Rush Limbaugh's Morning Update: Unseemly

You know, when I saw the headline -- "Ailing Kennedy Fading as a Top Target for Right Wing" -- I knew what would follow.

Associated Press writer Tom Raum has "discovered" that "branding someone a 'Ted Kennedy liberal' is slowly fading from the political lexicon." This trend, says Mr. Raum, was evidenced even before Senator Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

Mr. Raum opines: "It's not that the iconic liberal lion of Massachusetts has turned any less liberal. He remains one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's Iraq war policy, and a longtime unapologetic champion of cherished liberal causes. It's just that his reputation as a consummate legislator and amiable Senate colleague has taken off much of the edge and helped to offset the darker depiction by some conservatives."

Mr. Raum, I'm going to try to explain this simply, so that maybe you can understand it. Most conservatives find it unseemly to take advantage of personal tragedy by pressing a political agenda forward. There has never been unwillingness on the part of conservatives to battle Senator Kennedy in the political arena. But the Senator's battles now are outside politics in an arena that, sadly, you don't seem to comprehend. (You're using his illness, sir, to write your stupid piece!)

That you would frame Senator Kennedy's illness as part of the political win-and-lose game of Washington speaks volumes about you and your Drive-By editors -- more than it does about the conservatives whom you write about, but you do not know... and this proves it.

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• AP: Ailing Kennedy Fading as Top Target for Right Wing