I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh. I try to avoid him, but occasionally he pops up on my news radar. I am then forced to remind myself what a blustering wind-bag he is. Aside from already blaming the sinking economy on the new, not-yet-inaugurated president, he had this to sputter:
All of a sudden now on Charlie Rose, they’re starting to talk about his ties to Saul Alinsky. I’m not joking at all.
I’d heard the name before, somewhere in my lifetime. I couldn’t remember where or why or anything about the person, other than that I didn’t have any negativity attached to the name. I looked up Saul Alinksy on Wikipedia to refresh my ailing memory. Now unless the wiki is sadly lacking in major details, I can’t for the life of me understand why this guy would be considered an evil person. He almost sound kind of hero-like. In 1969 he won the Pacem in Terris Award, which puts him in the company of people like John F. Kennedy and Mother Teresa. Yeah, sounds like a real evil guy. I guess he’s just got to be evil because he was from the south side of Chicago. It seems anyone from there is automatically someone people shouldn’t have anything to do with. I better inform my husband I’ll be needing a divorce so I won’t be guilty of associating with one of those evil south Chicago people.
Also, how could someone in my generation have any “ties” to the guy? He died in 1972! Am I to be considered to have ties with everyone whose books I have read or studied? Wow, I have a lot of ties to people across the whole of history! Hmmm … maybe I’m the anti-Christ!
There’s more Rush on the evil Saul Alinksy here, if you can stomach it.
I realize people like Rush are terrified out of their minds right now, but really … of all the things I am pretty damn sure about, I am pretty damn sure that the dark-skinned man who is about to become our president isn’t going to bring about an evil empire or change America into something horrible, though he may bring about change that results in some equality for the downtrodden of all colors and kinds of people. Now isn’t that a scary thought? :rolleyes:
The wikipedia discussion page looks like it has details on obama. Sadly it seems kinda … whatever. I couldn’t be bothered to make sense of it.
I couldn’t be bothered to make sense of it.
You too? I think in my case, I lost the ability to understand anything after forcing myself to read several pages of Rush rants. Ugh.
I had been drinking and involved in a very long and detailed conversation about the finer points of progressive lycanthrology. Concentrating on something without werewolves in it was going to be hard from the start.