...and that's exactly what Rush Limbaugh and the money behind Rush Limbaugh doesn't want to see happening. They were hoping something else would come up to divert our attention, and the radio message boards are full of confident Rush-boosters proclaiming "this will all blow over in no time."
Except...it hasn't, and all the attempts to create false equivalency (the Bill Maher talking point, for instance) haven't pulled the spotlight off Rush to any considerable extent.
Having said that, I don't even really want to be talking about Rush Limbaugh today. I'm very excited about what promises to be one of the first really hotly contested congressional races in my neck of the woods (Louise Slaughter versus Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks in the former NY-28) in a long time. I'll probably diary about that later, too, though it will slip off the Recent List unnoticed, no doubt.
But a good radio person knows exactly what the market wants ("play the hits," as the programming advice goes), and you want to know what's happening in Rush's World this week, don't you?
So...over the Calligraphy of Continuation we go, to learn why Rush isn't winning this week, either:
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