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Kondracke Calls Rush a Hot Dog Again

July 24, 2006

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RUSH: This is from the Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel on Saturday.

KONDRACKE: Ned Lamont represents -- if he wins -- represents a triumph in the Democratic Party for the MoveOn.org, Howard Dean, Daily Kos, Michael Moore, left wing of the Democratic Party, which is not only, you know, bad on foreign policy, but on globalization, but is also just as nasty and mean on the left as Rush Limbaugh and those other hot dogs on the right.

RUSH: What has gotten into this guy? He knows better than this. There has to be some reason for this. He knows that this program is not on the same page as those guys. But let's talk about this Lieberman thing because the latest announcement is that Der Schlick Meister is going in there to campaign for him. I'll tell you the reason why, folks. It's really not complicated. The Democrats, more and more of them, are really getting afraid of the MoveOn.orgs and the Daily Koses and these wackos at the Democrat Underground. They're trying to deflect as much of the influence of these people as possible.

If Lieberman can get the Democrat nomination in this primary, then Democrats think it will have dealt a severe blow to the kook fringe base that considers themselves to be the ones running the party. The only really powerful person the kook fringe base has been able to install is Howard Dean. But for all of that, it's still laughable to watch Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer flock to their blog meetings, flock to their strategy sessions, say what those people want to hear. So you can say that there are elements of the Democratic Party that are scared about the blogs, maybe the moderate Democrats.

I don't believe there's a moderate Democrat. See, that's the thing. A Democrat is a Democrat. A liberal is a liberal. There are various stages of liberal, and I think moderate Democrats just call themselves moderate for the obvious reasons: They don't want to be called liberals; it scares them. And, of course, moderate carries with it this erudite elitism, smarter than everybody else in the room, people more thoughtful, not knee-jerk in their reactions.

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(NY Post: Re-Elect Lieberman)
(WND: Kerry's Feathers Ruffled by Rush)

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I just got this book.  It is excellent and is very in-depth about this issue:

http://www.npr.org/t...

Authors
'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically

"Over recent decades, the left has lost the battle for the language itself," writes Nunberg in his new book.

Fresh Air from WHYY, July 6, 2006 · In his new book, Talking Right, linguist Geoff Nunberg examines the parlance of the American political right. Conservatives, Nunberg notes, have been remarkably effective at creating a language through which to convey their agenda. The subtitle of his book illustrates what he's getting at: "How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show."

Nunberg, who teaches at the University of California-Berkeley, is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is also the author of Going Nucular and The Way We Talk Now.

Excerpt: 'Talking Right...'

by Geoff Nunberg

Thanks for another wonderfully documented post.  During (what seems like a lifetime ago) I jointed bulletin board posters (pre-blogs)to defend Bill Clinton and Democrats against the likes of David Bossie, we had considerable success staving off the removal of Bill Clinton from office (though, not, obviously, against impeachment).  We flooded Congressional offices with letters and calls, refuted the lies(s) of the day.  And we kept up against the barrage of Arkansas Project fanatics (and fools) like David Bossie.  Here we are again with him still peddling his wares.  How does the public still support his garbage?  Or Limbaugh's?  These are scary times indeed.  The stakes are even higher today.  And the public has, well, sorry for the language, all but crapped out.  Had they done otherwise, we'd be in better shape.  The 71% of Americans who don't fully apprecaite the job Bush is doing ought to be writing, calling and working their hearts out.  But they don't.  And things get worse every day. 

After leading a county rapid response team for nearly two years 2003-5), even one as dedicateed as I got tired.  And I've taken a break (there is a successor in place, though). My hats off expecially to you for persisting in this and inspiring the rest of us.

I believe post such as yours are incredibly helpful.  Please continue. 

He's been married 3 times (just like Rush) and has a problem with the Hillbilly Heroin - Oxycontin, just like Rush.  Ol' Earl just loves Rush. 

Lately Earls' been hanging out down at the VFW with his buds - they gave him "priveleges" even though the only service he ever saw was the two years a judge handed him for selling untaxed whiskey.  He comes home all fired up about "Liberals".

Aunt May isn't happy with Earl, and his new-found expertise in foreign affairs.  She just wishes he would get up off the lazyboy and mow the grass. 

The Godfather will always have the last word. Don't you guys know that by now? Rush has the most loyal audience in the nation, and the whole audience, including the Dems who listen, are laughing at John Kerry.

Please call Kerry's office and encourage him to say more! Please do so! Rush will win any battle of words with anyone!

well as Democrats to step up to the plate and publicly deal with Rush Limbaugh:

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It's Time To Defeat Lincoln Chafee

July 19, 2006

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RUSH: A couple sound bites I want to play for you here this morning, MSNBC live, David Gregory interviewed Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island who has fallen five points behind in polling. He's up for reelection; he's a RINO Republican in Rhode Island. Gregory says, "In effect the United States wants to allow Israel to have more time to complete what they see as a vital operation. Is that how you see it, Senator Chafee? Is that an important way and the right way to proceed?"

