I’ve struggled to characterize Limbaugh in my own mind, and the other day it came to me: he reminds me of my first tick!
One evening when I was 7 years old, I felt something strange on my belly button… I looked down and saw the severely bloated back end of a tick protruding from it. Its head was securely buried in my navel. With my mother’s help, some rubbing alcohol and a match, we were able to coax the creature’s head from its feeding place still attached to its bulbous body, and dispose of it down the toilet. For the next week we both worried that I might contract Rocky Mountain spotted fever from this encounter.
Limbaugh has his head firmly implanted in Clear Channel’s radio network, feeding off the adulation and money generated by his ditto heads and further bloating his already distended ego while he spreads the cultural equivalent of virulent social diseases. Clear Channel’s executives should contemplate their navel, extricate him and flush him; they are the only ones who can do it safely.
In his early days, when he didn’t take himself so seriously, he’d say “with brains on loan from God.” Apparently, God has recalled the loan.
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We, cannot tollerate the tick. Does he (limbaugh) have part ownership of the station? He should be ashamed of himself – he must not have any love for himself nor anyone else. It has been many years since watching him, however I noticed that he never laughed – he does not pursue happiness.
Mary:
I doubt that he owns any part of the Clear Channel radio network; if I were in his position I wouldn’t own any of it. Clear Channel is not now enjoying particularly robust economic health…. in fact without the advertising revenues induced by ditto heads it might well be in serious trouble. So Rush has it by the economic throat with his $300 million contract! As bad as Limbaugh is, he fills a need… a need which is the real problem. He thrives because of the emotional needs of his ditto heads…. we’re he to disappear, these people would seek out other demagogues to tell them things they want to hear; political, religious and business demagogues with simplistic answers to life’s questions, answers filled with enemies that they can tear down to make themselves feel superior. For example, religious demagogues focus on the devil, or on abortion, rather than on the more complicated and uncertain task of seeking and loving God and our neighbors.
I particularly like your comment that Limbaugh “never laughed.” One of my favorite philosphers, Eric Hoffer, a self-educated man who was an itinerant farm worker in the 1930′s, wrote a little masterpiece “The True Believer” over fifty years ago. In it, a study of fanaticism, he pointed out that fanatics are intense about their beliefs without any playfulness. Healthy people, in contrast, are simultaneously intense and playful about the most important beliefs of their lives. I believe that playfulness is also the basis of tolerance and of creativity and ultimately of personal happiness.
Ed Lee
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