Rush needs exit ideas for this quagmire
By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
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."
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Felix Ungar: In other words, you're throwin' me out.
Oscar Madison: Not in other words. Those are the perfect ones!
The Odd Couple
Harry
This is a political newgroup.
Limbaugh doesn't hold political office.
Maybe you're thinking of Congressman Patrick "on my way to vote"
Kennedy.
Limbaugh is a lying, hypocritical, political hack-shill for the
criminally corrupt Bush administration and the morally bankrupt GOP.
He's fair game.
He can live in Fagville and take his dope.
Rush hates Boston , and barney frank too.
> to live wherever he wants to live in Free America, except for Nazi
> Controlled East EuropeFlorida.
Now what are you babbling about you ridiculous cow?