skippy the bush kangaroo: rush limbaugh and the soft bigotry of low expectations

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

rush limbaugh and the soft bigotry of low expectations

I'm not going to add very much to the Rush Limbaugh/Viagra story. This whole controversy must be making it hard for him.

I will speculate for a moment, though: Why did the authorities release the name of the drug in question, Viagra, when it wasn't necessary to do so and they knew it would embarrass him? I have only one possibility: that they feel he got an overly cushy deal on the Oxycontin charge, and they're getting back at him.

Any accomplished attorneys or law enforcement types like Jeralyn want to comment?

P. S. Jeralyn thinks that using Viagra won't hurt Rush with his conservative constituency, since Bob Dole's the corporate spokesman. There's a difference, though - Dole's married. Theocons should be outraged that Rush, having partied on hillbilly heroin, is now getting pharmaceutically, er, pumped to have extramarital sex.

If they weren't hypocrites, that is.

P.P.S. Rush also said he found Lynndie England sexually stimulating. So why did he go to the Dominican Republic for his sex vacation and not, oh, Guantanamo?

(P.S x 4: Since the artist formerly known as Mimus is revealing his name, I'll show my face. I co-hosted "The Young Turks" yesterday, June 26 -- thanks, Cenk! -- and there's video here .)

posted by RJ Eskow at 8:27 AM |