The best story I’ve heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barack Obama’s comments about similarities between the recent housing crisis and the lead-up to the Great Depression (link goes to transcript). I imagine the comments were referring to the obvious similarities between those who obtained ridiculous sub-prime loans and those in the 1920s who bought stock they couldn’t afford on margin. However, Limbaugh decided that Obama’s comments were the result of a crazy “liberal education” - and even remarks how “lucky” he is that he didn’t graduate from college, thus allowing him to escape the perils of actual knowledge.
To prove his point, Rush says he did some Google searches for “Great Depression” and then proceeds to attack each of the results as liberal propaganda. Because we all know that college professors teach straight off of Google results pages. So my friend is listening and hears something rather striking… the name of one of our mutual colleagues - Paul Alexander Gusmorino (”The Third!” - I love the way Limbaugh says that).
Limbaugh found among the top results an essay written by Paul, entitled “The Main Causes of the Great Depression,” (link goes to essay). He quotes Paul’s essay and refutes each of its claims, dissecting them as if they were part of a Harvard professor’s lecture on the subject. He doesn’t pull any punches either. “Mr. Gusmorino, you better check Karl Marx and see if you plagiarized him in putting this piece together.”
Ouch. Those words would be harsh if they really were for a Harvard lecturer. But that’s not who wrote this essay. It was my friend who works as a Program Manager at Microsoft.
When he was in 10th grade.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
He’s called Rush because he loves that Big Pharma opiate rush that he gets from popping his pills.
Some conservative.
Follow the Pompous, Big Mouth Drug Addict, he is your Leader!
Rush is the Republican Rosie ODonnell.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Low blow, even for Rushy. I always knew he was an a**, but that just takes the cake…I thank my lucky stars that my early exposures to his radio show did not do any lasting damage to my psyche.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Limbaugh is an idiot and it often scares me that he has such
a large audience and millions of people listen to and believe
every word he says. You gotta love America and free speech
though.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I listened to the Rush Limbaugh show in question, and the point was that this is reflective of the revisionist history drivel that’s being taught in schools.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Trucker Tom is right. He was simply pointing out the revisionist history… and how Obama thinks like a Marxist.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Gosh, Trucker Tom and A Regular Guy are so bright, a little *too* bright if you catch my meaning.
They’re probably sock puppets for a crypto-Marxist terror cell.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Trucker / Guy -
Apparently the absurdity (and irony) of calling Obama a Marxist is lost on you. Seriously, Obama has more true conservative values (individual freedom and responsibility, fiscal responsibility, smaller government) than any Republican candidate in recent memory.
That said, you apparently missed the point of this post. I believe most of the rest will find humor in Limbaugh tearing apart the work of a 10th grade high school student on his live radio show.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The real problem is that anyone is listening to Rush in the first place. Please castigate them thoroughly.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
hi. you’re on the front page of digg.com. hope that’s ok with you, if not, well … tough. this is an awesome story and so indicative of the mentality of the dittoheads who listen to Rush. probably he gets the best ratings the more ignorant he is, otherwise, they’d make him have like, fact checkers and researchers and stuff.
cheers! great story.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
The essay doesn’t make any mention on it that it was written by a 10th grade student, so it’s open to any and all criticism.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Maybe Rush will google this comment…
“I wish all these fat bald fucks - Limbaugh, Rove - would go fight their own wars.”
May 16th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I like Thom Hartmann’s take on the Depression
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/theres-nothing-normal-_b_32532.html
May 16th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Then Rush is right because your friend, Paul Alexander Gusmorino III, was not writing from his own experience and personal observations of living through the Great Depression, but was writing from biased sources. This just proves Rush right. The sources are so biased that even 10th greaders can’t write an essay about the Great Depression without getting major facts wrong and drawing incorrect conclusions based on those “facts” because his teachers and the written sources are already too biased. Do you blame the 14-year olds in the LDS compound in Texas for getting pregnant or do you blame the adults around them who got them that way? Do you blame the 10th grader for getting his facts wrong or do you blame his teachers and sources around him? Rush is right yet again.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
welllllll…. The essay IS terrible. It treats “wealth” as a zero sum game and blames the great depression on the unequal distribution of it.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Conservative pundits are all the same, attack dogs of the right-wing belief system. I suspect that if we all ignored them, like internet trolls, they would go away.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
While I hold a low opinion of Rush, in fairness, that paper was damn well written for a 10th grader. While perhaps not a “Harvard lecturer”, I would have assumed such a paper to be written by a college student. I sure as hell never wrote anything with that many cited references when I was in the 10th grade.
