Bernard Chapin at Pajamas Media offers one of the more revealing glimpses inside the cultish bubble that movement conservatism has become. Opining on the tired Limbaugh Frum Controversy, Chapin states:

Sadly, merely pillorying Limbaugh on his blog was not enough for Frum. A week later he published a cover story at Newsweek entitled “Why Rush Is Wrong.” His choice of media outlets was suspicious. Newsweek does not present information; it sculpts, manipulates, and slants it . . .

That Frum excoriated Limbaugh in the pages of a roach’s den of radicalism tells us much about his loyalties — he doesn’t have any. Like money deposited from the Reichsbank in the 1940s, there’s blood on the gold from which he was paid. His is a betrayal of biblical proportions: David slept with Goliath.

There is no point in being sensitive in regards to this fellow. He’s crossed the Oprahcon. Despite his Harvard education and bloated curriculum vitae, David Frum is not worthy of licking the tobacco from Limbaugh’s famously nicotine-stained fingers. In the foxhole that is contemporary politics, would you rather fight alongside a lion like Rush Limbaugh or a fop like David Frum? I’ll let readers decide for themselves. (emphasis added)

It is clear from Chapin’s rhetoric that he doesn’t so much believe that Frum’s criticism of Limbaugh is incorrect, though he does believe that, but that it is an act of treachery. In the brief passage I quote, he calls Frum disloyal, compares publishing for pay in Newsweek to Nazis stealing the valuables of Jews and indulges in some bizarre imagery. What kind of sick person imagines David Frum licking the tobacco stains from Rush Limbaugh’s fingers? Chapin seems to consider Limbaugh to be a religious figure who must be treated with reverence. It isn’t a matter of who is right or wrong, but of questions one dare not even raise.

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds posts a letter from a bubblefied reader:

I think there is a very serious, very important issue here.

The President publicly identifies a private citizen (Limbaugh) for vilification, and his spokesmen repeat it several times. Then a “major” publication calls for his silencing on their cover. Furthermore, this citizen is already controversial, and he is supported by only one-third of the people, making him a sort of pariah and easy victim.

There are many deluded wackos out there like Sirhan Sirhan and Hinckley who might take all this as orders to kill Limbaugh. God forbid such lunacy! It would constitute a giant step towards the nazification of America, and it would have been instigated by the President and the press.