Wed
Mar 4 2009
10:54 am
You, too, can apologize to Rush Limbaugh, just like Michael Steele, Phil Gingrey, and Mark Sanford.
|
|
Discussing:
- Timing is everything (1 reply)
- Presidential protest? Deja vu? (3 replies)
- Republican midterm strategy 2026 (2 replies)
- Kerbela Development: Understanding the Appeal and What Happens Next (1 reply)
- 865 Neyland Entertainment District announcement (3 replies)
- Federal court rules Constitution doesn't guarantee clean water (2 replies)
- Trump Admin wants rid of DEI bike lanes (1 reply)
- New COVID-19 wave, vaccine available soon (2 replies)
- Mark Harmon journalism award (1 reply)
- Senior's fishing, hunting, sportsman license fees increase more than others (2 replies)
- Dolly Parton - we miss you already (1 reply)
- NW Indiana residents on 10th day without power (1 reply)
TN Progressive
- View from the Overlook (Whitescreek Journal)
- Alcoa property taxes will probably not go up (BlountViews)
- Smith & Wesson not a good fit for Blount County (BlountViews)
- Pellissippi Parkway extension delayed again (BlountViews)
- Blount County early voting record turnout (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
TN Politics
- US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries (TN Lookout)
- News orgs banned from White House accuse Trump of First Amendment violation (TN Lookout)
- Chattanooga goes head to head with state attorney over control of airport board (TN Lookout)
- Nashville Democrat sues Tennessee lieutenant governor over committee suspension, other restrictions (TN Lookout)
- Trump used impossible foreign labor standards as tariff workaround, small businesses say (TN Lookout)
- $26K profit from grassroots Soybean Festival to be donated to Martin Fire Department (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Prohibition (Knox TN Today)
- The artistic legacy of Adelia Armstrong Lutz (Knox TN Today)
- Five September birthdays, one lifelong bond (Knox TN Today)
- Daily Connections: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 (Knox TN Today)
- Dishing It Out: Holy Smoke Cake, a sweet tradition from my GiGi (Knox TN Today)
- Can I Do It? Pick up a brush and try oil painting (Knox TN Today)
- Music in the Grove sets October show (Knox TN Today)
- Steve Kopman has spent a lifetime keeping people moving (Knox TN Today)
- Above & Beyond: Waverly man went into burning home to save two young brothers (Knox TN Today)
- First Horizon: Funding Our Town with the American Heart Association’s STEM Goes Red (Knox TN Today)
- Does your auto insurance cover a rental car on vacation? (Knox TN Today)
- Mission Monday: Today’s focus is Second Harvest Food Bank receives $390,000 (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Out of state roofer refunds Oak Ridge man after truss repairs not completed (WATE)
- TVA marks milestone with construction permit for small modular reactor (WATE)
- New ORNL facility targets breakthroughs in battery tech, quantum computing (WATE)
- TWRA: 60 bears euthanized in Sevier County due to human conflicts in 2026 (WATE)
- Lenoir City hospital gets 'activity kits' for children in emergency department (WATE)
- Man who fled state during Roane County trial sentenced for child rape (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Bledsoe County volleyball rolling despite small numbers - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga Christian becomes latest football program to exit Division II region competition - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Free Press Editorial Opinion: Serious incidents at Moccasin Bend have been rare - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Vols, Brandon eager ‘to get back out there’ - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Caleb Flynn found guilty on all charges in wife's death - WLWT (US News)
- Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportations, for Now - The New York Times (US News)
- Student loan borrowers get more time to enroll in autopay for a debt discount - washingtonpost.com (Business)
- EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners - Reuters (Business)
- Jack Smith clashes with senators over Trump probes, says he will not be silenced - washingtonpost.com (US News)
- Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE officer in Austin - Reuters (US News)
- Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads - AP News (US News)
- Futures: Market Gives Up Ground, But Not Much; Inflation Data Due - Investor's Business Daily (Business)
- Goldman Sachs CEO succession planning faces one big problem - CNBC (Business)
- New York judge orders city to scrap Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout - CNN (US News)
- Fed’s Williams Hints Next Rate Increase Can Wait - WSJ (Business)
- Lindsay Clancy's lawyer now questions whether she killed her 3 children - npr.org (US News)
- New York Times executive fatally shot by elderly in-laws, police say - BBC (US News)
- OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse - WIRED (Business)
- Piper Sandler in Talks to Acquire Perella Weinberg, Report Says - Yahoo Finance (Business)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
Search and Archives
TN Progressive
Nearby:
- Blount Dems
- Herston TN Family Law
- Inside of Knoxville
- Instapundit
- Jack Lail
- Jim Stovall
- Knox Dems
- MoxCarm Blue Streak
- Outdoor Knoxville
- Pittman Properties
- Reality Me
- Stop Alcoa Parkway
Beyond:
- Nashville Scene
- Nashville Post
- Smart City Memphis
- TN Dems
- TN Journal
- TN Lookout
- Bob Stepno
- Facing South

Are these people really...
