This is Limbaugh's America where a physically disabled woman is shouted down at a Town Hall Meeting while she practically begs for some relief from the greedy corporate healthcare system that is beggaring her just because she had the misfortune to become ill.
This is Limbaugh's America where you can't even have civil public discourse about a vital issue like healthcare reform without name-calling and threats of violence. He has his dittoheads so convinced that they are the oppressed minority about to be interred in a camp or killed by some mythical "Socialist" government that they are packing guns to attend Town Hall Meetings with the President and are busily organizing for some coming revolution.
This is Limbaugh's America, where a large percentage of the populace is somehow convinced that the media in this country is run by Liberals who are out to destroy our economy and turn the country into a giant Marxist commune. It matters not that conservatives have publicly outed this notion as a lie:
"William Kristol (influential Conservative and editor of Weekly Standard) in 1995
I admit it"The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
Brent Bozell (head of the right-wing "Media Research Center")
""In his lecture to the Heritage Foundation in 1992, Bozell admitted"The "monopoly" liberals held in the media had been "broken" by the "conservative network."""We have learned that many in the media are quite open to the conservative perspective if it is presented properly. We provide journalists with the conservative argument on a given issue, lead them to the organization expert in it, and recommend qualified spokesmen"It is amazing how very receptive some journalists are to this assistance"" http://media.eriposte.com/1.htm<;/blockquote>
This is Limbaugh's America much more so than it is Obama's. Rush knows this but it does not serve his interests to admit it. It serves his financial, political, egotistical and personal interests to continue to sew fear, distrust, and hate by smearing and lying and spreading conservative propaganda and whipping people into a hysterical frenzy. Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and other Fox News disinformationists would not have a podium had he not paved the way. THIS is Limbaugh's America and he does NOT get to stand aside and pretend that the toxic seed that he helped to sow and its resultant poisoned harvest belongs to anyone else.
P.S. Lest you accuse me of being overly biased about the hate speech of Rush Limbaugh and the affect that this hate speech is having on our society, please take a moment to visit the extremely reasonable blog of a self-proclaimed conservative on the very same subject:
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