And the Buzzflash Media Putz of the Week is...

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Rush Limbaugh

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.

There is no more deserving role model of the demagoguery at the heart of the right-wing media echo chamber than the porcine, illegal pill popping, Vietnam draft-dodging (due to a claimed anal cyst -- how appropriate), thrice-married Rush Limbaugh.

Toss in a heavy dollop of racism, misogynism, and xenophobia, along with a streak of hedonism (don't forget his Viagra, condom-laden trip to the Dominican Republic where he sought sex with your pick of men, women, or children) – and you have the ideal role model for Republican hypocrisy.

But it's not the hypocrisy that makes Rush such an ideal shill for the right wing; it's his "down-home" appeal to the basest instincts in the disenfranchised white American vote (displaced by the globalization agreements that have put them in economic harm's way). Meanwhile, Rush's only real hardcore ideology, whatever his sexual orientation and latest drug addiction status, is to fatten his pocketbook....

Full article here: http://mediaputz.com/07/08/putz0809.html

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