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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: Antigen on January 09, 2006, 01:35:00 PM

Title: Jacobins to the left of me, Fascists to the right....
Post by: Antigen on January 09, 2006, 01:35:00 PM

Here I am, stuck in the middle w/ you....

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein and why? Because Saddam 'allegedly' gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a 'war criminal' or 'committing crimes against humanity' is the same old thing. LIBERAL HATE SPEECH! and speaking of poison gas... I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND GAS THEM TOO!
 
--Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988

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Title: Jacobins to the left of me, Fascists to the right....
Post by: Anonymous on January 11, 2006, 09:43:00 AM

Better not say anything nasty about Saddam Hussein.  If it annoys him you could go to jail.

Title: Jacobins to the left of me, Fascists to the right....
Post by: Anonymous on January 16, 2006, 08:49:00 PM

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp (http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp)

Claim: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh's 3 November 1988 broadcast included a statement approving the selling of chemical warfare agents
to Saddam Hussein and the gassing of drug addicts.

Status: False.

-snip


Whatever opinions Mr. Limbaugh may have expressed on his radio program over the years regarding arms sales to Saddam Hussein and the social issue of drug addiction, the item cited at the head of this page is not a genuine transcript of something broadcast on his show on 3 November 1988. It's actually a lampooning taken from the comic strip The Boondocks.

-snip

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp (http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp)

Title: Jacobins to the left of me, Fascists to the right....
Post by: Antigen on January 16, 2006, 09:16:00 PM

Why thank you, I'll change the attribution.

However, I don't think McGruder was really trying to misrepresent Limbaugh's views. I think it's more like an apt paraphrase.

Here's some of what he has said.

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html (http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html)

Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand.
--Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathemetician, and social critic