Thursday, January 22, 2009

I hope he fails

I've called him all kinds of names, from Limpboy to liar to Rush the magic blowhard. This time Rush Limbaugh has left me at a loss for a proper pejorative. I guess that puts me in the drivers' seat as a "driveby journalist" but when I listen to him this time, listen to him saying he hopes Barak Obama fails as president, hopes the "liberalism" he represents fails and pretends it's all about the kinds of people Obama appoints, the decisions he makes, I can only descend into obscenity.

He blames Obama, he says, for a policy that includes massive bailouts and the nationalization of the private sector. I shouldn't have to point out the distortion or the irony. The "Liberals" he says, were out to get Bush even before Bush ruined the world so it's fair, even though Bush and his fake war were supported massively by such straw men as the New York Times, even though the economic policies Rush supports have failed consistently for 30 years.

Hoping Obama succeeds is "affirmative action," it's "supporting incompetence," it's advocating "socialism." He's the "last man standing" says he, but it's all about a better America for his nieces and nephews. I wish he were the last man standing -- against the wall, because if Obama fails to undo what people like Rush and the pirates and buccaneers he supports have done, the country will only be worth living in for the heirs of plutocratic bloviators and the world will be in ruins. If Obama fails, we all fail.

Was anyone ever so thoroughly dishonest, completely reprehensible? Perhaps yes. Did anyone ever make so much money at it, maybe not. Behold the man who hopes you lose your job and your home because it offends hisReaganoid ideology. Here's the man who avoided the draft because his anus was sore, here's the man who tries to pin a drug charge on his housekeeper. Here's his 51,000 square foot home on the Atlantic ocean in Palm beach where he sits in the sun and complains about being a victim. You bought it for him, because you hate America, because you hate justice, because you're a coward, because you think bigotry is cute, because you're afraid someone will pull the rug out from under your miserable life if you don't side with the people who kidnapped America and held it for ransom.

Our country faces a world economic crisis as dangerous as anything we have faced. You and I are more likely to lose everything we have than at any time in the last 80 years; Rush isn't. In fact the worse it gets, and as he says, he hopes it will, the more material he has and the more support he will get from those who insist we need more of what Reagan and the two Bush's gave us.

If Obama succeeds, if we succeed in turning around the economy, stopping the biggest incursions on personal liberty in our history and in extricating ourselves from the war Bush started for his own reasons, Limbaugh will become as embarrassing and repugnant as the equally popular Father Coughlin did in the 1930's when it became obvious that his policies were indistinguishable from Hitler's. It can happen. We can be rid of him. Yes we can.

6 comments:

  1. No, we cannot rid ourselves of Rush Limbaugh. Can't be done because he represents what resides in the hearts of so many Americans....

    "To the victor goes the spoils" and since the cold war most Americans believe we deserve the spoils.

    Forget about reality, our healthcare system is awesome, our schools are great, everything is fine with the world as long as bad things happen to others and as long as we find ourselves doing better than someone else.

    Americans actually love the Mexicans that hang around corners looking for work...its self fulfilling to realize that someone else is willing to work a lot harder for less money...it gives you a sense of superiority.

    Rush makes fun of his dittoheads, because they are his inferiors, and they lap it up and then they turn around and do the same to those that they appear to be their inferiors...

    There are no ideals in our culture anymore, no more moral highgrounds, there is nothing but a deep sense of entitlement...and entitlement to feel superior to the rest of the world or some other group.

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  2. Wasn't it La Rochefoucauld who wrote (to paraphrase), "It's not enough that I should succeed; others must fail"?

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  3. On the other hand, think about how great America is. Here's a lardass buffoon that makes 20 million a year telling bigots, idiots and greedy assholes that they're wonderful. And then he convinces these idiots (Joe the faux Plumber) that it's not easy being rich because his tax rate is higher.
    Rush has benefitted more from the Bill of Rights and the largesse of our Country more than anyone. Are there two better American Dream stories realized than Rush Limbaugh and Don King?

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  4. Rush apparently forgets that Bush never sought to unify, never sought protect anyone except his cronies. There was never an era of inclusiveness proposed by Bush.

    We need to move forward with Obama's inclusiveness and in doing so render Rush a moot buffoon.

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  5. Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.
    Little Chippy Saltsman loves that bastard Rush,
    Distributing a parody containing his fat fluff. oh!

    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.
    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.

    Together they conspired to spread a racist tune
    Hoping it would get around on iPods and on Zunes.
    For our new recession they give Barack the blame,
    Then insist there is no crime in saying his middle name. oh!

    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.
    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.

    A smear can live forever, but not so big fat twits
    Punditry and racist screeds don't require much in wits.
    One great night will happen, Rush will speak no more.
    A few too many oxy pills will end this fiery bore!

    His head too full of hot air, his chest too full of bile,
    Chip will need a new ally on the radio dial.
    Without their slimy speaker, the GOP will fade,
    Republicans will finally go slip into their caves. oh!

    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.
    Rush, the big fat bastard, on WABC
    Spewing propaganda forth while popping his O.C.

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