One other comment “was not writing from his own experience and personal observations of living through the Great Depression, but was writing from biased sources” - as opposed to Rush’s personal observations from living through that time?
May 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Yeah, but your friend posted it on the internet. So that means it’s up for global criticism. And anyways, could you at least give a transcript of the actual interview? This is on the front page of Digg for crying out loud, and it doesn’t even say what Limbaugh’s argument was. Essentially you’re saying, ‘I heard some guy who heard that Limbaugh was insensitive to some kid who wrote an essay’. Now Diggers are going to love this. Anything anti-Rush or anti-OReilly goes straight to the front page, along with a slew of fat jokes and drug jokes (it used to be an interesting technology site). But the rest of us would like to decide for ourselves if what Rush said was offensive or not. It’s also crucial to letting people think for themselves, which is ironic since that is what Rush said your friend wasn’t doing.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Hey Conservatives! PLEASE, for the sake of all of us, do not go to college. Stay uneducated. After all, everything written in text books is liberal and you don’t want to poison those superior minds of yours.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
It’s perhaps telling that Trucker Tom and Regular Guy don’t offer any meaningful critique of the essay, other than that it’s “revisionist history.” Okay, big guy, what does that mean? Use your words and draw out the argument a little bit.
Beyond that, perhaps what Rush is also missing is that when one receives a college education, one learns that a paper isn’t written as an expository narrative of the Great Depression, it’s to advance a particular theory or idea for intellectual critique. I’m an Econ major at a university, and this is an interesting viewpoint on the Depression of which I hadn’t considered, one of many. I think most people will accept that credit played a role in the depression, as did protectionism, and re: necessity of credit vis a vis the distribution of wealth he raises an intriguing point.
It’s a well written paper, particularly for a 10th grader, and shouldn’t be critiqued for what it doesn’t contain, but rather on the basis of what it does. Do I think this is the only reason the Great Depression occurred? No, of course not. Is it food for thought nonetheless? Yes, certainly.
If you were an intelligent or at all educated Republican, perhaps you would be arguing the people who say that Keynesian policy exacerbated the depression. Read some Friedman, Lucas, Real Business Cycle theory.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Dave - the first link is the transcript. If you register, you can hear the audio as well.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am
If the facts were wrong then they are wrong regardless of who spoke them.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Well at least Rush was smart enough to use Google to search…
May 17th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Where’s the actual report?
May 17th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Patrick - it is linked in the third paragraph:
“The Main Causes of the Great Depression.”
http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
May 17th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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May 17th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I’m no Rush fan, but you Sir are a moron.
May 17th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Ok, who was the idiot that said that Obama is more conservative than most Republicans? Stop smoking Obama’s pipe. For those of you that listen to NPR that would be the new Lewinsky so to speak. Obama has the most liberal voting record than all Democrats in office right now.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Wow!Obama is for smaller government?
Proof please!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Rush is an idiot, but when it comes to your friend’s essay, he shows a keen grasp of the obvious.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Brandon, Obama is for *smaller* gov’t? How much smaller would gov’t get with Nationalized Healthcare? The only think he would make smaller is the military, and his motives for that are far from reducing the size of gov’t.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Brandon, as usual you are missing the point. Guess you are not the brightest when it comes to thinking things through. Let me suggest you look at facts, the logic, and then consider your feelings. That will help you become a better analyst and will help your ability to properly use logic. When you grow up maybe you will gain some wisdom and understanding and not just follow the crowd. Wow what a concept, become an independent thinker!
May 17th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Josh, between the actual costs of fighting two wars, and the costs of caring for all those vets when they return, the war is likely to cost $800B to $1T. Nationalized healthcare wouldn’t even cost us half that, and the people of this country would actually be getting something of value for the taxes they pay.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Those of you who dogmatically spout the ramblings of Rush should really consider your source: he resorts to fallacious attacks, and in reading the transcript, offers practically no evidence to support his points. He does comment that America is “great” but offers no evidence for such a claim. He presents as fact that “quite a few” of the subprime mortgages were purchased by speculators, without offering a shred of proof. What is “quite a few” anyway? Is it 10%, 50%, more, less?
