It's almost impossible to gauge whether this monologue, by Rush Limbaugh, attempting the same defense of O'Donnell's idiocy, when it comes to evolution, demonstrates a higher degree of stupidity that the Three Beckerheaded Stooges conversation. You'll see why they'll have to settle for a "four way tie".
The following hilarity is from the November 15, 2009 Rush Limbaugh Show. You can listen to the audio at MediaMatters:
"So here's Matthews, he thinks P.J. O'Rourke is going to join him in pummeling Christine O'Donnell, sets him up with a softball, a hanging softball, and P. J. says, "Yeah, I kind of agree with her. You look at the Democrats and say evolution? That's kinda going in the other direction." We know what Christine O'Donnell says. Hey, look, if there's evolution, how come there's still monkeys? How come the monkey doesn't evolve in front of our face? Why is it still a monkey? If we cape from the apes, why are there still apes? How come the gorillas that are still there got left out of the deal? How did some of us become advanced humans and King Kong is still out there as King Kong? I know what she's saying. It's a matter of choice. Obviously some gorillas did not want to become humans because they didn't want to get blamed for destroying their own habitat. And there's nothing wrong with staying a gorilla. I mean if you want to stay a gorilla that's absolutely fine. You want to be King Kong, I mean who knows, Naomi Watts, you might get to meet her someday. You probably got a better chance of meeting Naomi Watts as a gorilla than you do as a gas station attendant. I mean, if I was a gorilla that's the way I'd be looking at it.
Now, evolution, I know that evolution is Darwin, and I think there are two guys who have probably done more to screw up the human race on balance. It's probably a tough thing to signal out two guys out of all of the people that have been destructive to the human race, you gotta put Hitler up there and so forth, but I mean Hitler's efforts were finite. There are two guys whose work goes on and on and on that continue to just have everything all screwed up. One was Darwin, the other is Freud. You ever stop to think what would happen if Freud had never been born, or Freud had become a barber. If Darwin had become a street sweeper rather than a scientist, how things would be different. We might not even have liberals were it not for those two guys."
I'd almost like to give O'Rourke an equal split of the "The Defender of Wing-nut Ignorance Award", but I think Limbaugh misread his agreement with O'Donnell. He was trying to make a joke about his disagreement with Liberal ideology, and isn't really an evolution denier. I'll cut him some slack until I hear more from him on evolution.
Not so, with the other four clowns.
America's Founding Fathers intended for America to be a secular nation. If those brilliant men were alive today, they would disagree with Limbaugh and Beck about just about everything. And, with the advantage of modern science, i.e. the Big Bang Theory, and the Theory of Evolution, that would include a rejection of the pseudo-science of Intelligent Design.
The bottom line? Limbaugh and Beck, regardless of their ability to make fortunes by selling their nonsense to the ignorant in society, are only able to do so because those people can relate to them... intellectually.(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
