A Short Limbaugh Note (in follow-up to yesterday's post)
Rush Limbaugh had a segment cheering on Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit for joining the “team” that is trying to make President Obama “a one-termer this November at the ballot box.”
The Volokh Conspiracy is an influential legal blog predominantly hosted by libertarian lawyers...this post from yesterday struck me as worthy of sharing and I posted it on my Facebook page (yes Facebook). Reader's comments are equally informative and deserve some perusing. I get the sense that most of the legal minds, regardless of their political persuasion, feel Smith overstepped his bounds. Rush is his usual a-hole self.
Perhaps I have missed it, but I have seen little targeted refutation of either Smith's actions or Limbaugh's comments in the press with the exception of technical blogs like the one above, which I am sure has a limited appeal to the general public...
Again, it is not only important to be aware of what is being said but we need to fight fire with fire. Limbaugh has, depending upon what you read, 20 million regular listeners. Many argue that he has no influence on elections; perhaps, but I wish I had 20 million readers telling me that I had no influence on anyone.
sfb
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