During his show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh lashed out at NRO’s Jonah Goldberg for having the audacity to praise President Obama for the way he handled the piracy / hostage crisis. Sayeth Limbaugh:

I want to single out today, Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online for being the first that I saw to have the proper reaction to the rescue of Captain Phillips from the merchant marine organizers, and that was to congratulate President Obama for a job well done. And I think we all must agree, folks, that when Obama does something right, we gotta go out there and we’ve got to acknowledge it. We gotta say he did a great job, and we’ve gotta be open-minded to the fact that Obama’s going to do some good things, and so Jonah Goldberg leading the way here in showing us how this is done. There have been others to jump on this bandwagon. I would like to not only jump on the bandwagon of praising President Obama for a brilliant rescue, not only a plan but its execution, I don’t think the Navy had that much to do with it. Were Obama not in the White House, who knows, this might still be going on, we might have had some unfortunate American deaths. But we are blessed with President Obama and his administration, their cool hand. In fact, let’s go back to this program last Friday. This is what I predicted on this program.

This is eventually going to get solved one way or the other. The standoff between the United States and the merchant marine organizers from Somalia will get solved. I want to predict to you the headline. Well, maybe not the headline, but the first words in the story will be something like this: “Thanks to the cool hand of President Obama,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So actually, folks, I was first. I predicted congratulations for President Obama because I, as an American, was confident this was going to get settled, it was going to be resolved one way or the other, and regardless how, President Obama was going to be given credit for it, and so Jonah Goldberg was the first that I saw at National Review Online, but there have been others who have jumped on the bandwagon, but I was first ’cause I predicted on Friday that this would happen and that President Obama would be seen as the great rescuer. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, George Stephanopoulos was told by a senior administration official, as was USA Today, that this would make a great movie. This would make a fabulous movie. Which, of course, when an Obama administration official tells Stephanopoulos on ABC, who is this Obama administration official leaking all this? Deep Parrot, maybe? They tell the Drive-Bys, the way this is going to get played, “Oh, yeah, this is going to be a great movie.” Well, you know, Hollywood’s going to pick up on this and make a great movie.

He went on like that for a couple of minutes more.

Limbaugh is a conservative entertainer. He is not a politician. There is no need for him to be politically correct. The same goes for Goldberg. Both man can and do say what’s on their mind. They are open, and honest.

But still, what Limbaugh did yesterday is unacceptable and extremely harmful for the conservative movement. Do not attack each other. If one member is under attack, the entire movement should come to his defense. When the member is attacked by a fellow member, however, the movement may be torn apart.

Most of Limbaugh’s anger seems to be due to what he considers lack of appreciation by Goldberg for what the Navy Seals did. However, Jonah did praise them for their work, but simply added that Obama made the right call to allow them to go in. Since when is that wrong?

Well, it’s only wrong if you believe conservatives should do to Obama what liberals did to Bush during his eight years in office. And that is exactly what Limbaugh advocates doing, while Goldberg refuses to play along. That is what this minor controversy is truly all about. Limbaugh wants to tear Obama down every single day, while Goldberg believes the president should be praised when he makes the right call, and criticized for specific policies.