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Talk Radio Matters

By on 3.15.12 @ 6:08AM

Liberalism is dead, and it wants talk radio to suffer the same fate.

WASHINGTON — For a couple of years now I have been talking about the Kultursmog, the utterly polluted state of our political culture. Those who pollute it are the Liberals. Kultursmog is the only form of pollution that they approve of, but they do approve of it mightily, and, of course, they are the chief contributors to its noxious fumes. Now they are using it to kill off an American value prized by millions of Americans down through the centuries, free speech. As I say in another context, we are watching the death of Liberalism.

Through Media Matters for America, MSNBC, Think Progress, and various other outfits, the Liberals are trying to kill off talk radio. They have made feints in this direction for years, for instance in encouraging the return of the Fairness Doctrine, which is anything but fair. Now they are aiming at the heart of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, and as collateral damage Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and the whole conservative camorra. As I mentioned last week, Rush in the course of his 15 hours of dialogue each week made a joke of dubious jocularity about the felicitously named Sandra Fluke. All hell broke loose. To my surprise — and I suspect to Rush’s — it turns out that his joke was almost tasteful and indeed elevated in comparison with the tasteless scurrility directed at conservative women.

The clown Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “dumb t***” and a “c***.” He jokes about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Ed Schultz has called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut,” anticipating Rush’s reference to Fluke. Keith Olbermann is as foul, and doubtless there are others. This is the language regularly resorted to by the left, and one would think that these revelations would put an end to the orchestrated crisis over Rush, especially because it was a Liberal, the admirable Kirsten Powers, who turned up these instances of garbagespiel. But no, the crisis continues.

I can understand why. Talk radio is almost exclusively conservative radio. For some reason, Liberals cannot make it in the talk show market. Even when they come up with heavily subsidized formats like Air America the Liberals flounder. This is, I suspect, because they cannot talk about politics without assuming a grim voice and interlacing their dialogue with scatological references. Have you ever heard them? Have you read their blogs? They have sewers for brains.

My colleague, Jeffrey Lord, Tuesday on The American Spectator’s website, has connected the dots. Using the indispensable Daily Caller, he pointed to the Caller’s evidence that Media Matters virtually writes the scripts for such MSNBC eminentoes as Al Sharpton and the dolt Schultz. Moreover, they do it with a vast mound of George Soros’s money. Most of what Sharpton and Schultz say is mendacious and infantile, and sometimes it is worse. Lord presented for Spectator readers some of Sharpton’s indigestible morsels. The morsels came from before he linked up with Soros and MSNBC, but that is all the more reason he should not be posing as a commentator on cable news. He has absolutely no claim to being a journalist. Perhaps he can claim to being a personality, but if that is the case, the way he became a personality is similar to how the late George Wallace became a personality. It was through racism, and as a personality Wallace did not get far.

On our website Lord has preserved the tapes of Sharpton inveterately using the “n” word. He uses terms like “white interloper” and “cracker.” He refers to Aristotle — yes, that Aristotle — as “a Greek homo.” So far to the left has the Kultursmog gone that it finds Rush controversial but it finds Sharpton a budding Walter Cronkite. In truth, as Lord has demonstrated, Sharpton made his way to national fame as a racist rabble-rouser.

Talk radio is afflicted by several thousand social isolates sitting around the house in their underwear tapping out irate messages to the sponsors of Rush and his cohorts. They do it on their digital tools, Twitter, Facebook, the blogs. They rely on the same mentality as the Occupiers. Their complaints to sponsors amount to dirty tricks. They are not clients  or customers. They are a pain in the neck but nothing more. Eventually this too will pass, but in the meantime things will be tricky for talk radio… unless it mounts a counterattack on Media Matters for America, MSNBC (whose owner is Comcast), and Think Progress. Just a thought!

About the Author

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (188) |

jppc| 3.15.12 @ 6:12AM

Not sure you're correct, Mr Tyrrell. Liberalism is dead? You keep saying this. Why?

Everywhere I look, I see extreme liberalism. I believe that's what most people want today, mostly because they have been conditioned through public school and pop culture to want it.

I think conservatism is dead or at least dying. And with continued mass immigration, conservatism will surely die soon. Non-whites vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, for big government liberalism. And since more than 3 out of 4 immigrants into the country are "non-white", good-bye limited government, low taxes, individual sovereignty and good-bye GOP.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 6:43AM

Rush had a great talent and I believe he is at the end of his career. He became in the end the propagandist for the power elites. His job and that of other hosts like Levin and Hannity is to keep the boobs in line by keeping the opposition from getting too rambuctous. In the end they all work to keep people like the Bush's in power. They will fall in line for Romney. Heaven forbid they fail to follow the approved script.

The Democrats want to get rid of them is true enough. But will that be such a big loss. Limbaugh is an old man with diabetes. How much time has he got left anyhow? The popular conservative media has been in intellectual decline for some time. Who is going to replace the failing old war horses?

betwyan| 3.15.12 @ 6:51AM

What an idiotic diatribe. Nice try. The "power elites"? Oh, you mean the Democrat Party / Media Complex don't you? You mean the laughable labor movement, don't you? You mean Hollywood influence, don't you?

We have an incompetent egocentric with a personal and family history of Islam and Marxism in the White House and fools like you in the People's Republic of Wisconsin, continue to act like children, crying about your life-long jobs with cushy benefits. Any man that is a left-liberal is, well, effeminate.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 7:02AM

I listened to Limbaugh, and Hannity until 2002, when they went all Israel and all war, all the time. Then I turned them off. You would have to be an idiot to think that Saddam Hussain was a threat to anyone. Even I didn't expect these wars to be the disaster they turned out to be. Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Bob Novak, General Norm Schwartzkoph, Brent Skowcroft, and me were right. Limbaugh Hannity, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Lox snooze, and the Neocon controlled intellectual media were wrong. Until the Republicans figure that out and change. They are doomed to the asheap of history.

betwyan| 3.15.12 @ 7:12AM

Yeah Jack, you "were right". What a defense/foreign policy expert you are.

Part of the reason for the Iraq War was to "put us there" in the Middle East and Iraq is a strategic location. To prevent a regional war which will make the Iraq War look like a grade school rumble. Another reason for the Iraq War was to "tie up" the Mooooslims and have jihadis go to Iraq, so we could kill them more efficiently in one place, otherwise, they would have the time and resources to spennd on planning and executing attackes against our hoomeland. It worked brilliantly too.

Iraq war was also an extension of the 1991 Gulf War. The situation of the no-fly zones could not be maintained forever.

We won the war in Iraq, untol Hussein bin Obama pulled us out for a campaign promise so he could concentrate on the "real war" in Afghanistan, which he has nearly lost. (Wait till the general election for that to bite Ol' Big Ears in the ass)

MJF| 3.18.12 @ 10:28AM

Dude are you that stupid? Put us there? We were already there. 9/11 happened because we had Military Bases set up In Saudi Arabia.

We have a Navy base in Bahrain FYI. Honestly, open a book.

Oh and FYI, we would have never won a war in Afghanistan, short of nuking the whole country. Maybe if you ever spent some time trying to get your ass off the couch and enlisted in the military you would know this.

Oh and last time I checked...Your President, Mr. Obama, managed to get Bin Laden now didn't he?

Texas Jim| 3.19.12 @ 4:39AM

Oblah-blah didn't 'get' anyone - Seal Team 6 got him on a mission that was the culmination of years of intelligence work that began back in 2005. The information used to find bin Laden was gained through policies and practices put in place back then - and that Oblah-blah still uses today - despite his two-faced hypocritical denunciation of those exact same policies and practices throughout is campaign.

So you might say that the intelligence community and Seal Team 6 were able to locate and take out bin Laden in spite of Oblah-blah, not because of him. He just happened to be "occupying" the White House at that particular moment.

And just who was President in 2005? Hmmm... Let me see... Oh, yeah, it was George W. Bush! Choke on it!

Darin| 3.15.12 @ 8:05AM

"You would have to be an idiot to think that Saddam Hussain was a threat to anyone."
Jack in Wi's displays wonderful hindsight in his statement. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Jack - what do you think about Iran and the possibility of them obtaining nuclear weapons, particularly since it looks like they're getting long-range missiles with a range of 3000 miles? Is Iran a threat? Why or why not? Be specific.

Until and less Jack in Wi (and likeminded folks) publically express their opinion regarding Iran (with supporting reasoning), they are not capable of making any valid observation on Iraq with regards to Saddam.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 8:58AM

Darin:

The standard answer Jackboot gives on Iran is:

But there are JEWS there!

But, they aren't MAKING a bomb!

But, they haven't invaded anyone for however many thousand years.

But, its the "cancerous" Israel, the "illegal terrorist state" that's driving the poor Iranians to violence.

Then some idiotic diatribe about the Just War Doctrine.

That's about it in a nutshell for Jack. He's alot more wordy & slightly more eloquent than his lover, Clint.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 11:57AM

It wasn't hindsight. I saw it at the time that Iraq was all a pack of lies and nonsense. Mark Belling the radio host around here let me give my side of it on his show for quite a while on day. Of course he was for the war and has been a horrible neocon on foreign policy. I finally turned him off last year. His good insights on local politics and sports were not worth all the other BS he was pushing. In fact all the lies and nonsense on Iraq finally got me writing on the internet. I am celebrating my 10 year aniversary setting you people on the right path to peace and love.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 12:08PM

You ain't setting anyone on ANY path, except the path to see you for what you are. Go pitch your peace & love bullcrap at some hippy festival. Muzzies aren't interested in it. And the sooner you realize that, the smarter you'll be.

Boar Hunter| 3.15.12 @ 1:35PM

You have only served to enlighten me as to the insanity of the liberal mind. Your hate and cowardice, your willful ignorance needs to be destroyed (at the ballot box of course).