CHAFEE: I disagree with the president on the root cause of what's occurring here. I see the root cause of what's occurring in the failure of the road map. And the president talked the last four years about "a viable, contiguous Palestinian state living side by side with Israel," and the road map was supposed to lead in that direction. And so many missed opportunities I see. The summer of 2003 when we had a great opportunity to push the ceasefire that occurred then, in the summer of 2001. Then with the death of Yasser Arafat and the election, overwhelming majority of Palestinians voting for Abu Mazen on a platform of peace. These were opportunities that we didn't take advantage of.

RUSH: And the next question is: "Do you think that the US is wrong at this pointed to allow Israel to steno?"

CHAFEE: I think there should be a ceasefire and I disagree with the administration on that. I think immediate ceasefire and as this spreads, has the danger of going throughout the Muslim world, uh -- and that's from Morocco to Indonesia, having this unrest spread in the Muslim world.

RUSH: Where has this guy been?

CHAFEE: I think we need a ceasefire immediately.

RUSH: Where's this guy been? We need a ceasefire? All this is Bush's fault? He needs to be defeated. It's about time we get rid of these -- whatever you want to characterize Linc Chafee as being -- out of the Senate. This is absurd. It's Bush's fault! Bush missed the opportunities? There needs to be a ceasefire? All a ceasefire is is a period of time for the bad guys to arm up again and come back with even bigger and stronger and more weapons than they were using before the first time. It's like Bolton said: Ceasefire with terrorists? How in the world do you negotiate that? You don't! All the while, by the way, George Bush is helping Linc Chafee in his reelection effort just as he helped Arlen Specter. But Chafee's fallen five points behind in Rhode Island, and feels he has to come out and bite the hand that feeds him in order to boost his poll numbers up. This is not exactly the display of the execution of core principles.

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Moderate RINOS Undermine the GOP

November 11, 2005

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RUSH: Well, now the White House has fought back. Will the congressional Republicans get their acts in gear? It looks like they're falling part. This gang of moderates under the tutelage of George Soros that killed the ANWR drilling project-- (interruption) You are unaware that the Republican mainstream partnership is funded by George Soros? I kid you not. It's on Michelle Malkin's website. I pulled it down last night. Here we go. She writes, "Many of you were asking for the list of the anti-drilling Republicans. The group who succeeded in pressuring the Republicans to cave in calls itself the 'Republican Mainstream Partnership.' They're holding a press conference at 1:30 in Washington yesterday to bray about their victory... Guess who is funding the mainstream moderates? George Soros and friends." This is on Michelle Malkin's website. I have the names of the Republicans who voted against ANWR, the Republicans against ANWR. You want to hear some of the names?

Charles Bass of New Hampshire; Sherwood Boehlert, New York; Jeb Bradley, New Hampshire; Mike Castle, Delaware; Vernon Ehlers, Michigan; Mike Ferguson, New Jersey; Mike Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania; Rod Frelinghuysen, New Jersey; Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania; Wayne Gilcrest, Montana; Bob Inglis, South Carolina; Nancy Johnson, Connecticut; Tim Johnson, Illinois; Sue Kelly, New York; Mark Kennedy, Minnesota; Mark Kirk, Illinois; Jim Leach, Iowa; Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey; Jim Ramstad, Minnesota; Dave Reichert, Washington; Jim Saxton, New Jersey; James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin; Christopher Shays, Connecticut; Robert Simmons, Connecticut; James Walsh, New York.

These are basically a bunch of New York McCain Republicans. They used to be called "Rockefeller Republicans." It may be better to start calling them "McCain Republicans," the McCain wing of the party, because there are some exceptions, but you heard a lot of New Jerseys, Connecticuts, and Pennsylvanias in there, and some New Yorks. Northeastern, "moderate" Republicans basically threw it out. In the Senate Olympia Snowe from Maine helped to scuttle even a single year extension of the current 15% tax rate on dividends and capital gains. That's due to expire in 2008. So the finance committee chairman Chuck Grassley was forced to postpone a committee vote on extending a tax cut that has been crucial to an economic rebound that since mid-2003 has been marked by ten straight quarters of nearly 4% average growth. Tell us why, again, Republicans need 55 senators? Why do we need 55 senators when we have so many malcontents and traitors in the bunch? And they all happen to be from the northeast and they all happen to be moderates, they all happen to be liberals -- well, not all, there are some exceptions -- but the great percentage of them are. 

