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America, Meet Your Next President
GOP Chairman Michael Steele has just become the latest prominent Republican to offer up a timid, hand-wringing, mea culpa apology to radio host Rush Limbaugh for daring to critcize him. My God...I've known for years that the Republicans were pathetic but even I never suspected that they were pitiful enough to have sworn such terrified fealty to some bloated, cigar-chomping talk-show ranter who spends his free time enjoying sex tourism in third-world countries.
I was talking to my father about this and he said that he thinks it's wrong for the President and Rahm Emanual even to mention Limbaugh's name because it gives him free publicity and makes him seem more important than he is. I disagree. The truth is that Limbaugh is clearly WAY more important than we'd ever imagined. It is vital for the Democrats, and any thinking person, to hammer away at this multi-million-dollar piece of filth because he has apparently become the true leader of the Republican party and the embodiment of conservative philosophy.
As much as this sickens me I find it blackly hilarious too. I've so often heard conservatives sniff that they don't let "celebrities" (i.e. liberal celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Matt Damon) tell them who to vote for. No...they just let a FUCKING TALK SHOW HOST become the single most influential voice in their movement, so important that elected government representatives and supposed party leaders bow and scrape before him and live in terror of his disfavor. Yeah, those conservatives sure don't let anyone tell them what to think!
To be honest, though, the title of my post is misleading. Limbaugh makes WAY too much money to EVER want to be president. And why should he want to be president when, as long as a Republican's in the White House, he gets to tell the president what to do anyway?
Somehow it seems fitting to include this here as well:
A new nationwide study of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
Pornography and Rush Limbaugh. The twin pillars of conservative values.
I was talking to my father about this and he said that he thinks it's wrong for the President and Rahm Emanual even to mention Limbaugh's name because it gives him free publicity and makes him seem more important than he is. I disagree. The truth is that Limbaugh is clearly WAY more important than we'd ever imagined. It is vital for the Democrats, and any thinking person, to hammer away at this multi-million-dollar piece of filth because he has apparently become the true leader of the Republican party and the embodiment of conservative philosophy.
As much as this sickens me I find it blackly hilarious too. I've so often heard conservatives sniff that they don't let "celebrities" (i.e. liberal celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Matt Damon) tell them who to vote for. No...they just let a FUCKING TALK SHOW HOST become the single most influential voice in their movement, so important that elected government representatives and supposed party leaders bow and scrape before him and live in terror of his disfavor. Yeah, those conservatives sure don't let anyone tell them what to think!
To be honest, though, the title of my post is misleading. Limbaugh makes WAY too much money to EVER want to be president. And why should he want to be president when, as long as a Republican's in the White House, he gets to tell the president what to do anyway?
Somehow it seems fitting to include this here as well:
A new nationwide study of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
Pornography and Rush Limbaugh. The twin pillars of conservative values.