Getting ready for work, when the "Rush Limbaugh" is the fearless leader story came on ..

I think it was CNN and John Roberts.. and the two commentators could not keep a straight face, especially when they started talking about Gingery (sp?) groveling on Rush's show to get back in his good graces.

Obama has made the Republican Party look like absolute imbeciles. With just the little sentence, "Don't listen to Rush" on everything, it all came unraveled.

Just that quickly..

with radio propaganda. Good for him.

I'm getting more impressed with him by the day even if he is too conservative* for my taste.

*everything being relative, most pols are too conservative for my taste.

When they start laughing at you, and Letterman has started picking at Limbaugh also..it is just a matter of time.. but the Republicans do not have any leadership other than the talking heads and Palin..

And they did it all to themselves.

Karma is all I can say :hi:

According to a http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/01/28/limbaugh/index.html">column by Kathleen Parker, “Barack W. Obama” in today’s Washington Post, President Obama said the above during his recent meeting with Senate Republicans. The “W.” in the column’s title is as in George “W.” Bush. The column is headlined on the Opinion Page as
“Obama vs. El Rushbo
The president has chomped on the Master Fisherman's lure.”,

along with a picture of the smiling Limbaugh, which I did not import in deference to those of you with weak stomachs. I cite the column mainly as the source of the quote, and not because of the rather inane commentary Ms. Parker gives.

As I’ve said many times, Limbaugh should not be treated merely as an entertainer and a powerful pundit. When he came on the national scene 20 years ago, he was funny and insightful, and admittedly one-sided. Over the years he has morphed into the current champion of “The Big Lie”, as perfected by Josef Goebbels. (Limbaugh himself has invoked Nazis, using the term “feminazis” to describe women’s libbers.)

Some people don’t take him seriously, but his army of dittoheads certainly do. The most recent example being the reaction to criticism of him by Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), as reported by Alex Koppelman in Salon.

Limbaugh cherry-picks his facts, distorts things when convenient, claims to be omniscient when he is far from it. And, in my opinion, he is also a racist. His faithful followers fail to see how illogical he is.

And he can cause real damage. Witness “Operation Chaos” last summer, when he had people breaking the law (the spirit, at least) by switching their registration in the presidential primaries.

He is much more dangerous than Sean Hannity because
1) To people who can reason at all, Hannity is clearly a fool (admittedly an earnest one).
2) Hannity will allow people who disagree with him to argue with him.

I live in suburban Detroit, near Royal Oak, the radio home in the Nineteen Thirties of the anti-Semitic, Nazi sympathizer, Father Charles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin">Coughlin. He was finally silenced by a new Detroit Bishop in 1942. Unfortunately, Limbaugh answers to no one. Although he does have sponsors.

Getting back to the quote from Obama, I think it would be better for him to leave Limbaugh out of this. Limbaugh should be treated as the pariah he truly is. His demagoguery and hateful attacks have disqualified him from a seat at the table of rational discourse, whatever his redeeming features might be.

The correct link to Parker's column is http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012902764.html|this>.
The link to Koppelman's is http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/01/28/limbaugh/index.html|[br />this]