You would think the President of the United States of America and his staff would have more important things to do than launch an all out media war on a private citizen. If you think the White House’s strategy against Rush Limbaugh began after his CPAC speech, think again. Not only have they planned it for some time, they’re working with the media!
Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.
Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.
If Limbaugh himself were to coin a phrase for it, he might call it Operation Rushbo – an idea that started out simply enough but quickly proved to be deeply resonant by a rapid succession of events, say Democrats inside and outside the West Wing.
The seeds were planted in October after Democracy Corps, the Democratic polling company run by Carville and Greenberg, included Limbaugh’s name in a survey and found that many Americans just don’t like him.
By February, Carville and Begala were pounding on Limbaugh frequently in their appearances on CNN.
Neither Democrat would say so, but a third source said the two also began pushing the idea of targeting Limbaugh in their daily phone conversations with Emanuel.
Conversations and email exchanges began taking place in and out of the White House not only between the old pals from the Clinton era but also including White House senior adviser David Axelrod, Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Woodhouse.
The White House needed no more convincing after Limbaugh’s hour-plus performance Saturday, celebrated on the right and mocked on the left, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he re-stated his hope Obama fails.
“He kicked this into full-gear at CPAC by reiterating it,” said a senior White House official of Limbaugh.
By Sunday morning, Emanuel elevated the strategy by bringing up the conservative talker, unprompted, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and calling him the “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”
Every American, whether they like Rush Limbaugh or not, should be concerned about this. The White House is targeting a private citizen who has the audacity to criticize dear leader! It’s hard to distinguish whether they get their talking points from the media or vice versa, the two are so intertwined.
Without George Bush to kick around any longer they needed a new enemy and they’ve got one in Rush Limbaugh. They have people focusing on a sentence uttered by Rush Limbaugh (taken out of context) rather than focusing on the destruction they’re wreaking on the economy and our way of life.
Dear President Obama and White House Staff–
i think it’s time for you to grow up a little bit and just do your freakin’ job. Stop reacting to everything that is said about you. You’re acting like 2nd graders “Teacher, he looked at meeeeee…”
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ps..can you imagine if Pres Bush OR ANY OTHER PRESIDENT would’ve reacted this way to every little thing said about them?
The arrogance of this administration is disgusting.
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I’ve thought the same thing. And the Left compares Bush to Hitler! Helloooooo!!!
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The White House is targeting a private citizen who has the audacity to criticize dear leader!
Translation: Rush can dish it but can’t take it? Maybe he should get off the air then. This guy’s picked so many fights during his 20+ year stint on the radio that it’s about time he got socked in the kisser.
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To be honest with you all here, if Rush is the boogeyman, it’d be hilarious if he grabbed Obama by the ankles from under the bed when Obama steps out of bed for his morning constitutional!
Oxymoron alert!!! Obama and constitution in the same sentence… sorry, I won’t do it again!
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Boo!
Tas must never have listened to Limbaugh’s show.
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You wont find a post like this on the Huffington Post.
Democrats can be sneaky little brats!
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I’ll say this. Im glad that Rush is ok with them calling him the new Republican leader. This could become the Democrats worst nightmare. They are picking on him and he is single handedly saying bring it on! He is trying to call out Obama on a debate in front of the public and unedited. NO WAY WILL HE DO IT! I think the democrats are pushing rush from a radio carrer to a political one and I hope it happens! I’d vote for Rush for president and he could take Hannity as his VP! We could get Mark Lavin and some others in there to. Sounds like the perfect world to me!
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Isn’t Mark Levin great? It’s always a treat to be in the car when his radio show is on!
Sounds like a good ticket to me;)
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You guys are great/The white power structure is using you just like they did in the last century they used the KKK to perpetuate white/ upper class power on middle/ lower class white and black people. The white upper class doesnt care about you/ they care about the money/ money that they can control. This country is getting browner by the minute and all you middle class racist are crying because your losing teh few advantages that the white power structure let you have. HAHAHAHA its so funny to see it happen. There is no way around it you are the minority!!!!!
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LMAO… Where the F**k did that come from? You walk into a blog and call everyone who believes in the Capitalism that Rush defends…(THE THING THAT GETS all you BROWN people THE THINGS YOU WANT MOST from this country!)…Racists!!!! YOU are the RACIST!! Why don’t you admit it? You voted for Obama BECAUSE of the color of his SKIN!!! You are just another prime example of the ‘pot calling the kettle black’ and a perfect vision of the person who ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’. White power structure? What continent are you living on? This ISN’T AFRICA! And you know what? WHITES LIVE ON EVERY CONTINENT in the friggin’ WORLD!! So your insults apply to the Russians, the British, the Irish, the Swedes, the Germans, the Italians, the French…etc., etc., etc.
Go on, keep classifying yourself and others as white/black/ upper/middle in/out/powerful/powerless…yadda, yadda, yadda. You s**t head! Open your eyes! YOU are the one who loves Obama because of his skin color and NOT for what he intends to do to this country. You CAN’T know what danger he means to this country if you’d make a statement like that. For your information the friggin’ KKK represents The Go@- DaM*$d DEMOCRATS and they ALWAYS HAVE!!! Since the 1860′s!!!! READ UP, buddy!! Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN. And so was EVERY soldier who rained reconstruction down on the south after the civil war! It is the Democratic party who LOVES to ‘categorize’ people and tell them how abused they are. They must make you a victim or they would have no power over you to gain power for themselves!! Why? Do you like to think it’s because they want to ‘help’ you.? AAaawww!! Help you WHAT? Get out of friggin’ poverty? Get a job? Get a great house on the hill? Drive a big new car? Send your kids to college? HUH???? Answer me THAT? After 150 years since slavery ended…where is your reward? Well…HAVE THEY DONE THAT FOR YOU? Hell NO! The ONLY people who have done that, and gotten those things are those ‘brown’ people who EMBRACE and support FEDERALISM, and CAPITALISM!! You idiot. And guess what…there are plenty of ‘BROWN’ people who HAVE achieved these things, these supposed ‘rewards’ and you know what? They didn’t achieve them through SOCIALISM!!! They aren’t victims, because they choose NOT to be!! So make your choice, schmuck… keep blogging your gloating words, or GET OFF YOUR ASS and go to work earning YOUR piece of the American pie and stop waiting for someone (Mr. Obama) to serve it up to you. Because chances are pretty good that it’s gonna cost you more to get under his watch. He isn’t helping you, he is ENABLING you. Wimp. And I will finish by saying that ‘IF’ in fact, you already have the rewards that you earned through your own hard work and determination….THAN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ON THIS BLOG ??? Racist.
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LMAO posted:
they used the KKK to perpetuate white/ upper class power on middle/ lower class white and black people…
Dude, the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. Rush is a conservative, first and foremost who has supported the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, who freed the slaves. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.
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Here’s the problem LMAO everwhere the brown man rules there is chaos. Detroit, Atlata,New Orleans you name it. Name one prosperious African country. You people are incapable of passing test that would lead to fire dept. promotioms let alone governing, you must run to the courts even after 200 + years of freedom,to save you from the superior white man. What a pathetic race you are.
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