MSNBC’s Schultz Blames 'Right-Wing Talkers' for Obama Olympic Defeat; Compares GOP to Hanoi Jane

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It was bound to happen.

Although some in the liberal media were all too eager to point out instances where some are celebrating President Barack Obama's "epic fail" in the media, it was just a matter of time before conservatives and Republicans got the blame for the President's inability to secure the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

Enter MSNBC's Ed Schultz. During his Oct. 2 MSNBC show, the liberal host launched into a rant blaming the Republican Party and went as far as comparing the party to the anti-American antics put on by Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War. (audio available here)

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"Now, the same crowd that says they support the troops didn't support the United States getting the Olympics," Schultz said. "They only support the troops when it's good for them. They only support America when it's good for them. They only support America when it's good for their political agenda. What the Republicans did, I think, rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a gun in North Vietnam."

Schultz insisted this would have been a good opportunity for the American economy. Had Chicago won in Copenhagen, this would have likely resulted in a Keynesian boondoggle for the city, which Schultz fails to differentiate from free market and capitalist economics in his rant.

"This was a great chance to revitalize an economy that definitely is dragging," Schultz ranted. "The irony is that the party that claims to be for the free market, capitalism, and competition, the party that just loves to get out there and go one-on-one did, absolutely nothing to compete for this. Their negativity in the 11th hour cost this country billions of dollars in economic development and hundreds of thousands in jobs. I might add union jobs that are greatly needed. The Olympics have always been good for the economy."

The culprit: Right-wing talkers according to Schultz. The MSNBC host insisted this was a failure not only for Obama, but society as a whole.

"This is not a failure of President Obama," Schultz continued. "This is a failure of the Republican Party. The right-wing talkers in this country that openly, openly campaigned against the Olympics by denigrating our president again. It's their stated goal to see Barack Obama fail. Well, congratulations boys, you did a heck of a job. Just remember, when Obama fails, America fails. And one thing that really bothers me about all of this is the youth of this country. What message does it send to young people when you have one political party rooting against America getting something like the Olympics? What message does it send to young people? Think about the young people in the region around Chicago that would have been able to go to the Olympics and inspired to compete. Well, that won't help at all now, of course, they got to get some cheap airfare to Rio de Janeiro."

And Schultz wasn't alone. Rep. Janet Schakowsky, D-Ill., went after conservative talkers as well - specifically Rush Limbaugh. She appeared on his show and even levied some of the blame on former President George W. Bush, without mentioning him by name.

"You're right, the Republicans are just naysayers," Schakowsky said. "How dare Rush Limbaugh. How dare he say that this president goes around talking about how bad our country is. He has finally been able to establish us as real participants in the world community and if anything would have stopped us from getting it is the last eight years where we have turned off the rest of the world.


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→ Not a chance

Not a chance it has anything to do with the American city proposed was the most corrupt, dangerous city we had to offer.

It's like rewarding a juvenile delinquent with a new Mustang, hoping it will make him learn responsibility. 

sweet nothings

Ooooh, Ed, wouldn't you like to spend a week in scenic Cook County?  Go visit Ward 34, and take long, leisurely moonlight walks down Halsted St., with a big laptop in your hand, an iPhone clipped to your belt, and a wallet bursting with twenties.  Hang around outside the Agape Community Center there after school lets out for the day, and remind the good children you meet how important it is to study hard.

Go ahead, Schultzie -- I'll cover the desk for you while you're gone... take all the time you want.

Schultzy and Jane-O

So, lemme see, Schultz is saying Jane Fonda's trip to Viet Nam and her anti-war support was like rooting against the success of country and against O'Bama bringing the Olympics to Chicago ? Hmmm. Jane was that bad, eh? What a useful idiot he is.

"Jane was that bad, eh?"

Ed’s psyche is revealing that he realizes that Jane Fonda was one stinking traitor.  Gosh, Ed, you should be more careful about indulging you tantrums, occasionally an inconvenient truth spills out.  Assuming that you, as an out-of-control liberal, are a Fonda fan and sympathizer, I guess you have just admitted to your traitor-like proclivities.

Oh yeah, Ed, you are so right for MSNBC!

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Hey Ed and Janet

Prozac, Librium, Xanax...seriously, you folks are in need of some good medicinal help.

Geeee..... Ed is upset that

Geeee..... Ed is upset that we speak the truth of the "City of Big Shoulders" because it has historically been amongst our most corrupt?  We seek to show America at its best - just not most effective when it comes to graft and shakedown.

And we are somehow labled the same as Jane Fonda?  Hell, I bet Ed doesn't even think Jane Fonda is as bad as Jane Fonda.

