Here’s a quote from a recent letter to the editor in the
Quad City Times on Rush Limbaugh’s addiction to the
pain-killer OxyContin: “I was treated with the same drug as Mr.
Limbaugh. The drug was also quite constipating. My assumption is
that this must have contributed to Mr. Limbaugh’s ‘on air’
personality.”
Although I was initially indignant, I eventually dismissed it.
After all, there is plenty to criticize Rush about over this
matter. He is a moral leader in America who has on occasion sharply
criticized drug users. His inability to treat his illness is,
arguably, a moral failing. In the greater scheme of things, one
inappropriate joke is hardly the end of the world.
That was until I ventured into the left-wing portion of the
blogosphere. There I was treated to the most angry, cowardly, and
vile hate-fest since Fred Phelps protested Matthew Sheppard’s
funeral service. In what can be dubbed the “Hate Rush Mob,” many
left-wing bloggers have gotten out the mental knives, clubs, guns,
and whatever else they can pack into their craniums (Lord knows it
must be a very tight squeeze) and pointed them El Rushbo’s way. For
example, here is comedian Margaret Cho:
I cannot stop picturing Rush as one of the
Trainspotting crew, or selling his a** for a hit. He would have to
suck so much d**k to satisfy that jones, because apparently he was
taking the pills by the handful, scoring thousands at a
time.
And to think she was trying to feel sorry for Rush! But Ms. Cho
is actually pretty tame. Consider this mean-spirited parody (link courtesy
Atrios) in which Rush moves around a Pac-Man maze eating pills,
and the “power pellets” are large pills with “O C” on them. The
“Ghosts” are bug-eyed Donovan McNabbs.
If you’ve had enough of the Hate Rush Mob’s “sense of humor,”
then they have some good-old-fashioned nastiness for you. Here’s
blogger
Steve Gilliard in a post titled “Sympathy for the Devil”:
Some foolish people may have some sympathy for the
racist pig drug fiend Limbaugh, and I can understand that emotion.
We all want to be decent, human beings, and not stick a shiv in the
formerly bloated hillbilly heroin junkie, but that sympathy is
misplaced…
It must suck to be addicted to OxyContin. I feel so bad for
him……
NOT. F**k his fat, drug addicted, racist a**. Freaking hypocrite
junkie, sucking down Hillbilly Heroin like it was candy.
And here is blogger “TBogg”:
Because it takes a village to detox a dittohead, here
is how you too can help Rush to once again see a brighter day when
the walls aren’t crawling with Hillary-headed nematodes and he
doesn’t wake up each morning in a pool of Marta’s vomit….
Sounding confident and strong, Limbaugh said he’d received more
than 25,000 supportive e-mails since he was hit with twin
controversies over his comments to ESPN and allegations from a
former housekeeper that she obtained for him thousands of
painkilling pills over the last four years.
23,000 of those emails came from Noelle Bush looking to score
any s**t he had left over.
TBogg also manages to include another object of lefty hate in
his anti-Rush venom:
The President feels Rush’s pain: “Boy. If I had a
nickel for every time I woke up in a Father Steve’s bedroom with my
pants on backwards…”
Now, you might think that making light of child molestation
would be about as low as you can go on the hate scale. “MediaGeek”
might make you think again:
I know I should be more high-minded, but I must confess
enjoying watching Rush stew in his own juices over
being a racist moron, and now, maybe a
prescription pain-killer drug addict. Now, if he were just some
average schmoe, I wouldn’t cackle over the drug allegations. But
since he’s a moralizing, arrogant, bigoted blowhard, who otherwise
advocates that drug addicts essentially be rounded up and
exterminated… yeah, I’m smiling.
So might “Blah3”:
Junkie! Junkie! Junkie! JUNKIE!!!! Limbaugh’s a
g****m
junkie!!! So when ya gonna turn yourself in for incarceration,
Ditto-Boy?
Blah3’s hatred quickly degenerated from schadenfreude to the
sadistic:
F*****g hypocrite junkie piece of s**t. If I were half
as cruel as you, Mr. Limbaugh, I’d implore you to go home and
ingest the remainder of your stash, you p***k.
And in the comments section they try to outdo each other in
their sadism. “Justin” states:
I am less kind than you, I do implore him to go home
and grind up his entire stash and snort it all at once, maybe even
save a few lethal overdoses worth for O’Reilly.
To which “Satan luvvs Repugs” replies:
I am even less kind than you, and hope Rush does not
take the “easy” way out of his troubles. Rush will make a fine
girlfriend for his new buddies in the pen. You know, the ones he’s
been s*****g on for a decade and a half now.
Well, it seems that some on the left have a few unresolved
“issues”! Surely, there are many odious hate groups on the extreme
right, but they have nothing on the Hate Rush Mob.
What is so unnerving is how open they are about it. They
apparently feel no compunction about letting anyone with web access
see the thoughts coming from the ugliest part of their psyches. One
explanation might be the relative anonymity of the Internet.
Another, more troubling explanation is that such repugnance is
commonplace in the circle these bigots inhabit. That suggests that
such hatred runs not only deep, but rather wide in our society.
Finally, if you’ve managed to get this far, I encourage you to
send a note of sympathy to Rush at DittosRush@RushLimbaugh.com.
With the Hate Rush Mob around, he needs every bit of it.
