FATS VS. THE THINKERS

Well, the right-wing version of thinkers. Yesterday, Fats spoke dismissively of the "intellectual" conservatives who've written critically about him and even refused to name them because he apparently didn't want his listeners to learn for themselves. Daniel Larison and David Frum are two of these intellectuals and I found that both of them have made valid critiques of Pigboy;

LARISON:

Of course, there isn’t that much substantively different between Romney’s opportunistic recitations and Limbaugh’s boilerplate, but at least with Romney you knew that he was capable of saying something else and would have said it if he had thought it was to his advantage. The boilerplate is not only all Limbaugh knows how to say, but if you pressed him to elaborate on any of it he would just repeat himself.

FRUM:

And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence...