MEMO

TO: Traditionalist rural Christian voters
FROM: LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Salon, AP, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN
RE: Mike Huckabee
DATE: December 23, 2007

Dear Bible Thumping toothless NASCAR watching, trailer-park rednecks;

Please remember to vote for the tax raising, environmentalist wacko, nanny state sheeple controlling, smoker banning, open borders, third world loving, America killing, Socialist candidate we tell you to vote for in the primary....Mike Huckabee.

He is pro life and he talks about Jesus. That should be good enough for you.

DO NOT VOTE FOR REAL CONSERVATIVES LIKE FRED THOMPSON OR DUNCAN HUNTER. THAT WOULD DERAIL OUR QUEST TO TURN AMERICA INTO A THIRD WORLD SOCIALIST STATE.

Thank you,

The Elitist left wing media

I think Huckabee should start listening to Rush's show. He may actually learn something, like how NOT to irritate one of the most influential people in America. Huckabee may also learn something about what it means to be a true conservative, not just some imposter who is trying to fend off all criticism by holding a bible in one hand and a cross in the other. Do we really need another smooth talking, disingenuous, tax raising governor from Arkansas in the white house?

Rush Limbaugh has said he does not want to comment on any of the republican candidates, but he merely points out some issues that Mr Huckabee is decidedly not conservative on. Rush Limbaugh said it appears Huckabee is trying to run on a populist appeal, and is avoiding discussing the issues. Rush called Huckabee the "Huckster", last week, but denighed saying that. Apparently he forgot what he had said.

Just what America needs, another sooey from arkansas.

As the Harriet Miers nomination proved, the real Americans are not taking anybody's word on Huckabee's intent and future tendicies.

Past actions mean something and are recognized as such.

Huskabee is a clinton with an r - on days that fit his mood or scam.

Oh such a clever post, "Katie." Go re-watch your prized "West Wing" DVD collection and dream of the utopia that could be if only a Democrat took control of the White House. Oh wait...That was a TV show.

Does anyone actually listen to Rush anymore?

There's a big difference in 20 million people tuning in once, by chance, sometime during his lifetime...than actual listeners spending quality time with the guy.

Your "rush-bow" obviously loves himself more than the Republican party, if he will attack one of his own. I predict Mr Limbaugh will find that his listenership will be significantly lower, now that he has attacked a genuine Christian brother. We do not stand for that...and we are many.

I stopped listening to Rush when George Bush Sr. was defeated by Bill Clinton.

That's how long it's been.

Uh, Andy Cook, only about 20 million people listen to Rush every day, five days a week. That's a bigger audience than Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson, and Kucinich ever had. I'd start listening if I were you. He certainly makes more sense than any of the Democratic presidential candidates.

Only the wise, Andy

It kills me how Rush and the right-wing talk show hosts continue to insist that they somehow are NOT the so-called "Main Stream Media"--even though, out of the other side of their mouths they boast about how influential they are.

You can't be out of the mainstream and have TWENTY TIMES the listeners as the New York Times has readers. (Seriously now--Rush claims 20 million listeners. The New York Times claims 1 million readers) With these numbers, if you still insist that you're out of the mainstream, then logically that makes the New York Times downright underground.

Rush and the right-wing radio hosts have 90 percent of the political talk-radio marketplace. That's a lot of influence--3 daily hours each of sarcastic putting down of the Left. The left has nothing of the sort.

NPR? Gimme a break. They mostly talk about cultural stuff these days, have car shows, interviews with stars, and games. Even in their journalism, they don't specifically go after the Right, and you'd know if you listened to it for just one day.

Air America? Not many people listen.

Good for Rush. It's a free market and they've earned their success. But he and all these guys put on a Big Lie when they somehow insist that they are still "outsiders".

The right-wing talk show hosts are the new political 800-pound gorilla. They're not the media underdogs anymore. The actual Left is.

Again, I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is their Big Lie that they're the outsiders.
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In fact, conservatives keep lying about how--or seriously believe--that somehow the media is "liberal". But it just ain't so...

As for the other forms of media, Fox is the biggest TV network. There is nothing remotely as left-wing on the air as Fox is right-wing. CNN is nowhere near as left as Fox is right, and CNN even has a rightie in Glenn Beck now. Does Fox have a leftie on the air?

ABC, CBS and NBC are vacuous anyway, no matter what their politics are. They rarely report anything meaningful in any depth. It's impossible to spin something when there's no there there.

The right has one of the most popular websites ever in The Drudge Report. Add to that Newsmax, Free Republic, RedState, Real Clear Politics, Instapundit, and remember that anyone is free to make a website.

Newspapers from The Washington Times to the Wall Street Journal to the San Diego Union to the Orange County Register to the New York Post and the Daily News to the Rocky Mountain News to the Boston Herald and so on and so on are all CONSERVATIVE.

Right-Wing Magazines such as National Review and The Weekly Standard are available and popular.

Media personalities such as Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin write bestsellers.

Evangelical churches act as their own media every Sunday in the realm of politics, and don't forget the hundreds if not thousands of Christian radio shows that inform millions of listeners of generally right-wing politics when they turn their attention to such things.

