Showing posts with label Brewtown Gumshoe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brewtown Gumshoe. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2009

It Doesn't Get Any Worse Than Rush Limbaugh

From Brewtown Gumshoe:
It really doesn’t get any worse than Rush Limbaugh. He’s a truly despicable and repulsive person (I use the noun ‘person’ loosely).
Go to the post to read why he says that.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

O'Reilly - Explained

From Brewtown Gumshoe, commenting on another piece of offal spewed by Bill O'Reilly:
This is just inciting anger into listeners that do not know any better. He is playing up the caricatures the right-wing has created. [You know] those elitist, latte-drinking, Volvo-driving liberals. There really is no point to this type of reporting other than riling up the base.

I can't believe some of the things these talking-heads say, do they seriously believe the vitriol they speak? The more I listen to O'Reilly and his cronies, I'm starting to think they don't believe it either. They are just salesmen. (Snakeoil salesmen, but salesmen nonetheless.) They're just doing their job: inciting fear and anger to attract viewers moved by the lowest-common-denomiator emotional pleas and invective, and trying to sell books. Spewing anger and hatred is quicker and cheaper than doing actual research, trying to add something constructive to the discussion, or trying reach a compromise and find solutions to issues facing us.
Do go read the whole post.