Bzzz! Not buying it. There's a difference between (1) looking forward to a GOP backlash in order to win the next election and (2) a public figure loudly spreading a message of "hope to fail" at the very beginning of a new Prez's first term. A poll about "what people think" (five years later even) isn't even close to the same thing as a public figure spreading a message throughout radio and TV.
Further, the poll come from Fox News! Fox News! The most overtly conservatively biased major media source in existence.
The poll does switch from questions about Israel and Hezbollah to how people feel about Mel Gibson's drunk driving arrest - that issue was allotted three separate questions, actually! Sort of entertaining.
Didn't say it was the same, Amanda. What Patterico is saying is that the notion that partisans often wish ill of politicians from the other party is hardly something new. In fact, ol' Rush is part of a grand American tradition in that regard.
I'm not especially interested in defending Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't need my help anyway. What I do find tiresome is the notion that what he says is somehow beyond the pale. He's no different than Mort Sahl, or Mencken, or Ambrose Bierce. I can go back further than that, too.
I want him to fail. If (President Obama’s) agenda is a far-left collectivism -- some people say socialism -- as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?
I know intellectual honesty is beyond some lefties but I thought I would post Rush's actual statement anyhow.
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Bzzz! Not buying it. There's a difference between (1) looking forward to a GOP backlash in order to win the next election and (2) a public figure loudly spreading a message of "hope to fail" at the very beginning of a new Prez's first term. A poll about "what people think" (five years later even) isn't even close to the same thing as a public figure spreading a message throughout radio and TV.
Further, the poll come from Fox News! Fox News! The most overtly conservatively biased major media source in existence.
The poll does switch from questions about Israel and Hezbollah to how people feel about Mel Gibson's drunk driving arrest - that issue was allotted three separate questions, actually! Sort of entertaining.
Didn't say it was the same, Amanda. What Patterico is saying is that the notion that partisans often wish ill of politicians from the other party is hardly something new. In fact, ol' Rush is part of a grand American tradition in that regard.
I'm not especially interested in defending Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't need my help anyway. What I do find tiresome is the notion that what he says is somehow beyond the pale. He's no different than Mort Sahl, or Mencken, or Ambrose Bierce. I can go back further than that, too.
Here is the actual quote from Rush:
I want him to fail. If (President Obama’s) agenda is a far-left collectivism -- some people say socialism -- as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?
I know intellectual honesty is beyond some lefties but I thought I would post Rush's actual statement anyhow.
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