Right-Wing Exposed

Well, well, what have our right-wing talkers been up to this week?  These guys know how to “talk trash” better than professional sports athletes.  Rush Limbaugh, the king of trash talk, can always be counted on to come through with some whoppers.  While commenting on the Clinton and Obama race, Rush said that the “super delegate” system used by Democrats displays their ignorance.  He then asked why we would want to trust our health care system to be managed by such people as them, stating that these ignorant Democrats would run up a huge debt for our nation.  Knock, knock Rush, is anybody home?  Have you heard about the huge national debt we’ve run up under the Bush Administration?  Have you heard about the half a trillion dollars we’ve squandered in Iraq?  Have you heard about the collapse of our housing market and the devaluation of the dollar during the Bush Administration?

Limbaugh also stated that the Democrats super delegate system showed that they don’t trust their own voters, and revealed their lack of morality, integrity and character.  Rush, can you say hypocrisy?  When it comes to not trusting your party’s voters, what about you and your fellow right-wing talkers?  Every day throughout the primary races Republican voters were being told who to, and not to, vote for by Rush and his cohorts.  Obviously these right-wing talk gurus don’t trust their fellow Republican voters either.

When it comes to the morality, integrity and character accusations against Democrats, Limbaugh was not alone.  Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt joined Rush in his character inquisition of Democrats.  Hewitt devoted 30 minutes to having his listeners call in and vote for who is more sleazy and immoral, Eliot Spitzer or Bill Clinton.  Hugh, why didn’t you make the choice between Spitzer and Larry Craig? 

Michael Medved did a comparison of Spitzer with Kwame Kilpatrick, the Democratic Mayor of Detroit, in which Medved stated that most scandals involve Democrats.  Are you sure about that, Michael?  What about Bob Barr, the Republican congressman from Georgia?  What about Mark Foley, the Republican congressman from Florida?  What about Ken Calvert, the Republican congressman from California?  What about Ed Schrock, the Republican congressman from Virginia?  What about Helen Chenoweth, the Republican congresswoman from Idaho?  What about Larry Craig, the Republican senator from Idaho?  What about Duke Cunningham, the Republican congressman from California?  What about Philip Giordano, the Republican mayor from Waterbury, Connecticut?  What about Jim West, the Republican mayor from Spokane, Washington?  What about Louis Beres, the Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition?  Do you need more reminders, Mr. Medved?  I assure you that more could be recited.

I guess it’s probably time to stop for this week’s edition of “Right-Wing Thursday”.  You can only stomach so much of these guys’ rhetoric.  This will allow us a week to recover until next week’s “spotlight” on the “not right”.   

For the third consecutive week my “Right-Wing Thursday” segment is dealing with conservative talk radio’s assault on Senator Obama.  Republicans would obviously much rather run against Hillary than him; furthermore, even if Hillary can’t beat him, right-wingers at least want to stretch out their in-party battle as long as possible.  So, conservative talkers continue to keep their “bulls-eye” fixed squarely upon Obama.

The Jeremiah Wright incident is still frequently mentioned on most right-wing shows, and is usually referred to as an example of “black racism”.  Moreover, Pastor Wright’s church is regularly labeled as a black racist church.  Why can’t these Republican pundits let this story go?  They’ve played Wright’s distasteful remarks to their listening audiences numerous times, and have examined, analyzed and discussed them to the point of redundancy.

If Pastor Wright’s statements exemplified racism, what about right-wing talk shows who repeatedly focus on his “racist remarks” for no other reason than to be able to continue to call him and his church black racists?  Wouldn’t people who intentionally try to find reasons that allow them to make ongoing accusations of racism against another race, also be guilty of racism themselves?  After all, if these white radio hosts get enjoyment from calling Wright and his black congregation “racists”, it would seem to indicate some racist tendencies within themselves.

However, the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and Hewitt forge ahead with their “Obama Project”.  Sean Hannity continued full speed ahead this week with his investigations of Senator Obama’s life from the cradle till the last time he went to the bathroom.  Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt was attacking Obama’s involvement with a so-called radically liberal, black lawyers group.  Notice the race thing again, a “black” lawyers group.  I wonder who has the racism issue.

What about Rush Limbaugh?  Well, among other things, he was busy attacking the Democratic, Michigan Senator’s husband who was caught with a prostitute.  He seemed to enjoy repeatedly calling this woman a “whore”.  I wonder if Rush would like us to permanently refer to him as the “druggie” because of his famous downfall.  And, I know that Rush claims to be a Christian, so I need to remind him that Jesus told the judgemental, right-wing, religious pharisees of His day that the whores would enter heaven before them.

I think we’ve probably had all that we can handle from these right-wing pillars of virtue for this week’s episode of “Right-Wing Thursday”.  I’m sure that they will once again provide us with ample material for next week’s post.

It’s “Right-Wing Thursday” and it seems appropriate for me to focus on some of our favorite talk radio hosts this week.  This was primary week and Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham decided to switch party affiliations for a day and encouraged their vast listening audiences to vote in the Democratic primary instead of the Republican.  Obviously Limbaugh and Ingraham don’t have much confidence in their own party’s candidate, so they felt the need to try to sabotage their Democratic opponents.  I don’t think that this would have been what our founding fathers, whom both Limbaugh and Ingraham like to refer to regarding many issues, would have endorsed.  I don’t think they would have supported trying to cheat the political process.  I guess right-wing talk show hosts only like to ponder what our founding fathers would do when it serves their political agenda.

It is apparent that right-wing pundits fear an election against Obama.  Limbaugh stated that he was hoping to “bloody him up a bit”.  That’s certainly a nice Christian attitude that I can assure you Jesus would not endorse.  For that matter, the screaming, angry, name-calling demeanor of conservative talkers such as Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Mark Levin and Michael Savage would also flunk the WWJD test.  It’s rather ironic that many of these hosts consider themselves to be Christian/religious.

Michael Medved, the guy who says that 80% of Americans are doing better than ever financially, also dedicated time this week to complain about the waste of six billion dollars in federal funds being spent on school lunch programs.  However, it doesn’t seem to bother Medved that we are spending that much every three weeks in Iraq.  Evidently Medved believes that spending money for war is more important than spending money to feed America’s hungry children.  At least Michael has his priorities straight.

Medved also spent time questioning Obama’s Muslim connections.  The fact that Obama has stated that he is a Christian and that he is a member of a Christian church is not enough for Medved.  Perhaps Michael can get some “religious police” to check into Obama’s true religion.  Maybe he can divert some of that money we waste on feeding our children and hire Kenneth Starr to do one of his in-depth investigations into Obama’s true religion.  Oh well, it’s always good entertainment tuning in to Medved and his cohorts for another dose of right-wing misinformation.