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Media watch; Silence is the sound of what pundits truly know.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010316
Author:Black, Eric

With apologies to Jonathan Swift, here's A Modest Proposal:

People who don't know what they're talking about can't be restrained from talking, but what if they were merely required to acknowledge that they don't know what they're talking about?

The notion was inspired by a highly edifying exchange last week on Rush Limbaugh's program. A caller was ripping Rush for being insufficiently angry that the big cigars in the Republican Party put Dick Cheney on the ticket to give the impression that George W. Bush would have adult supervision but failed to tell her that Cheney's ...

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