Thanks Democrats! Rush Limbaugh Made More Popular By Obama Administration Attacks

• March 28, 2009

Talk about your all time backfires.

(CNN) – A conservative media watchdog group says recent Democratic attacks on Rush Limbaugh may have given a big boost to the talk radio host’s ratings.
According to the Media Research Center, stations that carry Limbaugh’s day time talk show experienced a “dramatic surge” of listeners in February — the month when congressional Democrats and even President Obama publicly took swipes at the conservative talker.
“President Obama declared war on Rush Limbaugh and his ratings went through the roof,” said Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell. “If that’s not a magnificent backfire, I’m not sure what is.”

When the Democrats decided to make Rush a target I pointed out that it was likely to end badly. Singling Rush out just gives Rush more attention. And more attention for Rush means more people listening to his 3-hour-a-day critiques of liberalism in general.
And he’s going to win converts.
Trust me, liberals. You guys do not want to be inflating Rush’s audience.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array robert108

So, little ribby, you give an example of Scanlon, obviously an Alinskyite, baiting conservatives by fostering false stereotypes. Nothing new here; if you guys had any truth or facts on your side, I’m sure you would use them, but all you can do is spew lying smear. Weak.
Oswaldo

If your a decent shot, vaporizing prairie dogs out to 500 yds with it is totally within reason
2Hotel9

So the spambot is telling the world that people who listen to Mr Limbow vote Democrat. These retards get funnier by the day.
robert108

It looks like Obama has finally found a job he can do; being a publicist for Rush. Probably the first time he’s helped create economic growth. His Marxist economic schemes sure won’t.
AR-15

Robert108 wrote:

Probably the first time he’s helped create economic growth.Â

Are you forgetting about the gun and ammo industries? Obama’s anti 2nd Amendment voting history and his anti-gun appointments (Clinton,Sunstein,Duncan, and Geithner to name some) have made the sales of guns and ammo hit historical levels. And for good reasons. These assholes hate your right to own guns, in particular semi-autos. Get your ass in the NRA or GOA gun owners.
carrick

Oswaldo:

Our country is doing just fine in spite of right-wing refusal to help our president and their wish to see America fail.

Oh, you mean the Republican congress that Obama and the Democrats keep locking out of negotiations?

Some refusal to “help”.

You’re a dumb fuck.
Oswaldo

Yes, a majority of us are concerned that those issues are being used to force us into Marxism. That’s the big concern. Healthcare should be left to market forces, and cleansed of govt rigging; education, ditto, and Social Security has always been a leftie pyramid scheme, and after 70 years of failure, should be replaced with a real investment program that helps our economy, rather than threatening to bankrupt it.

What majority? Our country is doing just fine in spite of right-wing refusal to help our president and their wish to see America fail. If you don’t like America, move to Mexico, and take your idol Limbaugh and other GOP nutjobs with you to prevent compounding the harm they have already done to our country. Bon voyage.
Oswaldo

How many of you right-wingers would prefer Limbaugh to lead our country rather than Obama?
http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

Obama is a “Milli-Vanilli”

A Citizen, that is right on the head & made me laugh out loud! Great description.

It is so very adolescent of Obama to even mention Rush … Obama is thin-skinned and LACKS the security that comes with knowledge and true wisdom. Same thing as when he made that little passive-aggressive quip about JESSICA SIMPSON’S weight. How very STUPID and IMMATURE for the COMMANDER IN CHIEF to comment on a fluffy little entertainer like her. Obama is still in HIGH SCHOOL!
AR-15

I consider myself a moderate independent who doesn’t mind voting for either party if I feel the candidate will do what’s best for the country and not stick solely to party lines

So why in the HELL would you even consider voting for Obama? What has this guy done that makes you think he’s “best for the country” and doesn’t suck the party lines dick? All he does is push for more govt. control. If you think big govt. is best for the country then you need to take a history class DL.
AR-15

Thanks for the info. This is what I am getting. I read a tech report by a guy that shot barnes hand loads and shot a 1/4″ group at 100 yards. Awesome.

