Posted on 02/21/2008 7:14:47 PM PST by ricks_place
Rush Limbaugh, who has been critical of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), embraced him Thursday now that they have a common enemy: The New York Times.
Limbaugh and other conservative commentators rushed to defend McCain on Thursday against a potentially damaging article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked.
"You're surprised that Page Six-type gossip is on the front page of The New York Times?" Limbaugh asked as he began his radio show. "Where have you been? How in the world can anybody be surprised?"
Limbaugh said earlier in an e-mail to Politico that the Times article about McCain’s relationship with a female lobbyist was a clear case of "the drive-by media ... trying to take him out."
Laura Ingraham, another influential conservative radio host, asserted that the Times waited until McCain was on the brink of the Republican presidential nomination and now is seeking to "contaminate" him with an article that she calls "absurd" and "ridiculous."
CBN.org, the website of the Christian Broadcasting Network, calls an attack by the Times "a conservative badge of honor."
Ironically, a potentially damaging article about McCain may help bond him to conservatives, who are relishing the fact that he now needs them.
"Is he going to learn the right lesson from this?” Limbaugh asked. “The lesson is that liberals are to be defeated."
Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail to Politico: “The story is not the story. The story is the drive-by media turning on its favorite maverick and trying to take him out. The media picked the GOP's candidate, the NYT endorsed him while they sat on this story and is now, with utter predictability, trying to destroy him.”
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I must have missed that part of Rush today. He didn’t rally behind McCain, he rallied AGAINST the NYT.
Its easy to rally to McCain when the choices are him or Hillary/Obama and the attack comes from the New York Times.
Vote GOP this November. Make them wallow in it.
As usual, they miss the point.
We hate the manipulation by the media. We don’t care who it is directed at or whether it’s positive or negative. We just hate the lies, the agenda, which is all too apparent.
It was predictable. I called this months ago, when the NYT originally spiked the story. It really wasn’t that hard to predict because the MSM is so predictable.
I laughed at McCain when I saw the NYT article. I wonder if he was surprised? Rush does tout himself as right 98.6% of the time but this time it was so obvious he was right to everyone. However, who here thought they would pick him over Obama? Maybe a 72 year old can learn something new.
exactly!
The politico makes a large suction sound.
Perhaps so, but I think both rallies are becoming one and the same.
Are we going to let one of our (most of the time) guys take all this incoming ordnance without us showing a little support/backbone?
this guy =these guys
I do NOT understand why conservatives would be up in arms over this. I for one am loving that McAmnesty is meing thrown under the bus by the lefty MSM.
It is really something to see the grasping at straws that goes on by the mccainacs.
“He didn’t rally behind McCain, he rallied AGAINST the NYT.”
I know what you mean. Politico often puts their own spin on things.
Rush said that McCain shouldn’t be surprised.
Rush predicted a long time ago, that the media would keep giving the “maverick” air time, but if McCain ever ran against a Dem, this is what would happen.
Great Read! Exciting to the last line! Nice Summary too!!!
Once again, Thanks NYT for helping Conservatives find sympathy for McCain!
the NYT has unwittingly done mcCain a big favor
“Are we going to let one of our (most of the time) guys take all this incoming ordnance without us showing a little support/backbone?”
But he deserves it so very much. I am enjoying the hell out of this.
I almost fell for it!!! Yuk yuk yuk. Silly me. The Gray Whore has been working her manipulation longer than most of us have been alive. And she’s good at it.
Rush "embraced" McCain? This sounds like it was written in the New York Times. Does Politico ever get anything right?
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