Clearly, many of us, in spite of our belief in the freedom of speech, want never-the-less to hold people responsible for what they say. Sticks and stones will break my bones, and words will hurt my feelings.

When you study communication, you learn how the locus of communication lies somewhere between between the talker and the listener. A poor communicator will make the listener work hard to understand what is being said. An excellent communicator will phrase the message to fit nicely and easily into the overall knowledge schema of the listener. Probably, good communications puts the locus of communication right between the talker and the listener. I make an effort to tell you what I think. You make an effort to understand what I am trying to tell you. Together we communication.

The recent effort by the Far Left seats in Congress to deliver a public flogging of entertainer/commentator Rush Limbaugh for what he said recently in reference to the Military is simply an embarrassment to communication and the interpretation of the spoken word. These are people who literally talk their way into (and out of) their jobs. Shame on them. They should know better.

Clearly, anyone who believes that Limbaugh was referring to anyone other than individuals who claim to be what they are not is either incapable of understanding the spoken word, unable to understand the spoken word without filtering it through a mental screen of biases and prejudices, or flat out trying to deceive others into believing something that is untrue. Shame on them. They should know better.

In the US today, perception has become everything. Facts, the underlying elements of truth, are irrelevant. Primary research is spun. Investigative reporters no longer investigate events, they investigate and report on one another. What we are presented as the truth is nothing more than rumor, gossip and supposition.

I have my truth. You have your truth. And it matters not a bit that, like matter and anti-matter, both our truths can not exist at the same time in the same place in the same world. 

For members of Congress to try so blatantly to distrort the preceptions of the American People while endeavoring to lynch a private citizen is terrible. Truth, along with Rush Limbaugh, is being dragged down the halls of Congress to a gallows being contructed of lies. 

Do you understand what I am trying to tell you?