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Rush had a good time Tuesday with this Annenberg Survey:

About One American in Four Considers Rush Limbaugh a Journalist, Roughly the Same Share as Identify Bob Woodward That Way, According to Annenberg Public Policy Center Survey

The survey raises interesting questions — questions that Andrew Sullivan and Matt at Stones Cry Out may find interesting as well. Curiously, Andrew’s Hannity/Cheney selections are factually correct — are we to become exercised about who states facts?

Alas, the American Heritage Dictionary provides little help.

2. Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast.

If folks think Bob Woodward is a journalist given his fictions, why are Rush or Hannity not journalists — because they are advocates? If the adversarial pursuit of truth works in a courtroom in matters as mundane as life and death, why does it not work for journalism? I think it does, and I think Sean Hannity’s interview of Vice President Cheney is one picture in a larger mosiac dominated by liberal artists.

I’ve long favored the open and unabashed biases of British newspapers over the feigned objectivity here in the States.

Bully for Hannity!

UPDATE:

Thanks to Matt at Stones Cry Out for the civil discussion.

Do I find Hannity’s radio riveting? No (nor the TV show). But isn’t this simply a matter of taste?

I think an honest debate over who is and is not a journalist would be discomfiting for The Left, but folks prefer to hide behind the Hannity/Cheney red herring. Again, I cannot find anything factually incorrect in the interview (call it a love fest if you like — although Mr. Vice President probably doesn’t go for that touchy feely lingo), but I do care much, much more about yahoos who purport to be journalists concealing the facts for their latest work of fiction.

Matt’s latest thoughts capture more anti-Hannity excitement.

For Andrew Sullivan’s reader to claim to be a Buckley acolyte and not know Firing Line had an audience stretches credulity a wee bit too far for me.

I too became a political conservative first through the writings of WFB, Kirk (my Mother even attended a T.S. Eliot lecture!), Kendall, et al.

I just don’t get all the anti-Hannity Hoo Ha.

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