{"id":2277,"date":"2007-10-08T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/deep-thinkers-limbaugh-and-goldberg\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T02:36:37","slug":"deep-thinkers-limbaugh-and-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/deep-thinkers-limbaugh-and-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thinkers Limbaugh and Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>If you want to enrage conservatives, say anything about Lush Limbaugh. Really &#8212; anything other than the worship he expects from his self-described Dittoheads. Lush is a petty, bombastic and bloviating scold &#8212; among the worst of a large ilk. Is there anyone on the left who is his equal in power? No.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it happens that I believe Lush has said countless things worse than his recent &#8220;phony soldiers&#8221; fart. He intentionally sticks his thumb in somebody&#8217;s eye every show &#8212; it&#8217;s why frustrated, impotent and mean-spirited people love him. Was he caught judging all soldiers who oppose the war? Of course: Lush is pure judgment, god&#8217;s wrath. But, who cares what Lush says or thinks?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to say the same about Jonah Goldberg of the National Review and liberal-rag, the Albuquerque Journal. But, I have to highlight one small piece from a recent Goldberg column as this week&#8217;s WTF?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YjQ2MDRjZjZlM2Y4ZTUwNmI2MTU4MmM0OTVmOWYxMjU=\" >Jonah Goldberg on Rush Limbaugh &#038; the Dems on National Review Online<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that matters is that Democrats get a free hand \u2014 thank you, mainstream media \u2014 to do what they\u2019ve spent years denouncing as the worst, lowest form of politics. And, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"highlight\">unlike Republicans in most cases, the Democrats actually know they are lying.<\/span> They just don\u2019t care.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Did Goldberg really say Republicans don&#8217;t know when they are lying? (While impossible, it might explain some of the madness.) Or is it just that Republicans don&#8217;t lie and Democrats do? As Republicans look at the world, which is worse, an anti-patriot (traitor) or liar? Never mind &#8212; who cares what these self-appointed judges &#8212; these corporate tools &#8212; think. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to enrage conservatives, say anything about Lush Limbaugh. Really &#8212; anything other than the worship he expects from his self-described Dittoheads. Lush is a petty, bombastic and bloviating scold &#8212; among the worst of a large ilk. Is there anyone on the left who is his equal in power? No. Now, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/deep-thinkers-limbaugh-and-goldberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep Thinkers Limbaugh and Goldberg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}