Yeah, that's it - yeah..

Yeah, that's it - yeah..

What a buffaoon!  Schultz is blaming it on RW bloggers. Roland Burris is blaming it on Bush (really - there is video footage of it).  Axelrod is blaming it on "politics in the Olympic Committee".  

Yeah - we all knew they would start blaming others fast and furious rather than accepting their own culpability.

Libs self-destruction is turning into a knee-slapping  hoot to watch. 

 

Yeah, the dirty little

Yeah, the dirty little secret is that the IOC realizes Chicago is a dirty violence ridden city made famous for its inability to control gangsters and dirty politics.

So naturally the IOC wants to lure the worlds #1 sports venue THERE......

What amuses me is that Chicago thought it even had a shot at it.

EXCUSE ME?!

Since WHEN is saying "The President needs to focus on more pressing issues like meeting with the generals in Iraq and Afghanistan" campaigning against an Olympic Bid? And how exactly does this compare to borderline treason?! If I may quote President Teddy Roosevelt again:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

We were standing by our nation's NEEDS, and never once did we say the Olympics shouldn't be here. What we said was that Obama's PRESENCE was needed elsewhere, and he could've made a convincing case for it without going. Saying that because you opposed the President's method makes you unpatriotic does NOT make HIM a Patriot... it makes him a sycophant.

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

-John Adams

Remember,

Krillnfan - these guys don't use facts or logic!  Never have, never will.

I know

Their lack of a spine gives them that uncanny ability to reach around and tuck that head right up their rears, and the lack of oxygen handles the rest. 

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

-John Adams

SPECIAL ED...

Maybe Ed was bitching about the Special 0lympics & his past poor performance in them.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

What the Republicans did, I

What the Republicans did, I think, rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a gun in North Vietnam."

 First of all, that's imbecility on parade.

Secondly, unless he wants to lose all of his teeth, he probably shouldn't say that to someone outside of his studio.

 “There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Clearly Ed Shultz (and his

Clearly Ed Shultz (and his towering intellect) is the de facto leader of the Democrat party. 

Carry on -- you're doing a heck of a job Eddie!

Liberal nutjobs shouting 'racist conspiracy' to anyone criticising Barack Obama are all WACKY... RACERS

LOL, WOW

I used to call ol' Schultzy "Speedy" because he was the first guy I could count on hearing the dumbest thing imaginable from. (Makes Chris Matthews seem semi-normal) and now you've given me the missing second half of the nickname. :D

Ladies and Gentlemen: SPEED RACER! 

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

-John Adams

Nice jab, Jack... Of

Nice jab, Jack...

Of course Rush has a drooling audience of 20 million dittoheads, and has GOP congressmen genuflecting and groveling at his feet, (that is, when they're not making him an honorary member of Congress)...whereas Dead Ed Shultz is babbling to a bunch of empty seats.

Jer

So, essentially, I rule with

So, essentially, I rule with my comment, whichever way you look at it,  because it wins from both ends.

Liberal nutjobs shouting 'racist conspiracy' to anyone criticising Barack Obama are all WACKY... RACERS

Indeed you do

Indeed you do, dude.

Jer

Rowdy Gaines in USA Today

http://www.usatoday....

Gaines said the IOC vote may have represented, in part, a "political
hangover of the previous eight years" of American policy under
President Bush, a sentiment (Jesse)Jackson endorsed. Both added America's
international standing is improving under President Obama.

 

All I can say is, "Hey Rowdy, get a job."

Don't Tax Me, Bro.

"Both added America's

"Both added America's international standing is improving under President Obama."

Bull-squeeze.It is doing no such thing.

-Dave

The election of 2010 will be our last chance to save our republic. -Neal Boortz

Dave: We went from the

Dave:

We went from the effective class president of the world that was envied but not greatly liked to the kid who everyone stole money from and laughed about it.

Yeah, Obama is sooooooo loved by the world.  Hahahahha!

Re money

...and Putin pulled his shorts up, and Ahmadinejad locked him in his own locker. Woe is we.

What a revelation...

... I never knew that the Republican party here in the U.S.A. is what big wigs around the globe listened to. Conservatives are to blame for the Obama's me/I speeches! haha These people are ridiculous.

LOL!

Schultz's argument is that IOC voters ... from around the world ... were listening to Rush Limbaugh? And that dissuaded them from awarding the Olympics?

<coffee spew>

Same here.

I choked on my soda laughing at that one too!  

Schultz and his media buddies say daily how 'over' & 'insignificant' Conservatives are right up until they need another scape goat for their own failings & scew-ups.

