The Limbaugh Challenge

I'm posting this editorial because I have a soft spot not only for Maha-Rushie, but also for watching someone call out the readership of the LA Times as a bunch of girly-men with skulls full of mush.

I mean, check out the following blockquote. It is a thing of beauty, and something I wish I'd written:

By lifting some typically Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context, the distortion gang knows full well it can get you to widen your eyes and open your mouth in the universal sign of Liberal Outrage. Your scrawny chest swelling with a warm sense of completely unearned righteousness, you will turn to your second spouse and say, "I'm not a liberal, I'm a moderate, and I'm tolerant of a wide range of differing views -- but this goes too far!"

There is more untruthfulness in that statement than in a speech by President Obama. Even the commas are self-deceiving. You're not a moderate or you wouldn't be reading this newspaper. You're not tolerant of a wide range of views; you are tolerant of a narrow spectrum of variations on your views. And, whatever you claim, you still haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh.

And for those LA TIMES readers from Rio Linda, here is a synopsis of the above paragraphs the author helpfully provides:

Now let me tell you the real answer: You're a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward. You're terrified of finding out he makes more sense than you do.

Sure, there will be some on the right who wring their hands about appealing to the "middle" with the softer, kinder language of the perpetually clueless. Much more fun, however, will be to watch the leftists to whom this broadside is aimed scurry about trying to prove, lest they be revealed to be hypocrites, that they actually have "Rush Creds" after all.

In any event a blast with both barrels is occasionally necessary to loosen the rust embedded in the system. I hereby nominate Andrew Klavan for this weeks "Slices Like a Hammer" award.

posted by Jack M. at 01:47 PM

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