Good thing Rush Limbaugh has big shoulders. He'll need them now
that Barack Obama and his Clintonista reunion band have put the
full weight of the Unites States government on top of him.
It's great that maestros of slime like Begala, Carville and
Greenberg (What? Did Sidney Blumenthal miss the reunion lunch?)
are able to get their young Bartlebys in the press to trumpet in
breathless tones their genius for having President Obama and the
House and Senate Democrats target Rush as the centerpiece of
their "distract America campaign." But like their "Vast Right
Wing Conspiracy" campaign back in 1993-1994, "Rush is the
Republican Party" will backfire by ultimately re-booting the
conservative movement.
It's really remarkable that the Clintons and Obamas didn't find
themselves as soul mates sooner. After all, they both love the
political tactic of ding-dong-ditch at the front door while
sneaking through the side window.
Team Obama, made up mostly of the warmed-over leftovers from Team
Clinton, is drawing from that old Clinton gambit in the La
Affaire Limbaugh. Team Obama is using Rush to distract the
American public from what they really want to do: regulatory
impositions at the Federal Communications Commission on media
ownership, local media diversity and content requirements for
station licensing, which will in effect impose a kind of
"Fairness Doctrine" without calling it as such.
But here's the problem: Rush is a smart man, who has understood
his role in this whole ridiculous media drama, and is willing to
play along, because with 20 million listeners, a host of bloggers
and local and syndicated radio hosts who admire and support him,
he can more than deal with this amateurish PR offensive. If
nothing else, he may actually get some better ratings in places
like San Francisco,Vermont and parts of the former Soviet Union,
where Obama loyalists are tuning in to find out what the fuss is
all about.
One of Rush's greatest gifts is the ability to never talk down or
underestimate his listenership or the American public, something
the Obama administration and Liberal radio has done routinely.
The listening , thinking public won't be fooled by these
diversionary tactics. There is a reason that there are few, if
any commercially viable "progressive" radio programs. And a
reason that "Rush babies" populate this country. This very
conversation sharpens the focus on the issues Rush has been
talking about, and others (like my husband, Fred), have been
fighting for for over 20 years. Friends like Mark Levin, Sean
Hannity and others provide the kind of echo chamber the Left
would love to control for themselves.
This little "high-school Harry" exercise has revealed that the
Obama administration would rather focus on the destruction of one
man with the full force of the office of the President of the
United States, while Americans' wealth dissipates in platitudes,
earmarks and break-out play groups. Even people who voted for
President Obama know instinctively that this is more than unfair;
it is dangerous. For once, I agree that this administration
supports transparency: it's crystal clear that these people will
do anything to achieve their socialist utopia, the America of our
Founding Fathers be damned. This must not happen, and Rush, we
are with you.
