FrumForum: The Limbaugh Effect
November 4th, 2009
Tim Mak at FrumForum:
Conservative Doug Hoffman lost handily last night, and among those to blame: Rush Limbaugh. The day before the vote, Limbaugh compared Scozzafava’s actions to bestiality.
Look at the polls: about a fifth undecided on the eve of Election Day. How many voters do you think were driven away by Limbaugh’s comments?
Hoffman lost by four points, which means that two percent of voters switching from Owens to Hoffman would have flipped the race. Did Limbaugh make the difference?
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OMG. Limbaugh was saying that she had just screwed (in a non-sexual way) every other Rhino republican by exposing who they really are when she officially backed the DEMOCRAT candidate. The bestiality comment was incidental; I can’t believe you don’t get that.
You’re distortion bear’s a lot of resemblance to the intentional distortions the opposition parties made about Lisa Raitt’s “The Isotope issue is sexy” remarks; claiming she actually thought cancer was sexy.
Frum has a personal hate-on for Limbaugh so I’m not really surprised he’s intentionally distorting what he said.
I suggest you listen to what Limbaugh actually said.
Bestiality my ass. He made a play on words no worse, though perhaps not much better, than ‘teabagging’. Big hairy deal. (Ooh, you’d better check out that ‘hairy’ reference, it might refer obliquely to your pubes, dude.)
Do you have any evidence that Libaughs’ comment bled votes from Hoffman? I think he probably fed him votes with it, prove me wrong.