"...or abridging the freedom of speech..."
"Civil liberties are profoundly counter-intuitive. It takes an effort
of imagination and good will to remember that those we despise deserve
the same legal rights as those who agree with us."
ROBERT ANTON WILSON, The New Inquisition
But there are actually good reasons to defend free expression even for those we loathe the most... at least, if those we loathe the most are as dimwitted as most of the people I loathe the most... namely, when we give them enough rope, they inevitably hang themselves.
Which is to say, let a goddam fool like Rush Limbaugh run his mouth freely, and he will inevitably display his stupidity, venality, and hypocrisy for all to see.
This latest thing, with boycotting General Motors because the Federal government is spending billions of our tax dollars trying to keep it from going under?
I mean, I really don't have to explain the utter mind boggling stupidity of boycotting a company we're spending millions of tax dollars trying to save, do I?
You want to boycott General Motors, do it because they make crappy cars. But boycotting them because there's a Democrat in the White House and you can't stand the idea of an opposition President getting credit for saving the world from the unbelievable bungling of Your Guy?
That's... I don't even know. There aren't words for how unbelievably egocentrically brainbendingly stupid that is.
I want to say it's all par for Rush's course, just part and parcel of the whole Limbaugh experience. Yet even for a guy who once called Chelsea Clinton "the White House dog" and who seriously thinks every drug addict in the world should be jailed... except Rush Limbaugh... this is a brand new high in sheer dumbassery.
So I say let the asses bray. A few more choice cuts like this, and even Rush's dwindling audience of dittoheads has to start wising up.
I mean, some of those guys have to actually work for General Motors, right...?
ROBERT ANTON WILSON, The New Inquisition
But there are actually good reasons to defend free expression even for those we loathe the most... at least, if those we loathe the most are as dimwitted as most of the people I loathe the most... namely, when we give them enough rope, they inevitably hang themselves.
Which is to say, let a goddam fool like Rush Limbaugh run his mouth freely, and he will inevitably display his stupidity, venality, and hypocrisy for all to see.
This latest thing, with boycotting General Motors because the Federal government is spending billions of our tax dollars trying to keep it from going under?
I mean, I really don't have to explain the utter mind boggling stupidity of boycotting a company we're spending millions of tax dollars trying to save, do I?
You want to boycott General Motors, do it because they make crappy cars. But boycotting them because there's a Democrat in the White House and you can't stand the idea of an opposition President getting credit for saving the world from the unbelievable bungling of Your Guy?
That's... I don't even know. There aren't words for how unbelievably egocentrically brainbendingly stupid that is.
I want to say it's all par for Rush's course, just part and parcel of the whole Limbaugh experience. Yet even for a guy who once called Chelsea Clinton "the White House dog" and who seriously thinks every drug addict in the world should be jailed... except Rush Limbaugh... this is a brand new high in sheer dumbassery.
So I say let the asses bray. A few more choice cuts like this, and even Rush's dwindling audience of dittoheads has to start wising up.
I mean, some of those guys have to actually work for General Motors, right...?
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