Thog's Science Masterclass #20: Revisionist Anatomy Module

[realthog]

You people are out calling us Nazis, saying we're running around with Swastikas. We get tarred and feathered as Nazis because we don't just bend over, grab the ankles and let you guys ram whatever down our throats you want.

----Rush Limbaugh, August 11ish

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

...

Rush got the memo that he's obsessed with butts and tried to prove that he's actually obsessed with throats?

Yeah, I got nothing.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Close, but one cigar?

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Hah! Well you did say anatomy, and nothing about politics in the headline, so ...

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

*TILT*

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Windmill.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Major strategy and tactic from the "Tyrants' Manual" -- call them what you are.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

As we know.

The stormtroopers of the American Right do, though, seem to be taking it to Goebbelsesque extremes at the moment -- and perhaps even beyond. Limbaugh is currently pushing the mantra that Obama, "like Hitler", is a dictator. This seems an astonishingly hard argument to make, since Obama was recently elected by a clear majority in a seemingly open and fair election, and has issued no diktat that I have been able to identify. Yet still Limbaugh, the Lord Haw-Haw of our age, lumbers on.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

[irony level 10]Look, as a sarf Londoner, I wish to object, in the strongest terms to your insult to my fellow south Londoner William Joyce. How dare you, sir, compare him to that louse Rush Limbaugh?[/irony level 10]

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"my fellow south Londoner William Joyce"

He was the one who wrote Portrait of the Propagandist as a Young Man, wasn't he?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

In his Brixton bedsit.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"In his Brixton bedsit."

Or Brixton bedheadstand, as Limbaugh might conceive it.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

If one follows Limbaugh's version of the anatomy, it might well be a bedloo.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Well, I can see that happening, seeing as how Rush has his head so far up his ass that he's a walking Klein bottle. Only haters try to apply three-dimensional topography on someone whose fourth-dimension anatomy is on loan from God.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

You mean he's had a pre-frontal topology?

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Limburger cannot differentiate between his arse hole and his mouth, and, quite frankly, neither can his audience.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

He can't tell his ass from a hole in his head, as a friend put it.

[kylecassidy.livejournal.com]

ah, godwin's law rears its head.

googling "health care protester" and hitting image i got this:

[realthog.livejournal.com]

The Limbaugh quote came in the context of his response to the "deranged" Nancy Pelosi saying the healthcare brownshirts were Nazis.

In fact, as Limbaugh knows, Pelosi said no such thing.

She said some of the brownshirts were turning up to the town hall meetings with swastikas and the like.

And she was right.

[melindadansky.livejournal.com]

This whole thing is making me ill. "Let's demonize something most Americans want so our followers will yell loudly enough to scare them into shutting up."

I don't know how these people sleep at night.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Ditto. It must feel very strange to base one's entire ethos on lying -- such that you measure your satisfaction with yourself according not to any ordinary sort of achievement but in terms of how many people you've managed to deceive today and how egregious the lies were.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Wow. Special.

I am going to read that quote to as many people as possible, because it made me laugh. :)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I imagined it would . . .

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

At least now he's admitting he talks out of it...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's kind of piling it on a bit, ain't it?

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

*ker-ching!*