A few weeks ago I wrote about Glenn Beck. I’m not too fond of the guy. That aside, it’s a sad indictment of mainstream journalism when a guy like Beck keeps beating them to the punch on issues like ACORN and Van Jones. The White House has become obsessed with FOX news. Who can blame them? Every other major network is bowing at the altar of Obama. Notice the vitriol that has been heaped upon Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Breitbart, and even Sarah Palin. These people are guilty of having a different opinion. Over the past year who has contributed more to news, Glenn Beck or Keith Olbermann?
I’m not going to waste time calling for an advertising boycott of Olbermann. His show seems popular and there’s a demand for his take on politics. More power to him. Is Olbermann less divisive than Rush Limbaugh? It’s a difficult argument to make from the man who has a “world’s worst person” segment on his show. NBC uses Olbermann for sports coverage and liberals don’t seem to mind, but if Rush Limbaugh wants to partially own a team there’s outrage, fake quotes, and lies. No one apologizes because it’s fake but accurate.
It seems as though the left is doing a good job of dismissing all conservatives as stupid, racists, bigots and homophobes. These character assassinations are freezing the debate. If you truly believe, as Janeane Garofalo does, that conservatives have something wrong with their brains there’s a problem. When Garofalo made those asinine remarks Olbermann nodded right along.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a fable that teaches us that even when liars tell the truth they’re not believed. Today it seems that simply “crying wolf” is enough to believed. If you call Rush Limbaugh a racist long enough it’s just accepted as truth. If you call Sarah Palin stupid long enough it’s simply the truth. If you say President Obama is a woefully inexperienced, naïve, and liberal you must be a racist. The reason people like Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart keep breaking stories is because the mainstream press is too busy crying wolf to cover the news.
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh gave a speech at the annual CPAC event. I only caught the last 15 minutes of his speech but Rush was his normal funny, charming, and intelligent self. Rush has his faults just like everyone else but it’s a little annoying hearing liberals complain about a man they’ve never listened to, and know nothing about. In fact, most people who have never listened to Rush have only seen media hit pieces about the man. After the speech I did a quick Twitter search on Rush and wow, the lefties were up in arms. I guess conservatives should just shut up. Here’s a post from When I Write titled “Memo to Rush Limbaugh: Skoooozy!?” This is the typical shallow name calling post with nothing that could be considered an analysis.
“Rush Limbaugh calls on conservatives to take back nation” or something to that nature… I was in the mall reading it on the Treo, and I damn near did a back flip along with a cartwheel [i'm pretty large], so I’m just trying to get @ how outlandish that sounded coming out of his fat little puckered mouth.
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What does he [Rush Limbaugh] think the last 8 years was? A tea party of moderation? I seriously would like to know how the right wing nuts all of a sudden catch amnesia [sp - I'm on my Treo w/ no spell check, so skoozy if there are any errors] when it comes to shoveling sh@t about how Obama is creating this big gov’t and how they [insert any right wing nutjob here] simply aren’t about that and are against that. It makes all too perfect sense because we see it year after year in politics. One side pretends to be offended and the other pretends to be about something. SAVE IT!
I’m not exactly sure what the second paragraph is about, but it’s worth pointing out that conservatives have had issues with Bush and Republicans the past four years. Bush wasn’t a fiscal conservative. That’s the most annoying aspect of Obama’s change mantra. He’s not changing anything. He’s taking Bush’s spending spree and kicking it up a notch. In 2006 many Democrats ran under the banner of fiscal restraint and won. The same happened in 2008. The Democrats had no intention of implementing transparency and fiscal responsibility. Now that Obama is in the White House it is a partisan political free for all.
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