Challenge? Of what challenge do you speak?

An editorial column in yesterday’s LA Times by Andrew Klavan puts the Limbaugh Challenge right on the front stoop of one of the most liberal newspapers in the nation. That challenge..

Take the Limbaugh Challenge

Liberals who hate Rush Limbaugh — why don’t you actually listen to his show before bashing him?

If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.

Oh no, you haven’t. Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”

Most likely what they’ve heard is the snarling spittle-flecked responses from Rush’s detractors (including White House Obama cabinet members, and similar left-wingers who’ve taken their talking points from media voices. Oh, and perhaps from some so-called ‘moderate’ Republicans (David Frum, Kathleen Parker and others infected with the Republirhinovirus) come to mind. Oh, and the latest lefty darling, that bimbo Meghan McCain (for whom I had this advice: “If you really love this country, then join the service, like your father did. Earn some honor; garner some respect. Because now you have neither.” Harrumph).

Back to that LAT column (getting close to the best part ):

By lifting some typically Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context, the distortion gang knows full well it can get you to widen your eyes and open your mouth in the universal sign of Liberal Outrage. Your scrawny chest swelling with a warm sense of completely unearned righteousness, you will turn to your second spouse and say, “I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m tolerant of a wide range of differing views — but this goes too far!”

There is more untruthfulness in that statement than in a speech by President Obama. Even the commas are self-deceiving. You’re not a moderate or you wouldn’t be reading this newspaper. You’re not tolerant of a wide range of views; you are tolerant of a narrow spectrum of variations on your views. And, whatever you claim, you still haven’t listened to Rush Limbaugh.

Which leads to a question: Why not? I mean, come on, the guy’s one of the figures of the age. Aren’t you even curious? I listen to all your guys: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, The Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker — I check out the whole left-wing hallelujah chorus. Why are you afraid to spend a couple of hours listening to Limbaugh’s show and seriously considering if and why you disagree with him?

That’s a question every liberal will have to answer for herself. But this, now, this answer from Andrew Klavan is worth bolding and offsetting and, really, putting on it’s own pedestal. Ready to have your lefty head asplode? Now, again, why do liberals not listen to Rush Limbaugh?

Now let me tell you the real answer: You’re a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward. You’re terrified of finding out he makes more sense than you do.

(Yes, emboldenings are mine. To make sure you see it.)

This, printed in yesterday’s LA Times.

I wonder how many lib’ruls are picketing the joint this morning? Calling and canceling their subscriptions? Let’s hope quite a few.

Occasionally, the MSM gets something right. Rarely so, now, but when they do, I’ll be the first (well, second: you didn’t think I’d read the LA Times, now did you? ) to acknowledge it.