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This thread was moved from politics/other controversies just a couple hours ago. While I don't have time to look at all these posts I will spotcheck somewhat. The regular posters on the football subforum I give a little more latitude as I'm familiar with their contributions. This thread is ok here, so long as as there are no personal attacks, otherwise posts will get erased. This will be the ONLY Limbaugh thread as there are already others going on in Great Debates and the St. Louis subforum.
It is! Very much so! There are a lot of angles involved in this-a lot!
I didn't move this thread, it got moved. Like I said, I'm OK with it here. I noticed this morning that a second Limbaugh thread was started, then it got merged with this one, which got switched over here without my knowledge.
Again, a little civility here would be encouraged. We have enough threads going on this already. The last time a sports story went nationwide and controversial was the Brett Favre business, which got action from three forums and one subforum, totaling seven threads. One thread on the football forum applies here-one.
Quotes on a blog mean squat. Quotes on Wikipedia mean squat.
I'm a liberal, remember. I know what's a reliable source and what isn't. I enough to know that if you check the blogs or Wiki, sometimes you can find links to reliable sources. I know enough to check the footnotes on Wiki, do you?
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Like I said, Limbaugh is a very public person, so some blogger who says, "I heard from this guy, who heard from this guy, who heard from this guy, ho heard from this guy...." means squat.
Limbaugh does a lot of satire, so how is anyone suppose to know from a short quote, if it was not a part of satire, or if it was Limbaugh quoting someone else or making a satirical reference?
I don't buy the premise of short quotes from any critic, unless i have the person being quoted in their proper context.
So go find some video of Limbaugh saying:
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed."
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
You sure get your britches in a twist over a simply question. I don't know who you are arguing with but it ain't me. I merely asked what you would find acceptable as a source.
Listen up, Rush. This was part of the American capitalist and democratic (note lowercase "D") process. People used their rights to free speech in expressing their misgivings about being associated with you, fearing it would be bad for business. I guess you don't like capitalism and democracy when it works against you? And why is it everyone else's fault? Oh, I get it, you're all about personal responsibility, unless it's about you.
Seems both HuffPo and CNN are retracting the false quotes.
Links?
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