Sunday, December 7, 2014

Limbaugh agrees with me

Okay, he didn't acknowledge anything I said.  As a matter of fact, he may well have never heard of this here blog.  But he has on his website something that comes pretty close to what I said back in November, which he mentions on Dec. 5th.  What's that?

What CNN's doing most of the time on most everything -- ditto New York Times, ditto MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, it isn't journalism anymore. That went way long ago. That's not the news. You think you're getting the news? You turn on CNN and you get a storyline of falsehood after falsehood after falsehood and they call that the news? Then they have a roundtable of guests and the guests opine, and they call that news? There's no news.
What Rush doesn't acknowledge is that power always trumps argument.  Aesop's Fable about the wolf and the lamb illustrates this perfectly.  How does anyone not know this, especially Rush?  You cannot persuade the wolf to stop being a wolf.  Mere argument against a wolf, no matter how well stated, will never make any difference.  The wolf will be a wolf.

In short, you have to start actively doing things to stop the wolves.  Trouble is, guys like Limbaugh don't really ever do anything but talk.  He will shill for the GOP, but he will never support splitting the party up into the grassroots and the establishment.  He just won't do it.  He is all for the party, but the party is controlled by those at the top, who are wolves.  At the very least, he should stop supporting the GOP.  Otherwise, he may as well be one of them.


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