Rush & Breitbart: mirror images of the same issue

  For some reason, in my  mind the death of Andrew Breitbart and the media uproar over Rush's comments have merged into one long nightmarish incident. They happened, I believe although it seems an age ago now, on the same day.
  After a long tribute to Breitbart, Rush launched into his now infamous shtick on the Dem operative whose name echoes an obscenity. Rush compounded the problem of defaming her on Friday, repeating the same criticism of her and compounding it with his choice of insulting language.
  Like I said, those days have kind of merged, perhaps because they bear some similarities.
  The hateful hyperbole of right wing opponents is on display, in full glory.
  The virulent and cancerous left wing reaction to Breitbart's passing is mirrored in the overreaction and posturing of the media and left wing bloggers and commentators.
  But then, overreacting to win an argument has become a cottage industry these days.
  Should Rush have called the Democrat operative a "slut"? Repeatedly and with emphasis?
  It's not something I would have done. But Rush is Rush and his point in the war of words was that the left, regardless their excuses, can say anything they want with impunity.
  In fact, the all around derisive laughter amongst so-called journalists when smarm masters like Maher or even Anderson Cooper mock citizens like me for rising up and not taking it anymore.
  They get to sneer vile names at us, comparing the Tea Partiers to sexual acts. 
  The glitterati, whether "news" commentators or "comedians," can sit around a table and contemptuously claim that we are neanderthals, guilty of the worst crimes of hatred and prejudice, dismissing our most heartfelt patriotism and concerns with the flip of an insulting finger.
  We should just pay the bills they run up and shut up.
  Buy their movies. Their newspapers. Their political opinions.
  Just pay for their decrees and go back to our Heartland homes and not bother our stupid little heads with the facts. 
  They're our betters.
  The right wing claims that Rush fell into the liberal plot of distracting from the "real" issues of Obama's Marxism or his big government attempt to convert us all into babies, dependent on the government teat for survival.
  But it's all the same problem, isn't it?
  Isn't it about time we stand our ground?
  Rush apologized for expediency's sake, considering that capitalism is built on supply and demand and, in this case, industry demanded he do so to shut up the left, even though the ones complaining won't listen to Rush anyway.
  But the howling dogs of political war will never be hushed, nor will they be engaged in fair argument.
  I don't agree with the right wingers who are claiming Rush was off target or led astray. Rush was doing what more of us should.
  We need to call out the contemptuous. 
  Call out the phonies. 
  Call out the Dem operatives that want everything in this country to be "free" until the country sinks under the weight of its debt, which, to be honest, is really their goal anyway.
  I'm not saying we should call people "sluts," but we sure need to step up and not let the loudmouths who are running this country win the war of ideas.
  Zombie's calling for action; I most heartily agree:

  Imagine not one Andrew Breitbart smashing the status quo on a daily basis, but a million Andrew Breitbarts. (Heck, I’d be satisfied with a hundred, but following my own blandishments, I’m reaching for the stars.) The oppressive, smothering narrative chokehold of the entrenched media-political-academic monopoly would be decisively broken once and for all. 

And so I mark Breitbart’s death by announcing The Million Breitbart Project. It has no official membership, no organizers, no infrastructure. The Million Breitbart Project is instead a state of mind. Every blogger and activist and citizen journalist must henceforth strive to emulate Breitbart’s verve and attitude in everything we do. 

Don’t ask permission. Don’t take “No” for an answer, either from your inner pessimist or from anyone else. 

Think strategically. Act boldly. To do otherwise would be an insult to Breitbart’s memory and show that we didn’t learn the lesson of his too-brief life.

  On another front, an idea's launched that we not let Breitbart die, that we keep him alive by our vigilance because the battle is not to the strong alone, but to the vigilant, the active and the brave.
  There's no doubt this election will be an ugly one, full of bumps just like this one with Rush.
  But there's no turning back. Breitbart held the banner high; we must pick it up and race on into the battle because, if there's one thing his brief explosive fireworks of a life should have taught us, it's that sitting on the sidelines letting others fight our battles is safe, uninteresting and dishonest.
  Zombie says ask yourself this: What would Breitbart do? 
  I think this is just what Rush did last week. It caused quite a pickle, but the truth about what's really at stake is starting to emerge.
  This fight isn't about contraception, either paid for insurance or taxpayers.
  The fight that is emerging through the Fluke debate is political and moral acceptance of abortion, paid in full by both or either taxpayers and insurance, ultimately through Obamacare.