I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. But a source -- a devoted dittohead -- called yesterday and told me that Limbaugh was going on and on about Kansas City Star sports writer Jason Whitlock's Sunday column, "It's OK to question Pioli and the Chiefs." Limbaugh made Whitlock the subject of a "teachable moment" segment. The cigar chomping OxyContin addict was shocked -- shocked! -- that Whitlock would demand answers from the Kansas City Chiefs' new, secretive regime.
"Jason Whitlock is aghast that the media is laying down, has no
interest, is not curious, is blindly accepting whatever comes out of
the Chiefs front office," Limbaugh said incredulously. "He wants to dig
and find out what they're they're trying to hide. He's writing this
about a football team!"
The self-proclaimed "Big Sexy" doesn't need me to defend him,
but I'm going to do it anyway. Whitlock doesn't even touch on the
reason Limbaugh tore into him: Whitlock saying the media didn't
question the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war.
"The Iraq War is a worst-case scenario," Whitlock wrote. "We trust our
president implicitly, led the cheers when we declared war on Iraq and
declined to demand answers to difficult questions."
Speak for yourself, Whitlock. But, of course, Limbaugh just wanted to use Whitlock's column to knock the media coverage of President Barack Obama
"The media laid down for George W. Bush?" Limbaugh asked. "Jason,
the media is laying down and has checked its professionalism at the
door with Barack Obama! The very demand, Jason, that
you are making , that local media hold a football team general manager
accountable, you don't even think to reference the national media
holding a president accountable? There's no curiosity, there is blind
acceptance of Barack Obama, Jason, right in front of your eyes. They're
stenographers."
Rush, I'm sure you just forgot about the yellow cake scare. And Saddam Hussein's ties to 9/11. And the journalists who were such pussies that they were afraid of being labeled "unpatriotic." I'd remind Rush of all this, but I don't want to be forced to apologize to him. Or eat his grandmother's "under the sea salad."
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its called media consolidation..
when only five companies are NOW allowed to own almost all media in all the major US markets, you end up with them syndicating the same puppet in the same stations they own from coast to coast.
Instead of individual markets serving the local issues/interests, you end up with Neocons and Neoliberals using their coast to coast advertising outlets to push their own manipulated sales-jobs.
If RUSH, or Air America were actually decent, useful, legit, businesses trying to tell the 'truth', they would not be financed by the same advertisers to include PRIMARILY;
1)Herbal, non-FDA approved Viagra substtitutes,
2)Get-out-of-credit-card-debt-fast scams that basically charge you 1000's for calling your credit card company, the same as you can do for free,
3)Various non-FDA approved concoctions that promise the cleanse ''spackled'' fecal matter from your Colon,
4)work from home get rich quick schemes, that promise you thousands a week..easy..
The very fact that THESE are the primary advertisers of all these scamming, verminous, pundits on monopolized public airwaves that they hold exclusive access to, should be the clue to any sensible american that we the people no longer have any say in this nation, and should at a minimum be turning these snake-oil peddlers OFF in unison, no matter your political beliefs.
There gotta be a reason why Rush even on drugs can have the biggest show in the country, while people like Al Franken and Jeanine Garofalo, who are obviously more deserving, couldn't keep theirs on the air. It's not that there were not enough potential listeners.
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