Stephan Baldwin - The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips
Hon. Mike Huckabee - Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America
Newt Gingrich - Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works
And, of course, the ubiquitous Ann Coulter
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
In America, when a President tries to point out the undue influence of a conservative radio talk show host, he gets castigated beyond belief.
From the Telegraph (UK)
He then told them to break free of the confrontational mindset epitomised by Mr Limbaugh, the highest paid talk show host in America. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," Mr Obama said.
Look at that statement again. Few people would ever argue that Obama gives rash, off-the-cuff statements such as his predecessor did. The phraseology is centered around the word "just" - meaning "only". Conservatives have completely erased that word. With their castigations in full swing, the sentence has become "You can't listen to Rush Limbaugh to get things done," substituting "and" with "to".
Upon presentation of an award to Limbow-wow. This was said:
From ThinkProgress.com
Just as the king's successor (a rather lame analogy to King George III in response to Benjamin Franklin), who is in the White House, said the other day, that conservatives will never be successful if they listen to Rush Limbaugh. The only way we will be successful is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh!
This kind of rhetoric is setting up a demagogue to become a demigod. Or god. Or dictator. Conservatives depend on fear. Their campaigns are shaped by fear. Obama's campaign was shaped on hope and change. Conservatives warned that any kind of change would be ruinous: fear what you can't see, fear the future, fear liberalism. Tell them their rights are being taken away from them. On this last note, Limbow-wow tried to get all flag-wavy when he said this:
We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness.
Limbaugh doesn't remember his third grade history lessons: his quote was from the Declaration of Independence, NOT the Constitution. And for anyone to take on a Constitutional scholar such as Barack Obama, was very foolish.
[Crowd Booing] Mrs. Clinton--- said she had to, willingly suspend disbelief in order to listen to Petraeus. We're in the process of winning the war. The last thing they wanted was to win. They hoped George Bush failed. So what is so strange about being honest to say that I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed? [Applause]
Liberals/Progressives didn't NEED to see Bush fail. We were seeing his failures take place right before our eyes. Conservatives distrust "intellectuals" to the point that they will vote for a backslapping good-ole-boy dimwit. The secrecy of the Bush administration made the people fearful not simply because there were secrets, but because they had a strong sense that meetings and documents proved that the administration did not want ANY form of transparency. In other words, to tell the people what was going on was verboten.
Limbow-wow's rhetoric borders on classic hate speech. And because he has a right to say it, he's using it (as usual) to distort and frame ideas in a way that only he seems to be cognizant of.
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