Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:35:29 PM
The Los Angeles Times printed an opinion piece by Zev Chafets on Rush Limbaugh’s relationship with the GOP, and of course that caused gnashing of teeth and foaming at the mouth on the part of the usual suspects, three of whom had their letters printed by the paper. Here are two of them.
Andrew Wright of Claremont wrote:
I was disappointed to read this complimentary article on Rush Limbaugh.
Heaven forbid the paper run an opinion piece that has anything positive to say about someone who has been enormously successful and pioneering.
Limbaugh, along with Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and Karl Rove, are some of the main reasons our country is so divided.
Yes, you see, without those people, you and I and all of the other people who impede “progress” would mindlessly follow the Left. The only reason we aren’t Leftists, you see, is because we read Ann Coulter columns.
They spew forth lies, half-truths and anything that will promote their self-serving cause that they are right -- really right -- and that anyone who disagrees with them is unpatriotic and un-American.
You are unpatriotic and un-American if you hate this country and hate the Constitution and want to silence anyone who isn’t on the Left.
These so-called spokespeople for the right wing and the Republican Party have ruined the party of Abraham Lincoln, and in my case caused me to change my registration from being a lifelong Republican to Democrat this year.
Ah-ha! A seminar letter-writer.
Linda Browne of Granada Hills wrote:
When the thrice-divorced, recovering drug addict and blowhard of monumental proportions Limbaugh is a moral authority and themost influential voice in the Republican Party, we have seen the beginning of the end of the United States.
You see, only perfect people are allowed to talk on the radio. All of the non-conservative hosts are perfect. And being a addict, which we’re told is a disease, is suddenly a character flaw to this person. Somehow, Limbaugh was supposed to know ahead of time that he’d get addicted to his medication. I will not defend Limbaugh’s divorces - I have no idea if he should have married any of those women in the first place. But Limbaugh does not go on the radio to give marital or medical advice. This letter does nothing to counter Limbaugh’s arguments – it only attacks him personally.
That so many millions of Americans actually take him seriously and think that his ideas are in their best interest is very sad indeed.
This is another example showing that the Left fails to understand that we are already patriotic conservatives who know that limited government is in our best interest. We like Limbaugh because he doesn’t insult our intelligence, nor mock our convictions. We enjoy him, in part, because he thinks like us. He didn’t brainwash us.