From: griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Liberal Havens...
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:06:28 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:

>First, it was the news media.

This is fairly obvious and not really open to debate.  Now the reasons
behind it may not be so clear.  Maybe, as one writer here said, they just
tell us what they think we want to hear (assuming they think the majority
of us are very angry at Bush and company).  Maybe that occupation tends to
appeal to a certain type of individual, one who is more liberal.  (I was 
commenting on something similar to this recently when a friend asked me
about meeting total strangers while backpacking and having something more
in common.  The overwhelming preponderance of hikers are college students,
engineers, teachers, etc.  You'll probably see very few custodians, assembly
line workers, or general laborers).  It just seems that life is like that.
Larry King, who is very proud to say that he is a liberal, is one visible
example.

> Then, Hollywood.

People don't generally like it when they are scolded or looked down upon.
The conservatives have long denounced Hollywood and their riotous lifestyle.
Some, particularly the religious right, have even gone so far as to boycott
the industry and not let their children even see 'G' movies.  Then again, 
they'll do anything, including sell sex and violence, to make money.  Who
is it that condemns them for this?

> The obsessive dittoheads
>have managed to convince themselves that the publishing industry is
>somehow trying to hide Limbaugh's book from the public.

I think you are painting with too wide a brush here.  While the publishing
industry may not be, some bookstores and/or their employees are.  This is
undeniable.  While you can go into any bookstore and purchase Playboy
without so much as a second glance, people have been openly ridiculed by
store employees for purchasing this book.  You've also got the story that
was posted here a few days ago where someone tried to purchase this book,
only to be told that the booksellers didn't know what he was talking about.
(I find it awfully hard to believe, too, but there you have it).

>Now, the net is a liberal haven. 

Who populates the net?  I think there is a preponderance of skulls full
of mush.  I know when I was 17 in college I worked for the ICLU petitioning
people for the legalization of marijuana (isn't this something--I wasn't even
old enough to sign the petition myself), and wanted freebies, too.  Plus, I
had been taught in high school that conservatives wanted things to stay the
same, while liberals were progressive, and looking for change (supposedly for
the better).  These were the same people who told me that progressive tax
rates were fair because the people who had more should pay more to keep it.
(Defense budgets, etc).  It didn't occur to me that they already *do* pay
more.  I was making barely above minimum wage.  Whether they did it 
intentionally or not, they were fostering class envy in high school.

>Geez, you people are worse then the Kennedy assassination conspiracy
>theorists. 

Oliver Stone is a dittohead?
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