That was the question the exasperated counsel to the Senate asked
Senator McCarthy after the Senator had slandered a number of his innocent targets.
Now Rush Limbaugh should be asked the same question after he called Nancy Pelosi
and Senator Harry Reid the real terrorists against America.
Perhaps his drug addiction rotted his teeth so that only foul words and foul odors emanate from his mouth. Even in the poisonous partisan atmosphere which prevails in Congress there must be some respect for truth. Limbaugh, the mouthpiece for the
Republican party, exercises no prudence in the propaganda he spouts. For the multitude who follow his lead, the inevitable result is a loss of respect for truth, for congress, for the individual members.
I ask: "what positive contribution to our national welfare can be traced
to Limbaugh and his ilk"?
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Unfortunately Americans particularly, appear to be strongly attracted to such extremist, self-appointed high priests of pointlessness. Only future history might reveal the purpose of such behavior. Although Limbaugh obviously does not care how offensive his actions can be, he is simply following the recipe used by others. A recipe that will no doubt be used in the future, too.
Joseph McCarthy taught us the power of the bald-faced lie. Similarly, Jerry Falwell caused already committed Christians to silently ask, "What translation of the Bible is he reading and should I be reading that one, too?" Falwell's "Moral Majority" movement successfully ravaged many congregations which appears to have been his ambition; self-agrandisement.
We are not the only people gullible to the stench of this recipe, however. It worked for Hitler, Karl Marx, Muammar Gaddafi, etc.
As Robert Kennedy said, "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
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