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Rush needs exit ideas for this quagmire
By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 14, 2007
Rush Limbaugh needs to leave Palm Beach County.
He is very uncomfortable around us.
"They are deranged," he said on his radio show this week, claiming that an alarming number of Palm Beach County residents are "devoid of any rationality or reason."
Apparently, this is because we're high on something.
"They've drunk the Kool-Aid down here, folks, and they drink it every day," Limbaugh told his audience.
I know what you're thinking: Wasn't Limbaugh the guy who got busted for the drugs?
Hate to quibble, but it's not like we're the ones who had to cop a plea on a drug charge and whiz into a cup for 18 months.
Even so, we're apparently so horrible that it has made Limbaugh a virtual prisoner in his oceanfront Palm Beach home.
"It's one of the reasons I don't cross the bridge here much," Limbaugh told his radio audience, "except ... to like go to the airport and get out."
You see? Limbaugh wants to get out.
It might not be such a bad idea.
Sometimes, when you go into a place where you don't belong and encounter a hostile population that doesn't share your world view, the best thing to do is get out.
We never really put out welcome mat
Limbaugh's foolhardy occupation of a liberal part of Florida was probably a mistake right from the start. Bad intelligence.
He thought he possessed weapons of mass persuasion, but it turned out to be just a lot of nonsense. He thought we'd greet him as an intellectual liberator, without a clue as to how repulsive he'd turn out to be.
And so now he is scrambling for a rosy interpretation of a tough set of facts. That must be why he thinks it's our fault that we don't agree with his political views.
"If you want to know how kooky they are, you ought to pick up any South Florida newspaper," he told his audience.
Limbaugh vented about us as a way to disparage Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, who had questioned Gen. David Petraeus about the wisdom of keeping American forces in Iraq.
"The American people are skeptical," Wexler told Petraeus, "because four years ago very credible people, both in uniform and not in uniform, came before this Congress and sold us a bill of goods that turned out to be false."
Limbaugh said Wexler was just saying that to placate us kooks.
"He knows how wacko they are, and he's gotta represent them," Limbaugh said.
Hate to quibble, again. But the American people were actually sold a bill of goods on Iraq four years ago. Although in Limbaugh's defense, he might have missed it. The Iraq-as-bogeyman charade was presented around the time Limbaugh was zonked out on OxyContin.
Nudging Rush to victory
The important thing here is for us to stop fighting and start being reasonable.
Limbaugh needs to pull out, and we'd love to get rid of him.
We just need to figure out a workable exit strategy.
The problem will be to overcome Limbaugh's fixation for declaring "victory." It's a ridiculous word to use in the context of Iraq.
But Limbaugh, who is childless and missed his own chance to fight for his country due to a convenient cyst on his El Rushbo, is heartily in favor of sending other people's children to die for "victory."
At this point, "victory" has been downsized to mean running out the clock on this administration so that the architects and cheerleaders of this war won't be held accountable for the inevitable pullout.
So here's my suggestion:
Let's give Limbaugh his "victory" in Palm Beach County.
The easiest way to get rid of him may be as simple as hanging a few banners on the bridges to Palm Beach. They'd say:
"Mission Accomplished, Rush."
Rush needs exit ideas for this quagmire
By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 14, 2007
Rush Limbaugh needs to leave Palm Beach County.
He is very uncomfortable around us.
"They are deranged," he said on his radio show this week, claiming that an alarming number of Palm Beach County residents are "devoid of any rationality or reason."
Apparently, this is because we're high on something.
"They've drunk the Kool-Aid down here, folks, and they drink it every day," Limbaugh told his audience.
I know what you're thinking: Wasn't Limbaugh the guy who got busted for the drugs?
Hate to quibble, but it's not like we're the ones who had to cop a plea on a drug charge and whiz into a cup for 18 months.
Even so, we're apparently so horrible that it has made Limbaugh a virtual prisoner in his oceanfront Palm Beach home.
"It's one of the reasons I don't cross the bridge here much," Limbaugh told his radio audience, "except ... to like go to the airport and get out."
You see? Limbaugh wants to get out.
It might not be such a bad idea.
Sometimes, when you go into a place where you don't belong and encounter a hostile population that doesn't share your world view, the best thing to do is get out.
We never really put out welcome mat
Limbaugh's foolhardy occupation of a liberal part of Florida was probably a mistake right from the start. Bad intelligence.
He thought he possessed weapons of mass persuasion, but it turned out to be just a lot of nonsense. He thought we'd greet him as an intellectual liberator, without a clue as to how repulsive he'd turn out to be.
And so now he is scrambling for a rosy interpretation of a tough set of facts. That must be why he thinks it's our fault that we don't agree with his political views.
"If you want to know how kooky they are, you ought to pick up any South Florida newspaper," he told his audience.
Limbaugh vented about us as a way to disparage Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, who had questioned Gen. David Petraeus about the wisdom of keeping American forces in Iraq.
"The American people are skeptical," Wexler told Petraeus, "because four years ago very credible people, both in uniform and not in uniform, came before this Congress and sold us a bill of goods that turned out to be false."
Limbaugh said Wexler was just saying that to placate us kooks.
"He knows how wacko they are, and he's gotta represent them," Limbaugh said.
Hate to quibble, again. But the American people were actually sold a bill of goods on Iraq four years ago. Although in Limbaugh's defense, he might have missed it. The Iraq-as-bogeyman charade was presented around the time Limbaugh was zonked out on OxyContin.
Nudging Rush to victory
The important thing here is for us to stop fighting and start being reasonable.
Limbaugh needs to pull out, and we'd love to get rid of him.
We just need to figure out a workable exit strategy.
The problem will be to overcome Limbaugh's fixation for declaring "victory." It's a ridiculous word to use in the context of Iraq.
But Limbaugh, who is childless and missed his own chance to fight for his country due to a convenient cyst on his El Rushbo, is heartily in favor of sending other people's children to die for "victory."
At this point, "victory" has been downsized to mean running out the clock on this administration so that the architects and cheerleaders of this war won't be held accountable for the inevitable pullout.
So here's my suggestion:
Let's give Limbaugh his "victory" in Palm Beach County.
The easiest way to get rid of him may be as simple as hanging a few banners on the bridges to Palm Beach. They'd say:
"Mission Accomplished, Rush."