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Quote by: Halofan Also, don't try to attack the left. We both know that the right lies much more often then the left. I won't say the left doesn't lie, but compared to the right... |
I see Rush Limbaugh as the right wing equivalent of Michael Moore. They're both overzealous mudslingers who make their cases through rumor, innuendo, out of context half-truths, over blown rhetoric and outright bullsh!t.
But not only does there seem to be lot more hi-profile Rush Limbaughs out there --Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Anne Coulter, Pat Robertson, etc. etc. -- it also seems that the right is far more willing to bring their venom into mainstream politics.
Think back... where's the Democratic equivalents of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove? While the Republicans were running campaigns of character assassination and "Bimbo Eruptions" against Bill Clinton, how were Clinton's campaigns against Bush and Dole? Wasn't it Dan Quayle, after losing in '92, who said that if Clinton ran the country like he'd run his campaign, the country was in good hands.
What's the equivalent of the GOP campaign of a thousand small lies against Al Gore -- the Internet, Love Story, Love Canal, his sister in the Peace Corps, etc. etc. etc. etc. -- in order to paint Gore as a liar? What's the equivalent of the Swift Boating of John Kerry? What's the equivalent of "The Bitch" campaign of hatred against Hillary Clinton?
Gawd only knows what the right might throw at Barak Obama? Some variation of their Southern Strategy? I can hardly wait.
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