[woodyinscc]

You are so far off base, in fact you are sitting in the bleachers! Where is all the cynicism coming from?

ABC/ESPN made the proposition to Rush!

[Dane]

Well I just Rush is wrong on this and it may to do something to keep his ESPN/ABC bosses happy.

Take this quote for example.

"[W]e need active government." Those words never would have crossed Reagan's lips. They would have crossed the lips of Nixon easily. When I heard that line I thought, "Who wrote this speech? Bill Kristol?" So we're looking at similarities, but not to Reagan.

Reagan signed the earned income tax credit, that is activist government. Reagan signed a doubling of capital gains tax in 86 and a Tip O'Neill tax increase in 82. More activist government.

Look I think that Reagan was great President, but I don't appreciate Rush trying to make comparisons to Bush and Nixon, especially since Nixon will always be tainted by Watergate and once a person who knows nothing about politics listens to Rush comparing him to Nixon to the political neophyte, one light bulb lights up in the head, watergate.

JMO, but I think this Bush/Nixon comparison is a backhanded slap to Bush since he doesn't follow Rush 110% and plus it does make his new boss Michael Eisner happy and in his good graces at ABC/ESPN when he hears such rhetoric.

[Dane]

BTW, I don't think that Rush with his radio show is employed by ABC. Yes it runs on ABC radio stations such as WABC, but I beleive that it has always been a syndication deal, and is currently with Premier broadcasting, which IIRC is owned by Clear Channel.

With his football gig, he is under direct ABC/ESPN employ.