Dr. Forbush Thinks

This morning I listened to Rush Limbaugh, so you didn’t have to. I’ve mentioned this before, but for the newcomers, my car radio only picks up FM. In addition to this Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly demand that you be members before you can pick up their broadcast over the web. (Or, at least that was the way it was last time I bothered to try to listen to them over the web.) However, from time to time I get to use my wife’s car that does pick up AM radio. So, I can listen to Rush, Bill and maybe even Michael Savage and find out what the Right Wing Nuts are up too.

So, today I hopped into my wife’s car and promptly tuned into Rush Limbaugh. I was considering what topics he might be considering this morning. Perhaps he’d tell us his take on the President’s new Immigration initiative. This would certainly be interesting because the Republican Party is divided on this issue. The typical red-necked Limbaugh listener doesn’t like anyone who doesn’t want to conform to “The American Culture,” so they are certainly against immigrants who don’t speak redneck English and understand their place in society. However, the financial wizards of the Republican Party who make the cash available for campaigns actually like illegal immigration. This constant flow of human resources enables the typical corporation to keep the price of labor below minimum wage for many jobs including domestic help, cleaning, construction and agriculture. But, these cheap resources also ripple up through the labor market flooding additional resources by making labor available at almost every level of the job market. And, as the supply and demand curve demonstrates repeatedly more supply creates less demand and lower prices - or wages go down.

So, what was Rush going to say about this important and controversial issue? Well, I will never know, because Rush decided that there were certainly more important issues to discuss. For example, when I turned the radio on Rush announced that George W Bush was going to make a very important speech tomorrow. Then he said that the media were going to spin the President’s words, so we needed to stay tuned to him and he would explain everything that we needed to know about the President’s important Iraq speech. I listened to him for over an hour and he actually never came back to this subject. The news at the top of the hour actually said more about this looming speech than Rush offered while I listened.

Obviously Rush had some much more important issue that he needed to cover before he could get on with this lesser issue. So, he went on about vagina shaped chocolates. Obviously I wasn’t aware of this important topic. Boise State apparently gives away vagina shaped chocolates to promote the “Vagina Monologues” every year for the last six years. Personally I don’t know which is worse, showing the same play for six years or Rush Limbaugh spending twenty minutes replaying his old audio from this issue and using his Ditto Cam to show the complimentary chocolate vaginas over the web.

After Rush had finished with that important issue he went on to cover Arlen Spector’s defense of Terrell Owens. And, of course that lead to a discussion, or monologue on Monday Night Football. I was certainly getting the feeling that Rush was just trying to burn up time instead of choosing to discuss more crucial issues. I really did want to hear Rush’s take or spin on the President’s speech, because it would give me a heads up on how the deception would proceed from here.

It’s just too bad that Rush didn’t want to talk about the Immigration issue. I think its interesting because the President has decided to use word play on his Republican base. He says that he doesn’t want “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. But the twist on this is that he doesn’t want to arrest them and send them back either. He has created a new way to say amnesty without saying the word. He is not going to arrest them, and he is going to let them stay in the country. Most people would call this action amnesty, but in Bush World it is a guest worker program for people already in the country.

And, the deception continues…





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