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In Reply to: Re: smiling is the idea posted by Acheick on January 28, 2004 at 08:48:38:
(1) You wrote that “the three stooges and violence is ‘real American humor’” and that what you wrote was also ‘real American humor’. You hate it in the three stooges but you don’t see any problem when you do it. It is sad and curious that you recognize it in one but not in the other. Belittling people is not good.
(2) The being “more American” was clear in your comment about not understanding American humor. I had posted not in reference to humor, or lack of it, but to the myth that you were perpetuating, to what you have acknowledged doing: "poking fun at someone's weaknesses". Like I said, belittling people is not good.
(3) I understand that “my whole argument is lost” on you. It is not logic, you say. Logic or not, by acknowledging that you were "poking fun at someone's weaknesses" you are already agreeing with my point. I didn't even care about it. I can care less of how you get your kicks. That is your own doing. My intention was to offer the record about Al Gore's participation in the development of the Internet and you chose to dig a whole for yourself. So, end of discussion.
(4) "Feeling guilty about being American", non sense. I have more American blood in me than you can ever claim. I am confident saying this because during the years, as a public person, famous in the ex-member community, you have said a lot about yourself on several boards and mailing lists. So the public knows a lot about you. Shy little Post R just started posting a few months ago after years of being content just by reading. In fact, it is people like you who scare me, not just because of what they can say or do but of what I may become if I continue interacting with them.
(5) Finally, about my man Rush, I am sorry for him. As a person’s words are the unit to measure the acts of that person, Limbaugh’s own words accuse him. Just a quick search in google is enough. Here are some pearls:
"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995
Taken from: http://www.fairandbalanced.us/Rush/index.asp
A short not just in case you might be tempted to think I am not familiar with him: I have listened to his broadcasts since the late 80s, when he was in little AM stations in the middle of the night. I am familiar with his so-called humor.
Anyway, this thread has become far too complicated for me and I am not willing to do your homework so I will move on to other topics. Meanwhile, keep smiling.
