Point taken. We sill need to fight it tooth and nail, though. This is the emerging strategy of the left for 2004. I am going to continue to shout it as loud as I can so everybody can hear me. :-) THEY WILL ATTACK FNC, TALK RADIO, AND THE INTERNET. Over. And over. And over again.
We must hold firm.
Limbaugh is an inspiration to me in this regard. I started listening to him in the mid-nineties out of curiosity surrounding a "Rush is Right" bumper sticker I saw.
What I was facinated by was the fact that A) he gave a voice to the opinions I had formed independent of anyone or any group. B) the attack he was under did not square with my observation of what the guy was all about.
This was in fact my first experience with raw unconcealed fraudulant character assassination. It really opened my eyes. But Rush perservered, survived. He is still drawing fire, but his audience/influence continues to grow. So I am emboldened by the knowledge that the truth can win.
Being the target of character assassination is no longer something to avoid, it is a sign that you are making powerful adversaries nervous. So much so that they are willing to risk the eventual loss of their own credibility and political future hoping you will lose the will to fight before you can turn the world against them.
That just makes me all the more determined.
Eddie01