Thread: Turn the tables! Don't enter if your thin skinned

Originally Posted by JMS

I know what your point was!
My point was that they talked bad about America for their benefit and then apologized because that also served their purpose!

Sheesh, ok. Easy on the exclamations there. I took your previous post to mean something else.

Originally Posted by gugi

and how is that different from what Rush Limbaugh (the original topic of the thread) does? He talks bad about people who do not share his views and then he doesn't appologize because he doesn't have to and not apologizing serves his purpose of keeping his job as ultra-radical talk show host.

I don't see the logic how expressing disagreement with the decisions that the president of your country equates with talking bad about your country.

Or may be nobody ever expressed their disagreement with President Clinton during his low point?

If I'm being too provocative, please let me know - I don't have thin skin and I'm not offended by any of the postings in this thread, but may be somebody can take offense at mine. I'd just prefer a discussion instead of preaching to the choir type of thread, you know

It's simple ---- handle it within country. Say anything you want to say and do whatever you want to do ---- but do it here -- it's just a matter of etiquette.

I just don't equate bravery with saying something that 80% (sounds like a good percentage to me) of the media/news/entertainment industry within the U.S. is going to agree with.

Justin

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Sheesh, ok. Easy on the exclamations there. I took your previous post to mean something else.

Sorry Quick Orange, I tend to over use exclamation points!!!!!!!!

Gugi, I believe the quote below explains my thinking on the subject.



Damn! every time I go for the exclamation point key I think of your post Quick Orange.

Originally Posted by JMS

That was also my problem with the Dixie Chicks!
Lots of people talk bad about America, but to go to another country and speak to an audience that for the most part agree...That strikes me as cowardice, not guts! Rush, on the other hand said everything on the open airwaves where anybody could hear, and is standing his ground to boot !
By the way, the Dixie chicks apologized for their statements here in the USA!

We are up to $65,100.00 at 145 bids!

Originally Posted by gugi

and how is that different from what Rush Limbaugh (the original topic of the thread) does? He talks bad about people who do not share his views and then he doesn't appologize because he doesn't have to and not apologizing serves his purpose of keeping his job as ultra-radical talk show host.

I don't see the logic how expressing disagreement with the decisions that the president of your country equates with talking bad about your country.

Or may be nobody ever expressed their disagreement with President Clinton during his low point?

If I'm being too provocative, please let me know - I don't have thin skin and I'm not offended by any of the postings in this thread, but may be somebody can take offense at mine. I'd just prefer a discussion instead of preaching to the choir type of thread, you know


Edit: I was posting at the same time as WB - wouldn't have posted this had I seen his post. I think his is way more interesting and better than mine and would prefer the discussion moves around what he said. Don't want to delete mine, though since it was already posted and somebody may be replying to it.

In my other thread you didn't even know who Rush Limbaugh was And now you're an expert?
Look, if you're just trying to stir up trouble, knock it off! I am honestly interested in what other people think about this subject and am not interested in arguing for arguments sake!

Originally Posted by JMS

Damn! every time I go for the exclamation point key I think of your post Quick Orange.

You remember me forever! Don't sweat it- I know how addicting certain keys on the keyboard can be, especially those darn exclamations

“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
- Thomas Jefferson

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
- ibid

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
-ibid

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
-ibid

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
- Benjamin Franklin

I just hope whoever buys the darn thing wipes their a with it...publicly...as performance art... Something the liberals wouldn't dare to disagree with.

Rush Limbaugh is a conservative commentator/radio talk show host who makes his living saying outrageous things. His hypocrisy was exposed when after saying outrageous things about drug abusers,

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.

it turned out that he was addicted to prescription pain killers, buying them illegally, and busting prescriptions of questionable origin.

Weirdly, Limbaugh had all charges dropped against him, despite his on air confessions.

Shortly after he resolved all of these legal problems, he was detained by US customs with a bottle of Viagra that was not prescribed to him, but (he claimed through his lawyer) to his physician-- a rather funny thing for a man just involved in prescription fraud, though nobody asked if he was violating any of his agreements behind the dropping of charges. He was returning from the Dominican Republic, which is one of the largest sex tourism destinations in the world