Posted on 06/05/2002 10:41:16 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
Around 1:20 PM, judt before he play the latest Paul Shanklin parody entitled, "BAD MOOD ON THE RIGHT", he said, now this is just in fun, and "I don't want anybody "GOING FREEPER" on me".
Now he's playing it again. Bush (Shanklin) is singing the ditty. It's GREAT!!!
You can go to Paul Shanklin's web site and hear it if you missed it.
Maybe I was reading more into what he was saying, but I don't think so. He was being pretty coy, saying that this time his criticism "paid off."
Only if the course is restricted. :)
You got it!!!
Here is my theory --- I sent this to a friend last night:
What Rush is doing now (that Bush has *safely* been elected) is shoring up his own credibility so that he can't be accused of being exactly what he accused the DemocRATS of being --- "Kool-aid drinkers" for Clinton. He ALWAYS railed against the DemocRATS for refusing to criticize Clinton no matter WHAT he did.
I would do exactly what Rush is doing --- continuing to stand for conservative principles and pointing it out when Bush is off the conservative reservation. [This is an effective way to continue to educate people on conservatism].
By doing that, he's denying his enemies an opportunity to accuse him of not being true to his conservative "principles", and merely being a Bush / Republican Kool-Aid drinker.
This is very important groundwork for Rush to lay down now. There are lots of hard-core "principled" conservatives who are IRATE that Bush is compromising with the DemocRATS, and don't understand his political strategy for doing it. Many of those people are in Rush's audience.
Those are the ones who are stupid and bull-headed enough to sit out an election rather than vote for him again. Rush has to keep his credibility up with _them_ so that when the time comes and he endorses Bush on the next election, a majority of them will (even if grudgingly) give Bush another chance and go out and vote for him.
Rush will be there for Bush at EVERY crucial juncture *when it matters.* There is method in is his *madness*.
I think it's hilarious how he puts people on the air (letting them be the "Kool-Aid drinkers") letting _THEM_ praise and defend Bush and chide _him_ at the same time.
He effectively kills two birds with one stone when he does that. Bush gets praised and defended in front of Rush's vast audience, and Rush proves he's not a Kool-Aid drinker, "mouth-piece" for the Republican party.
That's my own personal "take" on the matter. :D
Never forget that Rush is not an activist, not a philosopher; he's just an entertainer!
What he says may or may not be right, it may or may not reflect Conservative values, but it is all done to ENTERTAIN.
And it works.
Is that kinda like "goin' Postal on ya'", or maybe gettin' a coupla pipe hittin' homeboys with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and gettin' "medieval on your a$$"?
I was driving back to my office listening to Rush when I "thought" I heard him say that. Funny song by the way and thanks for the confirmation.
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