The Sinister Spewings of El Rushbo

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS the New York Yankees of radio broadcasting; the most loved and the most hated among a conservative pack of like minded hate spewing long winded talkers. A former drug addict who went deaf listening to himself speak, he has executed a brilliant business plan: preaching to the choir, which consists of several million hard right wingers, the Jesus, Guns, and Money community, which displays a sycophantic attachment seldom seen - to a voice on the radio. Limbaugh's inflated, overbearing ego has so far driven off three wives, and counting. Wife number four is apparently hanging in there, but her days as Mrs. Limbaugh may also be severely limited. How can any emotionally healthy woman endure long in that situation? Its quite a feat for a man of Limbaugh's wealth, about which he so enjoys bragging, to drive off three wives, but Rush has a special talent for repulsion. I've been listening to El Rushbo for twenty years, waiting for him to say something - anything - on the air which isn't preposterous or dishonest. I may wait a good deal longer. He shows no sign of deviating from unreasonable hatred. Limbaugh was a geeky, unpopular kid in high school, a bow tie among blue jeans and T shirts. He spent two semesters in college, where, according to his mother, he flunked everything. Yet, inexplicably, he calls himself A 'GENIUS". His constant spewing of right wing hatred attracts similar minded mediocre minds, much like Hitler's oratory. He fancies himself an intellectual and a historian, while telling his audience that the Magna Charta was signed "in the 1500s". (King John II signed it in 1215). His spewings include a pompous, self righteous patriotism of the sort often heard among scoundrels concealing their sinister intentions. But that's no surprise. His hero is Ronald Reagan, who used similar techniques of disinformation, and had his own set of cognitive dysfunctions.