[quote name='bmulligan']If anything, his mantra this election season has been villifying the leftists for being leftists. He's only "lied" in the sense of lying by omission, apoligizing for scandalous republican behavior by pointing out equally bad democrat scandals which the major media choose not to publish.
So, your so-called "pattern of lies" is Rush just admitting his bias or his own blind following of the cause for the greater good of the country. This is something you already know and practice everyday as a democrat by having good intentions and ends that justify the means. Now that the republicans lost, he feels he can say what's really been on his mind becuase nothing's at stake save the principles of his party.[/quote]
And now that he is an admitted liar, why should anyone believe what he says now?
That's why you have intellectual honesty, so that people will continue to believe you in good times and bad. Rush has admitted he has no intellectual honesty.
If democrats were to engage in this type of introspection years ago, they may not have had to wait such a long time to regain control of congress. As it stands now, they only took it back by a defalt. Democrats never take the time to reflect on their philosophy or message. They just claim no one is hearing them, they haven't articulated it well enough, or that people are just too dumb to understand their message when they lose. They're never big enough to blame thenselves for a loss, it's always someone else's fault.
So Limbaugh lied, probably more to himself than to his "mindnumbed" listeners. Why exactly do you give a crap anyway? Perhaps you base your sense of worth by the faults in your enemies.
Oh trust me, there are plenty of people who sympathize with the Democrats and still are willing to blame them for a share of what's gone on these past few years. They completely rolled over for Bush, allowed him and other Repugs to cow them into compliance, and didn't ask the tough questions about the war in Iraq that might have kept us out of that godforsaken mess.
Look back on my posts of that time. Over and over again, in argument after argument, I pressed one point -- if we are fighting a war against terror, invading Iraq would mean attacking in the wrong direction, against the wrong enemy, and would mire us in a Middle Eastern bloodbath. And now, day after day, the facts are proving my argument correct. If the Dems had pushed that point with some vigor, they might have won even more Congressional seats this month.
Why I care about Rush's lies is that they swayed the opinion of people who place less emphasis on critical thought, relying instead on ideology or post-9/11 fear and paranoia to help them muddle through issues. These are the people who, led by Rush's pied-piper act, supported the war in Iraq, supported cutbacks in stem-cell research, said nothing about pork-barrel spending, said nothing about Congress relinquishing its oversight responsibilities.
If he is the maverick truth-teller he claims to be -- "America's truth detector," and yes, I have listened -- perhaps we would have avoided some of these
-ups. But no, he's really just a lying sack of shit.
