Tuesday, March 6, 2012

"Rush Limbaugh Sux"

Media Matters is officially a non-profit organization claiming to be a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." (This statement is directly from the "About Us" section on their website)  They got themselves in a bit of a jam recently when it turned out that their entire existence was aimed towards taking down Fox News (I think this was gleaned from leaked memos from the organization's higher-ups).  For a bunch of legal reasons that I won't go into here, an organization cannot maintain tax-exempt status if it's goal is to wage war against a specific person or entity.  So, while they currently pay no taxes in their ongoing crusade to destroy the most popular news channel in America, they are at risk of losing their tax-exempt status and might actually have to pay taxes like the rest of us soon.

In any event, for a "progressive research and information center," they sure don't strive too hard for comprehensive coverage of anything. 


Evil Twins:  Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck

Here is a list of topics from their blog posts, in order from newest to oldest...

1.  Rush Limbaugh
2.  Rush Limbaugh
3.  Rush Limbaugh
4.  Rush Limbaugh
5.  Rush Limbaugh
6.  Fox News's inaccurate reporting on gas prices
7.  Rush Limbaugh
8.  Rush Limbaugh
9.  Rush Limbaugh
10.  ABC's inaccurate reporting on gas prices
11.  Rush Limbaugh
12.  Rush Limbaugh
13.  Rush Limbaugh
14.  Random Twitter tweet of crass nature by no one of any significance
15.  Sheriff Joe Arpaio
16.  Rush Limbaugh
17.  Rush Limbaugh
18.  Rush Limbaugh
19.  Reporters from local TV station suspended
20.  Rush Limbaugh

I kid you not.  And that's just page one of their blog.  I don't blame you if you don't believe me - check it out for yourself...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/

So what did Rush do that deserves constant blogging on one of the most laughable, yet widely read, liberal media outlets on the web?  Well, on his radio show this week, Rush picked on a woman who complained about not getting her birth control for free (which she claimed cost her thousands of dollars per year - that's a lot of condoms and birth control pills!) - Rush called her some not-very-nice names, and then apologized in the days following the insults.  He has since lost many advertising sponsors and immediately became the target du jour for liberals.

Regarding Media Matters, how's that for "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media?"  They ought to just streamline their entire operation down to a guy at a table in the Wal-Mart parking lot selling "Rush Limbaugh Sux" bumper stickers.  Our national debt has skyrocketed by 75% under Obama, and Rush insulted a woman who wants thousands of dollars of free birth control each year - which do you think matters more?  Oh, did I mention that Media Matters doesn't pay any taxes?

1 comment:

  1. Did you come up with that slogan yourself? Its a good one! Rush will weather the storm, I'm sure. I'm behind him 100%. Its too bad his advertisers and the left, for that matter, don't understand that free speech applies to everyone.

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