DaddySatyr
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Joined: 8/29/2011 From: Pittston, Pennsyltucky Status: offline
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I honestly thought Mr. Limbaugh had become irrelevent years ago. I guess I thought that when they pulled him from TV, it kind of signalled the end. I haven't listened to him (for more than maybe a few minutes, while avoiding a commercial on my regular station) in over 20 years. I guess I was projecting ... he's irrelevent to me so, he must be so to others. Certainly, at one time, he had some power and some say in Republican party politics. I remember the bru-ha-ha that followed the Republicans taking the house back in the nineties and how the party kowtowed to El Rushbo (part of my reasoning for leaving the Republican party). I can't help but wonder, though, since Mr. Limbaugh has done his fair share of being "right" and being instrumental in holding some democratic feet to some fires, if this isn't part of some kind of backlash ... sour grapes, if you will. I am not saying that what he did wasn't over the line. I've said that, already but, while there's a bunch of people who only feel alive when they're bathed in the schadenfreude that frequently occasions this kind of public faux pas, I wonder if there isn't some measure of: this is the only thing we're ever going to "get him" on. Surely, the people that attack him for being fat would attack him if he had called someone else fat? Surely, had he ever lambasted someone for being addicted to drugs, people would have excoriated him for being heartless. Surely, these same people wouldn't stand outside a school for the deaf and make fun of those people for being so afflicted? No. We're more evolved than that, here in America. We're above berating people because of physical differences or addictions. If we examine this for what it's really worth; an entertainer went way over the line. He thought he was being funny and he failed, miserably (Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson wearing blackface in the 21st century). While I haven't been much of a pure capitalist in quite some time, the market, apparently, is moving to do what Democratic leaders and their minions have failed to do for 20+ years; taking Rush down to size. Peace and comfort, Michael
< Message edited by DaddySatyr -- 3/4/2012 11:19:39 PM >
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