Giving Rush Limbaugh more power than he deserves.
From the Guardian:
Congressional Democrats today waded into the spat between President Barack Obama and conservative radio personality and blow-hard Rush Limbaugh, calling for a petition “to express outrage at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for saying he wanted President Obama to ‘fail.’”
Democratic congressional campaign committee chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said in a statement:
Rush Limbaugh’s reprehensible remark that he ‘hopes’ President Obama fails to meet the extraordinary economic challenges Americas face has no place in the public discourse.
Mr. Limbaugh’s comments politicize the economic struggle of millions of hard working Americans. With the unemployment rate over seven percent, today’s news that 62,000 more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, and millions of Americans struggling to keep their health care and homes, all Americans, regardless of their ideology, hope that President Obama succeeds in getting people back to work and turning our economy around.
Last week, Limbaugh said:
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to this guy, say ‘okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: ‘I hope he fails’.
Once again, democrats fail to understand how to deal with a scumbag like this. Yes, scumbag. Rush Limbaugh has spent decades working large lies into small bits of truth and building a constituency of listeners who lap it up. Fortunately, his audience has diminished in the last year, but his ability to command the political stage has not - due in no small part to people who dignify his voice.
Public relations is very simple. Draw attention to your subject any way you can. If no one knows them, publicity needs to be molded carefully so bad first impressions do not stick. For those who are known - and trying to get noticed any way they can - good or bad publicity makes no difference. In fact, bad publicity can help to generate sympathy for said subject.
The best way for democrats and President Obama to get this fat drug-addled slob out of their hair is to either attack him directly (itemize his lies) or ignore him. Show him courtesy, and you’re his bitch.
Democrats won’t ignore Rush because they’re all scared of him. You liberal assholes will be out of office by the next election cycle, just wait and see. Rush will be wiping his ass with your proposals.
Obama needs Rush. To pass his pack of lies, our newly elected president is hoping to hide is lies and misdealings (2 tax cheats, and lobbyist appointment). This in less than a month. Funny how you leftist don’t hold the left media to the same standards as the right media.
I know I can believe I the change coming, and it isn’t good.
@Chris
Please. Nobody’s “hiding” what Daschle or Geitner have or haven’t done. You’re not finding out later what these guys did. The media’s doing just fine. It’s you idiots who have been brainwashed that the media is on the liberals side. Give me an example and I’ll give you 10.