So the White House has responded now to all of these history revisions and these mindless personal attacks, these lies on lying about prewar intelligence. Let's see if the congressional Republicans, including the Senate, will get in gear, because I'll tell you what's going on here, folks. This has been an amazing thing to watch this week, and I've been sitting back and I've been eyeing it, and it almost looks to me like there is a sort of a civil war right now in Congress between conservative Republicans, which represent about 90 to 95% of the Republicans in Congress, and the RINO Republicans, these Republicans in name only, who are using what they perceive to be the president's weakness to gut the conservative agenda, and this is what I have been worried about when I've discussed the fact the president is not leading a movement. When he's not out making the case for conservatism with every address and speech he makes, it only empowers these moderates. The moderates basically have been tamed. They had been cowering over there in the corner. They hadn't been able to stop anything. So now along with the Democrats, these RINO Republicans, Republicans in name only, surface in an atmosphere of what they think is presidential weakness. Their rear their heads and show us who they really are. They're anti-tax cut. They are anti-drilling for oil in ANWR. They are anti the conservative agenda.

Let me paint this with a broad brush, and say the Republicans are advancing our agenda is to be simplistic. We have a relative handful of Republicans who are cutting and running in hopes of advancing themselves. I mean, to say the Republicans are advancing our agenda is not true because all of them aren't. Conservative Republicans are trying to advance the agenda, which is why there has been a desperate cry for conservative leadership, politically, not just in the media. Conservatism has plenty of voices in the media. But it needs these voices and leaders elsewhere, where other votes can be shepherded, where weak minded can be strengthened and be taught to follow or motivated to follow, and people look to the president for that, and people look to congressional leaders in the House and Senate to do that. It's been very frustrating, all the silence that we've gotten, and some of you have been upset by the silence in the White House. So have I, but I'm just as upset, if not more so, than the silence from the House and Senate where we hold distinct margins. And I know that not all of the members of the Republican Senate or the House are conservative, as we are now learning, but they are a smaller minority than the Democrats are.

It's one thing to have a sizable minority like the Democrats stand in your way, but it is just unacceptable when a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of Republicans in Congress also rear up in opposition and join the liberal Democrats to derail an agenda. At some point that has to be faced. It has to be faced because these RINOs, these moderates, are undermining our agenda on taxes; they are undermining our agenda on spending; they are undermining our  agenda on oil drilling, and they are undermining the war on terror -- and I'll give you some names. You want some names? Here they are: Olympia Snowe, John McCain, George Voinovich, Mike Castle, Christopher Shays, and about 30 to 35 others. Now the Democrats don't do this. They are disciplined. They punish those who dare to cross them, not so on our side. We don't have any party discipline. "Well, Rush, we're the party of ideas! You always say we're the party of ideas. We have free and open debate." Yes, we do, but when it comes to... Your family is your family, and when you go to battle with other families, folks, you want your family on your side, not joining the family across the street firing back at you -- and that's what's happening here, and it's because liberals hate conservatives and liberals fear conservatives.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not "moderates." Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda, and they've been frustrated, they haven't been able to do anything about it because conservatism has been so strong. This propaganda attack on the president has weakened him. They're looking at the polls. "All right, the president's finished, he's weak, we can stand up now and defeat the rest of these conservatives," and so forth. Nancy Pelosi has a -- I forget what this is called, a "loyalty oath" that she's sworn all of her members to. They cannot vote against the leadership position. The Democrats in the House of Representatives have been forced to sign a loyalty oath.

Now, you can say what you want about that, but the point is they end up unified on these battles that are crucial. These ideological battles are the battles of the future of the country, and members of our side have no desire to be unified. In fact, they want to join the other side in derailing conservatism, and the reason conservatism is so feared is because it works. Conservatism is so feared because it cannot be defeated with ideas. So it has to be defeated with other tactics. We're told to invite liberals and moderates into our party. We're told to extend our arms in welcome, extend our hands in friendship. We're told to be nice and try to make them like us, and every time that happens we only see them stab the president or stab the majority in Congress in the back. It's really not a civil war; it's almost part of a civil war, but this is the Rockefeller wing of the party which has been down and out since the 1980s with Ronald Reagan's ascendance. The Rockefeller wing, now the McCain wing, of the party rearing -- actually, he thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, by the way, not Nelson Rockefeller, but we'll call it the McCain-Rockefeller wing, what have you, rearing its head.

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Read the Articles...

(Michelle Malkin: Letters to the GOP)
(The Hill: House drops ANWR drilling)
(WT: GOP hopefuls still seek appearances with Bush)

Rush has a loyal half-informed audience.  That is what is wrong with America.  Schools don't teach how to think anymore, just how to take tests. 

He says some correct things, the audience is hanging on "yes, yes yes." He then sprinkles lies and the audience is in yes mode. 

Rush is an entertainer.  When he is called on his facts he says "I'm an entertainer, I don't have to be accurate."  Apparently we have an entertained American on RK.

Actually, Rush is correct 99.5% of the time. His opinions are audited.

Also, at the end of every show, his broadcast tapes are sent to the Limbaugh wing of the media hall of fame.

I am going to stop writing now and see what is said about my above statements.