Rush Limbaugh - Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
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As with the ill fated Picket’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysberg, Rush Limbaugh‘s Charge in the GOP‘s media assault on women is a suicidal attack doomed to fail with massive casualties in the ranks of conservative media men.
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Limbaugh and the other white media males of his ilk just can’t stand it anymore.
Women are on the rise in business, in political power and in all aspects of media.
As time has gone by, what was regarded as the hollowed preserve of media dominated by him and other white men has diminished. And, before they even realize what has happened to what they have heretofore arrogantly regarded as their turf, that hollowed ground will be occupied fully by women.
So Rush, charge ahead as you will.
But, just like Major General George Pickett at Gettysburg, your efforts to attack and impede the progress of women will fail, and will go down in media history as “Lost Cause” II.
Around the Web
- Goldie Taylor On Limbaugh Advertisers: Could CNN Afford To Lose 140 Advertisers? No (mediaite.com)
- Miggs Burroughs’ “Rush” To Judgment (06880danwoog.com)
- Limbaugh and One-Way Wantonness – NYTimes.com (2worlds1eye.com)
- Why We Can’t Beat Rush Limbaugh by Boycotting His Advertisers (agreetodisagree.me)
- The GOP Isn’t Going to Repudiate Rush Limbaugh (littlegreenfootballs.com)
- Diamonds And Dinners: Limbaugh’s Recipie For Not Being Anti-Woman (lezgetreal.com)
- After Social-Media Backlash, Rush Limbaugh Starts Tweeting (newsfeed.time.com)
- Media Insider: Limbaugh is ‘Out of Touch’, ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’ for ‘Attack’ Radio (bradblog.com)
- George Will: Republican Leaders Afraid of Rush Limbaugh (themoderatevoice.com)
- the Progress Report – Romney, Limbaugh and Contraceptives (ynative77.wordpress.com)
marcjan
FOX News: Brit Hume trashes Rick Santorum’s unnecessary social controversies; tags them as ‘political malpractice’
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Brit Hume’s smackdown of Rick Santorum‘s social issues agenda is tantamount to the political death penalty in GOP politics. Santorum is done.
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Hume noted that his recent comments on contraception were something of a shock, and politically inexpedient. “To many Americans… that seems peculiar,” he noted, adding that many Americans did not see how pre-natal care was something to fight against.
SOURCE: MEDIAITE.COM
Commentary
Hume is one of the most influential political commentators among conservatives. Hume’s critique of Santorum means that there is no mainstream conservative support for Santorum.
Santorum is now effectively out of the race for the GOP Presidential nomination.
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Posted by marcjan on February 28, 2012 in 2012, Commentary, Media, Politics
Tags: Brit Hume, Politics, politics news, Presidential Election, Republican, Rick Santorum