themselves to be led to the mouth of the drain by idiots like Rush and Palin. Please keep following them....don't be surprised it ain't all cracked up to be what you followers think.
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 11:38 AM
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11. In the Rush world people would be free to shit on the floor
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 01:14 PM
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19. Well, not on Rush's floor
But people would indeed be free to shit on the floor of liberal nanny-state elitists anytime they wanted. Shitting on Rush's floor would be a capital offense, like shooting the sheriff.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 11:44 AM
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13. Right wingers see "censorship" as including any attacks on what they say
They think they have a right to rant unopposed. They get very aggravated when you even try to debate them.
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 01:07 PM
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18. Conservatives

Have NO interest in debate. They want to preach to the choir. They want to bitch about everything (usually Liberals) making their life so shitty.

Liberals are interested in an exchange of ideas. When I am with Liberal people and we talk politics, I sorta play the devils advocate sometimes just to 'test our philosophy' and the understanding and respect is very pronounced.

Not saying every Liberal is like that and every Conservative is a fire-breathing jackass, but most are.
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montanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 12:08 PM
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14. Many conservatives believe that.
My father, sadly, is a rabid Limbaugh fan. His belief, and others that I have heard from, is that if a person is a (fill in your least favorite epithet) then that person should be called an (that same epithet) because that is what they are, and if you try to make "me be PC about it, that is an abridgment of my right to free speech." Circular, sure, and based on bigotry and bias in the first place, but this is how they think. If they believe it, its true, and if they say it, they have a right to say it regardless of how it makes others feel. Ironically my dad gets upset when other people hate him--I don't know why. "Civility" will quickly become appended to PC as a thing that they rail against because their beliefs are always correct and their thoughts have a "right" to be expressed.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 12:10 PM
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15. Of course Rush doesn't comment on the fact that it wasn't forced
down, the sign was taken down by choice BY the people he works for!

Is there EVER a time when Gush Limpbisket EVER EVER EVER tells the whole truth about ANYTHING!?!?!




Hey idiot dittohead leader...why not just TRY and tell the truth...hahaha...ya I know funny! :rofl:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 12:13 PM
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16. What a sociopath.
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felix_numinous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 12:47 PM
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17. He is an evil clown,
and corporate court jester, who can only thrive in the most corrupt times.
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