Rush: "Liberals Orgasm Over Web Pipe Dream" (Hot Link to Free Republic from his web site tonight)

Rush Limbaugh Web Site ^ | July 7, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[Matchett-PI]

After 15 years of saying they needed to find a liberal answer to me, the left has decided that they don't need talk radio because they "own" the Internet. Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times picks up this latest Democrat talking point in a piece headlined: "With Click of a Mouse, Liberals Find Answer to Limbaugh." Whenever one of these ideas germinates in the liberal wing of the party, it's all over the press. Liberals pass on whatever absurd talking point they hear without analyzing whether it's true or not; they don't think for themselves.

Brownstein distorts the tiny Howard Dean showing in the MoveOn.org primary into evidence that most everyone who boots up a computer is a liberal. In the audio links below, you can hear me debunk this absurdity. Remember: last November, Tom Daschle took a shot at me. Years ago, aboard Air Force One, Bill Clinton called KMOX to scream I lacked a "truth detector." Now, liberals are once again trying to create news out of something that's not news. They neglect to mention this very website, or to point out that no matter what the left has, it can't compare with Free Republic [hot link]. MoveOn has already seen their page views fall like a rock.

Howard Dean has raised $3.6 million on the Internet over the last three months from not quite 45,000 donors. Last Monday, Dean collected "a breathtaking" $820,000 online. These people are having orgasms over this! Brownstein quotes Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network: "This was an historic week where you had for the first time an unbelievably profound use of the Internet to mobilize regular people to participate in politics again." Historic? It's as if McCain 2000 never happened.

Brownstein gushes over MoveOn generating 200,000 e-mails earlier this year. Do you know how many e-mails Matt Drudge could generate if he chose to? I recounted the kind of crowd we drew for Dan's Bake Sale - [hot link] - at a time when we certainly didn't have the news media talking it up 24 hours a day as they did with this online primary. J.P. Gownder's Washington Post column, "An Online Revolution? I Don't See It," sort of shines the light of reality on this latest leftist fantasy. He cites that more than half of the $7.5 million in campaign cash Dean raised in the second quarter of 2003, came from the Internet, but...

"Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi boasted to a Post reporter, 'We have the largest grassroots organization in America right now and we are going to utilize it.' Sounding a bit like a 1999 vintage dot-com business promoter, Trippi said, 'If television took the grassroots out of politics, the Internet will put it back in.'" Not to put down the Internet - certainly not here - but these people are living in a dream world. Gownder exposes the idea of Dean's online support translating into actual voters by citing the over 55,000 "members" of Dean's MeetUp.com group. The meetings the group has held drew only a few dozen supporters on average. And these guys are throwing a party over this? Dream on!

Let me sum it up for you this way: Brownstein doesn't appear to know that I have one of the most-widely visited websites available dealing with politics and current events. We don't run from technology here, we embrace it. Second, there will always be a large audience for the spoken word, assuming those in positions to speak are cutting-edge, entertaining and, above all, informative. Third, unlike reading a newspaper or a website, talk radio can be heard in cars, in the shower, and places where computer access is difficult. And finally, whether talk radio or websites, the left will never dominate either. The problem for liberals runs deeper than the form of communication. It is the NATURE of their communication. Not only are they humorless, their message is negative and their view of the public is condescending. Liberalism is the ideology of elitists, which, by definition, limits the size of the audience.

Listen to Rush...

(...read the Ron Brownstein reprinting of the Democrats fantasy: owning the Internet) (...discuss why the Dean online performance is a fan dance in 'net pants) (...cite the numbers on MoveOn's failure to continue drawing online users)

Those Who Join Mass Movements Are Failures in Their Individual Lives... (Don't Miss Thomas Sowell On Eric Hoffer - 7.03.03) [hot link]

Visit the Limbaugh Archives… (Leader of the Free World Obsessed with Limbaugh - 11.21.02) [hot link]

Read the Articles...

(LA Times: With Click of a Mouse, Liberals Find Answer to Limbaugh - Brownstein) [hot link]

(TIME: How Dean Is Winning The Web) [hot link]

(Washington Post: An Online Revolution? I Don't See It - J.P. Gownder) [hot link]

[Jumper]

Freerepublic does not seem to be a drag on the Repbulcian Party but then some of us can afford to pay for our benefits.... The Democrats are still waiting for someone to create and give to them "everything"!

