High Caliber Culture
The new tone of civility in Washington was on sharp display at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the president proved that he can enjoy a good laugh at someone else’s expense. Rush Limbaugh, as a public figure and icon of the right, is fair game for criticism. But the people who criticize Limbaugh as mean-spirited seem to think it perfectly acceptable – no, funny – to call him a traitor, a terriorist, and to wish him dead.
Perhaps the audience was laughing at the irony of it all.
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