insomnomaniac

I puffy-heart love Rush Limbaugh

And I don't give a rat's ass who knows it!

Does this mean I'm a "ditto-head?" No.

Does this mean I agree with every word that comes out of his mouth? No.

Does this mean I think it's GREAT that he is not backing down in the face of this bogus onslaught by the liberal smear-mongers and their "ditto-heads" who refuse to even look at the truth because they're just too happy to have a bandwagon to jump on against a man they hate? YES, a thousand times YES! Instead, he is wisely allowing nature to take its course, allowing the new media to do what we do best.

Hugh Hewitt explains this better than I ever could:

Thus everybody knows that Senate Democrats and now such would-be grandees as Wes Clark are pushing a lie as a means of attacking Rush, and doing so in plain view. New media guarantees that no such story can succeed, and it hasn't for the simple reason that it is not true, and print journalists, bloggers talk radio and some cable outlets have completely undercut the charge. It is a sort of reverse Rathergate: Rather than watching new media destroy the reputation and credibility of a key media player, we have seen it buttress that reputation and credibility.

In the process though, Americans have again seen a close-up of The Great Snarl that the MoveOn.org Democrats have become. It is a disturbing thing, this collection of hard-left activists, vulgar and profane bloggers, captive Senators and know-nothing MSMers, and the more it is on display the more it becomes one big blob of seething hate, from the Code Pinkers to Tom Harkin, Media Matters and the HuffPo express. On to the center-right this blob projects its disfiguring anger, but it doesn't work because most Americans hear and watch for themselves. They know Rush, Sean, Laura, Bill, Michael, Dennis. Mark, Glenn, Neil and me and all the rest of the talkers. They read Powerline, Instapundit, Michelle, NRO; watch O'Reilly and Special Report and, crucially, know who supports the troops and the war and who doesn't. You can't talk over Barnes, Barone, Boot, Kagan, Kristol, and Krauthammer. The center-right supports the military and the mission. The left doesn't.

The American people know this. Ten years ago the MSM might have been able to facilitate such an attack on Rush, but it is simply impossible today. Pushing a smear in the new media environment is a profoundly self-destructive bit of bad political theater that insults the audience's intelligence while revealing the attackers' character.

Of course that the troops know the real score. Their families know. And their friends know. Watch the Peter Pace farewell remarks below. He knows too. It is impossible to be awake in this country and not know.

Let's just hope Hugh is also right that this "Great Snarl" as he calls it, proves that the Democrats are following a losing strategy for winning back the White House. (Did I say "hope?" Make that PRAY)

[Hat-tip Wake Up America!

Posted by insomnomaniac at October 4, 2007 10:13 AM | TrackBack