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They are hypocrites.

It really is that simple. Rush Limbaugh claims to be the most dangerous man in America. I have to agree. He has a huge audience (though oddly it's often hard to find people who claim to listen to him). He said, while Bush was in office, that, "Liberals" were traitors because they didn't support the president.

This is a guy who spent the time Clinton was in office in opposition to everything he did, and who said, almost as soon as Obama was elected, "I want this this President to fail." Which, of course, includes at the "essential" wars Obama inherited from the previous president The one Limbaugh was saying to disagree with on the essential nature of those wars was "treason".

Then we have the manufactured "outrages" such as Common being invited to the White House. For some reason any time a Democrat invites someone, it's a big political "statement".

Rapper, and poet, Common wrote a poem in which he used the metaphor, "burn a bush", and took the president to task for lying to the people about WMD and fomenting war. He went on to make a reference to an older rap song (My Uzi weighs a ton), and complains about how Bush was spending money on war, not domestic issues. The lyrics are complex, and I know (because I'm not steeped in rap) that I'm missing some of the references and elements, but reading the the entire poem, it's not the "Kill cops and Bush" being pushed by the bobble-heads going all white and clutching pearls over this.

They didn't care when Bush's father invited Easy E to the White House.

More to the point when Palin used metaphoric language (Don't retreat, reload) that was defended.

Which brings me back to Hannity's hypocrisy. Hannity, while decrying the violence he sees in the "Letter to the Law" said that he was just as opposed to someone who said such things about Obama.

He lied. straight up lied. When Ted Nugent said Obama could, "suck on one a' these ya punk", while waving a rifle around at a concert. The crowd didn't react right away, so he went on, "You don't get it, Obama's a piece of shit and told him to suck on my machine gun."He went on to say "Hillary you might want to ride one of these [waving two rifles] into the sunset, you worthless bitch."

When he was asked if he was going to repudiate Nugent (the way Obama was asked to repudiate Rev. Wright) Hannity said, "No, Ted Nugent is a friend of mine.", which he wrapped up by saying he'd have Ted Nugent on again, because he wasn't as offensive as the person who asked him to disavow Nugent (and that person made a good point... the Dixie Chicks criticised Bush, and Hannity was up in arms. Nugent threatened five people in that clip, and Hannity says, "That's ok, he's a rock star".

So I can't really believe them when they say this is about content. It's not about content. It's about the dog and pony show of faux outrage. It's about roiling the masses. I think it's about keeping the actual issues (job, the cost of the war, a rational tax structure, the distribution gap in wealth, the disappearing middle class, the class warfare of the wealthy against the rest of us, the corruption in Washington) from being the focus of the news.

Nope. The First Lady has a poetry reading and that's the most important thing going on in the country. Not the continuing crash of the housing market. Not the situation in Lybia, nor in Syria. Not the use of the debt ceiling to gut the consumer protection position, nor issues of banking reform being stalled, nor the attempts to completely rework medicare... none of that is more important than one poem, which happens to be critical of the previous occupant of the White House.

That's what wrong with the political class in this country.