Two spotlights are better than one

By Creature

I am in the camp that believes spotlighting Rush Limbaugh's ridiculousness is sound political strategy. He is the face of farce and forcing elected Republicans to stand with him or against him exposes them as unserious about the big problems we face. I applaud it. His dangerous rhetoric needs to see the light day. That being said, I also believe we must not stop there.

Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show Arianna Huffington was trying desperately to make the point that, on the danger to civilization scale, it's not Rush we should focus on, it's Karl Rove. Rove is the one who, for what ever reason, has the respect of the more mainstream media and this media is giving him a platform to whitewash the failures of Bush into success. Arianna quoted Orwell: "He who controls the past commands the future.” Right now Rove is trying to control the past and we must not let the people who created our current mess flush their accountability down the drain.

I believe Peter Daou is trying to get to Arianna's point here, but I don't see why spotlighting Rush and/or Rove has to be mutually exclusive.