Your welcome,
I’m going to exercise my 2A right tomorrow with some friends @ the range. I hope your Bushy turns out to be a tack driver.
At the very least, buying an “assault rifle” will piss off a liberal:)
docdave

zig, from his comment count you can guess that Os has been here before spouting some of the same lefty nonsense except then it was directed against the Bush admin.

Os, Here is my reply to you:

Our country was doing just fine in spite of left-wing refusal to help president Bush and their wish to see America fail. If you don’t like America, move to Iran, and take your idol Obama and other liberal nutjobs with you to prevent compounding the harm they have already done to our country. Bon voyage.
robert108

Yes, a majority of us are concerned that those issues are being used to force us into Marxism. That’s the big concern. Healthcare should be left to market forces, and cleansed of govt rigging; education, ditto, and Social Security has always been a leftie pyramid scheme, and after 70 years of failure, should be replaced with a real investment program that helps our economy, rather than threatening to bankrupt it.
Hannitized

“President Obama declared war on Rush Limbaugh and his ratings went through the roof,” said Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell. “If that’s not a magnificent backfire, I’m not sure what is.”

It’s not a backfire, it’s a straw man. But what do you expect from people who have their feet planted firmly in the land of OZ?

Truth be told, it was more likely that Rush’s own stupid radicalism of wishing a US President to fail that increased his audience because people like a train wreck.

Obama didn’t declare war on Limbuagh, he just stated factually that people who listen and obey Limbaugh don’t get things done in politics.

Obama was right. Republican politicians are distancing themselves from Limbaugh since Obama’s remarks.
AR-15

I have a friend who owns a Bushy Varminter 20” barrel

Oops, I meant to say 24” barrel. I know they make a 20” as well, you will lose about 100 FPS with a 20” barrel -vs- 24” but your accuracy will be about the same. You’ll just lose a little velocity.
rog

you lefty assholes are a piece of shit , meet me wherever you want
Bat One

Good for Rush! And good for conservatism too!

Better yet, those on the Left are unlikely to acknowledge their tactical error, and will instead keep right on making the same stupid mistake again and again. They have nothing to offer except belligerence and animosity.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Oswaldo – Our country is doing just fine in spite of right-wing refusal to help our president and their wish to see America fail.

Pure projection. Not wishing that America gets fundamentally changed into a socialist republic is not the same as “wish to see America fail”.

You fail at logic, sir.

Here, take a gander at what one typical Obama supporter has to say:

No, seriously, I HATE this country and think it should disappear. No more united states. It’s the cause of most of the world’s problems. It’s like a cancer.

Just split it up and let it lose its power. Done. Finished.

DINO on January 13, 2009

Your side wishes to see America fail.
http://www.petsuppliespro.com/Dog_Cages_and_Dog_Crates.htm Dog Lover

I consider myself a moderate independent who doesn’t mind voting for either party if I feel the candidate will do what’s best for the country and not stick solely to party lines. And that’s why Limbaugh’s blather just makes me ill.
AR-15

AR-15, What is your opinion of the Bushmaster Varminter? I’m considering aquiring one.

I have a friend who owns a Bushy Varminter 20” barrel and that thing is an absolute sniper rifle. If your a decent shot, vaporizing prairie dogs out to 500 yds with it is totally within reason. With good optics and ammo of course.
I own a S&W M&P 16” barrel AR. I pop p-dogs @ 300 but thats about the limit with the standard barrel it has on small targets like dogs.
Stop considering and buy it! I guarantee you won’t be disappointed and you will become an AR-15 nut. If I’m wrong you can call me on it, but I’m sure you will be totally satisfied.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

It’s like a circle jerk of angry white guys arguing over who gets to be the pivot man.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

First off, Oswaldo, you Leftard dickcheese, we are Americans, not Right Wingers.

Right Winger is socialist term and a political construct from the communist world view. I guess the words you use pretty much defines where you are coming from.

Second, I’d have Rush as Chief Executive seven days a week and twice on Sunday over Obama.

Why? Because Rush understands and honors the Constitution.

Rush loves and honors America.

