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Rush Limbaugh: People
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Many people have concluded, from Rush Limbaugh's recent disparaging comments about Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's disease, that Limbaugh must be an utter fool. But of course that's exactly what Rush wants you to think. Does the man's capacity for manipulation know no bounds?
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People like Howard Dean, Anne Coulter, Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh may very well be extremists. The difference is that Anne Coulter is not the Chair of the Republican Party, and the real Chair of the Republican Party is not afraid to sit down and debate the Democratic Party Chair, somebody who loves to throw around vicious rhetoric for the cameras but is too much of a coward to sit down and actually debate his positions with an opponent.
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You've heard that Rush Limbaugh, who confessed to an addiction to painkillers, is being singled out for prosecution by a Democratic state attorney who glories in the chance to bring down a conservative icon. You probably think this is the People's Republic of Palm Beach, with jackboot prosecutors leaking defamatory information about their celebrated quarry and invading his privacy to grab his medical records. Of course, much of this talk emanates from Limbaugh himself and his highly paid attorney, then echoes through a half-dozen friendly outlets. As the choir was saying the other day on Fox's Hannity and Colmes: "It's a partisan witch hunt," said Mark Levin, president of a legal group that filed a brief on Limbaugh's behalf. "They're trying to smear Rush. They're trying to silence him." As if anybody could.
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Limbaugh is highly critical of environmentalism and climate science. He has disputed anthropogenic global warming, and the relationship between CFCs and depletion of the ozone layer, claiming the scientific evidence does not support them. [45] Limbaugh has argued against the scientific opinion on climate change by stating that scientific consensus "is just a bunch of scientists organized around a political proposition. they think consensus is the way to sell it because, 'Oh, but all these wonderful people agree.'" [46] Limbaugh has used the term "environmentalist wacko" as a reference to left-leaning environmental advocates[47]. As a rhetorical device, he has ... used the term to refer to more mainstream climate scientists and other environmental scientists and advocates with whom he disagrees.[48]
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Limbaugh is a multi-millionaire with access to the whole power structure of the Republican party. He has personal friends on the Supreme Court and in the White House, in the house and in the senate. He wants for nothing, and never will. His humor--aimed as it is at people who can never dream of his privilege and status--is not satire but simple cruelty, disguised as fun.
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The radio clip, which was from Thursday's edition of Limbaugh's program, featured the host urging the GOP presidential candidate to learn a lesson from the front-page New York Times story speculating about a improper relationship with a D.C. lobbyist. Matthews's apparent annoyance at Limbaugh might have something to do with being mentioned in the clip. At one point during the monologue, Limbaugh asserted, "[McCain] has thought Chris Matthews and these other people in the drive-by media are his friends. They aren't."
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