Rush appeals to the dumbest elements of our society exactly because he forms poor arguments, and spouts jingoistic rhetoric. And then to brag that he’s a college dropout? Why not brag that you endangered your 10-year, $250M contract by illegally taking drugs which cause hearing loss?
Not everything Rush says is wrong: he could look outside and tell his listeners it’s daytime, and he’d be correct. But that hardly makes him right about anything else, especially when he’s too stupid to properly form a coherent and logical argument for his views. Money doesn’t make you smart, it just makes you rich. You can’t buy smart.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Looking over these comments, a lot of them complain over the “revisionist history” being poured into students’ heads. Revisionist history is nothing more than telling history from a perspective besides that of political elites. “Revisionist” makes it sound like the history is untrue, when, believe me, there are few verifiable truths in history. At any rate, that term of “revisionist” history has fallen out of disuse, and the only people who use it are those upset that women and black people actually have a past.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:47 am
“Rush is the Republican Rosie ODonnell”
Ohh my God, I think that is the best cut down I have ever, and I do mean EVER, heard! Hahaha, I’m “conservative” but don’t confuse that with “a follower of Rush”. Just as I rag Rosie and the far left “cut your arm off to spite your hand” politics, Rush is a whack job doing the same disservice on the right. I think of him as Bush’s personal cheer leader. Maybe he wears those small skirts and does intimate poses for Georgie puddie pie.
Oops, think I scarred myself with that last comment.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Were did the Sophomore get his information if not from his left wing school books. or his teacher.
What is the difference. If we can not teach history correctly why teach it at all.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Josh - I don’t want to get too far off-topic, since this post was really meant to just be a funny anecdote and to point out something very few were in a position to realize. That said, I’ll bite:
It is not hard to be for smaller government than what we have today under Bush. Spending is out of control. We have illegal wire tapping, Terry Schaivo nonsense, congressional hearings about *baseball*, government encroaching further on our individual freedoms, the federal government attempting to take away states’ rights (gay marriage amendment, NCLB, etc).
Healthcare is one of the few things that SHOULD be nationalized. The private sector has failed here, and for obvious reasons. The fact is, there should be no profit motive in healthcare - particularly not on the scale of the HMOs. My father is a physician, I’ve seen how these companies behave and how they treat people (and doctors), it’s just wrong.
Obama wants greater individual responsibility and less government interference. That’s exactly what I want. Read his book, listen to him speak. He doesn’t call for government censorship of video games and media - he calls on parents to take a more active role in their kids lives. He sees that the biggest problem with welfare isn’t a policy one, but rather the culture of dependence and lack of education, motivation, and inspiration. I don’t think he’s perfect, and I wouldn’t follow him as blindly as so many Limbaugh listeners follow his every hateful, ignorant word. But he is the best chance we’ve had in a long time to help put the US back on the right track.
Rick -
Thanks for coming to my site to insult me over a funny story, while contributing nothing to the story or to the related political discourse. Where would the web be without trolls?
May 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
JonEAppleseed - So the sources Paul cited, including the World Almanac, are liberally biased? You guys really are grasping at straws these days aren’t you.
Have you read those sources? Do you have some first-hand experience with the Great Depression to refute them? Rush certainly doesn’t.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am
@ Post #13 - ummmm and Rush IS speaking from his personal observations about the Great Depression? You’re implying that he either knows better or is the authority on non-biased information. People that spout his ideology get their information from biased sources as well. Sigh…I suppose all Rush fans think his words spew from the ass of God himself and therefore cannot be wrong…
May 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Even funnier than that story, is the Rush apologists posting here that don’t get the irony.
Critical thinking is completely lost on some people.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
You wouldn’t take your politics from Britney Spears, why are people still listening to this drug addicted fat slime?
