Expose:

Rush Limbaugh’s Idiocy

May 1, 2009 by Kyle Brady
Tags: America, Government, Idiot, Limbaugh, Obama, Politics, Republican Party
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I was browsing Rush Limbaugh's page last night (because I sent him an email about my Obama post the other day, hoping to provoke a reaction, so I was looking for some sort of response), and came across this bunch of nonsense:

Essentially, he's attacking President Obama for the decisions he's made regarding Chrysler recently.  I don't support the massive amounts of money that we've given the U.S. auto industry, to little effect, but I still respect Obama as our President.  I like him, yes, but even if I didn't I would respect him and his office.

Limbaugh apparently doesn't feel the need to treat him with any modicum of respect.  Here's the highlighted excerpts transcribed:

"Barack Peron", "Argentina-Style", "Left-wing fascism coming out for Chrysler", "I heard all about the enchanted question, and that's what happens with the feminization of our culture", "president Barack Peron", "What this means is that the laws of economics cannot be changed.  Liberalism is a failure."

I honestly wonder why people pay him to spout such nonsense.  What advertisers would want to be known for supporting him?  He compares our President to a legitimately fascist regime (I wonder if Limbaugh can even properly define "fascism"), assaults the culture at large (Are we all supposed to be gigantic fatass idiots like him?  Is that what being "male" is?), and then somehow associates the auto-industry's failure directly with economics and liberalism.

I could spend hours dissecting how wrong he is on almost every point (not to mention the horrible scare-tactic Photoshop job he included), but there's one flaw worth pointing out...

Ronald Reagan, the supposed darling of the GOP (including Limbaugh) at the moment, was a Republican.  But by today's standards, he would be considered a Democrat, or at least a "liberal".  If you want to scream and cry about this, consider what our party system's history looks like.

Chrysler's failure (along with the rest of the economy) is not a failure of our current President, nor is it a failure of a loose collection of ideas known as "liberalism" - it is, in fact, a direct result of deregulation, lack of oversight, and attempting to have a true free-market economy.  Even disregarding that his party created this whole mess while in power in the first place, at the end of the day he's insulting (by indirect association) what he claims to believe in.

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