I know some of you will think that the headline is some absurd way of making fun of him, I assure you it's not. I'm no mental health professional, but I ask that question because I've been thinking why would somebody that is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, someone with listeners that live below the poverty line, have such an awful view of humanity, the poor and people that are helpless during a moment of disaster. Is he purely just a racist or could there be a logical explanation to explain his truly bizarre behavior. Normal people I know do not behave this way, there has to be a reason.
Then it hit me. When I was in grade school there was this kid that was a bully, he would go around picking on poor kids, kids that did not belong to a "click" or tended to keep to themselves. He would take their lunch or steal the gloves during the winter, steal stuff out of their desks, kick them off of the play ground...you know, the typical stuff that bullies do.
As time went by the school finally kicked him out for good.
Many years later I found out how dysfunctional his family really was; mother on drugs, father was a drunk and abusive and both brother and sister were selling drugs and this kid was the youngest member of this family. It was at that point that his behavior as a young child made sense.
Could this be the same problem with Rush Limbaugh, could he have been so abused as a child that he has lost any human compassion. His recent comments defy logic, are inhumane and no public official/personality would dare utter such nonsense without having some sort of mental defect.
In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, Rush Limbaugh has created a tremor of his own.
The ever-controversial radio talk host is taking fire for advising people not to donate to Haitian relief through the fund set up by the White House.
If you do that, said Limbaugh, you'll probably just end up on an Obama campaign mailing list - and a big chunk of your donation will get siphoned off by government bureaucrats.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called Limbaugh's assertions "really stupid"
But the heaviest flak has come from Limbaugh's other comment that "You already give to Haitian relief - it's called the income tax."
Relief groups and Limbaugh critics like the watchdog group Media Matters immediately accused him of sending the message that there was no need or point to sending private donations
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...that just adds to his top ten equally bizarre comments;
- "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
- "Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela - who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing."
- "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
- "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
- "They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
- [To an African American female caller]: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
- "I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve.""
- Limbaugh's many attacks on Obama:
Limbaugh has called Obama a 'halfrican American' has said that Obama was not Black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an "affirmative action candidate". Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show "Barack the Magic Negro" using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for Black a man who many Americans are supporting for president.
- "We need segregated buses... This is Obama’s America."
- "Obama's entire economic program is reparations"
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I think it's time for his sponsors to decide whether they really want to be associated with The Rush Limbaugh show and for Americans to take a good look at themselves and ask is this really a person that should be BLESSED with the ear of millions of people.
My hope is that Mr. Limbaugh gets the help he needs, our mental health professionals are very good in helping people with mental disorders and I hope and pray that they help this man that is so obviously suffering some type of mental disability.
I would also urge his friends and family to intervene and get him to the people that can help him, there is no need for him to suffer any longer...he obviously has some inner demons that are tormenting him and it's sad to watch the mental collapse of a human being in such a public way.