Saturday, February 9, 2008

It's just too wonderful


With Rush, Ann, Sean, Michael and all the rest attacking McCain, the reality is just to frickin' great for words. The mighty right wing radio talk show meme, that vast right wing conspiracy is being hoist by its own petard. To wit:

Oh, those Young Republicans: ‘Talk radio is inflammatory, divisive’
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 03:38 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Things were moving too fast on Tuesday to make mention of it, but the Georgia Young Republicans have picked a fight with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham over their denunciation of emerging Republican nominee John McCain.

“It’s hard enough to reunite after a tough primary process,” said Jason Shepherd, chairman of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs. “They talk into a microphone or TV camera with no consequences and it is us activists that must pay the price as we fight for our candidates precinct by precinct.”

While specifically excluding local talk artist Neal Boortz, the group’s board of directors issued a resolution that “condemns and denounces the actions and speech over the past several weeks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and others for breeding contempt, disunity and hatred among the Republican Party in order to bolster their own careers.”

Read the entire collection of whereases and therefores on the jump.

Whereas: Political Pundits like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter, along with other talk show hosts in national and local markets, have viciously attacked Republican candidates running in the primary election; and

Whereas: Many of these same pundits have used their shows and their vast audiences to spread disunity among Republicans when we need to be uniting to face the greater threat to our national security and well being that is embodied in the Democrat candidates for President; and

Whereas: Despite all of these pundits invoking the greatness of Ronald Reagan, none of them have paused for a second to remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment; and

Whereas: Each of the above named have, through their actions and words, lost the confidence of millions of their fans and Republican voters; and

Whereas: The members of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs are prepared to support our nominee, whether he is Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul or Mitt Romney, against the real threat, the Democrat nominee; now

Therefore, be it resolved, this 5th Day of February, 2008, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs strongly condemns and denounces the actions and speech over the past several weeks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and others for breeding contempt, disunity and hatred among the Republican Party in order to bolster their own careers; and

Therefore, be it FURTHER resolved, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs praises talk show hosts like Neal Boortz, who, despite making their preference known, have chosen not to make it their mission to tear down other GOP candidates.

2 comments:

Mr. Osborn said...

Heard an analyst on NPR's Fair Game discuss the "McCain Derangement Syndrome" of the talk radio crew and its implications for the election.

I'm genuinely surprised that Coulter and Limbaugh aren't particularly pragmatic.

Jeff said...

I trust them as far as I can throw them. They must have an end game in mind.