Fair Weather Fans

By Kleinheider Posted on October 13, 2008 at 8:20 am

Mark Mays on the late breaking phenomenon of conservative pundits against McCain:

I understand the opportunists coming out today. They have their careers to think of and don’t want to be on the wrong side of history, so they want to go on record now has having had the foresight to see McCain was all wrong 23 days out. I don’t understand people like George Will and David Brooks who are now having such angst over how their political party is being run.

Where have any of them been over the last 20 years when Limbaugh rose to power and spawned his spiteful seed all over radio land and showed Rupert Murdock the power of poison airwaves.

I’ll tell you where they’ve been; reaping the benefits of the new Limbaugh spawned market for anti-intellectual blather. How many more TV appearances and the like were this lot able to procure because of all the conservative talk radio shows hungry for guests? How many books were these folks able to sell because they had a new venue and hungry readers (even if they didn’t understand what was being said)?

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MCO writes
October 13th, 2008 9:33 am

Well, one can call Will and Brooks many things, but the notion that they are benefitting from “anti-intellectual blather” just doesn’t wash.

I won’t defend Brooks, as I am not really fond of his writing. Regarding Will, perhaps Mays should get his facts straight. Will won a Pulitzer 15 years before Limbaugh came on the scene. Further, his “angst” at the direction of the party is hardly new. In 1992 he asked for a write in ballot rather than vote for the elder George Bush.
gandalfus a birch iv writes
October 13th, 2008 5:10 pm

MCO

You argue against something I’m not saying. Tell me where I argued Limbaugh made Will’s career. He did not. Moreover, saying Will has been unhappy with the party’s direction before doesn’t mean he was unhappy with the Limbaugh’s of the world. He was just mad at Bush I because he wasn’t Regan, a sin he continues to attribute to every Republican candidate.

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