For some reason on the way to work I tuned in to Rush Limbaugh today, just to see what kind of vile rants he could come up with today. He spent the first 20 minutes of his show doing nothing but trying to discredit a ABC News report about increased threats on Obama's life.
The people that listen to this man are idiots. I have no patience for them. To believe what Limbaugh, Hannity, and their ilk vomit out every day requires such a willful ignorance and stupidity it is almost hard to comprehend. The pundits and politicians who speak to them are well aware of how dumb they are, and are more than cynical enough to exploit it.
These town hall protesters are emotional infants. My girlfriend's 11 year old son has never once displayed the kind of juvenille behavior I have seen from these morons. Screaming at the top of their lungs about "their" country being taken away from them. Demanding it stop. They act like the entire cost of the health care bill and stimulus is being taken from their paychecks personally, as if their children will have to pay back billion dollar price tags on their own. Imagine a classroom where no one raises their hands when they want to speak and everyone is demanding all-day recess.
These people have no problem believing that the health care bill will euthanize seniors and infants and require mandatory sex change operations. If they lived in a different time, they would have been flat-earthers and witch hunters (many of them probably still are both).
And many of them are, apparently, armed and pissed off. And they are showing up at presidential town halls with guns. Why this is allowed is far beyond me (people were arrested at Bush town halls for wearing supposedly offensive t-shirts).
The right-wing in this country wants Obama gone. They spend hours upon hours each day telling lies about him to uninformed, armed racists through radio and televison. And today Fearless Leader Limbaugh is downplaying threats on the presidents life. Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on in this country?