Regarding ‘The Speech’

by Jeffrey Jena

Because of a Pittsburgh gig, I only got to see twenty minutes of Rush Limbaugh’s CPAC speech on CNN while in a hotel room ironing my pants. If you’re eating lunch and getting that mental picture, I apologize. After the speech the CNN newsreader (I can’t recall her name) took a mild jab at Rush for mentioning Fox and C-SPAN but not CNN. She then went on to show “Twitter” comments which were 20 to 0 anti-Limbaugh. Which means one of two things — either by the most amazing coincidence all comments came from liberals or there was some bias in the newsroom. You be the judge.

I sat down Sunday night and watched the entire speech and two things occurred to me. The first was how well and how passionately Rush articulated the conservative view of America, the second was how few conservatives there are who can do the same without worrying they might “offend” someone.

As I did for the Obama address to Congress, I’ve deconstructed some of my favorite quotes. Mr. Limbaugh’s quotes are in bold, with my comments below.  Enjoy!   (more…)

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Posted Mar 2nd 2009 at 1:04 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Reviews | 167 Comments