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JHB

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3. Well, they've been well-trained to cater to red-meat-tossing bombastic blowhards

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:00 AM

Oct 2020

For the last 30 years, any Republican who said something like "Well, Rush doesn't know everything" or "Rush isn't all that important" was on Limbaugh's show within 48 hours trying out for the Olympic backpedaling team.

"Oh, no, Rush, I said nothing of the sort. The lying liberal media took my words out of context, just like they always do, just like you always say. I think you're a swell guy."

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Every Republican feared having a tweet mention their name. That's all it took. [View all] kpete Oct 2020 OP

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Well, they've been well-trained to cater to red-meat-tossing bombastic blowhards JHB Oct 2020 #3