You have to hand it to him. Rush Limbaugh is a compelling speaker if nothing else. He’s so good, he can use his arrogance and cynical inflections to say absolutely nothing and make his audience believe he just nailed Obama’s “Kenyan” birth certificate to the wall. Even whacked out on pills and dressed up like a Johnny Cash coke dealer, Limbaugh can puff his grey chest hairs out through his gold chain, slick his pomade-laden hair back and spew a line of absolute conservative double-talk so filled with a conviction against “the liberal agenda” that listeners just have to take his word for it. Take, for example, his recent allegation against NASA’s announcement that flowing water is currently present on Mars. According to him, it’s nothing more than a “plan” to run the “liberal agenda” up the proverbial flagpole.
“NASA’s been lying for years,” he said, regarding climate change and global warming. He asked listeners:
“What’s to stop them from making up something that happened on Mars that will help advance their left-wing agenda on this planet?”
Okay, fine – a silly question, sure, but here’s where things get downright absurd. Take a listen below and hear for yourself:
Not only does Limbaugh posit a fair but ridiculous question to listeners in the manner of an attack against liberals, progressives, Democrats and the left-wing, but he does so with absolutely no knowledge of anything to do with NASA’s discovery or what this alleged “liberal agenda” might be.
Limbaugh stated:
“Okay, flowing water on Mars – if we’re even to believe that, what are they gonna tell us that means? That’s what I’m gonna wait for. Because I GUARANTEE – you’ll just wait and see. This is Sept. 28. Let’s just wait and see. Don’t know how long it’s gonna take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow gonna find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda.”
And just to make sure you get the point, folks, pay closer attention to Limbaugh’s follow-up:
“I don’t know what it IS. I – you would assume it could be something with global warming and you can – maybe there was once an advanced civilization. If they say they found flowing water, next they’re gonna find a graveyard.”
Limbaugh flat out admits he has no idea what this “liberal agenda” is, but somehow, some way, liberals are going to try to use NASA’s discovery of running water on Mars for their own agenda.
By that, perhaps he means, take credit for it, since Republicans are constantly trying to shut funding for NASA down.
And the “aliens” dig – that’s just too ridiculous to respond to, anyway.
Limbaugh is nothing but a fear-monger and a muckraker – a sellout, willing to say virtually anything to keep churning the pot in order to keep his ratings high and rake in the cash. It’s obvious. Once you set aside his charismatic speaking style and look at the substance, it becomes immediately apparent that there is very little to none.
Just trust it, and keep listening, right? Me, I’m sticking with beans in my ears.
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