Okay, okay, I said no more on Rush and “I hope he fails,” but Jeff G.’s guest post at Hot Air sums up what I said yesterday in a clearer and more articulate way. Read the whole thing, but here’s a great nugget:
The fact of the matter is, for all of Limbaugh’s provocation, his statement, having been carefully and purposely misrepresented by the media as a way to demonize him and drive a divide between conservatives and more moderates within the party, has had the rather happy effect of getting us talking and arguing about what we as a movement should do next. And it was precisely his choice of language that baited the press and the left (and, more frightening even, the White House) to engage him, and to force the ideas of conservatism center stage.
That we are having this debate about how to proceed as a movement is a step in the right direction, I think – and it is a debate I don’t think we’d be having were it not for Rush’s choice of language.
You gotta read the whole thing to get the context (of course, this is Jeff’s point), but it’s well worth the read. Great conversation.
