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or it's tiresome because it's offensive. Depends on your angle of approach, I would imagine.
As for the Limbaugh people, I suspect they are more or less intellectually lazy -- he gives them, in an entertaining way, bite-sized nuggets to confirm their existing sentiments. It saves them having to do some work to think things through. In the final analysis the joke is on them because he really is an entertainer first and everything else second. He actually was kinda funny the couple of times I listened to him. But I sure wouldn't look to him or any other talk show host for reasoned, well-developed discourse.
There's plenty of intellectual laziness around on all sides, it's just that on the left it doesn't mainly come from talk radio, it comes from other sources. Again, a lot of this depends on where you look at what you're attuned to.
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