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- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -27/+143***** THING SUCKS
- huxleyan, on 05/17/2008, -11/+97What a coincidence. I teach Intro to American Government at a large public university and presented a 45 minute lecture about the similarities between buying stocks on margin in the 1920s and people buying homes with subprime mortgages in the last decade.
Apparently my 45 hours of graduate level coursework in political science and economics is no match for Rush Limbaugh's education (which consists of two failed semesters of undergrad).
Off to rewrite my entire lecture as to not offend the uneducated conservatives of this country. - bcars, on 05/17/2008, -5/+74***** IT. We'll do it live.
- Sonic84, on 05/17/2008, -2/+60why was his essay published on the net? and worse yet, why was it in the top ten results?
- afx1, on 05/17/2008, -2/+43Grimes: Hey look everybody! Simpson's in a contest for children!
Lenny: Hey Shhh..
Carl: You're makin us miss the contest!
Burns: Would you explain your model young man?
Grimes: What's to explain?! He's an idiot!
Lenny: Pipe down!
Homer: Well, basically I took the plant we have now. Then I added some fins to lower wind resistance, and this racing stripe I feel is pretty sharp.
Burns: Agreed. First prize!
Grimes: What?!!
Lenny: Way to go Homer!
Carl: You're number one Homer!
Grimes: But.. but this was a contest for children!
Lenny: Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out! - dotlizard, on 05/17/2008, -5/+43the fun part was, the essay was from years ago -- the kid in question is now a successful program manager for Microsoft. Rush attacked him like he was a noted historian, rather than a teenage future tech executive writing a boring history essay :)
- DanMiller, on 05/17/2008, -1/+29Being educated doesn't mean you are a "better" person but it certainly entitles you to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to educated discussion, especially when your diploma fits the topic.
- kingmanic, on 05/17/2008, -0/+27You know whats wrong with this country, two ***** douche bags slagging you over your hard earned education like if it was a bad thing. A person less educated is lesser educated. In that particular facet that person is inferior he lacked the will or rigor to get a diploma or degree. This is objective truth *****. The whole reason America's going down the ***** is because dim bulbs like ReDoEr and moonbastic were told they were just as good as everyone else despite what ever academic deficiencies they might have. moonbastic might be an academic but he's a poor one. People really ought to swing education around a little more and make the uneducated feel like ***** and maybe we'd have more people digging into history, economics, and politics for themselves instead of listing to half wit nimrods to generate their political opinions.
Rush is an uneducated hypocritical prick, moonbastic and ReDoEr are the type of ***** who elevate such men to power and prestige. - Misinformant, on 05/17/2008, -8/+29"Didn't" go to college, Rush? Or "couldn't?"
- walnoj, on 05/17/2008, -0/+21What does that mean? "To play us out"?
- solistus, on 05/17/2008, -4/+23Liberal indoctrination? For *****'s sake, he wrote a paper quoting the World Almanac that pointed out some statistics about income distribution. Obviously, his analysis doesn't really amount to a proper economic explanation, but for a 10th grader's paper it's not bad at all. For Rush to respond to it line-by-line shows how much of a pompous ass who loves to hear himself yell he truly is.
Us grown-ups would call taking a random 10th grader's paper and using it to indict the entire US education system as "liberal indoctrination" a 'straw man.' Maybe once you finish your hellish journey through the commie public school gulag, you'll be able to identify such fallacies rather than trumpeting them as if they prove a point. - scy1192, on 05/17/2008, -6/+25http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/inde ...
the essay - inactive, on 05/17/2008, -2/+20he just knows that the "dittoheads", wont research it, and and will try to discredit anyone who disagrees with him.....Dittoheads are like zombies...
- BlackTye, on 05/17/2008, -0/+18For a minute I thought you were joking.
- DanMiller, on 05/17/2008, -1/+18No, most moderates dislike Limbaugh as well. Limbaugh as a political talk show host represents the extreme polarization that the current party system endures. Only people who have to be reassured of their own beliefs latch on to someone so far out of the normal citizen view.
- digidelia, on 05/17/2008, -0/+17WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
- Nidy1, on 05/17/2008, -1/+18I never had 49 footnotes for a high school essay, especially in 10th grade. Jesus.
- DanMiller, on 05/17/2008, -0/+16This makes little sense. You can try to argue that certain educators may sway personal feeling into curriculum, however, you can't argue that a college graduates knowledge is tainted by their very involvment in higher education.
The original post in this thread alluded to a lecture explaining similarities between the 1920s stock purchasing and the current mortgage crisis. This is not a direct assertment of fact but rather a study of similiarities that DO exist. Having 45 hours of graduate coursework in political science and economics do give an individual considerable weight when it comes time to discuss topics such as these. You can't walk into a debate and then cry liberal college grad! when you don't know what you are talking about. - MakiNavaja, on 05/17/2008, -23/+39Rush Limbaugh, maniacal blowhard, bashed your friend's essay?
That's like the biggest compliment he could have received. - FrenchAnarchy, on 05/17/2008, -4/+20Everyone who dugg you down is clearly un-American.
- Lane, on 05/17/2008, -3/+19who the hell took an essay on the great depression seriously in the 10th grade, dude there are girls in the hallways!
- spanglegluppet, on 05/17/2008, -0/+16There's no words on it!
