A reader writes:
Please stop with the Rush posts. He feeds on attention – whatever he was doing yesterday he did specifically so people would talk about it. So please, for the sake of all that is good and holy, stop giving him what he wants.
Another writes:
I had hoped that the departure of Conor Friedersdorf from the Dish would bring the frequency of Limbaugh posts back down to pre-Friedersdorf levels (I noticed a big uptick when he came aboard last year). Conor has built his blogging career on bashing the most predictable strawmen of the conservative base, namely Limbaugh and Mark Levin, and such easy rhetorical targets shouldn't have a place in the productive discourse of the Dish (save for the occasional Malkin or Moore Award). Every Limbaugh post holds the same boring message of Obama bashing and race baiting, which lowers the standards of your site. Can't we just ignore the nihilistic blowhard once and for all? You did so with Coulter.
One reason I was so glad Conor came here was his vigilance on these very powerful and utterly noxious voices guiding the GOP base. We follow his lead still because, alas, this is the most powerful voice in the Republican party right now. We cannot understand it unless we understand him. He is their id, the key to what they truly believe.
But we will try not to give him any more attention than this requires.
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