Today Rush Limbaugh's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page leads off with an article that is titled "Nanny State," about one of the biggest product recalls in consumer history.  Approximately 50 million window blinds are being recalled, because the strings pose a strangulation hazard.

Rush's reaction?  He sneers.

24 children have been strangled to death by window cords, a number which Rush pooh-poohs as being minimal.  Like a rounding error.  "So 24 kids have died," he says, "a whole industry needs to have a product recall?"


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Rush Limbaugh likes to defend himself against charges of homophobia. In fact he frequently trots out homophobia (along with racism and sexism) as examples of things that liberals incorrectly believe about conservatives.  Liberals think all conservatives are homophobic, racist, and sexist, and isn't that terrible of them?  Not to mention hypocritical.

It is clearly true that Rush Limbaugh is not a homophobe.  He does not fear gay people.  He just hates them, is all.  You can hate something without fearing it.  I for example hate rhubarb, but I can assure you that it does not frighten me.


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Rush Limbaugh had an interesting (and by interesting I mean "disturbing") flight of fancy on his show recently.  The transcript of this is posted on his site under the title "All Great Statists Target the Elderly."

This off handed riff starts with one of Rush's favorite hobby horses, that tax cuts are the best way to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment.  This may well be the case, but it's hard to make it an interesting discussion, as much as Rush tries.  Supply side economics just doesn't bring in the audience the way that a good old fashioned tirade does.


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We Americans are not nearly as wealthy as we think we are.  We have that dream, of course, and we're all just a few months or years away from striking it rich and retiring early.  All we ever see on television and in movies is rich people, and since television is the peer group for most Americans, it is natural for us to think of ourselves as being part of a wealthy peer group.

Millions of Americans went into the recession with whopping credit card bills (the average American's credit card debt is $8,000), mortgages they couldn't really afford, and a mysterious appetite for clothing and consumer goods.  For Stuff.  


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_________Rush Limbaugh was recently tasked with speaking at a Radio Hall of Fame awards ceremony for radio host Neal Boorts, at which he recounted his "farding" incident.  Ages ago - I can't find a specific date, but Rush says it was "before Bill Clinton" so we can assume it was during the Reagan administration - Rush talked about highway safety on the air.  He said that a lot of accidents are caused on the road by "women farding at the wheel."


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Rush Hearts SarahHave you ever wondered, at this late stage of the game, who is going to publicly stand up and defend Sarah Palin?  Who is widely recognized as having cost the Right the presidency?  Who quit her job halfway through for no apparent good reason?  Who has been swaddled in scandal ever since her early days as an Alaskan politician?

The answer: Rush Limbaugh.

Rush stands up on his soapbox to defend Sarah Palin in his latest article, which is about how the Left is going to bash her book "Going Rogue."  And he is correct!  The Left did bash her book!  Because Sarah Palin is a stupid and annoying clown, and no one wants to read her book.

Except Rush Limbaugh.


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NFLed

I've talked before about Rush Limbaugh's staunch opposition to getting a flu vaccine, just because SOME DOCTOR - and a lady doctor at that - told him it's a good idea.  And about how Rush feels that school children should fend for themselves.  Today he posted the best "perfect storm" of these two crazy threads mashed up at once.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services (who he insists on calling "the Health and Human Services secretary," just to be extra demeaning) is advising against closing schools in a pandemic.  She feels that we can control the flu fairly well with vaccinations and hand washing (probably true), and that the risk to inner-city and children of extreme poverty, to miss the school lunch, would be too great.

Here is what Rush has to say about that:


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Chinese Steel FactoryRush Limbaugh and his ilk often rail against government interference, and express their deep abiding love for the free market.  Have you ever wondered what our country would look like, if those pesky government agencies were closed, and the invisible hand of the marketplace were given full rein? 

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Mini-RushFirst of all, can I just say how hilarious it is when a rich white heterosexual guy asserts that discrimination does not exist in this country?  I love it when Rush starts talking about how racism doesn't exist, except in the sense that black people discriminate against white people all the time, and put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, crazy liberals!

The problem is that one anecdote does not a worldview make.  And one Rush Limbaugh does not a movement make.  Although he would like you to believe that the uproar about his potential purchase of an NFL team is in fact an attack on conservatism in general.  He lays it all out, but I have to admit that I've read through it several times and I can't make heads or tails of how he thinks this works.


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