Obama, on the other hand, despises it and spends every waking moment trying to destroy both America and its Constitution.
2Hotel9

Quinn’s 1st Law, in spades.

Liberalism ALWAYS produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. ALWAYS.
robert108

AR-15: My bad! That’s two, I guess.
sayanything-5371

AR-15, What is your opinion of the Bushmaster Varminter? I’m considering aquiring one.
http://www.ruinousright.com/ Ruinous Right

LOL!

Democrats want Limbaugh to be more popular and love how Republican politicians fear him. His popularity rating is around 30% (way less with those under age 40) while President Obama enjoys a 60%+ approval rating.

Do the math and you’ll soon realize that more Limbaugh Love means less chance of winning future elections.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

If you don’t like America, move to Mexico

Very laughable after eight years of carping about Bush!
2Hotel9

“I consider myself moderate” is the new “Some of my best friends are_______”. And it is about as legitimate. Almost.

Bravo1, we have irrefutable of that here at sayanything everyday. Our pack-O-leftards use that tactic on a routine basis.
http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

What is a “Rush Limbaugh”?
2Hotel9

AR? “Dog Lover” is a spambot, very doubtful an answer will be forth coming.
Anthony

Another example of the left trying to marginalize or destroy (politically speaking) those they fear.

Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Sarh Palin

Most people know that they can’t trust the media so they go and look for information, or dismiss it completely when the media starts attacking someone.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/01/09/poll-only-19-americans-implicitly-trust-media
http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

we’ve elected the least qualified man ever by total accident.

That’s the real truth! Of the list of people: McCain, Palin, Bidon & Obama … that’s the order of experience, knowledge, etc. Obama was the absolute LEAST qualified to be COMMANDER IN CHIEF of this great NATION. Rush was 1,000% CORRECT when he called Obama a “disgrace” (back before the election) and a little “squirrel.” (Don’t know if he had ACORN in mind when he said it, but it’s what I think of.) Now we’re stuck with a clown, pretend, imposter, sham, shell game of a man as community-organizer-in-chief … and it’s BECAUSE of the liberals and all those of the same naive, uneducated (historically & Constitutionally, at least), ignorant, entitlement-minded Socialist perspective.
What a JOKE. And, Rush Limbaugh hit the nail on the head … if Obama is SUCCESSFUL in the implementation of his agenda, our country will be changed into a Marxist nation. WHO, in their right mind, would WANT that – except the Ignorants or other Marxists.
Onslaught

people like a train wreck.

Says Hannitized, The Original “Pineapple Express”
docdave

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

I guess Alinsky never met a man as strong and principled as Rush. Truth will always overcome deceit and lies, and what Rush brings to the scene is the truth as he sees it.
HG

Woof you must be convinced you’ve got everyone else beholden to democrats in gov’t. Unlike you libs who isolate groups and target their interests with other’s money, conservatives , not necessarily republicans, proclaim liberty for all. Not some ambiguous nonsense that violates the liberty of the successful to keep other’s unsuccessful and enslaved to government.

If you think for a minute most Americans will sit by and do nothing about this, you’re crazy. Just keep pushin’.
docdave

How many of you right-wingers would prefer Limbaugh to lead our country rather than Obama?

The question should be: How many people would rather have almost anybody but Obama lead our country? [I'd have to exclude Pelosi, Reid and Ted Kennedy]
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Rob,

Exactly.

Like Megatron said:

Oh so unwise…

First, directly attacking Rush suddenly lends clarity to the political divide. Dims have prospered in the amorphous twilight of whose-party-is-this? ambiguity caused in large part by a Bush administration which, although good on National Defense, was RINO in many ways (Harriet Miers, no child left behind, runaway spending, and of course, Amnesty for Illegals and the secretive North American Union)

To have any hope of victory, first and foremost, you must clearly see the enemy. We’ve had no clear battle lines, particularly when the folks who say they are on your side do things that are suspiciously like the other sides agenda (e.g. McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, Snowe, Collins, Specter, etc…. )

This effort suddenly blows away the Lefts’ smoke screen.

If it can be seen, it can be hit.

If it can be hit, it can be destroyed.

