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Limbaugh and Fox News are the lunatic fringe?
:::If someone parrots the climate change rants of Monckton and Limbaugh? Then yeah, I’d say they subscribe to the lunatic fringe. Not all conservatives hold such views. The original version of this article made a bunch of literally stupid claims. The Volt is a fashion accessory, it is subsidized with factory rebates, emits harmful radiation, likely to electrocute passengers in a crash, the engine is not hooked up to the wheels, liberals and homosexuals have limited knowledge of automobiles, etc. If a person took the earlier versions of this article as gospel, they’d look rather silly regurgitating their ''facts'' to a knowledgeable Volt owner. Looks like I’m actually trying to make conservatives ''look more informed''.
:::If someone parrots the climate change rants of Monckton and Limbaugh? Then yeah, I’d say they subscribe to the lunatic fringe. Not all conservatives hold such views. The original version of this article made a bunch of literally stupid claims. The Volt is a fashion accessory, it is subsidized with factory rebates, emits harmful radiation, likely to electrocute passengers in a crash, the engine is not hooked up to the wheels, liberals and homosexuals have limited knowledge of automobiles, etc. If a person took the earlier versions of this article as gospel, they’d look rather silly regurgitating their ''facts'' to a knowledgeable Volt owner. Looks like I’m actually trying to make conservatives ''look more informed''.
--[[User:NormaN|NormaN]] 00:36, 1 February 2014 (EST)
--[[User:NormaN|NormaN]] 00:36, 1 February 2014 (EST)
::::So Limbaugh and Fox News are the lunatic fringe, but of course you don't have you anything against the conservatives who agree with you. Who would they be, anyway? If I wanted to know what mainstream conservative opinion was on a given issue, I'd check ''The American Spectator'' ("[http://spectator.org/articles/35953/volt-sleeps-fishes Volt sleeps with the fishes]"), ''The Weekly Standard'' ("[http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/chevy-volt-still-not-selling_581956.html Chevy Volt: Still Not Selling]"), ''National Review'' ("[http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/242092/gm-volt-electric-lemon-greg-pollowitz The GM Volt Is an ‘Electric Lemon’]"), or ''Human Events'' ("[http://www.humanevents.com/2012/01/07/obama-blew-more-money-on-chevy-volt-than-entire-gdp-of-djibouti/ Obama blew more money on the Chevy Volt than entire GDP of Djibouti]"). These are all to the right of Fox News, so I assume they'd be extradoubleplus lunatic in your book. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] 01:41, 1 February 2014 (EST)
==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
The Conservative News and Views article is a travesty of journalism filled with numerous faults and should not be featured under ''Further reading''.
The Conservative News and Views article is a travesty of journalism filled with numerous faults and should not be featured under ''Further reading''.