re: #554 BryanS

Nope, he never did. I was originally citing examples of people on the left that Dem leaders didn’t come out and denounce (among others I cited Olberman and Schultz on MSNBC, thinking about some of their rhetoric). The claim was made that Limbaugh is the leader of the Repubs because party leaders are afraid to denounce him. My claim was that party leaders generally don’t go out of their way to do that.

I would say that the difference with Limbaugh is that he gets a weird level of deference. Michael Steele actually backed away from his comments about him. Although Newt did tell him off a while ago—did he stand by that?