At the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, Rush Limbaugh delivered a very long and energizes speech discussing Obama, the stimulus, and his hopes for the Republican Party. A lot of people attending the conference seemed to enjoy it. Some of what he said makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever:
"What [people] know is largely incorrect, based on the way we're portrayed in pop culture, in the drive-by media, by the Democrat party"....blaming the media? Isn't this stretching the limit a bit? Limbaugh has a radio show, so isn't he part of the media?
"[Obama] wants people in fear, angst and crisis, fearing the worst each and every day, because that clears the decks for President Obama and his pals to come in with the answers, which are abject failures..." This sounds more like President Bush...
"They see these inequalities, these inequities that capitalism produces. How do they try to fix it? Do they try to elevate those at the bottom? No, they try to tear down the people at the top." ...Well you can't elevate people to the top if there isn't any room there... Besides, when did equality become such a bad thing?
"Bipartisanship occurs only after one other result. And that is victory." I don't understand this one at all.
But my favorite thing that Limbaugh has said (though not in his speech): "I want [Obama] to fail." Charming... Just the right attitude to have at the moment...
I am thankful to hear, however, that at this same conference, pamphlets were distributed: "How radio wrecks the right." It's good to know that not everyone in the GOP is as idiotic as its loudest mouthpiece.
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Rush Limbaugh seems to be continuing to spew the same republican ideas that worked in the political climate of the early 2000's but seem out of touch today. If the republican party refuses to admit that the political climate has shifted to one extent or another, and in turn does not shift to align with a greater proportion of the population it seems they will continue to lose ground. In times of panic people seem to turn to new ideas and between Jindals speech and what much of the republican pundits are saying, it does not appear that the republicans are going to offer new ideas for a solution. Instead they seem to be betting on Obamas failure which in turn would put them back in power.
The bad thing is that our two choices are the socialist war mongerers and the slightly less socialist super war mongerers.
As for equality, I think everyone has equal rights, but everyone having equal money isn't a good thing in my opinion. I think people that contribute to society should be rewarded (or else there is less incentive to contribute).
yah i was watching good morning america today and some of the things those radio hosts talk about are so out of line. i have no idea whats going on in their minds. ignorance or just all this big talk to please radio listeners?
I think Rush Limbaugh does not realize that the country is changing he missed the boat. Although he claims that by saying he hopes Obama will fail he doesn't mean he wants the US to fail, he really seems to be opening the schism between the two parties at a time where it is imparative that we all work together to get out of this mess. I am extremely disappointed that the "spokesman of the Republican Party" not only has nothing intelligent to say, but also has nothing relevant to say. I'm also sorry the Republicans haven't noticed that.
No offense, but Limbaugh personifies every bad stereotype of the Republican Party and the fact that his own party fails to take action against him is just going to destroy them.
(I know I'm extremely late in replying to this post, but since nothing else was posted last week I guess I'll make a fool of myself by joining in this lively debate.)
First things first, a lot of the commenters above seemed to link Rush Limbaugh with the Republican Party. As Mr. Silton have pointed out in class, a straw man argument is quite flawed and a "misrepresentation of an opponent's position." Unless you're referring to republican ideas that reflects a belief in the establishment of a nation ruled by a republic instead of a monarchy, I doubt that Limbaugh's ideas are hardly "republican." Nor is he a symbol of the Republican Party, because that would be an elephant.
The second thing is that the post relies heavily on quoting Mr. Limbaugh out of context. Perhaps it would be best for me to demonstrate with a couple of examples that would portray Limbaugh in a better light:
"Now, let me speak about President Obama for just a second. President Obama is one of the most gifted politicians, one of the most gifted men that I have ever witnessed. He has extraordinary talents. He has communication skills that hardly anyone can surpass. No, seriously. No, no, I'm being very serious about this. It just breaks my heart that he does not use these extraordinary talents and gifts to motivate and inspire the American people to be the best they can be."
"Now, seriously, for those of you watching on C-SPAN as well, and on Fox, I want to tell you who we all are in this room. I want to tell you who conservatives are. We conservatives have not done a good enough job of just laying out basically who we are because we make the mistake of assuming people know. What they know is largely incorrect based on the way we are portrayed in pop culture, in the Drive-By Media, by the Democrat Party. "
"This notion that I want the President to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we've got. That's nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it, why in the world do I want what we just described [Believe me, he spent a lot of time talking about these things], rampant government growth indebtedness, wealth that's not even being created yet that is being spent, what is in this? What possibly is in this that anybody of us wants to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war on Iraq to fail!
CROWD: Yes!
RUSH: They certainly did. They not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure."
If anyone feels that I too have committed the fallacy of "quoting out of context," feel free to read the transcript of his speech to the CPAC and I would be delighted to retort.
Though I understand your comments about Limbaugh Nelson facts are that even members of his own party are speaking against him as was mentioned in an article that ran in the wall street journal over the weekend. Even the new chairman of the republican national committee Micheal Steele spoke out against him and though Steele later rescinded his comments and apologized (maybe to avoid getting fired that early into the job?)it still sets a precedent as related to republican leaders feelings about Limbaugh.
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