May 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Watch for Rush to revise Bush’s legacy…..The wars were Democrats fault! Nevermind that the righties controlled ll three branches of the govt…the lefties came in a year ago and screwed it all up!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
If Rush was as smart as he thinks he is, he would of lived a better life. As it is, he has lots of money yes….. but he’s been unsuccessful at marriage twice and had a huge drug problem. Not exactly the track record of a successful well rounded individual.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
To the “dittoheads”: Maybe what you’re missing here is that Rush went on the air to attack “liberal theories” about the Depression and chose for his example not a well-known work, not a piece by one of Obama’s literary professors, but some random article that surfaced in his Google search. Are the assertions in this piece factually biased? Are they controversial among major historians? God only knows, because they weren’t written by any acknowledged authority. They were written by a tenth grader. To suggest that this “proves Rush’s point” is the height (depth?) of idiocy. Rush didn’t know who he was criticizing or what> he was criticizing, because he couldn’t be arsed to dig any deeper.
This reminds me when I channel surfed past the 700 Club one day when Pat Robertson and the crew were doing an “in-depth” critique of evolution, based on things Robertson had found in the “encyclopedia.” They scoffed at certain “obvious” absurdities in the theory. But they were sitting there criticizing LAMARCK’s theories, not DARWIN’s! (If you don’t know, Lamarck proposed a long-disproved idea that was a crude precursor to Darwin’s much more elegantly constructed and argued concepts.) These guys were “refuting” the wrong theory, and had no idea that they looked like complete buffoons to anyone who knew what they were talking about.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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May 17th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
“Revisionist” is another word like “appeaser” - it’s just a dog-whistle word to inflame right-wingers, but the ones slinging it a) don’t know what the word actually means, or b) if they do know, they deliberately misapply it. So they’re either stupid or dishonest, take your pick.
The recent clip where Chris “Tweety” Matthews took apart the raging wingnut who was calling Obama an “appeaser” like Neville Chamberlin in 1939 was hilarious. Matthews asked “so what did Chamberlain actually *do* in 1939?” The idiot didn’t even know, except to say, “he… APPEASED Hitler!” I even knew about the Munich meeting and the abandoning of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, which led him to take Poland too. I remembered that much from my History courses in *gasp* college (and high school, for that matter.)
But that dumbass slung it around on national cable TV and didn’t even bother to fookin’ look it up before going on! Because it doesn’t matter to them. It’s just a whistle-word.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
In Rush’s defense, if I had to think of 3 hours of stuff to talk about every day, I would, at some point, probably resort to picking off mediocre high school term papers off the internet and ranting about them.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Do people really still listen to Rush Limbaugh anymore? Amazing.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
another clown that couldn’t get any hits on his blog unless he uses the great one’s name.
pathetic
May 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Rush’s rebuttal of Gusmorino is short on facts, and his supporters on this thread have yet to post a *single* fact refuting what Gusmorino wrote. But also note that Rush completely misread Gusmorino:
“For an economy to function properly, total demand must equal total supply…. Essentially what happened in the 1920’s was that there was an oversupply of goods. It was not that the surplus products of industrialized society were not wanted, but rather that those whose needs were not satiated could not afford more, whereas the wealthy were satiated by spending only a small portion of their income.”
Rush read this as if Gusmorino assumed a zero-sum economy. When I was in *eighth* grade, I’m sure I would have understood the actual claim here: When there’s too much supply and not enough demand, then prices will drop, sometimes precipitously. It doesn’t take much knowledge of history to know that this is exactly what happened in the Great Depression.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Thanks Brandon.
To Tyro & the comments about filling 3 hours of airtime a day …
One of the problems with having 5-6-7 (who’s counting, right?) 24×7 cable “news” stations is that television news, as a content sector, does not employ enough reporters to fill that big of a news hole. THAT’s why we have “news” that’s merely screaming heads — news that isn’t news, it’s some sort of Roman gladiator-type entertainment. Mindless for the masses.
What Rush SHOULD have told his listeners is that many heads of Wall Street institutions and investors like Buffet have criticized the exotic loans (courtesy, Kevin Phillips) for, among other things, lack of transparency. Congress (with Presidential signature) relaxed the oversight rules so that we could get to a point where we have **reversed** many of the safeguards put in places AFTER the Depression.
Rush: “We are learning that quite a few of these people who are abandoning their homes never lived in them, they were speculators, got caught in a flip.”
NO, Rush - lenders were *competing* to give loans to people who had no incomes and no jobs — literally, no questions asked. That’s been documented.
