Posted on 03/05/2009 4:58:26 AM PST by moneyrunner
Jonah Goldberg:
Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1.
Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails.
Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Obama’s agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet people are shocked that conservatives, Limbaugh included, want Obama to fail in this effort?
But even Goldberg implicitly concedes the argument, letting the canard stand that Limbaugh is “shrill” and extreme. Implicitly assuming that Limbaugh “turns off” moderates. I don’t buy the argument. As a regular Limbaugh listener, I find that his arguments are as well stated as that intellectual hero, Bill Buckley, albeit with much more humor.
Limbaugh has relatively high negatives because, despite the fact that he is the number one listened to talk radio host in the country, fewer than half the country listens to him. 20 million listeners still leaves something like 280 million people who don’t listen … and get their opinions of Rush from the media that despises him. ...
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Jonah Goldberg: Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too.
LOL
If Rush is Public Enemy No. 1, then I must be Public Enemy No 12,552,603 or something like that. (12,552,602 being my estimate of the number of listeners he had when I discovered his show in 1992.) I might not always agree with him, but Rush speaks for me like no one else on the public stage. (And if I don't always agree with him, I NEVER agree with Obama, the Clintons, Reid, Pelozi, Frank &c., excluding pandering lies they might make to some group I have affinity with.)
ML/NJ
As America slides into the hell that has been created by the Obama Administration and Democrat sewer RATs, the MSM, which is the Goebbel’s arm of the RAT party, will no longer be trusted by the majority of the American people. No amount of perfume spewed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can cover up the stench and misery that has been created by the Messiah and his cohorts in the US Congress.
Rush’s fans KNOW what he said and what he meant.
Those who never listen to him and believe what the MSM and Dems say about Rush and their misquotes of him, want to believe that Rush wants the country to go down the toilet.
I certainly want O to fail because his failure is the only way this country can succeed!
I love it because it shows the immaturity of the administration. Any grownup would let what Rush said roll off their shoulders.
Obviously, Zero and his thug henchmen have foolishly allowed their power trip with premeditated plans for a dictatorship cloud any minuscule gray matter they supposedly have.
The Dhimmirats’ scheme is already backfiring!
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