- DanMiller, on 05/17/2008, -4/+20Having an audience doesn't make you an intelligent person.
- rewinn, on 05/17/2008, -3/+18In 1996, the kid had his own domain. Obviously he was just a little smarter than Rush. The paper's not bad either.
- rewinn, on 05/17/2008, -5/+20LOL! what errors are in the essay? It's nicely footnoted, for a high school paper. Don't just believe Rush --- after all, he was unable to figure out that he was reading a high school paper despite some rather clear clues to anyone who is net-savvy.
Look at the date. What were YOU doing on the internet in 1996. AOL? - DocOrpheus, on 05/17/2008, -7/+22Rush is the classic case of a schoolyard bully; chooses his battles in such a way that only he wins, further boosting his own (insecure) ego.
I'd pay admission to see Limbaugh debate Thom Hartmann. Hartmann would rip him a new a-hole in more places than one. - rolf, on 05/17/2008, -3/+171. He's a hypocrite who can rants about others but never cares to address topics about himself. Fair, as it his show, but his credibility went way down on many issues, and I assume some viewership left as well.
2. At this point of his career, he's still raking in millions of $$, so he's quite fit to do anything he pleases. I'm free to not listen to him.
3. Most people don't listen to him and only vaguely know or care what he says. The average American does not care enough to hate him. It's just another personality you can completely ignore. - Lewie, on 05/17/2008, -0/+14Thank you! Very well said!
This is akin to people (cons/reps?) saying "Well, if you're poor, find a job". Well, if you're stupid, get a ***** education! I think America is one of the few places where people still make fun of the smart kid. - superkendall, on 05/17/2008, -35/+47At 10th grade, aren't you supposed to know history a bit better than that? It's not like he's berating a *6th* grader after all, by 10th grade you are just about an adult and should have had a fair amount of education behind you already.
- piratearggghhh, on 05/17/2008, -2/+14I would love to see Rush get into a debate with a real poli sci or econ professor.
- moffie, on 05/17/2008, -2/+14If he had people checking his show for false and baseless content, he wouldn't have a show. Besides, as MarkusGarvey pointed out, his audience obviously doesn't require facts with sources to back them up. If they did, they wouldn't listen to the jabberwocky.
- Xondar, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1320 million? That number seems far too high to be credible.
- bsonline, on 05/17/2008, -5/+16So he got ratings and entertained some sheep? I'm sure he considers it mission accomplished. The controversy just adds to his wallet.
- Hegemony, on 05/17/2008, -2/+13Damn, that essay was better than anything I ever wrote in 10th grade.
- TheSkinsFactory, on 05/17/2008, -1/+12It wasn't Rush talking, it was the oxycotin *cough cough*
- lamiaconfitor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10no, but having sheep bay on your every whim makes you dangerous.
- theaceoffire, on 05/17/2008, -2/+12Idiot.
Since you obviously never made it to 10th grade, let me inform you: Some teachers make you write papers you are not qualified to write.
They call this "learning". - addicted68098, on 05/17/2008, -12/+22How can people be such idiots, there has to be some chemical imbalance creating our Bill O'Riellys and Limbaughs. America is a ***** up place, and ***** up people like this make it so the very slightly ***** up people endorse lunatics and before we know it lobbyists have more power then the American citizen
- StarlessKnight, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10Did you get that number from Rush himself? Because he said he has 20 million on a weekly basis and 12 million daily.
"As of 2006, Arbitron ratings indicated that the Rush Limbaugh Show had a minimum weekly audience of 13.5 million listeners, making it the largest radio talk show audience in the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
"Limbaugh, whose syndicated radio program has a weekly audience of about 10 million..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
"His weekly audience is estimated at about 13.5 million listeners..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080511/pl_polit ...
"...with an estimated weekly audience of about 13.5 million listeners..."
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/85285/?commen ... - Akairenn, on 05/17/2008, -3/+13If you're an adult, why can't you vote, drink or buy cigarettes while in 10th grade?
Sorry, doesn't cut it. If you expect mere children to be adults, you'd best start treating them that way in all facets. - Xondar, on 05/17/2008, -0/+9Except Maddox is a satirist and Limbaugh sincerely buys into his own *****.
- bjornski, on 05/17/2008, -0/+9Well, until he's called on certain issues.
Then the story is "Hey! I'm just an entertainer! You can't take me seriously!"
He knows he's lying about a lot of it. But it's making him rich as *****. He doesn't care. - bjornski, on 05/17/2008, -0/+9In certain parts of the country, I'm surprised 10th graders can READ, much less write a report.
- Jones4590, on 05/17/2008, -1/+10it's on a site that sells essays to lazy students, so it must have a lot of traffic
- digitalArtform, on 05/17/2008, -2/+11I like Thom Hartmann's take on the Depression
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/theres ... - Amazetbm, on 05/17/2008, -2/+10"surely he could afford to hire a decent researcher/fact checker."
Yeah, but that would cut into his money for drugs. - Subacious, on 05/17/2008, -2/+10The program manager at Microsoft is just trying to earn a living. Lighten up.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -2/+10I saw it on the Internet, so it must be true.
- mentallyinhell, on 05/17/2008, -21/+29Why not just call the kid a retard and tell him he'll never make it anywhere in life? How ignorant does one really need to be to rip on tenth graders? Or did he just assume it had to be college level because tenth grade reading and writing are beyond him?
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