The people who wrote the loans got a hefty fee; the people who then packaged the loans to investors who were thinking that the risk rate was N%, when that turned out to be an order of magnitude or so too low, got hefty fees — to the tune of $100K A Month! Just out of college.
GACK.
But Rush would probably say that this just means that I hate America.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I woder what grade the author earned on this essay?
May 17th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Though they tried, not one commenter, using logic or flame successfully refuted the specific point Brandon made: Rush made references to indicate that Gusmorino wrote from the ignorance gained via a liberal college education. Instead, this was a result of a geeky tenth grader gathering facts from multiple reference sources and distilling it to his own interpretation.
It is a deliberate evasion not to address the merits of Brandon’s point: Rush convicted all colleges on evidence that had nothing to do with any college. And pinned that on Obama because of his college education.
His evidence would be thrown out of any court as irrelevant. And the non-sequitur leap from a 10th grader’s essay to a well-educated man like Obama surpasses anything Evel Knievel hurdled in his career.
I don’t expect intellectual honesty from such evasive commenters. Brandon, have you checked to see if WordPress has a plugin that will grant you more logical and honest dittohead trolls?
May 17th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
This is also a great example of ‘The Google’ and our information society. The Google beparts wisdom and most consider it gospel. In our age of ubiquitous communication a friend of the author actually hears his name on the airwaves and breaks the story. What a time we live in!
May 18th, 2008 at 2:46 am
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May 18th, 2008 at 5:33 am
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May 18th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Facts tend to have a liberal bias. Only dumbasses listen to the “big fat doper”.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:54 am
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May 18th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Post 44(Steve D) makes a good point. Rush is the master of guilt by association.
Since the very beginning, Rush has taken the most outrageous people, opinions, actions, crimes, etc. and tossed it on a huge pile of sh*t that he calls “liberal.” Then he simply associates his opposition with said pile of sh*t.
Protester takes a dump in the street? Obviously all people opposed to the war are filthy hippies engaging in bio-terrorism.
I think I read somewhere that when limbaugh was buying drugs, he drove a Cadillac. We all know that African-Americans prefer Cadillacs… and most African-Americans are liberals… Can you really trust a man that drives a Cadillac? We know what kind of people drive Cadillacs.
May 18th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Just to let you know, his name is spelled “Barack,” not “Barak.”
May 18th, 2008 at 7:40 am
all you need to know about how smart limbaugh is is who he has supported and defended and apologized for for the last 12 years - the worst bunch of politicians in US history. the people that have dont absolutely nothing right for this country. and to think before the mid 90s I voted republican.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Who is this Rush Lumbaugh person? We don’t get him down here in Ajo.
Is he a DJ in Tucson or Phoenix?
May 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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May 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I checked out this website that Limbaugh refuted, and it would seem that there is no indication, other than that the paper has sources and is written in the same form as a school paper, that it was written by a 10th grader. While I have no doubt it was, this seems rather harsh. Besides, why have at least 64 comments on someone you hate so much?
May 18th, 2008 at 9:45 am
You are an idiot. It does not matter who or how old the person that wrote this was. The article accurately conveys the conventional wisdom of pinhead liberal economists all around the world. I had a d-bag professor who spent the entire year of economics class trying to prove that it was only possible to get out of the great depression by implementing socialist economic policies. You are an uneducated, nutless and whining socialist loser who does not understand free markets and capatalism.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Thanks Ben - I hadn’t even noticed the typo. It’s fixed =)
Eric - Thanks for coming to my site and engaging in ad hominem attacks, even though I made no claims about what caused the Great Depression anywhere on here. Calling me a “socialist” is especially ironic, since I hate big government.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am
[...] Rush Limbaugh, proud of the fact that he is a college dropout, illustrated the depth of research behind the right wing talking points. Yesterday, he went on a rant about Obama’s liberal university education leading him to misunderstand the real cause of the Great Depression. His evidence that Universities promote Marxist lies about the Depression? He googled Great Depression and found an article on-line that he proceeded to critique line-by-line. What he failed to realize was that a 10th grade high school student had written the article in 1996. The hilarious details are here. [...]
May 18th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Eric… you expect us to believe that you studied economics when you can’t spell capitalism? I would imagine that word would have come up a lot. You probably just sat there in class wasting your time and money. Considering your dislike for your professor, I would bet that you didn’t do too well in his class.
