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’nuff said:
People like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and the eternally puzzling Glenn Beck pile up tens of millions of dollars by flouting those rules every day.
Teaching children tolerance in modern America is like trying to teach an inner city kid he shouldn’t aspire to be a pimp: If the only successes he’s ever seen are people doing the opposite of what Mom and Dad preach, who’s he going to believe?
Here come the e-mails: “Why single out conservatives? Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are just as bad.”
Fair enough — but there’s still a difference: Taken as a whole, the conservative screamers are either lying or shockingly, incomprehensibly wrong. As a result, their lockstep followers are making decisions based on beliefs that don’t pass the laugh test.
