[weegee]

Rush did not escalate this rant. It generated press coverage on its own accord. Also, other talk show hosts weighed in. This is Gore's "Dean-scream" moment. No single sound-bite but still the rantings of a crazed man.

In all fairness, Bill Clinton was pushed to this dynamic and I even personally witnessed (the only time I saw him) former President Bush pushed to hysterics on the eve of the 1992 election.

I am not worried. In the past 2 weeks I have had leftists (who don't know I am a conservative) confess to me that they think the party has gone nutso. Over the edge. They don't want to be lemmings jumping over the cliff (or in Disney's version, thrown over the cliff).

[RS]

"I am not worried. "

I agree... but I do suspect the liberal media will reach basically the same conclusions and hide the worst of them from sight.

It might be that the media will actually wind up running the Democrat campaign by selectively showing or withholding clips, injecting the "right" ones into the news at different times slots which reach different audiences.
It's a danger that I have not heard anyone mention before.