Lewis Carroll, creator of “Alice in Wonderland,” had a word describing what Limbaugh does regularly, and on which he has become a specialist. The word is jabberwocky, defined as nonsensical poetry, but generically means spouting perpetual absurdity, that which is totally lacking in reason or logic.
With Limbaugh a commentary does not have to make any kind of logical sense. The only essential component is playing to a warped gallery constantly hungering for red meat. Limbaugh fed some red meat of jabberwocky to his lap-dog faithful, affectionately known as “ditto heads,” while they collectively snarled over the election of Obama.
With the stock market recording reverses during a period marking the culmination of radical right economics which Limbaugh and his listeners heartily supported, he asserted that America is currently immersed in a “Barack Obama recession.”
This absurdity was mouthed more than two months from the time that Obama will take office on January 20, 2009. Such reasoning is obviously unfair because it constitutes reason in a Limbaugh world monopolized by red meat jabberwocky.
Rush Limbaugh: Making Millions Spouting Deceitful Nonsense
by Bill Hare
When Rush Limbaugh left his job as a nurse he switched to radio broadcasting in Sacramento. It has been reported that a discovery he made prompted him to develop an approach that has served him ever since as a key to riches.
Limbaugh observed that when he turned into a sour curmudgeon spouting hate for the approval of the perpetually disgusted his ratings soared. The rest is history as he achieved a radio standing in which he reportedly plays to an audience of 30 million listeners per week as delighted sponsors reward him with contracts involving millions of dollars.
Limbaugh’s on-the-air blitzkriegs, while offensive to those of sensibility and sensitivity, provide a measure of comfort to those who delight in being uncomfortable.
His non-stop gutter sniping at anyone to the political left of his listening audience, which might well be anyone other than his 30 million faithful, along with those so busy watching Fox News that they lack sufficient opportunity to pay him sufficient due, is a two-step approach.
The first step is to unleash a barrage of hatred to develop and hold an audience comparable to a depression version of Archie Bunker. The difference is that the late Carroll O’Connor fashioned his character as comedic and lived in the real world, a well-read and highly articulate political liberal.
Limbaugh may lay claim to injecting comedy, but it is aimed at the type that enjoys stripping the wings off butterflies.
Limbaugh’s second point is that you deliver consistent, unrelenting verbal fusillades to reinforce the collective ignorance of your audience by distorting the true and real at staggering levels, to the point at which one must be willing to accept what is said as a blind article of faith.
Lewis Carroll, creator of “Alice in Wonderland,” had a word describing what Limbaugh does regularly, and on which he has become a specialist. The word is jabberwocky, defined as nonsensical poetry, but generically means spouting perpetual absurdity, that which is totally lacking in reason or logic.
With Limbaugh a commentary does not have to make any kind of logical sense. The only essential component is playing to a warped gallery constantly hungering for red meat.
Limbaugh fed some red meat of jabberwocky to his lap-dog faithful, affectionately known as “ditto heads,” while they collectively snarled over the election of Obama.
With the stock market recording reverses during a period marking the culmination of radical right economics which Limbaugh and his listeners heartily supported, he asserted that America is currently immersed in a “Barack Obama recession.”
This absurdity was mouthed more than two months from the time that Obama will take office on January 20, 2009. Such reasoning is obviously unfair because it constitutes reason in a Limbaugh world monopolized by red meat jabberwocky.
Get ready for much more of the same not only because a Democrat is assuming presidential office, but due to Limbaugh’s filthy-mouthed racism, which in the past has prompted him to tell one African-American caller to “take the bone out of your nose.” The radio king of red meat jabberwocky also stated that he has noticed how much certain criminal defendants resemble Jesse Jackson.
One time, Limbaugh’s foul racist act cost him a job at ESPN after the sports network unwisely hired him to do commentaries.
Racism trumped any semblance of reason as Limbaugh lamented that Donovan McNabb, star quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, had achieved his status not due to physical talent but because that vast liberal conspiracy he sees everywhere wanted to promote an African American at that showcase position.
The racist content was matched by a pathetic level of football ignorance. At the time McNabb was cited by Limbaugh as a quarterback being promoted because of his race, he had already been chosen by his peers with 3 Pro Bowl selections.
The good news was that the pressure generated by the McNabb comment resulted in Limbaugh's dismissal, an unscheduled landing on his backside.
Such landings are the only known acts of man or beast that can rival the volume of Limbaugh’s on-the-air tirades.
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