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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (30458)	11/22/2002 1:22:39 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Daschle Blames Loss, "Threats" on Us! URL:http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_112102/content/daschle_battles_eib_facts_with_name_calling.guest.html November 20, 2002 Soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has blamed me personally, and about all of you who listen to me, for his loss and for the supposed "threats" he's receiving. You can hear him make this comment in the audio links below, and also hear my response to this pathetic attempt to do exactly what some Democrats tried to do after the Oklahoma City Bombing: link our intelligent discussion of ideas to acts of violence. Daschle: "What happens when Rush Limbaugh attacks those of us in public life is that people aren't satisfied just to listen. They want to act because they get emotionally invested. And so, you know, the threats to those of us in public life go up dramatically, and on our families and on us, in a way that's very disconcerting." We’re 14 months after terrorists attacks, and this guy calls a presser to whine about the threats that he's getting from people that listen to me! Did Daschle get this upset about the anthrax letters, or when Alec Baldwin screamed that people should stone Congressman Henry Hyde and his family to death? This reminds me of the cover story they ran in TIME "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America," a week after praising Fidel Castro with the cover story "The Lion in Winter." He's so sure these phantom people are my listeners, but where's the proof? Isn't it interesting that this is the first we've heard of this? I guess the Democrats got their polling data in, and it told them to smear all of you as violent thugs. Daschle Misses the Pre-EIB, Pre-FNC Days When Liberals Controlled the Media What started this is my reporting of hypocrisy and lies that would've stayed buried when liberals controlled the press. (See: Democrats Can't Deal With The Non-Liberal Media) For example: 1) Claiming that Bush wouldn't sign on to more disaster relief, when Daschle had said on Meet the Press that the farm bill included such relief. 2) Daschle slipping in exceptions from environmental rules for his state only. 3) His misrepresentation of President Bush's statements for the purpose of that tantrum on the Senate Floor. 4) Forcing the taxpayers to pay for cleaning up a mess of a South Dakota mining company. (Rush 24/7 members have this kind of information at their fingertips in the EIB Essential Stack of Stuff.) Daschle is surely upset because last week I asked the question, "What have you done, Senator Daschle, to fight the war on terrorism?" after he lamented that Bush wasn't winning the war. He's slashed our defense and intelligence capabilities at every turn. He's said that he sees no threat in Saddam Hussein, and supported Clinton's suicidal scheme to give North Korea two nuclear reactors to play with. Maybe people are just upset at you for these things, because if you knew anything about my show, you would know that I don't sit there and encourage anyone to call or write their leaders. Tom Daschle has been in defensive mode for a long time. I heard he's not going to run for reelection in '04 and that he doesn't want to be president anymore. He's just trying to explain their loss, and he can't ever, ever blame himself. Democrats don't do that. So they pull out this old pattern of blaming you idiot Michigan Militia types who are supposedly the only ones who listen to talk radio – despite my audience being well over 20 million strong. One of the reasons the Democrats lost is because no one believes this kind of B.S. about Republicans being evil, children-starving, Social Security-slashing, Medicare-raiding monsters. They tried to demonize Bush and they failed. Other than a few fringe kooks who think Bush killed Senator Wellstone to cover up for the kidnapping of the Lindberg Baby and to get the Iraqi oil, no one buys this junk. They can't demonize us, anymore. They tried with a bunch of candidates on Social Security and lost miserably. We're not to blame for your ideas failing, senator. You are.