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10.31.06 @ 12:01AM

SMACKDOWN
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Borking Rush:

Another terrific piece. Excellent!
-- Ken McAdams

Many of the points in your piece are true, but the thing that got Rush in trouble is being ill informed about Parkinson's Disease and the calls he took from equally uninformed persons to back up his ignorance.

I too am a conservative baby boomer, also a Vietnam vet and the husband of a wonderful woman who suffers with "young onset" Parkinson's. Same as Fox. Rush did not know that Michael J. Fox was showing the effects of his medication (dyskinesia) and not the disease in those commercials. And one of his callers, purporting to be a nurse, said the Muhammed Ali was an example of a person on Parkinson's medication. Wrong!

Ali does not take any medication for religious reasons. He is what Parkinson's actually looks like. When most people take a medication it works to alleviate symptoms for a specific period of time.

Not so for Parkinson's sufferers.

Sinemet (the primary drug for Parkinson's) works like a sine wave. Sometimes too little, sometimes too much (dyskinesia) and sometimes not at all. It is very unpredictable. It usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour to start working and then the effect may last for 10 minutes or up to 3 hours. From day to day and dose to dose there is no consistency.
-- Mike Myhrvold

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the use of Michael J. Fox in the stem cell commercial is simply another example of what Ann Coulter pointed out in her book; that Democrats use people who are "victims" to state the party's position on an issue, and then scream if someone takes issue with their stand because of their "victimhood."
-- L. McClure

The question that I have of Jeffrey Lord and his theory of "Borking" which he discussed in "Borking Rush," is this: Was Harriet Miers borked, and if so, by whom?
-- Dick Woodruff
Arlington, Virginia

With all due respect to the author of The Borking Rebellion, I suggest Mr. Lord may be standing a bit too close to the problem to appreciate its full dimensions. He states "[t]he War of the Boomers is heating up" when in fact what is happening is the long awaited meltdown of the archetypical prototype of his generation, the Cry Baby Boomer.

That said, Mr. Lord is certainly correct to believe that technical members of the baby boom generation, like Messrs. Limbaugh and Bush (who have not merely rejected the phony, pretentious, self-aggrandizing drivel churned out by their Cry Baby Boom contemporaries, but have ridiculed it) have driven the cry babies bonkers. Unlike the hardworking, patriotic, modest, courageous members of this and other generations (i.e., the normal people, the ADULTS), Cry Baby Boomers demand to be treated with the sort of reverence accorded to the burning bush, their every whim instantly gratified and thus take themselves VERY seriously. In short these pompous, emotionally retarded know it alls offer up a deliciously target rich environment to those like Mr. Limbaugh whose true medium is the rapier witted, fast paced, often knee slapping application of reductio ad absurdum... "illustrating the absurd by being absurd" as he often puts it. He absolutely DELIGHTS in taking calls from wounded Cry Baby Boomers who sound as if they have so many Limbaugh harpoons in them as to resemble a porcupine. El Rushbo is invariably polite, cheerful and solicitous in the way he invites these pitiful creatures to self-destruct on air... an offer they quickly discover they can't refuse. Even the legendary if fictional olive oil importer, Vito ("Don") Corleone, would admire the adroit swordsmanship of America's Truth Detector as he brings this offer into play.

George W. Bush, very much like another wartime president (FDR), is condemned as a traitor to his class, in this case precisely because he HAS class. In distancing himself from the nonstop vulgarities of prototypical Cry Baby Boom degenerates like, say, Slick Willie, Mr. Bush is correctly perceived as a direct and very personal rebuke to these spoiled brats and their everlasting sense of ENTITLEMENT.

And as if to rub salt into this wound are the consequences flowing from 9/11: a grateful nation suddenly learned that there has arisen from the ashes of ground zero, phoenix-like, the very qualities of character, courage, self sacrifice, compassion, honor, nobility and heroism of the great WWII generation -- qualities that skipped over the vast majority of their privileged, pampered, precious, post war children -- that have landed squarely amidst the ranks of their grandchildren and even great grandchildren. These are the magnificent young troops of the ALL VOLUNTEER FORCE -- and those who support those troops -- whom George W. Bush has sent into harm's way to defend our Freedom by taking our fight into the teeth of the terrorists.

In short America is in the process of SURVIVING the Cry Baby Boomers' bitter and sustained assault on the values of their parents (whom they bitterly resent), a counter culture assault that has consumed the last four decades.

No wonder the wilting flower children are in such a snit.

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