Apology Time

The latest guy to call Rush Limbaugh "an entertainer," Rep. Todd Tiahrt (Republican, of course, from Kansas), is now apologizing. Someone asked him if Rush was "de facto leader of the GOP." And Tiahrt said, "No, no, he's just an entertainer."

A Tiahrt spokesman said Tiahrt was only trying to defend Rush against the suggestion that he could be blamed for the GOP’s troubles. "The congressman believes Rush is a great leader of the conservative movement in America -- not a party leader responsible for election losses," the spokesman said. "Nothing the congressman said diminished the role Rush has played and continues to play in the conservative movement."

I haven't heard anything that phony since that time when John McCain said, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," he later came out and said what he was referring to was American workers as being the fundamentals of the economy, and of course you can't badmouth American workers. I'm like, "Wow, that lie's both flimsy and sleazy!"

But as for Tiahrt, another brave Republican speaks his mind and goes crashing to a flaming wreck, all to appease Rush Limbaugh.