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To: Lane3 who wrote (154103)	1/8/2006 9:18:07 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793850

But it was the same Limbaugh who made it OK for average joes to shout "feminazi" in lieu of reasoned discourse and I hold him accountable for that. I suspect you have never listened to Limbaugh for any length of time. I did, "back in the day," when he started, as I spent a lot of freeway time selling. "Feminazi" was never "shouted." He used it humorously to make a valid point about the feminist movement. National Association for Women, "Now," became National Association for Gals, "Nag," in the same way. It was his ability to get under the skin of the left with humor that drove them nuts.

To: Lane3 who wrote (154103)	1/8/2006 10:15:55 AM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793850

But it was the same Limbaugh who made it OK for average joes to shout "feminazi" in lieu of reasoned discourse and I hold him accountable for that. Yep, that's his term. He sometimes has used it was to highlite a silly statement of NOW. He also used it to tell his listeners when NOW was falling down on the job. Example, they were quiet as church mice on the Lewinski affair for six or seven months before Ireland even made a statement. BTW, has someone actually shouted "feminazi" at you?

To: Lane3 who wrote (154103)	1/8/2006 2:16:42 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793850

Limbaugh started it No no no, the fat drunk from Massachusetts started it during the Bork hearings. Let's revisit his remarks from that day. I believe this was the catalyst that put us on the rhetorical road we're on now. >>Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens of whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are at the heart of our democracy.