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Limbaugh gets sick of Beck getting all the attention, so...

Darth Rotor said:
That he may, but the question I asked was releated to the OP, which was a radio broadcast in the here and now. Why you felt the need to drag the Clinton fossil into the discussion, and then add in your assumption of crediblity remains your problem, not mine. Seems to me that it is due to your emotional reaction to Rush.



I still want to know how you went from my question to that strawman construction about what you wish to infer I think?

On that we can agree, and it has made him wealthy. See also Howard Stern and Don Imus: shock jock can make money.

DR
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Clinton pic: I'll allow it. Goes to character. Continue through he's a big fat idiot, on to McNabb, on to Oxycontin, past losing market share to Beck and O'Reilly and Hannity, all the way up to using a line that Savage/Robertson might use.
 
BenBurch said:
Show of hands; How many think he intended some of his AUDIENCE to take it seriously?
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Yes. If he divided his audience, he'd tell the people who took it seriously he meant it, he;d tell the people who took it seriously but didn't like it that he was Colbertian, he'd tell the people who thought he was being sarcastic that um, yeah, that's what I was being, and he'd tell Al Franken nothing because he'd get pwned.
 
Dorian Gray said:
Clinton pic: I'll allow it. Goes to character. Continue through he's a big fat idiot, on to McNabb, on to Oxycontin, past losing market share to Beck and O'Reilly and Hannity, all the way up to using a line that Savage/Robertson might use.
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The crap he spewed about McNabb was contemptible. Glad it got him fired from his role, brief as it was, on ESPN.

@ Ben: Not sure, but you and RT are probably right about that.

@ Mattus: why do you hate cigar smokers? :)
 
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Darth Rotor said:
It was?
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What, you've never seen a Mel Brooks movie?



(see what I did there? same kind of thing)


But, if you're going to be pedantic, let's be pedantic. Let's pretend, for a moment, that I wasn't using a stereotypical yiddish-english construct. How could...
What, you think the man has some sort of integrity or credibility?
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...possibly be a straw man argument? I'm not attributing any argument to you, one that is yours or otherwise. I'm asking you a question.

There were two clues to that. First, it started with the word "what". I'll grant you, that's one is pretty context-based. Second, it ends with a question mark. That's a dead give away that the sentence is a question, rather than a statement.

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Upchurch said:
There were two clues to that. First, it started with the word "what". I'll grant you, that's one is pretty context-based. Second, it ends with a question mark. That's a dead give away that the sentence is a question, rather than a statement.

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I don't know, UpC. Seems to me your "question" is more of a rheotorical device to make a statement and is not meant as a serious question when you assume the answer. Or am i just inferring that?

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Upchurch said:
There were two clues to that. First, it started with the word "what". I'll grant you, that's one is pretty context-based. Second, it ends with a question mark. That's a dead give away that the sentence is a question, rather than a statement.

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Sorry, the use of an assertion embedded within a question is a common form of dishonest rhetoric. Exposed, methinks.

The "what" you presented is a conversational convention, a set up, for whatever follows the comma. It is often a shorthand for "what did you think, that ... " with "..." being an assertion or statement.

The evidence shows me that you implied that, and intended to imply that by choosing that form of expression.

Please don't blame it on the Jews, eh? :p

(That is your Yiddish gambit excuse returned to you in the form of a joke, second order reference to the frequency with which "the evil joooooooooze" are blamed for sundry evils or wrongs).

DR
 
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Darth Rotor said:
Sorry, the use of an assertion embedded within a question is a common form of dishonest rhetoric. Exposed, methinks.
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*sigh*

Alright, you caught me. I, indeed, had an evil plot to suggest that you didn't know Limbaugh has no integrity or credibility. ...or that you did know that Limbaugh doesn't have integrity or credibility. ...or whatever it is I'm being dishonest about. Well done. I am duly foiled.


Now, do you care to address the points I raised in my Vulcan-ized version of the response to your question, or would you rather harp on how mean I am to you some more? 'cause, you know, that's lots of fun for everyone too.
 
Ugh, Limbaugh isn't worth all that energy you two are spending on this pointless semantics bickering. :boggled:
 
Bob Klase said:
Of all the people who feared (rightly or wrongly) bad things would happen as a result of the health care reform bill , even the dumbest of them probably realize that bad things wouldn't happen until things the in bill were actually implemented. So saying to those people (virtually everyone), "I signed the bill and nothing bad has happened" is meaningless. It's like saying "Look, I turned on the faucet and the bathtub didn't overflow." Even dumb people realize that if the bathtub is going to overflow then it won't happen until the water has time to fill it first.
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Gotcha. So when the death panels come into effect, you'll let us know, right?
 
Darth Rotor said:
The crap he spewed about McNabb was contemptible. Glad it got him fired from his role, brief as it was, on ESPN.
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I'm still thinking that his brief time on ESPN was the result of a collective acid trip by the network execs :rolleyes:

@ Mattus: why do you hate cigar smokers? :)
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Because they probably get to smoke cigars more often than me.
 
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