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9.20.06 @ 12:01AM

EMMY FOR RUSH
Re: William Tucker's Liberals Find Their Groove:

In William Tucker's article he asks the reader to recall how "poorly" Rush Limbaugh's television show did. I loved his show. The two best things that Rush had on his TV show were (1) The complete version of the notorious Rodney King police beating video that showed King leaping from his prone position on the ground and running at L.A. police officers. 2 - The video of Bill Clinton leaving Ron Brown's funeral, laughing and smiling - until he spies the video camera pointing in his direction, at which time he instantly transmogrifies his face into a faux mask of unparalleled grief. An all-time classic of phoniness exposed.

But then there's also the video of Bill and Hillary "dancing" on the beach in the run-up to the Monica Lewinsky debacle- 'cause they're so in love, don'tcha know?

And there was also Bill Clinton "Finding" six or eight stones on an otherwise barren Omaha beach in Normandy and arranging them into a cross.

Okay, there was also Bill Clinton "Happening Upon" a fallen American flag at a military cemetery and placing it back upright.

Wow. There were sure a lot of video clips of Bill and Hill and their phoniness. I kinda miss his show. Are you listening, Rush? I mean, of course he actually can't really "listen" because of his deafness - but he has those implants in his head... Okay, I'll shut up
now.
-- Bryan Frymire
Louisville, Kentucky

Although I agree with virtually everything in Mr. Tucker's article, he is mistaken when he says that Rush Limbaugh's TV show never did very well. It won good ratings, for a 30 minute syndicated show, that only got better over time. This was in spite of the fact that the show was usually buried in a late night slot. This was also pre-TiVo. He quit doing the show because of time constraints and his dislike of the format. It wasn't as spontaneous as radio and did not showcase his strengths. One of which is knowing his own strengths.

Rush gets slimed enough from the left, I just wanted to make sure the facts were correct when he is referenced by his "sympaticos.".

And yes, the electric car died because there was no market for such an inferior product. Ironically, that's exactly why Socialism will fail. There is no market for such an inferior product.
-- David Cowling
Dallas, Texas

"Significantly, all of these people were leasing their EV1s. None actually bought them."

This was due to the fact that the EV1 was never available for sale, only lease. The reason was that the manufacturer did not want to maintain repair parts for seven years like they would have to if the cars were sold.
-- unsigned

The author pretty much missed the whole point, the fact that a whole lot of electricity is used to charge these things; plug into the grid and you're using fossil fuels, hence polluting. Evil people!

And, figure that the converting from one fuel to another loses about 15 percent efficiency?

The hydrogen power also requires beaucoup electricity to turn the water into useable power, right?

And let's not get into any discussion about the weak, under-strength ethanol.

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