rivercityvibe   “Puerile, smutty, schoolboy nonsense” – My Mom

If you enter the words “Rush Limbaugh” and “Clown-like shape” into the Google, you will see that we have seized yet another number 1 place.

I think we can agree that not since the “Kiran Chetry” and “hot ass” episode have we triumphed quite so comprehensively.

A Fat Clown

Rush Limbaugh

It’s uncanny, really.

Okay, no surprises this week. Assclown of the Week is that inveterate fuckwit Michelle Bachmann (R) of Minnesota. In a congress crammed to the gills with comedy fools, Bachmann still manages to stand-out like a dog poo on a pool deck.

This week, she weighed in on the Swine Flu debate. Apparently the global (non-) pandemic is the Democratic party’s fault – mostly the President’s.

The eyes. Dead giveaway.

Many have said that Bachmann was just echoing what ol’ fatty Limbaugh had already said. I think there can be no doubt that this elected (how?) official marches to the sound of Rush’s guns. However, she still looked VERY SILLY when she said the following:

“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”

This pointless party-political nonsense makes sensible people of all political hues roll their eyes. It’s bad for America, and when it is inexpertly deployed by the likes of Bachmann, you can actually feel yourself become a little more stupid…….

….particularly since the seventies swine flu outbreak occurred during Gerald Ford’s administration. He was a Republican, FYI.

Nice one Congresswoman. I for one wish you a long and vocal career in politics.

You make it easy for me.

Like most people, I don’t like bullies. I am also something of an intellectual snob (my bad), which means I don’t like idiots either. On top of this,  I can’t stand loudmouths. So give me a bullying idiot with a big mouth and chances are I’ll want to punish him in some way.

Bill O’Reilly is one of these, but actually manages to take it a stage further. Bullying is one thing. But bullying women in pursuit of sexual favors? That’s another, and  O’Reilly is the sex-bullying, bigmouth champion of the world.

(You see, I really don’t like him. Rush? Rush is just greedy. This fucker O’Reilly is a bad, bad person. That’s the long and short of it).

So it is awesome when somebody takes it upon themselves to take him down a peg-or-two.

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The back story is that O’Reilly inadvertently exposed his seedy sexual side in his shit novel Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder (for chrissakes….), in which he graphically describes a sexual encounter. (I say he exposes his seedy sexual side, but I guess I mean FURTHER exposes it. The sexual harrassment case he settled out of court was probably more of a pointer).

Anyway, he has now, foolishly, recorded an audio-book version of the novel. The good people at Gawker have taken it upon themsleves to interperse audio-excerpts from the book with his TV appearances. Study his seediness, ladies. Dwell on it. Then arm yourselves to the teeth.

Click on the picture for the Gawker footage.

I guess I’m still a little cross about the gold market. Nice to take it out on an asshole like O’Reilly, though. Right?

This is not a political post, more a sad comment on the state of our national politics from my vantage point on the banks of the St. Johns. I am talking of course about the latest nonsense relating to media personality Rush Limbaugh, the prescription drug-addicted, thrice-divorced, bastion of “conservative values” who  deigns to tell 20 million willing listeners what to think every day.

"He's fat! He's round! He bounces on the ground! His name is Rush! His name is Rush!

As entertaining as Rush Limbaugh is (and he is an entertainer, as indicated by A. His clown-like shape and B. his, errr,  prime time talk radio show….),  and, as much as I will go to my grave defending his right to broadcast as he does, the current situation which has led a RNC Chairman to publicly apologize to him, is nothing short of a national disgrace.  For his part in this, Michael Steele must be condemned as a lily-livered blemish on the face of the republican party. In any properly-functioning democracy his failure to stand his ground and his craven willingness to kow-tow to the media in this way would disqualify him from holding any important office ever again … but I digress. This post is about Rush.

You see, as a conservative of sorts, I am at a loss as to what people see in him. He is interesting to listen to – from a sociological or even psychological viewpoint and I am even prepared to believe he is a genuinely nice guy. But his credibility as a true conservative is pretty questionable. He is clearly a man of appetites. I bet nobody could call his diet “conservative”.

He is also a famous drug addict. And he reportedly engaged in criminal behavior to secure those drugs (interestingly, in one of his court cases, his sworn enemy* the ACLU filed an amicus brief supporting him. Good material….). He is a constant smoker of cigars having been lauded as an aficionado in the press. His addiction to women is equally well-chronicled. He has been married three times and is currently dating a lovely lady half his age called Kathryn Rogers. I wonder what first attracted her to the millionaire Rush Limbaugh? Here she is:

With her boyfriend...

She says making love to Rush is like having an armoire fall on her with the key sticking out.

I made that last bit up.

Anyway, consider this a college assignment: Rush Limbaugh: A Man of Appetites (Discuss).