How Lou Dobbs Scared Rush Limbaugh Off the Birther Story

[RamboLiberal]

Have you noticed Limbaugh's deafening silence about the birthers since July 20th? Have you noticed how the birther movement was in the news virtually every day last week, how the mainstream press was debunking it and calling out the right-wing nonsense, how NBC's Nightly News referred to Limbaugh in its birther report, yet Limbaugh remained mum? Rather than step forward in his natural role as a birther defender and attacker of all things Obama, Limbaugh has sat out the birther controversy and watched its members get mowed down in the press.

Limbaugh's scared to talk about the birthers and won't defend them because he has seen how Dobbs and the movement got manhandled by the press -- including by conservative commentators. Limbaugh saw how the press was sticking to the birth certificate facts and wasn't shy about knocking down high-paid radio hosts who tried to traffic in that nonsense.

And guess what? If Limbaugh won't back the birthers, that means most right-wing AM hosts won't either. Because that business is built upon a very simple (lemming) rule: Do whatever Rush does. And if Limbaugh won't line up on the side of the birthers, than means most AM talkers won't either, which means the birthers are going to be pushed back to the fringes where they belong.

And for that, we have Lou Dobbs to thank.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/how-lou-dobbs-scared-rush_b_245617.html

I noted one of the wingnut hosts, Mike Pintek on KDKA AM in Pittsburgh backed off the birther crap last week. He had pushed it on his show the night before the inauguration and about a week or two later. And he had pushed it last August when he subbed on the RW looney-tunes Quinn & Rose show. RW'er Fred Honzman Honzberger was debunking it yesterday as well on his show on KDKA.

As for Limpballs I won't believe it unless he doesn't bring it up for the rest of Obama's term.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Limbaugh has notoriously thin skin, even for a Republicon Chickehawk

The chickenhawk republicons - Bush, Cheney, Lott, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Boehner, Delay, etc. etc. ad nauseum -- all have what they themselves might well label ;The French Condition' pathetically thin skin.

But drug abuser Rush Limbaugh, with his Draft-Dodging Deferments for Anal Pimples (true fact), has even thinner skin than the rest of his Republicon Homelander Chickenhawk corps. He cringes in fear when anyone tells the truth about him.

I think of it as 'Republicon Pharisitism,' but you can call it what you want...

[FSogol]

2. As the freepers would say, they've all gone over to the DARK side.

:rofl:

[chat_noir]

8. NRO has gone over to the Dark Side

Born in the U.S.A.
By the Editors

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTRjMTFhMzQxYmEzNjA2YWIwOTU4YWVjNzRmODE2NTI=



Born in the U.S.A. ( National Review has "jumped the shark"...too! )

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302929/posts


To: kellynla

It’s not his birthday It’s someone elses. His Grandmother stole a SSN# for him.

6 posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:04:03 PM by freebird5850

[xultar]

3. So, basically Limpballs would still be pushing it even though we have the

birth certificate... if Dobbs didn't get manhandled.

I'm confused.

We've had the birth certificate since October 08. Rush just really started talking about it on 7/20...and then STFU quickly. Why did it take lou dobbs being dissed by the press to get Rush to STFU? Rush has spouted crazy ass lies just as crazy as this for longer periods of time...and hasn't backed off.

Something else is going on...

[Jade Fox]

7. Limbaugh gets marching orders too.....

I think he was told to back off, probably by the GOP.

The Birther crap is not working well for the Republicans, and the order has gone out: Knock it off.

[leveymg]

4. Wonderful. The pseudo-populist Right are learning to discipline the lunatic Right .

To continued detriment of the rest of us. Dobbs is one of them.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. The birthers have a Watergate Felon in charge (Liddy)

[lpbk2713]

6. Anything that can silence OxyRush is worth a K&R.

:kick: