With the boss away and nothing to do while waiting for the Friday news dump, I thought I'd sift through over 1,300 Google offerings of the worldwide reaction to the latest Rush to judgement. It's sadistic to take such pleasure in all this hate, but I can't help myself.
The menu is delectable, and I thought you all might enjoy a sampling of Creamed Limbaugh.
When it comes to taking a chicken back to the henhouse for laying an egg, it's impossible to beat Molly Ivins, so why try? So she's the entree.
(Just desserts are below the fold.)
Linwood Barclay at the
Toronto Star defends his fellow Canadian with his own diagnosis:
Now, I know this may offend those who suffer from this particular condition, and these individuals might not like it much when I suggest that a certain person with this diagnosis is exaggerating his symptoms, but I have to say, I think Rush Limbaugh is just pretending to be a dick.
While the right-wing radio host does exhibit most, if not all, of the common characteristics of this behaviour, it's so rare for all of them to coalesce at a single moment that one can only conclude Limbaugh's most recent performances are nothing short of fraudulent.
I'm no expert diagnostician, but nobody could be this big a one. Limbaugh must be acting.
An editorial indicates The San Antonio Express was not pleased:
If you were like most people -- meaning if you had just an iota of compassion -- the ad undoubtedly broke your heart, regardless of where you stand on the issue.
Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, struggles to express himself in the commercial, his head trembling with every word, every syllable.
Limbaugh later apologized, but remained critical of Fox for making the ad.
Some people regard Limbaugh as a mere comedian; if so, there is nothing funny about his act.
From Rush's home state, I was expecting better but the Daytona Beach News-Journal Online indicates it's a little hot there today:
More entertainer and armchair agitator than commentator, Limbaugh commands an audience in the millions and reflects a line of thinking no stem-cell research is ever likely to cure: the fanatic ideologue to whom denigration in the name of party loyalty is a fatter prize than compassion, let alone life-mending science. It is the kind of thinking that has federal research on stem cells in arrested development.
The Age in Australia noted Fox's impact of poll numbers of supporters of stem cell research. Politicians, beware if Michael decides to make a run for it:
A new poll showed that US voters' support for stem cell research jumped five percentage points after viewing the ads.
The national poll by HCD Research and Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion surveyed 955 people and found support for stem cell research at 83 per cent after viewing the ad, up from 78 per cent previously.
And, by the way, Rush, Moby thinks you're a Dick, too:
Dance star Moby has launched a scathing attack on Republican Rush Limbaugh after he poked fun at Michael J. Fox's Parkinson Disease symptoms - branding him and other right wing figures as "the most evil people on this planet."
Anybody who cares to send some love to Rush, can add below. (It's Friday, so I'll dispense with lecturing on language. Have at it.) Otherwise, congratulate yourselves. It's been a great week to be a Democrat and an even greater week to be Michael J. Fox. For all of us, he's a fine example of Grace Under Fire. Maybe even a finer example for Rush. Now he can know what it means to be a man.