“A lot of serious people take Rush Limbaugh seriously. He
creates hysteria, and a rush to false conclusions because somewhere in recent
history American people have been intimidated into believing that something is
wrong with analysis, thought, or unnecessary, and that conservatism, God and
religion are one and the same. He has a knack for uniting fear and baseless
judgments. He has a talent for remembering why whites, poor whites fear, and
rich whites plan and thrive upon others. From the colonial tradition of
contempt for 'poor white trash', as they coined the phrase, Limbaugh
manipulates poor whites and skillfully stirs the hearts and imaginations of
fundamentalist across the color lines with themes of aggression and redemption,
and walks through the rank and file stirring emotions, and limiting thought
with trigger words. It is a gift, and worthy of study.
But within all the talk, the rhetoric, and whatever
bullshit lies there within he needs to be taken seriously because he challenges
the smugness of educated, well-off liberals, and assumes authority over the freedom
of highly creative people. He can give balance. Rush Limbaugh asks questions
challenging belief, demanding action, undoing and unlearning. Crudely put he is
as necessary as shit. In his way he is a check and balance of hard and gentle,
for and against, cold and hot, right and wrong, etc. To live as a nation we
need checks to balance the soul and every issue that faces a nation, a soul, a
family, an idea, a plan, an agenda, and a community. Integrity has to be found.
Truth-telling, and ethics need to pull out the unseen and malefic forces within
us all, and we, as a people, need to be seen and evaluated and readied for the
truths we all come from and aspire to embody.
The moral of this tale is simple. One needs the other to
see each other and what is at stake. You don’t need to like the guy, or people
like him. Know that truth lives in a lie as well as in the open indifferent to
our opinions.” © Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.9.13
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