Via the AP: Democrats blast Limbaugh for comment on Kennedy
A Democratic official rebuked conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Friday for suggesting a health care proposal will be named in memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer. On his radio show, Limbaugh said President Barack Obama’s proposed health care revisions will be championed by “the liberal lion Teddy Kennedy.”“Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill,” Limbaugh said.
Brian Wolff, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, called the remark outrageous and reprehensible.
While talking about memorials about a person not yet dead is distasteful, if the above is all Limbaugh said, I think that Wolff is trying too hard to make an issue out of it. It is far from the worst thing Limbaugh has ever said about Kennedy. Somehow this doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing that is going to generate outrage.
Meanwhile, not surprisingly (via the DC Examiner): Limbaugh: My Ratings are Way, Way Up.
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March 7th, 2009 at 10:38 am
It is sad day when the “face” of the GOP is a fat pill popping, three time divorced draft dodger!
March 7th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I think difference this again shows how the media reacts differently depending on party affiliation.
A Bush off the cuff comment about poeple being careful what they say in bad times became the grist for a hundred columns about facism — ‘a whiff of facism in the air’ became an oft used phrase.
Now a large part of the administration is going out of their way to target a single news/entertainment figure and the concern is the execution instead of creeping facism.
Can you imagine if Bush would have sent out subordinates to engage say, Keith Olberman? I seriously the AP story would have been as dry and bipartisan in reporting the facts, not to mention the NYT editorials to follow.
March 7th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Of course, the issue here isn’t the media, but what a DNCer said–and the media picked it up (and I commented on it) because of the amount of time Limabugh has spent in the public eye of late.
And the degree to which “a large part of the administration is going out of their way to target” Limbaugh is questionable, but then again I suppose it very much depends on one’s point of view.
A lot of this is because of things Limbaugh himself has said–he is quite good at drawing attention to himself, which is a vital skill in his profession.