Dirty Business

David Limbaugh did his part last week to bash the "liberal media bias," "Democrat obstructionism, terrorist-sympathizing," etc. The average reader who believes Townhall columnists eats this stuff up. If it's true that a few of the writers are supposedly erudite, then they are impressive in their ability to write down for their readership of dumb-as-dirt* folks (*not having the capability to process data). I know a few heartlanders who love to quote, copy/paste, link and go hog-wild pointing to TH type writers as living proof of the Conservative Gospel according to so-&-so said (Limbaugh, Colter, Will, Thomas, Elder, etc.).

Limbaugh's column bashes the May 17 press briefing and the reporters who questioned McClellan on the "nuclear option" and on the flagrant Newsweak Koran Backdown. David either has more trouble staying on topic than I do or his post-it note for last Friday said simply "bash media/praise Bush."

In the brief column of approximately 850 words, Davy claims the reporters are condescending anti-Bush, anti-troops, anti-constitution, anti-Republican party, arrogant, and elitists. Whew doggie, did he miss anything? Limbaugh also queries if the reporters are IQ challenged, since they ask and/or write too silly for words, unadulterated nonsense, and listening to these press goons convinces Limbaugh of the liberal media bias. Limbaugh cites the Abraham Fortas situation as some sort of proof of something but he didn't go into details, and for good reason. John Dean explains the Fortas filibuster. Dean, who was there, states "The key event occurred in 1968. That year, Republicans blocked the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. And they did so with a filibuster."

Not exactly the "bipartisan" effort Limbaugh claims. This Old Abe wasn't honest. More than once he accepted questionable funds from shady characters, i.e. Louis Wolfson who was convicted and did time for Federal Securities violation.

Fortas had helped LBJ with legalities during Johnson's run for the senate. It seems, (this worth a chuckle) that Johnson's opponent got a federal judge to remove Johnson's name off the general election ballot for the senate in 1948, and Abe came to the rescue. Fortas convinced Hugo Black, SCOTUS judge to reverse the ruling. There were charges of corruption because 200 Johnson votes had been cast in alphabetical order. Johnson nominating Fortas for Chief Justice was to pay back an IOU for convincing Hugo those 200 votes were a strange anomaly, nothing to see, move along, etc. Abe eventually, under the microscope and threat of impeachment, resigned from the court. (Would that I could see what Fortas had on Hugo.)

Dean cites a NY Times editorial of that era as… "It observed that "[b]ehind the developing filibuster are strong undertones of politics, spitefulness and racism (Fortas, like Limbaugh, was Jewish). . . . The real leaders of the filibuster are those old guard Southerners, Senator Eastland of Mississippi and Senator Thurmond of South Carolina. . . . These Southern bigots must be pleased indeed that the more respected Senators are serving as their cats'-paw in the case against Mr. Fortas."

Limbaugh, ranting at the "dinosaurs" of old media liberal bias calls on these "elitists" to "dismount their high horses" and "talk about the wonderful things going on in Afghanistan and Iraq because of President Bush's vision" and to see the noble generosity of the current Iraq regime. One has to be as dumb as dirt to not gag on the manna coming from the likes of Limbaugh and TH's visionary propagandists.

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