Quit Listening to Limbaugh!

My last rant was two days ago, on Thursday. I said time to stop the hate, turn off the hate radio and hate TV garbage and start acting like Americans.

And then yesterday, Friday, I read that President Obama said basically the same thing, more eloquently of course. He told Republicans "to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh."

I'm sure all the talking heads had a ball with that, taking it out of context, saying that Obama was for censorship, and all the usual ignorant BS they spew all the time any time a Democrat says anything at all.

Obama meant it the same way I did: Quit the divisiveness. Quit the hate. Quit the disinformation. Quit the lies. Quit the distortions. Quit the us/them crap. In other words, quit listening to Rush Limbaugh. And Hannity. And O'Reilley. And Ann Coulter. And Fox "News." And all the rest of the right wing hate machine and their distortions of reality as they promote their Republican-neofascist agenda.

Unfortunately, as I said recently, those people would rather drag the country down into a darker, deeper place than even the Great Depression than put aside their ideology for one second. Rational thought does not prevail among those people. They want it their way or no way. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. Obama could keep the exact same misguided policies of the Bush administration and even escalate them...and the right wing hate machine would still trash him. In their world, if any Republican does anything whatsoever, even soliciting illicit homosexual sex in an airport men's room, then it's OK. Teenage pregnancy? Hey, they're just kids--it's OK. If you're a Republican from Alaska. If you're a Democrat, or black or Mexican or Asian, well you're going to hell, you godless heathen. If you say anything positive about gays, well, you're a slime liberal against Christian values--unless you're a Republican, in which case the "liberal media" is just picking on you because you're a Republican. If you're a Democratic sleazeball crook, you should go to jail. If you're a Republican sleazeball crook, it wasn't your fault, it was the system.

I have more respect for that evil sociopath Fred Phelps than I do for Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilley and the rest of those superhypocrites. Phelps hates gays and has devoted most of his adult life promoting hatred of gays. The Neocon Republicans hate gays and have devoted most of their adult lives promoting hatred of gays, but they lie about it and won't even take responsibility for what they do or say. At least Phelps takes credit for all the evil garbage he spouts. He's not a hypocrite. In fact, I think he is certifiably insane, and therefore not nearly so evil as the aforementioned Neocons. There is not a person in the Untied States, not a dope dealing heroin-shooting drug addled homeless wretch, not a Mafia godfather, not a corporate criminal, not a car thief nor a cattle rustler, not a bank robber or a wife beater, not anybody in this entire nation as despicable as those hate-spouting Neocon hypocrites.

Last Tuesday, as over two million people looked up and cheered as Bush's helicopter left for good, do you think perhaps they had an inkling of how the nation feels about them?

Probably not. Yet, having been raised with good old fashioned southern Christian values, I believe that they will get theirs one day.