{"id":4104,"date":"2009-01-28T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2009-01-28T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:53:32","slug":"heart-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"Heart And Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why does the left hate Limbaugh so much?<\/p>\n

It’s not just that he eats their lunch in the marketplace (markets have no meaning to the left); it’s not that he “dumbs down” the American people (a Pew study last year showed that…:<\/p>\n

…Limbaugh\u2019s audience is often underestimated by critics who don\u2019t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identify themselves as \u201cliberal,\u201d according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of \u201cnews knowledge questions,\u201d Limbaugh\u2019s \u201cDittoheads\u201d \u2014 the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience \u2014 scored higher than NPR listeners<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So intelligence doesn’t matter to them either.<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 It’s because Limbaugh is the one nationally-prominent ideological conservative who is unapologetic on the subject,and has the capability of leading people – as opposed to the party – back to where it belongs.<\/p>\n

Todd Huston notices just how wrong that is:<\/a><\/p>\n

I am through with Limbaugh\u2019s supporting the long tradition of rugged American individualism, done with his harping on free trade, and up to here with his going on about the Founders and our American character. I am worn out with his bellicose talk of stopping terrorism, and so done with Limbaugh\u2019s high profile as one of the most listened to conservative advocates in the country that I could just spit. I simply don\u2019t want this Limbaugh character to be the sole voice of the GOP. Stop it now. Make it go away.Instead, it would be nice if just ONE of our actual, purported Republican politicians would be the voice of the GOP espousing all the conservative ideals that Limbaugh so eloquently expounds upon day in and day out. Wouldn\u2019t it be grand if just one guy with the guts to back up the rhetoric with a voting record would become the voice of the party of conservatism?<\/p>\n

Liberals have their Ted Kennedys and Nancy Pelosis that do no compromising. They have their \u201cBaghdad\u201d Jim McDermotts that cavort across the globe advocating for murderers and tyrants the world over. They\u2019ve had their presidential candidates \u201creporting for duty\u201d that have in the past been key members of committees advocating for putting our own soldiers in jail and indicting Americans for faux war crimes. For that matter, the left even has an actual ex-president that runs to the support of every tin-pot dictator in the world pretending at being a diplomat.<\/p>\n

The left is unapologetic for its support of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, the biggest mass murderers in history. They are resolved to turn our foreign policy over to foreign bodies like the UN. The left is four square against freedom of religion and keen to remove uncounted numbers of our Constitutional rights from us. They hate capitalism, property rights and are against open debate in our schools\u2026 yet they say so proudly and their politicians cultivate voting records that reflect those beliefs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no \u201ccompromise\u201d there. The left knows that politics ain\u2019t beanball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Obama Administration is just like Lori Sturdevant; they want their Republicans to be nice and wishy-washy and pliable.<\/p>\n

They want a party full of Chuck Hegels and Ron Erhards – worthless “moderate” vermin (politically speaking) who are of no use to dissenting from the majority agenda.
\nI figured before the election that Obama would overreach on things like the “Fairness” Doctrine, measures to silence opposition.<\/p>\n

In my wildest dreams, I didn’t think he’d do it this <\/em>fast.<\/p>\n

I hope he continues.\u00a0 He’s clearly been reading his own press; he thinks he’s invincible; that he can get away with anything.
\nGood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why does the left hate Limbaugh so much? It’s not just that he eats their lunch in the marketplace (markets have no meaning to the left); it’s not that he “dumbs down” the American people (a Pew study last year showed that…: …Limbaugh\u2019s audience is often underestimated by critics who don\u2019t listen to the show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}