The Old White Dude and the Kingdom of Farfelu

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The Old White Dude and the Kingdom of Farfelu
by Bob Patterson | March 21, 2008



Rush Limbaugh seems determined to discriminate and exclude Democrats from participating in his “Operation Chaos.” Since he seems to be one of the talk show hosts who want to be very subtle about playing the race card while proclaiming a determination to focus the voters’ attention on issues, the Democrats, if they were permitted to pitch in and help him, could do so by always referring to the Republican candidate as “the old white dude” rather than by name.

If regular Smirking Chimp readers stop to think about it, there are many other ways that they can bring home to Rush the old folk axiom: “Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.”

Rush seems to think that he can dictate his own rules for “Operation Chaos” and that belies a deep-seated misunderstanding of the concept and principles he thinks he is endorsing. For instance, if folks called in to his radio talk show (on a Friday when listeners are informed that any topic is fair game ) and ask how his ratings are doing lately, that might produce some grade A chaos.

If, instead of Democrats, members of the Anarchy group call in, they could (speculating not suggesting) inject a bit of surrealistic fun into Operation Chaos by saying things such as: “Pull my finger!,” or making noise such as breaking glass, passing gas, or (like a rich capitalistic pig at the trough) burping.

Rush wants folks to obsess on Senator Obama’s pastor but to completely ignore Ron Parsley’s, and/or John Hagee’s relationship to the old white dude.

Rush doesn’t want to play the race card, but, if you listen closely, his vision of a win in November by Senator Obama, sounds like it would produce approximately the same results as if Malcolm X had been able to travel back in time and replace FDR as the winner of the 1932 Presidential election and became the person to contend with the Stock Market Crash, the Depression, and World War II.

Didn’t Osama bin Laden specifically say that one of the aims of the attack on the World Trade Center was to destroy the economy of the United States? How’s your 401K doing this week? Is your nest egg in chaos?

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