Rush Limbaugh certainly does not need me to defend him, even as he is getting savaged by Media Matters and progressives. If you have not seen the clip being circulated online, Rush explains the President’s methodology for trolling Joe Scarborough. I do not think the President should be doing what he is doing. I have said so and written so publicly. I think it is shameful and gross. But I also think Rush is brilliant and can explain Trump and his antics better than most. Rush explained how Trump was not actually creating conspiracies, but drawing people’s attention to existing conspiracies and doing so to get certain segments of the press and pundit class upset. You can learn a lot about Trump from listening to Rush and you can learn a lot about radio and entertainment by listening to Rush. In 2016, Rush saw what was coming and I was convinced Trump would lose. In fact, most of those now blowing up Rush were in the same boat as me in 2016.
Trump has been exposing hypocrisy and cover-ups since at least the 1980's, when he took out center page ads. Only recently have my eyes opened to his sense of humor, his cleverness, and his refreshing lack of decorum. "So Trump is just throwing gasoline on a fire here, and he’s having fun watching the flames — and he’s having fun watching these holier-than-thou leftist journalists react like their moral sensibilities have been forever rocked and can never recover." Rush nailed it. As always, Erick, you are open and accepting to other viewpoints...much appreciated! https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-praises-president-being-clever-sharing-conspiracy-theories
My perspective is that both President Trump and the insane Leftist media are overexposing themselves. I prefer to turn on classical music or watch wonderful Anna Fedorova play the piano on You Tube. What will become of our USA? People need rest to think calmly and critically, and we certainly are not enabled for that by the mainstream media.
I tune in occasionally to Rush. But not nearly as much as I used to. He said something yesterday or the day before that has me convinced he's gone over the edge. I'm paraphrasing here but it was to the effect that "the coronavirus was a conspiracy of the world to destroy the U.S. economy in order to get rid of Trump." That these state actors "surprised themselves at how well it worked."
I understand Rush is in the entertainment business but geez.
I have friends who have undergone significant chemo treatments for cancer. There's a malady known as "chemo brain". I'm hoping some of the stuff coming out of Rush is related to the questionable judgements one makes when undergoing chemo.
Trump does say some things that should not be said. The 2016 comment about Ted Cruz's father was one of the worst cases. But the pattern of Trump's targets for outrageous remarks are typically people who have first attacked him with false accusations, with Cruz being one exception. In my opinion, this was because Trump's target was more the Never Trump Cruz supporters who had no qualms about maliciously bashing Trump to defeat him politically. Among them was a Cruz supporting PAC who published a nude photo of Melania from her time as a model over a decade before. This enraged Trump just like Erick got enraged by a set of Trump supporters who wrongly threatened his family. Scarborough is among the media sources who bashes Trump for anything and everything from being a traitor to killing 100K people with the Corona virus. Trump has an "eye-for-an-eye" philosophy and even if that is not "turn the other cheek" Christianity, he is far from the only person who responds to "evil with evil." That doesn't make it right, but it does suggest that Trump's unjust attacks have to be judged in the context of the targets who nearly always have unjustly attacked him first.
These social media companies sort of want it both ways. They want to be a free-speech public forum, and thus indemnified from any sort of problem posts that arise. But, at the same time, they want to protect users from heinous speech, death threats and things like the utter b.s. that comes from Trump. They are private enterprises, yet they function as a public utility. Trump's executive order would have likely have the opposite effect intended. If forced into having liabilities for what is on their platforms, they will censor more heavily. Trump is biting the hand that feeds him. Without Twitter, and the news media's amplification of his tweets (most people aren't on Twitter), he would lose his primary mode of communication.
For me, I agree with Kevin D. Williamson when he says Twitter is just "monkeys, jerking off and flinging poo". Social media, especially Twitter, has taken the dialog in American to the basest level, and I just wish intelligent people, who know better, would leave the platform, and let it die the death it deserves.
Trump has been exposing hypocrisy and cover-ups since at least the 1980's, when he took out center page ads. Only recently have my eyes opened to his sense of humor, his cleverness, and his refreshing lack of decorum. "So Trump is just throwing gasoline on a fire here, and he’s having fun watching the flames — and he’s having fun watching these holier-than-thou leftist journalists react like their moral sensibilities have been forever rocked and can never recover." Rush nailed it. As always, Erick, you are open and accepting to other viewpoints...much appreciated! https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-praises-president-being-clever-sharing-conspiracy-theories
My perspective is that both President Trump and the insane Leftist media are overexposing themselves. I prefer to turn on classical music or watch wonderful Anna Fedorova play the piano on You Tube. What will become of our USA? People need rest to think calmly and critically, and we certainly are not enabled for that by the mainstream media.
I tune in occasionally to Rush. But not nearly as much as I used to. He said something yesterday or the day before that has me convinced he's gone over the edge. I'm paraphrasing here but it was to the effect that "the coronavirus was a conspiracy of the world to destroy the U.S. economy in order to get rid of Trump." That these state actors "surprised themselves at how well it worked."
I understand Rush is in the entertainment business but geez.
I have friends who have undergone significant chemo treatments for cancer. There's a malady known as "chemo brain". I'm hoping some of the stuff coming out of Rush is related to the questionable judgements one makes when undergoing chemo.
Trump does say some things that should not be said. The 2016 comment about Ted Cruz's father was one of the worst cases. But the pattern of Trump's targets for outrageous remarks are typically people who have first attacked him with false accusations, with Cruz being one exception. In my opinion, this was because Trump's target was more the Never Trump Cruz supporters who had no qualms about maliciously bashing Trump to defeat him politically. Among them was a Cruz supporting PAC who published a nude photo of Melania from her time as a model over a decade before. This enraged Trump just like Erick got enraged by a set of Trump supporters who wrongly threatened his family. Scarborough is among the media sources who bashes Trump for anything and everything from being a traitor to killing 100K people with the Corona virus. Trump has an "eye-for-an-eye" philosophy and even if that is not "turn the other cheek" Christianity, he is far from the only person who responds to "evil with evil." That doesn't make it right, but it does suggest that Trump's unjust attacks have to be judged in the context of the targets who nearly always have unjustly attacked him first.
These social media companies sort of want it both ways. They want to be a free-speech public forum, and thus indemnified from any sort of problem posts that arise. But, at the same time, they want to protect users from heinous speech, death threats and things like the utter b.s. that comes from Trump. They are private enterprises, yet they function as a public utility. Trump's executive order would have likely have the opposite effect intended. If forced into having liabilities for what is on their platforms, they will censor more heavily. Trump is biting the hand that feeds him. Without Twitter, and the news media's amplification of his tweets (most people aren't on Twitter), he would lose his primary mode of communication.
For me, I agree with Kevin D. Williamson when he says Twitter is just "monkeys, jerking off and flinging poo". Social media, especially Twitter, has taken the dialog in American to the basest level, and I just wish intelligent people, who know better, would leave the platform, and let it die the death it deserves.