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4 October 2003

"Plainly Wrong"

How would Rush Limbaugh reconcile these two statements made on his radio show?

October 3, 2003, he says that presidential candidates who called for him to be fired from ESPN, after he made racially tinged comments, violated his first amendment rights:

These are people who, if they were to be elected, would swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. They'd be the nation's chief this, chief that, chief executive, and here they are in total defiance of the Constitution, demanding that a company fire somebody. The Constitution says government can't do that. That's really how besmirched the document has become.
[Somehow comments by a candidate are equivalent to a legislature passing a law.]

You know, I'm fortunate; I didn't need the ESPN job.... But still, if I lose it, I lose it. I can afford to. A lot of people can't. So a lot of people don't tell you what they really think.... Fine, if that's what everybody wants. But there are times such as during political campaigns. Political campaigns, the world of politics, that's how we manage the affairs that determine our future. This is where we all get together and determine what we as a people are going to be governed by, who we're going to be governed by, and how, and what we're going to be supporting....

So, I mean, there are some bad aspects of this above and beyond just the fact that it's plainly wrong to want to punish somebody for an opinion you don't agree with.

July 9, 2003, he said this about the Dixie Chicks who had recently spoken against President George Bush and whose songs were being pulled by offended radio station managers:

The Dixie Chicks have no right to be heard. Nobody does.... You can go buy the freaking CD and listen to it at home without even needing a radio station! You can even download them on the Internet!

Likewise, I suppose even though Limbaugh has resigned from ESPN, you can still hear his 3-hour show 5 days a week on 600 "freaking" radio stations across the country.

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