Time for Rush Limbaugh to Stifle Trump?
By The Daily Beast/Matt K. Lewis
Published on July 22, 2015
The king of talk radio could take out Trump if he wanted to, so why won’t he sack up and do it?
The New York Times recently ran a piece titled, Rush Limbaugh Rallies Listeners to Donald Trump’s Defense. In reading Rush’s full transcript, I found that headline a bit unfair. On Monday, he did cite ex-CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s defense of Trump—which I (and others) found to be unpersuasive. But his comments were far more nuanced than the Times’ headline suggested.Apparently Limbaugh felt that way, too. “Because I don’t join in the condemnation of Trump,” he explained on Tuesday, “I might as well be supporting him [in the media’s mind]. “I’m not coming to the rescue of anybody,” he added.
Fair enough, all that. So while it would be a stretch to ding Limbaugh for coming to Trump’s rescue, I’m equally interested in what Rush Limbaugh did not do. He did not take this opportunity to help the Republican Party and the conservative movement by excommunicating Donald Trump.
And that, I would suggest, wasn’t just a missed opportunity, but rather an abdication of responsibility.
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