An otherwise reasonable blogger:
What gives these assholes the right to even think about taking our hard earned money from us. They call it Income and Wealth Redistribution. I call it theft, pure and simple. What's really scary about this is the legions of Obama fanatics that will think this is a wonderful thing to do. God help us all from what is coming.
The LA Times on Limbaugh and Hannity "holding on to their anger":
...radio's Biggest Big Man also assures us that the Democrat welcomes "economic chaos" because it gives him "greater opportunity for expanded government." In a time when the nation calls out for cool leadership and rational discussion, Limbaugh stirs the caldron, a tendency he proved in a particularly grotesque way last week when he accused Obama's party of plotting a government takeover of 401(k) retirement plans.
"They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."
A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing.
The proposal, in fact, emanated from a single economist, one of many experts testifying to a congressional committee.
The president-elect has thus far shown as much interest in taking over your 401(k) as he has in moving the capital to Nairobi. (If you look hard, you might find that one somewhere out there in the blogosphere, too.)
To broadcast such a report -- so drained of context as to constitute a lie -- would be a shameless act at any time. But Limbaugh needlessly stirred the fears of the millions he holds in his thrall -- making the 401(k) thievery sound like nearly a done deal. Shameless.
The election was a pretty clear rejection of this kind of fear mongering. In a sense, almost overnight it made Hannity and Limbaugh dinosaurs, outsiders, pariahs. That the LA Times would go after them is a clear signal something's shifted; in the old days, the radio hacks were coddled, even feared.
It also appears these folks think they can stay relevant by stoking the fire of hate. And there do appear to be folks ready to assume the worst from a Democratic administration, even before the president-elect takes his office. |
