I sympathize (agree?) with your “win dirty or lose fair” remark, but I don’t think Rush goes that far. Rush is, by far, the Right’s strongest asset; and if he’s allowed to fail, we lose. Unlike far, far too many on our side, he fights and he knows how to fight. He was the only one standing after the 2008 election, and we all owe him for that. He realized that he went over the line in his remarks about Fluke, but — as Curtis notes (and Rachel, tangentially) — think about what was said about Palin. I’m not suprised that Boehner and Romney caved, but I hoped for more from Santorum. These are all very grim developments.

Thanks for that info about Rio Linda being real I looked up Rush’s explanation, which can be found here:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/11/30/rio_linda_explained_for_those_in_rio_linda

As usual, the truth is stranger than fiction….

Right. Those that do listen to him on a regular basis would quickly tell you that there’s one thing he says quite a bit — he “illustrates absurdity by being absurd.” That and he’s first and foremost an entertainer.

This is just a case of people who don’t like/agree with someone wanting that person silenced.

I have a better proposal — if you don’t like someone, just don’t listen to them. Unfortunately the people who dislike Rush know that the only potential way to silence him is to hold advertisers at gunpoint and threaten them until they heed their demands.

thomass @11:41pm is a bit conflicted. He says Rush gets too many facts wrong, so he doesn’t listen. And in closing, says “Most of his (Rush’s) facts are correct.”

Really, we are like rubes at the carnival compared to this guy. Too bad he’s such a lousy president.

The man does get to the point.

In a perfect world I would say yes, Rush was over the top, too crude and should apologize. But the world is anything but perfect. These guys (the left) fight a hell of a lot dirtier than making a random offensive remark – they are out for blood, almost literally.

“Attack, attack, attack. Nobody ever won by playing defense.”

If you are loosing it can help the loss to be bigger. Some of my best take downs against lefties were when they thought their message was more popular and they just kept restating it in different ways… which allowed me to build a case and then point to their own words as arguments that my narrative of them was right…