According to Rod, Limbaugh loathing has jumped the shark and he may be right, especially since Rush Limbaugh will be in the soup again in the near future—he can’t help himself. His allies, however, keep making themselves look ridiculous by trying to turn this fiasco into a positive; as in this post where Glenn Reynolds projects his own rage onto the President:
THE POLITICS OF HATE: Dems Incite Death Threats Against Limbaugh. And Limbaugh’s already had to call the bomb squad to his house. That’s their approach. Marginalize, then brutalize.
When will President Obama speak out against this hatred and extremism? Probably never. But since it’s been established that this sort of thing happens via close coordination between the White House and Media Matters, etc., there’s no denying responsibility now. I call upon the President to denounce his supporters’ hateful violent rhetoric, to promise not to engage in or encourage it again, and to apologize to Limbaugh for stirring up this cesspit of hatred among his followers. A President is supposed to lead, not incite violence
What is lacking in this post or any of the links is evidence that the president or the Democrats are inciting death threats against Limbaugh. The post from Big Government that Reynolds links cites comments from Facebook—some indeed threatening, others just nasty. It has nothing to suggest these comments result from anything other than a reaction to Limbaugh’s own bile.
Reynolds doesn’t give a link for his bomb squad claim but I assume he is referring to this story:
Palm Beach police spokesman Fred Hess says the item investigated Thursday afternoon turned out to be an electronic plaque sent by a listener of the radio talk show host’s program as a “business opportunity” for Limbaugh. It concerned the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
Hess says no charges will be filed against the sender because no crime was committed. He says the sender was very apologetic.
As Reynolds says; “marginalize, then brutalize.” Whatever.



I’m delighted to see the @TAC broadened from Limbaugh to his most hackish, complacent, philistine and unself-aware fellow-traveling enablers across the right blogosphere, among whom Glenn, in his full-throttle, deep-dyed investment in every aspect of the Us v Them pieties of the Red Team-Blue Team culture wars, is easily among the worst, i.e., most inverted-Marxist, comrade, in his it-is-no-accident predictability. Other contenders in any decent Top 10 list, whether group-blogs or sole proprietorships, include:
The Corner at NRO (obviously)
James “Best of the Web” Taranto at OpinionJournal (WSJ)
The whole Michelle Malkin/Hot Air ménage
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft)
Power Line
Riehl World View (Dan Riehl)
Ace of Spades
Jay Nordlinger, the ZaSu Pitts-meets-Percy Dovetonsils of NRO (“Impromptus”), always on the verge of coming down with this hour’s case of the vapors, and in a mercifully inimitable tone of brittle folksiness; stock usage: “Perhaps it’s happened to you, too. Funny world.” “It” usually turns out to be Nordlinger’s mistaking his own wispy shadow for a revived Black Death (see also Charlotte Allen of the Weekly Standard), which, if real – if not Riehl, q.v. – would admittedly prove a specter haunting his beloved Salzburg Festival, not to mention putting something of a damper on the roster of available ports of call on the annual NR Cruise.
That’s enough of a starter “(mono)culture”, as it were, to which additions are warmly encouraged. Collect ‘em and trade ‘em all! Be the first on your block to wear the team colors – half off ‘cos there were tons of red left over after 1991, with the need to outfit 100,000,000 red-diaper-babies conveniently switched without a hitch from the Soviet bloc to the Dittohead heathen…