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OWS V. THE UGLIEST AMERICAN
Illustrations: From Keith Tucker of http://www.whatnowtoons.com/ . He has always been very good and talented, but his insight and edge have sharpened considerably recently. Check him out. Just click on the link provided here or in the site’s sidebar. The first one illustrates our subject on a topic that finally got him and the second his reaction.
The last thing I have ever contemplated discussing in Rush Limbaugh. I have trouble even saying his name out loud in mixed company. However, he has now become a great illustration of what has supplanted Jerry Lewis as the European view of the typical Amerikan. He is one of the 1%, easily, but his radio audience is comprised almost entirely of the unevolved portion of the species that inhabits the United States, the Cro-Magnon version of a public speaker and thinker.
When I first heard him, I actually thought he was a radio comedian. This was back when the first Bush-Regan administration had suckered Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait with the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter playing the part of a poor hospital nurse seeing soldiers taking away incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital. They were drumming up support for a ritualistic slaughter of the country of Iraq.
I had just slipped across the Arizona border during an escape from southern California as did others in the know of an impending earthquake in the area I inhabited and soon wound up driving along the “Southern Route” to the Midwest. In many places, he was on the only station my highly sensitive radio could pick up, on AM or FM, during daylight hours. During one stretch, I could only get a Navajo station, so I was stuck with him, no tape deck, damn it.
As I listened to his ranting, I laughed continuously, either at my escape or the fact that nobody could mean what he said. Even the people calling in sounded either as comic as him or seemed to take him seriously and that was even funnier.
At night, however, other stations bounced off the ionosphere and I passed through Albuquerque and found out what was really going on. I never took him seriously again and never heard a word he uttered other than clips played by Keith Olbermann and others. In those cases, he still sounded funny, but I had a sense of gloom as well, realizing that millions listened to him and believed him.
Right now, the campaign against his sponsors is taking its toll and advertisers are also avoiding other right-wing FAUX reporters.
As over half of our readers are European and others are scattered around the globe, I thought I’d make it clear that the ones who read this publication, at least, are not like that moron or his minions.
Frankly, Jerry Lewis made more sense.
