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These people are mental.
"If the system were fair," says Larry Mumper, sponsor of the Ohio bill, "Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would be tenured professors somewhere."
Um. Right. Because bot of those guys have even tried to become professors. And teach people about what's really happened, and educate the you... Oh, who the fuck am I kidding? They're both hate-mongering propagandists. They sit on the radio and the internet and TV and make shit up and slander and libel any of their opponents as "communist" "terrorist-sympathizers" "objectively pro-Saddam" "fifth columnists" and other bullshit like that. They're two of the main outlets of the Republican Party's talking points. They've both been at the Republican National Convention.
Here's some interesting comparisons between the rhetoric of David Horowitz and other critics of "liberal academia" and the rhetoric of, oh, Communist China. Clicky (Via Crooked Timber)
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Um. Right. Because bot of those guys have even tried to become professors. And teach people about what's really happened, and educate the you... Oh, who the fuck am I kidding? They're both hate-mongering propagandists. They sit on the radio and the internet and TV and make shit up and slander and libel any of their opponents as "communist" "terrorist-sympathizers" "objectively pro-Saddam" "fifth columnists" and other bullshit like that. They're two of the main outlets of the Republican Party's talking points. They've both been at the Republican National Convention.
Here's some interesting comparisons between the rhetoric of David Horowitz and other critics of "liberal academia" and the rhetoric of, oh, Communist China. Clicky (Via Crooked Timber)
Tags: Politics, Quotes, Links