Posted on 07/21/2010 11:05:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
This morning I asked Rush Limbaugh what he thought of references to him on the private left-wing journalist discussion group JournoList. As reported in the Daily Caller, Sarah Spitz, producer* of the KCRW public radio program “Left, Right and Center,” which is heard on a number of NPR stations across the country, wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would “laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.”
“I never knew I had this much hate in me,” Spitz wrote, according to the Daily Caller account. “But he deserves it.”
So I asked Limbaugh: What do you make of the fact that people in positions of influence on the Left don’t just want to see you fail, don’t just want to see you marginalized, but would actually like to witness you dying a painful death?
“Not having wished anyone dead, nor having fantasized about watching someone die, I cannot possibly relate to this,” Limbaugh responded.
I can only surmise. I think most people on the left live in a world where merit is irrelevant. Theirs is a world in which connections, networking, kissing ass and obedient sameness are rewarded. I am the antithesis of all that. I am a legitimate, achieved and accomplished Number One and I’ve made it on my own and without them and without having followed their proscriptions. I think they are also jealous that I just sold my NY condo for a 125 percent profit while their homes are worthlessly underwater.
Funny thing….a number of my friends sent me the Daily Caller piece and the most shocking thing to them in the story was the advocacy of having government shut down Fox News. That the left wants me dead was not a big deal to them because it was nothing new to them. I think that’s hilarious. And about that: how about the LAW professor who thinks the FCC can pull Fox’s license? Fox does not have a license. The FCC does not grant Fox its right to exist. And this guy teaches law.
A few minutes later, Limbaugh emailed an additional thought. “And it is not just that they hate how I became who I am,” he wrote. “They literally hate ME. They hate me because I am the most prominent, effective and unrelenting voice of conservatism and they have not been able to stop me.”
Limbaugh will certainly have more to say about this on his program, but his response does point to a central dilemma for some on the Left: Would they rather see Fox out of business or Limbaugh dead? That, for the journalists of JournoList, would be a very hard call.
UPDATE: Not long after this was posted, Limbaugh wrote to add a more complete statement:
And it is not just that they hate how I became who I am. They literally hate ME. They hate me because I am the most prominent, effective and unrelenting voice of conservatism and they have not been able to stop me. These people and their tactics are not new, we’ve seen them before in other countries and other times. They want to destroy contrary and opposition voices and views. They will climb over the law and the people to achieve their aims. Earlier in this administration, the president and his hacks targeted me, his party targeted me and their groups targeted me. They are all the same. They are leftists, disguised as lawyers, judges, scholars, professors, teachers, reporters, anchors, senators, representatives, legislative aids, congressional staff, federal bureaucrats, etc. There is NO Media. We know that now. There is just an incestuous relationship among all these various groups and a revolving door connecting them all.
Can you say hypocrites? I knew you could
Me, too.
The irony is that these pro-islam/commie/homo lovers will be the first to die if Sharia reaches America.
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57 states, corpseman, japanese dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor, we cannot access his grades in school, as head of Harvard Review was the only one that never wrote anything, Ayers ghostwrote his books, etc.....he is stupid. He has handlers that are smart though, at least with respect to destroying America.
I call them evildoers.
“if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would ‘laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.’”
People wish death on others all the time, but that’s an oddly specific fantasy.
O'Reilly Factor - Left-wing "reporters" met with John Kerry in Al Franken's apartment
In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of:
Al Franken and his wife Franni;
Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker;
David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker;
Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine;
Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent for Newsweek;
Jeff Greenfield, senior correspondent and analyst for CNN;
Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times;
Eric Alterman, author and columnist for MSNBC and the Nation;
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist/author of ‘Maus’;
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post;
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate;
Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate and author;
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek;
Philip Gourevitch, columnist for the New Yorker;
Calvin Trillin, freelance writer and author;
Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author;
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who needs no introduction.
We sat in a circle around Kerry and grilled him for two long hours. In an age of retail politicians who avoid substance the way vampires avoid sunlight, in an age when the sitting President flounders like a gaffed fish whenever he must speak to reporters without a script, Kerry’s decision to open himself to the slings and arrows of this group was bold and impressive. He was fresh from two remarkable speeches – one lambasting the PATRIOT Act, another outlining his foreign policy ideals while eviscerating the Bush record – and had his game face on. He needed it, because Eric Alterman lit into him immediately on the all-important issue of his vote for the Iraq War Resolution. The prosecution had begun.
It seems that Journolist just virtualized these meetings.
-PJ
Republicans controlled Gov’t for many years, not long ago, and could have easily killed the disgusting National Endowment for the Arts and de-funded NPR.
But they did nothing.
The wish to kill conservatives is now being openly expressed. Is this open expression a symptom of a coming Social War?
Sandra Bernhard’s a racist!
Blacks are not all sexual predators, nor are they all “big.”
...”Sounds a lot like Germany in the 1930’s”...
Exactly..The question is whether something will be done about it this time so that another halocaust is prevented.
NPR is NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, funded by taxpayers.
WE KNEW it Ms Spitz. It is self-evident. You are a leftist; therefore, you are hate-filled.
Just mentioning the possibility of slightly reducing the rate of growth in funding these sacred cows sent up apoplectic fits and cries that the GOP was killing Big Bird and Cookie Monster; yet you think the republicans "could have easily killed" these budget items? Either you weren't paying attention, or you grossly misunderstood the political landscape of the last 15 years.
“...Just mentioning the possibility of slightly reducing the rate of growth in funding these sacred cows sent up apoplectic fits and cries that the GOP was killing Big Bird and Cookie Monster; yet you think the republicans “could have easily killed” these budget items? Either you weren’t paying attention, or you grossly misunderstood the political landscape of the last 15 years...”
If the GOP can’t stand up to the charge they are killing the cookie monster, then either they are completely useless and/or this country is so addicted to every ridiculous Gov’t program out that nothing will ever be cut. Either way, we are finished and we might as well give up now.
I made the rather foolish mistake of tuning into the Howard Stern show this morning, and I heard this dumb b*tch Bernhard and Howard’s trophy wife cackling like a pair of Long Island yentas about how cute their dogs were. Even Robin seemed annoyed with them, and Howard, instead of calling them out for being yentas as he would have years ago, cackled right along.
Actually, I think that in their heart of hearts, Leftists/humanists know full well that they are Luciferian. As Beck recently pointed out, Obama's idea of 'collective salvation' is completely and absolutely Luciferian.
If the pictures I’ve seen of “Sarah Spitz” at KCRW on Google Images is her, then I can see why the hate:
Just another old, fat, ugly, unfeminine, embittered NOW-type piglet slurping from the public trough
If the question is whether or not the GOP was effective in responding to the blatantly false claims leveled by the clinton administration and perpetuated by the drive-by media, then you have a point to discuss. But one should acknowledge that no matter how well the GOP "stands up to the charge" or how articulately the GOP explains the difference between a reduction in the rate of growth and a cut (after all, how hard should it be to point out that only a democrat or a complete idiot could with a straight face call an increase from $1 million to 1.1 million a "cut"), when the DNC propaganda arm of CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS parrots the clinton talking points 24/7, the general public is too gullible and stupid to figure out the truth.
Nope. It was Julianne Malveaux. BTW, "Malveaux" means "bad calves" in French.
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