He will launch into ecstasies of indignation over things of which he has little more than a superficial knowledge and understanding.
Two cases in point were the NY Times article about the EPA's report on global warming and the Washington Post article about the supposed opposition of the military chiefs to an attack on Iraq.
Both articles were misrepresentions to one extent or another but Rush swallowed them hook, line and sinker and used them as springboards to launch rhetorical assaults on the Bush administration.
As a perceptive commentator on contemporary America, Rush is a has-been.
hmmm... In the case of Iraq, I think the jury is out on that one. We'll see soon enough if they are going to do anything of substance. In the case of the EPA report, Bush should have known this report was coming out. (This process of releasing EPA BS started with his dad...) He let klintonoids pull a fast one on him, and he denied it when he faced criticism. He even claimed he read it. He didn't. Which one is sticking to one's principles? This was a disaster on many levels. He wanted to play the middle, but all he ended up doing was p!$$ing everyone off. Conservatives are angry, because he supports enviro wacko lies, and liberals are just as mad at him as they were before. They may be stupid, but they know a half-hearted attempt at A$$ kissing when they see one. My own Wacko-greenie aunt still hates him, but the diference is that NOW she thinks this global warming crap is truer than ever!
From NewsMax.com---Monday, June 10, 2002 Fleischer: Bush Didn't Read 'Global Warming' Report White House press secretary Ari Fleischer says President Bush didn't read his Environmental Protection Agency's 268-page report on the theory of "global warming", even if he said he did
The president's spokesman then jested that his candor could cost him his job. "I've enjoyed working here, thank you," Fleischer said today.
Fleischer was asked at his daily briefing about Bush's comments that he'd read the report.
"Whenever presidents say they read it, you can read that to be he was briefed," Fleischer said. The reporters laughed and clapped.
When Bush was asked about it last week, he dismissively said, "I read the report put out by the bureaucracy."