You CANNOT use WikiPedia as a source!

If you were to hand in a research paper today with WikiPedia citations, your Professor would have a grand ol’ time with the red Sharpie before you got it back with an “F”.

Actually, I’m kinda surprised you’re not citing from Conservapedia: A Conservative Encyclopedia You Can Trust! tm

Seems like the only thing you’ve proved is that you have a weird fixation on the imaginary dangers of wealthy Jews, Dugger.

But I’m willing to be reasonable. Maybe you meant not ALL the money comes from the obscenely wealthy billionaire Soros or maybe he didn’t hand it to you directly.

“And please don’t put me anywhere near Dugger in the thought category – I’ll lose my freakin’ lunch.”

No problem here. I don’t consider you in my category. And keep trying to suck up to the haters here. That’ll work. I suggest submissive cyber urination. Maybe they’ll like you then.

And, OW, BTW:

You said:

“Re: Democracy Alliance, Dugger is as usual just an idiot who repeats talking points like the Limbaugh listeners who emailed MM yesterday. You can’t think for yourself or do independent research on your own. Some right wing idiot said “X” and you believe it”

Hmmm. Powerful ol’ Dugger now controls Wikipedia

In May 2004, the New York Times reported that Media Matters has received “more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals” and “was developed with help from the newly formed Center for American Progress”.[13] Media Matters has received financial support from George Soros’ MoveOn.org, Peter Lewis and the New Democratic Network.”

No, no Soros money here. Move along. Move along. Look over there!!! Bush is firing attorneys!

In the case of Limbaugh, what’s he’s said is actually very shameworthy, but his bigot fans, and bigot backers HAVE NO SHAME, and so the critics have had little impact so far.

Oliver, you’re right there. No FCC no foul I guess, and it is a market decision. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Rush’s sponsors to pull out – he is a very popular moron. He’s the highest-paid bullshit artist on the air. I can’t stand looking at him – he for some reason comes off as one of those scary poleyester-pants wearing old greasy-haired neighbors that your parents wouldn’t leave you alone with – creepy. Ick. Nonetheless he’s a successful drug-addicted liar.

I just get nervous when people start with the “you can’t say that” stuff, which is a lot of what I’ve heard the past few days around here.

And please don’t put me anywhere near Dugger in the thought category – I’ll lose my freakin’ lunch.

Re: Democracy Alliance, Dugger is as usual just an idiot who repeats talking points like the Limbaugh listeners who emailed MM yesterday. You can’t think for yourself or do independent research on your own. Some right wing idiot said “X” and you believe it.

I think instead that such decisions should be left up to the employer. If they think their employee is too shameful to keep on, then they should be allowed to fire that employee. Alternatively, if they decide to keep that employee, they should be prepared for other people exercising their right to publicly shame their racist employee with his own words. It’s a free country after all, LMMAtthews. No censorship took place, and there’s no slippery slope. If there were, we would have gone down it a long time ago with Jimmy the Greek. Nothing about the Imus situation is new at all.

It’s sticks and stones, and a politically-charged grade school argument at that. You’re not talking about actual newcasters here – Rush and Imus are glorified opinion columnists. They are entertainers (though I don’t find either to be entertaining). They aren’t news anchors. Holding them to that standard is moot.

My greater concern here is how far do we want to take this? When Oliver implies that Bush is an imbecile or Rush is a pig that’s okay, but Imus’s comments and Rush’s squealing aren’t? That’s a dangerous double standard and a slippery slope …

I’ve been hearing REAL panic in HateRadio: With the fall of Imus, they can see that their “millions of listeners a week” bullshit means little when a ClearChannel or ViaCom corporate board meeting is deciding the next business move and the direction for a bunch of affiliates.

Hey, let the market speak out. All MediaMatters does is shine a light and bring out to the attention of the few corporate sponsors exactly what their dollars have been funding.

And it lets consumers and markets decide what they want to be supporting with their dollars.

There’s a reason why Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Boortz, Beck, Ingraham, Savage, and other HateRadio shows feature endless commercials from Vita-Life, herbal medicines, and facial treatments.

Mainstream corporate sponsors are hard to find with HateRadio, so wingnut welfare, millions of right-wing dollars from bogus businesses have to be fed in to keep these Right-Wing propagandists and liars-for-hire on at all costs.

I got the biggest laugh of the day yesterday, when Limbaugh said this:

“… But they will say that their purpose is to eliminate conservative information because it’s misinformation.

It’s — and that is what is happening. It’s — you know, it’s a general rule, they would love to do this…”

As is usually the case with wingnuts, there’s no responsibility or accountability.

It’s as if the hateful bile he’s spewed daily for the last twenty years had NOTHING to do with it? No, those – those – those EVIL Lib’ruls MADE him do it!!

That’s it, with their mind tricks and media coercion, they MADE HIM open up “Club Git’mo”!!

Honestly.

Yet when you have the amazingly popular Limbaugh…

Do we really have to point out that the former is the result of a scientific poll of a broad sample of the American public, while the latter is based on a self-selecting group of people who by definition like listening to a reactionary gasbag for hours on end.

C’mon, dugger, you’re really not stupid enough to believe that’s a valid comparison, are you? You’re just being dishonest as usual, right? Admit it, you’ll feel better about yourself.

On another note, I firmly believe that Imus should not have been fired – not because I agree with him or I find him funny – he’s another one I didn’t like but listened to – but because censorship in any form is still censorship. Just because someone is an offensive ass doesn’t mean they should be stifled, left right or center.

In a perfect world everyone would agree and we’d all get along and no one would say these things or have an audience for them. This is not the perfect world. This is real life – it’s hard – get a helmet.