Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Question of the day
Good question: "Do the former 'dissent is patriotic' liberals realize their hypocrisy regarding Limbaugh?" Take the poll!
Lest any of you newbies think otherwise, I have only heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio once, and when I see clips of him on Fox occasionally I am not motivated to hear more of him. But my superficial opinion of Mr. Limbaugh has to do with taste, rather than the fact of his dissent.
MORE: A timely illustration to accompany the foregoing.
4 Comments:
By 
Steve M. Galbraith, at
Wed Jan 28, 07:08:00 PM:
What was equally fascinating was watching Jon Stewart play a tape where Bill O'Reilly argued that those who wanted Bush to lose in Iraq were "un-American."
(Of course, the left was outraged at that time over O'Reilly's characterization)
Stewart then demanded (tongue-not-so-firm-in-cheek) that O'Reilly denounce Limbaugh for his "near treasonous comments" about wanting Obama's policies to fail.
Somehow, "un-American" turned into "near treason" and "wanting to lose a war" was equated with "wanting bad domestic spending and tax policies to fail."
Sure, Stewart's a funnyman but some folks take him seriously.
By JPMcT, at
Wed Jan 28, 10:38:00 PM:
Limbaugh has a larger conservative base than the Republican Party! He's quite correct in what he says about Obama, but he is also bombastic and disliked by many.
He's the perfect "first kill".
Once they get rolling, there will be little in the media without governmental blessing.
Wake up, people!
By 
, at
Thu Jan 29, 03:22:00 PM:
"Do the former 'dissent is patriotic' liberals realize their hypocrisy regarding Limbaugh?"
No.
Next question?
By , at
Thu Jan 29, 04:37:00 PM:
It was not until I heard Rush Limbaugh when he first got going in 1988, that I heard a single strong voice laying out conservative principles via the media. Certainly not in a medium of talk radio three hours a day. I was in sales at the time, and I had a very rural territory with a lot of car time. I had a ton of friends like me who also would listen to Rush. I honestly believe that if you took a poll of people who are in sales or who once were and asked them their political leanings, easily 90% of them would be conservative and most of them would give a certain amount of credit to their time listening to Rush.
As for Rush today, he has become much like Ann Coulter, where his message has been drowned out by the side show. However, I think great guys like Michael Medved, Bill Bennett, and Hugh Hewitt are brilliant guys who are much more respectful of people of differing views. It may be due to the fact that both Medved and Bennett were former Democrats who saw the light?
