The New McCarthyism

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are paving the way for a return of McCarthyism with their hysterical and shrill denunciations of President Obama and his administration as secret Communists and Marxists and Fascists who actually hate America and are trying to destroy it from the inside. Crooks and Liars highlights this well-done video juxtaposing the conspiracy theorists on the right with the disgraced Senator Joseph McCarthy. The result is pretty revealing.

See the Video here

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/the-return-of-mccarthyism_n_293451.html

Rush Limbaugh is a Democratic Mole

How embarrassing it is to be me.

The more Rush Limbaugh says, the less seriously Republicans are taken. His constant rants serve only to keep the already converted happy. Meanwhile reasonable Republicans, who truly believe in small government, smaller spending and fair play, not the politics of hatred and exclusion grow frustratingly embarrassed to be seen as sitting at the same table with Rush Limbaugh.

When I lived in Bangkok we had a local obnoxious character who talked and even looked like Limbaugh. Bully; loud and greedy. He soon picked up the name Boss Hog. Eventually a
T-shirt appeared featuring a pig in a puddle of mud, "Arguing with me is like wrestling a Pig in the Mud. After a while you begin to realize the pig loves it."

One night after several months of trying to get a few impoverished food vendors off the public sidewalk in front of his newly purchased business (One of the highlights of Bangkok is the sidewalks packed with the odor of delicious inexpensive food) a couple of the vendors poured a bucket of pig poo over Boss Hog's bald head. Wonder whatever happened to Boss Hog? Nothing good, surely.

Well back to Boss Rush. Following is an excerpt from Rush's latest rant.

"The standard of living has increased in places where there are basic free markets," Limbaugh said. "Where there aren't, of course the standard of living has declined, such as Zimbabwe... now run by Robert Ogabe. Ah -- it's Mugabe. I was confusing him with a well-known Kenyan named Barack Ogabe. This is Robert Mugabe."

Read more and see the video on Huffington Post here.