Rush Limbaugh calling for boycott of American workers

June 9, 6:58 PMProgressive Politics ExaminerKaren Harper

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Rush Limbaugh, showman

June 16, 2009 Update: According to Rush Limbaugh's website the radio host denies he has urged his listeners to boycott GM and goes on to say that he just purchased a GM vehicle, "I bought a new Suburban last week."  This is good news for those of us who support General Motors and Chrysler.  It's interesting to note however, that in the same paragraph, the site has posted a graphic of GM, renaming it "Government Motors" with a photograph of President Obama.  Limbaugh says that many of his listeners have repsonded to his radio show by writing in to tell him why they won't buy a GM or Chrysler vehicle because of his show.  We can only hope that his listeners will read that their braintrust, Rush Limbaugh, himself bought a brand new GM vehicle and be swayed by his actions. It's unfortunate that Limbaugh praises the boycott for GM by praising the article, "The Ethical Case for Boycotting Chrysler and GM" by Gary Jason and provides a link to the article. Limbaugh says he doesn't "do boycotts" but it appears that he approves of them by other people.
 

Rush Limbaugh and other loud voices of the radical right are urging Americans to forego buying cars from GM and Chrysler because they are partially owned by the American people.  The U.S. government is the American people, made up of the American people, by the people and for the people.  But the radical right seems to have forgotten that.

The true irony here is that the small minority of Americans who call themselves Republicans today are less likely to drive a GM or any other American car in the first place.  These are the "free market" people who believe in capitalist and financial Darwinism.  'To the victor go the spoils' and all that sort of thing.

These are the people who may not have read atheist author, Ayn Rand's books but often seem to bring her up in conversations about what's 'wrong with America' today.  Though many of these "Atlas Shrugged" quoting people are religious conservatives, they seem either blissfully unaware that she was an atheist or perfectly capable of ignoring that fact. 

Nothing says "ignorantsia" quite like an American flag plastered on the bumper of a Toyota, Mercedes or Honda.  Those who call themselves American patriots and issue the cry for American determinism and superiority somehow manage to convince themselves that putting a $1.49 American flag sticker on their bumper makes them a patriot despite the fact that they prefer to send their consumer dollars to Japan and Germany.  They rationalize that since some of these cars were made in America, they are in fact, American cars.  The factual truth of the matter is, however, that the profits made from their American dollars spent for Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans and Mercedes cars go to Japan and Germany.  The American workers make around the same wages that other American auto workers make.  But the actual profits go straight out of the United States. 

The automatons and minions who follow people like Rush Limbaugh as he advances them right over the proverbial political cliff to the abyss waiting to embrace them from below, are truly despicable if they boycott American auto makers because they are made by Americans.  Because that is, in essence what the radical right is asking them to do.  Boycott American workers, and American manufacturing.  Ironically, these are the same folks who bemoan the fact that America's manufacturing jobs are all going overseas. 

But how many people are going to really follow the advice of P.T. Barnum-like Rush Limbaugh after his fiasco of an election manipulation job last year that he called "Operation Chaos?"  He told them to vote Democratic in the Presidential primaries last year.  Listeners in some states were told to vote for Hillary Clinton.  Others were told to vote for Barack Obama.  As the results of the general election show, Limbaugh's attempt to manipulate the election through his couple of million zombie followers was a dismal failure.  And perhaps this is why the man has become so obsessed with seeing America, led by President Obama, fail. Limbaugh's attempt to get his minions to boycott GM and Chrysler may simply be move evidence of the obsession that seems to have overtaken him after his Operation Chaos failed so completely last November.