On CNN, Media Matters' Boehlert discusses Limbaugh's role in the GOP "hate machine"

At last! You guys need better press agents or something-- you should be on all the time. Who handles Coulter?

A+!

And I was pleased to hear Mr. Boehlert use the word Republican when he spoke, and to use that word only, instead of descending into frivolous and purely imaginary distinctions, such as the CNN beauty contest runner-up and toothpaste model ("Murph"?) made, when she said "there's a big difference between the Republican Party and conservativism"...

Both Mr. Boehlert and the CNN host who drew his opinion from him, used the word Republican excusively (in their brief exchange): if you look at the clip again, both men could easily have used the words "conservative" and "conservatives" in place of the words Republican and Republicans, but they did not... because in the context of what we're talking about (rush limbaugh and the conference that just took place) there is no difference! Had either Mr. Boehlert or the CNN host voiced their opinions by variously mingling the words "conservative" and Republican, they'd have reduced what they had said to a confusing equivocation, by using aliases and pseudonyms for no good reason...

If it looks and sounds and smells like a Republican, then why not call it a Republican? Why say "conservative"? And even worse, why say "right" or "right wing"?

I say the two men would have slashed the meaning from their words, had they made the absolutely unnecessary and unreal distinction between "conservatives" and Republicans in this particular instance, and would have rendered their words confusing at least, and empty at worst, had they spoke in mingled aliases and pseudonyms and euphemisms even...

Look at the clip again: see that Mr. Boehlert and the CNN host both said something true and substantial (that as long as rush limbaugh is the voice of the Republican Party, so long will Republicans sound like the party of hatred, even perversion): then measure how empty and insubstantial were the words of the beauty contest runner-up, who (I claim) came to rush's defense by trying to cast him as a "conservative" and not as a Republican (and prefaced the defense by announcing to you that there's a difference in this case).

It's almost as bad and every bit as insulting, as this other crap about calling rush limbaugh an "entertainer": both distinctions are made to confuse you as to rush limbaugh's purpose on the Public Airwaves, namely to influence and manipulate the political opinions of the American People...

He (and his defenders) hide his profession behind the word "entertainer": they even hide his politics behind the word "conservative".

It's high time we all saw through that ruse, and stopped speaking in aliases and equivocal terms, even in terms that are absolute nonsense ("right"?): if it walks and talks and smells like a Republican, then call it a Republican...

This stinking hateful bloated spokesperson for the Republican Party, he is their's and their's alone: let's not allow them to hide that fact, or for him to hide his mission, behind the word "conservative".

Nice job Eric! BTW, next time can you please point out how funny it is that Limbaugh REFUSES to say Democratic party and everyone is in the Democrat party?? What a jouvenile!