This marks the introduction of a weekly feature called “Really, Guy?” in which I, Bastard Keith, will highlight stupidity of an aggressive nature. To start? The Good Samaritan Himself, Rush Limbaugh.
Easy target? Sure, but not only because he’s so fat you’d have to fire in the exact opposite direction to miss him. He’s also an easy target because I can’t imagine anyone reading this blog has a single nice thing to say about Rush Limbaugh, unless they’re a closeted GOP Rep who doesn’t know how to use Google and stumbled in by accident while searching for some cock porn. If that’s you, here you go.
Now, then, to business. have a listen to Rush at the following link (sorry, video doesn’t seem to embed well here):
This is much less fun than cock porn.
Rush Limbaugh lords over his dirty little Right Wing Talk Radio fiefdom with the noxious, flatulent White Male Outrage that has come to be the standard for all such commentators. He’s very much the daddy of the form. If political punditry was a prison (and it kind of is), he’d be the guy with all the cigarettes and cocksuckers in Cell Block Retard. He earns millions of dollars a year denigrating minorities, women, queers, welfare recipients and drug addicts, so it’s never a surprise when he whips out some new, steaming hot shitdevilry. This, though, bears unpacking a little bit. Listen to the whole segment and really think about it.
Limbaugh is, most simply, saying that by taking advice from women, Obama has revealed himself to be a massive pussy (I’d argue that the President’s unwillingness to stand with the Wisconsin public workers in a meaningful way indicates a certain, shall we say, flexibility of constitution, but never mind that). Limbaugh is also saying that opposing war is a total pussy move. So here we are, stuck in the middle: to stand with the pussies against war makes you a pussy, and to side with the NAGS who are all for it makes you a double fat-lipped pussy with a cherry on top. A most amusing paradox
While we continue, just so you don’t get bored, enjoy this picture of a hot Asian dominatrix.
Yay politics!
The story of Obama being pussywhipped is taking hold in the larger media. A lot of ink has been spilled over Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hilary Clinton’s influence on America’s involvement in the Libyan situation, most notably by Maureen Dowd. Dowd, an ace shit-stirrer, declines to really opine on the question of whether Obama’s decision to go into Libya was a capitulation, but she makes it very clear that the decision was motivated “more by impulse and reaction than discipline and rigor.” In other words, the decision was an “emotional” one.
A “female” one.
So what are we dealing with here? A couple of problematic stereotypes:
1. As per the passage Rush quotes, a lot of people think that if women ran the world, it would be more peaceful. I assume whoever keeps saying this has no knowledge of Kali. I believe the world would benefit immensely from female leadership, but I’d never kid myself that war is an essentially male impulse. It’s a human impulse. If women did run the world, there would still be wars, just about different stuff. The notion that women would govern more peacefully is derived far more from an assumption of softness than from an assumption of wisdom. Fuck that. Women are smart as hell, but they aren’t immune to belligerence.
2. It’s a widely held notion that women don’t make decisions based on facts and logic, but on “feelings” (as opposed to the decision by Bush’s cabinet to invade Iraq, which was obviously the result of a lot of preparation, research and *mouthfart*). Again, PEOPLE make decisions based on feelings. Just because the white hetero male establishment frequently acts out of greed and wrath doesn’t mean that those aren’t feelings. They’re just shitty ones that hurt people. The only women who act notably more irrational than men are on Sex and the City. Man, fuck those broads.
3. “Real men don’t take advice from the womanfolk.” This is the problematic douche-cream filling of Rush’s whole shitcake. It’s also another example of why the right wing is really shitty about women. They love their anti-choice gun nut mommies (and they scream “sexism!” whenever a lefty criticizes them), but when it comes to women on the left? No vitriol is too extreme, no insult too condescending, no line of bullshit too bullshitty. The moment a woman steps out on a liberal issue, she is a nag or a bitch or an enemy.
You can’t have it both ways…well…no, apparently conservatives can.
What do we take from all of this? Well, we take that Obama can’t win with conservatives (nothing new) and that women can’t either. Don’t like going to war? Typically feminine POV. Anxious to bomb someone? What a nagging cunt, and probably a lesbian.
REALLY, GUY?!
