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Rush called the first Bush a "liberal democrat," and has railed against the current Bush Administration and Republican Congress' spending.
I think he still maintains an independent voice in contrast to Bush apologists like Newt Gingrich, despite the fact we all know he’ll be voting Bush again most likely.
If there's one thing that Rush has proven though, it's that a person can indeed work high.
You know what's funny about Rush? I was listening to his show one day when he was railing against the prescription drug benefit plan, and a person called in saying how he agreed with Rush on most everything, but that he was struggling to pay for his food, rent, and drugs at the same time. He told Rush that many older people were in his same situation, and that they needed help. Rush basically told him to fuck off despite the fact he was almost certainly high on a concoction of prescription drugs (oxy contins and vicodins) that he is able to afford with his multi-millionaire job while he was saying it.
I could also dig up some of his quotes about how he said, "white male" drug abusers should be locked up along with their indigent colored counterparts, but anyone can do a google search and find them.
It's for those reasons that I picked Rush, although the fact that Moore has made millions in part by railing against millionaires ranks up there on the hypocrisy scale. He claims he lives in some apartment above a Baby Gap or something, but who knows if that’s really true. On the other hand he is donating his Bush tax cut for millionaires to organizations trying to defeat Bush instead of using it to buy a Mercedes.
In the time of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson, giving your fair share was called, "patriotism." Placing an American flag on your $60,000 Hummer that you bought with one of your tax cuts, and cheering on an unjust war of choice that the poor kids who couldn't afford college through any other means than the armed services have to fight and die for is not my definition of patriotism. Personally I find that to be the antithesis of patriotism, and it's morally reprehensible.
In a way, I think it’s a bit sad when so many turn to political “demagogues,” as Arbiter termed them, when people should be able to read about issues for themselves and form their own opinions. It’s akin to surrendering the train of thought process to the gravy train of though process, but that’s the world we live in I guess. If we’re going to live in a world of Rush Limbaughs, we also need a world of Michael Moores to balance out the politico hack blowhard ratio.
The guy who I really like is Bill Maher because in my world view, he tells it like it is. He’s a hardcore civil libertarian, as am I. I’ve also never caught him in a contradiction or hypocrisy on the scale of a Limbaugh or Moore hypocrisy, though everyone is a hypocrite at some time or another and I’m sure he’s no exception.
I conclude with the words of Mr. John Edwards:
| quote: | | "It is clear that when our president is someone who understands that a rising tide lifts all boats, America prospers and grows stronger and millions of Americans are lifted out of poverty," Mr. Edwards said. "And when our president is someone who believes that a rising tide is there to get the yachts out of the harbor, America suffers." |
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