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Well said.
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You know that, I know that! Most people on here know that.Originally posted by WhoMe View Post
Unfortunately most of his listeners accept his words as truth!Comment
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WhiteWolf89 ... i think u like starting shyt ! ! ! ! ! ! getting us all riled up and in a frinzyOriginally posted by WhiteWolf89 View Post
thats what u get 4 breaking my heart...Comment
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Rush Limbaugh - De Facto Leader of Repbulicans?
Why Rush is Wrong - Newsweek.com
COVER STORY: NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Why Rush is Wrong
The party of Buckley and Reagan is now bereft and dominated by the politics of Limbaugh. A conservative's lament.
By David Frum | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 7, 2009
It wasn't a fight I went looking for. On March 3, the popular radio host Mark Levin opened his show with an outburst (he always opens his show with an outburst): "There are people who have somehow claimed the conservative mantle … You don't even know who they are … They're so irrelevant … It's time to name names …! The Canadian David Frum: where did this a-hole come from? … In the foxhole with other conservatives, you know what this jerk does? He keeps shooting us in the back … Hey, Frum: you're a putz."
Now, of course, Mark Levin knows perfectly well where I come from. We've known each other for years, had dinner together. I'm a conservative Republican, have been all my adult life. I volunteered for the Reagan campaign in 1980. I've attended every Republican convention since 1988. I was president of the Federalist Society chapter at my law school, worked on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and wrote speeches for President Bush—not the "Read My Lips" Bush, the "Axis of Evil" Bush. I served on the Giuliani campaign in 2008 and voted for John McCain in November. I supported the Iraq War and (although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect) the impeachment of Bill Clinton. I could go on, but you get the idea.
And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as "losers." With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence—exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we're cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush's every rancorous word—we'll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.
Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined.
But do the rest of us understand what we are doing to ourselves by accepting this leadership? Rush is to the Republicanism of the 2000s what Jesse Jackson was to the Democratic party in the 1980s. He plays an important role in our coalition, and of course he and his supporters have to be treated with respect. But he cannot be allowed to be the public face of the enterprise—and we have to find ways of assuring the public that he is just one Republican voice among many, and very far from the most important.
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Interesting article, Amigo - thanks for sharing.
See, I'm not sure about Rush as the head of the Republican party idea. I know he has refuted that claim, and it seems like those who have labeled him as such tend to be from the other side of the aisle. Maybe it's because they need a new villain since Bush isn't around any more, I don't know.
The fact that this one man can attract millions of listeners each week as well as the attention of his adversaries (i.e., mainstream media (MSM), liberals, etc.), well hasn't he sort of won in a way? Every article that is written about him, every time he's mentioned on The View, CNN, MSNBC, doesn't that just further fan the flames of his popularity (and further fill his bank account)? Seems to me like the MSM and Rush kind of feed off of one another. He baits them, they react and invariably echo his message (whether they agree or not) to folks who probably wouldn't listen to him of their own volition, then he plays back their comments in sound bites the following day.
Kind of a vicious circle?
As a conservative I don't consider Rush the head of the Republican party, or Michael Steele, or Sarah Palin. I don't think the Republican party right now has a de facto leader. There are many voices with varying degrees of conservatism, be they John McCain (who is I believe more centrist than I originally thought), Newt Gengrich, Mitt Romney...there is a long list of them. I hear snippets of what each of them has to say on a particular issue, but I'm not to the point of acknowledging any of them as a "leader."
Kind of a bit off the track from the genocide topic, so I apologize to Whitewolfe if this "hijacks" his thread.Comment
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NofA,
Electronic media is the power nowadays, nobody writes, nobody reads much anymore.
Two-bit soundbite actors can grab just enough emotional attention span to capture the souls of the masses. The masses follow moaning "brains, brains" just like a cheap horror flick.
You are right about the "vicious circle". I listened to Rushbo today gloating how all the liberal and pop culture talking heads were cheering on Health Care reform - because Rush had said he would leave the country if Obama ever got it passed, LOL.
He also took the time to *NOT TELL* a dirty joke about Joyce Behar...because Rush is one of her favorite targets...all he would allude to is the word "penis" in reference to the dirty joke about her. How juvenile can a man get?
So there we have it America: the new low in public radio commentary "EIB" ? Excellence In Broadcasting? Far from it...
This happened TODAY, on AM 600 out here on the left coast, or Californi-Stan.
Ya know, it was Rush that was tearing down at McCain during the last primaries, getting the conservative base to move away.
Then McCain ends up winning the Repub Ticket and in my own opinion, ends up letting Rush's prior harrassment lead him into picking Palin...and the rest is history, thanks Rush.
"Operation Chaos" was another of his ego-inflating (when is he ever going to explode?) expeditions into the media battlefields.
I'll stop here, nothing personal against N Ada or others here, nothing at all.
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