re: #202 GeneJockey

I’ve been saying something similar, that AM Hate Radio, and now the internet, allow people to openly think and say things that 30 years ago would have isolated them socially. Limbaugh, Coulter, etc. made it okay to believe and to say things you used to be afraid to let anyone know you were thinking, and for good reason.

One wingnut I knew said that almost literally about Limbaugh, that when he first heard his radio show, that FINALLY there was somebody SAYING the things he’d been THINKING.

Which is probably why the first line of defense for Rush is “Oh he’s just not politically correct, you libtard.” I for one am on record of saying sometimes PC goes too far but what Limbaugh does isn’t politically incorrect. No, what Limbaugh does is play to people’s intolerance and bigotry whether that subject is African Americans, gays, immigrants, or single women. And his reward for doing that? Well Republican politicos treat him like a serious voice. There’s something worng with that and I agree with you those guys you bring up say stuff that a generation ago would have gotten them ostracized. They speak to while one part of society continues to evolve and accept societal change, there’s another that has grown more reactionary with it. I mean I look at a guy like Bryan Fischer who I really do think is even more reactionary than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are and were.