I Hope He Fails
One thing that gets me angry, truly, flames-coming-out-of-the-ears pissed off is when the mainstream media deliberately and maliciously misrepresents the words of a conservative for the corrupt purpose of advancing the liberal, Democrat agenda. It should piss you off as well regardless of your political affiliations. It should piss you off regardless of how much you loathe and despise the victim because it isn’t just political. This sort of defamation strikes directly at the heart of civil discourse and reasoned dissent.
A couple of weeks ago Rush Limbaugh said of the new president:
“Look, what he’s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.”
I certainly see room for disagreement in that statement, but there is nothing whatever disloyal or un-American in vigorous opposition to a policy with which one does not agree. Any rational reading of the entire statement, in context (and, in fact, there is even more relevant context surrounding the above quote), can only conclude that Limbaugh was speaking in opposition to a policy, not the President himself.
Regardless of the facts in the matter, the impartial, unbiased, objective mainstream media chose to pick four words radically out of context to support a media onslaught — clearly lead by the Democrat political machine — for the deliberate purpose of stifling legitimate political debate. It doesn’t matter which side of the debate you are on, you should be furious and aghast at this attempt to misrepresent honest — and probably correct — dissent for clearly partisan purposes.
Let me be very clear about this: The mainstream media did not do this in an attempt to inform and enlighten. The mainstream media did this for the express and only purpose of slandering the opposition in a futile attempt to silence dissent on behalf of the political party — the Democrats — that they (the mainstream media) prefer in power.
Well, what was I expecting? As our esteemed commenter K once observed:
“Oh, that’s so cute. You were expecting accuracy in reporting?”
What Rush actually said, and I believe this is a case in which context is EVERYTHING:
And here’s a link to the complete transcript.
Seriously, think about this. Is this really how you want to conduct the debate?
