Hard Times (3/6/09)

I take it as a given that the reason why Team Messiah has launched a public relations war against Rush Limbaugh is because their ambitions to silence him via reimposition of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" suffered a major setback of late.  Perhaps also because the last time El Rushbo was designated "the leader of the opposition" when the GOP was shut out of power, Republicans captured both houses of Congress in the very next mid-term election.  Plus there isn't any nationally prominent Republican officeholder the Obamunists consider to be in Red Barry's league (outside of Alaska, of course, but it's not yet Barracuda's time).  And then there's the evident psychological addiction libs have, a frenzied compulsion, a crazed need to have some center-right object on which to direct their bigoted, murderous hatred.

Annnnd as usual, they're making complete fools of themselves in the process:

The Democratic National Committee has joined the administration’s campaign against talk-host Rush Limbaugh, proposing to place an anti-Limbaugh billboard message “in Rush Limbaugh's hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida.”

The DNC placed a banner on its homepage inviting visitors to participate in a contest to determine what message of ten words or [fewer] will be placed on the billboard. After visitors complete a form and submit their entry, they are also invited to make a contribution to the DNC.

The Web site declares: “We'll go through all of the slogans you submit, and the winner will have his or her submission appear on a billboard in Rush Limbaugh's hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida - and receive a free T-shirt featuring the winning slogan.”

I can see it now: "I participated in the DNC's 'diss Rush' contest, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"

Frankly I don't see this contest working very well, because most, if not all, of the entries will be too profane and/or obscene for public consumption.  But apart from that is the sheer puerility of the stunt.  A billboard ad that says "Rush is a big FATSO!" or whatever is going to harm him....how, exactly?  Surely the Obamunists are aware that ever since they took the Great One's bait, his audience numbers took another quantum leap upward, right?  Surely they realize that he's only a talk radio show host and no direct political threat to them, right?  Indirect, sure, but the way to combat that aspect is to starve him of attention, not lavish it upon him.

Besides, look what happened the last time a hard-left Donk White House tried to take on Limbaugh.  The result for Bill Clinton was a bigger audience for Limbaugh, a GOP Congress, and nearly a wrecked presidency.  If, as libs endlessly slurred, George W. Bush took on Saddam Hussein to show how big a penis he was packing, is not the war on Rush Lucifer's equivalent?  And won't that show something B.O. presumably doesn't want the public to see?

Postscripturally, there is one other problem with the DNC's little contest:

On his Thursday program, Limbaugh pointed out that West Palm Beach is not his residence – he lives in nearby Palm Beach, Florida, where billboards violate city ordinances.

He also invited his listeners to join in the contest with positive slogans.  Which most likely will overwhelm the negative entries and lead to the contest being quietly terminated.

The DNC doesn't remember "Operation Chaos"?  Sheesh, they've forgotten the 1970s and the 1990s, but this was only a year ago....

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I also assume that the above is Comrade Hussein's effective answer to Limbaugh's debate challenge.  Which I suppose you could put in the same publicity stunt category were it not that it's the Obama White House that has gone out of its way to lavish the Maha Rushie with all this free publicity.

You DO also realize that by themselves designating Limbaugh as the "leader of the opposition," they're making it that much more politically hazardous to try and FD him off the air later, right?  But in their arrogance, they probably think they're building public support for his muzzling.

What do you call that?  "Culling the herd."

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And they call these idiots "foreign policy realists":

The United States should extend its nuclear umbrella to its Middle East allies and offer enriched civilian-use uranium to Iran and other countries in the region to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, two respected former presidential national-security advisors told senators Thursday.

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who advised President Jimmy Carter , and Brent Scowcroft, an adviser to President George H.W. Bush, offered an outline of what they thought President Barack Obama's approach to Iran should be.

Both agreed that the White House should negotiate directly with Tehran to stop Iran from producing a weapon that could threaten Israel and destabilize an already shaky Middle East.

"Respected"???  Scowcroft was the petaQ who was toasting the butchers of Beijing within a year of the 1989 Tianmen Square massacre; he had a hand in signaling to Saddam Hussein that Kuwait was his for the taking as far as we were concerned.  Brzezinkski was the architect of Jimmy Carter's disastrous foreign policy that actively handed over Iran to the mullahs, triggered the hostage crisis, all but invited the Red Army into Afghanistan, and almost lost the Cold War.  There is NOBODY who is LESS deserving of respect as a foreign policy guru than this pair of appeasenik fools.

And naturally they're urging more diplomacy and more appeasement, which will only embolden (and bankroll) the Islamic regime's nuclear ambitions and hasten the final WMD showdown with Tehran for Middle East supremacy.  Without saying so, they're recommending Bill Clinton's failed North Korea strategy that was proven a fraud in 2002 by the NoKos' chortling self-admission of cheating once they had nukes in hand, and but for their first test in 2006 being a dud, would have produced a full-blown nuclear confrontation with Pyongyang.  And the mullahs are a lot further down the nuclear road than was the Kim regime (though the latter is busily trying again).

Here's a prediction: even after Isreal is bombarded and several of our cities go up in nuclear flames, the same Beltway pacifists will call the same failed foreign policy gurus to the same type of hearing to offer the same failed advice.

If, you know, there is still a U.S. Capitol in which to meet, and any of these toDsaH'pu are still alive.

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Do you want to picture Crazy Nancy and Dirty Harry in a threesome with Brad Pitt?  Me neither.