Griper Blade: Leader of the Chumps

Right wing media has always been home to demagogues and ridiculous boobs. Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, etc. are the opinionmakers for the dimwitted, the slow, the gullible, and the Kool-Aid drinkers. Faced with the presidency of Barack Obama, their tiny heads seem ready to explode with apoplectic nutbaggery. They tend to pretend that George W. Bush leaves office tremendously popular and those 73% of us who were glad to see him go are just the lunatic fringe -- a small group of gripers and "Bush haters." Luckily for the BS slingers, right wing media fans are bad at math -- if they weren't, they wouldn't support Bushian economics -- and don't realize that the numbers say that they're the kooks on the outer reaches of public opinion.

But seldom has the idiocy of right wing media been so well demonstrated as it was by Rush Limbaugh recently. In talking about "a major American print publication" that wanted a 400-word statement of his "hope for the Obama presidency," Limbaugh took a trip through the valley of sour grapes:

So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.

The problem, Rush, is that this isn't extremely logical (big surprise there, huh?). If liberalism is the problem, you don't actually have to hope it fails -- it will. What Rush is doing -- besides putting ideology above the good of the nation -- is putting ideology above effectiveness. The sort of policies Rush espouses have most definitely failed -- 68% of us think so... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]