Peace and love? What a hypocritical piece of human excrement you are. Like my neighbors little dog who barks from behind his fence. You too are a cowardly little bastard who wont stand up for the family that protects his right to yap incessantly.

"May you live in a world of your own design."

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 8:54AM

Actually, given that you & Clint are the only 2 Jew haters on this site who admit it daily, I'd say that raving bigots like you are on the ash heap of history, looking up as society passes you by.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 9:30AM

So many people are on the ashheap of history with society passing them by. Jack is claiming it's the Republican party and you say it's Jack himself. It's also the language the left is using to describe Rush.

The proper response to Jack would (have been) that Rush's problem is due to him foolishly apologizing for something he needn't have apologized for and showing weakness to leftist sharks. Israel isn't the issue and Rush's stance on the wars is not that radical. However, your response to him illustrates why the right is weak: they accept the left's double standards of watching every little thing they say to the point they can't say much of anything.

In the meantime, all it takes to be labeled a Jew hater is to simply disagree with one. That makes them "bigots". Think about that logic for a while...

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:38AM

Really? So all the posts of his that I've read in the 3 years I've been posting on this site don't add up to something? C'mon, man. Gimme a break. What? You think I'm the only person on this site who hasn't pointed out Jack & Clint's endless anti Semitism? I've been called a "sandmonkey" by Clint & a "hasbaret" by Jack. Both of them are bigots.

And as for the "ash heap of history," last I checked, for the most part, people tend to frown on such things as blatant bigotry as a whole. A WHOLE lot more than they used to.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 9:49AM

"You think I'm the only person on this site who hasn't pointed out Jack & Clint's endless anti Semitism?"

And leftism is all about piling on such guys as Rush pointing out his supposed misogyny, bigotry, and ignorance. For the record, I think Jack is a bigot but in the classical sense: he's fanatical about Israel. But shouting him down as an anti-Semite is also classical bigotry. The appropriate response is to simply criticize his argument on it's lack of merit or relevance to the topic. Done. Not only is shouting him down the act of a bigot and lowers yourself to his level, it plays into him. Haven't you ever seen teenagers in action? A parent screaming at one is NOT discouraging them.

Just food for thought from a stupid bigot (tm).

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:07AM

I've never thought you to be a "stupid bigot." However, I'm just the type of person to call someone what they are. If you disagree with how I express my opinions, then I'm sorry, but it is what it is. I will not let people like that go unchallenged.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 10:45AM

Con, thanks for your respect. It's not my problem in particular but I'm saying you may be feeding the beast by these methods. In debate, the best way to beat someone is to do the unexpected. Jack is used to being called names. It's like yelling at a child running around or a cat scratching furniture.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:12AM

You are wrong. Clint and Jack are anti-Semites and their ilk breed in the cesspools of Daily Paul, Lew Rockwell, InfoWars, and StormFront...

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 11:21AM

Perhaps one of the greatest accomplishments of GW Bush and totally unintentional was to bring the biggest anti-semites in the world into the Democrat special interest group coalition: radical Muslims. Not just here but also in Europe. They wanted to make the whole world into Sweden. They're instead going to get Morocco.

Boar Hunter| 3.15.12 @ 1:38PM

I have read your posts in the past and thought I remembered them to be generally rational. Are you smoking crack today?

carnot| 3.17.12 @ 11:06PM

you're rock solid sure of this PK? Would your sense of decorum have served well in..say....1932-39?

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 10:18AM

That's A Lie.

You're A Serial Liar, 4-F Israel Firster Smear Bund Neo-Chickenhawk Coward, Con Job Frankel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:25AM

How am I a "serial liar" when all one needs to do is google your handle, this website, & the word "sandmonkey." Do you want me to do it for you? Ok. Here ya go:

"Aaaand, I Don't Support Any Of Your Sand Monkey Tribes' Agendas, Israel Firster Propaganda Squad Asshat, Con Job."

http://spectator.org/blog/2011.....tcontainer

I can post more, if you want, Clint.

Oh, & maybe you can post that You Tube link another 300 times today & someone will actually GIVE a rat's tuchus.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 11:50AM

Con job here is just another chicken hawk Israeli supporter trying to drag us into another war to make Israel safe for their racist fantasy. Well Con Job go to Israel and do it yourself. Enough American blood and treasure has been wasted already. The odds of Obama or even Romney attacking Iran are diminishing everyday the price of oil escalates.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 12:13PM

Funny. I'm a chicken hawk, & you're a "proud 4-F" who's father told him it was "better to be a live coward." Go figure. A coward descended from cowards. The apple never does fall too far from the tree, huh Jack.

I wonder if people who supported England kicking the piss out of the Argentines are "England Firsters." And those who supported the IRA over here were "Feinian Firsters."

Nah. Only people who support Israel are ever accused of having dubious loyalty to their nation. Its those insidious Jews, after all.

And if Israel is so "racist," then please tell me why they allow Muslims to serve in the Knessett.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 12:20PM

The problem is that the USA literally "supports" Israel in the form of welfare payments and overlooking them spying on us and making attacks against our military.

loulou| 3.15.12 @ 2:29PM

It would be interesting to know exactly what Polish's parents were doing during WWII. I think I know.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 3:25PM

My mother was a teenage girl living on a farm in the states and my father worked at his parents' floral shop in the states also as a young teenager.

The snide inference is that Poles were collaborators which is especially ugly because more Poles risked their lives to protect and hide Jews than anyone else with very few collaborators (collaborators were punished by death both by Soviets and the underground Polish government.)

carnot| 3.17.12 @ 11:09PM

ahhh...so now PK plays his hand. thank goodness you have no proclivities to emotive language - reasonable person that you are.

pot.kettle.black.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 12:15PM

Oh, & maybe you could tell us all when the last time Americans fought for Israel. And if you go down the "proxy war" path, then you're just confirming your idiocy & your belief that Israel & America are the cause of the world's ills. Like a leftist, its "blame Israel & America First."

Teaghan| 3.15.12 @ 1:13PM

Jack would you rather sit by and let Iran and God knows who else attack Israel? The muslim brotherhood, whom obama seems to be in bed with have their hatred at full steam and would love to annialate her. It's not going to take much to touch off that powder keg over there and you can be proud of your boy. He was instrumental in pushing it forward.

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 2:33PM

thats a lie, you are a serial liar and coward pocketlint

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:10PM

Uh Oh !

The 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Coatholder Coward Traitor Bastard, Con Job Frankel Plays His Dog Eared Anti-Jew Card Again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:33PM

Oh no! Clint used my last name again. I so terrified. Really, I am...

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 2:34PM

hello pocketlint. still hating on Jews i see,

just like ron "taritors are heros" paul.

so pocketlint, since they removed the ban on homos in the military, when are you gonna enlist BOY?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 3:17PM

He won't. He's too much of a coward. Plus, his boyfriend Jack would never join up. After all, "its better to be a live coward" as Jack's Daddy always said.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 11:34AM

Lets see where do I begin? Being for America first and formost is not antisemitism. Are you idiots going to continue to say the the attack on Iraq was anything but an unmitttigated disaster? The majority of Jews in this country must be anti semites too. They were by polling the group with the most opposition to the Iraq war, over 50%.

I listend to Limbaugh for 13 years and acknowledged his great talent. Over the years he has become intrested in only 2 things younger wives and more money. If you think I am going to call this moral paragon, with his 4 wives, and history of serious drug addiction a leader that consevatives should emulate, you are crazy. His time is long gone. A whore gets old and people move on. Serious conservatives have moved on from talk radio and now do their own research on the internet and think for themselves.

carnot| 3.17.12 @ 11:10PM

of course...you define what "being for America first" means!!!!

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 2:32PM

pocketlint, trying to use association of names to make it sound like he is somebody of importance when all he is is just another gutless coward.

pocketlint is an anti-semite and dipwad extraordinaire

Capatolistmom| 3.15.12 @ 4:11PM

You can only wish this was true!!! I live in California one of the most liberal places in the country and we LOVE LIMBAUGH!!!! He is terrific. We have a hugh club here (75 LADIES) and we all listen every day and talk about the topics. Then, get ready, we go to Sean and do the same and then, we end the day with Levin!!!! We wear headsets when we walk, cook,garden and shop!!! Everyone asks what we are listening to - and they join in!!! We are ALLL WOMEN in our 40s and 50s. So you can dream all you want we support Rush and his sponsors. We are now starting a boycott against the sponsors that canceled their participation in his program. And guess what, unlike all of those idiots sending e-mails threatening the sponsors to drop their support of his show or else--- we actually support the sponsors and buy their products. Look at Carbonite - down 12 percent since they dropped Rush!!! You keep dreaming and we will keep listening!!

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.15.12 @ 7:06AM

Ever the Shining light, eh Jack?

I'm starting to think that, maybe, all of the sh*t that you scribble on this site, might be some kind of Cry for help.

Your Boy - Ron Paul - has left the building, and there are still Jews out there. Lots of Jews. So many Jews.

The Final Exit might be a Book you'd find interesting. A nice Hot Bath. A Bottle of Wine. A Razor Blade, and some nice Nazi Death Camp music, by WAGNER, on the Radio.

Let go.

Be at Peace.

Drop Fcking Dead, you miserable Bastard.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 8:44AM

Uh Oh !

The Israel Firster Smear Bund Buffoon Bloviator Plays His Dog Eared Nazi Card On Dr.Ron Paul.

Dr.Ron Paul,
" While President Obama’s demand that Israel
make hard concessions in her border conflicts may very well be in her
long-term interest, only Israel can make that determination on her own,
without pressure from the United States or coercion by the United
Nations.

“Unlike this President, I do not believe it is our place to dictate how
Israel runs her affairs. There can only be peace in the region if those
sides work out their differences among one another. We should respect
Israel’s sovereignty and not try to dictate her policy from Washington."

