Sunday, March 11, 2012

Ruck Fush II: Black Clouds on the Horizon

There is a distinct possibility that I am spending entirely too much of any given day thinking about Rush Limbaugh. (As in "I need to scrub my brain with steel wool, because the words 'Limbaugh' and 'sex' have appeared in the same sentence.") But sadly for someone with an active imagination, he is in the news of late. And sex is involved.

So, question time. Rush has been married for roughly twenty of the sixty-one years he has infested this earth. He is known to have acquired Viagra (and a few other substances) through a number of sources. A few of them were even legal.

So, it's probably safe to assume that he had sex with one or more of his wives. (I started to have this mental image of him being lowered onto her with a crane, but then my gag reflex kicked in and I spent the rest of the night gripping the porcelain throne and dry-heaving...)

He doesn't have any kids. So I'm guessing that either birth control was involved, or those D-cup man-boobs have very little to do with him being morbidly obese.

Now, you take a man who hasn't seen his winkie without a full-length mirror in decades, a man with a documented willingness to lie about any subject in the world, a known drug addict with a fondness for cigars that smell like petrified turds: you take that man, and then you note that he is currently married to a reasonably hot woman half his age, and you know one thing as a universal truth.

That man is rich.

You know for a fact that she didn't marry him for his looks, or for his charming personality. He wouldn't have a chance in hell of landing this woman if he didn't have in excess of seven figures in the bank.

So, we have a woman who is willing to occasionally allow this bloated half-human slime to bounce his sweaty nethers against hers for a few seconds, before a thin dribble of lifeless sperm oozes out and he rolls over, exhausted, and falls into a bourbon-induced coma.

(And the next day, while he's railing against whatever liberal plot he claims is destroying America this time, she dashes off for a morning of passion with Reynaldo, the Dominican pool boy.)

So, in essence, the former Kathryn Rogers is having sex for money. Which would apparently mean that, by Limbaugh's definition, she's a prostitute.

I'm just saying...

But that is neither here nor there. More importantly, before anybody loses control of their gag reflex, let's turn away from this sordid scene of the human Hindenburg and his harlot, and consider one fact.

What does it say about America that Rush Limbaugh has been sending up racist dogwhistles for over twenty years, but it's his sexism that finally causes him to start hemorrhaging advertisers at an alarming rate? Why is it sex and not race that brings him down?

This fat bastard has been sexist for years: I mean, admittedly, there are more white women than black people in America, but bigotry is bigotry, isn't it? From the beginning of his program, before he was even syndicated, he was using the term "feminazi" to refer to... well, to any woman who said anything that wasn't strict Judeo-Christian submission to a man. And it isn't like he's ever pulled back from that position.
I have long told you, for example, Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24, written back in 1987: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
See, I recently made fun of an idiot who titled a blog post "In Defense of Pat Buchanan and the First Amendment," where I finally had to explain to him, in tiny little words, why Pat Buchanan qualified as racist. And Limbaugh uses exactly the same tactics as Buchanan: he dog-whistles his way through life.

It all boils down to the "Southern Strategy" of the GOP, as explained by Lee Atwater, advisor to Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and later Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'
And there you have one of the core strategies of Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.

There are dozens of articles out there listing the various racist things he's said, going back to his earliest days in the radio. His empty-eyed zombie supporters will then find one that isn't properly sourced, and claim that the whole list is therefore invalidated. So the best way to play this little game is to find the ones that still exist in recorded form.

Unfortunately for Rush, this is not a difficult thing to do. Watchdog groups like Media Matters have literally hours of the stuff.

His favorite tactic (and that of much of the White Right Wing) is to paint Obama as a usurper, an outsider. He's different from "you and me," and so he's scary! He's the "Halfrican-American," the "angry black guy" from Kenya who's taking over the country: Limbaugh draws on the stereotype that all black men are gang members and thugs, and therefore, that Obama is dangerous.

Rush then reinforces this with continual references to Kenya, to Obama being "more African in his roots than he is American" and "behaving like an African colonial despot." Why specifically an African colonial despot? Well, see, Africa is full of black people! And it's in chaos! Which is what Obama is going to do to us!

And Limbaugh is fairly open about it. Not like Newt Gingrich, who calls Obama "the food stamp president" (see, all black people are on food stamps), but then gets to talk about "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history" (a lie, by the way - that record is still held by George W. Bush). Rush doesn't hide behind code words like "food stamps" and "entitlement society" - he comes right out and tells you that Obama is going to confiscate your house.


