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Personal Smears Against Rush
Townhall.com ^ | July 22, 2009 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 07/22/2009 6:01:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

It's a consistent line from the left: Conservative talk radio is a cauldron of hate. In the Clinton years, a CBS News promo set out to warn the public about the dangers of Gordon Liddy: "The words are shocking ... What he says may not be illegal, but is it dangerous? Has free speech gone too far? Hate radio under fire, and firing back."

It is an unmistakable, unquestionable, resoundingly unequivocal exercise in liberal hypocrisy. The airwaves are now filled with the meanest, most insulting, most dishonest ad hominems in history. They are coming from left-wing talk show hosts.

And from CBS & Co.? Dead silence.

Take Ed Schultz, the closest thing the liberals have to a talk-radio star. He comes unglued when he talks of Rush. On July 15, he uncorked this rant: "Apparently, the drug-ridden loser Rush Limbaugh, he thinks because he's got a lot of money and a lot of stations that he's a success in life, the guy that can't hear because he did so many drugs and had no self-discipline and character has now taken his first shot at me on 'The Ed Show' on MSNBC. I love it!"

Schultz then challenged Limbaugh to a debate: "C'mon, you fat pig. Let's get it on. I'm getting ratings without you. Hell, I'm doing you a favor. C'mon, Rush! Let's get it on! Get out of your compound down there. Get away from your drugs. Go see the doctor, and get some hearing. Maybe you could pick up a 19th girlfriend. Maybe you could try marriage again. By the way, Rush, you got any kids? Oh, you're out of the mainstream!"

This is some strange taunting, since Schultz is well, heavy set, and in his second marriage. He does have six children -- and about six listeners.

Then there's Ron Reagan, the liberal talk show host and the youngest child of the last century's greatest president. He may have been a ballet dancer in his youth, but on May 15, he taunted Limbaugh as less than a full man after he heard Rush making fun of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Botox shots: "Limbaugh hasn't had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he's compensating for something? Now, I wouldn't pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection -- none of that stuff -- to me, off limits until! Until! -- Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else. Once you start doing that, you're fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess."

The junior Reagan also claimed Limbaugh looked like "the unholy spawn of Tony Soprano and the Michelin Man." Surely, he made his father proud.

It gets uglier still. If we really scrape the bottom of the barrel of liberal talk radio, there's Mike Malloy, who used to write news scripts for CNN. On Jan. 23, he called Rush the "pig man" and announced, "I hope that I'm alive when he dies. He is so morbidly overweight. He smokes. He eats his Viagra and goes down to the Dominican Republic to bugger little boys. I just hope that I'm around when he croaks."

He repeated that ugly mantra five days later: "Some horrifyingly intense America-hater like Rush Limbaugh, who appears to be morphing into, seriously, he is morphing into Jabba the Hutt. I've seen some recent video, this guy is enormous. He just keeps bloating up. It's just -- I hope he keeps going, because eventually, he will croak. Like I said, eventually, he will choke to death on his own throat fat."

Where is CBS to warn the country about "hate radio" now?

The fake-TV-news goons of Comedy Central also spoil the image of liberal charity. On "The Daily Show" on April 1, unfunny fake-anchorman Jon Stewart screamed about Limbaugh finally selling his property in New York, complaining that Rush had been such a burden to the city: "We knew he was into drugs, so we cleaned up Times Square. We even opened up a Disney Store in the very place he would normally go to buy drugs." Stewart even claimed, "We outlawed murder, figuring he was a guy with a taste for it."

There are people who want talk radio to be raucous and aggressive, to scorn all the false and forced parliamentary niceties of Washington. Let us be honest: Sometimes conservative talk radio goes too far. But never will you hear a credible conservative talk show host -- say, Rush, or Hannity, or Levin or Ingraham -- resort to this sort of ugliness.

They don't have to. They just call liberals liberals and laugh, while those liberals explode with outrage.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: brentbozell; edschultz; jonstewart; liberaltalkradio; limbaugh; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio

1 posted on 07/22/2009 6:01:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

All criticism of Communists is hate speech. Should be stamped out. How dare anyone criticize the Communist in Chief.


2 posted on 07/22/2009 6:03:46 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Kaslin

Rush gets paid handsomely to take it. The average folk that run up against ‘the machine’ I worry about.


3 posted on 07/22/2009 6:04:25 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Kaslin
Has free speech gone too far?

I say it hasn't gone far enough. If I was to post what I REALLY wanted to say on this website I would banned for life.

