Newsweek Piles On Rush

Right on schedule, along comes Newsweek to pile on Rush Limbaugh, private citizen who dared to criticize President Obama:

A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as "losers." With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence—exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we're cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush's every rancorous word—we'll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.

Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined.

That's David Frum, a conservative from Canada, speechwriter for George W. and responsible for the phrase "Axis of Evil." So, see, it's not just liberals who don't like Rush. It's conservatives, too.

(Here's the Washington Post questioning the size of Limbaugh's, uh, audience. The Washington Post owns Newsweek. Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Of course, don't hold your breath waiting for Newsweek to run a cover story bashing liberal critics of President Obama, written by a liberal.

All I can get is a thumbnail version of the Newsweek cover:



Nice.

Yeah, I know, it's a dog bites man kind of story when it comes to the liberal bias of the media and it's unbecoming of rugged conservatives to whine about it. Still, when it's blatant, it ought to be pointed out.