And they get great ratings, and they drive the message, and it's really problematic. And this is not on the Democratic side. It's only on the Republican side…[inaudible]. [Democrats have] got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what's driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio's getting his ass kicked. Who's my Rubio fan here? We talked about it. He's getting destroyed! By Mark Levin, by Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He's trying to find a legitimate, long-term effective solution to immigration that isn't the traditional Republican approach, and talk radio is killing him. That's what's causing this thing underneath. And too many politicians in Washington are playing coy.
Talk Radio isn't killing Rubio. He's doing it to himself. His approach is just plain wrong and really, let's call it for what it really is: Overly solicitous, self serving and clearly a repudiation of a TEA Party who invested themselves in him or he is outright stabbing us in the back and I wouldn't be at all surprised if after the 2014 he switches party.
As he continued, Luntz, according to Abbi and two other attendees (who wish to remain anonymous), asserted that it had been irresponsible (and bad for the GOP) for right-wing talkers to pontificate about women's bodies and birth control—an obvious reference to Limbaugh's attacks last year on Sandra Fluke, a law student invited to testify before Congress on health insurance coverage of contraception. (Abbi didn't catch this part of Luntz's reply on his recording.)
Uhmmm, no...you ridiculously, fatuous, jack wagon. Sandra Fluke went before Congress and did her Helen Reddy impersonation, only taking it a step further telling the rest of "I am woman, hear me whore". Not explicityly but, really, isn't that export of her demand? That we should all pay for her choice to have sex and what baby prevention device or pill we should all be forced to "invest" in for her happiness and pleasure?
No errogenous zone was felt by us. More like being robbed of our monies, by a government with guns, for her pleasure. Really? You have to resort to a proxy robbing us? How brave of you.
That he would resort to redacting his world view by asking a group of people to stop recording and he will "wink, wink" give you his earnest opinion confirms what I had often wondered about him over the years.
He is a man who measures his words not because his public words are in fact his values, that he would be comfortable saying anywhere because was convicted of those views which are informed. Rather, he is one who makes a living selling his products to Republicans and Conservatives but, behind closed doors and with company he can manipulate, he is very comfortable being Frank and Honest about how he really feels.
Lucky me. I rarely watch Hannity anymore, so I am not subjected to guessing about him anymore.
See post 8
Hannity really let Rand Paul off the drone hook the other night. After Rand said that he had not flip flopped and had used the liquor store robber with $50 in his hand scenario during his filibuster Hannity just said well OK then.
Why not follow up with “So Senator you believe its OK to hellfire missile a guy robbing a liquor store? Doesn’t that seem just a tad bit extreme?”