Remember that crazy, hairbrained scheme that the idiot son of our 41st President cooked up a couple of years ago to privatize the Social Security system and allow us to invest in the stock market to "bolster our savings?" How would that have worked-out for us, do ya think?
With Manny Ramirez being the latest superstar baseball player to fail a drug test, that puts about 10 of the most prominent big-leaguers of the past 10 years on the list of players that have either failed or are suspected to have taken drugs. The list includes Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmiero, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds. Popular opinion says that they shouldn't be inducted into the Hall of Fame because they "cheated." Well, if so many great players have cheated, and we aren't supposed to let them in, who does that leave the writers to vote for? I'm guessing that, in five years the Hall will be filled with players like Melvin Mora and Jamie Moyer. Who? Exactly.
Supermarkets across America will be bereft of a beautiful woman to kiss hands and shake babies, as Miss USA Carrie Prejean is under scrutiny for her views on gay marriage and some photos of her in her underwear. In the meantime, California beauty czars have appointed the state pageant's runner-up, Tami Farrell, as a "Beauty of California Ambassador" to fulfill any duties the winner normally would handle. That's a relief. I'd hate to think of the sad state of affairs if California was to go without a beauty ambassador.
In his daily briefing Monday, Robert Gibbs distanced the president from comedian
Wanda Sykes’ joke comparing
Rush Limbaugh to a 9/11 hijacker at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“I think there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection rather than comedy. I think there's no doubt 9/11 is part of that,” Gibbs continued. At the correspondents’ dinner, which Obama attended Saturday, Sykes blasted Limbaugh for saying he hoped Obama’s administration would fail, joking: “I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.”
Obviously, the White House feels as though it's OK to fly Air Force One low over New York City, but jokes about terrorist attacks are out of the question.
And speaking of which, how do you "wish" an administration would fail? Are some people so twisted up in being right (pun) that they would hope for their nation's government to fail to further their career and political agenda? Apparently, yes. This is a transcript from Limbaugh's own web site:
My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.
I hope he fails." [interruption] What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.
Well no, somebody doesn't "gotta say it" Rush. The really sad thing is that this guy has an audience. I could go on but I think his words speak volumes.
3 comments:
I'm not a big Wanda Sykes fan, but I actually approve of her 20th hijacker comment. Probably because it was directed at someone who makes a living saying destructively motivated things to get a reaction (and unfortunately also influence the weak minds tuned to his frequency).
Does that sound relativistic? How about the mere difference that Sykes doesn't label her material as serious political discourse, while Limbaugh, a comedian in his own right, allows himself to be touted as a political leader.
On the flip side, the Sykes comment that did bother me was the one about hoping Rush's kidneys fail. Wishing a life-threatening illness on someone is never cool -- and she didn't have even a hint of a smile on her face when she said it.
I didn't mind the wish all that much, since none of us has the power to make those sorts of things happen. Rush's kidneys will fail on their own.
There's a blurred line between entertainers and commentators, and none more than Limbaugh. He'll say things to get his name mentioned, like his comments about Donovan McNabb when ESPN (for some reason) hired him to be a football commentator.
Of course, he's no more qualified to comment on sports than he is on politics.
The search-and-destroy mission on Bush was based on facts. Bush was a cokehead, a military Daddy's Boy, and every thing he presided over failed. How was the media wrong in what they reported?
I've said before, Rush is smart. He doesn't believe a word he says, yet he spews this garbage because he knows there's an audience out there that's willing to swallow this crap and pay him $400 million in the process. For that kind of coin, I'd tell the idiots what they want to hear as well.
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