Brooks: "Every single elected leader of the Republican Party is afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck"
September 20, 2009 11:41 am ET
From the September 20 edition of the NBC-syndicated Chris Matthews Show:
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Limby and Beck are pushing for the ruination of Obama appointees one by one but now have ACORN as a big fish. If the funding for ACORN goes away due to the actions of some of their employees, I'd like the same to happen to BlackWater and affiliates, Halliburton and the electrocutioners, Kellogg Root.
ACORN, even if they were 100% criminal, are insignificant compared to Enron and all those other outfits you listed. Talk about derailing the national dialog! Why should stopping ACORN be a national priority? Yet conservatives seem to shudder in fear of ACORN and what it could do to this country.
Assuming that EVERY LAST ONE of the accusations on ACORN is true, what has been the damage? Where are all the victims?
Contrast ACORN to Rush's EIB network. Sure EIB has a constitutional right to express its self, yet derailing the national dialog and subverting a national party sounds like real damage to me. Even David Brooks seems to agree!
Rush and EIB have hours of unchallenged access to the airways. With Rush's large audience and generous sponsors, the big lie train continues down the tracks. Challenging and debunking Rush's distortions and lies actually does mitigate real damage. Media Matters sets a good example for other networks and national politicians by not being intimidated by these media bullies with hours of unchallenged airtime. We need to stop being enablers for these egoistical blowhards.
Anybody that goes against Rush one day comes back within days to apologize to him.
In appears that more voters are seeing Rush, Beck and others as the liars and propagandits they are, but the big monied interests will keep them around to help convince the rabble to vote against their best interests
Non-elected leaders, too. Colin Powell has made only passing references to the damage El Rushbo does to the Party. Powell's paid a price ever since for not toeing the Limbaugh line.
But why?
That's a pretty bold statement, but it doesn't include within it any sensible reason for why "the Republican Party is afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck."
There's no reason given why, because Republicans are not "afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck."
Republicans are using limbaugh and beck, in a vain and destructive effort to alienate the majority of the American People (who made Democrats a majority in Congress and made Mr. Obama their President), to alienate them from Democrats and from President Obama.
To stupidly state that "the Republican Party is afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck" is just simply a clever and evasive and distractionary and absolutely false attempt to imply that Republicans oppose the things being said by limbaugh and beck, isn't it?
You can see that, right?
It's bullchit... Republicans are using limbaugh and beck, using them in a vain hope to recreate the political magic that limbaugh previously worked for them, when he (and other media hacks like him) influenced and manipulated the political opinions of the American People, via the then recently deregulated public airwaves, leading up to the national elections of 1994.
Republicans have now been reduced politically to ineffectual minorities in the House and the Senate, and are at present exercising the only political power they have left to them, the power of the media and of the public airwaves, which is the power of limbaugh and beck...
And so why would they (Republicans) ever oppose the single power they have left and have working 24/7 for them?
They wouldn't, and it's stupid to think they would.
But this guy brooks, he thinks you're stupid, and he thinks by cleverly implying that Republicans oppose the things being said by limbaugh and beck...
"Every single elected leader of the Republican Party is afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck"
...this guy brooks, he thinks you're stupid enough to accept the false implication hidden beneath his stupid statement, which contains no reason for why "the Republican Party is afraid to take on Rush and Glenn Beck", because there is none.