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Opened Convention.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.15.12 @ 8:47AM

I think it's Cute, how you stick up for your Boyfriend.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 8:52AM

They went to football camp at Penn State together. "Under" the expert tutilage of Jerry Sandusky.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.15.12 @ 9:06AM

They were under his "Tutilage" all right.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:31AM

Snicker!

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 10:22AM

I Think That You're An Israewl Firster Smear Bund Buffoon Bloviator,Who Attempts To Play Your Dog Eared Nazi Card Like Fat Al Sharpton Attempts To Play The Race Card.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:35AM

Awww. Poor Clint. Doesn't like being called what he is. Does that make you a Flucker, like Ms. Fluck herself?

Teaghan| 3.15.12 @ 1:15PM

I read she's on a trip of the EU with her rich boyfriend. Do you think he pays for her birthcontrol?

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:17PM

It Makes You The 4-F Israel Firster Smear Bund Neo-Chickenhawk Coatholder Coward You Are, Con Job Frankel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:35PM

Oh NO! My last name AGAIN!

You're replies are all the ammo I need to keep making you look like the dumbass you are. Hey, maybe you can post that link another 5000 times, along with the rest of your canned responses on this site.

When your "Tea Party" goes to its "brokered convention," will you bring Raggdy Ann & Andy, along with Teddy Ruxspin to help in the delegate count?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:03AM

Tell us about the Stormfront endorsements & those of HAMAS & Hezbollah run newspapers in Dearbornistan during the Michigan contest, Clint!

http://www.debbieschlussel.com.....-ron-paul/

From the Above Article:

"As you know, today is Michigan’s Presidential Primary. And, yesterday, Ron Paul made a special campaign appearance in Dearbornistan for a reason. That’s where his Hezbollah-supporter Muslims have their highest concentration in America. The Paul campaign passed out Arabic campaign literature. Apparently, the irony was lost on Ron Paul that the literature says in English, “Restore America Now,” and everything else on it is in Arabic. And the Hezbollah USA newspaper, the openly anti-Semitic Arab American News–owned by Hezbollah agent Osama Siblani, a close relative of top Al-Manar (Hezbollah TV) execs–endorsed Ron Paul. Shocker."

Yeah. Good ole Ron "Bradley Manning is a Hero" Paul. The best friend any traitor could want.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:17AM

I hope to see both Barry and Robespierre Ron sharing a cell in Leavenworth no later than 2013...

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:18AM

Oh, happy day!

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 10:32AM

Ronald Reagan,
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 10:28AM

Even Dr.Ron Paul's Israel Firster Staffer Turned Opponent, Dondero/Rittberg Proves That The Media Smear Bund Are Agenda Driven Liars.

" Written By : Eric Dondero

Fmr. Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul, 1997 – 2003
Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for Congress, 1995/96
National Organizer, Draft Ron Paul for President, 1991/92
Travel Aide/Personal Asst. Ron Paul, Libertarian for President
1987/88

I have been asked by various media the last few days for my comments, view of the current situation regarding my former boss Ron Paul, as he runs for the presidency on the Republican ticket.

I’ve noticed in some media that my words have been twisted and used for an agenda from both sides. And I wish to set the record straight with media that I trust and know will get the story right: conservative/libertarian-conservative bloggers.

Is Ron Paul a “racist.” In short, No. I worked for the man for 12 years, pretty consistently. I never heard a racist word expressed towards Blacks or Jews come out of his mouth. Not once. And understand, I was his close personal assistant. It’s safe to say that I was with him on the campaign trail more than any other individual, whether it be traveling to Fairbanks, Alaska or Boston, Massachusetts in the presidential race, or across the congressional district to San Antonio or Corpus Christi, Texas.

He has frequently hired blacks for his office staff, starting as early as 1988 for the Libertarian campaign. He has also hired many Hispanics, including his current District staffer Dianna Gilbert-Kile. "

The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On The Israel Firster Smear Bund.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 10:56AM

The TPINO Bund bandit is starting to spin tales only he can believe. Go to BK CLint and get yourself a real Whopper.

Zombie Reagan| 3.15.12 @ 12:40PM

Any one who opposes ENDLESS WAR hates Jews. I get it. I was confused. Okay, to prove I don't hates jews I say we invade somebody. Muslims are best to invade because Jews Hate them Most.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:06PM

More of this sad "endless war" diatribe. Hey, Zombie. Maybe you should pick up something other than a Howard Zinn authored history book. Islam has been at war with the infidel since its inception. It has not stopped. It has nothing to do with "who the Jews hate most." Those stupid "Co-Exist" stickers with all the religious symbols on them are BULLSHIT. Islam doesn't want to "co-exist" with anyone. They want to convert or kill all non-believers. At the very LEAST, subjugate them & make them pay a tax for being a non-Muslim.

You regressives are so insipid with your "peace & love" nonsense in the face of those who'd gladly saw your head off on You Tube. Now go stick your head back in that pile of sand.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 2:07PM

P-A is that you??

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:05PM

Bk ?

Bibi's Kitchen ?

We Heard Dickie Eats Bibi's Whopper.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:07PM

Dude, why doesn't SNL have you writing for them? You're so "funny."

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:23PM

You're Not Israel Firster Smear Bund Dudesse, Con Job Frankel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:38PM

"Dudesse"

Really? Is this all you've got? Ok. Enough already. This is beginning to feel like I'm beating up on a 3 year old child.

Boar Hunter| 3.15.12 @ 2:00PM

Just think of Clint as being under your Tutelage.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 2:10PM

I don't want to think of Clint being under anything of mine. That's why he & Jack have each other.

macwell| 3.16.12 @ 5:52AM

Timothy?
It's nice to get a good laugh this early in the morning, keep up the good work man.

Carol| 3.15.12 @ 7:28AM

FOAD.

Carol| 3.15.12 @ 7:28AM

My FOAD is directed to Jack in Wi.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 8:51AM

Ah, yes. Jackboot no likie Rush, Hannity & Levin because he believes they're controlled by the insidious ZOG he likes to bawl about all the time.

Cheryl| 3.15.12 @ 8:53AM

He doesn't have Diabetes, you Jackass! He's got another 20+ years left! Oh, he's not a drug addict, either. Sure, a decade ago, he was addicted to pain medicine and got off it, very successfully. But he's healthier than most people his age. You're SO jealous of his success. How sad...

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 9:10AM

Jack's dementia is not treatable folks. You need to consider that his time is limited. A younger kook will soon take his place as his brain atrophy gets worse.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:21AM

Farquaad Clint is his apprentice who graduated from the Rothbard School for Paulestinian Studies...

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:59PM

9th Idiot Is A Pom Pom Girl In The Arlen Specter RINO-CINO Marching Society.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:08PM

And Clint gave us Little Bobby Casey, thanks to his staying home. Thanks, "sunshine patriot."

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:30PM

The Big Government Statist & Arlo Sphincter RINO-CINO Cheerleader, Ricky Specter-Santorum Gave Us The Lib Democrap Back Bencher, Junior Casey, Israel Firster Smear Bund Tennessee Boat People Dudesse, Con Job Frankel.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:40PM

Don't worry. I can't wait to leave this putrid state. Its over populated by ignorant 4th grade douchebags like you. I've know bumpkins from Cochram, MS with more intellect & sense than you, sonny boy.

Boar Hunter| 3.15.12 @ 2:03PM

LOL, CC, if you think Tennessee is bad I live in Southern California.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 2:11PM

No, Clint was making reference to the fact that I moved to PA from TN. And MAN, do I miss Dixie.

Mike Hawk| 3.15.12 @ 6:02PM

Be kind, if we could deport Clint to MD or WI or some such place, we would. There are crackpots and Liberals in every state. Both of these are full of them.

sirbourbon| 3.15.12 @ 11:19AM

You are close to the mark. Rush stayed away from naming names and exposing the "power elites" as you refer to them.

The public face of these elite snobs and power seekers is the Council on Foreign Relations. These elitists began in 1921 when the CFR was founded by E.Mandell House who was shocked at what the US senate had done to Woodrow Wilson's dream of the "league of Nations." http://www.citizensforaconstit.....House.html

E.Mandell House formed the CFR to train people to think as he thought; that the USA needed to move away from the Founders ideal government a very limited model wit a greatdealof freedom for individuals!)

Edward Mandell House yearned for "socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx" and trained his minions to also promote socialism. They were trained and sent by E.M. House to work for socialism within government. Nobody wanted them until FDR was elected as a "conservative." FDR invited them to take over his administration. Since FDR's days the CFR runs the State department and sets our foreign policy. CFR policies are designed to be enimical to good foreign relations and create "blowbacks" like 9-11.

The exist and they are dangerous people that want to make "an end run around US sovereignty,eroding it piece by piece."--- Richard Gardner, CFR journal Foreign Affairs article titled Hard Road to World Order >>>http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/richard-n-gardner

The CFR uses war as the engine to "build world order " as dreamed of by E.Mandell House.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 11:40AM

Bourbon. I am just reading the old classic ' Mr. Wilson's War' by John Dos Passos. ' It is one hell of a book which shows the whole House-Wilson story. If you haven't read it I think you would like it.

RichTex| 3.15.12 @ 11:32AM

Jack in Wi: You quit listening to Rush 10 years ago, but think you can pontificate about him today. Typical liberal, spouting off on things he knows nothing about. Reminds me of Nancy Pelosi.

Let me make a correction to what I just wrote. When I said you “think” you can talk about Rush, that is not exactly true. Liberals don’t “think”, they “feel”.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 11:55AM

Jack is full of more crap than a flock of geese.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:34PM

Bibi Gooses Little Dickie.

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 3:09PM

notice how FIXATED pocketlint is on all things homosexual?

what happened? kicked out of nambla as to worn out!