Anyway, can you provide more than name calling to back up your claims? What is a liberal economist? Could you even describe what that means? What qualifies you as an expert to talk about what is wrong or right? Considering the idea that you are a student, you are far from qualified to be an expert to refute economists from around the world. Can you demonstrate your understanding of free markets and “capatalism”… lol. Priceless… an economics student who can’t spell capitalism. Talk about uneducated… lol. Do you have any more buzzwords to share that your masters taught you?
May 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
For the record, American History textbooks HAVE contained revisionist history, traditionally. For instance, up until the last few decades they were openly apologetic of the pro-slavery stance of the South leading up to the Civil War. I encourage anyone who feels there is a liberal media bias to track down some actual high school textbooks at a used book store and read the amazing propaganda they contain. I mean: “Vietnam is important because it is the only war the US ever lost?” (actual quote from a US History texbook) What the hell is that? What about the War of 1812, for instance?
There is a bias in US History teaching materials, but it is actually pro-conservative, pro-nationalist, pro-jingoistic and pro-imperialist. It’s there because the publishers of high school textbooks have to be careful not to offend anyone (even the states that still have pro-segregationists); Texas has more school districts than any other state, so they are the target audience. Maybe there is a liberal bias in US History teachers, but that’s because history teachers don’t get paid enough to consider Republican tax policy to be a good idea.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Oh what people get up to with that Google thing. So, I’m wondering if anyone has told MouthnoBrain man that he was jousting with a 10th grader? Sorry, I haven’t read the long string of comments.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
funny. rush calls ANYONE on revisionist history? really?
and some fucknuts are buying it? really?
Oh, this is america. It always comes back to that.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Alright, first of all I dont know what ad hominim attacks are and I do not know how to spell. I am not a student, that was many years ago. I do, however, have a better understanding of economics than any human who is considering voting for inexperienced and ultra liberal socialist Barack Hussein Obamama. First of all, this post about how funny it is that Limbaugh was berating a tenth grader about his essay is intellectually dishonest, and also embarrassing. Limbaugh was not berating a tenth grader, but rather the conventional liberal wisdom which it contains. It actually strengthens Limbaugh’s argument as the brainwashed tenth grader that wrote this probably believes this nonsense. If you are not a socialist than you are very ignorant or misinformed because that is what Barack Obama is. The great depression happened because life sucks and free markets are not perfect. They are however the reason the US economy leads the entire world in production and standard of living.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Oh eric… Put the cool-aid down. That by the way was an Ad Hominim act. Which by the way means to attack the arguer and not the arguement. If you aren’t a student than you don’t understand economic, most econ students don’t understand economic. Your arguement is sufficiently vague enough to be obstensibly logical yet at the same time a complete non-sequiter, you’ll have to look that one up. He was attacking a 10th grader thinking he was a professor.
Oh yeah and I believe the U.S. Ranks 14th in standard of living… Hardly a place for a leader eh? Than again I drink a different brand of punch.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
oh, and for reference? 17th.
http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/DEMOCRACY_TABLE_2007_v3.pdf
May 19th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Fixd yr post.
# yo Says:
May 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
another one that couldn’t get any hits on his blog unless he uses the pathetic great clown’s name.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:24 am
“yo” -
So I’m not supposed to tell funny stories from my life if they involve the “great clown?” Thanks for that helpful insight. My site was doing just fine before this post, but I appreciate your concern.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Rush has always been an blithering idiot. I grew up a few miles south of Cape G, the blowhards boyhood home, and was in the same Boy Scout Council district as the fat butt. He was always the butt of lots of jokes and abuse because he was a know it all obese wussy who was always gonna have his grandfather’s law firm sue the teasers. He grew into a real nut.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I happened to be listening to the show in question and the point is still valid; this professor quoted a report by a tenth grader. that would be sad enough, but isn’t it sadder still that the tenth grader wrote it in the first place?
they’re not really teaching this liberal dribble are they?
well, I guess someone has to flip the burgers and dig the ditches.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
“well, I guess someone has to flip the burgers and dig the ditches.”
Yep, that would be adherents of Intelligent Design.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am
“well, I guess someone has to flip the burgers and dig the ditches.”
Ha! That’s what the Dittoheads are for.