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.
All criticism of Communists is hate speech. Should be stamped out. How dare anyone criticize the Communist in Chief.
Rush gets paid handsomely to take it. The average folk that run up against ‘the machine’ I worry about.
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.
Now that's funny!
Ron Reagan’s rant just makes him sound so gay!
The hateful vermin on the left amuse folks like Rush. He knows they use hate because they cannot win a battle of ideas.
Me too! And I'd probably be arrested as well.
He is a disgrace to his father’s legacy. In my family, if he must be mentioned, we call him Prescott Reagan. ;)
Why would he be thinking of a Rush boner?
For those interested in reading venom against Rush.
Ed who ?
What’s funny is the way every thread with Rush’s name in it finds you like a heat-seeking missile.
“sounds”???........:)
Thank you!
The best and most entertaining posts are always removed by the moderator.
Eeeeew, sounds like Mike Malloy knows a lot about ‘buggering little boys in the Dominican Republic’. Glad I’ve never tuned him in.
I hate Rush haters - there’s something weird in that.
People, especially the left leaning ones, always accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. The Clintons were experts at it.
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.
He must touch so many nerves.
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.
Thanks for the ping!
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.
Has anyone bothered to ask Ron just how he knows that Rush can't get an erection? Is from personal close-up experience? LOL!
My thought exactly. Sounds like so much sour grapes. Petty jealousy desperate for some ratings above 6 listeners. LOL!
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.
Ed SCHULTZ......America’s Dolt. ((stole that on FR))
She's secretly a Rushbot.
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.
Look over here ...
Diversion ... distraction.
It seems to work. Again and again.
Do not be distracted or diverted from the main things.
Which would make humblegunner secretly Whoopie Goldberg.
It all makes sense now...
repeat as often as necessary....repeat. 
Right.
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.
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!)
Thanks, Rush, Sean, Laura & Annie.
Neil, too.
And Glenn.
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.
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