[nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talkingaboutblind justice

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I agree with that assessment.  I think he was using what the NFB did to 
attack the Justice Department and the Black Panthers.
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From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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talkingaboutblind justice


>I interpreted his diatribe as calling Obama's people bigoted morons, not 
>NFB.
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> Mike Freeman
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> On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:23, Ray Foret Jr <rforetjr at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Oh no I won't.  I was offended that he called us a bunch of "bigoted 
>> morons".  I was offended that he, and too many of his kind, do not seem 
>> to want to understand the NFB position on this matter.  I could ask why 
>> you decide now to be so ugly about this; but, I will refrain.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>
>> A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!
>>
>> E-Mail:
>> rforetjr at comcast dot net
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>> barefootedray
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>> On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:03 PM, John Heim wrote:
>>
>>> Your disappointment with Rush Limbaugh aside, what's wrong with what he 
>>> said?I mean, specifically, where do you disagree with his comments? 
>>> Because I don't think you can disagree with him without trampling on 
>>> several sacred cows of the conservative point of view.
>>>
>>> Are you in favor of the Justice Department telling Amazon how to run 
>>> their business? If you don't like it that Case-Western University is 
>>> giving out kindles, go somewhere else. Go to UCLA or the University of 
>>> Wisconsin. Or go to Case-Western and opt out of the kindle program. 
>>> Where is it written that government is responsible for making sure that 
>>> everything is fair? I don't remember seeing that in the Constitution. 
>>> If the kindle isn't accessible, why don't you invent your own 
>>> kindle-like device that is accessible. Amazon didn't exist 15 years ago. 
>>> They built that business up from nothing. If accessibility is so 
>>> important, why don't you get out there and build your own Amazon that is 
>>> 100% accessible and put Amazon out of business? Otherwise, stop holding 
>>> everybody else back just so you can make it in this world. Or are you 
>>> one of those guys who thinks everybody has to win? You think that if 
>>> Little Johnny comes in 87th he should get a pat on the back, told he did 
>>> a good job,
>>  and get handed an 87th place medal he can have framed and put above the 
>> fireplace?
>>>
>>> Boy, I'd better be careful here. Next thing I know you'll change your 
>>> mind and side with Limbaugh after all.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
>>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:15 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talking 
>>> aboutblind justice
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>>>
>>>> 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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