As of late Rush Limbaugh has been the subject of many Readers' Forum letters, so I decided to add my own take on the enigma who sits behind the Golden E.I.B. Microphone with his "stack of stuff."
My wife calls him Rush Limbalm, I used to get mad and correct her but now am slowly realizing she might be on to something. I listened for years, read the Limbaugh Letter, and proudly displayed my "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" coffee mug on my book case. He ties half his brain behind his back just to make it fair and dazzles us all. A talent to detect the truth? Yes, but so does the dealer of two-card monty.
As a kind of "barker" of the airwaves, Rush rounds up all us wandering conservatives looking endlessly for a leader to make "the way things ought to be" once and for all. Their is no one like Rush to verbalize our longings. But listening more closely lately, even Rush seems to be undergoing some sort of a "societal evolution" leaving many listeners scratching their conservative genes, wondering.
We see the cards in his right hand but what lies hidden in his left as he subtly seduces us into a "synthesis." He spins diatribes about the superiority of conservative ideas, but when he lays the cards face down we pick the wrong one, promoted as a winner, when in fact neither hand held a winner.
Thirteen years ago, Rush would have put George W. on the "Lib-O-Suction" machine. Just three years ago he would have ridiculed him as a "moderate." If George would have ran eight years ago as a Democrat (which he really is), Rush would have sold us "Bush count-down watches."
Is Rush still right or has he turned into just another "happy-faced-fun-enforcer" from the mainstream media propaganda machine?
David Christensen
Taylorsville