University media has plenty of conservatives--from Bob Jones to Liberty to Oral Roberts to BYU to all the bible colleges, how many liberals have a chance at these places?

The military media is generally conservative. How do I know? Well, I'm in the Army and I see it all the time.

I'm not saying there are no liberals in the media. What I am saying is that it's profoundly untrue that the Left dominates it. This Big Lie is used to perpetuate the myth of the Left as a Boogeyman. Somehow Righties need to feel like they're under attack from a Big Enemy.

Wake up, folks: Whether you're left or right, the Big Enemy is Big Business and the fact that Corportations have more rights in this country than "We the People" anymore.

Thanks for reading my tangential-at-best Christmas rant. Now I can go enjoy the holiday. :D

Rush is an egotistical blowhard who has somehow fooled an awful lot of Americans into thinking he's actually somewhat intelligent. The man's a big mouth brute with the heart and soul of a rotting snail. Besides, HE'S FAT!!!

Rush, If you want to "ENLIGHTEN" your listeners with the "conservative shortcomings" of any of the republican candidates you might be wiser and fairer to start a little higher up on the "violators list". Giuliani's "Hillary-like" positions on ALL the social-moral issues would fracture the party in such a way that it would likely not be healed for DECADES. Romney's well-documented FLIP-FLOPS would make him the LAUGHING-STOCK of the next election. If you want to "help" you might start with these guys and leave our cleanest and BEST candidate alone!

Is Russ Limbaugh helping the Demarcates take the White House again in 2008! This time he has additional help.

Does the 2008 election look a lot like the 1992 election? Is Rush Limbaugh selfishly trying again to influence voters away from other conservative candidates the same way he tried to influence Ross Perot voters away in 1992. Well, it did not work then and it will not work now. In 1992 Limbaugh handed the Presidency over to Bill Clinton, but then continuously cried for months that the defeat was due Ross Perot and his supporters, not Limbaugh trying to shape the election with his Kool-Aid drinking followers. The only difference this time is Limbaugh has the help of people like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to help the conservatives get their heads handed to them by the liberals at election time.

The conservative voters who are supporting Mike Huckabee are not Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham Kool-Aid club members. They are hard working, God-fearing Americans who do not need elite talk show hosts to filter their candidates through the Wall Street elite Boardrooms before elections day, as Limbaugh did in 1992 when Bill Clinton took the White House away from President Bush.

P.S., was Ross Perot Right about immigration and NAFTA? - Well, the historical lesson is clear. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reports, "Real wages for most Mexicans today are lower than when NAFTA took effect." Post-NAFTA, companies looking to exploit those low wages relocated factories to Mexico. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the net effect of NAFTA was the elimination of 1 million American jobs. Can you hear that "sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico and over seas that Ross Perot was talking about?

America's Elite Talk Hosts, If you don't have the "set" to run for President your self, then shut up! You are hurting America with your preconceived selecting of Wall Street candidates.

Huckabee is a good guy and is mostly a conservative. He's right, Rush would probably like him if he knew him. I think that if Thompson, Hunter or Huckabee get in there we'll be in good shape. They'd even help on the VP. I wish Rush would call Huckabee so they could stop bickering through the media.

It will be interesting to see what these Republicans do when and if Mike Huckabee wins the nomination. Will those who attacked him admit they were wrong, support the Democrat, or sit out the election? I suspect they will admit their mistake and the Democrats will use every negative comment to win the election.

yes Andy, myself and about 19,999,999 other people, including most of the military (I am currently serving my 21st year) and just about everyone who drives for a living (you know, the folks that bring you food, laptop, ect.) We listen,and we remember. Chuck the Huck, Thompson/Hunter 08

Ok Andy school is in. The top of the article says 20 Million people listen to Rush. You have to read the article before you post!!

The funniest thing I've seen about Huck was a post on IMAO (www.imao.us) which said:
"Crouching Huckabee, Hidden Democrat"

Does anyone listen to Rush? Well someone is listening. His show has the highest overall ratings and about the most expensive ad time on radio. Huckabee must think someone listens to Rush since the Gov is falling over backwards to make nice with him.

Does Rush have influence on how people vote? Obviously or the Democrats wouldnt waste their time constantly attacking him and his audience.

Is Rush mainstream? Obviously not since the mainstream media, such as it is, consists of several large news organizations like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and above all, the New York Times, that all have the same general viewpoint, that of Liberal. They are the historical mainstream in the US and remain so today. Those organizations, certainly not Rush, set the agenda for the great mass of smaller news organizations throughout the country. Rush belongs to a Conservative Counter-Culture that gets heard in spite of the mainstreams best efforts to crush it. Rush is influential, but the mainstream carries its message into the homes of most Americans in a hundred different ways, from news, to TV shows, Hollywood movies, advertising, text books, etc. They set the agenda through sheer persistence and constant repetition.

To conservatives who evolved from support-any-and-all-Republican-candidates to liberty-loving, Rush is an anachronism and Ron Paul is the man to vote for.