Thursday, May 06, 2004
It's tiring, all this nonsense...
This blog serves me, to a large degree, as an outlet for response to disturbing articles that I find on the internet. There is no lack of material. The ultra-right, elitist, hypercritical/hypocritical viewpoints are getting more and more media acceptance. To be frank, I go tired of reading the venom that is so easy to find these days. Some time ago, for example, I watched Rush Limbaugh's website, with a goal of identifying blatant lies or illogical arguments. This ended up being relatively easy to do. A keen eye can pick out a misrepresentation or illogical argument from his website virtually daily.
During the last half of 2003, I recall Rush stating the following:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger will most definitely not run for the Governor of California.
- Bustamante, the name of Arnold's competition in the Governor's race, means "Large Breasts" (it really means "bust lover," a somewhat more masculine connotation)
- The Northeast Backout last August was caused by environmentalists who somehow kept the power grid unmodernized.
- City air pollution makes trees grow better (actually, it's the lack of ozone depletion in cities that does this)
- Hydrogen fuel cells are a "nowhere idea"
- Pizza stops cancer, and eating lots of ice cream is good for you.
- The poor in America are not really poor, and can certainly afford or obtain free healthcare.
Then, Rush was booted from ESPN for claiming Donovan McNabb wasn't that good of a quarterback, and was overrated because he's black. McNabb responded by taking his team all the way to the Conference championship game, one win from the Super Bowl (and Limbaugh then claimed his challenging words spurred McNabb on to greatness!) Following that, Limbaugh became embroiled in a Oxycontin drug use scandal, (10,000 tablets!) and had to check into a rehab center for thirty days. It just wasn't fun to kick this guy when he was so far down. He holds no shame or repentance for his own actions, and continues to spew forth his bile whenever he can. There's really no need to search his website for this stuff- the man makes his own disgustingly sadistic headlines by claiming that US soliders torturing prisoners in Iraq were just blowing off steam and, "having a good time"
Statements like that don't need to be harvested from his site- they make the papers all on their own.
This blog serves me, to a large degree, as an outlet for response to disturbing articles that I find on the internet. There is no lack of material. The ultra-right, elitist, hypercritical/hypocritical viewpoints are getting more and more media acceptance. To be frank, I go tired of reading the venom that is so easy to find these days. Some time ago, for example, I watched Rush Limbaugh's website, with a goal of identifying blatant lies or illogical arguments. This ended up being relatively easy to do. A keen eye can pick out a misrepresentation or illogical argument from his website virtually daily.
During the last half of 2003, I recall Rush stating the following:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger will most definitely not run for the Governor of California.
- Bustamante, the name of Arnold's competition in the Governor's race, means "Large Breasts" (it really means "bust lover," a somewhat more masculine connotation)
- The Northeast Backout last August was caused by environmentalists who somehow kept the power grid unmodernized.
- City air pollution makes trees grow better (actually, it's the lack of ozone depletion in cities that does this)
- Hydrogen fuel cells are a "nowhere idea"
- Pizza stops cancer, and eating lots of ice cream is good for you.
- The poor in America are not really poor, and can certainly afford or obtain free healthcare.
Then, Rush was booted from ESPN for claiming Donovan McNabb wasn't that good of a quarterback, and was overrated because he's black. McNabb responded by taking his team all the way to the Conference championship game, one win from the Super Bowl (and Limbaugh then claimed his challenging words spurred McNabb on to greatness!) Following that, Limbaugh became embroiled in a Oxycontin drug use scandal, (10,000 tablets!) and had to check into a rehab center for thirty days. It just wasn't fun to kick this guy when he was so far down. He holds no shame or repentance for his own actions, and continues to spew forth his bile whenever he can. There's really no need to search his website for this stuff- the man makes his own disgustingly sadistic headlines by claiming that US soliders torturing prisoners in Iraq were just blowing off steam and, "having a good time"
Statements like that don't need to be harvested from his site- they make the papers all on their own.
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