The Maverick Conservative

Rush Limbaugh knows how to push mainstream media/leftist buttons.

Some FOUR DAYS ago (Rush is right that the fact that his comments are still being discussed four days later shows how OBSESSED the media is with him, and trying to discredit him when he says something deliberately outrageous), Rush Limbaugh referenced an unflattering picture of an obviously AGING Hillary Clinton--a picture being shown on Drudge.  Limbaugh used the picture as a springboard into an analysis of the difference in the way American culture treats aging women (who show their age) and aging men (who are often deemed "distinguished).   Rush did not endorse the idea, but purported to give a "brilliant" analysis of how UNFAIR American culture is to women.  He ended with the statement that he KNEW the media would pick up on:  "Are Americans READY to see a woman President like Hillary Clinton AGE before their very eyes"--with Limbaugh noting that Presidents ALL age visibly in office.

Limbaugh is sometimes disingenuous.  He has been in this case.  The mainstream  media predictably, and FALSELY, picked up on this as a direct ATTACK on Hillary (treating it as Rush saying that the public SHOULD NOT elect an aging woman, instead of  his actual comment that this bias against older women unfairly existed in American culture).  Unlike the disgraceful LIE on "phony soldiers", where Harry Reid, Hillary Clitnon, and 41 Democrat Senatores tried to ABUSE their power, by a LETTER to Limbaugh's employer,  based on a LIE (Rush LImbaugh never called soldiers who served in Iraq "phony soldiers" merely because they attacked the War, but had merely, CORRECTLY, referred to a problem out there of people FAKING their military record).

This is not quite the same as the "phony soliders" LIE.  Remember that Clinton staffer who noted, in New Hampshire, that Barack Obama would be attacked by REPUBLICANS because of his youthful drug use (such as by questions about whether Obama ever SOLD drugs)?  Was that a DIRECT attack on Barack Obama   Of course not.  But it was an attack on her, nevertheless (as Limbaugh himself noted).

The Limbaugh monologue was similar.  It was NOT a direct attack on Hillary Clinton.  But did it call attention to the unflattering picture, and her AGING, in a way that Limbaugh hoped would be unfavorable to her?  Of course it did.  So, in this case, Ido not thing people are completely wrong in the way they are construing Limbaugh's comments?  Of course he was doing that.

In this case, Limbaugh is being a little disingenuous.  Yes, he has again successfully baited the mainstream media.  Yes, he is correct about American culture looking at aging women differently than aging men.  But was it also a Hillary Clinton type attack on Hillary Clinton?  Of course it was.

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