Posted on 11/11/2008 10:42:09 AM PST by La Enchiladita
You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair. Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun," the LA Times reports.
Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed." Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"? "I fear [this] is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago," Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief, reports Times "On The Media" columnist James Rainey.
Indeed, many on the losing end of last week's election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media — led by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity — only too ready to feed that animus, along with their own ratings.
"The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen," Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million last Thursday. "Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression."
"They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."
A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing, the Times reports. The proposal, in fact, emanated from a single economist, one of many experts testifying to a congressional committee.
Hannity and Limbaugh filleted Obama's selection as chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, in a way that exposed their partisan gamesmanship. On the other hand, Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of John McCain's closest allies in his bid for the presidency, praised Obama's selection of Emanuel as "a wise choice." He added that the new chief of staff could be a tough partisan, but was also "honest, direct and candid" and willing to "work to find common ground where it exists."
Dude, the word is "clinging".
Why do you love it?
I don’t trust the MSM.
Is there, or is there not, a proposal by a Democrat elected congressperson,
to seize 401k and IRAs into the SS “trust fund”?
And, there was never a bitter tone or bone from the left throughout the past 8 years. [chuckle]
They can’t understand why we aren’t licking their jackboots.
Obama is a “mystery”? -Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw?
Wasn’t that ‘Newsweek’ that also mentioned 0bama was ‘creepy’?
Not to MSM, we’ve seen this movie before and we all know how it ends!
How dare we, huh? This is a veiled suppression of the voices for OUR point of view.
Notice how they applaud Lindsey Graham for his Uncle Tom-ness.
No. But there are proposals to effectively nationalize those accounts, the effect of which would be disastrous:
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dems-target-private-retirement-accounts.html . Or go Here.
As the article indicates they are discussing the idea in a congressional committee.
Rush also in his comments on this was very clear that this was not an Obama proposal nor yet a Democrat one, though the committee was chaired by a Democrat and it does illustrate the trend of their thinking.
The article therefore also is lying about what Rush actually said, either because they did not actually take the time to find out and are incompetent or they are deliberately lying. In either case it illustrates they are not trustworthy in their reporting.
****Wasn’t that ‘Newsweek’ that also mentioned 0bama was ‘creepy’?****
Correct, it was a writer named Evan Thomas. Here is the transcript: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/11/06/newsweek-s-thomas-slightly-creepy-cult-personality-around-obama
Why, I'm sure that nice young Keith Olbermann wouldn't ever say "Sh!t" even if he had a mouthful. Which he frequently does.
I don’t really LOVE it. That’s a figure of speech to mean I am highly amused.
boo hoo the liberal paper called me unilateral....
boo hoo the liberal paper called me unilateral....
Chiefly Jim McDermott (D)....
Conservatives should put their principles aside and give their full support to the new president and congress. Just like liberals did in 2000 and 2004.
Wrong. As usual, they criticize the right for getting it wrong but get it wrong themselves. Rep George Miller put the idea forward to kill the 401(k) tax breaks. It's out there as a serious Democrat revenue tax hike proposal. If he says it wont happen, lets see a real denial in the record.
More importantly - they WILL put these trial balloons up and they WILL pass them if we dont shoot them down. Another example is the indentured community servitude, where the forced service proposal was watered down mysteriously on 'change.gov' once the right-blogosphere got a whiff of the totalitarian nature of the proposal.
We need to STOP OBAMA'S SOCIALISM, one agenda item at a time.
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