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Rush Limbaugh seems determined to discriminate and exclude Democrats from participating in his “Operation Chaos.” Since he seems to be one of the talk show hosts who want to be very subtle about playing the race card while proclaiming a determination to focus the voters’ attention on issues, the Democrats, if they were permitted to pitch in and help him, could do so by always referring to the Republican candidate as “the old white dude” rather than by name.
If regular Smirking Chimp readers stop to think about it, there are many other ways that they can bring home to Rush the old folk axiom: “Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.”
Rush seems to think that he can dictate his own rules for “Operation Chaos” and that belies a deep-seated misunderstanding of the concept and principles he thinks he is endorsing. For instance, if folks called in to his radio talk show (on a Friday when listeners are informed that any topic is fair game [Not bloody well likely, if you pick something which Rush doesn’t sanction {Can folks talk about ‘the Winter Soldiers” on open mike Friday?}]) and ask how his ratings are doing lately, that might produce some grade A chaos.
If, instead of Democrats, members of the Anarchy group call in, they could (speculating not suggesting) inject a bit of surrealistic fun into Operation Chaos by saying things such as: “Pull my finger!,” or making noise such as breaking glass, passing gas, or (like a rich capitalistic pig at the trough) burping. [If Rush wants to “tinker” with Democracy, why can’t the Big “A” folks “tinker” with Rush’s mind?]
Rush wants folks to obsess on Senator Obama’s pastor but to completely ignore Ron Parsley’s, and/or John Hagee’s relationship to the old white dude.
Rush doesn’t want to play the race card, but, if you listen closely, his vision of a win in November by Senator Obama, sounds like it would produce approximately the same results as if Malcolm X had been able to travel back in time and replace FDR as the winner of the 1932 Presidential election and became the person to contend with the Stock Market Crash, the Depression, and World War II.
Didn’t Osama bin Laden specifically say that one of the aims of the attack on the World Trade Center was to destroy the economy of the United States? How’s your 401K doing this week? Is your nest egg in chaos?
Rush’s level of high minded, issue oriented, devilment for Operation Chaos would be exemplified if he were (speculation alert!) able to spend a chunk of his own cash to produce a pro-Obama TV advertisement featuring Willie Horton endorsing Senator Obama.
Are “chaos,” “anarchy,” and “surrealism” synonymous words? Listening to Rush can convince you that they are.
Wouldn’t Andre Breton be proud if anyone called Rush and urged Democrats and Repulicans in Pennsylvania to really participate in "Operation Chaos" by writing in Charles Manson’s name as their choice for the next President? The Sixties icon was suspected of sending proxies into a private home to precipitate a bloodbath. Surely, Charlie Manson would consider the chance to send people into an entire country (Iran?) on a similar assignment, as a way to fulfill his God-given destiny on this earth.
[Lois Lane turns to Jimmy Olsen and asks: “Have you ever noticed that we have never seen Charles Manson and George W. Bush in the same room at the same time, Jimmy?”]
If Andre Breton used automatic writing to produce a speech endorsing the five year old invasion of Iraq, he would probably do so by cutting out phrases such as “hard work,” “making progress,” “stay the course”and“total victory” and mixing them in a bag and then repeatedly injecting them at random into a list of platitudes.
Rush is a believer in rugged individualism and a strong supporter of the current generation of the Bush family. He isn't too enthusiastic about the old white dude running for President who had a father and grandfather who were Navy Admirals. Navy men believe that an Admiral’s daughter receives special privileges, but that the old white dude did not receive any special consideration while attending the U. S. Naval Academy (known to alumni as “The Boat Club”).
The folks who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center were mostly Sunni Arabs. President Bush is currently weighing the possibility that he can further punish that group and fight terrorism, by launching an attack against the Sunni’s traditional rival faction, the Shi’ites in Iran. In keeping with Rush’s “Operation Chaos” methodology, the question of what is the logic behind this reasoning, is ignored. It’s as if a man and his wife were attacked by thugs and the fellow responds by delivering a right upercut to a witness’ jaw.
Crusty old Conservatives who don’t understand the headline for this column should find an expert on existentialism and ask if, in “The Kingdom of Farfelu,” Andre Malraux had predicted George W. Bush’s Iraq War eighty years before it happened. This might not happen because dittoheads are much more comfortable with having rich old white dudes telling them what they must believe rather than in expending the effort to learn about issues and then deciding what they believe. [Did the TV show, “He Haw,” ever get a chuckle by making a reference to Jean Genet?]
Rush loves to give plugs to pals so we’ll do the old “(smirking) monkey see; monkey do” routine and do likewise;
Attn: hippies and hitchhikers, see you at slab city on the first week April?
Can you ever get enough hometown news about Scranton?
For this week’s ending quote, we will reproduce an bit of e-mail humor which was fwded from Scranton:
“Mental Health Outsourcing
I was depressed last night so I called ‘Lifeline’
Got a call center in Pakistan
I told them I was suicidal
They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.”
The disk jockey, rather than noting the passing this week of writer Arthur C. Clark, by playing "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" from the 2001 soundtrack album, will, instead, play the theme song (titled “Suicide Is Painless”) from the M*A*S*H’s movie soundtrack album. In the best Captain Spaulding tradition, we must be going. [Let’s “help” Rush. Send the URL for this column to all your friends conservative and/or liberal.] Have a Farfelu week.
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big fat POS
Limbaugh would like nothing better than another Clinton in the White House. This is his bread and butter. He knows there's plenty of Clinton haters out there and he would have an easier audience than if Obama wins. My opinion
Do crusaders in Rush's
Do crusaders in Rush's "Operation Chaos" get a ration of Oxicontin? Hydrocodone? Hell, I'll settle for plain ol' Vicodine! Just give me that buzz!!!! Right, Rush?
Have you heard about "screeners."
Critics calling in to Rush's program?
Gimme a break!
Show an ounce of independent thought, much less disagreement, and you won't get by the screeners.
There's good reason why Rushbo calls his audience "ditto heads."
The only way for a critic to get past the screeners is by pretending "ditto-headiness," and even then, at the first hint of dissent, you're gone -- even before the time delay allows that contrary word to get on the air.
Rush supports the troops? Let him broadcast from the Green Zone
Rush supports the troops, right? Just think if he broadcast his show from the Green Zone for one year. Just think of the moral boost this would give our soldiers. This is a small sacrifice, as many soldiers are on their fourth tour of duty in both wars. Then, every week, Rush could imbed himself with the troops, and go on patrol with them. This of course is what America's real reporters do. So lets start a write in and call in campaign. Rush supports the troops and the war, and we want him in Iraq for one year. This would help him overcome both his effete image, and his chickenhawk label. What a true patriot he could be! Ha Ha, that fat-ass?