Margaret and Helen

Margaret dear, I need your help sorting all this out.   Rush Limbaugh has a daily audience of 14 million morons- give or take a few rednecks – Howard excluded of course.   So are we to believe that they all want Obama to fail?   Do I have that right?  I am a little confused by this recent turn of events because weren’t these the same peckerwoods who got so upset a  few years back when a famous country western singer told about 2,000 people at a concert in London that she was ashamed that George Bush was from her home state?  

Actually I believe her exact quote was, “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”   If I am not mistaken, conservatives everywhere were enraged – albums were burned, death threats ensued.  It was treason.

But Margaret, let’s consider the following quotes attributed to Rush, another celebrity - albeit a celebrity who really gives renewed meaning to the saying a face made for radio:

“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

“The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.”  

“If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people – I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs, let the kinds of jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do – let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

“Bipartisanship only happens after one side has been defeated.  Ask the Japanese after World War II.  Ask the Germans.”

The same jackass who made those statements also said, “I want Barack Obama to fail.”  And more recently he expounded on that statement when he said, “The dirty little secret is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so.”  For goodness sakes, I am surprised he finds time to be so loquasious between the mouthfuls of donuts.

Personally, I think Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat pig.  I can say that without worry because I am a big, fat bitch.  But what he looks like is really just so much fodder for people like me who don’t like his politics.  What he says, however… well that is another story.

Hypocrisy.  It’s a powerful word.   Republicans should look it up sometime.

Barack Obama is a sitting President of a country still at war and on the brink of economic disaster.  And Rush wants failure?  He is  hoping for failure and 14 million listeners who call themselves conservative Americans are okay with that.   But a country singer wishing the President didn’t come from her home state caused moral outrage.   Has anyone gone and looked up that word hypocrisy yet?  While you’re at it, look up the word culpable.  Scratch that, just look up the word gluttony.

 Of course, Limbaugh can say whatever he wants.  It’s a free country.  And people can stop buying albums when they don’t like the singer anymore.  That’s what ”it’s a  free country” means.  And I can say that Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than than a fat, greed-filled radio star praying on the insecurities and ignorance of people who graduated high school thinking that they knew everything.  Like I said – it’s a free country.  You’re free to love it or even hate it if you want.  All I ask is that you be honest with yourself about which of those two positions you have chosen to subscribe.  Because considering the current state of  the world, we  will all succeed or fail together – like it or not.

Margaret, I know that Howard listens to Rush.  I hope he doesn’t read our little blog.  And know that if only because he loves you, I love him.  I just wish he would check out the local NPR station once in awhile. I mean it.  Really.