TIM RICHARDSON -> STAN HARDEGREE wrote:
 TR> On 06-28-09, STAN HARDEGREE said to ED HULETT:


 SH>> For almost two months after he arrived in Politics, Limbaugh was
 SH>> all Archie talked about.  He talked about NOTHING ELSE.


 EH>> He even went so far as to talk his idiot neighbor into joining him in
 EH>> his little party.


 SH>> And all *she* talked about was freakin Rush Limbaugh.


 TR> I used to have the `LIMBAUGH' echo selected and read it many years ago
 TR> (sometime in the early 1990's).

I used to participate in the Limbaugh echo in the early 90s. I could never
get used to the "mega-dittos" posts.

 TR> And every day it was the same thing......wild-eyed `Lim-bots' literally
 TR> `gushing' over something or other Limbaugh had said on his show the day
 TR> before.

Yeah, those posters had nothing to add to the discussions.

 TR> There were two moderators of that echo back then...one was Mark Fornoff,
 TR> and the other guy's last name was Freeze (I think).

Hmmm... I don't remember either name.

 TR> Anyway, after reading the echo for a year or more, I once read a series of
 TR> messages in there that just `gushed' stuff like; `Well...Rush is always
 TR> right!' .....or `Mega-ditto for Rush!'....etc etc.


 TR> Finally, I took one particularly sickening-sweet post from someone who
 TR> spouted
 TR> `mega-ditto, Rush' about every third sentence, and replied to him. I just
 TR> posted that `You have to remember that Rush Limbaugh takes about
 TR> $30,000,000 a
 TR> year to the bank doing what he does. And its mostly entertainment. Limbaugh
 TR> does what `sells. Thats why his show is so popular'.


 TR> Well....


 TR> The shit hit the fan!


 TR> Freeze and Fornoff didn't even show me the courtesy of a message telling me
 TR> not to post there anymore. One of them went to my SYSOP (Bud Jameson at the
 TR> time, here locally), and demanded my feed to the echo be cut under
 TR> threat of
 TR> the SYSOP losing his feed to Fido!


 TR> On the same day.....Fornoff posted up a message telling the rest of the
 TR> echo
 TR> that I was hereby permanently  banned, and I was not to be posted to,
 TR> replied
 TR> to, or anything I posted spoken of in any message traffic in that echo.


 TR> Freeze immediately posted up a revised set of echo rules that included the
 TR> admonition that the echo was strictly for fans of Rush Limbaugh, and
 TR> Rush was
 TR> not to be bad-mouthed, spoken ill of, or mentioned in a derogatory manner
 TR> under any circumstances!


 TR> Bud called me that evening and told me about the feed-cut request from
 TR> Fornoff, and asked me not to post in there anymore. We (Jameson and I) had
 TR> known each other for awhile and I agreed not to.

There were those participants who could not accept honest criticism of Limbaugh.

 TR> The echo went down hill from there. One or the other (either Fornoff or
 TR> Freeze) would post up the rules about once a week or so, and after
 TR> awhile that
 TR> was the only traffic there, period!

Now, if you go check, you'll find the idiot Klahn posting in there off and
on and nothing more.

Ed

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