Posted by hl macon on September 12, 19100 at 19:56:18:
The enduring popularity of Rush Limbaugh has always puzzled me. After all, even such a well-known demagogue as Father Coughlin enjoyed only a relatively brief period of radio-won fame. Then, accidently, I stumbled upon the answer. I heard that ABC, hoping to bolster the flagging ratings of Monday Night Football, had considered Rush as a potential commentator. Monday Night Football, it seems, has been drubbed lately in the ratings game by professional wrestling. In an instant the connection between Rush and wrestling became apparent. Rush's rise to popularity has exactly paralleled the ascension of professional wrestling in the admiring eyes of the nation's many m-media addicted half-wits. As many think the one is intelligent as think the other is on the up-and-up. The two rose together, the one as idiotic as the other is phoney. The s that holler for both are the intellectual heirs of the morons that whooped for Bryan at Dayton seventy-five years ago, and while the former did not disprove the theory of evolution, the latter certainly deny, by example, that it applies universally to the human species. Not that I am complaining mind you, for the antics of such third-rate men as Rush Limbaugh and Vince McMahon (and their many fans) are as entertaining to me as say the manifold absurdities that issue forth from the learned witch doctors of the Southern Baptist Convention. Long, then, may the asinine Mr. Limbaugh reign as King of Fools; he is, after all, always good for a laugh and relatively cheap to maintain as well.