I know. Pointing this out is unhelpful and possibly paranoid and conspiratorial, and anyway, if Limbaugh would just learn to say things in a way that the left can’t take him out of context, he wouldn’t run into these problems to begin with. So really, if you think about it, it’s mostly his fault. For not being more careful with what he says. Like, for instance, Tony Snow was. And Bill Bennett. And so on.
Hell, maybe it’s time we ditched him and went with someone less controversial. Like, say, a Mike Huckabee. Or maybe a lawyer very finely attuned to what can and can’t be interpreted incorrectly by some group of reasonable listeners.
It’s prudent. It’s collegial. And it’s the kind of thing that, because it’s not so confrontational, won’t scare away the moderates and independents we so desperately need to regain control of Congress.
— Which, let’s face it, is more important than principles. Because principles don’t build soccer fields in our districts, and “purity” never named an airport after a politician who managed to get and keep himself elected over a series of years.
(h/t sdferr)
The right is going to have a heck of a PR problem if Obamacare is struck down.
Rush details some of the response:
Did you see that Cumulus hopes to do just that?
Yeah, that’ll work.
Huckabee.
Blech.
It’s like George Dubya and Pat Robertson had a baby.
The world has had quite enough “compassionate conservatism”, thank you.
Every day when I listen to Rush, the first thing I think is why can’t he be more like a Republican and reach across the aisle and work with his Democrat friends. After all, they only have the good of the nation and the welfare of all the disenfranchised citizens at heart. After all, this nation was founded upon lock step thinking, and his petty questioning of the motives of his betters makes us conservatives look bad.
… Nah!
Here’s one of the top Twitter-leaders of the anti-Rush campaign(s). I read him via RSS so I’ll know what we’re up against.
And so on. This guy is more effective than any right-side twitterer I’ve ever encountered.
Rush = woman-hating, foul-mouthed blowhard who needs to be censored.
Maher = cable TV comedy show host, who’s actually right.
See?
Rush gets pillared for mocking a woman who voluntarily put herself in the public eye. Spike Lee puts some innocent couple in danger by recklessly tweeting out the wrong address. But no outrage over Spike by the left. Why is that.
That’s because the right doesn’t believe in “revolutionary truth,” only truth.
feerry interestink
White Hispanic or Black Irish?
Surely, Shirley.
So, less wolverine and more baby duck?
Less Visigoth and more… Eloi?
Because principles don’t build soccer fields in our districts…
My neighborhood fraternal organization built 4 of ’em a few years back. Feds didn’t have to get involved at all. It’s true! Pinky swear!
Yes, yes there was the usual suck-ups sucking-up. It’s like chickens predictably crowing the sun up.
But, my.
Wasn’t the Media Matters/OBama-DNC attempt to Alinsky Rush a spectacular failure? That was fun to watch; like a aircraft heading straight into a mountainside, intent on drilling a hole in it, only to explode into thousands of tiny pieces, a ball of fire, leaving a black spot. Mountain shrugs, goes back to sleep.
Thats the lesson I take out of this. I knew when the feeding frenzy got rollling, that it was going to blow up in thier face when Flukes background really became known. The lefts “victims” are ALWAYS one dimensional and their credibility is shot within 2 to 4 days after they are used, when the truth comes out about who they really are and who they work for.
The rocket launcher they were aiming at Rush exploded on their shoulder.
The more the leftards do this, the more they become exposed to the fence sitters as the Boys Who Cry Wolf; no credibility.
And the twitterers are really full of themselves, aren’t they? Do they not realise that if no one subscribes to their hashtag, no sees what they send out?
It’s like George Dubya and Pat Robertson had a baby.
LOFL. Well at least Pat Robertson has come out against the drug war. You might be slandering him a bit by lumping him in with W.
Here’s two other liberal projects to restore our precious civility that seem to have evaporated into the ether, to no one’s loss:
the coffee party
no labels
Fizzle.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/stoprush-turns-into-mediamattersstopped/
Even the hope of Mike Huckabee replacing Rush on Cumulus-owned stations has fizzled:
“Expectations that a weakened Limbaugh could be bumped by a new program hosted by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) have also not materialized. None of Limbaugh’s many affiliates have said they’ll move him from his midday time slot in favor of Huckabee.”
The Twitter and social media war launched by Media Matters in coordination with “independent” groups has been reduced to a few dead-enders going after small advertisers in small markets, hoping to find someone, anyone, they can bully.
They’re so desperate that they’re now firing at plumbers, roofers, fitness centers, car dealerships, tire stores, weight loss centers, and vision centers.
You can’t stop a movement, a movement, a movement…
So, less wolverine and more baby duck?
BEBEDUCKS!
AND AGAIN!
They’re so desperate that they’re now firing at plumbers, roofers, fitness centers, car dealerships, tire stores, weight loss centers, and vision centers.
They should be careful. Some of them might fire back.
A pipe wrench, a nail gun, a barbell, and a tire iron. I’m thinking I might have to diversify beyond torches and pitchforks!
BEBEDUCKS!
Hmmm. They’ll be good eating by September. Plenty of time to stock up on non-toxic shot.
Plenty of time to stock up on non-toxic shot.
Don’t chew on the lead and it’s non-toxic. Cheap, too.