Rush Limbaugh won't trade paint with NASCAR

Rush Limbaugh was quick to clarify his remarks after he leaped to the connection between NASCAR and "hayseed hicks.''

As you will see in his statement, he acknowledges he tried to put words in the mouths of "Democrats and the media.''

But he did it clumsily. It appears as the first thing he could think of to say after defending Sarah Palin against those who think she's a "hayseed hick" was something about NASCAR.

As you can see, Limbaugh is the one who made the connection, not the Democrats and media.

By the way, the most recent poll of NASCAR fans show they are evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama.

-- Randy Harvey

Photo (left): Rush Limbaugh. Credit: Bruce Thorson / US Presswire
Photo (right): Sarah Palin. Credit: John Heller / Associated Press

Comments

[Joseph D'Hippolito]

Randy, I know this is a blog but dump the political references, OK? Nobody cares what you or your staffers think about politics -- especially since newsside inadvertently destroyed the credibility of any political opinions you or your staffers might have by deciding not to put the tape of Sen. Barack Obama's attendance at a dinner for Rashid Khalidi -- a legitimate news story that affects the presidential campaign -- on your Web site.

Now, I don't care whether you or your staffers vote for Obama, McCain or anybody else. But the credibiltiy of the journalism industry is taking severe -- and legitimate -- hits for being unprofessionally partisan (including from some Democratic Party activists and former activists). You don't need to sabotage your own paper -- which, as you well know, is barely surviving -- with such posts. Neither do your staffers.

[Joseph D'Hippolito]

If you think I'm just spitting in the wind, Randy, then read the following:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6099188&page=1

[Logical Thought]

This gives regular Joes an opportunity to see what Limbaugh really thinks of them.

[kaptah]

It's amazing to hear/see so many kool aid drinkers that follow in lock step behind "Americas Anchorman". It's really pathetic to hear the shrill and frightened voices of the many 'ditto heads' that call in to stroke 'El Rushbo's ' ego.

If there's anything wrong with this country it's the likes of the conservatives and their inability to accept anyones idea of changing this country for the better.

Now we are on the eve of the General Elections and all of the negativity should come to an end. Or will it? Will the super conservatives and the lemmings that follow blindly accept a Black President?

[Thor]

Joseph just scored a bull's eye. Any of Rush Limbaugh's "lemmings" who have listened to his show knows that he's mocking the liberal attitude toward the people that live in "fly-over country" (that's an elitist liberal term for that part of the country that they don't think is worth landing in). When Limbaugh refers to "hayseed hicks" (which he does frequently) he's sarcastically presenting the liberal attitude toward what he calls "the people that make America work".

Look at the other comments. Notice how Joseph is thoughtful and articulate, while the comments of the liberals that follow crank out stale cliches and stereotypes of what they think conservatives are like. That's because liberals don't understand conservatives because they haven't been exposed to their ideas. Conservatives, however, understand liberals very well, as they are immersed in liberal ideas through the entertainment and media culture.

Thor

[Janet]

And you call yourself a legitimate newspaper. Let's see the tape.