Limbaugh: Fat, Ugly, Hateful...and Überwealthy

Ever wonder how much these right wing blowhard talking heads make? A million a year? Ten million? Twenty? Thirty? Keep going. Here's a quick recap on how much the Fat Man makes spewing vitriolic inaccuracies and disinformation.

Like most everything Republican since the rise of "Reaganomics" and Newt Gingrich in the '80s, it's all about money. Big money. Big, big money.

If the Big Ugly Lying Fat Man makes that much money...think how much the giant disinformation corporations make off him? And how much they make from the even uglier Bill O'Reilley, and the nearly-as-fat Hannity. Probably not as much as they get off Rush, but certainly millions and millions of dollars.

Where does that money come from? People don't send in contributions. Nope, it comes from corporate advertising. So, KorporateAmerika is supporting divisiveness, hatred and all the lying, cheating and stealing that goes along with it. Keep the "enemy" divided...and conquer. Gingrich promoted that one, and he and all the other Neocon Limbaugh Republicans consider all of America the enemy, except for their small überwealthy minority.

Unfortunately, it's a minority that owns the corporate media and therefore has an influence for doing evil far beyond its numbers would indicate. It's a minority in this country, but a highly vocal one. And therefore a highly dangerous one. Look at the unholy mess wwe're in today in Iraq, Afghanistan, soon Pakistan, and in the economy and job loss and air pollution and carbon emissions...thanks to the Limbaugh Republican policies since 1980, and even more since 2000. Although, we shouldn't detract from the damage Nixon did to health care in the '70s. What he did to reward the insurance companies and drug companies back then has led directly to the mess we're in today in health care.

While both the Republicans' and the Democrats' neoliberal foreign policies (not to be confused with real liberalism, which doesn't exist today) have resulted in support of military dictatorships throughout Latin America and elsewhere, it is the Republican domestic policy that has done irreparable damage to America.

I think it all goes back to corporate control. While the Limbaugh Republicans don't even pretend to be on the side of the American people, the Democrats try but they too are corporate-controlled, just to a lesser extent. At least with the Democrats we have a little bit of a chance to influence policy by starting movements. A strong movement of the people can prevail, eventually. But with Republicans, there's no chance of a movement of the people. They are owned lock, stock, and mouthpiece by KorporateAmerika. And KorporateAmerika is willing to pay their spokesmen whatever it takes to keep them doing the divisive damage. Keep us divided and greed and insanity will prevail.