The Great Republican Hope: Mr Rush Limbaugh

I have avoided the political car crash of radio demagogue Rush Limbaugh (pictured) featuring himself as the standard-bearer of the post-Bush Republican Party, primarily because any comment just Feeds the Beast.

I was taken down memory lane, however, when Crooks and Liars brought back this Rush-ian success from 1990. It comes from his short-lived and ill-fated television show. Limbaugh's formula of reducing a complex issue (abortion) to a simplistic bashing of an "enemy" group (the "FemiNazis" of the National Organization for Women) works well with his radio Dittoheads. However, here it goes badly awry with an audience ready to challenge him until we're left with Rush's ultimate solution: Clear the Audience.

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UPDATE: Barack Obama is Hitler (This Time They're Serious)

Less than 24 hours after we had a bit of fun with Conservapedia and other talking heads who were convinced that the 44th President of the USA was 1) Mullah Barack 2) the Antichrist 3) the leader of the Third Reich, this comes in from a Mr Kevin McCullough at TownHall.com, the sanctuary of level-headed political observers like Ann Coulter:

Obama as Hitler

This week President Obama exercised for the first time a policy decision that shares a trait held in common with Adolf Hitler....

President Obama is moving policy on public health into the direction of doctors being forced to act against their conscience....
President Obama wants them performing abortions, whether they believe it to be an immoral thing or not. And while the comparisons to Hitler are made either on eugenist or racist grounds--but you cannot escape the impact.

In the 1930's and 40's as Hitler wished to use his captive “lesser-humans” for "experiments" in his final solution. He too forced doctors to do things they did not wish to do. Everything from injecting living humans with horrible chemicals to see the effect, to trying differing grades of poisonous gases in what eventually became death chambers. These doctors, who were purveyors of those things that helped save lives, were suddenly forced to use the medical knowledge they had of death--to end them.

In today’s scenario Obama wants doctors to exterminate “lesser humans” for the purpose of immediate solutions to his social experiment. And he wishes them to do so regardless of whether or not they are compelled by the higher call of morality on an individual basis.

Put another way Obama's policy shift would be the equivalent of forcing those who believed slavery to be immoral and never even owned slaves, to begin purchasing them, beating them, raping them, and exploiting them.

Next Week: Barack Obama is Josef Stalin.