Article: Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Bloviating Gas Bag

"Given his feelings about the poor, you might find it surprising that Limbaugh has himself fed off the largess of the government. In the form of unemployment insurance. Was Rush temporarily disabled? No....This self-described "rugged individual" and scourge of government handouts had the gall to file for unemployment at a time when he was able-bodied and spending his days sitting around the house eating junk food, too lazy to mow his own lawn."

One could literally go on for pages listing the contradictions and hypocrisies that are personified in the man's very being. The amazing thing is that there are many people - an estimated twenty million or more of them - who still take this jackass seriously! The most unpleasant aspect of my job is that I have to listen to Rush Limbaugh. That is not meant to imply that I listen to him every day, or for the full three hours that he is on the air. But I do tune into his program a couple times a week and listen to it for as long as my stomach can stand it (my record is slightly over two hours). I have to do that in order to be able to comment intelligently on the B.S. he puts forward as fact. That might seem like a masochistic way to spend an afternoon but, hey! - A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. About once a month I'll also tape an entire installment of Fox and Friends. I even read Ann Coulter's book Treason cover to cover. How's that for patience? It's all a simple case of "Know Your Enemy", you know what I mean?

From all that I have read and watched and listened to, the one common denominator that is shared by Rush Limbaugh and his compatriots on the Far Right is that they appeal to the very worst angels of our nature. And quite often, the recipients of their hateful ire are the most helpless among us. For the last thirty years, thanks to the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine, these people have dominated America's national political dialogue. It's high time we take it back, don'cha think?

Rush Limbaugh is not unique to American history. Three quarters of a century ago the opinion media was polluted by the minds of people like Westbrook Pegler, Sidney Sokolsky and Walter Winchell. While they were all able to enjoy great fame and treasure while they were alive, death would find the three of them consigned to history's garbage heap --forgotten and disgraced. Indeed, during the thirties and forties Winchell was arguably the most famous man in America. The only person who bothered to show up at his funeral in 1972 was his daughter. Do you remember the name Walter Winchell? Don't feel bad; no one else does either.

Rush Limbaugh, too, will suffer posterity's indifference. You can count on it.

SUGGESTED READING:

"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations" by SENATOR Al Franken

AFTERTHOUGHT:

As I was editing this piece, President Obama was on television signing the Lillie Leadbetter Act into law. It's a beautiful thing indeed to hear the commander-in-chief speak in complete sentences [sigh].

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