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.
These are the people who callconservatives “mean spirited”.
“Remember the esteemed journalist who wished that Clarence Thomas wife would feed him butter and bacon so he would die early?”
Or hell’n Thomas. Ship the jews back to the ovens!
too bad
You are right, where is my brain, it is tough getting old. I know Brazile hasn’t been very kind with her remarks.
Notice the arrogant pos is right behind her laughing stupidly
I believe, but am not positive, I read where W. actually increased funding for NPR and the National Endowment.
From what I have been lead to believe, he was actually very generous to all the artists out there.
I wonder how many watch this idiot? It can’t be many
Eww, how gross. I ought to hit the abuse button on you for posting this ugly creature’s mug shut. She is ugly in and out
It’s hard to be humble when you’re numero uno, like Rush is in his field.
And why should he. Enraging liberals is the right thing to do, as it let’s the sheeple see what their masters really are.
You forgot that they speak Austrian in Austria.
I was being sarcastic
"Rotten meat".
Yeah and the rats would have stood by and just let it go. /sarcasm>
And the Republicans on NEA and NPR: “For God’s sake, don’t touch it - they might accuse us of killing Big Bird!!”
You realize the Republicans are in the minority or did you miss that? *rme
Public Radio Publicist Apologizes For Controversial Remarks About Limbaugh
Until 2006 they were not in the minority.
I am talking about now, not 2006
Even when the GOP had the majority, it was always a thin majority (even thinner when you consider the voting tendencies of Snowe, Collins, Jeffords, Sphincter, Lindsey Graham, McLame). The GOP leadership often had to reach across the aisle to get these RINO's to vote with the party. Even with that majority, they could not count on party-line support like the dems do. And, with the drive-by media, partisan obstruction and parliamentary procedural posturing is not political stonewalling when it is done by dems.
And the Republicans on NEA and NPR: “For God’s sake, don’t touch it - they might accuse us of killing Big Bird!!”
The Rats had a 60-vote majority, and even with that had to engage in blatant vote-buying just to get the 60 votes to invoke cloture, then more vote-buying to get Rats in the house to betray their earlier votes and sign up to the Senate version of the bill. A complicit and conspiratorial media aided the dems by ignoring the most egregious stories regarding these issues. It's easy to sit back and monday-morning quarterback and say the republicans didn't do this or that when they had the chance. But with all the things that are very valid criticisms of the GOP congress spending like drunken sailors with a stolen credit card, the idea that they could have defunded NEA or NPR or the department of Education or any other wasteful boondoggle like these is just pure fantasy.
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