I'm sorry. You did not understand my post. Limbaugh is wrong about Liberals. Limbaugh tells you what you want to hear about Liberals and you lap it up with a spoon. Limbaugh takes the darkest possible rationale and expands upon it to make it more palatable for you to believe.
If I said Conservatives are motivated by greed, lust for capital and ignorant of all the harm they leave in their wake while amassing more and more riches, I would be fear mongering. It would be a palatable message for anyone who is Liberal and unwilling to unearth the truth for themselves. But, by your own definition of fear mongering, I would be inserting a dishonest toxic element into a concept or issue or news item in order to sway public opinion.
So your definition of fear mongering is being wrong?
Or you say (said earlier) that fear mongering is Limbaugh saying what liberal are motivated by. Here you are saying what I want to hear and what I lap up with a spoon. Are you fear mongering when you tell me what you think about me that way? Or are you simply expressing your opinion of me?
It would be fear mongering to tell untruths about conservatives in order to persuade people to fear them or create a distrust in them. But if you believe your definition of conservatives is accurate and that people should distrust them, is that fear mongering?
So again, if Limbaugh is wrong about liberals but believes he is right, is he fear mongering? If Limbaugh is right about liberals and tells it like it is, is he fear mongering?
I think you so far have been framing everything or everybody you don't like as fear mongering.
Everything you don't like or disagree with, however, is not fear mongering, Fear mongering is framing your argument in a way to dishonestly generate fear. It's like telling your kid that if he does that, Santa Clause won't come even though you know that's a lie. That's fear mongering. It's telling somebody if they touch something they will be poisoned or electrocuted when you know it isn't true. That's fear mongering.
Telling people an untruth about somebody or creating a false impression about somebody so that the person will be despised or distrusted or rejected is fear mongering.
Tell people an untruth about a philosophy or theory or action to generate alarm and opposition to it is fear mongering.
Telling the truth as you see it is NOT fear mongering.
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