Jack Cafferty on Rush
Jan. 27th, 2009 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
To come right out and say "I want him to fail," exposes Limbaugh for the petulant, shallow gasbag that he is.Jack Cafferty
Cafferty has gone from being a-political while a local new anchor (I grew up watching him) to a conservative on cable news, to a progressive when he realized Bush was ruining the war and the country, and now this!
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:37 pm (UTC)There have been too many successful challenges to the 1st Amendment in my lifetime for me to not actively support freedom of speech.
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Date: 2009-01-28 07:23 pm (UTC)Damn you are defensive.
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Date: 2009-01-27 11:22 pm (UTC)Re: Rush
Date: 2009-01-28 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 01:07 am (UTC)It's been interesting to see him become a major mouthpiece for the conservative movement, sort of fox's shadowy sidekick. It's pretty clear that he now gets a lot of memos from the folks controlling conservative strategy.
At this point, I think the best chance of seeing him fade into OcyContin-padded oblivion is to paint him as the relic he is: he represents the old guard of the conservative movement (the one whose core constituency is crazies), the same old guard that just lost across the board; he is explicitly unwilling to disagree without being disagreeable (in this case, he wants skip disagreeing entirely and just be disagreeable); and he's a hypocrite of the worst sort.
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Date: 2009-01-28 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 07:25 pm (UTC)-- Rush says something outrageous
-- Republicans distance themselves from the statement
-- Republicans wait half a day (for the next news cycle)
-- Republicans use what Rush says over and over
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Date: 2009-01-28 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 07:32 pm (UTC)I'll never forget how wrong that was. Talk Radio isn't about preaching to the converted... it is about providing entertainment that draws in the undecided and converts them.
Sort of like The Daily Show does for liberals.
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Date: 2009-01-28 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 07:23 pm (UTC)