I want to say up front that I do not believe that Rush Limbaugh is stupid. You don't get as far as he has if you're stupid. He may be uncharitable, narrow-minded, bigoted, sexist, and downright wrong most of the time, but he isn't stupid. I wouldn't call him the smartest person in the world, either, despite his own press. But he's not dumb.

 

What he is, though, is deeply invested in several different oddball concepts. And beholden to talk for several hours a day about whatever crosses his mind. This combination of a punishing news cycle and the outlook of a paranoid conspiracy theorist can have some pretty hilarious results. 

 

In the latest example of this accidental performance art, Limbaugh attacked the news that President Obama is sending troops to Uganda to help in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army. The LRA calls itself "Christian," but it's more relevant to note that it is a death cult led by a madman who has been responsible for killing 12,000 civilians (and counting.)