Let me just say that, as a

Let me just say that, as a Vietnam veteran, I think Ed Schultz has a lot of GD gall to compare the Olympics with the war. 

Jane Fonda was clearly a traitor to her country and actively supported the enemy. 

Supporting or not supporting a bid to host the Olympics doesn't even come close.  Schultz's comment is horse s**t, pure and simple.

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Thank you, FF

+ 100,000

(that's a thumbs up thingy, BTW).;

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Thumbs up

What Blonde said!!! Thanks FF.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

FF

Thank You for expressing my feelings, and as a VN Vet, I about came un-glued when I read this....so your comments are spot on, and a LOT more sane than I would have written....KUDOS and Welcome Home!

:-)

Right, Ed. I'm sure those IOC people listen to Rush, Sean, Neal,

and Michael each and every day.

I doubt any of the members of the IOC even know who they are.

-Dave

The election of 2010 will be our last chance to save our republic. -Neal Boortz

I've got one more photoshop...

This one was inspired by an earlier conversation with katainkent.

Maybe he just mailed it in...

"Think about the young

"Think about the young people in the region around Chicago that would have been able to go to the Olympics and inspired to compete. Well, that won't help at all now, of course, they got to get some cheap airfare to Rio de Janeiro."

Um, Ed...the kids of Chicago can turn on their TV sets to watch the Olympics, just like every other kid in the US. I wasn't sure if you heard that they allow TV cameras at the Olympics so it can be shown on American television.

What a moron

Exactly – and just how

Exactly – and just how would these kids have been able to afford the price of tickets to get in to see the games in person?  This points up another device used by this administration; the idea that kids won’t be inspired to do anything unless they see specific examples.  We need a black president so minority students will do better - we need an Hispanic female Supreme Court justice so minority girls will be inspired – we need the government pushing volunteerism so young people will care about others.  It is all such a crock.  I guess that since I spent the first 8 years of my education taught by nuns I shouldn’t’ have aspired to be anything more than a celibate woman?  That would be a big surprise to my wife.

Dubious Distinction

The Prez joins Ashley Hamilton for being the first to be voted out of their competitions...

Hamilton on the stage of Dancing With The Stars,

Obama on the world stage.

 

אידיוט

More news from the ED (Electile Dysfunction) Show.

What Schultz needs is...

...listeners. Let's let him down spectacularly.

If you can't say something nice.....

 

 

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)

Ed may not

be the biggest dumb ass in the world but he is keeping that other fella up nights.

So the left "now" admit

So the left "now" admit Hanoi Jane really wasn't on a mission of peace and love, but rather on a mission to embarrass the U.S. Government.  He said.  We herd him. 

Actually, giving aid and

Actually, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. People have been hanged for less.

Laughing at the amateur night out antics of the President, and his wife's grossly over-inflated opinion of herself, is just good sport.

And to think I thought the Clintons were self-obsessed.

Liberal nutjobs shouting 'racist conspiracy' to anyone criticising Barack Obama are all WACKY... RACERS

Agreed.   Schultz

Agreed. 

 Schultz really should have told his audienceof 10: "You know, we've given the Republicans such a hard time the past eight years...You know folks, we had this coming."   

If someone can get

If someone can get audio/video of him or other liberals commending Jane Fonda for her actions during the war.  Perhaps followed with the definition of the word hypocrisy.  Or is the dictionary being rewritten now, too?

By looking at his face,I can

By looking at his face,I can see that he has a cardiac problem.It's going to be a bad few year's for Schultzyboy blow hard boy.

In the words of our "Dear Leader", Schultz is a...

Jackass!  Jim Webster

MMMM,MMMM,MMMM, HAAAA,HAAA

MMMM,MMMM,MMMM,

HAAAA,HAAAA,HAAAA

 

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Am I the first?

Am I the first to point out that Limbaugh said on his show that he would be blamed? I guess he is one step closer to being right 100% of the time. Can't wait for his "Don't doubt me." segment on Monday. We may even get to hear that this weekend. He seems to be more willing to give comments over the weekend lately.

And Bush? Egad. Let the man rest in peace.

Did they blame Palin as well? I'll have to check on that.

Being a Democrat means never having to say your sorry.

The Liberal media sorely needs to get a grip

This is a great demonstration of how thoroughly soused the Liberal media is with Obama Kool Aid.  The IOC owes Obama nothing.  Never before has a world leader put on such an over-the-top show.  The vanity of it all must have been cloying for the IOC committee members.  Have the liberals considered how many times the US has already hosted the Olympics, both winter and summer?  (I have lost count, a dozen?)  Brazil has never hosted the Olympics.   Had the US had actually won the bid, it would have been embarrassing.  Can the Obama Kool Aid drunkards comprehend this?  Their over-the-top the chauvinism is what is embarrassing.

