Do you listen to Rush Limbaugh?

SWJJ said
I disagree. I know that all views may take an "intellectual beatdown" but it is the overall tone that rightwingers are simply "sheep" and that they are not freethinkers.

Implications are rampant that they "get thier marching orders" or "are brainwashed" just in these two threads.

And then when this is pointed out we get accussed of whining.

I dont really care, I am not scared to dunk a legit discussion, I have views that many on the board disagree with, and I feel I have [almost] always been very reasonable when discussing them, and though from time to time I may point out what I feel to be a condesending tone towards the low brow redneck religous right wingers, I generally have my discussions with out "whining."

even some people I believe are "moderates" on this board make such implications about rightwingers, especially limbaugh listeners, saying his listeners are sheep, and are brainwashed...

I just think that is an unjust, invalid, and unsupport generalization of MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of people....

and frankly the tone is one of superiorority over the lowly sheep that listen to rush.

Completely and utterly false.

Can we go back and look at the threads about Michael Moore, or all the liberale websites, or Cyndi Sheehan, etc?

And to be perfectly frank, there have been threads on topics like the Middle East, or Global Warming and others, where conservatives have come in with some pretty stock, cliche'd talking points, only to be completely beaten down because there were actually people on the board who are experts on the subject, in one way or another.

A non-controversial case in point would be a number of threads where Uncle Traveling Jim came in to set the record straight about the Middle East. And he's not an Air America liberal, either. He just knows his stuff.

Sometimes, a person gets a beatdown because the facts presented are just completely wrong. That has nothing at all to do with political leanings and everything to do with the fact that facts are facts.