{"id":170,"date":"2009-03-12T10:53:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:07:39","slug":"dems-limbaugh-assault-backfiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/12\/dems-limbaugh-assault-backfiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem&#8217;s Limbaugh assault backfiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/news\/experts\/photos1\/BerkovitzTobe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/news\/experts\/photos1\/BerkovitzTobe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>College of Communication Associate Dean <a title=\"Tobe Berkovitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tobe_berkovitz.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tobe Berkovitz<\/a>, an authority on political advertising and messaging, says the Democrats&#8217; campaign to use Rush Limbaugh to attack the Republican Party is backfiring.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Rush is a handy punching bag for the White House and the Democratic attack machine, but the &#8216;Rush is the devil&#8217; message and coordinated effort is starting to backfire in the MSN and the opinion-leader online press.\u00a0 The media is pulling back the curtain of the hit men and focusing on the hypocrisy of the Obama crew.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tobe Berkovitz, 617-353-3447, <a href=\"mailto:tobetv@bu.edu\">tobetv@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of Communication Associate Dean Tobe Berkovitz, an authority on political advertising and messaging, says the Democrats&#8217; campaign to use Rush Limbaugh to attack the Republican Party is backfiring. &#8220;Rush is a handy punching bag for the White House and the Democratic attack machine, but the &#8216;Rush is the devil&#8217; message and coordinated effort is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76,589,588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}