Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger

[babylonsister]

Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger

By JAMES RAINEY, On The Media
November 9, 2008


You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair.

Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun."

Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed."

Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"?

"I fear {this} is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago," Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief.

A healthy skepticism is not only the media's right but its obligation. Indeed, commentators at many mainstream outlets -- including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal -- have already argued that Obama's best bet to succeed will be if he hews to a centrist path.

But many on the losing end of last week's election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media -- led by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity -- only too ready to feed that animus, along with their own ratings.

"The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen," Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million on Thursday. "Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression."

Apparently the tanking of the real estate market, record losses in the auto industry, and massive failures in the banking and investment industry have very little to do with our problems. The economic system is collapsing, Rush wants us to know, because it anticipates the tax increases Obama has pledged on capital gains and for the highest income earners.

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[Fridays Child]

1. I can't wait for those assholes to step over the line and be "visited" by the Secret Service.

[Altean Wanderer]

2. 'This is an Obama recession' - what a load of crock!

Are Oxyboy's listeners THAT dumb?

[PermanentRevolution]

5. Yes. Yes, they are.

[catzies]

6. Yes, and what's worse, they act on it - my RW nutjob idiot boss believed it

and cut all our salaries 10% and stopped the 401k company match Friday.

Based only on what Rush said.

[babylonsister]

7. Are you serious?

Sounds like he's interested in profit, his own. I'd be furious!

[catzies]

8. Yes, unfortunately, I'm as serious as a heart attack. It's a done deal, too.

:cry: n/t

[Skidmore]

3. The RW media is worried that they will be the next group

in the unemployment lines.

[Kip Humphrey]

4. One good thing: Limpballs & Hannity will get a tax increase.