On 03-25-09, BOB ACKLEY said to TIM RICHARDSON:


TR> Until this last presidential campaign, I'd never even heard the name
TR> `Palin', didn't know Alaska had a woman governor, and I strongly
TR> suspect a large part of the voting public outside Alaska didn't
TR> either.


BA>I hadn't heard of her either.  But remember, Tim, my comment was that
BA>we have 20 plus years of hate radio to thank for the situation.


*I* did not invent what you call `hate radio'. And what exactly do you
classify as `hate radio'? Are you refering to Rush Limbaugh? I listen to
Limbaugh's show once in a while, and I don't hear any `hate' coming from him.


BA>That cr*p has lowered the level of political discourse far below any
BA>resemblance of civilized discussion.  Those anonymous postings and comments
BA>on various sites and blogs have certainly helped destroy any semblance of
BA>civility.


The internet is open to all. With very little control over it, and people will
say what they say.


BA>While you're upset WRT Palin,


You are assigning an emotion to something that doesn't exist. I am not *upset*
over it....I simply point it out. Look to Sauer or others for `upset' over
political figures.


BA>your hate radio 'personalities' and various
BA>anonymous posters and bloggers were doing character assassination of both
BA>Obama and Clinton during the campaign and shifted into high gear on Obama
BA>after he was nominated.  That doesn't seem to have bothered those on your
BA>side of the fence.


I didn't see any `character assassination' of either one. Things came out that
neither one was able to explain, and they were embarassed by it.


The problem is `your' side goes out in the cyber world and finds all this
crapola, and then post up about it as though I or someone on `my' side of the
aisle were in it up to our elbows! And typically, we didn't know about it to
begin with, and `wouldn't' have known about it probably, if it hadn't been
dragged into Fido in the first place.


I had heard of Limbaugh, saw a few minutes of his show when he was on TV a
long time ago, didn't like it, and was ignoring him completely.


Suddenly I got accused of `getting my talking points' from Limbaugh.


Let me tell you a little secret:


Several years ago there used to be an echo dedicated to Liimbaugh, run by a
couple of real jerky guys who were the `co' moderators. One's name was Freeze,
and the other name was Fornoff or something like that.


I didn't post in the echo for a long time, just read it every day.


What I saw was a bunch of people who were fauning over Rush Limbaugh. It was
disgusting! finally, one day I read a `mega-dittos, Rush' type message from
one of these clowns, and I posted a reply to him saying that they needed to
remember that Rush Limbaugh couldn't possibly `always' be right, nobody is on
the whole planet, And secondly, they needed to remember that Rush Limbaugh
probably put about 30 million dollars in the bank every year doing what he
does.


Well! You'd have thought I just tried to hijack an echo from the reaction! One
of them (Freeze, I think) posted me up a reply ordering me out of the echo,
forbidding me to ever post there again, condemning me as a leftwing political
terrorist, etc etc etc.


While he was posting that up to me, his buddy Fornoff went to my sysop, Bud
Jameson, and demanded he lock me out of the echo completely!


Jameson and I were sort of friends. I'd been over to his house, given him
rides to various places to buy computer equipment, he'd worked on several of
my computers for me, etc etc. He messaged me with what Fornoff told him, and
just told me not to post in there because Fornoff had his panties in a bunch
at me.


BA>And it hasn't stopped or even slowed since the election.  Your (and
BA>others') continued use of "B. Hussein Obama" to insinuate
that he has some
BA>Islamic or terrorist connection without actually saying it is merely one
BA>tiny example.


I call him Hussein.....as a matter of fact...thats his name!


Where was your indignant outrage when Sauer was calling G.W. Bush all manner
of filthy names. How many times did you come out in protest against Ceppa or
Klahn refering to G.W. Bush as `the shrub'?


Remind me. I must have missed those posts.


"You do realize that Dodd is a Republican senator, don't you?" .....Ceppa








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