Why I Hate Rush Limbaugh

There are many political commentators out there, and many of them are big names: Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews and others. However, one name is well-known here in the MidEast, and when it's heard, it is reviled with absolute disgust. Liberals everywhere detest this name because of the political bullshit that is associated with it.

That name is Rush Limbaugh, known for his rants on all sorts of issues. He's technically a neo-conservative, but that's not what really damns him. What really does is his nature and his commentary. Rush Limbaugh has a reputation as an anti-Arab racist. One of his most famous outbursts was on Abu Ghraib. Kurt Nimmo documented this show, quoting Rush Limbaugh, who loudmouthed,

"I'm talking about people having a good time, these people [CIA agents and MPs at Abu Ghraib], you ever heard of emotional release? You heard of need to blow some steam off? ... This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time."

What strikes me in this is his negligence for human life and human rights. He continues to quote Limbaugh, who argues that Arab prisoners should be humiliated, saying,

"It could well be that the whole purpose here, which has been said, was to humiliate these prisoners. And there's no better way of doing it than what was done. These are Arab males -- what better way to humiliate them than to have a woman have authority over them? What's the purpose here? What's the objective of this? The objective is to soften them up for interrogation later, later on. As I said, there was no horror, there was no terror there was no death, there was no injuries, nothing."

Nimmo rebuts with,

Never mind that people were killed -- and photographed by Limbaugh's centerfold, Spec. Sabrina D. Harman. The point Rush is making is that Arabs are untermenschen, sub-humans, and they do not experience horror and injury the same way Americans do. It's okay to saddle up a 70 year old Iraqi woman with a harness and ride her around like a donkey because Arabs are immune to terror and abuse.

I think I made my point on how Rush Limbaugh is indeed anti-Arab... he and his fellow neocons, that is. The idea is that such people like Limbaugh tend to join the de-humanization campaign and spew out rhetoric that associates Arabs with terrorists, and thus degrading their human and civilian status. Go back to my long rant on the torture in Iraq. Seriously, such things piss me off. People like Limbaugh are giving America a bad image (not that it doesn't have one already).

Unsurprisingly, his hate-mongering rhetoric, paralleled with the likes of Ann Coulter, Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson (evangelicals who deserve the title "America's Taliban"), still roams over the airwaves in the North American continent. He spoke quite a lot on the UAE port deal issue, which, along with the immigration debate and Hurricane Katrina, brought about the worst of American racism and white Christian neoconservative nationalism... and the whole world saw it with their own eyes. He speaks as if he's got a balloon in his stomach ready to explode with BS. Sure, he may have once said that he only states opinions and that he finds it "surprising" that he "gets attacked". He's always got that "whoooaaaa" kind of attitude that makes you feel sick to the stomach, and his commentary is extremely talkative that the BS filter in your brain fills up before you can say "I love Bush".

What I don't understand is how many Americans deal with him being around. But hey, it's a free country, right? He can talk all he wants, and I have the right to criticize his BS... but anywho...

Lately, though, he was arrested and fined for abusing drugs, specifically pain medication and whatnot. What makes it ironic is that he was a vehement opponent to all sorts of drugs and thus a fanatical supporter of the "war on drugs" that Dubya Bush is carrying out. So, you could say that he typifies governmental double standards. Now, while I am not all for homosexual rights (I am not a supporter nor an opponent), I find it sick that he attacks all sorts of minorities as well on these issues. Am I the only one who wants to punch him up his big, fat head?

Almost every single liberal out there, including myself, felt a bit of relief that the right-wing pundits got his yapper shut up for a while, but I sure do hope he gets the slammer!

Bill O'Reilly, Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwell, David Horowitz, Ann Coulter... YOU'RE ALL NEXT!!!

Salaam, from
Saracen