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Liberals have no

Liberals have no conscience.  Ed Schultz has no brain.

While I admit to having

While I admit to having more than a couple of good giggles at Ogama's expense over this, in the grand scheme of things, it really isn't that big a deal to me.  It's much more important that he get clobbered in his attempt to make the U.S. a Marxist society.

Looks like Obama brainwashed the world into thinking

the US is bad, bad, bad. 

Who would want to visit such a rotten country? 

 

 

About 14 million...

illegal immigrants.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

 Ed needs to go back to

 Ed needs to go back to servicing minorities in public toilets.

Is this really necessary?

Is this really necessary?

Could be the only way Ed to

Could be the only way Ed to earn some money, as Ed has said he is not teh most polar radio talk show host.

two points here

1.  As reported by a local news station that bothered to check the facts, Olympics typically leave the host city struggling in debt and the national government coming to the rescue with billions of dollars in rescue money

2.  After the trashing that this great country has taken by the left wing apologists, who would want to host these events in such an "evil" country?

Just how stoopid does this clown think we are?  Oh yea, I forgot, his 3 viewers 

Rush?

Can someone ask "Big Ed" what radio station Rush is on that the IOC listens to. I try watching BSNBC, but I can only stand 2 minutes before I have to turn it off.

Looks like Eddy-Weddy's off...

his meds again... 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

conservative talkers have only been on this subject...

for 3 or 4 days, and not really in earnest, until it was announced that BHO (mmm mmm mmm) was consuming precious American resources traveling around the world to lobby for his home-town cronies.

If 'we' can get this much done in so little time, then Big Ed has every reason to be scared, and therefore very angry.

His Viewers

Somewhere in America, there are people watching The Ed Show and agreeing with everything he says.

 That's spooky.

What's spooky is not

What's spooky is not that Shultz has such a tiny audience, but that the audiences of Savage, Beck et al are so large.

Jer

Jer

What's spooky about that?

I don't listen to either, so I'm wondering what it is that bothers you about them when you listen.

→ That's cool

I didn't know Savage's listener group was that large.

Is it really bigger than Ed Schultze's 

More than ten

More than ten listeners?

I'm sure Savage has more than ten.

That's not only funny, but

That's not only funny, but not far from the truth.  And that's my point.

Jer

Cool... I could be wrong,

Cool...

I could be wrong, but I believe there was a splurb that caught my eye several weeks ago stating Savage was something like #3 in audience share.  Don't quote me before I check it out.

Jer

→ Amazing

I didn't know Savage was that popular.

Oddly, I've heard Mark

Oddly, I've heard Mark Levin mention that Savage is #3.

He said it when he was pointing out that Beck was falsey claim to be #3.  Per Levin (reading from Arbitron ratings) it was #1 Rush, #2 Hannity, #3 Savage

I could have been wrong. 

I could have been wrong.  But, dammit, I was right again.  ;-)

Jer

Nope, still

Nope, still wrong.

Proudly one of the 20 million "drooling" dittoheads.

Jer

Except Schultz is a foam at the mouth left wing nut job no reason no logic just emote. Ever listen to Beck and Limbaugh. I never heard anything approaching the venom of the lefty political Jocks coming from them. You guys always say the same thing about Limbaugh et al. Like it was scripted. Just repeating the drivel somebody told you. You are not called knee jerk liberals for nothing. The lefty hive mind is real scary. 

"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'

Sorry, ahusser...

But interchange the names and I read the identical comments at lefty websites.

Jer

No you dont

Savage goes over the top but not Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh or Beck. No venom, no foaming at the mouth or outrageous illogical assertions. Maybe you should listen. 

"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'

I have.  I do.

I have.  I do.

No you don't

Savage goes over the top but not Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh or Beck. No venom, no foaming at the mouth or outrageous illogical assertions. Maybe you should listen. 

"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'

I have. I still do.

I have.  I still do.

Jer

What we have here is a

What we have here is a failure to communicate...

I've listened and determined that...

Coulter, Limbaugh, and Savage. All different. They don't appeal to the same audience. They do, however,  all display intelligence and articultate to a thinking audience. Beck, on the other hand, talks to the audience like they are 5th graders. His schtick doesn't work on many people with an attention span or an IQ over 92. Really.

→ Trickles

"His schtick doesn't work on many people with an attention span or an IQ over 92. Really."

I'd hardly think the President, with all his negative traits, has an IQ of 92 or less.

