article.nationalreview.com - 3/5/2009
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Jay Nordlinger on Rush Limbaugh, a separate State of the Union, how to be presidential press secretary, and more.
egan.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/5/2009
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egan.blogs.nytimes.com —
Joy among Democrats as Rush Limbaugh emerges as
the face of the Republican Party....
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Fears of a Clown
corner.nationalreview.com - 3/5/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
So, now we know. President Obama's mentions of
Rush Limbaugh are no accident. Democratic strategists have discovered...
that Rush has low approval ratings with the general public. So they have devised a strategy to paint Republicans with the Rush ...
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The Audacity of Hype
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What Buckley thought of Rush
Power Line —
... Jay Nordlinger reflects on the attention devoted to Rush Limbaugh in recent days. For reasons that are self-evident, Jay offers a useful perspective on a tired controversy: ...
More Rushing
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Readers have made some points about my Rush Limbaugh bit in Impromptus today , and a few of these points, I forgot to make myself. In particular, I should have noted this: One of the creepiest, most disturbing things about the war on Rush particularly as orchestrated from the White House? Limbaugh is a private citizen. A reader wrote, The same people who gasped because the FBI surveilled John Lennon are more than happy to have government employees including Emanuel and Gibbs conduct a campaign to demonize and diminish a radio personality for political purposes. Rush ...
Re: The War over Rush
The Corner on National Review Online —
... other going on here. What Rush really objects to is people who are out to fundamentally transform conservatism. He's pounding away at them and he should. But let's not discourage legitimate internal debate and creative thinking it took a lot of argument and experimentation to arrive at what has been handed down to us as the tablets of conservative policy circa the 1980s. We need that process again. Final two points: 1) WFB, the very model of learned conservatism, loved Rush Limbaugh, as Jay pointed out today. Remember that when some conservatives tell you we have to shun ...
The attacks against Limbaugh continue: Conservative Bloggers Join In
PoliGazette —
... It’s too sad for words, but it seems that the White House has succeeded in playing out conservative bloggers and pundits against each other. Their goal was, ...
The Pragmatism of Idealism (or , how I learned to stop worrying and love the f bomb).
protein wisdom —
... center stage. That we are having this debate about how to proceed as a movement is a step in the right direction, I think — and it is a debate I don’t think we’d be having were it not for Rush’s choice of language. And so arguments that more clarity and less provocation are the proper way for conservatives to communicate in the current media culture must be tempered by the realization that sometimes the best defense is a good offense — and that what Rush has done is perhaps fire us up and get us angry enough finally to push back against a dishonest media. And a vital tool for ...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the f-bomb
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... center stage. That we are having this debate about how to proceed as a movement is a step in the right direction, I think — and it is a debate I don’t think we’d be having were it not for Rush’s choice of language. And so arguments that more clarity and less provocation are the proper way for conservatives to communicate in the current media culture must be tempered by the realization that sometimes the best defense is a good offense — and that what Rush has done is perhaps fire us up and get us angry enough finally to push back against a dishonest media. And a vital tool for ...
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