The Republicans are starting to squirm with Rush Limbaugh's silly rhetoric.
To show how brilliant Obama is when he told Republicans to stop listening to Limbaugh was not only brilliant but calculated and received the response Obama hoped to achieve....
The right wing rhetoric has been in a full court press going on a rabid attack. Obama mentioned Hannity in the run up to the election knowing he would provoke a response. Now that he has much more clout, political capital and one of the highest approval ratings he is as dumb as a fox when he mentions this dimwits in conversation. Here's why:
The right wing in this country is in serious trouble with no firm footing to stand upon. Rush Limbaugh boasts a whopping 14 million listeners (I seriously question this numbe but for arguement sake we'll give it to him). Obama realized early on that he would never, ever get the Ditto Head support but he also realized the die hard Fox News monkeys, the Sean Hannity listeners, the Bill O'reilly listeners are all of the same fold. On a good night, Fox News May draw 4 to 6 million viewers. Those ratings are good for cable television ratings but somewhere in the calculation some of these same die hards also listen to Rush thus sharing listenership and viewership. This significantly decreases the right wing unbrella of voters who buy into their garbage into a significantly small number. The main stream view these nuts as "extreme" right, radical, way out of the mainstream. So Obama has the luxury of marginalizing the GOP base to a bunch of radicals. So when Rush states he doesn't support Obama, uses racial inuendos, slurs, garbage etc. It offers the moderate Republicans contrast to how crazy some are within the party. Obama is riding on a huge wave of approval and now has the clout to smash a guy like Rush in the mouth and galvinize the Democratic base.
We constantly hear from the right wing about the "radical lefty bloggers" (such as the Kossacks) but it appears that our message is mainstream and their message is the radical voice in our country given the numbers in the last election. Therefore we can really thank turds like Hannity, Rush and Bill O for their ability to offer the barometer on craziness. Obama simply keeps them marginalized and they are too stupid to realize how Obama is playing them...LOL!!
I would like to end this diary to big thank you to the right wing noise machine in our country. Please, Please keep using the same playbook, box yourself and base into a smaller minority and let us continue the onslaught of wins in the next few elections. We won the election and change is here!!!