[lowbridge]

I'm still amazed when I run into conservatives who haven't yet heard of Free Republic. We need some free publicity to get more visibility.

[lowbridge]

The Church of the Anti-Crust (Hillary)

[Lancey Howard]

Rush Limbaugh is the King.
I will never forget his role in the Republican takeover of Congress from the scumbags in '94, and his relentless, ongoing efforts to educate the ignorant rabble.

Decent, hardworking, traditional Americans and their families have a lot of things to be thankful for, and Rush's program is one of them. It is no wonder that the other side, the Democrats, have been gnashing their teeth for well over a decade. Their greatest enemy is TRUTH and with C-span, talk radio, cable/satellite TV, and the internet, the Democrat Party USA has nowhere to hide. The liberal press is imploding and the network newsrooms are wholly inadequate anymore for carrying the Democrats' water and regurgitating their talking points to a captive dinnertime audience. Their party is over.
Thanks, Rush!

[Lancey Howard]

I also found Free Republic through Drudge.
On the morning that Jackie Judd "broke" the intern scandal on ABC, I went to my computer and located Drudge's site. Clicking on the headline took me straight to White Water (that's the way it was spelled here - - two words), which I promptly bookmarked.
Been here ever since.

[CyberAnt]

What's almost better than the link to FR - there is NO link to move-on. LOL

[11B3]

Scary picture of The Ankle, but shouldn't she be on fire or smoking in any Holy place? If I've ever seen a good place for an exorcism, that photo is the "Kodak moment". She's creepy as Hell - not a sane moment behind those eyes.

[au eagle]

Ditto

[Tamzee]

Thanks to Rush... I heard his chat today on this subject and chuckled my way through it thinking of Free Republic :-)

[SevenDaysInMay]

I wood to.

It's the edit checker that will be costly.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

After 15 years of saying they needed to find a liberal answer to me, the left has decided that they don't need talk radio because they "own" the Internet. Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times picks up this latest Democrat talking point in a piece headlined: "With Click of a Mouse, Liberals Find Answer to Limbaugh." Whenever one of these ideas germinates in the liberal wing of the party, it's all over the press. Liberals pass on whatever absurd talking point they hear without analyzing whether it's true or not; they don't think for themselves.

Waaaah-hahahahaha-haaah!!!
LOL!

What...do they have...Woody Allen writing their talking points material? Someone must have put magic mushrooms in the DNC coffee again...

[Moonman62]

After 15 years of saying they needed to find a liberal answer to me, the left has decided that they don't need talk radio because they "own" the Internet.

I think that's great. The liberals are more likely to keep regulations away and let it grow if they feel that they own it. And that's good for us.

[Redcloak]

Kinda says it all...

[rwfromkansas]

You could advertise in my college newspaper and it wouldn't cost very much.

I will have to look at our rates, but I am co-editor and needless to say, I got enough stuff to worry about on such an extremely small publication and so the more ads I can get before school starts, the more I will feel relieved.....lol.

And hey, it would be helping FR out.

BTW, the college paper is printed in the local town paper, so you will reach a bunch of rural Kansans with it, not just the campus.

If interested, Freepmail me and I will try to get into the student government office so I can figure out what the heck our rates are and how to bill you etc.

[rwfromkansas]

You could advertise in my college newspaper and it wouldn't cost very much.

I will have to look at our rates, but I am co-editor and needless to say, I got enough stuff to worry about on such an extremely small publication and so the more ads I can get before school starts, the more I will feel relieved.....lol.

And hey, it would be helping FR out.

BTW, the college paper is printed in the local town paper, so you will reach a bunch of rural Kansans with it, not just the campus.

If interested, Freepmail me and I will try to get into the student government office so I can figure out what the heck our rates are and how to bill you etc.

[rwfromkansas]

oh crap....sorry for sending that to everyone.

[Bob J]

Advertising in conservative college publications should be a linchpin for FR in reaching out to tomorrows voters.

[David Isaac]

The numbers on the verticle scale on your graph would seem to be inverted. Yes? And yes, it is very telling.

[jern]

for later.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Hey, after the current freep-a-thon, anyone interested in an FR "Market-a-thon" to raise funds for print ads in major conservative publications and an outdoor (billboard) campaign in the top 20 markets?

Count me in if it comes to pass.