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

[David Andrews]

Rush Limbaugh -- like many talk show hosts, "paints with a pretty 
broad brush."  It is not in his interest to draw fine 
distinctions.  He is an entertainer, appealing to the conservative 
masses, we are a small minority -- harping on what a small minority 
is a reoccurring theme of his.

To me, part of the problem with the Republican Party is that they 
have allowed him to become a pseudo-spokesman for them.

Dave

At 06:52 PM 8/12/2010, you wrote:
>What I found rather odd about it was that the commentary on kindle and the
>nfb didn't seem to be related to the issue of the Black Panthers and the
>Justice Department.  I know about both issues but don't see the
>relationship.  And, significantly, he never explains it.  He never says, "so
>you see that a justice department that excludes book reader tests would
>obviously be against white people."
>So, my conclusion is that he's reaching and counting on the fact that he has
>an audience not particularly familiar with logic or straight line thinking.
>So, the question is, do we make some political hay out of this which is what
>he wants?  Or, do we ignore him as being not on track.
>My view is that we go after him because in a media fight we can probably
>win.
>But....
>What do you all think?
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:44 PM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talking
>aboutblind justice
>
>I interpreted his diatribe as calling Obama's people bigoted morons, not
>NFB.
>
>Mike Freeman
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:23, Ray Foret Jr <rforetjr at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > Skype Name:
> > barefootedray
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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!!!

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