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To: Road Walker who wrote (427337)10/17/2008 9:39:41 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1588157
 
"If you like the ultimate straw man and cheap lying arguments"

Based on what gets posted here, I'd say that is an unqualified 'yes'.



To: Road Walker who wrote (427337)10/17/2008 9:46:17 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1588157
 
>>> He's a snake oil salesman... but good at it.

What, exactly, has Rush said that you believe puts him in this category?

Over the last 20 years he has had a couple of slipups. But only a couple. I'm wondering what he had said that has you so riled?



To: Road Walker who wrote (427337)10/17/2008 10:47:13 AM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1588157
 
"If you like the ultimate straw man and cheap lying arguments then yeah Rush is "brilliant". "

It's all relative John. Compared to i-node and our crew of resident wingnuts, Rush IS brilliant! It's why they parrot his arguments verbatim almost constantly. Rush's audience ( and the modern (R) party ) is the white portion of the left side of this:

They're just dim enough to recognize Rush's "brilliance". Disappointingly, this includes our Ivy League educated Intel engineer.