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Just to show everyone here, especially those who were born after the 1960's, a little funny history about uncivil discourse and how things never change.

A picture showing a sampling of some buttons personally collected in the mid-1960's. You'll notice that even the radical lefties hated LBJ, a Democratic President, all because of the Vietnam War. But the Joe Pyne button statement came about because he liked to call all his radio callers and guests back then \"stupid\" or \"jerks\". So many lefties started up the cry: \"Send Joe Pyne to College\" in response. The other buttons are typical of the sixties counterculture movements:



And a little background on Joe Pyne:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 96,00.html

Today we have his successor in radio, Michael Savage, who has said that Pyne was his idol. So both were born from the same ideological cloth with the same recycled shtick. Nothing changes, only the faces. The gap will forever remain wide.

So like one one on the is left saying Palin is stupid. How the left saying the whole population in America is stupid.

\"You know, they're talking about 60 votes they need,\" Maher said. \"Forget this stuff. You can't get Americans to agree on anything. Sixty-percent? Sixty-percent of people don't believe in evolution in this country. He just needs to drag them to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Just drag them to this.\"

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/ ... z1BcmL1jNE

You disagree ?

I think Pyne only called those who disagreed with him \"stupid\", and most of those who disagreed with him happened to be liberals or leftie fringe types. He also tended to select callers that he knew he could easily get into heated arguments with just to bolster his ratings, and that was the whole point of being a shock jock. But he didn't always win his little war of words and insults. Frank Zappa and Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, both managed to nail Pyne's hide to the wall. But alas, he couldn't be all bad. He generally supported labor unions and was against racial discrimination.

Go Gargle With Razor Blades

As for Maher, I'm afraid I disagree with him. There may be a few stupid or lazy Americans, but many of us see Obama's Health Care Bill as hashed effort just trying to put a small bandage over an arterial knife wound. But you should note that slightly more Americans now support Obamacare than before the midterms. Maybe many are now getting more desperate for ANY solution to the problem. Either that or they're finally figuring out some of the bill's good points. But a wart with a bandaid over it is still a wart.

http://www.gallup.com/tag/Healthcare.aspx

Frank Zappa and Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, both managed to nail Pyne's hide to the wall

LOL,

http://www.tvparty.com/empyne.html
He would often start out an interview with an insult to knock his targets off-guard and get them flustered. One of the most famous tales about The Joe Pyne Show involved the wooden leg he earned from service in WWII.

An exchange between Joe and musician Frank Zappa went like this:
Pyne: \"So I guess your long hair makes you a woman.\"
Zappa: \"So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table!\"