Posted on 11/03/2009 9:07:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the “21” Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a “reporterette,” to use a Limbaugh coinage.
He was charming, in a shy, awkward, lonely-guy way. Not a man of the people. He arrived in a chauffeured town car and ordered $70-an-ounce Beluga, Porterhouse and 1990 Corton-Charlemagne.
But he was not a Neanderthal, though he did have a cold and blew his nose in his napkin. He talked about Chopin’s Polonaise No. 6, C.S. Lewis and how much he loved the end of the movie “Love Story.”
In those days, he called himself a “harmless little fuzzball.” He’s a lot less harmless now. I went on to columny, as my pal Bill Safire called it, and Rush went on to calumny.
As he and Sarah Palin conduct their auto-da-fé of moderate Republicans — “Moderates by definition have no principles,” he told his radio audience on Monday — Limbaugh is more than ever the face of his party, as Rahm Emanuel said.
He’s also the mouth.
Limbaugh is right that Democrats tend to dither too much. They’re always wondering if they’re doing the right thing, indulging in on-the-one-hand, on-the-other paralysis by analysis, seeing, as James Carville put it, “six sides to the Pentagon.”
President Obama will have to step it up on jobs and fixing the deficit if he wants to block conservatives from stoking the anger of Americans who only see a recovery on Wall Street, especially given Republicans’ inroads Tuesday night.
But the tactics of Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney & Fille are more cynical: They spin certainty, ignoring their side’s screw-ups, and they exploit patriotism, labeling all critics as traitors.(continued)
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Are all “journalists” transsexuals?
I love that rule.
Catt-eh, eh, what.
MoDo, you are an ignorant slut.
Mo, just because Rush has a huge ego doesn’t mean he can’t point that out in someone else, just as in the same way it’s OK for you to say someone else is a depressed, dried up old skank....
I only check in on these dowd posts to see pictures of Catherine.
You! You feath ffreak junkie. Maureen Shroud! Take the nbeedle out from between your toes.
A “true” douche bag.
Err...uhh...Katherine.
Who are we calling Narcissists?
Well not the columnists at the New York Times - parish the thought....
Thank goodness for that rule.
>>reporterette<<
He has grown — now, they are “News-babes.”
And you ain’t one no more, Mo.
Nuff Said :)
Angry spinster with a keyboard, clinging, clinging, clinging to whatever scraps of relevancy remain.
That one never gets old! I’m just here for the pictures, dammit!!
Much rather have Rush as the face of my party than Rahm.
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