The kind of humor Limbaugh uses troubles me deeply, because I have spent much of my professional life making fun of politicians. I believe it is a great American tradition and should be encouraged. So what right do I have to object because Limbaugh makes fun of different pols than I do? I object because he consistently targets dead people, little girls, and the homeless—none of whom are in a particularly good position to answer back. Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
It has historically been the weapon of powerless people aimed at the powerful. It is like kicking a cripple. When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea—which I found as disgusting as his original attempt at humor.
On another occasion, Limbaugh put up a picture of Labor Secretary Robert Reich that showed him from the forehead up, as though that were all the camera could get.
I must say that the candidate himself lacks substance. Political career Begala, along with business partner James Carville, helped then-governor of Arkansas Clinton win the presidential election. After working on Clinton's campaign, Begala served as a consultant to the President.
As an aide to the President, Begala helped defend the Clinton-Gore agenda and served as a public spokesperson. Aside from the presidential election, Begala and Carville have had other well-known political victories which include the Senate victory of Harris Wofford, the re-election campaign of incumbent Senator Frank Lautenberg, and the gubernatorial victories of Robert Casey in and Zell Miller in He also was a contributor to John F.
Kennedy Jr. As an author and co-author, Begala has written a handful of bestselling political books. His writings include: Is Our Children Learning? Right in the middle of a devastating recession and two unwinnable wars. Not, he insisted, because Obama was black. Here was a president capable, among other terrifying things, of normalizing non-white rule in America.
One universe is an entire lie. Everything run, dominated, and controlled by the left here and around the world is a lie. Fortunately, with Democratic fascism looming so close, white America still had one last thing going for it, one last flicker of hope.
Limbaugh served as a sort of original model for Trump — the comic-blowhard authoritarian who provides endless entertainment, infallible-though-incredible wisdom, and marching orders for the tribe. Instead, he seemed to understand the rise of Trump, and Trumpism, as a sort of capstone to his decades of deranging the masses.
There was more than a touch of narcissism in that prediction, no doubt. He knew that the vast majority of Republicans were fully prepared to take a character like Trump seriously as a political force. After all, look how seriously they had taken him. That gave him a cult-like following from the beginning.
Trump sort of inherited it. When Trump surprised him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom last February 4th, in a State of the Union stunt the day after Limbaugh originally announced his lung-cancer diagnosis, it gave the year-old host a fresh gust of attention and, best of all, controversy.
But now the Dear Leader had given him a special stamp of approval that made his voice resonate more resoundingly across the right-wing media machine than it had for years. A week after the medal, Limbaugh kept his buzz going the old-fashioned way, kicking up a new round of cheers and condemnation by mocking the presidential prospects of Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, against that god of masculine virility, President Trump.
But that was just the old song and dance, minus any of the old verve. Limbaugh soon had a subject better suited for the darker talents of his later years. Oh, my God. Oh, my God! Afraid of a virus? Rush Limbaugh, stage 4 cancer patient, had a message: Real Americans are made of sterner stuff.
Pay no heed to Dr. Whoever is behind Biden is anonymous. And then, of course, down will come the hammer of black-supremacist socialism on what used to be America — by any means necessary. This was perfectly plausible, in the right-wing bubble, because stealing elections and governing by force are precisely the things that Democrats do. Exactly the same proclivities. You govern by force. Keep abreast of significant corporate, financial and political developments around the world.
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