When will Rush start actually researching his information before he spews uninformed opinions as if they were fact? El Rushbo has shown a disregard for trying to ascertain the truth about Mike Huckabee’s campaign positions and his record as governor. Rush parrots the discredited lines put out by partisan hacks who specialize in disinformation dissemination. Over at the Evangelical Outpost, Joe Carter finally has had enough of Rush’s ignorant diatribes against Mike Huckabee (and the Huckabee supporters). Here’s what Joe has written:
While I am cognizant of the unwritten rule that conservatives should never criticize Rush Limbaugh, his recent distortions of Governor Huckabee’s record require a response. I don’t think the errors made by Rush are intentional, but they are without excuse. Rush has more money that the Huckabee campaign so he can afford to hire a fact-checker.
For instance, HotAir recently posted this clip as their “Quote of the Day”:
In the clip Rush claims that, “[Huckabee] does oppose school choice.” This is patently false.
Under the “Education” section of Governor Huckabee’s website he clearly states, “I am a strong supporter of public school choice.” Governor Huckabee is a supporter of school vouchers, and has always been a supporter of school vouchers; he supported them as far back as his first run for public office, as a U.S. Senate candidate, in 1992.
Naturally, Rush is free to criticize the positions of Governor Huckabee. But he owes it to his listeners and the conservative movement to get his facts right.
(By the way, I find Rush’s disdain for the word “populism” (representation or extolling of the common person, the working class, the underdog) rather bizarre. As a friend of Rod Dreher asked, “When did Rush Limbaugh stop being in favor of Reagan Democrats?”
I realize that he thinks a “populist” is “somebody who wants to grow government to take problem-solving and sadness and all these things, out of your daily life and replace them with whatever government can do so you will become dependent.” But that is not what the word means. And even Rush doesn’t have power to redefine terms as he sees fit. )
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the only problem I have with the dominion theology crowd at some levels is that they are not talking about participation in the process – they are talking about the overthrow of the constitution and the rule of law.
I will not condemn Huckabee in a guilt by association argument…. I think he as already talked about the Jesus Army and pretty much let the cat out of the bag on where he really stands.