4 posted on 07/22/2009 6:05:05 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Kaslin
"We knew he was into drugs, so we cleaned up Times Square. We even opened up a Disney Store in the very place he would normally go to buy drugs."

Now that's funny!

5 posted on 07/22/2009 6:06:42 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: unixfox

Ron Reagan’s rant just makes him sound so gay!


6 posted on 07/22/2009 6:09:53 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: Kaslin

The hateful vermin on the left amuse folks like Rush. He knows they use hate because they cannot win a battle of ideas.


7 posted on 07/22/2009 6:14:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: unixfox
If I was to post what I REALLY wanted to say on this website I would banned for life.

Me too! And I'd probably be arrested as well.

8 posted on 07/22/2009 6:14:28 AM PDT by meyer (Obama's failure is America's Success.)
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To: NewCenturions

He is a disgrace to his father’s legacy. In my family, if he must be mentioned, we call him Prescott Reagan. ;)


9 posted on 07/22/2009 6:15:39 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (I AM JIM THOMPSON! Huckaboob is Joy Behar's Favorite Republican RuPaul=W.Jennings Bryant of today.)
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To: Kaslin
Ron Reagan......"poking" fun at a Rush Limbaugh erection?

Why would he be thinking of a Rush boner?


10 posted on 07/22/2009 6:16:52 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: NonValueAdded; LibertyisSpecial; HOYA97; ICFN(ICan'tFixNothing); StoneWall Brigade; ...

For those interested in reading venom against Rush.


11 posted on 07/22/2009 6:17:55 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (I AM JIM THOMPSON! Huckaboob is Joy Behar's Favorite Republican RuPaul=W.Jennings Bryant of today.)
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To: allmost

Ed who ?


12 posted on 07/22/2009 6:24:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: humblegunner

What’s funny is the way every thread with Rush’s name in it finds you like a heat-seeking missile.


13 posted on 07/22/2009 6:26:35 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Kaslin
You know, as an old saying goes and is rewritten...The only thing the left has to fear is Truth itself”. They can not work under the conditions of truth so they fiddle under the conditions of lies and smears and cheap talk. It is supposed to keep us busy and not paying attention to the truth.
I suspect prior to pushing another bill through, Obama will push (or have his friends do it) for the Fairness doctrine to go through. With the truth coming from Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc., the Obama admin can't afford to keep playing around. They will have to get the truth fighters out of the way first!
14 posted on 07/22/2009 6:29:08 AM PDT by 4everontheRight ("Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! "- Steve Martin)
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To: NewCenturions

“sounds”???........:)


15 posted on 07/22/2009 6:29:25 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

Thank you!


17 posted on 07/22/2009 6:30:13 AM PDT by GOP_Lady (I LOVE RUSH! So why "Rush In A Hurry?")
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To: unixfox

The best and most entertaining posts are always removed by the moderator.


18 posted on 07/22/2009 6:30:16 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (If Randy Cunningham is in prison for corruption, then why isn't Diane Feinstein locked up as well?)
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To: Kaslin

Eeeeew, sounds like Mike Malloy knows a lot about ‘buggering little boys in the Dominican Republic’. Glad I’ve never tuned him in.


20 posted on 07/22/2009 6:44:04 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

I hate Rush haters - there’s something weird in that.


21 posted on 07/22/2009 6:55:59 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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To: Kaslin

People, especially the left leaning ones, always accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. The Clintons were experts at it.


22 posted on 07/22/2009 6:58:32 AM PDT by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: Kaslin
The "rage" of these little insects, these insignificant nobodies that nobody outside of the leftwing media and their two dozen listners have heard of, is only a testament to Rush's enormous success and enormous popularity.

Rush, when one of your paid employees - paid to suffer reading and listening to the socialist media and then reporting to you, report to you about what's being said about you out there, just take a puff off your cigar and smile. Consider this reaction from the left to be your biggest achievement in your career.

23 posted on 07/22/2009 6:59:44 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

He must touch so many nerves.


24 posted on 07/22/2009 7:02:42 AM PDT by sono (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins "We Came In Peace For All Mankind" 7/20/1969)
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To: Liberty Valance

Yet another eminently miss-listening-at-all-costs is that goof Ed Schultz.

High point of his career before he got teleported into his current gig was a giant ONE station out in eastern North Dakota. (That he was even too far out for Minnesota says it all JMHO.)

