Posted on 05/24/2009 6:40:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Ridge takes aim at 'shrill' Limbaugh Posted: 09:00 AM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) — Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN's John King the conservative talk radio host can be "shrill" and uses language in a way "that offend very many."
"Rush Limbaugh has an audience of 20 million people. A lot of people listen daily to him and live by every word. But words mean things and how you use words is very important," Ridge, the former Homeland Security Secretary under President Bush, said during an interview airing Sunday on CNN's State of The Union.
"It does get the base all fired up and he's got a strong following," Ridge continued. "But personally, if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourself but let's respect others opinions and let's not be divisive."
The comments come in the wake of a war of words between Limbaugh and Colin Powell, during which the former secretary of state suggested the GOP's future was in peril if it went in the direction of the popular radio talker. Limbaugh quickly hit back, proclaiming Powell is part of the "stale, the old, the worn-out GOP that never won anything."
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Apparently Ridge isn’t a listener.
Lets Roll Over like the rest of us good RINOs and everyone will like us. Firing this clown was one of Bush’s best moves.
Pray for America, Our Troops and Rush
It amazes me that I can listen to the same show and never hear shrill
Who?
Ridge is keeping it stirred up, thanks to CNN. Ridge was never the brightest light bulb in the room...
It’s kind of like listening to atheists talk about the Bible. They just make it up, fully convinced that their pathetic ignorant view is correct.
Funny analogy, but a good one.
And that is the problem.
Folks seek to make of him a leader or a prophet or something.
It's just a radio show. Entertainment.
One good thing about the political disaster that landed on the GOP is that the RINOS and hangers on are clearly exposed.
I want to thank Ridge for speaking so clearly. Now I know from his own mouth who/what he is.
Give it up ‘Ridge’, you will lose:-()
Words mean things? Words fall out of Hussein’s mouth 24/7 and they mean nothing.
Ohhhh... maybe he's one of those poor souls that gets his second hand information from the MSM.
Now I get it!
C'mon Tom... why don't you look at Powell's divisive language as well?
RINO’s Rising - to sink like the titanic.
“Folks seek to make of him a leader or a prophet or something. It’s just a radio show. Entertainment.”
Another ignorant non-listener comments.
Apparently, Ridge doesn't take his own advice.
But the, we're talking about Mr. Crayola here. The color-coded terrorist alert system was Ridge's biggest accomplishment as Homeland Security Secretary.
So Rush is shrill but the moonbats at Daily Kos, where Oblerdork has a column, is not shrill. O.K.
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