Posted on 08/21/2008 3:33:14 PM PDT by slickeroo
As a muscular counterpoint to Obama's weasel-words in Berlin last month, the Rush Limbaugh show featured excerpts from JFK's famous Berlin speech from 1963: “And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin....Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.“
“At the Brandenburg Gate in 1963, John F. Kennedy tells the communists their days are numbered, “ gushed Rush. “There's not a Democrat alive who would make that speech today anywhere. Democrats today are appeasers. Did you hear any appeasement here?“
We didn't HEAR any, Rush, but we sure SAW plenty during Kennedy's administration―in fact according to his own Joint Chief's of Staff , President John F. Kennedy was responsible for (at the time) “the biggest defeat in America's history.”
In fact, John F. Kennedy with tireless help from media toadies more obsequious than any today, elevated political charade to a level Obama and his staffers can only envision in their sweetest dreams. This was made possible of course, because no alternative media (much less a Rush Limbaugh) existed in 1960-63. Indeed, the very JFK fable that swayed Rush last week might have never gotten its wings if Rush himself had been on the airwaves in 1962 and helped strangle it in the crib.
That very Berlin wall went up (and stayed up) as a direct consequence of JFK's appeasement. The Berlin Wall was raised and the Castro regime was entrenched because Kennedy snubbed Eisenhower's advice and shrank when challenged by the Butcher of Budapest.
I recall being very disappointed with JFK, he would go rattle off a speech some where, then,,,nothing, last you heard on the issue. A lot people I knew were like ,,whew, he’s gone in Nov. 1963.
This article provides one of the greatest tributes to Rush Limbaugh I’ve ever read. “If Rush had been on the air in 1960-63 he’d have strangled the JFK fable in its crib.” Did anyone read the article?
I didn't.
I was responding to the title of the thread, which declared, "Rush is an idiot."
Did you read that, before it was changed?
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