I did a quick search of this website to see if I had ever mentioned the talkradio host here. Turns out I did so four times...once each in the years 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. And now a fifth, in 2012. Not a huge body of work considering I am closing in on five years and 2,500 posts here.
Now Limbaugh seems to be imploding, even prompting a heartfelt comment during today's Presidential news conference about the first daughters.
I read his non-apology over the weekend, and was still amazed. I had never before heard him say he was sorry for anything. Anything! And I wondered where his apologies were for the years of other slurs and about people dead and alive, the cackles over the misfortunes and injuries and deaths of people he didn't like. I have a picture of myself with him somewhere, standing in the WERC studio. Him obese, me skinny (both of us looking very much made-for radio), me the local talk-host, he the rising network star a newly right-wing medium.
But like the monster in the movie that's been dispatched by the hero, I'd keep an eye on the corpse.
Now Limbaugh seems to be imploding, even prompting a heartfelt comment during today's Presidential news conference about the first daughters.
I read his non-apology over the weekend, and was still amazed. I had never before heard him say he was sorry for anything. Anything! And I wondered where his apologies were for the years of other slurs and about people dead and alive, the cackles over the misfortunes and injuries and deaths of people he didn't like. I have a picture of myself with him somewhere, standing in the WERC studio. Him obese, me skinny (both of us looking very much made-for radio), me the local talk-host, he the rising network star a newly right-wing medium.
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| You are right. That's not Rush. It's the anti-Rush, Captain Kangaroo. I would rather be seen with him anyway.(-: [UPDATE: Bill Maher says people should accept Limbaugh's apology. Are Bill and Elton going to sing a duet at Rush's next wedding?] |
Not too many years after that, he took a shot at me on-air, accusing me of trying to copy him. My father was so incensed that he called in on the show and blasted Rush, referring to me, his son, as a Vietnam Veteran, and Rush as, well, a non-veteran.
Now Rush's advertisers are deserting him, a handful of stations have dropped him, and the GOP presidential candidates are barely defending him. (Romney was critical of his choice of words! What's the permissible word for slut, Mitt?)But like the monster in the movie that's been dispatched by the hero, I'd keep an eye on the corpse.
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