Dave | 3.15.12 @ 11:50AM

After scrolling though the assorted blithering posted under this story, it occurs to me that the anti-conservative talk radio cretins who dabble in RonPaulisms are possessed with waaaay too much time on their hands (Notice how often their daily SOS is posted here.) I think I'd be pretty safe in venturing the opinion that none of these Einstein's have spent even a nanosecond employed in the broadcast industry. And other than their daily rambling points, know absolutely nothing about building and maintaining a radio audience.

Dealing with simple minded chefs like the Jacks and Clints, is like trying to explain how hot dog work, or the secrets of growing noodles. Me? 35 years and now retired from the broadcast industry as an on air jock, program director, and consultant. Having briefly noted that here, my personal understanding of "how build and maintain a radio audience" is still in full functioning mode. Meanwhile, the dodering Ron Paul drones continue spewing-out their daily propaganda points, while parking their fat b-sides behind a keyboard and chewing on Cheese Doodles.

The bottom line is -- as long as the Limbaugh's, Hannity's and Levin's, et al continue generating massive radio audiences, the occasional attempts (and there have been others) to silence their broadcast and force them under some kind of oppressive federal knuckle will continue to ... fail. But like Uncle Adolph's SS, they'll never stop trying until they THEMSELVES ... are stifled. But I wouldn't expect the drone squads to comprende any of that. Especially if it's not written on an Etch-A-Sketch ... or in Crayon

Occasionally, I'll check out their reader posts. And for the same reason a lot of us enjoy reading Dilbert. With all the crap to cull through each day, most of us need a good laugh.

So my thanks to the Jacks, Clints and Dilbert. This morning, guys ... my sides are splitting! :-)

macwell| 3.16.12 @ 5:57AM

Well said.

Appleby| 3.15.12 @ 6:45AM

The Liberals were saying this in the 1960s; in fact, the same Liberals were saying it then as are saying it now. Sadly, they have not outgrown their fondness for potty talk, which they mistake for "civil discourse"; after more than 40 years you'd think the endless repetititon of "f**k and s**t would have grown tedious even to Hollywood. Alas, the Liberal bandwagon remains at the level of 12 year old boys at summer camp, and it's hard to have meaningful dialogue with people whose vocabularies are limited to only two words.

benny havens| 3.15.12 @ 7:41AM

At first I too questioned the Tyrrell thorium, especially witnessing what has transpired these past few years. I suspect that the so-called liberals, were not liberals at all.

Liberals, in the old days, were the sophisticated intellectuals who didn’t want government meddling in their lives, so they said. This was always confusing to me since they continually supported every government law and regulation that came along and interfered with the private lives of the citizens.

In my view they were always “dyed in the wool” socialists and Marxists. The sophisticated intellectual label ended when William F. Buckley Jr. came along and exposed them for what and who they really are. So I believe the RET claim is true.

Zombie Reagan| 3.15.12 @ 12:36PM

RET's been saying this since the early 80s. Maybe liberalism is a phoenix. Or a Zombie. I like zombies.

Stan REdmond| 3.15.12 @ 2:13PM

Liberalism may not be dead completely but I do think it is dying. Just because they are the loudest does not mean they are the most powerful. For 40 years liberals have been aborting their offspring. They have embraced LGBT normalcy which does not have offspring. They do not attract "new" followers. They MUST indoctrinate the young in k-12 all the way to college to brainwash new liberal disciples. Liberalism can not survive on it's own because it is so far removed from the natural desires of man to be left alone. They are dying, they are breathing their last loud breaths and forcing as much liberalism down the throat of America before they finally expire. It will take a long long time to unwrap the webs of this evil administration but it will happen.

Bobloblaw| 3.17.12 @ 11:05AM

I agree liberalism is anything but dead.

Voters can call themselves conservative and by 2:1 favor repealing Obamacare,, but if they re-elect Obama all that means nothing.

In Aug 1988 Mike Dukakis lead GHW Bush 52-35. Bush them spent the next two months calling Dukakis "liberal". Bush won 54-45 a 26 point turn around in the polls. Think that strategy would work today??? As far as I can tell there is no such thing as too liberal in American politics

martin j smith| 3.15.12 @ 6:44AM

The Republican establishment Leadershit and the Socialists want to shut any opposition up. That is why I oppose Romney and Paul. These two are the most dangerous of the so called republican party.

Ellis| 3.15.12 @ 7:43AM

And martin j smith proves a key point of the article (perhaps his comment was satirical in nature?)

sirbourbon| 3.15.12 @ 11:50AM

You are correct that "[S]ocialists want to shut any opposition up." But please explain to me how Ron Paul is in the same camp as Mitt Romney when Romney's state mandated health insurance plan was the template used by Obama to create the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act? This type of government interference in the market place is what Ron Paul has articulated AGAINST all of his public life and voted against in congress!

Romneycare and Obamacare are anti-free market traps, and you know as well as anyone that has listened to doctor Paul for even a micro second, that he is a free market activist. That is basic Ron Paulian thinking; anyone from Wolfe Blitzer to Rush limbaugh understands that. Or they should!

Why you don't see that Romney and Paul are as oil and water or as different as night and day is strange. After all these years since Paul entered the race for president the first time as a GOP candidate in 08 you would equate Romney and Paul as idelogically compatible is nothing short of bizarre.

Consider the Santorum and Arlen Spector association and tell me that Santorum didn't jump intot the abortion camp with both feet! Santorum and partial birth abortion advocate Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey. Santorum who claims to be prolife campaigned for both of these pro-murder politicians! Even Santorum admits Ron Paul is for limited constitutional government. http://www.thenewamerican.com/.....government

Stan REdmond| 3.15.12 @ 2:15PM

Socialists don't mind opposition as long as they control it. This shields them from the claims of tyranny and provides a distraction for their masses of stupid followers. Hello useful idiots like David Brooks.

Carol| 3.15.12 @ 7:26AM

If they shut down AM radio - which they would have to because how many info commercials on vitamins and sports and housing concerns will someone listen to it to keep it viable - then we know the enemy has won.

Let the sponsors who dropped Rush know how you feel - even though if it may be difficult to get through to them.

I have contacted ProFlowers twice now because it is owned by my gay progressive congressman Jared Polis.

I have even become a 24/7 member of Rush to show support for him.

Don't let it happen folks.

And BTW, if Rush were to suddenly be taken off the air, then we know who is to blame and never, ever should you vote for a Democrat again - no matter if they say they are pro-life because they are Democrats first.

Vox populi| 3.15.12 @ 7:27AM

TAS is an internet publication and has readers all over the world. Some of us are getting tired of the exclusive concentration on American politics which will be out of date a week later anyway. Give us a break!

Carol| 3.15.12 @ 7:31AM

Then go somewhere else.

I come here for politics.

Darin| 3.15.12 @ 8:09AM

Vox populi,
The name of the site is "The American Spectator." Hence, the reasonable concentration on what's happening in and relevant to America. Also, most of what's discussed is not irrelevant a week later. It may fall out of the spotlight, but that's the nature of the news cycle.

BruceTi| 3.15.12 @ 8:10AM

TAS is called The AMERICAN Spectator. It is about American issues. If you want non-American issues, please go elsewhere.

PaulyD| 3.15.12 @ 8:48AM

Vox populi,

You're kidding, right? I'll assume you were trying to make a funny.

Indy| 3.15.12 @ 1:04PM

I do wish other topics were covered, there is much going on that we don't know about. Perhaps you can share with us what is happening in your part of the world.

Stan REdmond| 3.15.12 @ 2:18PM

In the immortal words of the sage Nancy Pelosi "are you serious?"

And very hip of you to use "TAS." It's as cool as KFC taking the Kentucky out of fried chicken.

Terrible| 3.16.12 @ 10:11AM

Pelosi go that line from Serena Williams. (See at 1:55--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvL0nONMcg&feature=related)

Bill| 3.15.12 @ 8:23AM

Rush Limbaugh is a LEGEND!

nathan| 3.15.12 @ 8:43AM

Rush is a very historic figure, no question. His impact on AM radio, maybe single handedly? saving the medium from extinction, cannot be denied. But as with other icons on the right, like Buckeley, Reagan and so many more, it's easy to see more than what's there.

Rush himself used to say that one of his principle goals was to entertain to the point of being to charge the highest possible ad rates, something he proved immensely talented at doing. And for many years he was incredibly entertaining.

But the problem with talk radio today, and The American Conservative pointed this out, is that the "big three", Rush, Sean, and "the great one" (why he gets called that mystifies me) Mark Levin, fall more into the category of neo conservatives than true conservatives. Their largely uncritical support for the Bush/Cheney imperial wars, their praise for the "success" in Iraq, a war that we so clearly and convincingly lost and probably never had any hope of winning, their support for totally unconstutional measures like the rediculously misnamed Patriot Act, all of these things put them squarely in the neocon camp.

There are real conservatives on talk radio but they tend to be more on the smaller local stations around the country.

What continues to amaze me is Sean's willingness to have Cheney on his program repeatedly. Here's a man who openly supported the torture of detainees in direct violation of the Constitution, US Code, and internation agreements that Reagan himself supported, and yet to Sean and Rush and Mark, Cheney is some sort of hero. (And no I'm not alone in this belief. Read Judge Andrew Napolitano's books. He says the same things.) Listening to Sean's interviews with former colonel and new congressman West were truly appalling. For me, and I've been a conservative since I was 11, never voted for a democrat, been reading National Review before most of you knew who WFB was, for me West's actions were reprehensible, he's no hero, and for Sean to openly endorse him on his radio show for congress was ghastly.

Part of the problem to be sure these days is what is the definition of "conservative"? To far too many people in this country being "conservative" means attacking other countries even when they don't directly threaten us, abusing detainees in the name of "saving American lives" even if it does violate our principles, our laws, international agreements we helped draft and precedents we established at Nuremburg and Tokyo, it means making heroes out people like Bush and Cheney who totally violated their oaths of office to uphold and defend the Constitution. It means that Boehner can allow the Fifth Amendment destroying language in the NDAA to remain in the bill and no one complains because as McCain told Rand Paul, we have to "support the troops". Good intentions indeed.

