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Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and the people they represent and inspire, have for a very long time, represented the gutter of American politics. The gutter has been on display on an almost daily basis for at least the last 15 years.
The other day Rush Limbaugh made the gutter a little dirtier when he suggested that you could blame the massacre at Fort Hood on Barrack Obama.
And on what great insight and piece of logic did Limbaugh base this intelligent assessment? On the fact that Obama had promised to bring the troops home from Afghanistan, and that it was orders to deploy to Afghanistan that supposedly were the motivation for Hasan's murderous rampage. The idea is, if Obama would have kept his promise to bring the troops home ( something Limbaugh and conservatives would have lambasted him for) the massacre never would have happened.
This was Limbaugh, not simply plying his trade in the gutter of American politics. This was Limbaugh becoming the gutter.
The pandering by Limbaugh to his extremist conservative audience was so blatant, the political pornography so cheap, that it will be interesting to see if Limbaugh himself faces any backlash from his audience. It will be interesting to see if looking for ways to blame Obama for the massacre, and trying to cheapen the tragedy by using it for some absurd political advantage, and grasping for such a preposterous straw will be too much even for them.
If it isn't, then there is no reason to think any of them will get out of the gutter any time soon.
And more than that, it will be interesting to see how members of the armed forces feel about what Limbaugh said and using the tragedy at Fort Hood for his own cheap political theater. Because if Limbaugh loses the soldiers, he'll lose everyone.
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