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Summary: No wonder dittoheads urge people not to buy this book
Review: I can smell the fear emanating off of them. I can also smell the "bravado" with which they claim to have "disproved" all or most of the documented assertions in this book. (I'd like to see that...I fail to see what is so funny about calling 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton the "White House Dog" and a sign reading: "Sexual Harassment Will Not Be Reported at this Station...However, it Will Be Graded!") As the authors themselves note, they only include the more ridiculous statements because Limbaugh himself insisted that they be accepted as facts. Moreover, the purpose of this book had nothing to do with Limbaugh claiming he's "right all the time." The purpose of this book is to expose only 100 of the innumerable lies and distortions of the truth that Limbaugh has presented in his career, despite calling himself the nation's "truth detector" and saying that he should be "taken seriously," at least until he's caught in a lie, and then he claims to be an "entertainer."The authors themselves point out that the list is not exhaustive; that they could easily have compiled a list of 1000 false claims but felt 100 examples would make their point. Moreover, they did what the so-called "liberal" media had up to that point failed to do: examine Limbaugh's accuracy. Limbaugh has not merely made a "few" errors, he has made uncountable errors and continues to do so to this day. He is not a guy making a few honest mistakes, he's a propaganda machine who thinks nothing of distorting the truth or outright lying to advance his cause and to smear those who disagree with him.
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Summary: Very readable and completely on the mark!
Review: Steve Rendall and his colleagues at the media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) have produced a compact, readable and devastating analysis of talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's war on the truth. They document how Limbaugh repeatedly bases his discussion of important issues like health care and the environment on serious factual errors. Also included are a discussion of Limbaugh's career, an account of the deluge of hate-mail that is routinely received by anyone who criticizes Limbaugh, a series of "Limbaugh vs. Limbaugh" comparisions showing how he frequently contradicts himself in a blatantly hypocritical way, and a discussion of Limbaugh's pathetic response to the initial FAIR report on his factual inaccuarcies, in which Limbaugh was unable to find a single point on which he was right and FAIR wrong. Anyone would find reading this book informative. The people who most need to read it are Limbaugh's idolatrous legions of "dittoheads." Unfortunately, they will be unlikely to even look at it.
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Summary: 101
Review: "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
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Summary: Dittoheads, This one's for you!
Review: How's this irony to end all irony: The ACLU is backing Rush Limbaugh, down there in Florida. Apparently, the FBI seize a bunch of his medical records as part of their investigation on wether Limbaugh is a crack head or just a cracked head. The ACLU thinks this is an invasion of privacy and is illegal. Wonder what Rush thinks about the ACLU now? Anyway, this little booklet is a good acompaniment to your other books like, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" and "The Great Limbaugh Con." It is full of funny cartoons and illustrations with Limbaugh's interpretation on the Right and the factual facts on the Left. It is easy reading and hilarious. Maybe this book is specially written for his fans, since they seem to be the kind that can't manage to read a book without pictures. Writing this book must have been a no brainer because all you had to do is listen to Limbaugh's shows (maybe that's not too easy after all) and present the truth as it is written in newspapers and historical documents to refute anything that comes out of his blowhole. The Introduction is made by Miss Molly Ivins on which she quotes a dittohead "You know Rush is right, Racism is dead in America, I don't know what the [*******]have to gripe about now." Anymore reason to wonder why Rush is so Popular??
Well, I like this book. I found it informative and entertaining. It is too bad we don't see Rush Limbaugh as he really is, A cartoonish clown with a funny jibberish take on the our world. This is where the danger lies. What else can you say when you have Ted Koppel, Tim Russert and Ronald Reagan as fellow dittoheads. I can't wait for the day that Rush Limbaugh retires.
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Summary: 101
Review: "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
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Summary: Something for the sequel
Review: This is something I caught at my blog (the link is on my reviewer name). Hopefully, FAIR will write a 10th anniversary sequel and put this claim among many others in it. I caught this a while back on my last blog, and I unfortunately couldn't get the word out much about it. On July 3, 2003, Rush Limbaugh pretended to mathematically prove that liberals are unpatriotic when he went on this vein: "...A new Gallup poll out for the Independence Day weekend, showed that 7 in 10 Americans are "extremely proud" to be Americans. If you go inside this poll, however, you find these astounding numbers: Eighty percent of conservatives are extremely proud of the country, compared with 68% of moderates and 56% of liberals. More than 8 in 10 Republicans are extremely proud to be Americans, while two-thirds of Democrats feel this way. Only 56% of liberals are proud of this country, folks. Meanwhile conservatives and Republicans are overwhelmingly proud. What does this tell you, my friends?" It tells us that either:
A) Limbaugh is lying
B) Limbaugh is an ignoramus can't perform the simple task of interpreting a poll
C) Both (The most likely choice) Why do I say this? Because when you look at the actual poll, you find that 56% said they were "extremely proud" to be Americans, not "proud". "Extremely proud" was one of several choices: Extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud, not at all, & no opinion. While 56% of liberals said "extremely proud" almost all of the rest said that they were very or moderately proud. All in all, 1% of all respondents said, "not proud at all", meaning that if they were all liberal, only 3% of liberals aren't proud to be Americans. Of course, "Only 97% of liberals are proud of this country, folks" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, so Limbaugh lied again, something not at all out of character for Rush. In fact, if they were to do a sequel, they could reprint much of the info at http://www.groups.msn.com/RushversusReality/ , it's almost too easy.
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Summary: Loneyly Drug Addled Creep exposed
Review: A lonely drug-addled cretin gets to feel like a real man in the isolation of a radio broadcasting booth -- his ego fed by hundreds of morphine and oxycontine pills and scads of others. Whatever comes to his mind, he says, and he doesn't give a damn whether it's true or not. For the most part he makes it up as he goes along. Giving his listeners the kind of proto-fascist stuff these simpletons love. No wonder they hate this book. Apart from one fact. Most of them are too stupid to read. Those who can, only read books that fit their twisted little minds. It's not a question of liberal and right wing. It's what puts bucks in the Rush pocket to buy drugs. Get serious. This is unAmerican stuff -- and this book is one step toward exposing it.
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Summary: Lacking any research - an incompetent political attack
Review: This author should be in truth prison. A transparent attempt to create an "expose" out of thin air and falsehoods. A simple check of the facts leaves you wondering how anyone could waste their time with such claptrap. It's really a free country when this stuff is allowed in print.
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Summary: A typical half assed liberal rebuttal
Review: This isnt too unusual, liberals run out of substance in their first sentance and then move to personal attacks against well known consarvatives. When people like Al Frankin make sixth-grade insults like "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" it kills the credibility of their argument and only serves to enhance the intelegent arguments of men like Rush Limbaugh.
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Summary: Setting the B.S. straight.
Review: 120+ pages of Limbaugh's lies, distortions, and errors, corrected using detailed research and annotations. It's not antagonistic as much as it is dedicated to setting the record straight.
Read this book, and you'll see how shamelessly Limbaugh manipulates his audience. Useful for rebutting those who quote Limbaugh, claiming that he preaches the truth.
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