Second, Rush is wildly popular with a large segment of the population and even moderately popular with others more politically ambivalent. People often listen to him because he reflects what they are thinking, particularly when these Middle American values seem to be ignored by those we send to Washington. They associate with Rush. An attack on Rush is an attack on American ideals.

Big mistake.

Third, when it comes to public debate Rush will clean Mr. 57 States’ clock. Rush has an incredible grasp on the issues and a vast data-set of political history. Curious George on the other hand, has skill limited to reading scripts off a teleprompter in carefully-controlled environments. If he engages in open debate, he has stepped off safe terrain and onto thin ice for him.

The best thing about this is that the Ambivalent Squishy Middle of American voters will now witness the Leftists being drawn out into the open.

Leftists cannot survive long when the bright light of day is upon them.

– Move_Zig on March 4, 2009 at 03:37 pm
sayanything-5371

AR-15, What is your opinion of the Bushmaster Varminter? I’m considering aquiring one.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

docdave on March 27, 2009 at 12:14 pm

“The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees…Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”

Michael Scanlon
carrick

Glen Beck is off the charts too since he started drawing fire from the lefties..
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

r180 how ya doing old buddy?
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

With apologies to Jim Croce.

You don’t tug on superman’s cape

You don’t spit into the wind

You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger

And you don’t mess around with Rush
Bat One

Corollary to Quinn’s First Law:

Liberals are the ones who are guilty of that which they accuse conservatives of doing.
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican

First the White House takes shots, then the DNC runs anti-Limbaugh ads (even some in Spanish), then the press drills every GOP official about Limbaugh, then the left-leaning press takes the worst reactions and tries to create a false crisis out of it… wherever could such a strategy have sprung from?

Obama mentor Saul Alinsky’s handbook Rules for Radicals outlines the techniques used by this administration to try and break any link between Rush Limbaugh’s influence and the GOP- it’s basically a divide-and-conquer approach-

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

Nice try Barack, what with all that scheming and effort- but now thousands more people will tune-in to hear Rush tell everyone how misguided your plans for American socialism are… and what a moral black-hole you are.
__________________________________________________ http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Hold the phone.

Who is Oswaldo anyhow?

We already established that we have at least one pimple-faced 16-year-old child regurgitating on SAB the Leftwing crap he has been force-fed in government schools.

Most adults, once they exit the soft pink fuzzy-bunny world of childhood and start working and paying taxes eventually come to realize that There Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Lunch (TANSTAFL, baby!)

Those that refuse to awaken to external reality often hide out in academia, where they draw down salaries far in excess of their true worth and at the same time, terrorize the young adults they have as students.

Let me guess, Oswaldo is coming to us live from his mother’s basement.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Rush Limbaugh rocks.
sayanything-5371

I meant to say 24” barrel.

Thanks for the info. This is what I am getting. I read a tech report by a guy that shot barnes hand loads and shot a 1/4″ group at 100 yards. Awesome.
WOOFX

Health care, education, social security
are concerns of a voting majority.
WOOFX

Comforting to see Republicans double down
their losing bets on angry old white guys.
sayanything-2483

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

Not always true. Bait the wrong opponent and he will hunt you down and kill you and your family.
sayanything-2483

Limbaugh isn’t a politician, he’s an entertainer. But, Obama is a “Milli-Vanilli”
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

It’s amazing how many conservative people I meet. Nearly everyone I talk with about Obama and the President-To-Be-Named-Later Election agrees. They can’t remember actually being in favor of Obama as much as being in favor of Not Bush and they’ve in retrospect noted the distinct lack of enthusiasm for him before and the even greater lack now. People really are frightened that we’ve elected the least qualified man ever by total accident. Rush’s audience is only going to grow with that being the case because now that the absence has been filled, they’re looking around to something overt, the libtards are pointing at Rush, and Rush is talking.
sayanything-2483

What majority?
Oswaldo on March 27, 2009 at 07:06 pm

The sane majority!!
sayanything-2483

Liberals produce little or nothing. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. Then the liberals crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a life style of trying to get more for nothing ushering in welfare.

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