Pain (2014)
“Like many tough-talking conservatives, Schlessinger singled out for special abuse four words Clinton had uttered during the 1992 campaign: “I feel your pain.” The phrase became a frequent object of scorn for those who doubted the liberal’s ability to feel another’s pain and who (in the name of conservatism) held an opposing political worldview. Schlessinger responded caustically to Clinton: “I’m not here to deal in feelings. ‘I feel your pain’ is bullshit.” Limbaugh, who routinely praised the v...irtues of the individual and of the free market and decried the malfeasance of government, championed himself as a moral force against Clinton’s liberalism. In 1996, Limbaugh’s television program showed footage of Clinton leaving a memorial for his commerce secretary, Ron Brown, to illustrate liberal deception. The footage showed the president first laughing until, when he saw the camera, he became somber and even wiped away a tear. To the derisive laughter of his followers, Limbaugh warned, “This is the best illustration of the fake and phony characteristics of this man, the disingenuousness of him, and this says it better than most.”MoreLess
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