Rush Limbaugh Is Accusing President Obama Of Orchestrating Media Boycotts

[DonViejo]

By Alyssa Rosenberg on Jan 29, 2013 at 1:05 pm

Poor Rush Limbaugh, who really has no one else to blame for the fact that his comments about Sandra Fluke lost him advertisers and made Mike Huckabee a viable competitor, seems to be feeling sorry for himself lately. In a recent interview with The New Republic, President Obama said, truthfully, that “If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.” Now, Limbaugh appears to believe that this means President Obama is pulling some kind of mysterious strings—and to be denying his own influence. As The Hollywood Reporter explains:

Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience Monday that President Obama is promoting a “secondary boycott” against those he disagrees with and that the mainstream media is on board with the strategy.

“I would love to take credit for this,” Limbaugh said Monday. “I’d love to say that I find myself here because of a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed strategy, but one of the reasons that Fox News and I stand out like sore thumbs here is because the rest of the media is gone. The rest of the media is in the tank. The rest of the media has long ago ceased doing their job. They’re not reporting, they’re not curious, they’re not holding Obama accountable. They are on board. They are part of the agenda-advancement team.”

I’m awfully curious about this kind of thinking. Does Limbaugh believe himself to be influential, or not? If he doesn’t believe himself to have any particular influence over lawmakers, does that mean advertisers can’t decide if they do or don’t want to be associated with him, which is, after all, how pure media organizations have always set up that part of their revenue equation? How does President Obama saying that legislators care what Limbaugh thinks translate into him organizing a boycott against Limbaugh? What kind of free time does Limbaugh think President Obama has? It’s always entertaining seeing what it’s like down the rabbit hole, but I have less amused tolerance than usual when the subject is Limbaugh’s hurt feelings.

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http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/01/29/1510301/rush-limbaugh-is-accusing-president-obama-of-orchestrating-media-boycotts/

[sakabatou]

1. Crazier and crazier...

[riverbendviewgal]

2. Only the real crazies are listening to him now

boycotts work....

I know because I supported the california grape boycott...in Canada.

and also boycotted all South African goods. It worked.


Limbaugh will lose.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. n/s

He's nuckin' futs!

[jwirr]

4. He is mistakenly thinking that the rest of us Democrats need a leader for such an easy decision as

deciding which media we want to watch.

[Initech]

5. Hey Rush you're no longer relevant. Let that sink in for a minute.