George Will (old-school conservative) on ABC's This Week (from Talking Points Memo):

"It would've been nice if they had shared that with the larger public, the Republican leaders," Will said on ABC's This Week. "Instead, Mr. Boehner comes out and says, Rush's language was inappropriate. Using a salad fork for your entree, that's inappropriate. Not this stuff. I mean, and Rick Santorum says well, what he says was absurd, but an entertainer is allowed to be absurd. No. It is the responsibility of conservatives to police the right in its excesses, just as the liberals unfailingly fail to police the excesses in their own side. And it was depressing, because what it indicates is that the Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they're afraid of Rush Limbaugh."

It's depressing to be feeling good about George Will. Sigh.

I am advised by a friend (and maybe someone mentioned it further upthread, too), that Michael Savage makes Rush Limbaugh look good. I've never heard of him; maybe like Glenn Beck is, finally, he's relegated to the outer fringes by the mainstream media, so he's off the radar. Rush somehow is making noise that breaks out of his bubble.

~ Becky in Tucson

~ Becky in Tucson