{"id":2849,"date":"2009-01-21T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2009-01-22T00:39:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:39:01","slug":"rush-raises-his-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/21\/rush-raises-his-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush raises his voice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>And then there&#8217;s this:<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&#038;vid=\/video\/politics\/2009\/01\/21\/nr.sanchez.slater.limbaugh.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">During the Washington goings on, one of our local news anchors was in Washington interviewing various Georgians &#8211; people like Andy Young, John Lewis, etc. And then there was Senator Saxby Chambliss. He talked about the King celebration like he was a real insider instead of the Republican shill that he actually is. He said nice things about Obama and working with him &#8220;unless they start that partisan stuff.&#8221; Since then, I&#8217;ve giggled every time John Boehner [Minority leader in the House] or other Republican Congressmen talk, because they all say that [as they stand together doing partisan things]. I think they&#8217;re going to be a problem, because they&#8217;re reflexly opposing whatever comes up. I guess they&#8217;re politicking for 2010. Whatever they&#8217;re doing, it&#8217;s not thinking deeply about the plight of the country.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> And as for Russ Limbaugh, he talks as if the Democrats <strong>want<\/strong> to take over all these things, instead of the fact that they&#8217;re forced into considering these possibilities because his beloved Republicans dropped the ball as badly as any ball has ever been dropped. He&#8217;d rather watch us collapse than do what&#8217;s needed to reverse the very ills that he&#8217;s supported forever. As he says, &#8220;I hope Obama fails.&#8221; You know what, <strong>I hope Russ Limbaugh fails<\/strong>. Not that he cares what I think. But he&#8217;s a distraction to any serious thought about the current situation. He&#8217;s got a good track record for failure: college, sportscaster, marriage, other stuff. His only success has been to be a popular obnoxious bully on Talk Radio, where he tops the charts. He&#8217;s a superlative in both the obnoxious and the bully categories.<\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\"\/>\n<div align=\"justify\">Limbaugh employs a signature logical fallacy in these kinds of arguments. I can&#8217;t name it in classical Aristotelian Greek, but I&#8217;ll bet there&#8217;s a name for it. It involves taking a behavior that is clearly a response to something else, and treating it as a primary motivation. For example:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Banks way overextend themselves in speculative investing<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Banks are collapsing and begging the Government for money<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Government gives the Banks money to keep credit flowing<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Banks spend the money on other things, give out elaborate end of year bonuses, and do nothing to increase credit flow<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Banks are still collapsing and begging the Government for money<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Government considers nationalizing the Banks to insure that the taxpayers money is used to keep credit flowing rather than just being spent<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Rush Limbaugh talks as if Barack Obama wants to take over Banks eg is a Socialist<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there&#8217;s this: During the Washington goings on, one of our local news anchors was in Washington interviewing various Georgians &#8211; people like Andy Young, John Lewis, etc. And then there was Senator Saxby Chambliss. He talked about the King celebration like he was a real insider instead of the Republican shill that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}