Just More Baseless Demagoguery Here Rush is pumping up the troops on hot air, confirming the prejudices of listeners and baselessly defining what both sides think. 2/16 : BEGIN TRANSCRIPT The left is out of power. I have warned you about this, I don't know how many times, I've told you about this I don't know how many times. When they are out of power, that's when they get nuts; it's when they get wacky; it's when they get funny; it's also when they get desperate. And they're doing everything they can. They are so motivated by hatred and rage. I mean, they have a different thing that motives them in this election. They hate Bush so much they want to get rid of him. They'd vote for Mao Tse-Tung, folks, if he were on the ballot. They'd vote for Leonid Brezhnev, it doesn't matter, they hate Bush so much. Well, you don't support Bush because you hate Democrats, you support Bush because you support Bush, you have a different motivation. Yours is more positive, yours is more uplifting. And so when you see hate and stuff, you're not oriented to react to it, you just let it go. Well, because you assume that somebody else will do it or you assume that others will deal with it or that the Bush campaign will take care of it or the Republican National Committee will run an ad or whatever and you just forget about it and move on about your business. Then when it doesn't go away, you get mad that nobody is responding to it. Meanwhile, what are you doing? You may be getting mad but what are you doing about it? The left is a little bit more organized in ways like this. So if you see something on TV that makes you mad, if you can't stand watching it, don't write me and tell me you can't listen to my show anymore. Don't write me and say, oh, all is lost, woe is us, it's over with, and tell me that you can't put up with it anymore. What you have to do is find a way to express your rage at the people who are offending you. END TRANSCRIPT Rush must have gotten some sort of psychology degree. Here is stating emphatically the democrats "hate" Bush. Is it some democrats? All democrats"? Twenty busloads? And by what measure do they "hate" him? And just how does Rush define hate? Hate such as how Rush is using it here is very prejudicial. What Rush is doing with this is short-circuiting debate by painting one side as irrational through the use of a very nebulous adjective. There are many reasons to oppose George W. Bush, he campaigned against nation building but now we are in the biggest such effort since the Marshall Plan, this administration used 9/11 and statements designed to scare the public to garner support for a unilateral invasion, over 540 Americans have died invading a country that posed little threat, the taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of 160 billion and counting, the debt is soaring to historic levels, the size of goverment has increased, jobs are being shipped overseas at an alarming rate, environmental regulations have been knocked down by industry polluters installed by Bush to rewrite the regulations, America has alienated its allies, etc. There are many reasons to oppose Bush. There is nothing irrational about questioning his actions, statements and opposing him. Rush goes on to pump up his listeners by assigning them a higher level of consideration saying their support of Bush is positive and reasonable. He did fail to discuss the extreme efforts the GOP resorted when they were out of power and Clinton was in. Their actions were truly wacky. Expensive too. The GOP wasted millions of dollars purusing groundless accusations for the sole purpose of their own political objectives. Now that is "wacky". It is unfortunate that Rush has so little respect for his listeners and substantive debate. It is also amazing his listeners tolerate his mischaracterizations and constant efforts to focus attention away from issues and short ciruit debate.
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