Right-Wing Media Already Feeding Its Post-Election Anger

An article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times takes a look at how the right-wing media is responding to Obama's victory last week. Already, it seems, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have started to rile up their listeners/viewers by going after Obama. The relationship of Fox News and the Obama administration will be particularly interesting to watch, given that Fox News was cut out of the questioning at the first Obama press conference. As for Obama's harshest critics among fellow politicians, the New York TImes reported yesterday on how many of them have, for various reasons, rushed to praise him.

From the LA Times:

Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun."

Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed."

Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"?

"I fear [this] is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago," Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief.

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Comments

[TurgidCaterwauling]

Stoking far right fears brings home the bacon. Any day these guys can't appeal to the fears of their core believers is a day listenership tanks. Ultra-conservatives live to be offended. Never have understood why the most mean-spirited, hateful people I know are the audience for these guys.

[grumpygranny66]

Rush Limbaugh and Hannity need to take a good l a x a t i v e to cleanse their body of ALL t o x i c impurities, and just maybe that will help make their brain function better.

[FOXYLADY]

AAAHHHH GRUMPYGRAN­NY66......­.....GREAT POST!! THIS OLD GREAT-GRANDMOTHER AGREES TOTALLY WITH YOU STATEMENT! IT SEEMS WE HAVE THE PROBLEMS IN OUR COUNTRY NOW BECAUSE TOO MANY, INCLUDING BUSH, HAD THEIR BRAINS WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE!!

[Jetling]

Sean,

Good of you to point out Obama's associations with radicals 20 years ago.

But I bet you didn't know about President Bush's current relationship with radicals..­.

It's the one he has with you.

You are a radical clown.

[chumley207]

Fox News has already begun to beat the GOP "voter fraud" drum in the pre-recount canvass of the Franken/Coleman race. This, of course, is straight out of the Rove "Evil ACORN" playbook. Didn't work then and it won't work now. Dems have learned how to handle this presure since Florida 2000.

[FOXYLADY]

RIGHT ON CHUM!!! WE WERE FOOLED TWICE.....­......BUT FOR SOME IT TAKES A LONG LONG TIME TO LEARN.....­..........­........TH­ANK GOODNESS THEY DID OR ELSE WE'D BE STUCK WITH MCCAIN AND PALIN.....­....AAAGGG­HHHHHHH...­..........­..........­........

[pahpah25]

RE; LIMBAUGH ET AL........­........'T­HE DOGS BARK, THE CARAVAN MOVES ON'.......­......

[michfis]

The thing that fascinates me is that Rush and Hannity have created this alternate reality--kind of like a parallel universe with its own reality that has nothing to do with what is going on in the real world. Then there is this group of people that buy into this reality because it fits their emotional needs to hate and blame. It would be fun to study in depth, if these people and their followers weren't so dangerous. I just wish that they couldn't mingle with the people in the real world. Isn't there a clause in the first amendment about causing malice as an exception to freedom of speech?

[janh64tx]

Can you give an example of this "alternate reality" Rush and Hannity have created?

[Loras]

rshrink; well said.

I so wanted Pelosi and Reed to pursue Impeachment regardless of the odds of successfully driving Bush and Cheney out -- the activity would have created its own momentum and consequently might have succeeded. If we only pursue activities we know we can accomplish, we will not accomplish the remarkable.

46 million people voted for McCain -- they all aren't knucleheads who buy into Rush/Combe­s/o'Rielly­/Coulter, are they?

Airwave Politics demand equal time -- pulpit politics demand taxes.

[theplaintrutho1]

To answer your question, NO, No and NO. If O was fully white and not a Clin ton, half of that 46 million number would have voted for him.

[ilcapo]

It was almost 55 million who voted for McSame.

[plwood01]

Where did you get the idea that Obama was a Clinton? He is a Democrat but the two are not the same thing since Hillary was rejected in favor of Obama as the nominee. Obama got no synpathy from the Clintons who waited until they were pretty sure he would win before they joined the band wagon. Clinton's can't be on the losing team you know, Bill wanted to run against Obama while Hillary was doing it and he made some awful gaffes that African Americans will not have forgotten by 2010, we have long memories and even though we are big enough to forgive, we rarely forget the transgressions perpetrated against us. We can bide our time and wait and when it is least expected, do incredible things that change the electorate as we learn to play the political games that Rove used and the Republicans learned so well. "The Prince," is required reading and college educated Black folks know that it is the manual for taking absolute power, however, we also know that the power of God is found in the Bible and the word gives us absolute power! Obama knows that and will operate according, just watch him maneuver with grace and humility..­.nothing evil shall prosper against him as long as he follows the word! I am comforted by the fact that true Christians act and do according to the word and ignore everything else.

[janh64tx]

YEAH - and can we start impeachment of Obama when we find that his advisors really WERE meeting with Hamas?

[JScott]

Acting like whiny kids.....w­e are still relevant we are we are!!!!!

As another commenter noted PATHETIC!!!!!!!

[Independent voter]

Keep vomiting hatred, racism and division boys. You make make the Republicans proud

[RonCanada]

I don't give Rush Limbaugh a second thought, but isn't that Hannity just about the most vomit-producing guy on TV. He's the kind of guy you feel like slapping.

[slj316]

The kind of guy you'd feel like slapping repeatedly.

[theplaintrutho1]

The kind of guys we shouldn't patronize at all in order to remove them, period. They live and die from ratings=amount of people watching, listening or reading.

[mandoboy]

They are both human ipecac.

Someday folks will look back on this era of media the way we look back at the days before antibiotics and anesthesia- in fascinated horror...

[pinkcrickets]

Rush Limbaugh sucks. If he's the only person we can dig up who's complaining about Obama, we're in good shape. Rush Limbaugh will complain during his beloved rapture that the infidels aren't dying fast enough. He's a whiny man-baby.

[JimLan]

Two words to give Rush and Sean nightmares: "Supreme Court !"

[JohnnyCostic]

Rush should be relegated to the dustbin of American political commentary. He is irrelevant in a changing America. Simply a man caught in the musty political thought of yesteryear. Good riddance, Rush.

[SOLERSO68]

President Obama should have Rush liposuctioned to provide a few thousand gallons of high grade heating oil for low income families.

[butlerman]

There is an old Beatles song. The opening lyrics go- 'I'm a loser, and I'm not what I appear to be' Think of it as Sean Hannity's inner monologue.

[nighthawk808]

It was called "I'm a Loser" and it's on _Beatles for Sale_. What Lennon said about what was going through his mind as he wrote it is even more appropriate for Bill O'Limbaughannity: "...Part of me suspects I'm a loser and part of me thinks I'm God almighty."

[rosiebond007]

These guys are really SICK.
Haven't they ever said anything positive about a Democrat or are they only wired to be mean?
PATHETIC.
Don't they have a larger scope than politics - I mean there is so much they could discuss.
Ooooops I forgot - they are only able to "rant."

[janh64tx]

Well - lets see - show me some posititive columns about Republicans, written by a LIBERAL