[nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talking about blind justice

[Gloria Whipple]

Ray,

I fully agree with you.

I haven't listened to that pile of you know what and will not again.

I don't even like the way he sounded when he was giving his so called
speech.

Thank you,


Gloria Whipple
Corrisponding secretary
Inland Empire chapter
nfb of WA

cell number: 509-475-4993

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talking about
blind justice

I believe that everybody on this list knows of my political affiliation with
the conservative side.  Let me say something about this Limbaugh piece.  I
find it extremely offensive.  I have never felt so betrayed by someone who
was supposedly one of my own!!!  It's quite clear to me that there are many
issues which this brings up; but, I will touch on only one of them here.
Sadly, it is the case that many political conservatives and Republican party
mouth pieces will not understand our point of view.  Note that I did not say
do not understand; rather, I said "will not understand";  big difference.  I
first began to see the sad truth of this back in 2005 when the secretary of
education, Spelling, wanted to cut out individual rehab services offices.  I
dare say we all remember what happened in consequence of that.  Joanne
wilson resigned her position and became a private citizen.  I believe that
was when the light really went off in my head about the truth of what was
really go
 ing on.  Small wonder that we are in the situation we are in.  The trouble
with political conservatives is this.  Many of them say words that they know
that the true conservatives want to hear, and, maybe some of them even
believe those words.  The trouble is this.  They are saying those words for
the sake of political expediency.  Now, on the other hand, my personal life
experience has taught me that it just doesn't work that way.  When people
like Rush Limbaugh make statements such as he made in this piece, he only
serves to hurt both the blindness cause, and also, the conservative cause
also.  I want to say something else for the record.  There was a time when I
did used to listen to him; but, over the course of the past five years or
so, I ceased to listen to hymn; especially after Hurricane Katrina.  I felt
that he was no longer what he once had been, and, I felt that he had lost
focus.  Frankly, as a blind conservative, I find myself very much offended
by what Limbaugh 
 says here because what we have is a fundamental lack of the will to
understand our point of view.  To put it bluntly, he's going for
sensationalism and not much if anything else.  Be that as it may, words mean
things.  The way people use words also means things.  I cannot help but
wonder how this effects other blind conservatives; but, that subject matter,
I forbear to enter.  Doubtless, blind people on the other side of the isle,
(so to speak) are wondering why, in the face of Limbaugh's tirade, we can
still feel as we do.  I will not discuss this except to say that we who are
blind conservatives do not need Limbaugh to tell us what to think.  I feel
as I do and think as I do and have done so long before I ever heard Limbaugh
for the first time.  Sadly, this recent event more than confirms something I
have long thought.  But, that is a subject which does not directly touch the
blindness factors, and so, I will leave it to another group or time.


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!

E-Mail:
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On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Michael Barber wrote:

> Check out the following link.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtR_yHDVAQ8&feature=related
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