Our media often trumpets their fierce independence yet I’m finding it a little odd that they’re all using the same language in the same story (that isn’t even a real story) that they’re all beating to death.
I mean, they’re beating the hell out of this story about a supposed feud between Rush Limbaugh and GOP Chairman Michael Steele while Obama is tripling the deficit and seeking to stage a hostile takeover of the health care industry. And what’s even sadder is that they’re not even hiding that they’re all reading off the same sheet:
NY Times: now that Limbaugh has become something else — the face of the Republican Party, by a White House that has played him brilliantly…
Politico: “Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party…”
Reuters: President Barack Obama’s team is helping lead an effort to cast Limbaugh, a polarizing, conservative talk radio show host, as the Republican Party’s new face, using campaign-style attacks against a high profile target.
MSNBC with Jennifer Skalka, editor of the blog Hotline On Call: “Well, you kind of get the feeling that Rush Limbaugh is enjoying being the face of the Republican Party”
Eleanor Clift: “Right now, Limbaugh is the face of the Republican Party…”
Huffington Post: “There is no easier way for the administration to explain this than to simply point out that if Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party than…”
Anyone else starting to think the media is getting their talking points from a single source and they’re just disseminating it like fertilizer?
March 6, 2009 at 4:15 am
Well, what can you say about a guy who should be playing the shell game on Chicago’s CTA trains while the Huffington Post losers give him their money? Instead he’s playing at being President and they are playing at being press. And we get to be suckered by the nuts who voted for this bs.
Even the old hacks from Pravda would be ashamed of this scam.
March 6, 2009 at 8:09 am
Well, at least it’s a change of pace from the many stories that all spouted the Republican talking points in the days of Bush. I don’t recall you objecting to the parroting of the talking points then.
March 6, 2009 at 11:13 am
Funny, I don’t remember them so much between all the comparisons they made to Hitler.
March 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“Well, at least it’s a change of pace from the many stories that all spouted the Republican talking points in the days of Bush. I don’t recall you objecting to the parroting of the talking points then.” My retirement money wasn’t being siphoned away to pay for big government entitlement programs at the time so maybe I missed it.
March 6, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Rush is smart enough that when the dust settles he will be on top, they are attacking a person who knows how to turn things to his advantage, Go Rush
March 6, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Rush is no Ronald Reagan. More like a loud Smurf.
March 8, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Matthew, not to be rude or anything but you don’t listen to Rush, do you? He’s been saying this for years, i.e. the media’s talking points…