Letters to the Editor
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This Conservative is Cheering the Panic on the Right
As a thoroughly disgusted and disillusioned conservative (from the Goldwater school, no neocon, me)I am simply thrilled to see the dread setting in and the ridiculous mind games already being set in motion by the neo-right, after having been given the gift of Imus' totally appropriate and well-deserved boot in the ass. The utterly specious notion that "liberals" will somehow use the Imus debacle to attack neocon rant shows only betrays the knowlege among that camp that time is running out. Let the Blame Game begin yet again.
It is at once embarrassing (give us this day our dose of that) and oddly satisfying to hear the occupants of Das Boot as it founders in the waters of sudden-onset lucidity among Americans, and I take particular pleasure in the knowlege that the Fairness Doctrine, vague as it ever was, is also dead as it ever was.
If Limbaugh's employers own the courage of their convictions and if the bottom line remains sound, The Bloviator should be guaranteed at least his contractual obligation. After that all bets are off, as the market is drying up for lunatic ranting from the fringes. No loss when it happens, and it will, via the wonderful Free Market about which neocons know nothing but that it has somehow magically served them well during the recent ignorance boom, which is now going bust. That sound you hear is the air being let out of the neocon bandwagon's tires.
Imus is gone for the crime of costing his employer business. Limbaugh, wrongly enough, will likely only be gone when there is no longer a viable market for his blathering. I hope, and I sincerely believe, that time is now short.