That’s it. I’ve had it with all these bleepin’-bleepin’ snakes on this bleepin’-bleepin’ plane! The conservative media in this country has officially jumped the shark. They’ve been declining for a while but finally a leather-jacket-wearing-water-skiing Rush Limbaugh has jumped over a big, nasty shark called the NFL.
According to Rush, “This is not about the NFL, it’s not about the St.
Louis Rams, it’s not about me, this is about the ongoing effort by the left in
this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or
wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative. Therefore, this is about the future of the
United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have.”
This is about the future of America? Really? It’s not about you Rush? Really? Why don’t you take some responsibility for your negative remarks about the NFL (Donovan McNabb, anyone) and accept that it IS about you. Get it through your ego that maybe you are not everything to everyone. Maybe it is not a vast left wing conspiracy to keep you down – do you really believe you’ve been kept down? Maybe, just maybe the NFL doesn’t want you because of you and not because some cadre of trench-coat-wearing leftists has infiltrated the richest good old boy network in the country.
Rush recently described Obama as a “disaster” and Jimmy Carter as an “utter disgrace” but George W. Bush is “the most decent, down to earth, real man you could ever hope to meet”. Rush is so predictable and so one sided that he has lost 100% of his credibility. Sort of like reality TV.
Pick an issue and I am sure that Rush can concoct a conspiracy story. Chicago didn’t get the Olympics – payback because the world hates Obama who hails from Chicago. Drug wars in Mexico – what did you expect? The Left won’t let them sell drugs in a free market so they kill innocent conservatives in the streets and you’re next. Tsunamis in the Pacific? Obviously the Left is allowing these things to happen so they can swoop in with a big taxpayer funded relief bureaucracy. Can't buy an NFL team? It's the Left, of course.
And Rush is not alone. Mark Levin, another conservative commentator has lost all of his credibility too. He’s a smart guy. He makes some good points. But his criticisms of the Left boil down to calling them Nazis and insulting their physical appearance. It’s like debating with a 4 year old, or a table as Barney Frank might say. He is so predictable and one sided that he too has lost all credibility.
These are serious times and we need serious people. There is a worthy debate to be had around caring for our sick, employing our work force, and sustaining a viable financial system. And there are reasonable solutions – look at the rest of the world, these problems are being solved by smart people everywhere. Is it the best you can do to call people names? Is that all you bring to the table?
Rush and his ilk are simply entertainers now. So before you tell me that Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin have no business in politics recognize that the leader of the Republican party is one of them. People always fault the “liberal media” but the truth is that the conservative media in this country has devolved from journalism to entertainment. And that’s a shame because there are some smart guys out there who would rather make ratings better than make America better. Idiots.
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