Obama’s Obsession With Rush Limbaugh

I just don’t get it! President Obama and now it appears the majority of the democratic party , seems fixated on Rush Limbaugh as though he is now some evil monster – well I suppose to them he is. But why?

Recently, President Obama told Congressional republican leaders to stop listening to Rush so that they could get something done. In all seriousness, is President Obama so insecure that he fears Rush Limbaugh? Granted Rush is a powerful man with a large following but does anyone think he can lead a junta against the president and his party? Or that he would even want to?

It all makes little sense to me.

But now it has gone a bit beyond the ordinary. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is circulating a petition among their members with the intent of sending a message to Rush Limbaugh.

We need every grassroots Democrat to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they’re up against if they start attacking President Obama and Democrats who are working to end the failed GOP policies of the last eight years.

Well, okay! If this is how the DCCC wants to spend their time, there is not much difference in opposing this petition as there is in opposing Rush Limbaugh. In other words, if I don’t want to listen to what Rush Limbaugh has to say, I’ll not tune in my radio to his show. Nor would I sign a petition asking him to shut up. What’s more, isn’t it hypocritical to exercise your right to free speech in order to encourage stifling free speech? Isn’t the real issue here about freedom of choice?

The petition being circulated includes a few disturbing demands which to me somewhat resemble the tactics used by dictators of the past.

Jobs, health care, our place in the world – the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed. Creating real change requires every American stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s attacks – and all of the other partisan attacks from desperate Republicans that are on the way.

This is essentially asking Americans to bury the years of party politics, a two-party system that, while certainly not perfect, has allowed for a certain degree of checks and balances. At no time during history that I am aware, has anyone seriously called for the censorship of opposing views.

The Media Research Center is taking this action very seriously. Today I received another email asking for support as the MRC believes President Obama’s comments to republican leaders asking them to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh is a paving of the way that will lead to the demand to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.

If it is, all Americans need to think long and hard about what they are considering. If it’s not then it seems only intelligent to question the time being spent fixated on one man on one radio station by not only the DCCC and the democratic party but our own President of the United States. Isn’t it a bit sophomoric to even make a comment like that?

The DCCC should look in the mirror for a moment and see that they have a right to circulate their petition. They have a right to oppose and offer counter arguments to every one of Limbaugh’s ideas. But rights and freedoms extend beyond the democrat party.

Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Sean Hannity, Chris Matthews and Joe the Plumber all have a right to freedom of speech. Suggesting that now someone should stop talking in order for the President to succeed is not only ridiculous, it’s dangerous.

Time for those in Washington to grow up!

Tom Remington