Should be nuked for having so many commies but we won't.
Posted on 10/27/2006 5:48:31 PM PDT by UB355
Plain talk: Limbaugh should be ashamed, but isn't
By Dave Zweifel October 27, 2006 Rush Limbaugh may not be this country's most disgusting human being, but he surely ranks among the top 10.
You're undoubtedly familiar with his latest outrageousness - claiming that Michael J. Fox was really faking those Parkinson's disease palsied shakes when he cut campaign ads for candidates who, like Wisconsin's Jim Doyle, favor embryonic stem cell research.
Fox, who came down with Parkinson's about 15 years ago and was forced to essentially retire from his acting career, thus became the latest victim of the well-honed Republican attack machine made famous by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential election.
Limbaugh, with his audience of like-minded flame-throwers, is a key player in the well-organized cabal that uses innuendo and, more times than not, outright lies to savage anyone who dares to disagree with the right-wingers who long ago took the Republican Party hostage.
You have to hand it to them - they're very clever.
Although few of them ever served in the military themselves, they've been able to turn war heroes into cowards. Just ask Democrat Max Cleland or even Republican John McCain - one lost his legs and an arm because of an enemy grenade, the other was a prisoner of war for more than five years - who were targeted by a well-organized campaign that started with Karl Rove in the White House and was spread by Limbaugh and his right-wing imitators on talk radio.
And, of course, there was John Kerry, a decorated and wounded Vietnam War veteran, who was made out to be a wimp by a propaganda machine whose favorite candidate hadn't even shown up for National Guard drills.
This year they've characterized an Illinois congressional candidate, Tammy Duckworth, an Army pilot who lost both legs in Iraq, as a "cut and runner."
So Michael J. Fox is only the latest to be the target of the cruel attacks that have nothing to do with the issues, but everything to do with planting seeds of doubt and fueling the whispering campaigns.
Limbaugh, of course, always tries to leave himself a way out.
"If this was not an act," he said of the Fox ad, "then I apologize." All of which is nothing more than a joke, of course, since to raise the issue at all accomplishes the mission.
The pity of it all is that all too many Americans fall for these tactics of character assassination. It will never end until the people stand up and say "enough."
E-mail: dzweifel@madison.com
People like this are the ones who agree with such reporting.
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Don't tell me. If we start calling Dave Zweifel a dirty liar, it will turn out that he is a war vet with six purple hearts afflicted with Parkinson's.
Dave you should be ashamed for writing such a BS article. You don't have a clue as to the point Rush was making.
Bullsh!t -- I saw Michael J. Fox on Boston Legal not all that long ago. And he wasn't shaking and carrying on, either.
Dave Zweifel, Madison WI! Who the .... Cares!
lol
You forgot the Barf Alert.
Whoever wrote this is just another lying liberal. They're a dime a dozen. Rush Limbaugh's words were "disgusting", but Fox's outrageous slander of Senator Talent was not?
What do you expect from Madison, WI...that place is Soooooo liberal it's not funny.
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Don't ever forget !!!!!!!
Should be nuked for having so many commies but we won't.
Why don't the Libbies perform a partial birth abortion; take the stem cells; and clone several dozen copies of Charles Dickens's Tiny Tim and then run these clones in several congressional races? That way they'll get people to feel sorry for their party enough to vote people in office who have no idea what to do about any issue except tax and spend and cut and run.
That nasty little man, Dave Zweifel, has no respect for the handicapped.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I agree, why give exposure to such an otherwise inconsequential shrieker.
Democraps are an ungodly menagerie of com/symp socialist crooks, sex perverts, baby killers, child molesters, homosexuals, treasonous unpatriotic cut and run weak kneed enemy coddler's, trial lawyers, satanist/atheists, and imbeciles.
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