Leonard Pitts - Attention GOP: Love means having to say you're sorry (Ref: Rush) (It's the Pitts!)

The Athens Banner-Herald ^ | March 8, 2009 | Leonard Pitts

[Alia]

From article: GOP faces a real possibility of being reduced to a regional party of limited national relevance

Not so. The party which booned the economy, the party which supported and fought for a successful war (two wars) is a long ways from "over".

[lentulusgracchus]

Just wondering, is that Gloria Steinem back in The Day?

She was a bunny for a while in Atlanta.

[chainsaw]

Rush may not have 20 million listeners every day

I may be wrong, but I think the average is 30 million. Lately it has been almost double.

[chainsaw]

No, it wasn’t. Fox was on his meds.

Explains why health care has to be fixed?

[Dooderbutt]

To judge from the eagerness with which they prostrate themselves before Limbaugh, the answer is troublingly simple: They fear losing the votes they have. They are unable to disenthrall themselves from that culturally intolerant, intellectually incoherent, perpetually outraged and willfully ignorant cohort of the American demographic they call their base, i.e., extreme social conservatives.

Excuse me?!?!?

[Mr. Know It All]

Explains why health care has to be fixed?

Huh? I was just pointing out that Rush was not, in fact, "exactly right" about Fox not being on medication.

If I recall correctly, Rush even preemptively apologized if he was wrong and then restated his criticism of the Fox ad so as not to be so insulting to Fox and other Parkinson's sufferers. Naturally, that is left out by Rush's critics, but the fact is that Rush was wrong in his original statement.

[reagan_fanatic]

Pitts is one of the most biased, racist columnists I’ve ever seen. This moron could find racism in white toilet paper.

[longtermmemmory]

don’t forget fox was on record as intentionally manipulating his drugs to effect a sympathetic image.

that part is left out too.

[Mr. Know It All]

don’t forget fox was on record as intentionally manipulating his drugs to effect a sympathetic image.

Where is a link to this record? I believe that these claims were debunked.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. You could be right. I thought I had read 14 to 20 million recently, but I may have missed other reports.

[MamaTexan]

to find himself offering clarifications and apologies for making the mistake of speaking honestly about the party's bloviator in chief

Fine. If the author wants to be open and honest, it was the DEMOCRATIC party instituted 'Rush is the leader of the GOP' ploy. Too bad none of the Gross Old Party can find their spine long enough to say something about it.

Calling Rush a bloviator in chief is just a cheap shot by a truly clueless person.

[driftless2]

The next good idea Pitts has will be his first.

[GladesGuru]

“You will not believe it, but I have been rooting for the GOP.

You’re right, I don’t.”

Pitts has, in this article, validly raised the issue of single party rule. Moreover, he states that single party rule failed under Bush and holds little hope that Obama can perfect single party rule.

While mostly a Liberalism impaired writer, Pitts occasionally rises to sheer excellence. His article “Tripping Through The Haagen Daz” is a case in point.

Personally, I will feel better about the future of the Republic when the voters are aware of their nation’s history, of the basics of economics, and such issues.

To depend on one party or another is a path to tyranny.

Public officials are servants. Servants steal - Lorenzo De Medici recognized that, and said that when theft went beyond 10%, steps had to be taken.

Note: He had available to him certain disincentives to theft not available to the voter.

On the other hand, we can simply vote the thieves out of office.

Pitts, for all of his being a black, Liberalism impaired writer, is aware of things like this.

Give the devil his due.