Criticizing Rush Limbaugh: Over the Line?
[Yahoo News via Time Magazine] Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King’s mistake. “L’etat c’est moi,” Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - “I am the state.” To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs crept up to that line - even put his toe over - as he tried to capitalize on the anti-Obama declarations of talk-show behemoth Rush Limbaugh. In January, and again at a recent gathering of conservatives in Washington, Limbaugh pointedly declared that he hopes for the failure of Obama’s economic proposals. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis.)
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