1/10/2024 0 Comments Rush limbaugh mocks eric garnerYou can be as racist and sexist, as hateful and divisive as you want-and millions of people will love you for it.“Everything about this scandal is the result of Obama administration policy,” Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday, accordingto a transcript. What Rush Limbaugh proved, in the end, was that American politics and culture had no red lines. Trump’s own seemingly improvised, crass, and mean-spirited speeches weren’t too distinct from Limbaugh’s own radio show transcripts. Sean Hannity’s smarmy bloviating approach to opinion programming, Glenn Beck’s Looney Tunes conspiracy theorizing, Tucker Carlson’s white grievance politics and nativism all owe a great debt to Limbaugh.ĭonald Trump, who awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year, also owes a huge debt to the broadcaster. His show reveled in punching down, particularly on marginalized communities, as the purpose of politics itself.Ī thousand copycats still prowl the media’s darker corners. A chauvinist and sexist in every way one could possibly be, Limbaugh mocked anyone who wasn’t rich or white or male for daring to seek equality. He thrived on making people angrier and more alienated, on obscuring the truth, and rewarding meanness at every turn.īarack Obama was a “halfrican American,” an “affirmative action candidate.” Feminists were “feminazis,” a term he must have used thousands of times. His politics were vicious and deceitful, aimed at undercutting liberal institutions in service of policies that made people like Limbaugh wealthier, often at the expense of his listeners. He first appeared on the airwaves shortly after the Fairness Doctrine was repealed, helping to introduce a new style of decidedly unfair media. Rush Limbaugh died on Wednesday at the age of 70 of lung cancer. I am very thankful that my parents ended up being McCain/Romney types in the face of what is happening as a whole. Romney types need to stick around to keep these people from being too radicalized. In a way I am glad these lines are being drawn between 'classic Republican' and 'crazy caucus'. I was really worried for a bit that my parents were being sucked into the Crazy Caucus, and am so fucking relieved that they apparently are just going to be crusty old Republicans.įor context, both my parents are ex-Mormons, so of course you can imagine them as old school republicans, because that's what a Romney type is. They were big fans of McCain and currently Romney, so it's not like they are enlightened ex-republicans, but they are rational enough to cling to the Old School and not the Trumpists. Neither of my parents voted for Trump this cycle and kinda begrudgingly like Biden. And my mother mostly went along with my father. And more recently was glued to Fox News for the past two decades. I grew up with a father that would play Rush on the radio when I was a kid (i had to hear it as kid in the backseat of the car) and regularly has complained about the 'crazy liberals' over the years, etc. (I made this comment on a Limbaugh based post in r/politics, but the mods there seem to think his death isn't relevant to politics and mass wiped all related posts. But I knew that Limbaugh was a monstrous person, and that any place that so enthusiastically promoted his hatred wasn't a place I wanted to visit. I still wasn't politicized, nor did I understand US politics on even the most surface level. I never went back to that comic book store again after that day. Why weren't we already doing it, he demanded to know. But as I stood their listening to her say these things, my mind reeling with the absurd hatred of it all, Rush began to enthusiastically agree that this was indeed a great idea. Scorch the earth of an entire nation of people.Įven as a dumb kid, I knew this was supremely evil. This was during the first invasion of Iraq, and she suggested, on national radio, that the best way to deal with all this mess was if we (the US) just poured napalm into the "huts" of all the people who lived in Iraq, just give them all a burning, painful death. The kind of voice I'd learned to associate with kindness and baked goods. She had the voice of a thousand grandmothers on warm, fuzzy TV shows and movies. Then one day, when I was browsing in the store, an old lady called into Rush's show. Not the way it was "discussed" on that show, at least. I didn't understand what was being said because I didn't understand politics. The owner of the place was a bitter, sad old man who would pipe in Limbaugh all day, every day.įor many years, it was just meaningless background noise. When I was a young teen, I used to regularly go to a comic book store in my town.
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