During the past few weeks, we have been subjected to outrage on the part of the media that Rush Limbaugh 'wanted President Obama to fail.' I put that in quotes because it is a misquote and is also taken out of context. What Rush Limbaugh said was that he hoped President Obama's economic policies would fail because Rush beleived those policies would be bad for the country. That's a very different statement. That is not an 'unpatriotic' statement as has been charged--it is a wish for the success of the country.
Power Line points out this morning that during the George Bush Administration, Fox News did a poll on how many people wanted the George Bush Presidency to succeed. Remember, this was at a time when America was fighting a war, and the question essentially was 'do you want America to win the war?'. According to the article:
"An August 2006 poll conducted by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics showed 51 percent of Democrats did not want Bush to succeed. Thirty-four percent of independents also did not want Bush to succeed.
By comparison, 90 percent of Republicans said at the time that they wanted Bush to succeed, and 40 percent of Democrats said the same."
No one at that time said anything about not supporting the President being unpatriotic--and that was during wartime! Somewhere in the not-so distant past, the American media has lost its objectivity and has developed a very selective memory. That is not a good thing for the country, and the information gap they have created will be filled by other sources as people begin to realize that they are not hearing the entire truth.
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