Talk Radio Rallies ‘Round Mack
21 February 2008 9:02 am by Taylor Marsh
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Conservative talk radio is rallying around McCain this morning. Politico.com
has the story. Rush Limbaugh speaks:
“The story is not the story. The story is the Drive By media turning
on its favorite maverick and trying to take him out. The media picked the
GOP’s candidate, the NYT endorsed him while they sat on this story, and is
now, with utter predictability, trying to destroy him.”Limbaugh added: “This is what you get when you walk across the aisle
and try to make these people your friends. I’m not surprised in the least
that the NYT would try to take out John McCain. Predicted this, in fact, way
back in the early 2000s. Sen. McCain courted the media, cultivated them, even
bragged that the media was his ‘base.’ I cringed when I heard
it because the media turning on McCain was as predictable as the sun rising
in the morning.” … ..
David Brody of CBN:
David Brody, who has a large evangelical audience for his “Brody File”
blog on CBN.com, wrote this morning: “In [the] conservative world, if
The New York Times does a ‘hit job’ on you then you wear that
as a conservative badge of honor. This story could actually HELP John McCain."
Laura Ingraham, who introduced Mitt Romney at CPAC, while simultaneously smacking
McCain around dug the knife in a bit:
Ingraham asked triumphantly; “I ask the McCain campaign this question:
Do you think you need talk radio NOW? Do you think that talk radio’s
important to set the record straight, or do you think a press conference,
where the media is shouting question after question at you — do you
think THAT’S going to put an end to all of this?”
This is exactly what I predicted might would happen.
It’s tempting to run amok and start writing pieces about all the things McCain
has done when an opening like this is presented. But when the New York Times runs a story that’s eight years old that they don’t
even nail down in what people are calling a "bombshell," it would
behoove Democrats to remember that Obama could be next. After all, they’ve already
done Clinton.
