Posted by
OB Busch on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:29:54 AM
What do I think of the outcome of the National elections?
That can be summed up by Lisa Simpson of The Simpson’s TV show.
Lisa and her friend created a mythical country called Equalia. Lisa said
to her friend, “In Equalia everyone will be equal except we will be in charge.”
Have you read Animal Farm by George Orwell?
Context
One of the traits of the leftist liberal is to ignore context when bashing
the opposition. Case in point; the recent column by Leonard Pitts,
a syndicated communist (oops! that’s columnist). This week he addresses
a comment by Rush Limbaugh. In speaking about the newly
inaugurated President Obama Rush, in context, said, “I hope he fails”.
Here is the quote by Rush
“Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff,
"Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new,
what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is
our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the
precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By
story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day
long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it. “
Pitts uses only the “I hope he fails quote”. He doesn’t expand to the
reality that the quote is one of hoping that the liberal agenda fails.
Pitts calls it, “a calculated outrage”. He writes,
“The irony is that Limbaugh and the other clowns would have you believe
they are bedrock defenders of this country, that they love it more than the
rest of us, more than anything.
That's a lie. Limbaugh just told us so, emphatically.
It's not the country they love. It's the attention. The ideology, their
perversion of conservatism, is but a means toward that end…..
The country doesn't matter. The ''side'' does. And Limbaugh's side
seems angry in power and angry out. It's as if anger is all they really have.”
Entire Column Here
EXCUSE ME? Rush Limbaugh is a perversion of conservatism?
Which conservatism would that be. Would it be the ‘conservatism’
of the suck-up RINO’s that populate the Republican Party and both
halls of congress. Would it be the ‘conservatism’ of the old democrats
that abandoned ship for the Republican Party?
If Rush is a perversion of either of these type of ‘conservatives’
then call me perverted.
About that Fairness Doctrine
Writings by Joel McNally appear regularly in the local newspaper.
On November 4th one of his ‘disinformation columns' was about the
to demand balance in radio and TV broadcasting. His target was AM
radio, stating that the ‘right wing’ has dominated this medium for
“2 decades” and “… resembles a government run media in some
totalitarian country…”
Let’s look at the facts. Radio stations are in the business of selling
advertising. In order to sell this advertising they need an audience.
AM radio was losing its audience when FM radios became the norm in
the 70’s. Music moved to FM and AM was relegated to local stations
and a few ‘top 40’ hold outs. Talk radio evolved but it was mostly
self-help gurus and recipe shows. Then in 1987 the original Fairness
Doctrine was ended. Shortly after Rush Limbaugh pioneered the
idea of political discourse presented in an entertaining manner.
Howard Stearn introduced the idea of dialog between the producer
and the on air talent. Suddenly Talk Radio was hot.
For McNally to say that the ‘right’ has dominated talk Radio is incorrect.
There are plenty of ‘left wing’ stations and programs.
(WCPT in Chicago, Ill and WTDY in Madison, WI are just 2 examples
in my listening area).
McNally also contends that the air space is limited and should be regulated.
HELLO JOEL, its 2009! There is Internet Radio, Subscription Radio,
and Podcasts. I’m willing to bet there are plenty of AM radio bands
for sale. Joel McNally is not in favor of fairness. He is in favor of stifling
political discourse.
(See my earlier post: A Fair for All and No Fair to Anybody
We have met the enemy…
By proclaiming that the war on terror does not really exist, the Obama
Administration has put their collective heads deep in the sand,
exposing their derrieres to a butt whipping.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/114385