I never said McNabb was overrated. I said the issue was Limbaugh's comments about the media.

And Limbaugh, as I noted, was correct.

It is sad that you can't divorce your bias from the situation.

You also fail to note the SNL skit that was totally inaccurate on Palin. Then we have the CBS bogus memo re Bush that, thankfully, got some people fired.

And then we have the non stop attacks from Olblermann and friends on MSNBC.

So there is plenty of evidence that Limbaugh is not alone in influence or saying things that you may find outrageous.

You wouldn't be frantically taking comments from websites that don't have the audience Limbaugh has in order to prove some sort of false equivalence between what he says and others more obscure than him have said who didn't have a radio program nationwide as he does.

I have often noted in this blog and elsewhere that he is an "entertainer" and will be gone when his audience is gone.

Is that why he complained about 'carrying water' for the Republicans after the losses in the 2006 elections?  Because he's just an entertainer?

"But the way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm just going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high. Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat [sic] Party does and liberalism.

And I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it's much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now, I'm liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don't deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don't deserve it. I just -- I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat [sic] Party by sabotaging my own. But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future -- both in Congress and the administration -- are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that's liberating. I don't say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don't mean to make this too personal."

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As for "cherry-picking", I don't have the expertise you do in this area, so let's have an excerpt from the article you linked to:

Denver City Councilman Charles Brown, a Republican and Limbaugh listener, was outraged. Brown was a school teacher in Illinois during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. He recalled the injuries, chaos, lingering tear gas and national disgrace for Chicago as a result of the riots.

"What an insult," Brown said of Limbaugh's flippancy. "Regardless of political labels, for any radio announcer to wish a riot on a city so his party could win, that's disgraceful and it's absurd."

He said he has found Limbaugh to be a "great entertainer, but he's really gone too far. It's almost juvenile."

Brown said he did not think Limbaugh was speaking for Republicans when he made the comment.

"I don't believe there is a Republican in this state that would agree with his comment."

But let's not pay attention to what this obviously  Leftie anti-American terrorist-hugging official had to say about what Limbaugh said.

You should be congratulated on getting what you have wanted. When the Left's turn comes I hope they agree with the Righties that some Gollywood entertainer should not have the right to do "whatever" the entertainer wants to do.

We certainly won't be b*tching and moaning about their "First Amendment rights" being taken away, as some on the right have about Limbaugh getting kicked out of the investor group.

Is that what you meant?

But I won't hold my breath.

Who would care if you did so?

Hold your breath while you read the following:

"We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

"they're finally hearing me -- he's an angry black guy. I do believe that about the president. I do believe he's angry; I think his wife is angry. All liberals are enraged all the time anyways. They're always mad."

On April 14, Limbaugh suggested the "correct" way to look at a situation in which Obama sent the military to retrieve American hostages from Somali pirates was that "if only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers were actually young, black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot."

Limbaugh says "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips." On January 19, 2007, Limbaugh stated: "Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There I said it."

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But comparing African-American athletes to gang members isn't racist, no, not at all, nor is bringing race into the picture all the time when he feels it's appropriate to do so.

And nobody buys that "just an entertainer" crap any more: just an entertainer is a way for morons to spread the word about birth certificates and jihadist Presidents to the knuckle draggers in the hinterlands while the GOP machine slime machine maintains  plausible deniability.