Just as an unrequested addendum to Bob Patterson’s fine article below, here’s what spoiled rich boy Rush posted on his website along with his diatribe mocking poor kids.
Somehow ‘screaming a-hole’ just isn’t strong enough for this arrogant lowlife bastard. I wonder if his working-class and barely white-collar listeners, most of them one paycheck away from abject poverty themselves, really think crap like this is funny -– making fun of poor people’s kids? Some of their kids are no doubt taking advantage of free school lunch programs, too — I wonder if they make the connection?
Not that many Dittoheads ever heard of Anatole France, but they might recognize Rush’s demented philosophy in this quote:
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
France also wrote this line that applies to Rush’s audience:
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
Methinks he’s never heard of Marie Antoinette.
Comment by Peregrin — June 22, 2010 @ 4:25 am
Rush reads history with the same scholarly attention to detail that Christopublicans use when they read the Sermon on the Mount. He probably thinks the French Revolution had something to do with salad dressing or yellow mustard.
The thing with Limbo is that he’d never mention Marie’s notorious cake — all the cake is always for El Rushbo!
Comment by RS Janes — June 22, 2010 @ 6:12 am