Dem Sweep Energizes Conservative Movement, Talk Radio, Blogs

NOT ANGRY, GIDDY!

For Conservatives, Election Outcome Couldn't Be Better





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If talk radio is now somehow irrelevant, then why are nervous liberals watching its every move?

Yes, once again, our "progressive" friends want to have it both ways: as they argue that it no longer matters, they want the medium shut down through the imposition of a Fairness Doctrine.

And just in case it does somehow survive, America's mainstream media enemies have launched a disgusting smear campaign aimed at undermining the very effectiveness they now dispute.

Despite all of this, conservative talk hosts couldn't be happier with the election's outcome, given the inevitable Barack-lash coming against the Dear Leader and his inept Democrat friends in Congress. More on this in a moment.


Leading the charge in a disgustingly- dishonest smear against talk hosts are CNN's Campbell Brown and Joe Johns, with a story documented by Matthew Balan at NewsBusters:

CAMPBELL BROWN: We all saw the pictures on election night. People all over the world dancing in the streets. But some Americans, particularly conservatives, have very different feelings about President-Elect Obama. Many of them feeling really, really angry right now, and Joe Johns has been listening to what can only be called ‘right-wing rage.’ And Joe, tell us what these conservatives are saying.

JOE JOHNS: Well, Campbell, there is a certain amount of hand-wringing and that is to be expected. There are those who are already comparing this to the early 90s when Bill Clinton won. As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn’t long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House. And guess who’s also hammering away at the Democrats -- conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama hours after the polls closed.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: He is [a] good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign -- Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers, and as he listed their names, he shouted, ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!’ And he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to [govern from the center] --

JOHNS: So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again. There are still deep divisions. Some conservatives say the message that brought them to victory in Congress in the 90s is still viable. Remember, they rode in on a wave of pushing things like smaller government and less spending. It was a return to an update of classic Grand Old Party themes.

On Friday's show, Limbaugh addressed the odd nature of CNN's hit piece:

RUSH: So where's the rage? If there's any rage in that story it's what you conjure up Rahm Emanuel doing: grabbing a steak knife and plunging it into the dinner table, and each time he plunges it he shouts "Dead!" and then mentions a betrayer's name. "Dead! Dead! Dead!"

The rage in this story is Rahm Emanuel. There is no right-wing rage in this story. I'm smiling now even though I'm talking about it, but this is how they're going to be mischaracterizing and how they've always done it, and have their willing accomplices in the Drive-By Media to help spread the myth. Here's more from Joe Johns on Obama and me from last night on CNN.

Furthermore, it was the Clintons, not conservative talk radio, who first used the term "thug" to describe Obama and his shady Chicago friends:

Bill Clinton believes the Democratic nominee, far from practicing a unifying, transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of “a Chicago thug,” one longtime associate said. Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress Hispanic turnout in the Nevada caucuses, and played “the race card” in reverse against the Clintons in South Carolina and other states.

Meanwhile, yesterday's Boston Globe tried to claim talk radio is now struggling to survive (despite HUGE recent ratings performance nationwide). And in the Boston Herald, liberal host / Obama cultist Margery Eagan uses her column to bash a fellow talker on her own station, WTKK's Michael Graham, for daring to question her Dear Leader.


The truth is that conservative talk radio and bloggers have never had it better: Obama's victory has sent many of the 58 million voters who refused to join his creepy cult quickly looking for a place to turn.

With FOX now abandoning its viewers out of fear of retribution from the incoming regime, sparking a huge backlash, talkers and blogs are seeing an avalanche of new listeners and readers. While traffic was expected to subside after election day, blogs are instead seeing huge increases (including here, where visitor counts are up anywhere from 200 to 500% on a given day).

Beyond that, radio and Internet commentators recognize that Obama's an empty suit and novice with limited prospects for actual success, especially given his crazy promises while campaigning.

That's why Limbaugh has mostly been giggling since election day, rather than angry. Tune in and hear it for yourself.


Conservatives have many other reasons to be happy:


We're no longer burdened by John McCain's horrible campaign, which disgustingly tried to blame its loss on Sarah Palin, mostly by smearing her.


Had McCain won, his liberal policies would have been tough to defend and probably would have led to even more GOP losses in 2010.


In 2010 and 2012, we'll have our OWN opportunity to push for real candidates, rather than feeling forced to back somebody we'd never really liked. After several years on the outside, conservatives are poised to retake the Republican Party. The moderate wing is now dead and buried.


There's a rising pool of young talent on the conservative side, including Palin and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.


As Clinton's 1992 election was huge for conservative talk radio, this will be 100 times bigger, hence the need by liberals to shut the medium down. The only mainstream media person to properly grasp this concept so far has been the Boston Herald's Jessica Heslam, see her piece here.


Liberal Democrats will no longer have anyone to blame but themselves when things go wrong (and they will!), proving endless fodder for conservatives.


Rather than be happy with their election day victories, the left is furious because they were on the losing end of many issues. Conservative IDEAS won, conservative candidates didn't. They are threatening violence against Mormons and others who dared to defy them, even though it was Obama's black and Hispanic supporters who voted to make gay marriage illegal.


Obama's already making mistakes and going back on campaign promises. "Change" seems to mean appointing old-time political hacks to key posts. Even some liberals are already upset.


Political fundraising will now be a snap. While the left blew its wad this year, the right held back. As such the right's warchest in 2010 and 2012 will be unprecedented.


Thanks to these and many additional reasons, conservatives have never seen a brighter future ahead. Obama's inability to govern will quickly become apparent even to some of his cultists, which will provide an opportunity for the opposition to grow exponentially.


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