Happened by the area a couple of years ago, my magic autotuning radio plucked that particular station at a time that “Big Ed” was on the air and after about six words, our (then) 6yo grandson rolled his eyes, said (quote) Poop (unquote) and hit the OFF.

Yeah, he is a smart little kid.


25 posted on 07/22/2009 7:06:45 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Only things in the middle of the road are paint stripes and roadkill.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

Thanks for the ping!


26 posted on 07/22/2009 7:22:52 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Kaslin

The supermarket tabloids have said Palin had an affair that is why she resign these liars can drop slander and never be held accountable.

For years they keep saying the same thing about Dr Phil having an affair something should be done about these low lives.


27 posted on 07/22/2009 7:28:37 AM PDT by restornu
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To: NewCenturions
Ron Reagan’s rant just makes him sound so gay!

Has anyone bothered to ask Ron just how he knows that Rush can't get an erection? Is from personal close-up experience? LOL!

28 posted on 07/22/2009 7:35:08 AM PDT by Ron H. (I believe in and practice the 4 Gs : God, Guns a Garden and Gold,)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Ed who ?

My thought exactly. Sounds like so much sour grapes. Petty jealousy desperate for some ratings above 6 listeners. LOL!

29 posted on 07/22/2009 7:37:21 AM PDT by Ron H. (I believe in and practice the 4 Gs : God, Guns a Garden and Gold,)
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To: Kaslin

Eddie boy.....stop the first 100 people on the street, ask them if they ever heard the name Rush Limbaugh. Then ask them if they ever heard the name Ed Schultz. Compare numbers. Read ‘em and weep.


30 posted on 07/22/2009 7:53:43 AM PDT by wny
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Ed SCHULTZ......America’s Dolt. ((stole that on FR))


31 posted on 07/22/2009 8:06:02 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (That Kenyan bastard is not my president.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; humblegunner
What’s funny is the way every thread with Rush’s name in it finds you like a heat-seeking missile.

She's secretly a Rushbot.

32 posted on 07/22/2009 8:21:34 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
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To: Kaslin

Sad thing about all of it is that any vile thing that could be said about a leftist is the TRUTH.

But, Brent is correct in saying that conservative talkers don’t stoop to the depths of the leftists. They wouldn’t anyway, but why should they? All conservatives have to do is point the attention of an audience that the left so desperately seeks, but can’t attract on their own for obvious reasons, in their direction when they become particularly vile and let them show themselves for exactly who and what they are, as Brent Bozell did in this piece.


33 posted on 07/22/2009 9:10:54 AM PDT by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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To: Kaslin

Look over here ...

Diversion ... distraction.

It seems to work. Again and again.

Do not be distracted or diverted from the main things.


34 posted on 07/22/2009 9:15:14 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; humblegunner

Which would make humblegunner secretly Whoopie Goldberg.

It all makes sense now...


35 posted on 07/22/2009 9:22:29 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The hateful vermin on the left amuse folks like Rush. He knows they use hate because they cannot win a battle of ideas.

repeat as often as necessary....repeat.


36 posted on 07/22/2009 9:28:08 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the poor (foolish) voter: Welcome to MY DeathCARE ® You Sucker... Now Die! :^)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; Balding_Eagle

Right.


37 posted on 07/22/2009 9:34:20 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Kaslin

Just more liberals looking for attention and using Rush’s popularity to try to do it because they can’t do it by themselves.

Rush laughs all the way to the bank.


38 posted on 07/22/2009 9:43:17 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: humblegunner

humblegunner, if you really are Whoopie Goldberg in disguise then who the heck is in her body?! (I really don’t want to know, not really!)


39 posted on 07/22/2009 9:45:02 AM PDT by Ron H. (I believe in and practice the 4 Gs : God, Guns a Garden and Gold,)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks, Rush, Sean, Laura & Annie.

Neil, too.

And Glenn.


40 posted on 07/22/2009 10:52:33 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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To: allmost
Rush gets paid handsomely to take it. The average folk that run up against ‘the machine’ I worry about.

Rush is paid to attract an audience in order to sell advertising at confiscatory rates. He is not paid "handsomely" to take extremely tasteless abuse from hate spewing libtards.

41 posted on 07/22/2009 6:00:58 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: upsdriver
He's getting about $38 million a year in his new contract, plus a $100 million signing bonus.
He is, like I said, paid handsomely.
42 posted on 07/22/2009 7:26:33 PM PDT by allmost
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