Except the Founders not a single one of them would have agreed with ANY thing I wrote in the last paragraph. Not ONE SINGLE ITEM. Show me a quote from any of them that supports any of the actions taken by Bush and Cheney. You can't find one. And you see a true definition of "conservative" comes down to adherence to the principles established by those Founders in the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. And the associated commentaries by Madison, by TJ, by Washingtion, by Paine and others. And none of what we did in Iraq, at Abu Ghraib, at Bagram conforms to that.

Which is why talk radio needs a "revival". We need young blood. Rush and Sean and Mark have had their day, they made plenty of money doing it, now let's see some new people come in.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.15.12 @ 9:03AM

I know. Let's get YOU.

Rush, Hannity, Levin? Who needs those OLD FOOLS? We've got Hot Dog. And, Hot Dog would be just the kinda "New Blood" that the Conservatives need.

After all: He's "Mystified" that Mark Levin gets - The Great One - moniker. Especially when everyone knows that it's RON PAUL who deserves that title. Right, nathan.

Wars. Iraq. Iran. WE DESERVE IT! Right, nathan. We gotta stop fighting Wars FOR THE JEWS. We gotta stop preventing the Peaceful Arab Countries, from DESTROYING THE JEWS.

Yes. We need a Revival in the Conservative movement. We need an Isolationist Movement, with the emphasis on Israel, getting Drugs Legalized, and using Militias to take down all the nigroes, and all them Homosexual Queers, and Jews.

And, for that reason, a lifetime subscription to Ron Paul's Newsletter, will be given out to every 3rd Caller to the Conservative Revival Station, courtesy of Nathan Hot Dog.

Idiot.

nathan| 3.15.12 @ 9:34AM

Sheesh, you're in a mood.

Call me all the names you want. Feel free. But I challenge you and anyone else who disagrees with me to do this: Real simple:

As the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick (know the name? Former UN ambassador under Reagan. Ring any bells?) asked her fellow conservatives, show me the article in the CONSTITUTION that authorized the invasion of Iraq. She looked, she couldn't find it. Can any of you? Umm.

Now, regarding the abuse of those detainees. President Washington, you all know him right? On the dollar bills you carry? Numerous quotes from him talking about treating POW's properly. Now you think for a MOMENT he would support what West did? Really? Or having that Canadian put on a plane to the Middle East and tortured? Or any of the Abu Ghraib stuff? Really?

Go back and look CLOSELY at Nuremburg and Tokyo something I fear you may not be all that conversant with. (Or most of the rest of you for that matter, sadly.) Now look closely at those trials and tell me and the rest of us, do our actions at Abu Ghraib, at Bagram, at prison 124 and elsewhere conform to the precedents we established at those trials, you know the trials where we hung people? Do they? Do putting people on planes (read the book "Ghost Plane" for the details) to outsource their torture conform to those precedents that we, holier than thou at the time, established at the time?

Are we in compliance with the Torture Convention that Reagan, the current patron saint of conservatives, supported whole heartedly? It doesn't matter what Yoo and Bybee said. Many of the JAG's were in total disagreements with those findings, did you know that? They were frankly appalled by those findings and told them so? Were you equally aware of that? Or do you just prefer to indulge in "name calling?" Easier right?

Sing to me the great accomplishments of the Iraq war. Found WMD's and destr0yed them. No there weren't any. Oh, brought democracy to the country. Madison called democracy the vilest form of government on earth. ummm try something else. Saved the Christian community from horrible oppression? No they were destroyed and bailed out to Syria. oops. What else . . . 100,000 to a million dead civilians? Can't talk about that. On top of the 100,000 to 500,000 dead due to the embargo many of them children. Umm. Is there really anything GOOD that came out of that war? Name one sir. Please. You can't. None of you.

Now call regarding Mr. Levin, he doesn't talk, he screams all the time. It is to some extent a matter of personal preference, but I just wish regardless of content, that he would turn down the volume. And like his friend, Sean, he constantly interrupts callers. I mean, can we hear what they have to say? And however gifted a writer he may be (take others word for it) again, he like the other two supported policies that the Founders would have found totally appalling and by their standards un American. Now if you disagree with me, fine. Then grab YOUR copy of the Constitution, CITE CHAPTER AND VERSE and let's go from there. If you've got quotes from the Founders, or if you want to cite books like I refer to like the Judge Napolitano, feel free. But just calling me names? I mean that's it? Sigh?

Which sadly is a real part of the problem. Because we do have an electorate that is uniformed these days, on both sides.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:28AM

To be brief, I'll just side with Jefferson and his war on the Barbary Coast. To the shores of Tripoli!

Anthony| 3.15.12 @ 10:59AM

nathan, Smoking weed a bit early today aren't we? Jeanne Kirkpatrick said no such thing, as this bright, intelligent woman, a reformed D, could read, and knew of Article I Sec. 8 of the Constitution that grants congress the power to delcare war, which included the invasion of Iraq.
And if memory serves, didn't the Ds demand two resolutions on Iraq to show what red blooded Americas they were??
And of course, Abu Ghraib ranks right up there with the holocaust and the Batan death march, didn't Jeanne Kirkpatrick teach you anything about moral equilivance? Besides, I hear those guys when released from Abu Ghraib, joined Ringling Brothers and are making a fortune!!
However, your point about the treatment of detainees is spot on!!! Their treatment was an abomination, a direct insult to the Constitution.
Yes, I'm with you on the detainees, FDR should have been convicted of treason for his internment of Japanese -Americans. You were refering to FDR I assume, right nathan?

nathan| 3.15.12 @ 12:12PM

why oh why do I bother. The vast majority of the detainees at Abu Ghraib were guilty of nothing. They were there because when bombs went off they were caught up in round ups, in other words wrong place, wrong time.

Yes the bad guys behave like, OMG, bad guys. That's why we call them bad guys. Since when do we compare ourselves to them and since when do we set our standards that low? We answer to higher standards because we're better than they are or at least we say we are. So when we take a detainee into a shower in that prison and tie him to a shower head and beat him to death, well, we're not the good guys. When an interrogator threatens to torture the children of a detainee in front of him, we're not the good guys.

And yes she did. Go back and look. But where is the formal declaration of war? Where did Bush and company, as FDR did with Japan, as the Constitution demands, go before Congress and say, I'm asking for a formal declaration of war because Iraq has attacked us and/or represents a mortal threat to us? Care to show the class that. Congress didn't do that. These sense of congress resolutions like the Gulf of Tonkin resolutions or the nonsense that we used to get involved in Korea do not meet Constititutional standards and Madison would have been the first to say so.

And frankly I know the Holocaust better than most anyone on this site, thank you so don't throw it at me.

Again the fact that bad guys like the Japanese at Bataan or the Nazis at Auschwitz behave horribly is not an excuse for us to send the Canadian to the Middle East to be tortured. The fact that bad guys behave badly is not relevant to WHAT WE DO. Let me say this ONE MORE TIME FOLKS. We have a body of principles in the Constitiution, the Bill of Rights, the US Code, the Declaration of Independence, what the Founders wrote, and precedents established at Nuremburg, Tokyo, and agreements that we helped write and enthusiastically supported such as various Geneva Accords and the Torture Convention. Those bind us even if the other guys ignore them. We have to abide by THOSE PRINCIPLES, THOSE PRECEDENTS, THOSE STANDARDS. Saying, well, the other guys do this, the other guys do that, is not relevant, again follow me here, to WHAT WE DO folks. We answer to higher standards that we establisheds in some cases going back 200 years ago. If bad guys want to act like bad guys, then that's up to them, when we catch them lock them up. But for us, we can't be them. We're better than that or at least we say we are.

Do you all understand that.

And the problem with talk radio to get back on point is the three principles DON'T get it. When Sean endorses West for congress, he clearly doesn't get it. When he invites Cheney on his program, he doesn't get it. Rush has similar problems as does Levin.

Where pray tell was the outrage by any of them over the NDAA language? Why did they not rant and rave at Boehner for leaving it in the bill?

You all need to understand something here. Tyranny from the right ala Bush and Cheney is no more acceptable than from the left. And who cares about their "good intentions"? The good intentions that paves the road to hell?

Now you all get it? The bell has rang, class is out.

Anthony| 3.15.12 @ 12:42PM

nathan, I take it all back, it ain't weed you're smoking, it's that nasty crack. If you let us waterboard you, we can see for ourselves if this practice is truly torture. And who knows, if you can balance as well as those guys did at Abu Ghraib, you to would have a job at Ringling Brothers rather than blogging and smok'en crack all day.
You're a hoot nathan, you dain to remind us in your fevered screed, that "we have a body of principles in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights...... gee, if only somebody told that to FDR.
Oh, and nathan, the vast majority of detainess at Abu Ghraib were guilty of something, unlike ALL of the Japanese-Americans who were guilty of NOTHING.
Now back to the crack pipe.

The Bruce| 3.15.12 @ 2:16PM

"...show me the article in the CONSTITUTION that authorized the invasion of Iraq."

Article I, Section 8 -- "The Congress shall have the power to [...] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water [...].

Was that easy enough? The Constitution doesn't mention what conditions must exist (preemptive war vs. response to attack) to go to war -- only that Congress authorize it, which they did overwhelmingly.

Skippy| 3.16.12 @ 2:21PM

Abu Grabass had exactly dick to do with official policy. The Nat. Guard scum who thought up the shananigans are in jail.
As if Cheney said "Put panties on that Muzzie's head and send me the pix".
And West?
I applaud his courage to risk his career to save his men.
The ROE's, if they become a suicide pact, must be ignored.
As a brave LSO did on the deck of Big E offshore Guadalcanal, there comes a time to unplug the speakers on deck and land the planes.

donserge| 3.15.12 @ 8:44AM

In order for liberalism to succeed it must be cloaked or presented as something it is not. As the cloak is comes off and true liberalism is exposed, the majority of the country do not want it. That perhaps could be what the author is thinking when he says: "liberalism is dead".

