You know that when the left feels threatened they resort to name-calling and just other sophmoronic behavior. Witness Ny Slimes Timothy Egan – who tried to stop Joe the Plumber from getting a book published – speak of Rush.

“Behold:

The sweaty, swollen man in the black, half-buttoned shirt who ranted for nearly 90 minutes Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He reiterated his desire to see the president of his country fail. He misstated the Constitution’s intent while accusing President Obama of “bastardizing” the document. He made fun of one man’s service in Vietnam, to laughter.

David Letterman compared him to an Eastern European gangster. But he looked more like a bouncer at a strip club who spent all his tips on one bad outfit. And for the Republican Party, Limbaugh has become very much a vice.

Smarter Republicans know he is not good for them. As the conservative writer David Frum said recently, “If you’re a talk radio host and you have five million who listen and there are 50 million who hate you, you make a nice living. If you’re a Republican party, you’re marginalized.”

Polling has found Limbaugh, a self-described prescription-drug addict who sees America from a private jet, to be nearly as unpopular as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who damned America in the way that Limbaugh has now damned the nation’s newly elected leader. But Republicans just can’t quit him. So even poor Michael Steele, the nominal head of the Republican Party who dared to criticize him, had to grovel and crawl back to the feet of Limbaugh.”

Note the real liberal here. Resorting to distortions and when that doesn’t work to personal insults of human frality. Egan is the kind of guy who would laugh if a blind old lady tripped over her cane.

Again, missing the point of “Wishing Obama to Fail”, something old Egan wrote of Bush on many occasions. But let’s take apart his so-called analysis.

1. “When Colin Powell endorsed Obama during the campaign, Limbaugh said it was entirely because of race. After the election, Powell said the way for the party, which has been his home, to regain its footing was to say the Republican Party must stop “shouting at the world.”

Yeah, nothing there. It’s funny that race quota, affirmative action liberals find it hard to believe that a black would support a black because he’s black.

The rest of his tripe is along the same lines. Now doubt he’s looking to Rush to give him a few more hits on his otherwise unread column.

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