DC 9/11 - TIME OF CRISIS director to RUSH LIMBAUGH: SHAME ON YOU!…but don’t stop.
January 28, 2009
What does America need right now: blood sport politics as entertainment or serious analysis of the issues?
Since Inauguration day, when we heard the door finally slam on the Bush Presidency, progressives have been engaged in a collective shudder of disbelief. How?!!!!
Internet humorists offer these visual aids to help us process the WTF quality of the last 8 years.
MSNBC’s Keith Olberman & Dr. Rachel Maddow provide nightly therapy and they do so with minimal gloating. Not so on the other side of punditry. Radio road rage addict Rush Limbaugh’s used racist imagery in his defiant wish for Obama to fail. Click his beautiful face for the video:
Limbaugh’s unpatriotic hope for the future would cause the average American’s suffering to increase rather than decrease, in order that a further demoralized population would then return power to the architects of its problems. Rush has a first amendment right to free speech, but in fact his unfeeling cynicism does his side of politics no favors by reminding us how far they are prepared to go. Limbaugh and fellow narcissistic motor mouth Sarah Palin are powerful advertisements for keeping progressives in power. So, don’t stow your yap, Rush, keep on digging.
It’s going to take time to clean up the garbage. So although we should be looking forward rather than back, we still need to investigate the mistakes of the past so we can put checks and balances in place to ensure we never repeat them. That’s not vengeance. That’s common sense. Progressive pundits sifting though the garbage is a vital public education service. The revelations of the coming months will be staggering. 
I bet an enterprising theatre company will soon put a Bush Cheney spin on Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.” 
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Or one day we’ll be like the little girl in POLTERGEIST staring at the TV, saying:
“They’re back…”
I support freedom of speech, too, and Limbaugh has every right to speak his mind, but damn, he needs to STFU. I hope one day he’ll wake up and finds that his vocal cords have been strangled and that he can’t talk anymore.
Even pissing on an ex-president’s grave has a protocol. You have to wear an American flag cape while you do it according to the photos I have seen. They should just plant a lemon tree on Nixon’s grave and be done with it!