Maybe you missed Van Jones resigning due almost singularly to Glenn Beck's constant body blows.

You can be the elitist if you want,  I certainly am when it comes to reading comprehension and learning.  That's because most of Americans don't read better than 6th grade level.  Perhaps that's a key to his success, if you must hold on to your 5th grade claim.

But Beck brought down one of Obama's Czars, and you didn't.

Trickletown

Beck's got over 3 million viewers daily and his show comes on at 5 PM, which is when most people are driving home.  Do you think there are that many people with an IQ less than 92 watching him?

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

It's only spooky because

It's only spooky because you're an idiotic libturd. 

 

Proudly one of the 20 million "drooling" dittoheads.

 

Now, now pumpkin...it's

Now, now pumpkin...it's Sunday.  Let's be nice.

Jer

ONE PARTY WANTING THIS COUNTRY TO FAIL!

WHAT ABOUT YOU DEMOCRATS ROOTING FOR US TO LOSE IN IRAQ WHILE OUR BEST MEN AND WOMAN WERE DIEING FOR THIS COUNTRY!

Sorry for yelling but I want to throw up.

We have kids dieing in Afganastan while O sticks his middle finger in the air to see which way the political wind blows on more troops which they desperately need.

O is in so far over his head, if he was running a Wendy's his fries would be burning. 

 

"The last eight years"

I am sick of that talking point.

Obama is America??!

Schultz: "Just remember, when Obama fails, America fails."

Absolute absurdity, Ed.  Maybe when Obama fails, your bladder fails.  But not only is Obama not the heart of this country, he is the near-antithesis of her.

Has your pet dog been relieving itself in your ear while you sleep, Ed?  Because the way you talk, I'd wager your head is completely filled with dog crap.

White jacket time

...... does Mr. Ed *no offense to the real Mr. Ed* have any idea how stupid he sounds???  Does anybody actually watch this crack pot?  GAWD........ I hope he has never actually bred.  What a waste of air time and ditto for the woman too however the hell she is.

I watched the program last night when the Mr. and Mrs made their pitch.  Michelle of the lovely smile got up and talked about herself and then her bonehead husband did the same thing.....  Obviously the Olympic committee found it just as borish as most of us do. 

Go home and kick the dog, Michelle........ you'll feel much better. 

Schultz gets most of his

Schultz gets most of his listeners via clips shown here, on Hot Air, and other conservative internet sites.  Of course, we're all laughing at him, but still...

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

WOW – since up till now

WOW – since up till now the liberal template has been that Jane Fonda was a patriot who helped to end the Viet Nam war, is Ed now admitting that she did something bad?  As for blaming Obama’s failure on the Republicans, I guess nobody on the Olympic committee had access to a television to see an innocent student beaten to death with a 2x4 while onlookers videotaped the crime rather than calling the police. These liberal idiots really are as stupid as they think the rest of us are.

Ed Schultz is...

...just the right insane element for the likcs of MSLSD.

It's more entertaining hearing this while using both Mark Levin soundboards...

http://marklevinfan....

http://marklevinfan....

Ending the video with "Get off the phone, you big dope!"

Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!

Right Wing "Talkers": The Undisputed KING!

"The right-wing talkers in this country that openly, openly campaigned against the Olympics by denigrating our president again."

Who knew that the Right Wing in America was so powerful that's its message was heard. and obeyed, half way around the world, in Copenhagen of all places? The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The undisputed King of global influence!

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

ED!!!!!

I absolutely love Ed Schultz.  You won't find a finer, better informed, media star than Ed.  He garners the facts from hither and yon; checking his list not once but twice.  Ed gives a whole new meaning to "sleuthing."  His impeccable attention to detail fakes me out every time.  Ed, I gotta hand it to you; you are a goldmine for the laugh meter manufacturers.

How Disappointing, LOL

What a shame the racketeering scum of the Chicago Machine won’t have this windfall to milk.

And aren’t things going great since Valerie Jarret has been running the country?

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com

Obama's Brain

I'm kind of split on who 'Obama's Brain' is; Jarrett or Axelrod? I wouldn't say Rahm, I see him as the enforcer.

The only thing lower than Ed

The only thing lower than Ed Schultz is his audience count.

Limbaugh the Puppet Master

Blame 'Right-Wing' Talkers

Limbaugh actually predicted this response from the kook fringe. I'm convinced that self-aware idiots like Schultz listen to Rush Limbaugh and do exactly what he says they'll do in hopes that Rush will somehow keep them relevant by mentioning their name(s).

Rush Limbaugh has effectively caged a bunch of mind-numbed robots.