Andrew Klavan tells us that we liberals need to open our minds to Rush Limbaugh, because every single objectionable thing he’s said since Bush I was in office was all the result of the vast intolerance of liberals.
If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.
I actually spent two years (from 1993-1995) listening to him. It’s what I did as a teenager instead of go Objectivist, sue me.
Oh no, you haven’t. Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”
On further questioning, it always turns out that by “heard him,” he means he’s heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh’s show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.
For instance, when Limbaugh said of Michael J. Fox, “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting,” what happened right after was that he cured Parkinson’s. Bet you’re sad you missed that show, eh?
By lifting some typically Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context, the distortion gang knows full well it can get you to widen your eyes and open your mouth in the universal sign of Liberal Outrage. Your scrawny chest swelling with a warm sense of completely unearned righteousness, you will turn to your second spouse and say, “I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m tolerant of a wide range of differing views—but this goes too far!”
Yes, folks. The reason you don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh is because you’re a scrawny girly-man, too busy leafing gingerly through petite issues of the New Yorker to budge that terribly heavy dial towards Rush’s ongoing radio revolution. It’s almost assured that when entire segments of the man’s show are replayed ad nauseum, your belief that Rush Limbaugh is paranoid, hateful scum is based on little more than your terribly weak constitution being swayed by the gentlest nudge of liberal media bias. You are Daniel LaRusso. Rush Limbaugh is Cobra Kai. There is no Miyagi.