Steele <3 Rush
Michael Steele has apologized to Rush Limbaugh. I thought he had gone too far in calling Rush's show "ugly," but backpedaling just makes things worse. Between this self-created brouhaha and his foolishness about a "hip-hop makeover" for the Republican party, Steele is quickly making himself irrelevant.
posted by QueensGuy @ 7:54 AM
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Hey QG, long time no talk (and don't you owe BronxGuy a response on his judges-are-boneheads query?)
Anyhoo, I saw Steele's comments and frankly saw it as fairly innocuous, and I'm a huge Rush fan, of course. It was indeed stupid to say the show was ugly, and Steele should indeed be spanked for it, but I think it was pretty far from his mind that he was criticizing Rush.
And maybe that's the real crime, the real problem, is these nitwits are buying into the premises and vocabulary of their enemies, and not bothering to develop their own premises and vocabulary on the topics that are, ahem, the Real America.
And plays right into the Dem narrative that Rush runs the party. I think Rush is an egomaniacal bore who rarely hits the best point or makes a good joke. Yet I still think he would make a better party chief than most repubs.
Hey Anon #2,
Anon #1 here (actually CG, but I forgot to sign off). So, your post isn't coherent unless you are a regular Rush listener, is it? And if you are, it's interesting that you find him an egomaniacal boor who rarely etc. (And if you're not a regular listener, then your post falls apart entirely.) Really, it's hard to think of Rush as anything other than a genius, to have done so well for so long so cleverly. That has nothing to do with whether you agree with him. I happen to be an attorney, and I cringe on those occasions, once or twice a year, when he opines on some technical legal principle and gets it wildly, fundamentally wrong. But that's utterly meaningless; he's not an attorney. On essence, he's perfectly fine, and on communication, he's peerless.
And just to really get your goat, I have little doubt that he's basically a shy, nice guy.
1. Rush gets a thrill up his leg when Obama attacks him.
2. Steele apologizing plays into the democratic meme about Rush. (This does not remove the stupidity of Steele going along in the Rush attack.)
3. He is an egomaniacal bore. As in boring.
4. I have heard him wax brilliant infrequently but more often miss the most important or winning point in an argument.
5. His jokes are rarely funny.
6. Most repub elected officials are more boring, less on point and definitely less humorous (except in that accidental way) than he.
7. I listen to Rush enough to feel convinced of all these things. You are free to disagree.
There. Is that more coherent?
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