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Bill O’Reilly vs. Rush Limbaugh
Daily Beast ^ | April 1, 2013 | Peter Beinart

Posted on 04/01/2013 9:01:32 PM PDT by Pinkbell

There are various ways to describe the civil war rising inside the Republican Party: insiders versus outsiders, pragmatists versus true-believers, establishment versus Tea Party. Here’s another: Bill O’Reilly conservatives versus Rush Limbaugh conservatives.

Last week, the two media titans clashed after O’Reilly accused opponents of gay marriage of lacking “compelling argument[s]” and merely “thump[ing] the Bible.” Limbaugh responded by saying that conservative Christians “were sort of marginalized” on O’Reilly’s show. On the surface, the scuffle merely reflected differing opinions about the arguments deployed last week at the Supreme Court. But in reality, it reflected a different view of conservatism itself.

O’Reilly is a conservative populist, which is to say, he only champions those conservative viewpoints that he believes enjoy mass appeal. His evolution on gay marriage—as helpfully chronicled by New York magazine’s Dan Amira—illustrates the point. While O’Reilly’s own views have shifted, what has remained constant is his tendency to justify those views by reference to the popular will. In 2006 O’Reilly said he opposed gay marriage because “it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place … Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer.” In 2009 he again phrased his opposition in terms of public opinion: “You don’t do it [pass gay marriage] particularly if people in California … don’t want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.” But by linking his own notions of social stability to those of the public at large, O’Reilly gave himself room to shift. By May of last year he was declaring that “individual states should decide the question.” And last week he said he supported civil unions, while on gay marriage, “I don’t feel that strongly about it one way or another. I think the states should do it.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billoreilly; missouri; oreilly; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; tedbaxter
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To: Chunga

You say that, but you haven’t done anything to refute it. I can only judge Limbaugh by what he says, not what’s in his heart.


61 posted on 04/02/2013 12:13:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Finny

“Limbaugh was urging me to vote for the guy who pioneered Obamacare.”
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Oh, so he should have endorsed some third party guy who had no prayer of being elected?
Is Obozo better then Romney?


62 posted on 04/02/2013 12:17:23 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: nickcarraway
You say that, but you haven’t done anything to refute it. I can only judge Limbaugh by what he says, not what’s in his heart.

I have shown you exactly what Limbaugh said about the "caller abortions"...and you ignored it and avoided it like it was poison. Here it is again.

"None of what I did was real. Yet, in this country an abortion happens 4,000 times a day--for real...There is real emotional distress. There is physical harm and there's death...Where is the outrage against those who do it for real just down the street from where they live?...If you didn't know in your heart of hearts that abortion was a savage, violent act, what I did wouldn't have bugged you so much. I took you inside an abortion mill, and some of you couldn't take it."

This refutes your notion that Rush became pro-life late in the game and that he was trying to be funny with the "caller abortions."

If you won't acknowledge what he has said here, own up to your misunderstanding and knock off the ignoramus act, you're trolling, plain and simple.

63 posted on 04/02/2013 12:25:41 AM PDT by Chunga (Newt for U.S. Senate)
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To: dfwgator
That BOR gif tirade, was that before or after he did an Inside Edition report on spring break wet-t-shirt contests? He was sooo “deep” back then.
64 posted on 04/02/2013 1:49:56 AM PDT by Lockbar (Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------- The New Gold)
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To: Pinkbell
O’Reilly accused opponents of gay marriage of lacking “compelling argument[s]” and merely “thump[ing] the Bible

Good Pelosi style Catholic boy.

65 posted on 04/02/2013 3:35:36 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Steelfish
Look around, It doesn't make it right, but it is inevitable. Rush is right...
66 posted on 04/02/2013 3:41:17 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Pinkbell

Is O’Reilly still on television...? lol Haven’t watched Bill in ages....!


67 posted on 04/02/2013 3:43:26 AM PDT by swampfox101 (l)
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To: Pinkbell
The White house is occupied by CZAR B.O.

FOX employs Bag-O-Rocks B.O.!
68 posted on 04/02/2013 3:57:45 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Pinkbell
It's always a hoot to watch liberals explain to us what 'conservatism' is: "O’Reilly is a conservative populist, which is to say, he only champions those conservative viewpoints that he believes enjoy mass appeal."

O'Reilly is not a conservative, just ask him, he'll tell you. At best O'Reilly calls himself a "traditionalist", but O'Reilly believes in the efficacy of government regulation of the economy and of human behavior. O'Reilly believes that gasoline prices are the result of collaboration among oil companies. Just watch any of the segments of O'Reilly with John Stossel. O'Reilly simply does not understand how free markets actually work.

In any battle between Rush and O'Reilly, O'Reilly will be crushed. It won't be pretty.

69 posted on 04/02/2013 4:00:03 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Pinkbell

70 posted on 04/02/2013 4:08:22 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Political Junkie Too

Wouldn’t he have to give up his radio program OR give equal time to all candidates?


71 posted on 04/02/2013 4:22:26 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: leprechaun9

Rush says he is equal time.


72 posted on 04/02/2013 4:26:28 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: nickcarraway

You obviously don’t listen much to Rush, because he’s many times expounded on the greatness of the free-enterprise system and other conservative issues and beliefs.


73 posted on 04/02/2013 4:26:32 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Pinkbell

Recall O’R kissing bam’s butt when he interviewed him.


74 posted on 04/02/2013 4:48:22 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: Pinkbell
"Bill O’Reilly conservatives..."

There's no such animal.

75 posted on 04/02/2013 5:13:12 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Pinkbell
Bill O’Reilly conservatives...

I figured that it was an April Fools Day joke.

At this point I rarely watch FNC at all, sometimes I'll flip over during a commercial break on whatever else I was watching. But from what I remember, BOR show was about the worst one on the channel, and it always apparently has the most viewers. Sad comment that.

76 posted on 04/02/2013 5:19:37 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: nickcarraway
Whatever Limbaugh, believes personally, he declared victory last week for the gay marriage side.

What especially irritated me about that, is that Rush came on the air yesterday and tried to put some sort of spin on that statement.

He threw the left a gigantic Brontosaurus bone, and instead of coming on the air and admitting that it was a stupid thing to say, he tried to defend it. I can only describe it as a brazen act of cowardice.

77 posted on 04/02/2013 5:22:01 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Finny

You make a lot of good points there.


78 posted on 04/02/2013 5:22:37 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: Pinkbell

“O’Reilly is a conservative populist, which is to say, he only champions those conservative viewpoints that he believes enjoy mass appeal. “
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0’Pinhead...just let it go at that....

and...if ya go to ny...don’t get in his taxi...

Semper Trvth!
*****


79 posted on 04/02/2013 5:41:03 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Finny
I'm getting sick of "conservatives" who think "libertarian" (with a small l) is only and all about legalizing drugs.

Unfortunately, some libertarians act that way - playing right into the hands of those eager to use that broad brush to paint libertarianism out of the picture.

If we had small l libertarian government right now, the governnment wouldn't be in the job of punishing free people for peacefully choosing to reject things they deem immoral.

Social conservatives can't seem to grasp that a government powerful enough to impose personal morality is also powerful enough to erode personal morality.

80 posted on 04/02/2013 7:28:55 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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