| It's amazing, after listening to a few minutes of Rush
Limbaugh a few times a month, how easy it is to spot a dittohead. They
spout anti-LIBBERUL phrases and thinly veiled racist and anti-arab remarks
that sound like muffled echos bouncing around in their empty heads.
You can tell a "dittohead" a person who is a fervent fan and
mindless follower of Rush Limbaugh and his lesser fellow radio-talk-spewers
by his unfounded religious expounding of the repetitive, mantra-like
statements that Limbaugh and fellow morons Sean Hannity and Glen Beck
vomit up to their mostly male audiences just about every day of the week.
Of course, these are not just simple phrases thrown off-the-cuff by these
mouthpieces for the far right. No. These phrases-- "tax and
spend," "big government" have been honed and polished by
the right's thinktanks with their billion dollar plus budget over the last
ten years.
In the film classic, Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks is told that
he's a "little-head" by a soul who's been around the
reincarnation block a whole lot more. It seems that this term--
littleheads-- applies so well to these "dittoheads." They are
short on think-through, short on reasoning, short on questions. And as,
I've said in a number of previous articles, these people, mostly guys,
also appear to feel short on manhood. They need to constantly hear the
right wing screed/hate mongers constantly put down and attack liberals.
They need to relate to George Bush being a tough guy, using the might of
America to kick Arab ass. They are littleheads in more ways than one. And
the far right, taps these psychological flaws, knowing this group to
be ineffective, inarticulate hypermacho losers in jobs that are
meaningless and frustrating, in shallow relationships (how can these macho
chimps be in caring, mutually respecting relationships when they need to
be proving their masculinity and focusing hate?)
But these are not harmless little puppies or chimps. They are over-amped,
hyper-macho men who are not smart enough to see what dumb arguments and
statements Rush Limbaugh and his fellow hate mongers are spewing. These
"littleheads" are like time bombs, targeted to go off in all
kinds of situations. They are primed with hate and anger, racism, anti-arabism...
and encouraged to be intolerant, cynical and nasty. They are told that
liberals are intolerant, cynical and nasty. They are told that liberals
hate America's ideals, that all liberals want to do is dwell in the past
and fight for old causes that they've recently lost. They are told that
Rush Limbaugh and George Bush are living in the future, that liberals live
in the past and have no ability to envision the future.
They are told this by Limbaugh, while he repeatedly tells them how
incredible he is, how brilliant, how important, how, by fulfilling his
need to rant, he is fulfilling their needs.
Limbaugh is not just the fat liar Al Franken called him in his book, he
is a one of the most dangerous threats to America. His hate radio has
polarized the people of America, taking your average couch potato
football, baseball, basketball, hockey watching guy and transformed him
into a rabid right wing, republican voting, paranoid, mean machine.
Limbaugh is individually responsible for raising the level of meanness in
this country by severe degrees. I put him in the same category as nazis
like Goebbels, monsters like Idi Amin and... Saddam Hussein. While
Limbaugh is a gutless coward, his mean, nasty words have killed the
kindness in America, and cut a divide in the American landscape that will
not soon disappear. His cronies-- Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Savage-- are
Limbaugh wannabes who puke just as ugly on the airwaves, but they are
copycats.
I listen to Limbaugh and the others to know the enemy. I'm going to
start complaining to the radio stations that carry him and the others.
Their nastiness should not be perpetrated upon million of Americans. If
enough of us complain, maybe, like Michael Savage's TV show, the media
will get the message, and these diseases of the airwaves will go away.
Believe me, they'll do the same, as soon as there's a progressive talk
radio show near you.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com
and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders,
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