Paul, the standard around here is to provide links and checkable citations. In the absence of those, the working assumption is that the only blowhard in evidence is you.

If I state that XYZ is a thief, and have no evidence that XYZ is a thief, then by your posting it is whining for XYZ to object to my having called him a thief without any evidence.

Evidence-based liberals. Oh yeah.

Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. Don’t we all feel better?

“Plus– Rush responded to the state-run media’s smear machine today in the Wall Street Journal, via Instapundit:

Numerous sportswriters, CNN, MSNBC, among others, falsely attributed to me statements I had never made. Their sources, as best I can tell, were Wikipedia and each other. But the Wikipedia post was based on a fabrication printed in a book that also lacked any citation to an actual source.

I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be? Just as sick as those who would use such outrageous slanders against me or anyone else who never even thought such things. Mr. Wilbon refuses to take responsibility for his poison pen, writing instead that he will take my word that I did not make these statements; others, like Rick Sanchez of CNN, essentially used the same sleight-of-hand.”

He is a very understandable graphic the says it all (http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/).

The left has to resort to personal attacks because their ideas are dismal losers in the market place of ideas. If the media were truely ‘fair and accurate’ and if issues were reported with the intent to inform the public. Both parties would be in a world of hurt, though the democrats would be in far deeper trouble.

One thing that these events do emphasize though, is that the mainstream media, for all of their losses, finacial and otherwise, is still the big megaphone in the dissemination of ‘news.’

My little stepdog stays with me on the weekend and the dynamics change. Something that would have brought a curious look, or a muffled ‘woof’ now brings a crescendo of barks and howls,with dogs jumping.

The pack mentality removes the natural reserve of both man and beast. If they sense a weakness (eg one of my cats running) they turn into devil dogs immediately. (Of course, with my 2 cats that’s a big mistake, and I really don’t need to intervene.)

Mind you, my 2 are miniature pinschers and my stepdog is a toy rat terrier. Weighing in at less than 40 pounds all together, they make such a ferocious racket (the toy rat terrier has a yippy bark, the other 2 sound like bad-asses). Given the media, I consider the comparison to be quite apropos.