Mike Plumstead| 3.15.12 @ 8:52AM

After managing talk radio stations a few years back I discovered liberals didn't work out because they lacked credibility. The predictions they made were almost always wrong. They are seldom honest in presenting their views so they attract only liberals. Conservative talkers on the other hand will attract liberals. Many years ago, Rush's audience was at least 40 percent liberal, a statistic that probably still stands. We used liberals for short relief and fill-in and even stopped that practice after a time. I came to realize that much of the liberal audience listened because it made them feel victimized. We were only too happy to pile it on.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 9:19AM

Another reason they listened to Rush is that he let them call in and treated them with respect. He disagreed with them but allowed them to express their viewpoints and then would express his. Even if Rush did have the bully pulpit by default, he at least let leftists get a word in edgewise.

The left doesn't take that risk.

They drone on and on with the same liberal talking points over and over again. It's not a discussion but rather a lecture and a bad one at that. So even leftists get bored after a while.

This is also largely the format with the most popular leftist commentary show: The Daily Show but it needs to be TV where they can get quick fixes of visual stimulation. Show a picture of Rush, then one of a Taliban member. Get it? They're both sexist jerks! Hahahahaha! Smug smile from Jon. Hahahaha!

I personally don't think that's very funny either but since they're hyped up on their own self-importance, it doesn't have to be.

The Oscars stank, BTW as does SNL lately.

Indy| 3.15.12 @ 9:36AM

Levin has a special Lefty line, I love it when he carves out time for just liberals to call.

bill glass| 3.15.12 @ 10:17AM

Yeah, "comics" like Stewart are really, in truth, political tools. They benefit infinitely from America's free speech, and amass great wealth by tearing at our nation's fabric, and bounce around inside a big bubble of " liberal superiority" and condescension. While, of course, they're smarter than the rest of us, constantly running our good old USA down, they profit greatly hiding behind their "entertainer" status.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:35AM

All Libertines (Liber-al/Liber-tarian) run on emotions and NOT logic, reason, and facts of history. That is why both the Obots and Paulbots resort to the same tactics of revisionism and appeals to humanism. Emotions never carry the day -- they may win some minor battles, but not the war. I still have hope that more and more Americans are starting to reject Libertinism...

WickedDickie--Virginia| 3.15.12 @ 9:17AM

Too right Jack, it's them rich, Israel loving, Wall Street Jews and them darned Catholics defying Imperial Edicts from His Majesticalness and Vacationer-in-Chief that's got us into this economic and foreign policy fix. Groveling in the face of continuous aggression by Iran, et al is definitely the right (oops, sorry) the correct way to go. Destroying our energy well-being is good, too. Blowing our (borrowed) dough on "green" fantasies and unions has helped us a lot, too.
Further help is on the way with Obama-ayers Executive Order implementing the DREAM Act and Eric, the Red Holder stifling Voter ID Laws.
Yep, those nasty talk radio folks keep waving the truth at us thus flouting our Wonderful Lying Racist King Putt's BM soporifics. (Big Media) It's almost enough to make me cancel my Rush 24 membership and join in the Obama-ayers Revile America Chorus.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:29AM

Jack's about to tell you what a "good" Catholic he is. He's told everyone else on this site 50,000 times already.

9thID| 3.15.12 @ 10:37AM

Jack and Clint are no more Catholic than Pelosi, Biden, et al....

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:56AM

Well put!

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 1:38PM

Uh Oh !

The Israel Firster Smear Bund Plays Their Anti-Catholic Card.

Our Pope Benedict Has Them All Angst Ridden & PMS'y.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 1:41PM

Yes, I'm so "anti Catholic" that I regularly call Margie out for being the anti Catholic bigot she is. You can Google that too, if you want, idiot.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:28AM

Rush called a spade a spade. Fluck IS a slut. She wants people to pay for her contraception so she can continue to be face down & ass up for every dude at the Toombs Bar in Georgetown. Therefore, by default, we're paying her to have sex. That makes her, literally, a whore, in my mind. The only difference is, she's not screwing us in the conventional sense, but in a figurative one.

Add to that the fact that she's a "professional" activist (gee, don't we have one of those in the White House) who CHOSE Georgetown Law SPECIFICALLY to pursue this very agenda. So now begins the inevitable onslaught for calling something what it really is. Coarse language doesn't bother me. I'm the son of a sailor & used to be a fine dining chef for 8 years. What bothers me is the double standard of the use of such coarse language, as Mr. Tyrell points out in the beginning of his piece.

However, with White House fingerprints emerging on this manufactured charade (Fluck has some connection to Anita "I Love Mao" Dunn), Media Matters & Soros added to those prints, & you have the same leftist war on free speech as there has always been.

"The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this."...Lenin

"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."...Goebbels

"A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out."...Sir Francis Bacon

I knew there was a reason I liked Bacon!

tadcf| 3.15.12 @ 9:35AM

The only problem with right-wing radio is that it spread lies and misinformation.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 9:41AM

Really? Care to demonstrate HOW, exactly? Or are you just here to post insipid one-liners & bolt?

bill glass| 3.15.12 @ 10:08AM

Hey, to be honest, it's often the place where you here alot of things. Now, with the net, there's more sources, but you have to actively seek them; but casually listening to Rush is a very easy way to be brought up to speed.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 11:29AM

What angers the left is that they could easily accidentally tune into Rush, literally, as they're driving to work and scanning frequencies. In their opinion, opposition viewpoints should either be deliberately censored or at least someone has to search for them and click on a link. If it's on the radio, KIDS might tune into it!

I remember the early days of Rush and back then, he seemed more edgy. He had a "feminist update theme song" and referred to them as feminazis. So it's strange now to see him getting hit for a single word. His biggest mistake, as everyone seems to see, is him apologizing. If he hadn't apologized, he could defend himself. He could address any boycott by discussing the double standards of the left or even explore further his point.

Now that he's apologized, he's helpless on it.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 12:02PM

He hasn't suffered any loss by his apology. The left had their tactic backfire again. Carbonite is on the verge of folding due to a precipitous drop in customers and it's stock price. Dimbulb, the CEO, kind of stepped on his dick with his PC reaction. Rush has picked up new sponsors without missing a beat.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 2:04PM

Let's say Rush had merely clarified his position rather than apologized. In other words, said that, in principle, she's a slut and prostitute in different ways but regrets using those words. Then when the left snarled that he made an "insincere apology" he could hit them back and say it wasn't meant as one but rather an explanation.

Instead of now having to weather this storm, he could use it to his advantage to further raise the issue of the massive costs to companies and employees to fund wealthy law students' personal choices.

Let's review: Rush did not get any mercy from advertisers or the left for his apology. Neither did he need to make it since Fluke chose to be a public political figure and put her personal reproductive choices in the forum of public debate. Even if he was concerned about chivalry, Fluke is a man-hating feminist who has attacked traditionalism whenever it suited her so she is not entitled to its protection. Finally, and this is a biggie, Rush now has to walk on eggshells lest he transgress again. He'll have to not only avoid fumbling out some clearly offensive term even if it's used daily by the left, but watch his wording lest he inadvertently spit out something offensive such as macaca.

If he gets nailed again, the left will go again on a big rant against him blah blah blah. Then, he'll have to ask himself whether to apologize again (which will only make the situation worse) or cut his losses and admit the apology was a mistake (which will cost him some credibility points in the short term, but at least will allow him to move forward.)

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 4:00PM

Rush is not on eggshells, I assure you. Last time around, they tried to distort a comment he made about "phoney soldiers" referring to people who proclaimed to be soldiers or otherwise falsified military experience claims. DIngy Harry Reid sent him a letter which Rush ended up auctioning off for a donation of over $2MM for one of his military related charities , I think it was The Marine Corps/ Law Enforcement League. Harry Reid and the Democrats ended up with the dunce cap. It happened again so I think the left is more fearful of Rush as he certainly isn't afraid of them.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 4:27PM

Yeah, but no advertisers walked. Now imagine... if he had apologized for the remark and said he shouldn't have used such wording and apologized for any soldiers that were insulted.

It would have turned out a lot differently, yes?

Anthony| 3.15.12 @ 9:44AM

It's Leftism, as opposed to classical liberalism, my dear Emmett. Rush makes the same mistake by calling these Marxists liberals.
That said, leftism may be dying, but they ain't going down without a fight!! Their battle of the Bulge is being waged full scale.
The OWS troops are once again amassing on town greens everywhere, ready to defecate en masse on a moments notice to fight corporate greed!!
I suspect as these leftists get even more and more desperate, look for them to drive their Prius's into Wallmarts on suicide missions.
Perhaps many will barricade themselves in Starbucks, twittering their final defiance against the system.
And when surrender is inevitable, General Sandra Fluke will take her life with an overdose of birth control pills.
As for Obozo, look for him to secret himself away to Morocco, hiding in full burqa.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 10:09AM

Funniest comment of the day!

bill glass| 3.15.12 @ 10:04AM

Don't believe it. Just when you might be persuaded that the libs are down, they'll be back. Stomping them good for 20 elections in a row might help, but what's needed is a public education effort that's visible 24/7.

Petronius| 3.15.12 @ 10:12AM

Liberalism has always been a thin veneer for totalitarianism. Well who controls the cultural institutions where they can't be voted out? And who is always getting their way? Totalitarian Liberals. Bob is right to state that their dogma is discredited as if that mattered to them. They want absolute Power to confiscate our wealth and eliminate us. And if Obama is re elected, that will happen.

