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posted August 05, 2012 09:59 AM            

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Rush isn't considered extreme.

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posted August 05, 2012 10:50 AM            

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Rush isn't considered extreme.

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posted August 05, 2012 07:30 PM            

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I remember back in the early 2000s that MAD magazine listed one of the scariest things about the the new millennium is that people like Rush Limbaugh were now considered moderates.

But the black/white view can be interesting. For example in about a month of each other I told 2 political fanatics about the same thing regarding individual liberty and was called a "right wing extremist" by a Clintonista (she helped get Clinton elected and was trying to get Gore elected in 2000 at the time) and a "Leftist loony" by a Rush Limbaugh dittohead. I asked a mentor how that was possible and she said it was a "frog spell." By simply labeling me as such they didn't have to think about what I said (thus my words become "meaningless croaks" to them) and both could simply dismiss everything I said as mindless propaganda (and thus operate on their own mindless propaganda without having to think about it).

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posted August 09, 2012 07:31 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Rush isn't considered extreme.

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he's about as right-wing as you can get

though I suppose in comparison to tea-partiers, maybe, but he is VERY conservative

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posted August 09, 2012 07:35 AM            

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Originally posted by katatonic:
well, aquarians can understand the complexity of political stances, but many cannot.

it is ludicrous...to me...that anyone can divide the entire population into conservative or NOT conservative (all other shades of grey, green and purple MUST be LIBERALS, or by another name, crazy)!

MOST people are neither extreme conservatives like the limbaugh cult, nor communists, as is suggested by said cult's devotees.

* i am not an aqua, but it is one of the ties that bind my chart.

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I never said that there were only liberals and conservatives, obviously things are more complicated than that, but simply meant that, in general, GU is heavily dominated by conservatives, and AR is where more liberal people tend to go. I was simply pointing out that GU has one type of audience and AR has a different type, and that the issues focused on by people who frequent each forum tend to be drawn along certain lines. It was just an observation.

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posted August 11, 2012 09:52 AM            

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He is very conservative, but so are most Americans, so it's not extreme.

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posted August 21, 2012 01:55 PM            

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I would call him moderate right on the scale.

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posted August 27, 2012 09:00 AM            

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"moderate" Rush does things in moderation?

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posted August 27, 2012 04:29 PM            

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I would call him moderate right on the scale.

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Is there anyone on the American airwaves that you'd consider a right wing extremist?

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posted August 27, 2012 04:55 PM            

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Not that I'm aware of. That would be fascism.

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posted August 28, 2012 09:40 AM            

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No one that I know of advocates a police state.

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posted August 28, 2012 04:51 PM            

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Who advocates a police state, at least openly? Party politics is all about the right spin and pswywar, not about dealing with people honestly and ethically.

But I can accept that Rush is a moderate compared to Mussolini. Of course if we're gonna include the rest of the world (and stay consistent), then even mainstream liberals in the USA are pretty right wing themselves.

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posted October 12, 2012 09:41 AM            

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posted October 12, 2012 01:17 PM            

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I prefer Savage, Rush is lame

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posted October 13, 2012 10:27 AM            

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Rush is right--but not too far right.

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posted January 27, 2013 02:06 PM            

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Glad you are feeling better, Juni.

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posted February 15, 2013 01:07 AM              

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Regardes, just saw this again...i didn't mean you when i said that. I was thinking of the countless people who think one must be all one or the other. Most people are smorgasborders, they like some of this and some of that.

This is the problem with talkshow hosts , on BOTH sides of the aisle who brand people and parties as if they were uniform entities and not many people with many, sometimes conflicting, ideas.

Too many people view politics as a religion..when really it is a process, or should be. Same root as Polite, ie a way of getting along and getting things done in "society".

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posted February 16, 2013 09:07 AM            

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rush limbaugh scares me . here are a few of his quotes. “From this day forward, somebody propose it, liberals should not be allowed to buy guns. It’s just that simple. Liberals should have their speech controlled and not be allowed to buy guns. I mean if we want to get serious about this, if we want to face this head on, we’re gonna have to openly admit, liberals should not be allowed to buy guns, nor should they be allowed to use computer keyboards or typewriters, word processors or e-mails, and they should have their speech controlled. If we did those three or four things, I can’t tell you what a sane, calm, civil, fun-loving society we would have. Take guns out of the possession, out of the hands of liberals, take their typewriters and their keyboards away from ‘em, don’t let ‘em anywhere near a gun, and control their speech. You would wipe out 90% of the crime, 85 to 95% of the hate, and a hundred percent of the lies from society.”
~Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, January 2011

“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
~Rush Limbaugh, radio show, Fall 1993

“The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.” –Rush Limbaugh, on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and refuting science, May 3, 2010

“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”
~Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, August 12, 2005

“Exercise freaks … are the ones putting stress on the health care system.” ~Rush Limbaugh, accusing people who exercise of being the reason why health care costs are so high, June 12, 2009

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posted February 16, 2013 03:41 PM            

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Rush isn't considered extreme.

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Really?

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posted February 16, 2013 04:00 PM              

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not by his followers! who, despite the fact that his audience is actually about 1% of the population, think he speaks for THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, that fictional entity!

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posted February 16, 2013 04:32 PM            

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You have to be careful about pulling quotes. They could be out of context or entirely fake altogether. But in regards to the oil spill, Rush was right--a certain bacteria in the ocean devoured it and rendered it safe. Mother Nature was prepared.

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posted February 16, 2013 09:14 PM            

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Alex Jones is an Aquarius. haha

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posted February 16, 2013 11:25 PM            

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i've listened to rush limbaugh lol... he says something effed up about everytime i listen, so i can easily believe he said those things.

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posted February 17, 2013 01:34 PM            

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Well, I guess it depends on one's perspective.

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