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Does John McCain need the Fairness Doctrine?

by Matthew Lasar  Mar 1 2008 - 10:38pm     

I'm listening to Rush Limbaugh again these days. Limbaugh has been assuring his listeners that he is still not on the John McCain for President bandwagon just because he protested the New York Times' article on the Arizona Senator's relationship with a lobbyist. McCain's various collaborations with liberals are still unforgivable, Limbaugh insists.

"This is what you get when you walk across the aisle and try to make these people your friends," he explained. "Why should any of us be surprised or even angry at what the New York Times is doing here trying to take out John McCain?"

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Rushing to excoriate the "other"
George Lowry  Mar 3 2008 - 7:51am   

"This is what you get when you walk across the aisle and try to make these people your friends,"

I'm old enough to remember "Those people" passing among polite folks (crackers) as a euphemism.

Am I the only one who has gotten to be Christ-weary of this slice and dice eliminationist rhetoric? What does hate radio have to offer? A final solution to liberalism?

Oh and...

"I'm listening to Rush Limbaugh again these days."

A noble act of penance.


 
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