GOP Rep Blasts Rush As Not “Serious” And An “Entertainer”
Uh oh — looks like another Republican may be forced to go on the Limbaugh Death March.
In comments that passed unnoticed, Rep Zach Wamp of Tennessee, who’s running for Governor, blasted Rush Limbaugh twice on CNN as a mere “entertainer,” and suggested that rather than listen to Rush, we should listen to “serious” people on how solve our economic crisis.
RNC chair Michael Steele, you’ll recall, was forced to offer an abject apology for similar comments.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez asked Wamp yesterday whether he agreed with Rush or with Mitt Romney, who’s taken issue with Rush’s desire for Obama to fail. From Wamp’s reply, via Nexis:
“Frankly, we need to listen more to the people back home, and not so much just the voices out there. There’s not much difference between entertainment and journalism on some fronts.”
After a bit more back and forth, Wamp continued:
“Listen, I don’t want to get in the crossfire here. But the fact is entertainers sometimes say things. We really need serious-minded policy people to help chart this ship of state out of these rocky waters right now. And so we shouldn’t spend so much time caught in what others are saying.”
So Wamp believes Rush = An Entertainer Who Isn’t Serious And Shouldn’t Be listened To About The Crisis.
And he thinks he’s running to be a Republican Governor! Not to stretch the Bataan Death March comparison too far, but those prison camps are beckoning…
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/gop-rep-blasts-rush-as-not-serious-and-an-enternainer/