PRIVATE CITIZEN SPEAKING UP? YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.

We saw a preview of this with Joe the Plumber. He displeased His Saviorhood, and so had to be destroyed. Now its Rush. All dissent must be mercilessly crushed! (guess that's parta that there "bi-partisanship" we heard so much about) From Dr. Sanity:

For the White House to employ an operative whose responsibility is, fundamentally, to direct a political strategy aimed, not at shaping is response to criticism but to take down a single media figure goes well beyond of the pale of an acceptable response.

Limbaugh is a private citizen--a celebrity, to be sure, but a private citizen and if the government can go after him, or Rick Santelli, or Joe the Plumber; they can just as easily try to destroy you or me for their political purposes.

In, "Narcissism and the Politics of Personal Destruction" I address the politics of personal destruction, once personified by Bill and Hillary Clinton, but equally applicable to the saintly, adored Obama:
To the extent that a person's behavior is mostly motivated by perceived insults to their self--i.e., their narcissistic core; then the "insult" will usually prompt a typical display of narcissistic rage directed toward the unfortunate individual who threatens them.

Such rage responses are invariably destructive, mean, and petty. Additionally, these rages are generally not beneficial to society-at-large (in fact, such actions often have strong sociopathic or antisocial elements to them) , although the person in the throes of narcissistic rage will often convince themselves that they are behaving perfectly appropriately and even for "the good" of others.

This is the origins of "sociopathic selfishness and "sociopathic selflessness" I have discussed elsewhere.

The links are well worth reading to understand our creepy, hateful president.