Posted on 03/04/2009 1:22:54 AM PST by Luke21
Rush Limbaugh ‘just an entertainer?" Well, Mark Twain was an entertainer. But he was also one of the finest satirical voices in our history, a searing mocker of our national conscience at the time of slavery. He made people laugh until it hurt, but his aim was fundamentally moral.
For the Chairman of the Republican Party to call Limbaugh "just an entertainer" is both inaccurate and political suicide. Michael Steele saw that quickly, and apologized. ‘Nuff said. Steele allowed himself to slip on CNN's carefully scripted banana peel, but he knew better. Most of our media Neanderthals don't.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If Limbaugh, Steele, and even Lewis are simply jesters in a country made up of either fools or the mostly fooled, what is our new King Obamasion and his flock of retards rustling thier feathers about?
Oh yea, I already know, Stelle will be on Rushes show, and although he may have to “Splain himself” he and Rush both are gonig to tear the living daylights out of the new Admins policies, and Appointments.
Call me a Prophet.
There is a scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where Indiana Jones tires of fighting the bad guys with his whip so he pulls out his gun and shots them. Indiana Jones was able to win because he had the most powerful weapon. I am looking for Rush to do something like that pretty soon (figuratively, of course).
BTTT
Rush has got to be loving this. Talk about free advertising.
Keep talking about him Obama @ CO. I’m sure his rating are skyrocketing.
But Michael Steele, what a disappointment, apology notwithstanding. That is not the first time he has criticized Rush. He said stuff like that during Operation Chaos, but he wasn't RNC Chairman then so it didn't matter.
If he wants to go up against Rush then do it, don't apologize. He knew it was political suicide but he said it anyway. The irony is Rush just said in the speech that the party is being pulled apart by factions and conservatives must not give in. The very next day both Steele and Cantor badmouthed Rush to liberal press. If there is a wrong move to make the Republican leadership is going to make it. That's why we trust Rush with our values instead of the party.
The problem is that Rush is sucking all the philosophical air out of the conservative "room." He can't act as a "kingmaker" for commercial reasons. Sooner or later he's going to be accused by someone or someones prominent of being "all hat and no cattle." Sooner or later the sentiment is going to grow that he's just acting as a critic for big bucks.
Sooner or later, he's going to have to put up or shut up.
I’m not so sure.
Rush loves being in the role of educator and broadcaster and he enjoys his job.
It’s not his fault that there is a vacuum of charismatic conservative politicians out there.
There is no reason why Rush should have to make the transition from broadcaster to candidate unless that is something he really wants to do.
I think he’d be thrilled to see Jindal or Palin take the initiative and Rush would provide support doing what he does best.
I think Rush would answer the call of duty, but who is in the position to ask him? A grass-roots campaign to put him on the ballot might work.
I’m sure there is a vacuum out there, but there are also some true conservatives that maybe aren’t ready to have the ‘a’ exam the media will line up to give them. I wish Mike Pence of Indiana were Pres but I wouldn’t wish the scrutiny on him or his family.
One thing about Rush that you don’t find in the other gutless Republicans is that he fights back. Be careful Dems. Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
Part of Rush’s strategy is to become TOO BIG TO FAIL.
Too big to shut down with any bs fairness doctrine
The more the Magic Kenyan knocks Rush the more obvious the power grab will be if the Kenyan tries to silence Rush and other talk meisters
Is it wise to allow your opponent to choose your champion for you?
“Obama appoints Rush Limbaugh leader of the opposition”
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Can a usurper appoint anyone anything!
thanks, bfl
People should always watch very carefully the figure the media select as the representative of conservatism. They have had a succession of boogiemen for this purpose: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Gingrich, Jesse Helms. In the 1970s Nixon was the boogieman.
This is what Steele and others should be saying:
"Limbaugh just a commentator among many, nothing more, nothing less. He is not an elected official or a party leader. He's just a private citizen who has a lot of opinions. Republicans agree with some of his opinions, and they disagree with others. He does not speak for the party in any capacity. For a sitting president to attack a private citizen in such a manner as Obama is doing is undignified and cheapens the office."
"Unlike the president, we feel have more important things to do than discuss some commentator. Therefore, we will not be answering any more questions regarding Rush Limbaugh."
And that's that. No more mention of Rush. It's stupid to make such a big deal of this.
Isn’t there some law that says three strikes YOU are OUT!!!
I hope not. If he does go on the show, he'll be stepping right into the trap Bambi set for him.
We really have become the stupid party.
“...Obama is a very intelligent and profoundly ignorant man. It’s obvious that he’s never seriously listened to a dissenting opinion, having lived all his life with his head in a moon helmet. True Believers tend to slowly drift into a kind of paranoid cult; it happened with Jim Jones, and we see it every day with the American Left. The intellectual isolation of the Left is the biggest political pathology of our time, and it’s also the most dangerous.”
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The important thing is not to emulate them. Educate yourself so that you know WHY you believe as you do.
Rush always hated it when people told him he had to support the likes of Trent Lott or GWB no matter how they screwed up.
I think he admitted he wasn’t as hard on Bush for signing McCain-Feingold, or Harriet Miers, or “immigration reform” as he should have been.
Steele made a big thing out of selling the Republican Party to the hip-hop generation. Instead he pandered as idiotically as any out-of-touch country-club, whitebread.
He made the rounds of black liberal media and repeated the tried-and-hopeless tactic of playing the non-threatening, watered-down milquetoast.
Instead of confronting the likes of Tavis Smiley and D.L. Hughley to their faces and unapologetically defended conservative principles and explained why they were just as good for blacks as any other Americans, he smiled, grovelled, and let them push him around.
Great piece.
In my humble opinion, it’s time to elevate Rush Limbaugh to the same plain with Mark Twain, and possibly a half notch above H. L. Mencken and Will Rogers, possibly.
NY Post January 23, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
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