skippy the bush kangaroo

Sunday, March 25, 2007

snowed in

joe gandelman, over at the moderate voice, does an admirable job of sloughing off politics and examining the humanity invovled in both tony snow's and elizabeth edwards' announcements this week that they have both experienced recurrence of their cancer (something we tried to do earlier this week...sloughing off politics, we mean, not experience a recurrence of cancer. excuse our poor sentense construction).

here are the money graphs for us:


snow provided a stark contrast in humanity to conservative talk show rush limbaugh who didn’t wait a second before going after the edwardses politically and trying to turn the announcement of her illness into yet another chance to whip up republican listeners suspicions and hatreds against democrats. read this and this.

whether you like snow’s answers on political issues or not, tony snow got it right twice this week. humanity does count. and limbaugh? as in the case of michael j. fox, limbaugh seemingly enjoys going after high-profile people who are ill and questioning their motives (even if he later partially backs off on it due to an outcray later) if they do an appearance with high media impact in public.

why? because they belong to the “wrong” party.

but, rush, on this sunday perhaps it’s worth remembering:

the mili-second after each of us leaves this earthly scene, we’ll no longer be republicans or democrats or independents. just souls.

and it’s unlikely god will say: “ditto.”
we're not sure god is the one limbaugh will have to deal with after he's crossed over.

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posted by skippy at 10:53 AM |

2 Comments:

ah. You're assuming that Rush HAS a soul. A debatable matter, given his antics.

Blowhole ahoy.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 3:25 PM PDT  
Awwww...how sweet, "we're all souls". Blaghhh! Gimme a break. That's nauseating. And gay.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 8:00 PM PDT  

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