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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: You don't listen to/watch the shows. So why post here?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:26:46 GMT
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- tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
- >nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >> That's a very good point. I have nothing against hearing the opinions
- >>of Limbaugh novices, but total Limbaugh virgins don't have any credibility
- >>when they talk about Rush.
-
- >If we assume people don't have minds, then I would agree. But if someone
- >explains something to you, and you get to see both sides, I don't see
- >what being a "total Limbaugh virgin" has to do with making a comment?
-
- It doesn't have anything to do with just making general comments. It
- has a *lot* to do with making specific criticisms of Rush. I post a lot of
- Rush criticism, and IMHO my credibility in making those comments rests
- partly on being polite and respectful while I make them, but mostly it
- rests on actually having seen or heard Rush doing whatever I'm criticizing
- him for.
-
- This is why I don't think that Rush is a racist; he occasionally has
- non-white anglo-saxon callers and he treats them with the utmost courtesy.
- If they get argumentative with him he responds in kind, but he doesn't
- automatically dismiss what people say just because of their race. Rush and
- I disagree on a great many "minority" issues, however that has everything
- to do with politics and nothing to do with race. I've arrived at this
- conclusion after hearing Rush deal with callers, but I believe that you
- might reach an entirely different (and incorrect) conclusion if you base
- your comments solely on what other people write about Rush. Even John
- Switzer's excellent transcripts cannot really convey the quintessential
- Rush. For that you must watch, listen, and judge for yourself.
-
- >You don't have to "see" someone spiting in someone's face to know that
- >spiting in someones faces is wrong. You don't have to "see" someone
- >making fun of a little girl to know that making fun of a little girl
- >is wrong.
-
- To be honest with you, I didn't see the TV show segment in which the
- Millie/Chelsea switcharoo took place. All I heard was the apology that
- Rush gave on the radio program the next day. From that apology I'm sure
- that Rush agrees with you that making fun of little girls is wrong. How
- many times does he have to apologize for it?
-
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- Nathan Engle Software Juggler
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