And that’s the point of all of this. Journalists at The Post must be the un-Limbaugh. Because blusters and insults is all the more reason for The Post not to follow suit. Because he broad-brushes people is all the more reason for Post journalists not to categorize and label.

Rush Limbaugh is many things — comic and entertainer, talk-show host and rabble-rouser, and a quasi-politician who never seeks office. But he is not a journalist.

He doesn’t cover city councils or planning boards, courthouses, cops or crime scenes. He doesn’t cover banks or businesses, nor a governor, a legislature, Congress or the White House. He doesn’t brave bullets or battlefields as a foreign correspondent. He doesn’t sift through reams of documents and testimony, or call dozens of sources, to try to find the truth. He has no written code of ethics.

Let us never be in a hurry to be like Rush.