More on the FD

[Dan Billings]

Should Rush have given up on what he believes and pretended he wants Obama 
to be successful in raising taxes and spending?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: More on the FD


>>Can't believe I'm defending RL  but he has restated again and again what
he said in the Sean Hannity TV interview (and I You Tubed it to check)
was a contextual statement on the proposed fiscal policies of the BO
administration and that he was in disagreement; ergo,  he was desirous
of failure in achieving those policies.<<

Say what you want, but on one of those rare occasions when I was listening 
at work, I heard him say (direct quote):  "I want President Obama to fail." 
>From there he went on to defend that statement in full, not just in some 
narrow context.  The back-pedaling puts him in the same class with every 
politician who ever had to follow-up a controversial statement with "What I 
meant was..."  Whining that he was taken out of context, when he regularly 
accuses politicians of not toeing his ideological line by doing exactly the 
same thing to them, doesn't cut the mustard.  Talk-show hosts' words don't 
simply disappear into the ether anymore, not in these days of YouTube, 
digital recorders and media watchdog organizations.

Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Brighton MA  02135-2040