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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:32 PM
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Limbaugh is out of control, and Americablog is right, Kerry should sue
http://www.americablog.org/

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Limbaugh said yesterday on his radio show that John Kerry called US troops "terrorists." The proof? John Kerry he didn't like the idea of US soldiers breaking into Iraq homes and "terrorizing" women and young children.

Taking the word terrorizing and making that akin to terrorists? That's lawsuit material. It's also material for filing lawsuits and FCC violations against the individual radio stations that aired it. John Kerry is a public figure, but if Limbaugh knows that what he's saying is factually wrong, he's liable for what he says to the tune of millions. And no reasonable person, let alone a word smith like Limbaugh, thinks the word terrorize means the same thing as terrorist.

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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120505/content/america_s_anchorman.guest.html

Stupid bastard, I hope kerry reads this and John's site and sues the little drug addict.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:36 PM
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1. Kerry should sue the slime boat guys first.
And remember, winning isn't really the point. Tying up their resources is the point. Gaining subpoena power so he can follow every cent of their dirty money trail is the point. Giving them a Maalox habit is the point. That he'd have a great case against them is just icing on the cake. We know the book is factually incorrect, and it's certainly possible to prove malice. They've shot their mouths off enough.

As for Lamebawl, I understand his audience continues to decline in many markets as his schtik becomes too stale for even diehard fans to bear. Time and the drug laws will take care of "I'm just an entertainer!"
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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:38 PM
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2. I'd love to see that
Kerry should go for it. ;) :applause:
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:41 PM
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3. Sue him - it's the least Kerry can do
I'm surprised he hasn't been mutilated based on some of the violence he promotes.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:43 PM
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4. He probably broadcasts from his home so he is protected
If he stepped out in Miami I am POSITIVE they'd be throwing rocks and dog shit at him.
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GrumpyGreg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:43 PM
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5. I doubt if it could stand up in court. Technically a person
who terrorizes is a terrorist. It's just semantics.

That said,who cares what Rush says----who cares,he's an idiot.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:48 PM
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7. No, it's time to fight these scumbags enough of this turning the other
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 11:49 PM by DainBramaged
cheek. And just remember, Ford kills kittens.:evilgrin:
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:44 PM
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6. This is low even for Limbaugh
Talk about twisting words and semantics!

Kerry should unleash the wolves against Rush, sue him or whatever a powerful senator's connections can do.
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agincourt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:52 PM
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8. We should use any means available to get these people,
They shouldn't be ignored, no joke, too many americans are getting brown shirt minds from listening to these ogres. I never met such stupid people on politics until this shit radio started.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:59 PM
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9. Does anyone remember "the blanket party" from the movie,
"Full Metal Jacket"? Well, that's what ol' punkinhead needs.

What an asshole.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:02 AM
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10. Sorry, but this is OUR job. Let us therefore enjoy the hell out of it.
Kerry and the rest of the Beauty Pageant should be kept as clean as possible. Bringing suit in court for something that is not likely to win is a double-loser for a politician. It is virtually impossible for politicians to win defamation suits. It is part of The Game. It is engraved in The Law.

WE should open the cans of Whoop-Ass ourselves. And, without placing blame (though I share in it fully), I'll proclaim that we've been remiss in our "duties". The Rectal Right was able to get a bunch of Delay operatives to riot in the Miami-Dade (Florida) election office and escape all accountability; there must be something WE can do to make Limbaugh's life a pilonidal cyst full of the pus of agita. (And, we can track those rioters and make sure everyone in their lives know about their behavior for the rest of their lives.)

Maybe a couple of billboards in Florida demanding a "full, fair, and balanced" investigation, trial, and imprisonment for trafficking in Schedule I narcotics and inducing an employee to break the law.

I dunno ... the imagination should be allowed to run riot. But "in the final analysis", we should be kicking a whole lot more ass than we are.

Several years ago, I made a nicely formatted chart of the Chickenhawks, adapted from the canonical chart the guys from New Hampshire drew up (I also deleted the entertainers, since I believe they are just distractions). Fifty copies went into the hands of my mother's friends, one of whom is an active churchlady at the local Southern Baptist congregation and is tired of hearing the preacher proclaim the Kingdom and Glory of Lord George Bush. You'd be surprised how effective things like that can be, especially when the preacher starts reading them without counter-rants.

People like Kerry are our standard-bearers, and the Democratic Party is blessed with several of them right now. As for us low-lifes, let us meditate on what a low-life is supposed to do ... be the Life of the Party.

Each of us have our favorites, but Kerry, Dean, Gore, Clark, Hillary, Edwards, Pelosi, et alia, all can give us sufficient cause to raise hell in their names. We should do it just for the fun of it -- I know a lot of people are upset with Hillary, but what the heck? A Rightist attack on her allows us to rumble, and probably also gives Hillary second thoughts on her DINO activities, whether strategic or sell-out. And what do we get? We get to par-tay for the Par-tee.

I'm being serious. We've been way too solemn and tight-assed about dealing with these sociopaths. We need to lay the smackdown on the Right -- Repent or Suffer!

The tide is turning toward our success, but we are less prepared than we ought to be. And yet, grassroots activism is easy to plan and execute, and painless to scuttle when the plan is dumb (like, for instance, trying to throw a pie or eggs at His (Ass-) Holiness Bush). And individuals can easily foment treason-to-tyrants on their own.

To quote that famed American philosopher, Tennessee Tuxedo, "Come along, Chumley, there's work to be done!"

--p!
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:07 AM
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11. Rush should be ignored
He wants attention and if he's given it, the more crap he'll speak
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:13 AM
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12. Agree. Let him spiral out of control until he starts saying things
so outrageous his own followers start distancing themselves from him.

He's headed there as it is.
Same with that weird O'Reilly.
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