Thread: Obama's Big Mistake

[quote name='Goldwater' date='03 April 2010 - 03:52 PM' timestamp='1270324337' post='136151']

I don't think there is any secret. To those who want and need to believe what Rush says is fact, he is very reassuring to listen to. He uses the addictive nature of riteous indignation and moral outrage to desensitize his audience. Starbucks has always over-roasted their coffees compared to the competition, and that makes their coffee more bitter, but not better tasting IMO. Repeat Starbuck's customers once desensitized will not find a lot of flavor in other coffee brands. Nobody else is as good at giving righties that "rush" of bitter outrage and assuredness that they have all the facts, and liberals have none. He's not any more knowlegable about politics or logical than other righty jocks, but he is better at rabble rousing. But once again, his sphere of influence outside of Republicans and some Tea Partier dissipates.



As for the numbers...there is only one conservative cable news network, and there is generally only one AM radio station in most markets that carries Rush. The concentration of the conservative audience is offered by the marketing people of Fox and the many AM stations to prove that conservatives have vastly greater listeners/viewers...and because of that, they must be right, and also represent the majority of Americans. Conservative listeners/viewers watch and listen to cable news and radio in greater numbers than liberals do. Liberals are far more likely than conservatives to get their info from the internet as opposed to AM radio. The mainstream media has fewer liberal viewers divided up over many more choices.





The government (Obama admin) doesn't go after Rush. The Bush Admin had the same relationship with the New York Times. The NYT and Rush both criticize the President in some way, and the Presidency responds in both cases. The right views the NYT as creating misinformation, as does the Obama administration consider Rush misinforming people. What you do have right is the fact that Fox and Conservative radio do allow Rush to set the tone within their industry genre.



Discrediting Rush's attacks on Obama is kind of like one stop shopping for responses to conservative media from Democratic strategists. I don't know any liberals that listen to Rush, besides myself. So the only way Democrats hear about Rush is by way of Obama's criticism.





Rush's listeners are not on the fence, they will think that Obama has disdain for them no matter what Rush uses as the reason why they should. This is the big myth of the Tea Party...righties want Americans to believe that something unparalleled and without precident is happening. The only thing that is happening is that the right lost big in 2008 and instead of facing the fact that the duely elected executive and congressional branches of government are voting differently than they think they should...they are laying the Lee Atwater tactic of "the other party will kill you" on pretty thick. And righties cannot resist. And that is what Rush does.

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Well, I pretty much think you've got us all wrong. Of course, I suppose I sometimes don't understand liberals, or make assumptions in general that only apply to certain factions and just can't tell the difference. *shrugs*

All this hand wringing and fake concern over "vitriol from the Right" is just showtime for the idiots.

The Lefties practically lost their f'ing minds spewing hate over Bush for much of a decade.



You notice with the death threats against Cantor, the egg throwers at Searchlight, the "I'm going

to jail" guy threatening Breitbart, we know it was a Lefty and there's evidence... but all the

spitting, name calling, brick throwing, etc reportedly done by Righties is just speculation?



And dont even talk to me about the cultists dreaming about mass killing cops... no conservative in

their Righty mind wants to kill a bunch of cops. Thats the kind of crap Obama's old buddy Bill

Ayers pulls.

[quote name='Goldwater' date='03 April 2010 - 06:55 PM' timestamp='1270349706' post='136259']

How much have you had to drink tonight Bla?

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I see you have no argument, I guess it's predictable. The Congressman who claimed he was spat on

is now backtracking, the Black Caucasus members who claimed to hear the N-word as they walked

through the tea party crowd with cameras on have never provided any video or audio, nobody knows

who threw a brick at that window, the widow hit by a stray bullet was a false alarm.



What we do know is there's a guy in jail for threatening Cantor, we know Harry Reid's union thugs

threw eggs and tried to make a false police report, we know another union guy bit off a Righties

finger, we know Black Panthers intimidated voters, we know Leftists are willing to bomb, threaten,

vandalize, maim, and lie.

you all think you know Obama ?



well how do you correlate these statements?



from Dreams of my Father:



" I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of 12 or 13 when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"



"there was something about her that made me wary and a little too sure of herself and white"

( speaking about his mother ?)



" it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show loyalty to black masses, to strike out and name names"



" I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my own fathers image, the black man, son of Afrika that i'd packed all atributes i sought into myself , the atributes of martin, malcolm, DuBois, and mandella"



From the Audacity of Hope:



" I will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction"



does this help us to better understand the man we have in the whitehouse?