The Rush Limbaugh show starts in about thirty minutes.

Did you know Rush is single-handedly responsible for
the fact that George W. Bush is a two-term president?

Rush's weekly audience of close to twenty million thinkers
turned out and voted for the right man for the job at the
right time.

CN

"Many of you are well enough off that...the tax cuts may have helped
you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably
going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things
away from you on behalf of the common good." -- Hillary Clinton

Capt. Neal=AE wrote:
The Rush Limbaugh show starts in about thirty minutes.

Did you know Rush is single-handedly responsible for
the fact that George W. Bush is a two-term president?

Rush's weekly audience of close to twenty million thinkers
turned out and voted for the right man for the job at the
right time.

CN

He's also nothing short of a liar:
Rush Limbaugh's Lies


A couple of years ago I read Rush Limbaugh's first book "The Way
Things Ought To Be". I saw so many errors, inaccuracies, deceptions and
just plain BS that I decided to list a few of them.

I know there are many other web sites that list lies that Rush has
told, and some have probably detailed some of these same deceptions, so
forgive me if I am repeating anything that you have read elsewhere
before.


1=2E) In Chapter 15 titled "Sorry but the Earth is not Fragile" Rush says
that "The Sierra Club wants to limit the number of kids you can have to
two" and that "They are into power and controlling peoples lives."

I've been a member of the Sierra club for several years and I was very
surprised to learn this information about limiting the number of
children you can have. Every month I read the Sierra magazine from
cover to cover and I have never seen any article or editorial that
endorsed the idea of limiting the number of children people can have.
As always, Rush never cited any sources for this information nor did he
give any examples to prove his point. This also surprised me since so
many Rush fans have told me that Rush is always right and always proves
his point and gives the sources of his information. I think Rush knows
that the Sierra Club has talked about the problems of over-population
and how it threatens both humans and the environment. So from that
premise he conjured up this lie about limiting the number of children
you are allowed to have.


2=2E) Also in chapter 15, Rush states that Mount Pinatubo in the
Philippines released more than a thousand times the amount of ozone
depleting chemicals in one eruption than all the fluorocarbons
manufactured by all the corporations in history. He goes on to conclude
that since the Earth's ozone layer survives all these eruptions over
billions of years that we could not possibly destroy the ozone layer
even if we wanted to.

The problem with this theory is that his entire premise is wrong. NASA
has been studying the upper atmospheric chemicals that lead to ozone
depletion. They have taken samples of the air in the upper atmosphere
and concluded that the ozone depleting chemicals found in the upper
atmosphere are NOT the same as those that come from volcanoes. They are
the CFCs produced commercially by man. Volcanoes don't produce CFCs.
The Chlorine that volcanoes produce is water soluable. That means it is
literally rained out of the atmosphere and doesn't pose much of a
threat to the ozone layer.


3=2E) Later in his book Rush says "I'm right about the homeless. And I'll
be proven right about the ozone hole and global warming."

Wrong again, Rush. As recently as December 20th, 1994 an associated
press article stated "Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
say they have the first conclusive evidence that the Earth's protective
ozone layer is being eroded by man-made chemical products and not by
natural events such as volcanic eruptions."


4=2E) Later in chapter 15, Rush states that environmentalists are
actually socialist/marxists.

But once again he failed to back up his claim with any facts or
examples. Actually, this is a good sign. It means that Rush can't find
any ulterior motives or anything legitimate to criticize
environmentalists about so he has to make things up. This time he
resorted to the old lie that anyone who disagrees with him is a
communist.


5=2E) Also in Chapter 15, Rush criticizes environmentalists by saying:
"We have more trees in this country today than when the Declaration of
Independence was written. The wackos will tell you that's impossible.
Haven't they ever heard of fires started by lightning that no one could
put out? Today, we put out a lot of fires that used to burn areas the
size of Connecticut."
Rush also goes on to say "Today, Private companies are planting
millions of trees on their own land and carefully harvesting them."

Either Rush has not done his homework or he is deliberately misleading
people. There are several errors with his theory:
First, the forest service and National Parks department often do not
put out many fires anymore. They have recognized the fact that fires
were a natural part of the growth cycle in some areas. Therefore they
are often allowed to burn unless homes are threatened.
Second, the forests that are destroyed by fire grow back much faster
than those that are destroyed by clearcutting, the process most logging
companies use. And remember, forests that are cut down to make room for
shopping malls and parking lots never grow back.
Third, a forest in it's natural state consists of many diverse kinds of
trees and wildlife, but when companies plant trees to replace the
forests they destroyed, they usually plant just a single specific type
of tree. One that is particularly good for lumber use. Therefore, the
forest itself is never really allowed to grow back. There is a huge
difference between a forest and a tree farm.
Finally, according to the book "The Bum's Rush - Phrases and Fallacies
of Rush Limbaugh", the World Almanac and the U.S. Statistical
Abstracts, forests covered 850 million acres in the late 1700s. By
1992, forests covered 730 million acres. So Rush is only off by a
hundred and twenty million acres or so, which is quite accurate for
him.


6=2E) Here is another quote from chapter 15. Rush has this to say about
environmentalists: "Rather than elevate the third world, they want to
move us closer to Third World conditions. That's somehow cleaner and
purer. They want to roll us back, maybe not to the Stone Age, but at
least to the horse and buggy era."

Naturally, Rush never explains what it is that environmentalists are
doing that is going to send us back to the horse and buggy era. I can't
see how requiring stricter auto-emissions standards moves us back to
the horse and buggy era. Environmentalists want to maintain strict
pollution control standards, and health and safety requirements, as
well as higher automobile fuel efficiency standards. These things
improve the quality of everyone's lives without any great sacrifices.

That, and the fact that he's a drug addict makes him credible to you??

"Dose" is the right word.

Rush LImbaugh, admitted drug addict, rather likely takes a "dose" or
two himself before hitting the airwaves with his lunatic rants.

We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." --
Hillary Clinton

Who is *we*? Certainly nobody who controls the White House, House, and
Senate.

wrote in message
oups.com...
"Dose" is the right word.

Rush LImbaugh, admitted drug addict, rather likely takes a "dose" or
two himself before hitting the airwaves with his lunatic rants.

You'd be surprised at the number of folks walking around with
hydrocodone/oxycodone addictions. Many states are considering legislation
to ban plain ol' oxycodone (sold as Oxycontin) unless it's mixed with an
analgesic like acetaminophen. I think that that is a terrific idea. Make
these folks destroy their livers if they want to get buzz on oxycodone! ;-)

Looks like the Capt set out a nice troll. He bagged 2 already.


wrote in message
oups.com...
"Dose" is the right word.

Rush LImbaugh, admitted drug addict, rather likely takes a "dose" or
two himself before hitting the airwaves with his lunatic rants.

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:36:09 -0400, "*JimH*" wrote:

Looks like the Capt set out a nice troll. He bagged 2 already.


wrote in message
roups.com...
"Dose" is the right word.

Rush LImbaugh, admitted drug addict, rather likely takes a "dose" or
two himself before hitting the airwaves with his lunatic rants.



Bucktails...with a 6" sassy shad.

--
John H

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real
...."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

*JimH* wrote:
Looks like the Capt set out a nice troll. He bagged 2 already.

He got YOU and John, didn't he?