Rush to ignorance
My mother taught me two things as a child that have always served me well:
1. Never make fun of the sick, halt or lame.
2. If you don't know what you're talking about, it's probably a good idea to keep your yap shut until you can get up to speed.
One assumes that Rush Limbaugh's parents taught him those same lessons. Apparently, they just didn't take.
Well, that's not really fair. If Limbaugh and his ilk limited their talk radio fare to just stuff they knew about, silence would reign on the airwaves and then the terrorists would win.
It was earlier this week that Limbaugh suggested that Michael J. Fox was exaggerating the ravages of Parkinson's disease in a filmed campaign ad designed to help Democratic candidates who support an expansion of federally funded stem cell research.
Even his apology was one of those non-apology apologies the hard-hearted feel compelled to muster up now and then. If Fox was not hamming up the central-nervous betraying effects of his disease, Limbaugh says, then he was being exploited for political purposes. Some choice: sick or a dupe.
The total tonnage of ignorance on talk radio these days is so bad I may switch to a "classic rock'' station until after the election. Compared to talk radio, the lyrics to "Stairway to Heaven'' make perfect sense.
1. Never make fun of the sick, halt or lame.
2. If you don't know what you're talking about, it's probably a good idea to keep your yap shut until you can get up to speed.
One assumes that Rush Limbaugh's parents taught him those same lessons. Apparently, they just didn't take.
Well, that's not really fair. If Limbaugh and his ilk limited their talk radio fare to just stuff they knew about, silence would reign on the airwaves and then the terrorists would win.
It was earlier this week that Limbaugh suggested that Michael J. Fox was exaggerating the ravages of Parkinson's disease in a filmed campaign ad designed to help Democratic candidates who support an expansion of federally funded stem cell research.
Even his apology was one of those non-apology apologies the hard-hearted feel compelled to muster up now and then. If Fox was not hamming up the central-nervous betraying effects of his disease, Limbaugh says, then he was being exploited for political purposes. Some choice: sick or a dupe.
The total tonnage of ignorance on talk radio these days is so bad I may switch to a "classic rock'' station until after the election. Compared to talk radio, the lyrics to "Stairway to Heaven'' make perfect sense.
posted by Michael Riley at 1:34 PM
2 Comments:
It's a shame that your mother didn't also teach you to respect human life.
I happened to be station-surfing on my car radio and heard the first Limbaugh broadcast about Michael J. Fox. You are absolutely correct - Rush's apology came across as a non-apology apology. Limbaugh impresses me as a brilliant silver-tongued propagandist,
who would have been very successful as a trial room defense lawyer or prosecuting attorney,
or as an assistant to Rudolph Hesse. But if you listen carefully to his arguments and analyze them, he really is a genuine pompous sleazeball
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