Which explains the white-hot hatred of the Left for Rush Limbaugh. If they did not hold the MSM's bosses in an unbreakable headlock, every one of their humbugs would have been swept from the public stage years ago by Rush's jibes. ;)
That makes the final point about humor. As Twain wrote in “The Mysterious Stranger,” only humor has the capacity “to destroy a public humbug at a single blast.”Which explains the white-hot hatred of the Left for Rush Limbaugh. If they did not hold the MSM's bosses in an unbreakable headlock, every one of their humbugs would have been swept from the public stage years ago by Rush's jibes. ;)
You are dead on in the explanation of the hatred of Rush.To your second point, it makes more sense to think of journalists holding liberals in their pockets than the other way around. A seemingly minor point, perhaps, but the world makes more sense if you consider that journalism is just the mass production of criticism of the doers, and "liberals" (who of course are not truly liberal at all) get called that by journalists because journalists want to promote them with a favorable label. And journalists want to promote them because they are doing the self-same thing that journalists are doing - criticizing and second guessing the doers, to try to "count" more than "the man who is actually in the arena."
A socialist government is simply a government run by critics who can second guess but cannot make decisions in the absence of full knowledge of the results. It is all scapegoating, all the time.