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lican party's most loyal Oaks, picked up on the Jumbotron Lie and gave it a little more pizzazz:
CONWAY: The Star Tribune covers the fact that the people who were in attendance
were told by screen when to cheer and when to jeer, and they were told to cheer
when the Clintons and Ted Kennedy were displayed, and they were told to jeer
when Trent Lott and Rod Grams, former senator of Minnesota who lost in 2000,
were displayed.
The Republican Lie Machine was whirring up to speed.
Driving to the airport, I happened to tune in to the Excellence in Broadcasting network.
I don't normally listen to Rush Limbaugh-I felt I'd paid my dues while researching
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot—but I'd made a little bet with myself that I'd hear at least
three lies before I reached the airport.
I won the bet, and I had to give myself ten bucks.
Almost the entire three-hour show was about the memorial. The first lie was sort of an
overarching, background lie. Rush claimed to be absolutely "distraught" about the "appalling"
spec tacle he had witnessed the night before. He was "depressed," "embarrassed," and "feeling
shame." He was "near speechless" because the whole thing had been "a giant setup."
Wellstone (whom Rush used to refer to as Senator Welfare) had been used for "disgusting"
and "ghoulish" political ends. The whole thing had "basically cheapened Wellstone's life."
Limbaugh's entire three-hour show was based on his faked sorrow about the total absence of
decency on the left.
Limbaugh's big lie, lie number two, was that this was all a calculated plot by the national
Democratic Party to win a Senate election. "They pulled a fast one over everybody,"
Limbaugh blustered, pulling a fast one over his audience. "This was not a memorial service
for Paul Wellstone, it was not. And that's to me what's so sad about it." Limbaugh was taking
the high road, mourning Wellstone's death, just like Coleman. And the Democrats were a
bunch of craven political opportunists.
A Democrat called in and asked if maybe there was a note of jealousy that twenty
thousand people had come to the memorial.
"Oh, come on," Rush responded dismissively. "They were bused in by the AFL-CIO.
I haven't even talked about the audience. Everybody knows it was a planted audience."