Conservative Talk Radio Hits A New Low


Sep 14, 2009 by

I mean really — read this. I’ve run out of words to use that mean “vile…..reprehensible.”

I’m about to leave today on a long trip that will require me to drive long distances throughout the West. I just installed satellite radio and will use it on this trip.

Can you guess why?

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  1. Rambie

    VeratheGun, what I said was truth. I didn't vote for GWB in either election (I went 3rd party if you really want to know), but it's true that comments about the election being stolen, etc were made prior to GWB taking office.

    However, none of the comments were anywhere near as divisive as what has been said about Obama (who I did vote for).

    In fact, I think that was the first time I ever agreed with DaGoat on anything.

  2. Rambie

    DaGoat: “On Boortz's remark, I don't see it as much different than comparing a bunch of anti-abortion kooks to the Taliban, something some of the commenters in here felt was appropriate.”

    Let's see, perhaps because the anti-abortion kooks and the Taliban have both killed people they don't agree with?

    NOTHING President Obama has done has come anywhere near the same galaxy as molestation so there is no excuse to for the reference.

    DaGoat: “Both comments are however in poor taste and inaccurate.”

    I'll agree with you on that.

  3. Rambie

    SteveK and Ordinarysparrow – Thanks guys and no problem.

  4. Rambie

    Leonidas: “would not say that. “War Criminal” comes to mind. Bush burned in effigy does as well, as does Bush-Hitler comparisons, and Progressives throwing shoes at someone dressed in a Bush mascot style outfit in prision stripes comes to mind as well.”

    NONE of which occurred in the first 9 months of GWB presidency. Again, this doesn't excuse the Right-fringe of it anymore than it does the Left-fringe.

    The “They did it first” excuse gets very old after age 5 don't you think?

  5. DaGoat

    Let's see, perhaps because the anti-abortion kooks and the Taliban have both killed people they don't agree with?

    Could you point me to where Personhood Florida has killed people? Thanks.

  6. Rambie

    There is a difference between Pro-Life people/groups and the kooks (I think that was your term) that aided, abetted, or even cheered-on those who have killed abortion doctors. Don't pretend that didn't happen a few months ago when the last abortion doctor was killed.

  7. VeratheGun

    SteveK–I also made a mistake when I sent that comment to Rambie. I meant to use it in reply to someone (don't even remember who now) who was implying that being compared to a child molester is not a big deal. *Sigh*–gotta watch that drinking and posting habit of mine.

  8. VeratheGun

    Sorry, Rambie. I actually replied to your post in error. Like I said earlier, it was an unofrtunate result of one too many therapeutic gin and tonics.

  9. Leonidas

    and I could be totally wrong

    If your referring to me, you are. But don't take my word for it, just read what I post with preconceived notions and I think you will get it after you take a wider and unpredjudiced look at my posts over time. You don't seem like an ideologue, although each of us has some boas. I got mine, and you have yours but that doesn't mean we don't apply our standards to our own preferred side.

  10. Leonidas

    You are right, DG, it is very difficult to repond to it, except to try to put their aquiescence (“equivalence”), at times even support of such diatribe in perspective, as dr e. has so effectively done with her description of child molestation.

    As you bring up the “two wrongs make a right” argument, the thought comes to mind when some keep bringing up the vile things that were said against George W. Bush as an “explanantion” for the vile things that are being said of Obama: I bet you anything that Democrats were bringing up the insults Republicans launched against Clinton (“you did it, too”), whenever Republicans complained about the insults hurled at GWB, and so on, and so on.

    I guess what I am trying to say, yes, both sides “do it,” but who is going to be the first not to use that as an excuse to continue this madness ad infinitum….

    Actually, I think its not hard to respond to. You use facts, and you use examples of the other side doing it and ask them to face their hypocrisy while at the same time condemning hypocrisy when your own side presents it. Maybe I just see things this way because I despised Bush in many areas and don't have a high opinion of Obama thus far either, for many of the same reasons. I disliked the way Tom Delay ran Congress and I dislike the fact that Nancy Pelosi is running things the same way. As long as you keep your standards the same no matter who is in power, its really not that hard. That does not mean giving up your own views.

    For example I can say Joe Wilson's remarks were inappropriate (I have done so because they were) point out that others have made similar remarks and note that those were not being brought up because it was more an effort to demonize one political party for the partisan agenda of some than to discredit such behavior by all, and still assert that dispite this churlish behavior by Wilson, that it did get the positive result (In my view) of having Obama add in an inclusion of nationality verification in his plan. This is not saying 1 wrongs make a right, this is saying that there are 2 wrongs not just one, face the facts.