Archive for December, 2009

I can guarantee that all those liberals hoping for Rush’s death will get their wish…

Posted: December 31, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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…hopefully just not yet.

Seriously we conservatives need to remember that the graveyards are full of indefensible men and sooner or later Rush will die, or simply retire. This is a basic fact of life. After all as he has said many times, it is talent on loan from God.

Idolitry is a not only a sin, it is foolish. Rush is the best at what he does, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy what other people do. Babe Rush was and is the greatest baseball player who ever lived, (Ok name another player who hit for power and average like him, stole over 100 bases AND had a won loss record of 94-46 with a career ERA of 2.28!) but that doesn’t mean that Lou Geherg, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial or Hank Aaron or Derek Jeter are not worth watching.

Sooner or later someone of Rush’s quality will rise again and our liberal friends will be up in arms, but it will not be because the person will be the next Rush Limbaugh, it will be because it will be the first of themselves.

Update: Why do I have an image of this scene with Rush as Peter Davidson and Sarah Palin as Colin Baker

Likely because we are 24 hours away from the 10th Doctor’s Regeneration.

Let’s see how nice liberals can be…

Posted: December 30, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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now that Rush apparently is in the hospital with chest pains.

I’d keep an eye on memeorandum and see what the comments at the liberal sites are. Perhaps I’m being unfair but when this shows up at the Huffpo I’ll be really surprised to see comments open.

Update: Surprise Surprise Surprise and she is right this is THE twitter of the day:

Irony = Hoping Rush Limbaugh Dies. Then asking for citizens to trust you with power.

If you really want to see nasty comments check out the “pop” side of memeorandum “WeSmirch“. The comments particularly at popeater are really something.

Update: American Power links, thanks muchly.

Answer: Because it’s right on the mark

Posted: December 30, 2009 by datechguy in elections
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Q: Why is Robert Stacy using my shtick <thanks USCitizen> to talk about my state election for senate?

What a lot of people forget is that Massachusetts was once a solid GOP state till Tip O’Neil and John McCormick decided to try to change it so a statewide effort needs to be made but it takes time and effort to recruit candidates and to convince fatalistic Massachusetts residents that it can be done.

We live here, we have seen what these changes have done to our state and yet as a population we have elected Liberals in vast numbers. Some are nice guys, I met congressman Olver as I held a McCain sign opposite him, he was very friendly and personable, but that doesn’t make them any more right.

With the Red Sox World Series victories perhaps the fatalism can be shaken but it requires several things.

It requires the GOP to be willing to recruit candidates across the state.

It requires those candidates to be willing to put themselves out there.

It requires the voters to be willing to believe that change can happen.

and most of all it requires that voters WANT the change.

The entrenched interests sustain themselves with the current system, they will fight back but other than a stolen election it is the voters willingness to return these liberal year after year that does it.

Until we are willing to stop doing this to ourselves it will continue to happen, but eventually enough people will leave that our electoral count will be so insignificant as to be irrelevant.

Jeff Dunham cancelled in Comedy Central red state purge

Posted: December 29, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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About 50 years ago CBS ruled the roost with a series of shows that appealed to rural audiences such as Petticoat Junction, ,Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R.F.D., and Hogan’s Heroes. Around 1971 these shows were canceled in what was called the Rural purge. They were all still popular, all still successful but generally paned by urban critics.

These shows continue to make money in syndication.

Fast forward to 2009 and it looks like comedy central has decided CBS had a point:

Achmed the Dead Terrorist has been all but buried on Comedy Central. Press representatives for the network said on Tuesday that its hit series featuring that contentious puppet — not to mention Jeff Dunham, the man with a hand up his back — will not be picked up for a second season, confirming a report that appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.

Well it isn’t like the old days with only three networks, a specialty network like comedy central has to cater to the shows that bring in the absolute highest ratings not just red state stuff…oh wait:

The decision comes as a bit of a surprise given that “Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special,” a performance shown on Comedy Central in 2008, is that channel’s most-viewed broadcast ever, drawing 6.6 million viewers, and the premiere of “The Jeff Dunham Show” was watched by 5.3 million viewers.

Well ok it had millions of viewers a whole lot more than the entire MSNBC lineup, but it’s not as if it was in response to the decisions of urban critics…oh wait again:

A widely read post on the Web site videogum.com declared, “‘The Jeff Dunham Show’ Is the Worst Thing in the Entire World.” In The New York Times, Neil Genzlinger wrote, “Offensiveness is a mutable thing, especially on television, where everything is interchangeable: a Lewis Black joke could be a Jay Leno joke could be a Jeff Dunham joke.”

So bottom line a niche network chooses to cancel a show that still brought in millions of viewers after critics pan it.

I guess comedy central isn’t immune to PC.

Update: Welcome Salon readers, I haven’t quite figured out what this post has to do with the article that linked me but welcome just the same. Feel free to check out my weekend Amazon Reviews. Read a Massachusetts Republican’s take on the Brown Coakley race. Check out my Dr. Who End of Time rant and read my poetic answer to Al Gore.

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