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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:54:26 EST
- From: Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93021.165426KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Look in Webster's under "Straw Man," and you'll see this:
- References: <1993Jan21.154312.17401@news.nd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.154312.17401@news.nd.edu>, fdeck@vyasa.helios.nd.edu
- (francis deck) says:
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- >Our poor helpless RL can't get his TV show aired during the day.
- >Boo Hoo Hoo. The reason is that there is some big conspiracy
- >to suppress his ideas. Everyone is out to hurt poor little
- >RL. You can't see me right now, but big crocodile tears are
- >running down my face.
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- >Of course, the station managers are not acting in their self-
- >interest as we'd expect conservative capitalists to do. Oh no.
- >They are left wing commie big business bad evil, which explains
- >why the radio stations that they also own are happy to air RL's
- >talk show during the day. Besides, the airwaves are regulated
- >by the government, which also explains why RL has no trouble
- >getting his radio show aired.
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- >Perhaps the TV stations think that the kind of people who would
- >watch RL's show are more likely to be up during the night, and
- >that the people who traditionally advertise on his radio show,
- >e.g. home-study literacy programs, would pay the station more
- >$$$ if the show were on during the night. But no... that would
- >require the station managers to be capitalists.
-
- Go ahead, look it up for yourselves! :-)
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- Kurt E. Ludwick | If PRO is the opposite of CON, then
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- kel111@psuvm.psu.edu | what's the opposite of Progress...?
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