Time magazine named him in their 100 most influential people—- That SHOULD scare the pants off more rational folk.

Other than that everything you said was perfect I just wanted to attach this PS since honestly I really think it is true as well.

My personal take on this, not just from the comments here, but from years of blogging and reading blogs, is that conservatives have a much lower tolerance for differing viewpoints than do liberals.

My personal take is that from years of reading blogs, is conservatives have a much lower tolerance for Liberal viewpoints than Liberals have of Liberal viewpoints. I also add that Liberals have a much lower tolerance for Conservative viewpoints than Conservatives have of Conservative viewpoints. Finally I will add that Very Liberal and very Conservative folk have a lower tolerance of moderate viewpoints than do the rest of the sane in the universe.

The Republicans need to reject his vindictive POV, if they ever want to become a Big Tent party again. As it stands, the party is shrinking. Those who remain either agree with him or lack the temerity to offer an alternative to voters.

How many Limbaugh listeners would consider voting for a minority presidential candidate? And pls, Michael Steele is powerless tokenism at its worst.

Are you stoned, Vera? Do yo actually believe what you write?
“not anything close to this on the left” – What do you call tens of millions of Obama-manics calling a conservative a racist for disagreeing with their messiah's message of socialism?
Isn't that yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre as well?

And you mentioned “toting unconcealed weapons”…… That's legal. And it is not a threat, it's a form of message to liberals like you, Obama, and Pelosi that says “You will not take away my Constitutional right to bear arms”. It's blatant passive resistance. It's not as heroic as a black man sitting at an white-only counter in Alabama, but it is nonetheless passive resistance.

For the supposed death threat data that you failed to back up with a source…. You should expect a few more death threats when you threaten the very way of life of millions of your constituents. Socialism scares the crap out of most Americans.

And as for the original story…. Let me get this straight, cause I heard this on Ed Shultz two days ago:
A group of white guys terrorizing a bus of blacks is a “hate crime”.
A group of black guys terrorizing a bus of whites is class warfare.
Yeah. That sounds fair.

Unlike many others, I don't blanket Fox with a “Right wing” label. The individual shows are definitely conservative – it gets ratings (like Limbaugh).
However, their NEWS is actually right down the center. Chris Wallace and Brit Hume report the facts as they should – and truly let the listener decide.

What say you?

Nancy Pelosi should strike fear into any American when her leftist spewing is left unchecked – she holds a position of real power in Congress – not a position of opinion-molding like Limbaugh.

I agree with Leonidas (as usual). He's a spin doctor. However, since I refuse to get my information only from liberal outlets like the rest of the sheep, I tune in from time to time to catch a fact or even a spun-fact. I even listen to liberal Ed Shultz from time to time. Of course I think he's 90% crap, but occasionally he comes up with an acorn (pun intended).
My point: It's good to get your information from ALL sources.
Only then can you ensure that you're not drinking Kool Aid.

The City of Louisville designed a race based busing program to try to keep any school from being predominately black. And why do you think they were trying to do that? President Obama sent his daughters to the Chicago Lab School that was over 80% white and Asian and then sent his daughters to Sidwell Friends that has even fewer blacks. Why do you think that the DC Public Schools are so bad and Sidwell Friends (or ST Albans, Georgetown Prep, the Landon School are so good.

I see you are one of the type who believes that anyone who points out statistical differences between whites and Asians versus blacks or Hispanic is automatically a racist?

That's just my two cents.

Actually, that's exactly what you're doing. At the same time that you come down hard on anyone who criticizes Limbaugh.

In fact, I would say the number of people who post regularly are pretty equally balanced between strong left, strong right, and somewhere in the middle, and that the constant complaints from right-wing readers that this is a flaming left-wing blog are absolute and utter hogwash. The only difference here between left and right is that those of us who are on the left don't whine, complain, and moan and groan about right-wing posts every time one is published (i.e., we object to specific positions on issues, but we don't complain that there are too many of such posts and that The Moderate Voice might as well be called RedState or National Review Online).

Over the years I have watched as the news as leaned further & further to the right & still people rant about it being too liberal. Fox is only the logical outcome of this devolution. The Left does NOT lead the discussion, the Right does. If you doubt that, fine, prove me wrong.

Why don't you just shut up about that old canard, please. That noise about the Liberal Media has poisoned broadcasting in this country. The only reason we aren't hearing as many complaints about Conservative Media is because the left is only now just waking up to what squeaky wheels like you have done to degrade the fine, well-balanced & educative service we once had here. I hope it's not too late to repair the system, or it may need to be scrapped.

I'm not going to dignify your complaint about the bus attack (even though I specifically remember reading about it here, with links & everything) but I will say that if you think Rush is a wise man then, sir, you are truly a fool.

And your final paragraph also shows that you are something of a racist. Yeesh!

Get over it! We Lost! They won! It's called Democracy!

The minute a republican does that, he or she will be basically driven out of the party. Rush has been very successful at creating contempt for conservative people that disagree with him (a.k.a. conservatives that choose to think rather than go along with the crowd). According to Rush, these people are really not conservatives. They are what he calls elitist “blue-blood” republicans. Today on his show, he warned everyone against such people, claiming that if conservatives start listening to them, it will spark a third-party movement that will cause this country to elect democrats for the rest of its existence.

I think it's laughable to hear prominent Republicans trying to minimize the influence that Rush and other commentators have on the Republican party. True, not everyone agrees with him, but try and come out against him, and he'll force you out. There is no room for dissenting views as far as he's concerned. And he compares Obama to a fascist dictator. . .

(shudders) Don't speak of such things!

I'm not going to wash away anyone, as Leonidas said, “Limbaugh thrives economically and ratings wise on the outrage ..” I agree, he does thrive on the outrage from both his fan base (far right) and the outrage from others.