You don’t have to agree with everything Rush Limbaugh says – he probably doesn’t. He has the biggest audiences because he does his homework, keeps an incredible library of past statements made by officials, and invents/popularizes phrases that capsulize the issues – drive-by media, Breck Girl, environmentalist wacko, chickafication.
Is Rush partisan and acrimonious? Absolutely. But no more so than Couric, Letterman or Matthews are to the ears of conservatives.
Glenn Beck apparently said some things on Fox News that really angered the left. Now they’re organizing boycotts of his sponsors. While this is nothing new, and we are certainly free to shop wherever we want, these boycotts are the slipperiest of slopes.
Can you imagine if the left shopped at Publix and the right at Kroger? Or the left was AT&T and the right Verizon? Or the left drove Toyotas and the right Chevys?
You put an Eveready battery on your shoulder and I’ll put a Duracell on mine, and we’ll dare each other to see who knocks whose off first.
Wide-scale public boycotts of sponsors will destroy what little independence of the press we enjoy today.
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