Barack Obama and the Rush Limbaugh Diversion

  The little cat-fight between President Obama and Rush Limbaugh and all of the attention that it has been getting on the internet is really starting to bore me to death. It should be a non-issue, but every day I see more and more headlines about it. I have avoided writing about this topic because I don’t find it interesting or relevant but I can’t take it any more so I will write one post and one post only about this topic.

  It has even gotten to the point where Democrats are running ads on television connecting Republicans to Rush Limbaugh as if he is something more that a talk show host. It is getting ridiculous. So there must be a reason why they continue to keep this cat-fight alive.

  There are far more important and greater issues that should be dealt with other than what a talk show host says, regardless of how high profile that talk show host is. So why keep this issue alive?

  My first thought was that the Democrats are going to use this as a means to start justifying the return of the fairness doctrine but that is not it. They already have their contrived reasons for justifying that abridgment of the first amendment.

  This is a diversionary tactic, with all of Obama’s economic policies that were designed to help the economy actually hurting the economy the Democrats intend to take the focus off of the economy, and Obama’s other policies. Obama’s policies are all designed to grow the government and dependence on the government and the fewer who are paying attention to his radical leftist policies the better for Obama.

  So the left is attacking Rush Limbaugh in an effort to draw attention away from Obama and his policies, and you know what? I don’t blame them, it is a good strategy even if it has nothing to do with fixing any of the country’s problems.

  The reason that this strategy is a good one, and may be working, is the part of this story that is troubling to me. We are in a celebrity obsessed society and this is demonstrative of that. Remember how much attention the Rosie/Trump war of words got? What was the point of it and why did so many people care? Because as a whole Americans are obsessed with celebrities.

  It is the American Idolization of politics and it is scary. It is one of the biggest reasons that Obama was elected, he was a celebrity. He is the American Idol president. The people who are voting for president care more about what is happening with Brad Pitt and whoever it is that he is dating than they do about actually paying attention to the issues.

  When these people see a war of words between Rosie and Trump, or they see Kayne West on television making brilliant political statements (insert sarcasm) they listen to it. When they hear Sean Penn claim that Bill O’Reilly is worse than Osama bin Laden they listen. This is what is interesting to the American Idol voters. And there must be many of them.

  So it is only natural that a war of words between the president and the most recognizable name in talk radio would interest them. More so than the president’s policies do.

 And now the Democrats have expanded the war of words into television ads and are using what Limbaugh says against Republican politicians. As I said before, I don’t blame them, this is the new politics in the soundbite era.

  I think that this whole issue is more of a commentary on where the American voter is than anything that is actually said between the president and a talk show host.