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9/25 Brendan: Limbaugh hypocrisy and ethnic slurs
While conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been
relatively restrained since the terrorist attacks of September 11, he
indulged in hypocritical ethnic cheap shots at some disfavored
Democrats last Wednesday:
�[W]e [the US] are the giants of public relations, we are the giants
of spin � and so, I have a question. I have yet to see Abdullah
Begala, I have yet to see Mustafa Stephanopoulos, I have yet to see
Sahib Carville. You even remember how we turned Ken Starr into a
walking, breathing, daily devil? Can't we at least do that for a
real devil? Can't we at least do that for Saddam Hussein or Osama
Bin Laden or some of these people who are � the Taliban? � We have no
trouble coming up with campaigns to destroy the lives of decent
American citizens, but when it comes to the genuine enemies of
America, we seem to have a little less than resolve...
Begala and Carville have publicly stated their support for President
Bush since the attacks, in fact, while Stephanopoulos is now a
commentator for ABC and thus has not made such a statement. It is
unclear why it is incumbent upon the three of them in particular to
attack Bin Laden. Stephanopoulos has commented on Bin Laden on ABC -
presumably not favorably - while the opinions of domestic political
operatives like Begala and Carville are not particularly newsworthy
right now. Nonetheless, Limbaugh attaches Middle Eastern names to
the three in an attempt to irrationally associate them with Bin
Laden. This is both a groundless smear and an offensive ethnic cheap
shot.
Also, in case Limbaugh's forgotten, here's what he said about Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle less than two months ago: "Is Tom Daschle
simply another way to portray a devil?" While Carville and Begala
attacked Starr harshly, they never actually compared him to the
devil.
Limbaugh's irrational rhetoric and ethnic slurs are bad enough, but
now he can't even keep his own demonization straight.
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10/02 Brendan: Limbaugh smears Clinton with hypothetical
If the facts aren't good enough to rile up an audience, some pundits
have a better strategy - make them up.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is one of the worst
offenders of this sort. Yesterday, while criticizing efforts by New
York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani to get his term in office extended,
Limbaugh concocted a parallel scenario about President Clinton:
Just imagine, just imagine, it's December [2000] and this incident
[the terrorist attacks of September 11] happens then. You know what
would be happening, or you know what would have happened- Bill
Clinton would have no doubt - and there would have been, it wouldn't
have been just Clinton, I mean, you'd have had quite a few members of
the Democratic Party saying for the purposes of continuity, and for
the purposes of managing this incident, we need to - and because of
the confusion that's reigning in Florida, and because of the
indecision down there, because we're not sure who actually won,
because of all of the controversy stemming from this and because of
the fact that whoever does win is not going to have a mandate to do
anything - that would have been one of the key elements of the charge
- we need Bill
Clinton to remain in office, we need somehow to come up with a
special dispensation so that Bill Clinton can remain in office and
lead the nation during this time of great crisis. So that Bill
Clinton, of course, can realize his moment of greatness. You know
that would be happening, you know that would have happened, just as
it's happening now with Rudy.
This is an anti-Clinton fable, not a legitimate comparison. No one
can know what would have happened. While it's fair to illustrate the
point by saying Clinton could have tried to do the same thing if the
attacks had happened in December, Limbaugh is going much further by
pretending that he knows how Clinton and his allies would have acted.
He later started to say that Clinton actually wishes the attacks had
happened during his term, but then admitted that "[t]he President
himself has not so much as said it".
In the third hour of his show, Limbaugh returned to the subject for
yet another propagandistic slam at his favorite target:
[Y]ou know that there would be a move afoot - I don't think, I don't
know that Clinton would allow his fingerprints to be on this - [but]
you know that the Mustafa Carvilles and the Lanny Davises and all the
other sycophants would be saying: "With all this trouble... we think
we ought to just do whatever we can to keep Bill Clinton in the Oval
Office until all this is resolved."
Again, Limbaugh is simply making things up - and also note his second
use of "Mustafa Carville", which offensively attempts to smear
Democratic strategist James Carville as somehow disloyal and
affiliated with terrorists simply by giving him a Middle Eastern
name. I previously documented Limbaugh introducing the term last
week. It appears he's making it into a disreputable habit.
This kind of ad-hoc psychologizing has become the stock in trade of
our punditocracy, which often prefers to create twisted fantasies
than to deal with the real issues our country faces.
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