Nonsense.
Politics isn't a footrace, it's a cage match. When one makes the choice to step into that ring, he gets to hit the other guy as hard as you want. Thing is, the other guy can do the same.
So what happened, is, Fox threw a dirty punch, Rush punched back, and the MSM threw a left hook -- making Rush the issue. You can take issue with him for that, but "beneath contempt"? C'mon. Give me a break.
Exactly. It's called dragging a red herring across the trail so as to get the dogs off the trail and sniffing off in the direction they want them to go.
Change the subject from the message (the issue) and make the messenger the issue.
Of course this tactic always works with the easily distracted whose emotions overrule their heads as they allow themselves to be easily swayed into focusing on irrelevancies.
Because of Rush deliberately being willing to make himself a target when he blew the RAT'S cover (tax-payer-funded human cloning -disguised as something else- enshrined in the MO Constitution), support for this Missouri initiative is "sinking like a stone."