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Originally Posted by The Germanator
The best thing to do with Limbaugh is ignore him. I recently saw a clip of him talking on some public access show back in the day basically explaining how to succeed in talk radio. He talked about how you exaggerate everything you say because this not only attracts the right wing audience that is afraid to say these things out loud, but it pisses off the left so much that they listen just to get angry. It's all about ratings with him. Maybe if we just ignore him he'll shut the hell up. Probably not, but it's worth a try.
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I laughed because I've seen this in action. My dad hates Bill O'Reilly, he always ends up getting completely angry at him and argues back to the TV, and yet he continues to tune in whenever I see him watching TV. I've never understood it. If you hate what he says and it makes you pissed off, why oh why don't you just turn it off?
I agree with you Germy. Ignoring the rating-seeking whores, right or left, is the best way to deal with them. Take away their ratings, and they're off the air.
As for Obama's performance so far, hard to say much yet. I do think, without thinking much on the debate, that closing Gitmo was the right thing to do. It certainly was rash, but I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. That article makes it seem like because he closed Gitmo that we will no longer be able to conduct tough interrogatations of military prisoners. Did Obama make the pronouncement that tough interrogations are no longer allowed, or just that Gitmo would be closed in a year? Secondly, the article has the same ol' feeling of, "We have to do these things even though our principles tell us not to do them, otherwise you and your family will not be safe from terrorists." It forces you to agree with what he says, because otherwise you're endangering your family and no one wants to do that. It's the tone that Bush has used since 9/11. I'm tired of it. Is it really impossible to fight terrorists without holding them indefinitely with or without proof (who knows?) for almost a decade and torturing them by waterboarding when you feel it necessary? I don't think so. I think we're more crafty people than that.
As far as the stimulus package, from what I've heard on NPR, it now includes a lot of very-left policies that were compromised out before, but one way or the other got back in. I don't like that. But it's unclear to me (from the same NPR segment) whether they got put back in because Democrats are exploiting their newly elected power, or because Republicans are playing politics and refusing to work on the stimulus package for purely politic reasons.