Sunday, July 6, 2008

I Agree with...

Ross Douthat on Rush Limbaugh, who he compares to Oprah. I would add that in addition to Rush having a very specific political agenda, where Oprah's is simply vaguely liberal, there is another difference. Oprah's shtick, it seems to me, is primarily internal - it's about you. With Limbaugh, it's all about everyone else: the liberals, immigrants, etc. who are ruining America. When Oprah lifts up, Rush lashes out.

Ezra Klein on Zev Chafets' NYT Magazine profile of Limbaugh. It was a total puff piece, particularly when compared with Chafets' profile of Mike Huckabee from earlier this year, which famously exposed Huckabee's ignorance on foreign affairs, Mormon theology, and pretty much everything else.

Rush Limbaugh (there's a first time for everything) on Christopher Hitchens. In aforementioned NYT Magazine profile, Limbaugh says:
He’s misguided sometimes, but when you read him, you finish the whole article.
Christopher Hitchens on Jesse Helms. If Hitchens believed in God, I would say He put Hitchens on this earth solely to write scathing obituaries of truly despicable people.

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