What a Rush of Idiocy

Matthew Trevithick
Just a quick rant..

If the idea of having 13.5 million people listen to your incoherent ramblings on a weekly basis sounds daunting, then there is one man you should ask for advice. Every week, in his underground Florida studio, where no common logic can find him, he sits in front of his golden microphone, and talks to one of the largest groups of radio listeners in America. Who is this man? I'm talking about Rush Limbaugh.

It seems evident that the loudest voice in America, is – as it also appears, the loudest voice in the Republican party – is Rush Limbaugh, not only because he has been the talking head that has stirred up controversy for so long, but because now he thinks he is leading the GOP. The idea of Rush leading has already garnered a resignation request on the current head of the GOP, Michael Steele, by Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman, on the basis of Steele ‘eroding confidence in the GOP.’

Its no Doubt that Steele has tried some off the wall tactics to get Republicans to look like something other than Republicans, by using such ideas as applying party principles to “urban-surburban hip-hop settings.” But if Steele resigned, who would take his place? Limbaugh, or the guy who created the “Barack the Magic Negro” CD that was passed around as a Christmas gift.

His previous remarks about Michael J. Fox “faking” the shaking that occurs from his Parkinson’s medication, his rant about feminists and that the whole idea of feminism was “… established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream,” as well as that whole “Barack the Magic Negro” thing (which he played on his show), have never stirred up as much controversy as the one he said in January, amidst a falling economy, lost jobs and the like. “I Hope Obama Fails.”

At a time like this, he wants Obama to fail? Should he be more specific on the basis of, what exactly it is that he wants to fail, the President himself, or liberalism, because if its coming from Rush, you never quite know. Its one thing to want someone to fail, but to want a president to fail, at a time like this, is basically saying you want the country to fail along with him. Should Barack Obama even try and reach out to the Republican side? Every time he does, it seems the Republicans don't even want to bother looking for solutions.

It seems now that comedian Rush Limbaugh probably likes the idea of being the head honcho of the most embarrassing political party in America. The party that in the last eight years, started a war on false pretenses (and with the wrong country), created an education system that did leave children behind, put America in an economic recession, and tortured innocent people alive in a military base in Cuba, to name a few. If he were to run the GOP, his listeners – the white middle-aged, christian conservative demographic – would most likely be so overjoyed that their leader was taking charge, they might as well be shouting “Rush Rush Rush,” till the cow came home. That cow, being Rush Limbaugh.