Gun owners attack Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh’s new pet project — fighting animal cruelty for the Humane Society of the United States — is riling sportsmen from coast to coast, prompting fears that the talkster typically supportive of gun rights is aiding a group they say has a secret agenda to end all hunting in America.
Twenty-eight groups representing millions of hunters and sportsmen are demanding that the conservative radio commentator end his collaboration with the HSUS and stop “helping them to mainstream their image in the minds of reasonable people.”
For once, I actually kinda feel for the guy.
I do not feel bad for Rush Limbaugh. He has spent a lifetime encouraging the very worst in people. This is just another Limbaugh tactic to create controversy and demonstrates his expertise for manipulating his audience.
I don't feel bad for him, mainly because I think he can take it. Good for him for doing the ads and trying to expand the base of people who are aware of and won't tolerate cruelty to animals.
Maybe it's because I do find sport hunting and killing for the sake of killing abhorrent, but I thought much of what the "pro hunting" folks were saying in the article to be, um, logically inconsistent. Particularly the claim the "sportsman lobby" that Rush's anti-dogfighting commercials give implied endorsement to all HSUS causes, and then their claim that most people don't actually know what the HSUS does. So assumed implied endorsement of causes people don't actually know about. Yeah, sounds like a big problem.