Ed Huntress wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:38:57 -0500, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
scrawled the following:


"Wes" wrote in message
I hope not. I do wonder why seriously liberal commentary on other
than NPR doesn't seem
to exist though.

There is some entertaining stuff on TV now, on MSNBC. Keith
Olbermann ("Countdown") can be pretty brutal, and Rachel Maddow is
very good with a sharp scalpal. g

I heard one Olberman rant on the Shrub which had me rolling.


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We could get into a discussion about it, based on audience-study
data, but you wouldn't like it. d8-) You may be surprised to know
that Limbaugh's approval rating is very low according to nationwide
surveys -- just slightly
higher than that of George Bush (based on a Rasmussen study
conducted last year, and I think there was at least one other
recent study that had similar
results). He has a large enough audience to pull something like 13.5
million
listeners/week (that's what they call the "cume" in radio
advertising speak:
the number of people who tuned into radio at least once and at
least for five minutes in an average week) , but that's actually a
smallish percentage
of voting-age Americans. They're hard core but, by themselves, they
can't win an election.

I know a lot of them. Or did in CA.



Congress may not provide oversight during his term but a lot of
the citizens will paying
attention.

Of course. And they should. He's not likely to jump on the old
liberal chestnuts but he'll need popular support to keep the libs
under control.

I sure hope so. The recent thing I heard is that the questionaire
for prospective members
of his administration wants to know about firearms ownership. Why?

I don't know. I didn't hear it. Where did you hear it?

My neighbor (who watches the Washington Report or somesuch every
morning and Lou Dobbs every evening) mentioned that Obama had
something like a SEVENTY FIVE PAGE employment questionnaire for
everyone to sign. I can't _wait_ to see a copy of it online
somewhere. There are sure to be some yummy questions asked, wot?

It's 7 pages. g I just got a missive from the NRA that analyzes the
gun question like a literary exegesis, but which comes to no
conclusion except they don't like Obama asking questions about guns.

All of the questions are fairly intrusive and have raised some
eyebrows. In the case of the gun question, it looks like they're
trying to ferret out people who have committed a crime with a gun or
who are living in a state of gun crime, which is something like a
state of sin.

It's something to keep an eye on but the gun ain't smoking yet.

This article explains it but it isn't the full text of the
questionnai


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us...onnaire&st=cse

This is a question added at the specific request of the Secret Service Ed.
They are looking for unregistered guns that might be used to - well, what do
you think.......

You hit it right on the head he

"looks like they're trying to ferret out people who have committed a crime
with a gun or who are living in a state of gun crime"

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Dick