Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> The Show So Far
>
> Someone posts:
> >if you follow N. Gingrich's political policy, the
> judge(s) that issued this decision will be
> impeached because N. Gingrich (assuming he is
> elected President) will regard these judges as
> "activists)
>
> To which I spoke about our Constitutional system
> not working in this fashion. If the whole of a
> society is to trust the law, the rule of law has
> to be rational, otherwise it eventually becomes
> little more than Vishinksy presiding over a Moscow
> Show Trial or Roland Freisler (who secretly
> admired Vishinsky) hectoring the German officers
> who tried to blow up Hitler. To date, the USA is
> the most admired country in the word with respect
> to the rule of law, all because of the separation
> of powers concept in our Constitution.
>
> Then someone mentions the Dems marching in
> lock-step:
> >Unlike the Dems, who goose step to every whim of
> their party's leadershi
>
> To which I mentioned that the GOP is far worse in
> this respect (Astro-turf vs Grass Roots), along
> with Newtie, and Rush the Drug User, both of whom
> talk out of both sides of their mouths. This in
> turn set of MeMyselfAndEye like a Roman candle,
> and he jumps in with a defence of R. Lumbaugh
> which is patently grounded more in belief than
> factual reality.
>
> This went back and forth along the lines of "Rush
> is right" "He has been the number 1 talk show
> host in America for 22 years straigh." To which I
> compared him to Hilter, who was the "#1 talk show
> host" in Germany for about 15 years, in order to
> demonstrate that being #1 in no way implies
> "truthfulness" or "grounding in reality". I've
> been accused of not listening to him, which I
> have. When I was in Vietnam, I occasionally
> listened to Radio Peking just to hear what they
> had to say. Their rants about "the Nixon
> Government" and "the General Motors government"
> don't sound all that different than Rushy's stuff
> -- all you have to do is change a few proper names
> and some nouns here and there.
>
> Anyone who has a reasonable command of grammar,
> syntax, and logic, and has even marginally
> followed current events over the last 40 years, is
> quite capable of figuring out in rather short
> order that Rushy baby plays fast an loose with the
> truth, bending it to fit his prejudiced agenda.
> Others have said more or less the same thing in
> their posts.
>
> Next, MeMyself says I should read "The Secret
> Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American
> Culture", by David Mamet, presumably because in
> it, he "authenticates", or at least offers
> "factual support to", Rushy's grand pronouncements
> . So I looked up some reviews, in which direct
> quotes show him to be out to lunch too, in fact
> further so than Rushy, which is difficult to
> comprehend because Rushy has obviously hogged the
> lunch wagon pretty well.
>
> >From Rush to the Vietnam War and Nixon/Kissinger.
> Can you say "unhinged"?
>
> You brought up Memets' book, not me, which opened
> up the discussion to his book. I'd never heard of
> him before, and based on his quotes, NOT the
> reviewers comments, he's just another nutcase.
>
> How're the bruises on your noggin doing?

Whew! Are you worn out yet? You REALLY don't like people disagreeing with you, do you? You should meet OPPRMS---you guys are two peas in a pod. Happy New Year!