The Dems are getting clumsier by the day. Rush now has an issue on which he can credibly state that the Dems are lying through their teeth, and it can be linked to Moveon.org and all the other ploys that didn’t work out that the Dems would rather forget about; in fact, that this smear was designed to make other people forget about. Rather than establish a phony moral equivalency this simply keeps that other stuff in the public eye. Bad move for them.
Not necessarily.
The overall goal is to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, shut down the right wing noise machine and force reliance on the Old Media for the final word. Take this in the same context as the attack by the San Francisco city government on Michael Savage. This is part of a full court press to discredit conservative voices on the radio.
The attack on Limbaugh now seems to be falling into the pattern of the Big Lie -- if you say something over and over again and often enough, it becomes fact. They have successfully put Limbaugh on the defensive.
He is countering quite well by going on the offensive and nailing the Democrats on their hypocrisy, but he is only one voice. The Democratic offensive will increase in intensity with the intent of shouting him down. (Think of the attack on Bush on the Texas National guard issue, but without Buckhead to demolish it.)
The Democrats could in fact overplay their hand, but as of right now, they're pushing all the right buttons.
Yup. Rush will hang this right around Hillary’s neck.