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RHETORICAL RERUNS

Even Years Later, Limbaugh's Words Anger Foes







Due to the inherently fleeting nature of words uttered into the airwaves, radio talk show hosts have long faced a major challenge: how can one's thoughts make a lasting impact?

As a result, it's common to see talkers writing columns, blogging and appearing on television shows, where transcripts are made and placed on the Internet. Another method is to engage in stunts, which sometimes generate local newspaper coverage.

For talk titan Rush Limbaugh, however, none of that is necessary. When El Rushbo speaks, his enemies are busy recording every word, hoping they will finally get the ammo that will bring him down.


There's a peculiar aspect to this, however: Limbaugh's foes have recently resorted to recycling comments from years ago, applying it to the present day. This week alone, there have been two major examples:


First, the talk titan's comments about Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb are still generating a significant amount of fuss, a full five years later. Rush addressed this yesterday:

"I wonder what about?" I said to myself, given that the Eagles are playing. In fact, let's start at number one. Let's go there. This is what was said during the Redskins and Iggles game last night. This is play-by-play man Mike Tirico talking about Donovan McNabb.

TIRICO: Go to the other controversies, Freddie Mitchell, kind of criticizing Donovan for being more of a management guy than a player's guy in the locker room. Then, of course, you have the Rush Limbaugh incident, when Rush Limbaugh was on Sunday NFL Countdown at ESPN and brought up the whole black quarterback issue with McNabb and everybody wanting a black quarterback to succeed.

RUSH: Right. They just can't let go of this. Do you know this is five years ago now? I think it was 2002. I mean, it's been a long, long time and they just can't let go of it, and I'm going to tell you something, folks. The one thing about this incident that I really have noted and I'm not happy about -- and it's a very sad thing: This incident has made Donovan McNabb a perfect victim, and that is just very sad. There was no need for him to become a victim. The media has aided and abetted this victim status, and that's what that little bite there from Tirico is all about. Whenever there's a game and he's not doing well, "Let's go back and talk about the Limbaugh incident. Let's talk about the Freddie Mitchell incident. Let's talk about Terrell Owens," and so forth and so on. He's just become this giant victim now. That's really sad for me to see. They had Charles Barkley in the booth last night, and Barkley had this exchange with Mike Tirico.

In the second incident, left- wing moonbat Barbra Streisand is now going after El Rushbo for an on- air book review he did two years ago! Here are her comments, published just this week on her website:

CONSERVATIVE BOOK, LIMBAUGH MISSTATE FACTS OF STREISAND FILM-MAKING RECORD


Rush Limbaugh is plugging a new book whose conservative agenda attacks liberals. But the facts the book alleges about Barbra Streisand, as reported in the WorldNetDaily website, just aren’t factual. The website, celebrating Limbaugh’s breathless praising of the book, says, “It points out how Barbra Streisand, while lamenting the way labor unions are treated in this country, gets all of her movies produced in Canada."

Ms. Streisand has, in fact, made all of the feature films she has produced (through her Barwood Productions) in the United States, with the exception of “Yentl” which required filming on locations in Eastern Europe closely approximating the setting of the story. All of her other features were set in and filmed in the United States, with full use of American labor union talents and observation of union regulations.

Here's WorldNetDaily with the background story:

It seems Barbra Streisand is catching up on some old reading.

On her website, she attacks Rush Limbaugh and WND for statements made and reported nearly two years ago. Streisand, whose political activism and social commentary in recent years many times have received more attention than her singing, is up in arms now about accusations made in an unnamed book, discussed by Limbaugh and reported in WND in 2005.

The response was apparently generated by a story about talk radio empire builder Rush Limbaugh, and his opinion of several books, from November 2005.

Limbaugh referenced the new – at that time – book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" by Peter Schweizer, calling it "just fabulous!"


Limbaugh was responding to a caller's question about his reading habits. He trumpeted the book, noting:


It points out that Michael Moore, for example, owns stock in Halliburton. That Al Franken, in the course of his career over the last 12 years has hired 115 people, only one of them black. It points out how Barbra Streisand, while lamenting the way labor unions are treated in this country, gets all of her movies produced in Canada.

It talks about Ted Kennedy and his family, how they oppose doing away with the estate tax, but the Kennedy family has sheltered all their money in a myriad bunch of trusts to avoid estate taxes.

It is just replete with example after example of the utter hypocrisy of the Left.

Hey, when your words are still steaming them years later, you must be doing something right! But why are they resorting to this? Have they run out of reasons to slam him otherwise?


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