How Radio Wrecks the Right (Derbyshire disses Rush)

American Conservative ^ | John Derbyshire

[pissant]

You can’t help but admire Rush Limbaugh’s talent for publicity. His radio talk show is probably—reliable figures only go back to 1991—in its third decade as the number-one rated radio show in the country. And here he is in the news again, trading verbal punches with the president of the United States.

Limbaugh remarked on Jan. 16 that to the degree that Obama’s program is one of state socialism, he hopes it will fail. (If only he had said the same about George W. Bush.) The president riposted at a session with congressional leaders a week later, telling them, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Outsiders weighed in: Limbaugh should not have wished failure on a president trying to cope with a national crisis; Obama should not have stooped to insult a mere media artiste, the kind of task traditionally delegated to presidential subordinates while the chief stands loftily mute. Citizens picked sides and sat back to enjoy the circus.

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In place of the permanent things, we get Happy Meal conservatism: cheap, childish, familiar. Gone are the internal tensions, the thought-provoking paradoxes, the ideological uneasiness that marked the early Right. But however much this dumbing down has damaged the conservative brand, it appeals to millions of Americans. McDonald’s profits rose 80 percent last year.

[pissant]

I guess we should go back to relying on the thin gruel served up by Derb and the other girly boys at National Review?

[hinckley buzzard]

I know who Rush is--everyone does. But who the hell is this "derbyshire?"

[dirtboy]

If only he had said the same about George W. Bush.

Want some cheese with that whine? Rush was all over Bush when Bush strayed from conservative values, especially on spending.

[xcamel]

I think the question is “what the hell is this “derbyshire?”

[txnativegop]

My thoughts exactly.

[Myrddin]

I guess we should go back to relying on the thin gruel served up by Derb and the other girly boys at National Review?

Leave the crappy mag on the shelf or read it at a library if you can't help yourself. Don't put money in their pocket.

[ari-freedom]

This guy

[Jim Robinson]

Obviously, John Derbyshire is an idiot.

[NoobRep]

Completely distorts the facts like your typical liberal turdbrain. Rush did not say he hoped Obama failed and this has been played out ad nauseum for the past month.

[Til I am the last man standing]

You can always tell when Rush is being diss-ed by a neo-Rockefeller....they have no clue what they are talking about because they never listen to Rush. You are correct Dirtboy. There was plenty of Bush bashing going on in conservative talk radio when Bush strayed from conservative principles.

[ConservativeMind]

I’ve never heard of him.

He can’t be important in any form.

[Doogle]

And here he is in the news again

.....watsamatter there Scooter,slow day AC mag? not enough porkulus to talk about?.why do you read the bill?..or were you naughty and just happen to get this assign to you?

[dirtboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire

Derbyshire has differed from his fellow writers at National Review on important subjects. For example, Derbyshire supported Michael Schiavo's position in the Terri Schiavo case, showed sympathy for class-warfare themes in movies such as Titanic, argued that Pope John Paul II was totally unable to stop the secularization of the West, ridiculed George W. Bush's "itty-bitty tax cut, paid for by dumping a slew of federal debt on your children and grandchildren",[7] has derided Bush in general for being too sure of his religious convictions and for his "rich-kid-ness",[8] dismisses small-government conservatism as unlikely to ever take hold (although is not unsympathetic to it), has called for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq (but favored the invasion), opposes market reforms or any other changes in Social Security, defended Michael Jackson as harmless, is pro-choice on abortion, supports euthanasia in a fairly wide range of circumstances, and has suggested that he might (in a time of international crisis) vote for Hillary Clinton as president.[9] Derbyshire's views on the Schiavo case attracted harsh condemnation from fellow writers at National Review Online. NRO writer and frequent blogger, Ramesh Ponnuru, attacked Derbyshire in language far more forceful than customary in National Review's internal debates.[10] The Derbyshire-Ponnuru dispute arose again over Ponnuru's recently published book, Party of Death. Derbyshire reviewed the book harshly in the New English Review,[11] and Ponnuru replied on NRO with another strongly worded attack on Derbyshire as "wrong," "florid," "anti-intellectual," "gaseous" and "preposterous" among other terms.[12]

See also: RINO

I added the last part...

[Fishface]

How radio makes me irrelevant...err I mean...ruins the right

[Anti-Bubba182]

John Derbyshire

I never heard of this guy. I wonder if Rush has.

[mplsconservative]

And he has a major case of Rush envy. Have some Derbyshire cheese with your whine, Mr. Derbyshire.

[mplsconservative]

Thanks for posting the wiki. Now this idiot’s rant makes sense (as far as a liberal makes sense).

[Crawdad]

Reagan was president when Rush started. I wonder how long Rush was able to delay the state we find ourselves in today.

[Ikemeister]

I believe the GOP tried a version of Derb’s “middle brow conservatism’ when they ran McInsane in 2008. How did that work out, Derb?

[stayathomemom]

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”

I actually get a lot of chores done while I listen to Rush. He also makes my 20 minute workout go by rather quickly. I, however, generally save my errands for another time.