Aces and Eights| 3.15.12 @ 12:04PM

Agreed. Caius Julius Caesar passed himself off as a "Liberal" (Populare) concerned with the welfare of the little people. Since then, the name "Caesar" has become synonymous with "dictator" or "autocrat" ("Czar" is a Russian pronunciation of Caesar). Caesar's "mainstream media" of the day even gave him a new unofficial title "Dictator Perpetuo."

Stormy| 3.15.12 @ 10:38AM

You forgot to mention that NPR is a successful left wing government-funded talk radio.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 10:47AM

Successful??? ...by what standard??

Anthony| 3.15.12 @ 11:18AM

Successful in the fact that the timid and feckless Republican controlled congress, after the recorded NPR comments, and the firing of Juan Williams for his stint on FOX, did not have the balls to cut funding off.
That, in my book, is successful.

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 11:52AM

I still want to hear Big Bird as a talk show host. If Rev Al notsoSharpton can get a gig on PMSNBC, the big yellow one can get one on NPR. Now that would be success!

Louis Jenkins| 3.15.12 @ 10:54AM

Stormy, if you're referring to the public money (our money) that funds the crap, then yes they are successful.

Citizen Jerry| 3.15.12 @ 10:46AM

Just one quibble, Mr. Tyrrell. When you referred to these irritants as a pain in the neck, your geography was off.

Louis Jenkins| 3.15.12 @ 10:52AM

Liberalism? Yes, the name was corrupted by the Right to explain how the Marxists operate. I'm guilty of using it too. But the Marxists also corrupted Liberalism so as to assume a new mantel and hopefully not be identified as what they truly are. Remember the motto used in the presidental election several years back? None-the-less, markets dictate what kind of news/entertainment will be placed on the radio. And Conservative Talk Radio wins hands down. It's the message that these guys put out there regardless of the tint.

Ronald Ackenberry| 3.15.12 @ 10:58AM

Mr. Terrel,

You and yours are clearly free to slander, demean and curse your perceived enemies with only a civil court judgement standing in your way.

Be free as you wish.

Go ahead. I am not stopping you. Neither are liberals, Democrats, MSM or whatever demons may be lurking in your mind.

If you choose to slander and verbally abuse private citizens who disagree with you, go right ahead.

Consequences be damned!

Right?

Anthony| 3.15.12 @ 1:08PM

Tisk, tisk, Ronald, did you take nathan's crack pipe from him??? Give it back, NOW!!!
You can't fool us Ronald, we know you're with the FCC and want to impose the "Fairness Doctrine" on America, all in the name of fairness and freedom of expression, don't ya know.
"Be free as you wish", well, what I Ronald really mean is, until we finally shut you guys down.
Hey Ronald, nathan needs a job, can he polish your jackboots?

Boar Hunter| 3.15.12 @ 2:12PM

That was cute. Did you stomp your little foot down when you wrote about consequences.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 11:32AM

I've been thinking... perhaps this is a good thing.

With these big name advertisers, Rush had been going mainstream for a while. I'm wondering that if he lost big name advertisers and had to return to his roots, he might get a bit more edgy. He'd earn less money but quite frankly, I don't listen to Rush to allow him to earn more money. I want him to "entertain" me and also address concerns that I have. A mainstream entertainer walking on eggshells doesn't do that.

So let him call a slut a slut and a prostitute a prostitute and if that means only gun ranges and local plumbers, etc. pay for ad space and he has to move into smaller digs, I'm ok with that. Rush should be ok with it too.

Come home, Rush.

davelnaf| 3.15.12 @ 11:44AM

The sane part of America pays attention to liberals and gives them consideration in the same way that decent people express concern for the aberrant or even more dysfunctional behavior of individuals they come across. Liberalism is a noise machine designed to get our attention. It knows that it has lost the fight and being noisy—and a little insane at times—is all it has left—and you have to be insane to spend millions of your own money on propaganda in the expectation that this will transform America into a socialist utopia.

Riff Raff| 3.15.12 @ 11:53AM

"Talk radio is afflicted by several thousand social isolates sitting around the house in their underwear tapping out irate messages to the sponsors of Rush and his cohorts. They do it on their digital tools, Twitter, Facebook, the blogs. They rely on the same mentality as the Occupiers."

Left wing bloggers exhibit the same mentality as the occupiers. Interesting. Does this suggest that left wing bloggers defecate on their radios and PC's when what is heard is "unaccepatable" to them? You know, like Occupiers do to police cars.

Therealguyfaux| 3.15.12 @ 2:24PM

Well, yes, in a manner of speaking. They post their sh*te on every blog that will have them.

Eddie| 3.15.12 @ 11:56AM

Great article and correct on the death of leftists liberals in America. Folks, please, remember that radical leftist hijacked the name "liberal" and have perverted from its original meaning (that is the strategy of the left). As all things that go up this illusion of kumbaya social experiment is/will eventually come down and, by the way leftists are acting and behaving, hard. Americans are waking up and realizing that leftist are destroying our country by their actions and moronic legistive measures (they rather save a fish than an American family) and we must put a stop to it.
This will pass and America will continue to have its idiots but their days of glory will come to an end. Their masks have been pulled and their intentions have been revealed.

PolishKnight| 3.15.12 @ 12:02PM

I wish you were right. Sadly, the left has won, kind of, if winning is all that mattered to them. Winning is the easy part. The hard part is then they have Uncle Josef Stalin take over the purges begin. Uncle Joe had an apartment building for the elite where there were two doors: A front door where the residents entered and a back door that the KGB had a key to with a separate hallway to escort people to the KGB interrogation offices without anyone seeing.

The one thing liberals or leftists don't like to think about is: What if they win and Sweden II doesn't emerge? Liberalland is Detroit, SE DC, Chicago and New York, They are miserable places to live. They dream of Europe but Europe's best feature is that it has been unaffected by the culture wars of the past 60 years, until now.

Resist We Much! | 3.15.12 @ 11:58AM

Ruh-roh! Someone call the Progs!

The New York Times is running a 1 minute commercial during the "Rush Limbaugh Show" on flagship station

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03.....z1pBE7Yuyj

‘Talkers’ magazine publisher: Limbaugh likely ‘has the biggest audience he’s had in years’

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03.....qus_thread

Eddie| 3.15.12 @ 12:04PM

Great article and correct on the death of leftists liberals in America. Folks, please, remember that radical leftist hijacked the name "liberal" and have perverted from its original meaning (that is the strategy of the left). As all things that go up, this illusion of kumbaya-social-experiment is/will eventually come down and, by the way leftists are acting and behaving, hard. Americans are waking up and realizing that leftist are destroying our country by their actions and moronic legislative measures. They've noted how leftists were destructive in Europe's downfall (also, these idiots rather save an "endangered" fish than the job that would help an American family). We must put a stop to it.
Yes, this will pass. America will continue to have its idiots but their days of glory will come to an end. Their masks have been pulled and their intentions have been revealed.

Resist We Much! | 3.15.12 @ 12:09PM

Lefties calling out the hypocrites on the Left:

With Deepest Thanks to Rush Limbaugh…the Mirror Image of Maher, Matthews and the Leftie Boyz

http://predicthistunpredictpas.....ghthe.html

Condemnation of Rush Limbaugh Shows Our Hypocrisy

http://predicthistunpredictpas.....s-our.html

Resist We Much! | 3.15.12 @ 12:09PM

Democratic Party Activism Dressed Up As Feminism.

http://predicthistunpredictpas.....up-as.html

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 12:19PM

Ah, more devestating facts from our Dear Barrister!

Debate her at your peril, regressives.

BackToBasics| 3.15.12 @ 1:15PM

How is liberalism dead? Is this what the tin-eared Republican elites think? All 4 Republican candidates are soft on border control. Work-related amnesty or full amnesty, when it is ultimately implemented, will ensure democrat control for the rest of our lives.

Teaghan| 3.15.12 @ 1:22PM

I wanna see obama's "movie" that comes out today! Will I get free popcorn? It is my right, isn't it?

obadiah| 3.15.12 @ 2:18PM

According to Tyrell, Olberman and Maher are Kultursmog and polluted. The implication is that Limbaugh is lofty-minded and clean.

I cannot detect the supposed differences. Limbaugh specializes in the rhetoric of abuse and insult. It is disgraceful that the Republican Party is so deficient in intelligent proposals that Limbaugh hogs the limelight. He's not even a very good entertainer. President Obama is much more entertaining and Democrats don't have to worry about intelligent proposals.

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 2:40PM

abuse? bwahahahahahah

Dick Nome| 3.15.12 @ 2:59PM

You have never listened to Rush, have you?? Obviously not.

Kingofthenet| 3.15.12 @ 2:36PM

Bring down that imposter in the White House!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....tJhLUOFXE#!

DevilDog| 3.15.12 @ 2:39PM

In a Republican debate in Tampa last September, Ron Paul said:

This whole idea that the whole Muslim world is responsible for this and they’re attacking us because we’re free and prosperous, that is just not true.

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have been explicit. They have been explicit and they wrote and said that ‘we attacked America because you had bases on our holy land in Saudi Arabia, you do not give Palestinians a fair treatment …’
The audience has already started booing, but it was getting louder, so Paul claimed:

I didn’t say that. I’m trying to get you to understand what the motive was behind the bombing.
But then his next statement made it clear that he really does agree.

At the same time, we have been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis for ten years. Would you be annoyed? If you’re not annoyed then there’s some problem.
For a start, Paul was slandering our military, just like radical leftists including Obama’s “pastor” Jeremiah Wright and the disgraced academic Ward Churchill. However, it’s hard to think of any war where one side has been so careful to minimize civilian casualties. One report says:

according to the Iraq Body Count, an authoritative nongovernmental database of Iraqi civilian deaths, fewer than 12,000 Iraqis have died at the hands of American and coalition forces.

