October 03, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

KICK LIMBAUGH OFF ARMED FORCES RADIO

As if being in a nightmare like Iraq isn't enough, American troops there have to listen to Rush Limbaugh if they're listening to talk radio. Liberal voices tend to get censored. Limbaugh, who has smeared people for years, may have finally gone too far, though, when he called Iraq war veterans opposed to the war "phony soldiers." Limbaugh, who has never been in the military himself, doesn't mind taking potshots at actual combat veterans. Kicking him off Armed Forces Radio is the right and proper thing to do. This commentary by digby is at digbysblog.blogspot.com:

Newtie's now irrelevant. Delay is gone. Only Rush remains and he is probably the biggest prize. On a purely practical, hardball political basis, the Democrats should have been working to take him out for years. Now is their chance to turn the Republicans' patented hissy kabuki back on them and hoist an avowed political enemy with his own poisonous petard at the same time. There are many others who will happily take his place, no doubt about it. But his voice is uniquely associated with the radical wingnuts, and it is an important symbolic message to the country if they can finally make an example of him.

But it is more than just a political knife fight. It's principle. After all, the man was fired from ESPN for his racist statements. He talks about any women who don't worship him like they are either whores or doormats. He has been spewing dangerous eliminationist bile about liberals in general for years and he tells our troops in Iraq every single day on Armed Forces Radio, paid for by you and me, that the Democrats are unpatriotic traitors, which really is reprehensible.

WHEN THINKING IS BAD

Reactionaries in various forms have existed throughout history. They're the people who work to stifle any free thought or dissent from the existing order. You aren't supposed to question the shaman, the priest, the god, the king, the businessman, the CEO, the president, or whatever authority figure is being scrutinized. Rush Limbaugh, the pathological gasbag spokesman of the reactionary right, even tells his listeners that he will do their thinking for them. This article by Phil Rockstroh is at www.consortiumnews.com:

All coming to pass, as George W. Bush -- the reigning mascot of this fantasyland of infantile omnipotence and instant gratification -- is rocked to sleep by his handlers cooing preposterous tales of how history will place him in the pantheon of those men whose greatness was unrecognized by the shallow and petty minds of their own era.

When, in fact, Bush, whose ruinous wars of aggression, deficit-ballooning tax breaks for the wealthy, and policies of crony capitalism (that enabled the economy-decimating, easy credit banking scams of the present) displays the character traits of a man ridden with severe psychological trauma; his attempts to tamp down immense inner turmoil, by means of his grandiose bearing, his absolute certitude regarding his own infallibility, and his bullying behavior, have resulted in an exteriorizing of his pathologies on a global scale, and this is playing out ugly, for all concerned.

Why do the people of the nation (for the most part) slouch, slack-jawed and passive, before this assault upon their collective integrity and personal dignity?