...giving over their party to that inflammatory, hate-mongering jerk?
That's the best they've got?
The best they have?
The said thing is Limbaugh is not the best they have. The Republicans have much better spokesmen.
The problem is Limbaugh represents the only base they have left -- angry whites and evangelicals1. They dare not alienate him, because he is such an egotist, he will tell his followers to storm the barricades if he is questioned.
1 Of course, its hilarious the high regard with which evangelicals view Limbaugh. Thrice divorced, drug problem, caught coming back with handfuls of Viagra from a country known for sex tourism, not conventionally religious... not exactly the type they'd normally hold up as a role model.
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
It's the Free Market
It's the Free Market conservatives are always yapping about. Rush is paid the most money so he's their leader. I know that because he said so, too.
The free market is right every time, it's just not free. We are getting to see first hand what happens when you apply religious fundamentalism to a political ideology and a nation's economy at the same time.
Lemmings.
Lemmings.
The Limbaugh
The Limbaugh self-aggrandizement continues. If I understand him correctly today he is challenging President Obama to a debate on his radio show.
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
Oh puh-leeze
Presidents don't go around participating in debates with anyone, except perhaps leaders of other countries, much less private citizens who decide to ask him for one. It is, quite simply, beneath the dignity of the office.
Its a win for Limbaugh, though -- he'll be able to do some kind of count of the "days past since I, Rush Limbaugh, challenged President Barack Obama to a debate" and his followers will lap it up.
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
Umm.... no
As someone who has struggled with a weight problem my entire life, I would take Limbaugh's side if he Obama responded like that.
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
Apology Accepted...
... Captain Needa. :-)
Seriously, no need to apologize. I'd object to any use of ad hominems by Obama against anyone; you just picked a sensitive one for me.
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
I do think there is a point
Really? The party is at each others' throats this early in the game, with support solidly behind Obama and completely at odds with the Republicans message, Limbaugh is hoping the Democrats go after him.
Let Limbaugh play out. He's on the Gingrich path, headed towards the exit. Sure, he'll have his loyal followers, but will the Democrats need those votes...ever?
President Obama and the Democrats did what they needed to do in November. If they start playing the Limbaugh radio talk games, they'll be walking into a diversion, set up to waste their time and energy.
Plants are calling into C-Span now spouting the old campaign lies with a slightly new twist "I used to be a Democrat/Independent, but now I'm so upset with Obama and so are a lot of other Americans. He's just like Carter, who was with the Trilateral Commission, and Clinton, who forced the Community Reinvestment Act on bankers...." Need I go on?
No such thing is happening. If anything, more and more moderate Republicans are moving further and further away from the party. Ask Steele. He knows exactly what's going on, but since Republicans have been better at making enemies instead of making alliances within and outside their own party, they don't have a plan to deal with the breakup. Steele has to hold on to the base, because if he loses that, he has absolutely nothing.
Oh yes!
I heard this and then heard him say "Leader to Leader."
That's right. He's putting himself on the same plane with the POTUS.
and his followers will lap
That's the problem. Limbaugh realizes that if he becomes more moderate, he'll lose listeners. And money.
And the Republicans realize if they lose those listeners, they'll lose a good chunk of their base.
The Republicans, at least some, also realize that in order to win back moderates and independents, they'll have to become more moderate.
In ordinary times, the Republicans could probably develop a strategy to hold most of the base, while at the same time reaching out.
But these are far from ordinary times, and each day the Republicans seem more disconnected, out of touch with middle class America, and as a result, more and more irrelevant to Americans and the problems and issues they're facing.
Wouldn't it be interesting
Wouldn't it be interesting to be a fly on the wall listening to Rush talk about his listeners off the air and behind closed doors.
Cate-snark-ical imperative
Yeah, I couldn't resist snarking this, too.
Liberty and justice for all.
My home