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The Rush Limbaugh Flapola

What a week Rush Limbaugh has had. Some would say he deserves it. Let me start off by saying that I’m a Republican – a fiscal conservative and social moderate. I occasionally listen to Rush while I’m at lunch – maybe thirty minutes or so on any given day. Don’t always agree with him – in fact, about 50% of the time, I disagree with him. That said, I don’t think I could be described as a "dittohead" – to me, that term has come to mean "mindless drone – incapable of any coherant thought other than what Rush tells you to believe" – I think it was a term used with affection at some point, meaning "a regular listener to Rush Limbaugh’s program" but the term has been demagogued now (by who else but? Liberals.) to mean the first meaning I gave you. That said, I have frankly been mystified by what I have read and heard about the now infamous McNabb comment that Rush made Sunday Sept. 28th on ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown. Let’s take a look at what Rush said: .....   [Read More]