So I stumbled across this article that is on www.yahoo.com. The title of it is "Criticizing Rush Limbaugh: Over the Line?" Right away I knew I was in for a hurting. See for yourself...
There is already a discussion about this under another diary. My bad. I thought I caught it early, but you guys are just too fast. Here is the link...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'etat c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs crept up to that line - even put his toe over - as he tried to capitalize on the anti-Obama declarations of talk-show behemoth Rush Limbaugh. In January, and again at a recent gathering of conservatives in Washington, Limbaugh pointedly declared that he hopes for the failure of Obama's economic proposals. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis.)
Limbaugh is hardly the only American with doubts about Obama's economics. A new poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News found that even in a country largely supportive of Obama, most voters remain skeptical that his stimulus plans will do much good. Nevertheless, Democrats scampered to make Limbaugh the new mascot of the GOP, and thus link the word "conservative" with the word "failure." Gibbs urged reporters to ask if all Republicans "want to see the President's economic agenda fail?" Michael Steele, the new party chairman, rushed to say no. Limbaugh, Steele said, is "an entertainer" given to "incendiary" and "ugly" overstatements. Like other GOP leaders who have tried to dismiss the broadcaster, however, Steele soon felt obliged to apologize to the man with the 20 million listeners.
Wow are there any words to conjure up just how much this sucks? Do any of you remember when for years whenever we critisized Bu$h we were meet with... "ITS A TIME OF WAR!!!! HOW DARE YOUR ATTACK THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!!!" Yet now when a demagogue racist such as Limbaugh hopes that the President "Fails" it is we who have stepped "over the line" according to this article. Of course, it is Limbaugh that crossed the line by putting his party over his country (so much for "Country First"). If gibb's had a "Sun King" moment with his statements then what was illegal wiretapping, Katrina and the 1,555,777,318 different scandals plaques that Bu$h brought upon us?! Its just unreal how transparent some of these goons are in the MSM. Its got me so pissed off right now. I want to go hit my punching bag!
And why the hell is this crap article on the front page of www.yahoo.com. Unfreaking real!