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Rosie was wrong Steele can melt

Posted: March 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Or at least he can melt down when asked about conservatives.

On the same night he was offering the keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rush Limbaugh drew criticism from an unlikely source: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

In a little-noticed interview Saturday night, Steele dismissed Limbaugh as an “entertainer” whose show is “incendiary” and “ugly.”

You know I left the democratic party when I perceived that believing Catholics are apparently racist bigoted homophobes who oppress women.

If Mr. Steele thinks that as a conservative who agrees with Rush is not welcome either I’m sure I can find somewhere else to go. And if the RNC site blog is any indication if I do I wouldn’t be lonely at all.

Ask and before your post is done you receive:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”

“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”

Not really sounding much like a party leader, but its still early and there is time to recover. Watch for the left to pounce with glee. That is the point when we will find out if Steele is a leader or no.

Update: Why was this a big deal? This is from Rush’s statement on the matter:

My parents taught me when I was growing up that you always stood behind people who defended you, you never abandoned people who stood up for you and who defended you against assault. Michael Steele was a candidate for the Senate in Maryland. Michael Steele was on this program, he got airtime on this program to attempt to refute the lies being told about him by Michael J. Fox in those famous ads way back when that were also run against Jim Talent in Missouri. I personally took time to defend Michael Steele and to rip the substance of those ads, had him on the show. I went after Chuck Schumer when Chuck Schumer’s former employee stole Michael Steele’s private credit record information and released it. When I went to Washington a couple years ago for a personal appearance from my station there, WMAL, WMAL arranged for a number of dignitaries to meet me backstage. One of them was Michael Steele, who thanked me very much for coming to his defense. Something’s happened. Now I’m just an entertainer and now I am ugly and my program is incendiary.

Any Sicilian knows you stick by those who stick by you.

Update 2: Hot air is divided. Or at least Allahpundit is.

Morning Joe Rush to Judgement?

Posted: March 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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No Joe today so far, I’m very disappointed, I’d like better than Pat defending Rush this morning. I was looking forward to today.

6:03 a.m.The weatherman tweaks them “You’re not the first show of the day” He likely has been busy.

6:07 a.m. Andy Serwer: “It’s true that its never worked but…” He conveniently forgets that Rush was against Tarp #1 as well.

6:08 a.m. Could Joe be gone so he doesn’t have to comment on Rush and then run in Florida?

6:12 a.m. I wonder if they will touch on anything else Rush said. Mika talks temperament and tone. I guess substance is an optional extra.

6:14 a.m. I notice not a single republican on the list of guests on a day they will talk about Rush.

6:20 a.m. Are we going in a direction where we don’t want to go? asks Mika Serwer agrees that might be the case, Gee what famous public figure suggested that two days ago?

6:32 a.m. More snow angels and I have the times right now.

6:36 a.m. Is it “becoming” a bad word? When has socialism been good?

6:58 a.m. Hey lets make fun of the clean cut kid who defined Conservatism. He must get beaten up etc etc etc. Mika is laughing along on that. They aren’t even trying today.

7:00 a.m. I’ll give it another hour, today this looks like just another MSNBC show. I might not last that long.

7:07 a.m. It would be interesting to see if they are willing to quote any other part of his 80 min speech.

7:09 a.m. It’s all about how dare he says it this way, all about temperament, not about substance. I don’t think I’m going to make it to 7:30.

7:12 a.m. Pat stands alone.

7:15 a.m. Huckabee’s MSBS line is looking pretty solid this morning.

7:17 a.m. I don’t hear Mika talking about her crush on Rush today.

7:28 a.m. And of course with Pat we don’t know Iran is building a bomb.

7:41 a.m. Todd reminds them of 1994, they still won’t touch any other part of his speech.

7:44 a.m. Was this an 80 min or a 60 second speech.

7:53 a.m. Radio is a dying medium? Mika will be pleased to hear that. Tell me who has more ears listening to him Limbaugh or Todd?

8:12 a.m. Hunt is right about one thing, Obama will never get the leeway he is getting now so he is making the most of it.

A dangerous wish for the left

Posted: March 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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All over the net we see the left celebrating the idea that Rush Limbaugh has a higher profile:

Politico:

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel charged Sunday that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”

Emanuel, speaking in deliberately soothing tones, told anchor Bob Schieffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Limbaugh has been up front about “praying for failure” by President Obama.


Washington Monthly:

It’s a strategy with all kinds of appeal. Limbaugh is not exactly a respected public figure (drug-addled shock-jock who’s actively rooting for America’s decline), but Republicans continue to hold him in high regard. With that in mind, Democrats and Limbaugh, oddly enough, have the same goal: convince the general public that he’s the ostensible head of the Republican Party.

Greg Sargent:

Top Democratic operatives are planning a stepped up campaign to promote Rush Limbaugh as the public face of the GOP — an effort that will include recruiting Dem governors to make this case on talk shows, getting elected officials to pen Op eds arguing it, and running more ads pushing it, a senior Democratic operative says.

Key leadership staff in the House and Senate, and in all the political committees, have been encouraged by senior Dem operatives to push this message wherever possible, the operative says.

“I’m encouraging everybody to go out and say this,” Paul Begala, the well-known Dem strategist, just told me by phone. “I’m hot for this. Let’s get this out every way we can.”

All this talk is foolish. Combine the Democratic party’s efforts with CNN’s decision to broadcast the entire Rush Broadcast adds up to a lot of people who will actually be exposed to not the caricature of Rush Limbaugh that the media creates but the actual person with actual ideas and belief and the ability to articulate them (Andrew Sullivan not withstanding).

Since Rush also very leery of phony ambush journalism he is able to deliver a tight message when he appears as a guest on various shows.

As our democratic friends seem to have forgotten 1994 lets point out that a person doesn’t become the most popular radio host in history and remain so for two decades without being able to communicate. CNN’s attempt to turn the speech into something it wasn’t isn’t effective when people have actually seen it.

Combine his skills with the likely result of the Obama policies and I suspect we will see conservatives with a lot more seats in 2010 and maybe even a different result in 2012.

Kevin Cosner needs to thank Rush Limbaugh…

Posted: March 1, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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…Because a million people who likely never would have rented Swing Vote now likely have it on their netflix list.

It would be interesting to see how the rental changes this week.

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