Rush Limbaugh is training wheels for the mind

[chillspike]

Felt like saying this to my tea party brother yesterday but didn't:

Training wheels are for people (specifically children) who don't actually know how to ride a bike.

Rush Limbaugh is training wheels for the mind for people who don't actually know how to think.

I wish my brother would take off the training wheels already.

:(

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Good line. I'm stealing it. nt

[chillspike]

2. You're quite welcome to it! :)

Please use liberally. :)

[Syrinx]

3. not quite

Training wheels on a bicycle actually help you learn to ride a bike. Rush Limbaugh corrupts a mind, and makes it more difficult to think rationally.

[Fumesucker]

4. That's what I was thinking..

Listen to Rush for a while and your brain becomes about as useful as so much tapioca pudding for actual reasoning..

[chillspike]

7. I agree in that context, yes. however

training wheels also give the APPEARANCE of ability where there actually is not just from the action of moving.

My brother turns on the radio, Rush Limbaugh makes noise and, to my brother, APPEARS knowledgable just by the fact that he is making noise.

[Syrinx]

9. gotcha

[underpants]

5. "Democrats lynched blacks because they might vote Republican"

In response to Rep.Carson's TeaBagger comment. I heard this yesterday.

[liberal N proud]

6. The problem is no one who listens to that blob ever takes off the training wheels

It is more like a bad drug that keeps you fuked up with no stop.

[chillspike]

8. +1!!!

[geckosfeet]

10. More like indoctrination. If that pos is tarining people, it is for no good.

[terip64]

11. I'm in a mood, but I say say it to your brother. Have the fight...

why not? They are in our face with their 'opinions'. Why do we hesitate to speak our minds?

[chillspike]

12. Nah...I don't fight

I just get in little digs here and there and he gets the message within the form of polite debate. You can't go after somebody who's brainwashed in one full sweep. They'll just resist. You got to break them down slowly using reality as a lever.

Besides, I can't argue. I'm a coffee party member. ;)

[terip64]

15. I wish I didn't fight somedays. I was born in New Haven, CT with my fists up, I'm afraid.

Good for you. You probably sleep better because you don't say things you shouldn't. I will try to learn from you. ;)

[chillspike]

13. But you know, something else

Even though we've always stayed cordial to each other and on speaking terms, I really feel like Rush Limbaugh and right wing radio has brainwashed my family and taken them away from me. We could have been so much more productive as a family instead of working towards opposing goals all these years. We'll never get these decades back.

[hifiguy]

14. More like angel dust

or thalidomide, IMO.

Good line, though. :)

edit for spelling