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Top Democrats Work To Silence Limbaugh

From ”The Prowler” at the American Spectator:


Rep. Henry Waxman, (D-Beverly Hills), addresses a Capitol Hill news conference Monday, June 19, 2000.

Rush Week

By The Prowler

10/8/2007

The Democrat Party senior leadership is feeling a Rush. Rush Limbaugh, that is. Late last week, DNC Chair Howard Dean, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, his deputy, Sen. Dick Durbin and Senatorial Committee chair, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi all signed off in some form or another direct mail fundraising plans that will feature Limbaugh for their national party.

“‘Don’t let Limbaugh smear true patriotism,’ that’s the theme,” says a DNC staffer. “We’re not going to let Limbaugh determine what soldiers can talk and what soldiers can not.”

Bad grammar and ill-informed opinions aside, the DNC hopes to raise millions of dollars of Limbaugh. “If we can’t silence him, we should at least make some money to make his life more miserable in a Democratic-controlled Washington in 2008,” says a Senate Democrat leadership aide.

Others on the Democrat side are pushing ahead with other plans. Rep. Henry Waxman has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows, and to call in Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to discuss the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.”

“Limbaugh isn’t the only one who needs to be made uncomfortable about what he says on the radio,” says a House leadership source. “We don’t have as big a megaphone as these guys, but this all political, and we’ll do what we can to gain the advantage. If we can take them off their game for a while, it will help our folks out there on the campaign trail.” …

Well, it’s nice to see them come right out and admit what they are up to.

(Thanks to ML for the heads up.)

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