This guy's -- this guy obviously has got a new role model, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. The next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that's what Zimbabwe, that's what Mugabe did, he took the white people's farms.
That little clip actually covers many of Limbaugh's little tricks, all tn two minutes and forty-four seconds of your life that you'll never get back. It's got Obama looking up to African dictators, it's got America spiraling into chaos, Obama taking your house - hell, early on, he even get's the subconscious "violence" reference in, saying "Bernanke and Obama are out of bullets, that they've got nothing left in the quiver." See? The angry black guy is dangerous! He has guns! (And bows and arrows, because Africans use arrows, right?)

Well, with his sponsors running away from Rush Limbaugh so fast that he has to play dead air and PSA's, maybe we're finally hearing the death rattle of the Rush Limbaugh show. But let's not remember him just as some bile-spewing, misgynist asshole: there were so many other reasons to hate him.

7 comments:

  1. Fun to contemplate but the premise is pure conjecture. Just as Limbaugh's was with respect to Sandra Fluke.

    Perhaps we will be so fortunate to see El Rushbo soon retire. One way of another.

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  2. Undeserved privilege. Think of the struggling hard-working people he routinely insults. He's never done a day's work in his life. A chicken hawk who fled from the service insults Veterans who having seen war are against War.

    Who declares drug addicts deserve no leniency while he himself abuses drugs.

    Who famously went to a sex-tourist nation known for it's abuse of children...

    Who blithely makes fun of a handicapped person...

    Who makes fun of children...

    Who was brought onto ESPN to insult a black football player...

    Racist Limpballs. He is a giant disgusting turd. All you do with a piece of shit is flush it. Flush Rush.

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  3. Wow, except for a lack of really nasty words this reads like something I'd like to have written.

    Rushbo would have to go through a couple of thousand incarnations of ever increasing enlightenment to achieve the state of just being a piece of shit.

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  4. Perhaps his death will be like the fall of the Third Reich and the republican party and the innocent, deluded victims of his incipient hatred and lies will again be free to live and love like human beings. Like when Dorothy's house killed the Wicked Witch of the East and freed the Munchkins. Like the liberation of Rome. The death of Stalin. A lifting of a long-standing, brutal and ruthless curse upon our fair nation.

    One can hope! I, for one, shall never admit defeat! Here's to an Obama landslide fellow lovers of humanity! Hip! Hip! Hurray!!!

    We can all certainly applaud Gloria Allred for her preliminary efforts. I'd like to see her take him down hard in both civil and criminal court cases. The harder they come, the bigger they fall.

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  5. That's as good an exercise as I've seen lately in reviling Limbaugh using some of the ammunition he so generously provides every time he opens his ugly mouth. However, the exercise had better be cathartic for you, because for him and his it's a brand-burnishing and bonding benefit. The perverse way it works is, the more the rest of us let Limbaugh annoy us into commenting about him, and the angrier our comments are, the more his dittoheads idolize him and thrill to his disgusting exploits.

    Ca-ching, ca-ching. Rack up a few more millions for Limbaugh and Clear Channel.

    No, I know we can't ignore this fat bully with a microphone into the cesspool with other right-wing has beens. I hope that he at some point will find himself increasingly ignored by greater numbers of people on the left and in the center. Then, seeking the attention he requires, Limbaugh will overreach so spectacularly that at long last he really will do himself in career wise.

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  6. I actually would like to see El Rushbo stay exactly where he is and be the everlasting, forever, eternal, never-to-be-forgotten face of the GOP. Let Americans always associate the racist, misogynist bully with what the GOP has sunk to, and may he be a constant reminder to the voters of what America would look like should the GOP prevail.

    Amen.

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  7. I agree Shaw. The GOP is all too good at distancing themselves from their history and although the thought of his head on a pike gives me warm and tender feelings, I don't want anyone to forget what a stinking pile of ordure they've hidden under the flag and the Bible all these years.

    I'm encouraged to hear that so many ( almost a hundred at last count ) sponsors have dumped Rush. I can't argue against free speech, although he certainly does indulge in criminal libel here, but like the infamous Father Coughlin back in the 30's, he's sitting on a big petard, so to speak and the public is getting sick of this disgusting bastard, anal cysts and all.

    I'd truly love to see someone sue him for all he's worth, but I'm hoping he remains the face and voice of the pustulant, septic and stinking Right.

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