Rush Limbaugh propagandizes that the left will disown Barack Obama

Rush Limbaugh may be America's most prominent bumper sticker partisan. The splenetic talk show host is master of the baneful buzz word, and unquestionably infamous for perjoratives such as feminazi and NAG. Limbaugh intentionally defines these terms to be the most hurtful. For example, his negative connotations for both feminazi and NAG were reinforced with this vile attack: "love your body, 'because nobody else does'."

Limbaugh preaches such noxious poison into the right wing echo chamber for 780 hours each year, over more than 600 radio stations. Pundits, newspaper columnists, cable television hosts, bloggers, and assorted ditto heads across the country echo Limbaugh's talking points each and every day. There is no comparable propagandist on the left. No left wing pundit has a similar following, and no U.S. politician — representative, senator, nor president — has ever enjoyed such a platform. We ignore Limbaugh's perverse impact on politics at our peril... continued