The left hates Rush. I mean HATE him. Red faces screaming H-A-T-E him. Luckily for Rush he seems to revel in their hate and childlike tantrums. The left assumed if they pushed Rush to the forefront everybody else would see him as a big meanie and he would make an easy target. Everybody would hate him, and hate the GOP by connection. The story seemed to get going like they wanted at first. Their lap dogs in the media cut the sound bite about his wanting Obamas march to socialism to fail down to “I want Obama to fail.” Then this weekend Rush spoke at CPAC and explained for a live audience what he meant by “I hope he fails” beyond the carefully placed sound bites and quotes. They tried to spin it the same way, but now more people heard what he actually said and meant. Next the White House slipped up by trying to push the same old sound bite on the Sunday shows. After that things started to spiral out of control. The media were good lap dogs following the story, but that is the problem. Love him or hate him Rush draws a LOT of attention. In this case TOO much attention. Suddenly everybody was talking about it everywhere. The White House was forced to acknowledge it too much. The more they talked about it, the more it legitimized Rush and sent him listeners from both sides of the political fence. Rush, not being a weak kneed politico, fought back. He challenged the President to a debate. They lost control for one simple reason, Rush is “too big to fail,” just like the banks.
It appears from stories that the Democrat focus on Rush Limbaugh was a very carefully planned strategy. With no one person to demonize as they had George W. Bush, they needed somebody on the right to single out and attack. It looks like this strategy is just as bad of a move as TARP, the Stimulus, and everything else coming out of the White House. Here in a nutshell is what happened and why.
Rush is really the man who started the conservative talk radio medium as it exists today. Everybody has heard him at some point. He is the most established, with the largest market. The left has had an on and off fascination with him for decades which has even given him more credibility. Because he is so well known, making him an underdog to the powerful administration made this blow up. I know the draw this story has from my own limited experience. This week I have put out a story or two on this on my humble blog. Everyday this week my web traffic has been two to three times the usual amount. I have had my three most active days with these stories. What works for me works for the mainstream media. Too many people got interested. It was impossible to the Democrats to control the whirlwind once it got going.
At this point I can only think of one thing for the Democrats to do. Sit down, shut up, and wait for the storm you created to pass.
In case you are wondering…. Yes part of the reason I put up this blog is to draw more views as well. I am a whore for the page views.
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March 5, 2009 at 9:18 am
Obama taking on Rush Limbaugh is like “Willie Pep” a great light-weight fighter and Champion, taking on Joe Louis. One guess as to who is “The Lightweight.”
March 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm
First the White House takes shots at Limbaugh, then the DNC runs anti-Limbaugh ads (even some in Spanish), then the press drills every GOP official about Limbaugh, then the left-leaning press takes the worst reactions and tries to create a false crisis out of it… wherever could such a strategy have sprung from?
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Obama mentor Saul Alinsky’s handbook Rules for Radicals outlines the techniques used by this administration to try and break any link between Rush Limbaugh’s influence and the GOP- it’s basically a divide-and-conquer approach:
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Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
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Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
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According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
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Now that we know what the underhanded control-freak Obama is up to, conservatives, Limbaugh, and the GOP would be well-advised to ignore these malicious hypocrites, and don’t take the bait.
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The narcissist Obama looks desperate and insecure going after Rush, so just let him go down with his ill-advised policies… shouldn’t take long now.
March 7, 2009 at 4:12 am
Rush Limbaugh has roughly a 2:1 unfavorable:favorable ratio in the most recent poling. Almost all of his support comes from Repugnican’s, and are around the same as the unfavorable:favorable ratio of G.W.Bush in Nov 2008. If you recall, Obama beat Repugnican’s like red-headed step children back in November.
No more G.W.Bush, so Dem’s look for an inviting target. Enter Rush. You think Rush is this wonderful guy. Voters that you need to convince don’t like him at all. This won’t end well for the G.O.P.
If you mean too big to fail as in he could stand to skip a few dinners. I agree.
P.S. Get ready for another ass kicking in the midterms, because you learned absolutely nothing in 2008.
March 7, 2009 at 10:42 am
I guess the questions Dems need to ask is this:
Is a government that feel that they NEED to attack somebody to slide through their agenda the kind of “Change” you voted for? Where does this policy of personal attacks end?
March 8, 2009 at 7:47 pm
“here does this policy of personal attacks end?”
Interesting question. Imagine the two underpinning philosophies, Liberalism and Conservatism, as Catholicism and Lutheranism. Two different competing belief structures without any way to ultimately prove their point.
The problem comes when supporters of one creed attack the belief system of the other: that they say its heresy and untrue. Since there is no such thing as proof in religion or government, people take it as a personal attack on their belief. Things get personal.
For every argument you might make about government, there is an exception to the rule. Conservatism saying that they can’t be held accountable for failure because they weren’t conservative enough, very famously said precisely the same way by communists.
Ultimately I see government as more art than science. After twenty years of doing things one way, there are probably some extremes in policy that the people want changed in the other direction.
Rush is ultimately an unhelpful voice, swimming against the current of history, right now. If the Democratic party can point to a single individual as the direction of Republican’s then they will, because people can understand that easier.