Relying On Lies

 RUSH 'LUNGS" LIMBAUGH began his program recently by proclaiming himself the popular radio talk show host in all the four corners of the Earth. his notion that the world is flat must come from what somebody told him about the bible, but not from science or education. Rush never went to college. Rush calls Joe Biden "plugs", for some obscure insulting need for self esteem and superiority. Calling Limbaugh "lungs" seems appropriate, a reference to his big mouth, and his use of it to spread hatred and lies. I first listened to Limbaugh in 1994, when he was still something of a novelty, not quite yet the pied piper of American right wing fanaticism. Over the years, I have only been able to stomach him sporadically. His distortions of fact and blatant dishonesty have always stood out. Can it be that he has become even more vicious and hateful as he has aged? A Limbaugh lover might assert that many essays on this website are vicious and hateful. Calling Donald Trump a racist and a traitor, describing millions of conservatives as delusional and unpatriotic for denying, for instance, climate change and for insisting that Trump actually won the election that was stolen from him has one redeeming quality: a basis in truth. When Limbaugh and his flock call Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats "radical left wing socialist extremists",, when they claim that the election was stolen when in fact they are trying to steal it, when they claimed that after the election, after November 4th we would hear nothing further about Covid 19, there is no basis in fact, no honesty, nothing but blatant lies. That's the difference between Rush Limbaugh types and this website; integrity, which he lacks, and we have. I was actually surprised, but shouldn't have been, at how strongly Limbaugh pushed the stolen election lie. Limbaugh,like all the other sore loser liars for trump, will, as time proceeds into the future,be forced to choose between confessing to perpetrating a vicious lies, of having behaved stupidly and grossly dishonestly, and harmfully to America, or to clinging to false scenario of the stolen election until they die,  or denying that they were ever engaged in the nonsense at all. Many will doubtless choose the second option, and many the third, but you can bet your bottom dollar that few if any will muster enough honor and integrity to take the correct, decent one, the first. such is the nature of Trump and his supporters.