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Rush Limbaugh is reported to be auctioning off his letter from Senator Reid, condemning his remarks about "phony soldiers", as an 'in your face' move worthy perhaps of Delay. [The original copy of the letter was provided to him by his friend, the CEO of Clearchannel.]
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White House Officials turn out to participate in a the smear campaign against the family Frost, who appeared on behalf of the S-Chip program, posting alongside vitriolic bloggers. Update: the Staff of Majority Leader participated too.
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Bill O'Reilly makes racially offensive comments in describing his trip to Harlem and blames those who point it out as running a smear campaign against him.
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Pat Buchanan, deep in the throws of 'immigrant diseases', is left unaccountable for a kind of mis-use of public health standards, a misuse similar to that leveled against gays and lesbians in the decade before to stir-up prejudice and justify all manner of outright hatred and chilling policy prescription.
Where does it all go? Probably the same way it has before, with someone shouting, "Have you no shame, Senator [McCarthy]? Have you no shame?"
Don't believe me? Think that is over-the-top?
Having once denied and decried Clinton's stupendous phrase, 'Politics of personal destruction', they now revel in it:
Limbaugh says he told journalist writing story on him: "[W]e're going to find out where your kids go to school"
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Indecent Right