Moreover, reports CNSNews, the “IBC recorded 630 ‘non-combatant Iraqi deaths resulting directly from actions involving U.S.-led coalition forces’ in 2008, 80 in 2009, and 32 in 2010.
Paul may have taken a figure of total civilian deaths, which has been documented at 105,324–115,028—not “hundreds of thousands”. But many of those were at the hands of “insurgents” (terrorists), suicide bombers, sectarian violence, and increased crime—i.e. not by our troops. By comparison, the evil monster Saddam Hussein, removed by our invasion, killed far more. Even the ultra-left New York Times admitted:

Hussein, was one of the world’s indisputably evil men: he murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead. His seizure of Kuwait threw the Middle East into crisis. More insidious, arguably, was the psychological damage he inflicted on his own land. Hussein created a nation of informants—friends on friends, circles within circles—making an entire population complicit in his rule.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 7:43PM

" Michael Scheuer, who was the head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Alec Station, and authored the books Through Our Enemies Eyes and Imperial Hubris, said “I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly. This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom, but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World because ‘we’re over there,’ basically, as Mr. Paul said in the debate.”

Scheuer also agreed with Dr. Paul’s statement in the debate that the war in Iraq was a diversion from capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and that bin Laden was “delighted” that the U.S. is occupying Iraq as it has become a training ground and recruiting tool for new jihadists joining the movement."

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Therealguyfaux| 3.15.12 @ 3:02PM

Somehow the Left got caught up in Sir Karl Popper's famous FDResque formulation that the only thing we should be intolerant of is intolerance itself. Leaving aside the fact that, just as with fear, the statement is literally meaningless as it contradicts itself, and concentrating on Popper's point that we should have no truck with any person or political viewpoint that cannot countenance any opposing viewpoint even unto its right to exist, the Progressives, as they style themselves, fail. No one is saying that Sandra Fluke has no right to her OPINION and to express it; I seriously doubt El Rushbo, in his perfect world, would deny her that much; indeed he'd want someone he could point to with disdain. Where the Lefties went wrong applying Popper was to assume that ANY viewpoint other than theirs is clearly evidence of intolerance. Only they, to whom wisdom has been imparted, are truly tolerant, and supporting the Occupy movement (and the like) proves it. (Conservatives supporting the Tea Party are intolerant bigots, of course.) What the Progressive Left fears, even worse than suppression, is apathy towards them. If we all just stared'em down and said, Who Cares?, and went about our business, they would implode from their own hatred. This is why Air America and like outlets disastrously fail.

Could we dispense with all the name-calling? I'm thinking this is starting to look like a left-wing blog!

LiveFreeOrDie| 3.15.12 @ 5:01PM

Conservatives, Independents, Libertarians or anyone not in lock step with the left are becoming the new "liberals" in the true sense of the word.

Highsider| 3.15.12 @ 5:43PM

Having had, perhaps, a few more years of observation time racked up than some here, I’d like to offer my opinion that conservatism is a bit shortsighted in the latter fifty to sixty years of it’s history at least... The liberal left, or “progressivism” as they again dare call themselves, have ALWAYS planned further down the road than we, as conservatives have. Tell a true leftist leader (as opposed to the leftist herd) that conservatives have a plan, and he will laugh at you. Neither you as a conservative nor any conservative “leader” we might want to name, even knows what a plan is, compared to the hard core left.
At this point in history, the left has virtually total control over not only the mainstream news media, but our educational system also. This did not happen by accident nor did it happen overnight. It is the results of very carefully crafted planning from a long time ago. So that in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when the John Birch Society was warning us that this exact situation was being built up, step by step, we ignored it, buying instead, the left’s mantra that the JB’ers were a bunch of kooks. I can remember talking to people, good people, not leftists, but people who wanted the best for our freedoms, who actually thought that the John Birch Society were some sort of communist group.
So here we are. The left controls the dialog in our newspapers and in most broadcast news. It’s all most of America reads or hears. The left now controls not only the college level education but now the High school and grammar school levels and we are graduating crops of new little socialists year after year.
It wasn’t always so. After WW2, for several years, it wasn’t, but some detailed long range planning took place on a scale that most conservatives can’t grasp.
Most conservatives don’t realize it, but we are going down for the third time. Fate has thrown us a branch however, in the form of something that was not foreseen at the time all that planning took place.
Those planners had no way of knowing either that radio would NOT be completely made obsolete as a form of mass communication by the emergence of nationwide television, nor that THIS form of mass communication, the internet, would appear in the nations households. The advent of both talk radio and the internet, caught the left by surprise and is slowing the implementation of the next steps in their planning.
The now formidable recourses of the left have not been napping however. They have, in fact been planning the demise of both these tools that the right was handed on a silver platter. We are, as usual, way behind the curve in our planning to protect these resources. Can we rouse ourselves to the state necessary to accomplish what must be accomplished to just continue to exist, in the day late and dollar short form that we exist today? May God help us.

Ronald Ackenberry| 3.15.12 @ 8:37PM

Maybe wingers would have more voice in the media if they supported regressive sites such as this one.

Are not you embarrassed that you must annoy potential supporters with pop ups begging for nickels and dimes?

Or, that you've only managed to raise only $5k so far?

I'm embarrassed for you, when I stop snickering.

Highsider| 3.15.12 @ 9:07PM

Ron? Are you alright? Do you know where you are? Are you in pain?

Pat| 3.15.12 @ 6:15PM

Does anyone get the feeling R. Emmett doesn’t hold the mainstream media in high esteem? Or Al Sharpton and Bill Maher either? This “Kultursmog” is a little confusing though – what is it exactly? But whether you believe Kultursmog is a new German laxative or an attempt to sound intellectual to folks who aren’t usually impressed by intellectuals, this author did make a valid point in a long way round the block fashion. Comcast, MSNBC, liberal journalists, advertisers – we get it R. Emmett and you couldn’t be more astute, if not also a tad obscure.

If you’re a Conservative and a Comcast subscriber, take the subtle hint. They want you to sign up for that new added feature cable package, you’d like to see Comcast divest MSNBC or at least put the fear of Rush into MSNBC program directors. Maybe you’ll tell your helpful Comcast representative that your increased cable business comes with a price – it’s either you as a satisfied customer or MSNBC has to go. The word will quickly filter up from the marketing ranks that certain customers don’t like MSNBC and consequently Comcast’s cable business, not to mention their bonuses, are suffering from this Conservative grudge.

The mainstream media are all about free speech for themselves and hate any suggestion economic consequences should result from their inane bleating. And the mainstream media types assure us they will retaliate if we attack their wallets. Yet, does Rush have anything to worry about from a threatened retaliation? Would he lose all his loyal listeners to Bill Maher? I’m one Comcast subscriber who can’t wait for the next evening marketing call – have I got a great deal for them.

Norm Klevens| 3.15.12 @ 8:58PM

And today O'Rrilly [do nort care how he spells his name] tried to get in on the hit on Rush.

Mike Hawk| 3.15.12 @ 9:58PM

We know BORe doesn't like Rush or many other Conservative either. He is more comfortable with Liberals and does not hide his distain for Conservatives.

POST American| 3.15.12 @ 10:11PM

----AS former Kissinger aide, 'BAR--Rockefeller'
Obama pushes NDAA 1021

-------AS Glenn Beck, such as he is, is 'eased out'

----------AS Pat Buchanan, RED China sellout
apologist that he is, likewise

-------------AS genuine Judge Napolitano likewise

----------------AS even FOX News is being
strong-armed and blackmailed

--------------------Likewise, Rush, such as he is

AS we sit, here and now, just two weeks
off from the 'uncannily timely' 'natural'
death of Andrew Breitbart ----and the
'disappearance' of the substance of his
Obama college videos -------

----UH ------YEAH! we'd say
TALK RADIO IS IMPORTANT.

------------ALEX JONES--is--THE PRESS------------

---------ALAN WATT--is--the CONSCIENCE-------

-----------DRUDGE-----is------the SURVEY----------

This IS the 11th HOUR.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Purp| 3.15.12 @ 11:58PM

Hilarious .... Talk Radio is shooting itself and lashes out at anybody it can bully. Last gasps are always sad ... buh, bye Rush. Well, maybe not so sad in his case.

Highsider| 3.16.12 @ 3:01PM

Keep whisting perp, you'll be out of the graveyard late this year.

POST American| 3.16.12 @ 12:37AM

------------------BOTTOMLESS LINE------------------

-----JUST two weeks after the likely MURDER
of Andrew Breitbart
-------------------------and the 'disappearance'
of the substance of the "BAR--Rockefeller'
Obama collega videos. . . . . . .

-------------------TIME TO MOVE----------------------

IN THE NAME OF GOD

---------------------------------------------TIME

KnownUnknowns| 3.16.12 @ 4:05PM

dude, did you SEE the BReitbart "Obama video" ??

its possible Breitbart killed him elf from the sheer embarassment of that DUD video!

Ronald Ackenberry| 3.16.12 @ 1:06AM

Post,

You forgot to mention Davey Jones of the Monkees died mysteriously of heart disease at the age of 66. It is still explained. Just before his death he passed a physical with flying colors.

I'm down with some of this NWO stuff.

KnownUnknowns| 3.16.12 @ 3:40PM

So if Liberalism is dead, and Rush has been on the radio for almost THIRTY years, why then did "We the People" of America overwhelmingly elect a liberal president in 2008and a liberal senate and why is every single poll showing Obama leading every single GOP candidate for the 2012 race ????

It seems to me that conservatism is in big trouble and Rush has played a HUGE part in that recently

mmercier| 3.19.12 @ 1:08AM

It is the left that brings such words as c...t, t...t and Lewinsky type words into common discussion.

Leftists are vile pigs who will literary eat their young to prove a simple point that popped into their head during a good high.

I prefer vermin overleftisthumans.

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