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| SingleParkPassholder
Fri 4/25/2008 10:08a | Earlier this morning, I posted a thread that contained a link to a story wherein it covers Rush Limbaugh inciting his listeners to riot in Denver.
http://www.denverpost.com/poli..._9043850
In the thread title, I called him a big, fat idiot (an obvious play on the title of Al Franken's book (so I guess we're to assume we can't quote book titles) because of yet another reprehensible Limbaugh comment. I'm guessing it was deleted because of that. The story deserves play though, so here's another link. The fact Darkbeer has seen fit to start a thread calling a former Air America personality the same name speaks for itself. |
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| Darkbeer
Fri 4/25/2008 10:22a | OK, I just read the article, and I think if ANYONE was calling for people to go out and protest, it was Reverend Sharpton.
But of course, that isn't as "interesting" as talking about Rush. |
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| Dabob2
Fri 4/25/2008 10:44a | <OK, I just read the article, and I think if ANYONE was calling for people to go out and protest, it was Reverend Sharpton.>
Huh? There's only one reference in there to Sharpton, who said there would be "trouble" if superdelegates put Clinton over the top if Obama had won more votes. "Trouble" can mean anything including floor fights and platform fights (of the non-violent sort), disillusioned Democrats, a convention that yields a divided party, whathaveyou. It's certainly not as specific as "riots," which is what Limbaugh said he was "dreaming" of.
Note the local Republican who said:
"What an insult," Brown said of Limbaugh's flippancy. "Regardless of political labels, for any radio announcer to wish a riot on a city so his party could win, that's disgraceful and it's absurd."
He said he has found Limbaugh to be a "great entertainer, but he's really gone too far. It's almost juvenile."
Brown said he did not think Limbaugh was speaking for Republicans when he made the comment.
"I don't believe there is a Republican in this state that would agree with his comment."
And yeah, SPP, it was lame for someone to go running to the moderators about the previous topic. It was an obvious take on Franken's book title, and I'd like to think it was only taken down because subsequent posters were starting to get ugly with it (it was depressingly veering into race, that last I read). |
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| SingleParkPassholder
Fri 4/25/2008 10:52a | I didn't see it. I posted it, then left. If it got ugly, delete the ugly posts, not the thread. As it is, I see deletions in the other thread too. |
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| DouglasDubh
Fri 4/25/2008 10:52a | <Note the local Republican who said>
The local Republican probably is reacting to what someone claimed Mr Limbaugh said, rather than what he actually said.
<SPP, it was lame for someone to go running to the moderators about the previous topic.>
Calling people idiots does not promote civil debates. |
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| SingleParkPassholder
Fri 4/25/2008 10:54a | Douglas, even today Limbaugh said he's "dreaming about riots in Denver". That's inciting no matter how anyone tries to parse it. This isn't free speech. He should be arrested. |
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| SingleParkPassholder
Fri 4/25/2008 10:54a | "OK, I just read the article, and I think if ANYONE was calling for people to go out and protest, it was Reverend Sharpton.
But of course, that isn't as "interesting" as talking about Rush."
What a big, fat freakin' joke. |
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| alexbook
Fri 4/25/2008 11:04a | >>In the thread title, I called him a big, fat idiot (an obvious play on the title of Al Franken's book (so I guess we're to assume we can't quote book titles) because of yet another reprehensible Limbaugh comment. I'm guessing it was deleted because of that.<<
Maybe you should have put "big, fat idiot" in quotes. :-) |
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| plpeters70
Fri 4/25/2008 11:07a | I really wish people would stop being so "thinned-skinned" and stop running to the moderators everytime you feel threatened. LP is starting to feel like Communist China with all the ADMINs. |
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| fkurucz
Fri 4/25/2008 11:24a | <<Douglas, even today Limbaugh said he's "dreaming about riots in Denver". That's inciting no matter how anyone tries to parse it. This isn't free speech. He should be arrested.>>
Oh please. While what he said was mean spirited (hoping that the Dems would brawl with each other at the convention), he was not inciting the Denver general public to riot. Like anyone would anyway if he was actually doing that. |
