Friday, February 04, 2011

CONOR FREIDERSDORF ALMOST GETS IT

He correcly lays out some of the most damning arguments against Fats Limbaugh but he doesn't quite grasp Pigboy's stupidity, ignorance and mendacity:
For all Rush Limbaugh's supposed brilliance and quick-wittedness, he would be terrified to debate a critic in a neutral written form – he knows that stripped of his broadcasting mastery, call screeners, and a medium where flawed arguments drift into the ether without rebuttal, his ideas would be shown for the weak, contemptible, indefensible nonsense that they are. A bully in the recording studio, he is too cowardly to test himself in direct debate on the Web.
Limbaugh couldn't deal with a caller who pointed out that the average working man does need a union to negotiate contracts and wound up contradicting himself.  To another caller, Limbaugh falsely denied that Reagan raised taxes.  Finally, Limbaugh altered an audio clip of Ken Starr to falsely claim Starr approved of the "nuclear option.".

UPDATE: Mike Stark was the 2nd Limbaugh caller and you can find the audio and transcript at DKOs.

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