What's Good For General Motors Is Awful for Rush Limbaugh

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201260012

January 26, 2012 2:22 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

If you missed this Rush Limbaugh clip from yesterday, it's rather astounding when you put it into the larger cultural context and truly appreciate how far right-wing media have ventured out into no-man's land with their ongoing war against Detroit automakers. It's astounding because we're talking about conservative, flag-waving, America-first commentators who in the last few years have declared war on American autoworkers, of all people.

To the point where they cheered Detroit's demise, railed against any attempt by the Obama administration to save the industry via a bailout, and now, as Limbaugh did this week, simply refuse to acknowledge the extraordinary turnaround the American companies are enjoying.

Why? Simple: If Obama is for the car companies succeeding, the right-wing media have to be against them. Aggressively. (Although, it's funny that when GM ad dollars were flowing Limbaugh's way he sang a very different tune.)

The latest case of Limbaugh auto-bashing was prompted by the news that just two years after teetering on bankruptcy, bailed-out General Motors is now the world's largest car maker, selling 9 million vehicles last year.

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1. Rush reminds me of Groucho Marx, 'Who are you going to believe...

me or your lying eyes?' His job is to convince the yahoos that what they are seeing is something else altogether.

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2. For Rush to take a position, he doesn't have to rely on originality.

He can indulge in being an Obama contrarian with contradicting everything with regard to the President.