November 22, 2002

ECHOES OF BILL:

Railing Against Rush (Howard Kurtz, November 21, 2002, Washington Post)
Has Tom Daschle lost a couple of screws?

Did the normally mild-mannered senator accuse Rush Limbaugh of inciting violence?

He came pretty darn close. There were cameras there. You can watch the replay.

We can understand that Daschle is down, just having lost his majority leader's job and absorbed plenty of blame for this month's Democratic debacle.

What we can't understand is how the South Dakotan can suggest that a mainstream conservative with a huge radio following is somehow whipping up wackos to threaten Daschle and his family.


It seems like Mr. Daschle is getting a bum rap here. After all, he merely tried connecting Rush Limbaugh to some vague and amorphous difficulties for the Daschle family. Bill Clinton, always more brazen than his peers, actually blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on the inflammatory rhetoric of talk radio and the '94 Republican Revolution. And, he got away with it. Who can blame Mr. Daschle for trying to steal a page from the master's playbook? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 22, 2002 9:48 PM
Comments

I've been waiting for you to comment on this. Can everyone tell me if Daschle is as repugnant, whiny, untalented and transparent to them as he seems to me. It just seems that nothing he ever says is based on intelligent thought and strong character. Of course he is not as bad as Clinton, (as long as you don't mind the fact that he fixed his junior senators race last month), but Clinton is just pure criminal.

Posted by: neil at November 22, 2002 9:16 PM

Somewhere in this interview he actually said that Democrat advisors were telling them they need a sharper message, like the GOP has. I guess this is what he thought they meant.

Posted by: oj at November 22, 2002 9:51 PM

If I remember correctly, no guarantees there, Daschle later on compared these whipped up, frenzied Limbaugh puppets to the Mid-East whakos, palisimeans and other Islamofacists. What, Limbaugh's suicide bombers in waiting?

No, that was the Unabomber, poster child for left wing extremeism.

Posted by: MikeD at November 22, 2002 10:21 PM

Great link. She should get a blog.



You guys are pretty good, too.

Posted by: Tom Maguire at November 22, 2002 11:05 PM
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